OpenAI wants to buy Chrome, final COSMIC alpha, Fedora could drop X11 entirely

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Apr 26, 2025•26 min•Season 3Ep. 16

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02:12 OpenAI would buy Chrome if Google had to sell it https://www.androidcentral.com/apps-software/ai/chatgpt-chief-says-openai-would-buy-chrome-if-google-is-selling https://www.theverge.com/news/652746/google-samsung-gemini-default-placement-antitrust-trial

04:46 Final Cosmic alpha is here https://blog.system76.com/post/cosmic-alpha-7-never-been-beta

07:23 Fedora 43 proposal to drop GNOME X11 entirely https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/WaylandOnlyGNOME https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-session/-/merge_requests/99

09:33 GNOME STF progress report is HUGE https://blogs.gnome.org/tbernard/2025/04/11/gnome-stf-2024/

13:12 Steam will drop 5 year old distros https://linuxiac.com/steam-will-stop-working-on-outdated-linux-systems-this-august/

14:51 NVK adds support for older Nvidia GPUs https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/mesa-nvk-nvidia-vulkan-driver-now-vulkan-1-4-conformant-on-maxwell-pascal-and-volta-gpus/

16:41 Ubuntu moves forward with Rust core utilities https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/migration-to-rust-coreutils-in-25-10/59708 https://alexgaynor.net/2025/mar/22/coreutils-in-rust/

19:14 Linux beats Windows again on recent AMD CPUs https://www.phoronix.com/review/ryzen-ai-7-pro-360-windows-linux/5

20:55 Chrome won’t ditch third party cookies https://digiday.com/media/google-chrome-will-now-continue-to-use-third-party-cookies/

23:00 Owner of IGN & CNET sue OpenAI https://www.theverge.com/news/656044/ziff-davis-sues-openai-ign-cnet-pcmag