Till Kamppeter, co-founder and lead of the OpenPrinting project, has put out a call for sponsors after being laid off by Canonical:

I want to continue doing OpenPrinting for a living, and need a way to do so. I am currently working with the Linux Foundation to make OpenPrinting an [organization] which can receive sponsor funding. So now I am looking for sponsors.

Even greater would be, if independent of this somebody could hire me to continue OpenPrinting...

IonQ is one of the larger examples of pure-play quantum firms. IonQ and competitors including Rigetti and D-Wave have seen their shares surge in the past year.

Economists cite several factors as reasons for why the landscape looks less dire.

Los Angeles real estate dominated the list of the top 10 most expensive homes sold in June, according to Redfin.

But they were supervised by American 'digital escorts'

Microsoft has been left with egg on its face after an independent investigation revealed a concerning pattern of using workers based in China to maintain and support US government customers on its Azure cloud.…

Warner Bros. Discovery announced the corporate names and leadership teams of its two companies for when the company separates in mid-2026.

Europe is acting like the victim of a bully

world war fee  The US president and EU chief agreed to a deal over the weekend, averting a trade war between the world's two largest economies, but the agreement has a number of European leaders calling foul. …

The 6.16 development cycle was another busy one, with 14,639 non-merge changesets pulled into the mainline — just 18 commits short of the total for 6.15. The 6.16 release happened on July 27, as expected. Also as expected, LWN has put together its traditional look at where the code for this release came from.