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OpenAI will go public “in 2027 or sooner”, its CFO says. Beforehand, staff sold shares worth $7 billion – at an $852 billion valuation.

Canonical is funding a three-year research project on automatically translating C code to Rust – with AppArmor and snap-confine as case studies.

According to heise, the Midea PortaSplit can be controlled via Bluetooth without authentication – from about 10 metres. A firmware update is in the works.

A performance gain for Intel graphics on Linux has landed in Mesa 26.3: in Windows games via DXVK, the Intel driver gains up to around 5 %.

VirtualBox 7.2.16 adds FRED support for Linux hosts, improves the shared clipboard on Wayland, and boosts the VMSVGA 3D graphics driver.

Kagi’s privacy-focused WebKit browser Orion brings private windows and link previews to Linux – plus Flatpak builds for x86_64 and ARM64.

Thunderbird 154 adds an optional system tray mode, Microsoft Graph integration for Microsoft 365 and improved search.

The CSA has introduced Zigbee 4.0 and the sub-GHz brand Suzi – with more range, a more robust mesh and backward compatibility with Zigbee 3.0.

System76 releases COSMIC 1.6: modern Wayland protocols, per-app audio routing, and a fix for jagged text rendering on HiDPI displays.

A Japanese team is testing a drug meant to grow new teeth. The first clinical phase in humans is complete, with no serious side effects reported.