Cosmic Alpha is out, elementary OS 8 in September, Nvidia scraped videos for its AI

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00:00 Intro

01:32 Cosmic alpha is out https://system76.com/cosmic

07:18 elementary OS 8 in september https://blog.elementary.io/updates-for-august-2024/

11:19 GNOME 47 update https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2024/08/twig-159/ https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Shell-Mutter-47-Beta https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-47-Mutter-More-HDR-Prep

15:39 GNOME adds tray icon support back https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/08/gnome-official-status-icons-extension

18:33 Manjaro has an immutable version https://forum.manjaro.org/t/manjaro-immutable-out-now-for-community-testing/166364

21:24 Ubuntu will release with newer kernels now https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/kernel-version-selection-for-ubuntu-releases/47007

23:55 Convertible Linux laptop with touchscreen https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en/TUXEDO-InfinityFlex-14-Gen1.tuxedo

25:45 Chrome’s manifest v3 transition is ongoing https://www.techradar.com/computing/browsers/google-chrome-users-be-warned-a-long-planned-change-to-browser-extensions-is-coming-to-fruition-that-could-nuke-your-ad-blocker

29:16 AMD goes back on open source CUDA https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-ZLUDA-CUDA-Taken-Down

31:22 Nvidia allegedly scraped millions of youtube and netflix videos https://www.engadget.com/ai/nvidias-ai-team-reportedly-scraped-youtube-netflix-videos-without-permission-204942022.html

35:10 Apple’s AI has some weirdly specific instructions https://www.macrumors.com/2024/08/06/apples-hidden-ai-prompts-discovered-in-macos-beta/

37:22 Google search ruled as a monopoly https://www.androidcentral.com/apps-software/justice-department-vs-google-ruling-search-dominance

40:25 An initiative to force game publishers to stop killing games https://eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#/screen/home