The Verge
Google has updated its privacy policy in a way that could mean you'll start seeing targeted ads based on your personal data if you're using personalized AI features. The update, spotted by Android Authority, adds an exception to its promise about not using your Drive, Gmail, or Google Photos for personalized ads.
Summary drawn from The Verge's own description of the story.
Ars Technica
ReactOS is a volunteer-built open-source operating system that aims to run Windows programs and drivers without Windows. It can now install onto an NTFS partition, the filesystem used by most Windows PCs, instead of requiring a separate FAT32 drive. The new driver still lacks caching, journaling and security support, so it is a development milestone rather than a ready replacement.
XDA
Linux 7.3, released by Linus Torvalds on Sunday, includes a fix for AMD graphics cards with little video memory that was first spotted by a Valve engineer in April. The kernel now handles that memory in a way that can improve gaming performance on older cards. The release also opens the merge window for Linux 7.4.
GitHub
Crash reporters like Crashpad write a memory dump when an app fails, so developers can see what went wrong. A user reports that OpenAI's Codex Desktop keeps writing dumps even while it works normally, filling a folder with 54,504 files and 4.9 GB in one day on a Mac. Because dumps can hold fragments of memory, the reporter is not sharing them publicly.
Ars Technica
KDE marked 30 years with Plasma 6.8, which drops the old X11 session and runs fully on Wayland. X11 apps still work through the XWayland layer, and the release adds Nvidia triple buffering by default, a remote desktop server with clipboard sync, and a system monitor that can pin processes to CPU cores. Plasma 6.7 users keep their existing X11 sessions for now.