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Google is drawing sharp criticism for a new Workspace commercial imagining the founding fathers using Gemini AI to draft the Declaration of Independence. Critics are calling it tone-deaf, and honestly, it raises a real question about where the line falls between clever marketing and trivializing history for a product pitch.
On a lighter note, Hannah Montana Linux is back. The quirky Debian-based distribution, originally built as a tribute to the two-thousands Disney sitcom, was abandoned back in two thousand nine. Developer Noah Cagle has now released version twenty-six, complete with a modern kernel, KDE Plasma, and apparently, eighteen years of accumulated patches. Sweet niblets, indeed.
And the United States Navy is testing three-dimensional printed composite parts for F/A-eighteen Super Hornets at forward-deployed maintenance sites around the world. The goal is straightforward: when a jet sits grounded waiting on a part traveling thousands of miles through a supply chain, that is a readiness problem. On-demand printing could change that calculus significantly.
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