This week Noah and Steve talk about a brand new virtualization front end of KDE. They dig into the new law that governs ISP bulk contracts, and dig into the cooling efficiency of data centers. -- During The Show -- 00:52 Intro Un-usual weather Noah's air conditioner problems Electricity cost and AI Electricity cost and crypt mining 10:45 KDE Karton Native Virtual Machine Manager Libvirt VirtManager Cockpit Open Shift & Kubernetes linuxiac.com (https://linuxiac.com/kde-virtual-machine-manager-moves-forward/) 25:45 Jonathan Riddell Leaves KDE Jonathan's Blog Post (https://jriddell.org/2025/09/14/adios-chicos-25-years-of-kde/) Linux IAC Article (https://linuxiac.com/jonathan-riddell-leaves-kde-after-25-years/) KDE on the Steam Deck KDE and the start of Ubuntu Nokia Different priorities from current KDE maintainers 31:09 News Wire Freetype 2.14 - freetype.org (https://freetype.org/index.html#news) Curl 8.16 - curl.se (https://curl.se/ch) Samba 4.23 - samba.org (https://www.samba.org/samba/history/samba-4.23.0.html) Hyprland 0.51 - hypr.land (https://hypr.land/news/update51) MKVToolNix - bunkus.org (https://www.bunkus.org/2025/09/2025-09-14-mkvtoolnix-v95-0-released) Godot 4.5 - phoronix.com (https://www.phoronix.com/news/Godot-4.5-Released) Q4OS 6.1 - q4os.org (https://www.q4os.org/blog.html) PuppyLinux BookwormPup 10.0.12 - puppylinux.org (https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?t=8690) SpecFive Strike - linuxgizmos.com (https://linuxgizmos.com/specfive-strike-handheld-linux-workstation-with-lora-mesh) Yurei Ransomware - industrialcyber.co (https://industrialcyber.co/threats-attacks/yurei-ransomware-exploits-open-source-tools-raising-double-extortion-risks) CHILLYHELL and ZynorRAT - thehackernews.com (https://thehackernews.com/2025/09/chillyhell-macos-backdoor-and-zynorrat.html) AI Driven Cyber Crime - webpronews.com (https://www.webpronews.com/open-source-ransomware-tools-on-github-fuel-ai-driven-cybercrime-surge) OS AI Director Departs - zdnet.com (https://www.zdnet.com/article/the-open-source-initiatives-executive-director-departs-what-it-means-for-the-osaid-debate) Qwen3-Next - nvidia.com (https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/new-open-source-qwen3-next-models-preview-hybrid-moe-architecture-delivering-improved-accuracy-and-accelerated-parallel-processing-across-nvidia-platform) K2 Think - sqmagazine.co.uk (https://sqmagazine.co.uk/uae-k2-think-ai-open-source-launch) RustGPT - webpronews.com (https://www.webpronews.com/rustgpt-open-source-pure-rust-llm-challenges-python-dominance) Vaultgemma - research.google (https://research.google/blog/vaultgemma-the-worlds-most-capable-differentially-private-llm) AI Stable Coin Protocol - cointelegraph.com (https://cointelegraph.com/news/google-ai-payment-protocol-stablecoin-integration) 32-bit Firefox Phased Out - mozilla.org (https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2025/09/05/firefox-32-bit-linux-support-to-end-in-2026) 33:38 QWhisper GitHub (https://github.com/q5sys/qwhisper) Dragon Natural Speaking Whisper for transcription Hardware requirements 38:28 CA Bill Snubs Cable Lobby Forces rental companies to allow competition ISP Agreements Best of both worlds Internet has become a human right Common carrier infrastructure ArsTechnica (https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/09/california-snubs-cable-lobby-with-bill-to-boost-isp-competition-in-rental-housing/) -- The Extra Credit Section -- For links to the articles and material referenced in this week's episode check out this week's page from our podcast dashboard! This Episode's Podcast Dashboard (http://podcast.asknoahshow.com/460) Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys (http://www.voxtelesys.com/asknoah) Join us in our dedicated chatroom #GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix (https://element.linuxdelta.com/#/room/#geeklab:linuxdelta.com) -- Stay In Touch -- Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard Ask Noah Dashboard (http://www.asknoahshow.com) Need more help than a radio show can offer? Altispeed provides commercial IT services and they’re excited to offer you a great deal for listening to the Ask Noah Show. Call today and ask about the discount for listeners of the Ask Noah Show! Altispeed Technologies (http://www.altispeed.com/) Contact Noah live [at] asknoahshow.com -- Twitter -- Noah - Kernellinux (https://twitter.com/kernellinux) Ask Noah Show (https://twitter.com/asknoahshow) Altispeed Technologies (https://twitter.com/altispeed)
