The blog Linuxiac reports: Linux has crossed a major milestone in North America, with the open-source operating system now accounting for 10.65% of desktop usage in the region, according to Statcounter's latest figures for July 2026. The result places Linux firmly in double-digit territory for the first time in Statcounter's North American desktop operating system statistics. For comparison, Statcounter recorded Linux at 5.52% in June 2026, so the share nearly doubled in one month... However, the sharp monthly increase needs context. Statcounter's June figures included an "Unknown" category that accounted for 9.24% of North American desktop usage. Its reduction seems to have coincided with Linux's rise, possibly indicating better identification of previously unclassified traffic... Statcounter is not the only major web measurement platform showing Linux with a substantial presence on North American desktops. Cloudflare Radar data, filtered to desktop HTTP traffic from North America over the previous 28 days, also places Linux at a notably high level [9.4%]. StatCounter's data also shows Linux with an even larger market share of 11.87% in just the United States — and a 14.73% market share in India. Linux's market share in other world regions: Asia 7.17% Africa 5.71% Europe 5.49% South America 4.35% China 2.12% And here's how the Linux market share in other countries compare to India and the U.S. India 14.73% United States 11.87% Germany 7.24% UK 6.18% Canada 3.83% Australia 3.55% Linux's surge could be due to its use in automation or headless browser workloads, Linuxiac points out. But another possibility is "growing frustration with Windows hardware requirements, advertising, account integration, telemetry, and forced interface changes has pushed some users to explore alternatives..." "For now, the safest conclusion is that Linux has surpassed 10% of measured desktop web usage in North America according to Statcounter, not necessarily 10% of the region's installed desktop computer base."

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昨年の夏にバズり、ホームセンターやバラエティショップでよく見かけたSUOの「クールリング」。今年はヘルメット用の「256 ICE MET」と帽子用の「256 ICE CAP」が新登場しました。

秋葉原のミステリーを追求していくこのコーナー。今回は、秋葉原ミステリーファイルNo.098「謎の空間に突如として出現したサッカーボールず消滅した謎」についてお伝えしたい。秋葉原・万世橋に謎の空間がある秋葉原と神田の間に神田川がある。そこに架かる万世橋の真...続きを読む

Alienwareの34型ゲーミングモニターに、新モデル「AW3426DW」が登場しました。QD-OLEDを搭載したウルトラワイドモニターで、実に美しい湾曲ディスプレイを備えています。価格は、799.99ドル（日本での販売価格は税込み13万…

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1969年7月20日、アポロ11号が月に着陸してから57年。人類史上最大級ともいえるこの探査で、私たちは月を理解したと思いがちです。でも、この探査で実際にわかったのは、私たちは月のことを全く知らない、という事実でした。なんででしょう？あの日…

The Hill published the thoughts of Gleb Tsipursky, Ph.D., who serves as the CEO of the future-of-work consultancy Disaster Avoidance Experts: A recent EnhancV survey of 1,000 full-time U.S. workers subject to new or stricter return-to-office policies found that 72% suspect these mandates are really a voluntary attrition strategy — a strategy by their own employers to make them quit their jobs. A full 46% admit to the practice of coffee-badging. Thirty-six percent have applied for a new job while sitting at their current office desk. Thirty-six percent have started a side hustle since the mandate was announced, in anticipation of being let go or quitting. Those numbers do not prove that employees reject collaboration. They show that many employees no longer trust the official story... The central mistake in many in-office mandates is the assumption that proximity automatically produces commitment. It does not. A worker who spends two hours commuting to sit on video calls with colleagues in other cities is not experiencing culture. That worker is experiencing theater. When executives describe the office as a cure-all, many employees experience lost time, higher costs and lower autonomy. The policy's defining feature becomes its credibility gap. Research keeps undercutting the belief that more office time automatically means better performance. A University of Pittsburgh analysis of S&P 500 firms found that return-to-office mandates reduced employee satisfaction without improving firm performance or firm value.... Baylor University's reporting on office mandates and brain drain found that firms with mandates faced greater turnover among women, senior employees, managers and high-skilled workers, while job vacancy duration increased and hiring rates declined. In other words, the people with the most options are often the first to leave. The employees who remain may not be the most committed — they may simply be the least mobile... Attendance can be mandated, but commitment cannot. When leaders confuse the two, they do not rebuild workplace culture. They create a room full of people planning their exit.

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Volkswagen（フォルクスワーゲン）が、ドイツの高級電動自転車専門メーカー、n+ Bikesと提携し、高級電動アシスト自転車2モデルを発表。なんとこちら、Bluetoothで接続できる専用のスマートヘルメットとスマートグラスも導入予定…

続きます。和田ラジオ…

手元になかった頃を振り返ると信じられないくらい。もはやそのくらい当たり前となったハンディファン。どこでも涼を取れるメリットがありますよね。とにかく頼りになるハンディファンを集めてみました。絶妙な風量調整がありがたいはじめに紹介するのは、ハン…

我が家は1階ということもあり、家の中で小さな虫を見かけることがあります。僕は虫が苦手ではないので、小さな虫を1～2匹見かけた程度ではそこまで不快感を感じませんが、大きい虫はできるだけ家に入れたくない…というのが本音。特に黒くて大きな虫（飲食…

『横浜・八景島シーパラダイス』で7月30日（木）、“マツケン”こと俳優の松平健さんをゲストに迎え、「マツケンまみれまみれ島 夏の陣」島開きイベントが開催！　おなじみの「マツケンサンバⅡ」で盛り上がりました。実はこの春、マツケンと横浜・八景島シーパラダイス...続きを読む

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沖縄ってコンビニ商品が独特じゃあないですか。沖縄だけの、沖縄で愛されているグルメが多数売られている。沖縄にはセブンイレブン、ローソン、ファミマ、いろいろなコンビニがある。……が、特にファミマの沖縄愛がハンパない。沖縄のファミマとして「ファミンチュ」の愛称...続きを読む

究極すぎるデスクトップ立体駐車場が爆誕。子供の玩具と侮るなかれ。ミニカーは小さいのに作り込みがリアルで、目が肥えた大人でも物欲や収集欲を掻き立てられます。ましてや自分が乗っていた／いる愛車があれば、無条件で欲しくなっちゃいますよね。しかし増…

New York has finalized new rules that will govern social media apps in the state starting on January 25, 2027. The law prohibits social media platforms from sending notifications to minors between midnight and 6 a.m. without parental consent. And minors "will only be shown content from other accounts they follow or otherwise select in a set sequence, such as chronological order," rather than "the default algorithmically personalized feeds... unless they get parental consent for an addictive feed." (Social media companies "must offer at least one alternative method for age assurance besides providing a government-issued ID," the announcements points out, and any information used to determine age "must not be used for any other purpose and must be deleted or de-identified immediately after its intended use.") But meanwhile, the EFF writes that a committee in the U.S. Senate is considering the SCREEN ACT, "a sweeping age-verification bill that would require online services to verify users' ages before they can access any sexually explicit content. If this bill passes, it will force millions of adult internet users to give up their anonymity, privacy, and security before they access lawful speech." Unlike many state-age verification laws — which have been harmful in their own right — the SCREEN Act has no requirement that a significant portion of the website consist of sexually explicit content that is harmful to minors. The bill requires nearly any service hosting even a single piece of sexually explicit content to verify the ages of its users. The result is that the bill would apply not only to adult content sites like PornHub or OnlyFans, but also streaming services like Netflix, and social media platforms like Reddit, Discord, or Bluesky, if they host any adult content... Under the SCREEN Act, the "bouncer" will be a digital age-verification service that captures your personal information and saves it to a database for an unspecified amount of time. The consequences of the bill won't be limited to minors. If websites and apps are expected to reliably identify teenagers, adults will be asked to prove they are adults. Even worse, the SCREEN Act is a privacy and data security nightmare. One provision of the bill requires services to take reasonable steps to protect the data collected and to not maintain for longer than is necessary. But these are terribly weak protections that impose no meaningful collection, use, or retention limits on services collecting people's private information... The SCREEN Act also targets virtual private network (VPN) users and providers. The bill requires covered websites to verify users' ages based on their IP addresses unless the service can determine that the user is outside the United States, and specifically requires age verification on traffic coming from known VPN addresses. In practice, this discourages the use of VPNs and proxy servers, which millions of people rely on for legitimate purposes such as protecting personal privacy, securing public Wi-Fi connections, safeguarding journalists and activists, and preventing data tracking... The SCREEN Act creates onerous age-verification rules that will block adults from accessing lawful speech, curtail their ability to be anonymous, and jeopardize the data security and privacy of all internet users.

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Q1. ギズモード・ジャパン20周年へのコメントをお願いします。20年前って何していたかな？と振り返ってみると、ちょうど私が編集者の仕事をスタートしたタイミングでした。漫画の編集というガジェットとは縁のない仕事だったので、それから十数年後に…

治安ワルそうなのがまたリアル。最近のスマートフォン用充電器は、平たく折りたためたりイヤホンも腕時計も同時充電ができるなど、多機能なものがアレコレ売られています。便利なのは間違いないですが…なーんか味気ないのも事実。もうちょっと遊び心があるデ…

8月4日20時まで『ポケモンGO』のレイドバトルで開催されているラインアップが実は結構美味しい件。★3レイドバトルではドリュウズを即ゲット可能★3レイドバトルに「ドリュウズ」が登場中。

強力なじめんタイプアタッカーが、ソロでサクッとゲットできてしまうの...続きを読む