Issue #294 / May 2025

Fires were burning in Cupertino this March as news of an internal meeting revealed consternation within Apple over the state of development for the Siri voice assistant. The situation was described as "dire" in the headlines, although the meeting appears to have been more like a combination of a pep talk and an expectation-management exercise.

Rocky Linux 9.5 and SystemRescue 11.03

In the news: CIQ Releases Security Hardened Version of Rocky Linux; Gnome's Dash to Panel Extension Gets a Massive Update; Blender App Makes It to the Big Screen; Linux Mint Retools the Cinnamon App Launcher; New Linux Tool for Security Issues; Ubuntu 25.04 Coming Soon; Gnome Developers Consider Dropping RPM Support; and openSUSE Tumbleweed Ditches AppArmor for SELinux.

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