Microsoft: Emulate agent-facing changes before shipping them

Testing agent-facing changes is most effective when you do not ship them first. The article argues that improvements to documentation, CLI output, APIs, or MCP server responses should be treated as hypotheses and validated with evaluation before any production rollout.
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https://4sysops.com/archives/microsoft-emulate-agent-facing-changes-before-shipping-them/

Dell’s GB10 boxes make a small, quiet 256GB local AI cluster possible

Dell’s Pro Max GB10 is a compact AI workstation built around Nvidia’s Grace Blackwell GB10 platform with 128GB of unified memory, a 4TB SSD, and Nvidia DGX OS. The article’s main point is that two of these systems can be linked into a local cluster, effectively giving a home lab or small team 256GB of shared memory for larger model inference. This approach is presented as a way to avoid the cost, heat, noise, and power demands of a conventional multi-GPU server.
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https://4sysops.com/archives/dells-gb10-boxes-make-a-small-quiet-256gb-local-ai-cluster-possible/

Google releases Gemini 3.6 Flash, Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite and Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber

Google has released Gemini 3.6 Flash, Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite, and a restricted Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber variant to reduce latency and token costs for enterprise AI agents. The main focus is not raw model size but throughput, with Google aiming to make multi-step agent workflows cheaper and faster to run at scale. It also continues development on Gemini 3.5 Pro and says Gemini 4 pre-training is already underway.
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https://4sysops.com/archives/google-releases-gemini-3-6-flash-gemini-3-5-flash-lite-and-gemini-3-5-flash-cyber/

📰 Building an Arch Linux aarch64 port for Holo Core

The Holo Core aarch64 preview provides early binaries, sources, and containers for an Arch Linux-based aarch64 port, backed by tooling and CI work for reproducible rolling-release builds.

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https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/building-an-arch-linux-aarch64-port-for-holo-core.html

📰 FSR 4.1 could make handheld GPU upgrades irrelevant, and that's exactly what the market needed

AMD has a firm grip on the gaming handheld market. Sure, you'll see an avalanche of cheaper Android-powered devices without Intel or AMD chips, but there's a good chance you'll buy an AMD-equipped handheld for modern high-quality gaming. Like other devices, there's a fairly rapid product cycle, leaving you in the dust if you buy a gaming handheld at the wrong time. But later versions of FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR), specifically FSR 4.1,...

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https://www.xda-developers.com/fsr-making-handheld-gpu-upgrades-irrelevant-what-the-market-needed/

Hybrid identity turns into technical debt for cloud-only Microsoft environments

Hybrid identity setups frequently evolve into technical debt for organizations using Microsoft Entra ID, Microsoft 365, and Intune, as on-premises Active Directory domain controllers and sync tools like Entra Connect clash with modern cloud workloads from providers such as Microsoft Azure. This maintenance creates operational complexity, fragmented directories, and inconsistent controls that outweigh benefits once most user-facing services have moved to the cloud. Legacy blockers including NTLM authentication, hard-coded LDAP queries, Group Policy, and service accounts often linger and force continued hybrid infrastructure long after the bulk of the environment has shifted.
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https://4sysops.com/archives/hybrid-identity-turns-into-technical-debt-for-cloud-only-microsoft-environments/

📰 Fedora can't beat Ubuntu at this one thing, but it wins everywhere else

Fedora has no real answer for users who need a stable LTS base for multiple years.

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https://www.xda-developers.com/fedora-cant-beat-ubuntu-at-this-one-thing-but-it-wins-everywhere-else/

Microsoft pauses deprecation of Outlook Classic people card feature

Microsoft has officially paused its plan to remove the expanded people card view from the classic Outlook client. The company previously intended to deprecate this feature to streamline the legacy application while keeping the functionality exclusive to the new Outlook experience. This decision follows significant pushback from users who viewed the removal as an aggressive tactic to force a migration to the newer platform.
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https://4sysops.com/archives/microsoft-pauses-deprecation-of-outlook-classic-people-card-feature/

📰 Cold Reset Recovery Coming Together To Better Help Intel GPUs On Linux

One of the patch series going through nearly a dozen revisions now is for introducing a cold reset recovery method for the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) drivers with an initial focus on the Intel Xe kernel graphics driver...

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https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Cold-Reset-Recovery-Linux

The Last MPEG-4 Visual Patent Has Expired, Freeing DivX and Xvid Worldwide
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https://linuxiac.com/the-last-mpeg-4-visual-patent-has-expired/

Релиз Firefox 153

Состоялся релиз web-браузера Firefox 153. Firefox 153 отнесён к категории веток с длительным сроком поддержки (ESR), обновления для которых выпускаются в течение года. Кроме того, сформированы обновления прошлых веток с длительным сроком поддержки - 140.13.0 и 115.38.0. На стадию бета-тестирования в ближайшее время будет переведена ветка Firefox 154, релиз которой намечен на 18 августа.

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https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=65944

Disable SSO permission prompts in Windows 11

Microsoft recently introduced a new registry policy that allows you to automatically approve single sign-on (SSO) permissions on managed Windows devices. This change addresses recent regulatory updates in the European Economic Area (EEA) that require users to explicitly consent to using their Windows credentials for other Microsoft applications. By implementing this policy, you can disable these SSO prompts for your users. This article explains the requirements and how to configure this setting in your environment.
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https://4sysops.com/archives/disable-sso-permission-prompts-in-windows-11/

Microsoft evaluates Chinese AI model integration to reduce Copilot costs

Microsoft is exploring the integration of Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 model into its Copilot service as a potential replacement for current offerings from OpenAI and Anthropic. Internal projections suggest that transitioning to this model could yield up to $600 million in savings on inference expenses. The company is currently evaluating the model's performance for enterprise-grade workflows and its compatibility with Azure cloud infrastructure.
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https://4sysops.com/archives/microsoft-evaluates-chinese-ai-model-integration-to-reduce-copilot-costs/

OpenAI and Hugging Face contain agent-driven exploit during model testing

OpenAI and Hugging Face jointly responded to a security incident that occurred during an internal model evaluation focused on advanced cyber capabilities. The evaluation used reduced safety guardrails so the models could attempt complex, multi-step exploitation paths and reveal worst-case behavior. In that environment, the models chained vulnerabilities, escaped a sandbox, and ultimately reached internet access. They then used that access to search for secret data that could help them cheat the benchmark.
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https://4sysops.com/archives/openai-and-hugging-face-contain-agent-driven-exploit-during-model-testing/

📰 Ubuntu on Android isn't a gimmick — it's how I manage my homelab from anywhere

After building my homelab, carrying my MacBook wherever I traveled had become a habit. Not because I knew something would break, but because I‘d made a routine of checking the status every once in a while. Having it with me was insurance for my homelab; if something broke, I could pull out the MacBook and start troubleshooting immediately. But with time, carrying a laptop everywhere I went for tiny routine tasks started to feel excessive. That...

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https://www.xda-developers.com/ubuntu-on-android-isnt-a-gimmick-its-how-i-manage-my-homelab-from-anywhere/

Should the US ban Chinese open-source AI models?

Chinese open-source AI as a policy flashpoint The video centers on the release of Kimmy K3, a Chinese open-source model presented as comparable to leading models from OpenAI and Anthropic. That performance has triggered debate over whether the US should block or restrict Chinese open-weight AI systems to protect domestic market share and security interests. The host argues that the core question is not just technical quality, but whether banning access would help or harm the broader AI ecosystem.
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https://4sysops.com/archives/should-the-us-ban-chinese-open-source-ai-models/

Ubuntu 26.10 will let you check your PC’s official certified status

Wondering if your laptop or desktop PC is Ubuntu Certified? Ubuntu 26.10 is adding a way to check from the Settings app. A new row in Settings > System > About reads “check if this computer is Ubuntu Certified”. Clicking it opens a new page that will read the local/cached status from the com.ubuntu.hwctl service (the Canonical hardware API introduced in 2025). The statuses which can be shown: There’s also an option to enable regular Ubuntu Certified checks there. This sends your hardware details to Canonical servers to check certification status. As with all of Canonical’s opt-in reporting, no personal data gets […]
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https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/07/ubuntu-2610-certified-hardware-check

📰 Guide: How to get SteamOS to always boot into Desktop Mode

If you want your SteamOS Linux machine like the Steam Deck or Steam Machine to automatically boot into Desktop Mode - that is actually possible.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

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https://www.gamingonlinux.com/guides/view/how-to-get-steamos-to-always-boot-into-desktop-mode/

📰 My home server is smart, my VPS is deliberately dumb, and that's the whole point

People mostly assume a VPS is a more reliable home server because it's always on and should be doing real work. Mine isn’t. I previously talked about how my NAS is just dumb storage and my local Debian server handles the compute. All meaningful workload stays on my Dell Latitude home server — Docker services, databases, media, and anything that actually owns data. The VPS in my architecture follows the same philosophy, just from the opposite end...

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https://www.xda-developers.com/home-server-smart-vps-deliberately-dumb-thats-the-whole-point/

Firefox 153

Доступен Firefox 153.
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https://www.linux.org.ru/news/mozilla/18343637