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There’s been a lot of virtual ink spilled about LLMs and their coding ability. Some people swear by the vibes, while others, like the FreeBSD devs have sworn them off completely. What we don’t often think about is the bigger picture: What does AI do to our civilization? That’s the thrust of a recent paper from the Boston University School of Law, “How AI Destroys Institutions”. Yes, Betteridge strikes again.
We’ve talked before about LLMs and coding productivity, but [Harzog] and [Sibly] from the school of law take a different approach. They don’t care how well Claude or Gemini can code; they care what having them around is doing to the sinews of civilization. As you can guess from the title, it’s nothing good.
The paper a bit of a slog, but worth reading in full, even if the language is slightly laywer-y. To summarize in brief, the authors try and identify the key things that make our institutions work, and then show one by one how each of these pillars is subtly corroded by use of LLMs. The argument isn’t that your local government clerk using ChatGPT is going to immediately result in anarchy; rather it will facilitate a slow transformation of the democratic structures we in the West take for granted. There’s also a jeremiad about LLMs ruining higher education buried in there, a problem we’ve talked about before.
If you agree with the paper, you may find yourself wishing we could launch the clankers into orbit… and turn off the downlink. If not, you’ll probably let us know in the comments. Please keep the flaming limited to below gas mark 2.
Archboot, a menu-driven Arch Linux installer, expands its desktop lineup by adding COSMIC.
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I remember the days when installing Arch Linux felt like the ultimate challenge for my Linux skills. It was a journey where I learned something new with every attempt. Today, that is no longer the case; Arch has become much more accessible thanks to the archinstall helper.
Seeking a new challenge, I decided to build my own Hyprland ecosystem, which I’ve named HyprLTM. As the first major piece of this setup, I developed HyprLTM-Net: a sleek, open source network management graphical user interface (GUI). Powered by Rofi and NetworkManager (nmcli), it is now published on GitHub under the GNU GPL v3.0 license.
In this post, I’ll walk you through what HyprLTM-Net is, its features, and how to install and use it.
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Pebble Round 2 revives the iconic smartwatch with a color e-paper display, two-week battery life, and open-source PebbleOS.
The post Pebble Round 2 Revives the Iconic Smartwatch With Open-Source PebbleOS appeared first on Linux Today.
These two Linux distributions have not yet reached stability, but I have high hopes for them in 2026.
The post Two Linux Distributions I’m Watching Closely in 2026 appeared first on Linux Today.
Manjaro 26.0 “Anh-Linh” is now available, bringing Plasma 6.5 and GNOME 49 with Wayland as the default session.
The post Manjaro 26 Released With Plasma 6.5 and GNOME 49 on Wayland appeared first on Linux Today.
Catch up on the latest Linux news: Manjaro 26, Devuan 6.1, IceWM 4.0, Archinstall 3.0.15, Orbitiny Desktop Pilot 8, Shotcut 15.12, key Linux and open-source moments of 2025, MiDesktop brings KDE 1 back to life, and more.
The post Linuxiac Weekly Wrap-Up: Week 1, 2026 (Dec 29, 2025 – Jan 4, 2026) appeared first on Linux Today.
Students at an Arizona school have built a full-scale replica of ENIAC, marking 80 years since the dedication of the computer at the University of Pennsylvania.…
This week was slow on news and releases due to the New Year’s holidays, so we only got new versions of the GNU Wget, Shotcut, VLC Media Player, IceWM, and Archinstall software, as well as new releases of the Devuan GNU+Linux, Arch Linux, and Manjaro Linux distributions.
Below, you can check out this week’s hottest news and access all the distro and package downloads released this past week in the 9to5Linux weekly roundup for January 4th, 2026.
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Running out of disk space on Linux can cause many issues. Discover simple, safe ways to clean files, logs, and unused packages, and free up disk space.
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Le cours de Martin Lafréchoux sur les LLM est vraiment remarquable, pas que pour ses étudiants.
OpenAEV is an open source platform designed to plan, run, and review cyber adversary simulation campaigns used by security teams. The project focuses on organizing exercises that blend technical actions with operational and human response elements, all managed through a single system.
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Anna’s Archive is generally known as a meta-search engine for shadow libraries, helping users find pirated books and other related resources.
However, in December, the site announced that it had also backed up Spotify, which came as a shock to the music industry.
While Anna’s Archive initially released only Spotify metadata, and no actual music, the industry was on high alert. Over Christmas, Spotify and the major labels prepared a legal response in U.S. federal court.
On December 29, Spotify, UMG, Sony, Warner, and other labels filed their complaint at the Southern District of New York. They accuse Anna’s Archive of mass copyright infringement, breach of contract, DMCA violations, and violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
The lawsuit alleges that Anna’s Archive “brazenly” circumvented Spotify’s DRM. The site scraped 86 million music files and metadata for 256 million tracks from Spotify, which would all eventually be released publicly.
“…Anna’s Archive has threatened to imminently mass-release and freely distribute its pirated copies of the sound recording files to the public, without authorization from or compensation to the relevant rights holders. Such widespread and illegal infringement would irreparably harm the music industry..,” the complaint reads.
The complaint comes with a request for a preliminary injunction and a restraining order that aim to take Anna’s Archive offline. All these documents were filed under seal, as the shadow library might otherwise be tipped off and take countermeasures.
These documents were filed ex-parte and kept away from Anna’s Archive. According to Spotify and the labels, this is needed “so that Anna’s Archive cannot pre-emptively frustrate” the countermeasures they seek.
The lawsuit, which was unsealed recently, explains directly why Anna’s Archive lost several of its domain names over the past weeks. The .ORG domain was suspended by the U.S.-based Public Interest Registry (PIR) in early January, while a domain registrar took the .SE variant offline a few days later.
“We don’t believe this has to do with our Spotify backup,” AnnaArchivist said at the time, but court records prove them wrong.
The unsealed paperwork shows that the court granted a temporary restraining order (TRO) on January 2, which aimed to target Anna’s Archive hosting and domain names. The sealed nature of this order also explains why the .ORG registry informed us that it could not comment on the suspension last week.
While the .ORG and the .SE domains are suspended now, other domains remain operational. This suggests that the responsible registrars and registries do not automatically comply with U.S. court orders.
While the TRO was not public, a preliminary injunction that was issued by U.S. District Court Judge Jed Rakoff on January 16th shows how broad the granted powers are.
After reviewing the evidence, and without a defense, the court concluded that the music companies’ copyright infringement claim will hold up. Therefore, the court ordered that Anna’s Archive is enjoined from ‘hosting, linking to, [or] distributing’ the copyrighted works.
Since it’s uncertain whether Anna’s Archive will comply, the injunction also targets many third-party intermediaries, including domain registries and registrars, hosting companies, and other service providers.
These companies should assist in stopping the infringing activity on Anna’s Archive.
To avoid uncertainty, the court explicitly mentions that the targeted companies include the Public Interest Registry; Cloudflare Inc.; Switch Foundation; The Swedish Internet
Foundation; National Internet Exchange of India; Njalla SRL; IQWeb FZ-LLC; Immaterialism Ltd.; Hosting Concepts B.V.; and Tucows Domains Inc.
The addition of Cloudflare stands out because the company operates a proxy service, without hosting Anna’s Archive’s content permanently. However, that was sufficient for the court to issue the order.
While the unsealed documents resolve the domain suspension mystery, it is only the start of the legal battle in court. It is expected that Spotify and the music companies will do everything in their power to take further action, if needed.
Interestingly, however, it appears that the music industry lawsuit may have already reached its goal. A few days ago, the dedicated Spotify download section was removed by Anna’s Archive.
Whether this removal is linked to the legal troubles is unknown. However, it appears that Anna’s Archive stopped the specific distribution of Spotify content alleged in the complaint, seemingly in partial compliance with the injunction’s ban on ‘making available’ the scraped files.
Whether this will mean that all troubles are now over has yet to be seen. For now, the copyright infringement allegations and other claims remain unresolved in court.
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A copy of the unsealed complaint filed by Spotify and the labels is available here (pdf). The preliminary injunction can be found here (pdf).
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Queer Eye’s culture expert Karamo Brown has pulled out of several media interviews promoting the show’s tenth and final season, citing being “mentally and emotionally abused for years” as the reason for his no show.
During an interview with Gayle King on CBS Mornings on 20 January, Brown’s fellow Queer Eye experts Jonathan Van Ness, Tan France, Antoni Porowski and Jeremiah Brent were asked to address their co-star’s absence live on air.
King said that her team had been informed “less than an hour” before the interview commenced that Brown would not be taking part.
The news anchor proceeded to read out a statement from Brown, which said: “I hope everyone remembers the main theme I have tried to teach them over the past decade, which is to focus on and to protect their mental health/peace from people or a world who seek to destroy it, which is why I can’t be there today.”
King added that she had been informed by Brown’s assistant that he was “worried about being bullied” if he appeared on the show. In a separate interview on Today with Jenna Hager and Sheinelle Jones, Jones expanded on Brown’s assistant’s comments. “Karamo has felt mentally and emotionally abused for years and he has been advised by his therapist to protect himself and his peace by not attending,” the assistant’s statement read.
Brown did share a brief video message, which Hager and Jones played on Today, in which he suggested he was not doing interviews with his Queer Eye castmates in order to “protect” himself. “Just like the themes of this season, I’m modelling what I believe is most important, which I want to remind you all. Love yourselves and protect yourselves; that’s why I’m here at home, and not there,” he said.
During their chat with King, the four of the Fab Five were asked to respond to Brown’s comments, with culinary expert Porowski saying that to say he was surprised “is a fair understatement”.
“Our Queer Eye family, we’ve been doing this for almost a decade, which is pretty wild to believe, and families are complicated and we’re definitely not excluded from that,” he continued.
“But I think two things can exist at the same time, and while that is definitely true, we’re also here to showcase these incredible heroes that we have and really honor the legacy of this past decade of our lives and all these wonderful heroes that we’ve had the blessing of getting to meet and to have conversations with.”
An emotional Jeremiah Brent, who replaced Bobby Berk as the show’s interiors and design expert from season nine onwards, was keen to stress that his experience at Queer Eye has been positive.
“My experience in this group has been transformative. To see the way that they move through the world; the way that they have taught me so much about life and friendship and love. I have felt safe and supported by the people up here,” he said.
“I’ve loved every second of this thing, and I am so excited that we get to do this and share this next season, because the show really is just about highlighting the best of humanity. That’s really what it is, and nobody needs that more than this country.”
King gently pushed for a direct response to Brown, stating that she didn’t wish to “negate how Karamo feels”.
Van Ness, the show’s grooming expert, said that they had been “honoured to learn from Karamo” that it’s important “to meet people where they’re at”.
“He has taught people to centre what they need, and I’m actually really proud of him. Center what you need. Do the things you need to do to take care of you,” Ness continued. “I’d be lying if I [said I] didn’t feel like that sometimes, so I think it’s really beautiful. I think we do need to center what’s best for us sometimes. My hat off to him for doing that today.”
Queer Eye‘s tenth and final season is streaming now on Netflix.
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The UK government's proposed ban on under-16s using social media would amount to building a mass age-verification system for the entire internet, creating "serious risks to privacy, data protection, and freedom of expression," digital rights advocates have warned.…
Pillion‘s Alexander Skarsgård has clarified previous comments he made around the film that led many to believe he’d come out as bisexual.
The 49-year-old actor stars as Ray, a dom biker who takes the doe-eyed Colin (Harry Melling) as his sub partner in Harry Lighton’s debut feature film.
At the Zurich Film Festival last October, Skarsgård discussed getting into character. He said: “I found that in this case, it’s not really relevant what my background is.
“I mean, I do have a kid, but what I’ve done in the past, who I’ve been with, men, women… To me, what was important was that this felt like an opportunity to tell a story about a subculture I hadn’t seen portrayed this way – with so much authenticity.”
This set the internet ablaze with people thinking the actor had subtly referenced his sexuality during the conversation around the film.
However, speaking to Variety while appearing on the cover, Skarsgård was asked about the comments. Appearing taken aback he told the entertainment publication: “Oh. That it resonated with my past? It was definitely not an intended statement. I don’t know what I was talking about.”
He then explained that he was trying to remove himself and his own personal experiences from the movie.
“Maybe it has to do with – there’s a lot of focus sometimes on me as an actor. Maybe it was trying to shift the focus more to the story and these characters. And the importance of telling the story like this.”
Pillion, which is out in the US on 6 February, follows the complicated relationship between Ray and Colin. The film first premiered last year at the Cannes Film Festival where it earned a seven-minute standing ovation.
In an interview at the time, the True Blood actor teased a “raunchier” version of the film. Skarsgård later shared how he and Melling shot “way more graphic” sex scenes than those that ended up in the final cut.
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