An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Framework has been selling and shipping its modular, repairable, upgradable Laptop 13 for five years now, and in that time, it has released six distinct versions of its system board, each using fresh versions of Intel and AMD processors (seven versions, if you count this RISC-V one)

"We actually have slightly more Linux users than Windows users."

The company announced its new Framework Laptop 13 Pro, along with updates to its 16-inch model.

Frameworks Laptop 13 Pro may be the star of todays launch, but it is by no means the only product the company is unveiling

Laptop includes Core Ultra Series 3 CPUs, a bigger battery, and a touchscreen.

Frameworks lineup of modular, repairable laptops has seen the company grow from a niche to the mainstream

A lower-end Ryzen AI 340 CPU option will also bring the price down, for now

The Framework Laptop 13 Pro is the company's first redesign of its chassis, with CNC aluminum, a haptic touchpad, larger battery, and an option for pre-loaded Ubuntu

Framework announced the new Laptop 13 Pro during a livestream Tuesday

Blames outfit called Context.ai, which reckons an agentic OAuth tangle caused the incident Vercel, the company that created the open source Next.js web development framework, has a data leak that led to compromise of some customer credentials, and blamed an outfit called Context.ai for the mess.

BrianFagioli writes: Mozilla's email subsidiary MZLA Technologies just introduced Thunderbolt, an open-source AI client aimed at organizations that want to run AI on their own infrastructure instead of relying entirely on cloud services. The idea is to give companies full control over their data, models, and workflows while still offering things like chat, research tools, automation, and integration with enterprise systems through the Haystack AI framework

Quickly building out new energy sources might help ease costs, but it doesn't account for the negative environmental impacts of having a new power plant in your neighborhood, something the Trump administration doesn't appear all too interested in addressing. In his latest AI framework proposal , President Donald Trump largely ignored the environmental impact of AI in favor of calling for the permitting process for things like on-site energy generators to be streamlined

The company has released its initial schedule of keynotes and sessions, but it doesn't provide us with a lot of specifics as yet. It has lined up discussions on what's new in the likes of Google Play, Firebase (a mobile and web app development platform), the Gemma open model family and the open-source app development framework Flutter

Chinese scientists unveil first full-chain seawater hydrogen framework

As Framework prepares for its next big product launch, the repair-and-augment-friendly PC maker has some thoughts about the Cloud and AI revolution

Framework founder Nirav Patel said that the personal computing industry is facing a massive change as big companies are forcing it to move towards a subscription-based model

Tangled tale nears end as Redmond classifies it as a tool, not a library Microsoft has set an end-of-support date of April 7, 2027, for ASP.NET Core 2.3, the only supported version on .NET Framework, even though .NET Framework (and the original ASP.NET) will continue to be supported.

Laptop maker Framework cautions against getting carried away with a 'temporary reprieve' in RAM and SSD price hikes

The company is already adjusting pricing for high-capacity SSDs and memory-heavy configurations as supply costs increase

Japanese researchers trained cultured rat cortical neurons to autonomously generate complex temporal signals using a real-time machine learning framework

On the other side are those who routinely outsource their critical thinking to what they see as an all-knowing machine. Recent research goes a long way to forming a new psychological framework for that second group, which regularly engages in "cognitive surrender" to AI's seemingly authoritative answers

Making plug-ins more secure than the WordPress architecture, EmDash plug-ins are sandboxed and run in their own isolate. EmDash builds upon the Astro web framework

Frameworks founder says Apples MacBook Neo isnt repairable enough and is made with a different philosophy in mind

Over the past year, the Trump administration has further abandoned W.T.O. by issuing its own global framework of tariffs instead

Researchers at the University of Waterloo say a new "quadratic quantum gravity" framework could explain the universe's rapid early expansion without adding extra ingredients to Einstein's theory by hand

The Ministry of Investment, Trade and Industry (MITI) has clarified that conditions imposed on BYDs proposed local assembly plant are not brand-specific, but part of a framework applied to all high-volume automotive projects in Malaysia

"What happens when you can describe the social experience you want and have it built for you...?" asks Bluesky? "We've just started experimenting, but we're sharing it now because we want you to build alongside us." Called "Attie" because it's built with Bluesky's decentralized publishing framework, AT Protocol (which is open source) the new assistant turns natural language prompts into social feeds, without users having to know how to code

Bluesky, but specifically its chief innovation officer Jay Graber and her new Exploration team, built a new AI assistant called Attie that's designed to help users create custom feeds. Graber called Attie an "agentic social app" that's built on its its open-source framework called the AT Protocol

LangChain and LangGraph have patched three high-severity and critical bugs

AI adoption is accelerating across global organizations, improving productivity, but governance frameworks and risk management systems remain incomplete and inconsistently implemented

Uber and Chinese company Pony.ai are gearing up to launch a robotaxi service for Europe, starting with Zagreb in Croatia. The companies are working with Croatian company Verne, which will provide the service ecosystem and operational framework for the service

Writing for the court, Justice Clarence Thomas said a provider is not liable "for merely providing a service to the general public with knowledge that it will be used by some to infringe copyrights." A provider is liable only if it intended or actively encouraged the infringement, Thomas wrote. The decision applies the same framework the court used in 2005 when it found file-sharing service Grokster liable for promoting piracy

Android Automotive OS for Software Defined Vehicles wants to be the framework your next car runs on

Donald Trump wants to take ownership of some AI legislation, agreeing to keep states in control of fraud and consumer protection

Broader platform coverage lands, if developers can tolerate the rough edges AvaloniaUI has previewed MAUI support for Linux and WebAssembly browser applications platforms Microsoft's own cross-platform .NET framework lacks but low adoption and persistent bugs are likely to constrain uptake.

For some, the bailout is an unfortunate precedent as other similar victims might ask for help as well