SUSE/openSUSE Agama Installer Now Warns For No-Desktop Installs, Supports systemd-boot
SUSE engineers continue working on their modern “Agama” operating system installer used by the latest SUSE Linux Enterprise and openSUSE Linux distributions. Out today is Agama 21 to incorporate their latest OS installer enhancements… ⌘ Read more

Spotify Will Start Reserving Concert Tickets For Fans
Spotify is launching “Reserved,” a new feature that will set aside concert tickets for Premium subscribers it identifies as an artist’s most dedicated fans based on streams, shares, and other activity. “Getting concert tickets today can feel like a race you’re set up to lose,” Spotify wrote in a post on Thursday. “You show up at the right time, refresh endles … ⌘ Read more

Ah, there’s even a term for it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_effect

The generation effect is a psychological phenomenon whereby information is better remembered if it is generated from one’s own mind rather than simply read.

hfgl with your coding agents

Waymo Pauses Atlanta Service As Its Robotaxis Keep Driving Into Floods
Waymo has paused service in Atlanta after one of its driverless cars entered a flooded street and got stuck. It follows a similar pause in San Antonio that prompted a recent software recall (PDF) over flood avoidance. TechCrunch reports: Waymo admitted that it hadn’t finished developing a “final remedy” for avoiding flooded areas when … ⌘ Read more

Microsoft Hires Analyst With Influential Video Game Blog To Fix Xbox
Microsoft has hired games analyst and investor Matthew Ball as Xbox’s new chief strategy officer. With a long track record of analyzing the video game market and industry’s biggest shifts, Ball’s background could help Xbox rethink its hardware and console strategy at a moment when competition is tougher than ever. Engadget reports: Ball i … ⌘ Read more

NVIDIA RTX PRO Blackwell Performance Delivering Excellent Linux Performance
Recently I received the line-up of the NVIDIA RTX PRO “Blackwell” workstation graphics cards for seeing how these newest professional offerings from NVIDIA are performing on Linux and competing against the AMD Radeon AI PRO and Intel Arc Pro B-Series competition. ⌘ Read more

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org this is taking too long, we miss our photo dosage! Please out that support, I shall give them hell.

OpenAI Claims It Solved an 80-Year-Old Math Problem
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: OpenAI claims its new reasoning model has produced an original mathematical proof disproving a famous unsolved conjecture in geometry, which was first posed by Paul Erdos in 1946. If this sounds familiar to you, it’s because this isn’t the first time OpenAI has made such a bold claim. Seven months ago, the AI giant’s … ⌘ Read more

KMSCON 10.0 Released With Natural Scrolling Option, Libseat VT Support
KMSCON 10.0 is out today as the newest feature release to this terminal emulator for Linux that can serve as an alternative to the in-kernel VT… ⌘ Read more

Ryzen AI AMDXDNA Driver Adding Expandable Heap Support With Linux 7.2
AMD engineers continue enhancing the AMDXDNA accelerator driver for supporting the Ryzen AI NPUs on Linux… ⌘ Read more

VKD3D 2.0 Released For Wine’s Direct3D 12 Implementation Atop Vulkan
Wine developers have announced the release of VKD3D 2.0, the newest feature release for this Direct3D 12 API implementation built atop the Vulkan API. VKD3D is what’s used by upstream Wine for D3D12 compared to Valve’s downstream VKD3D-Proton within Steam Play (Proton)… ⌘ Read more

SpaceX Reveals Its Finances For the First Time
SpaceX has revealed its financials for the first time as it prepares for a potentially massive IPO. The New York Times reports: SpaceX’s revenue soared to $18.7 billion in 2025, up 33 percent from a year earlier, the company disclosed in a filing required of firms that are seeking to go public. In the first three months of this year, revenue rose to $4.7 billion from $4.1 billion i … ⌘ Read more

More AMDGPU Driver Fixes Prepped For Linux 7.2
AMD is ready with more AMDKFD compute driver and AMDGPU kernel graphics driver changes for the upcoming Linux 7.2 merge window… ⌘ Read more

chipStar 1.3 Released For Running HIP/CUDA Code On SPIR-V With OpenCL
A new release of chipStar is now available as the open-source tool for compiling and running HIP/CUDA code in a vendor-neutral manner with the SPIR-V intermediate representation on OpenCL or even Intel Level Zero as the run-time alternative. This is part of the ambitious effort to allow NVIDIA CUDA and AMD HIP code to ultimately run on alternative vendors with increasing levels of success… ⌘ Read more

New Patches Allow The Microsoft Surface Pro 9 5G To Be More Useful Under Linux
Back in 2024 there were Linux patches to enable a partially-working Microsoft Surface Pro 9 5G laptop that is powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8xc Gen 3 (SC8280XP) SoC. Now in 2026, there are new patches for making that ARM-powered Microsoft Surface laptop actually working more respectably under Linux… Like a working display and more… ⌘ Read more

NASA Expects Chinese Crewed Mission Around the Moon In 2027
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman says he expects China to fly taikonauts around the moon in 2027, “ratcheting up perceptions of a space race between China and the United States,” reports SpaceNews. He is using that prospect to argue for a revamped Artemis strategy and an accelerated path toward a U.S. lunar return. From the report: “The next time the w … ⌘ Read more

Colossal Biosciences Is Growing Chickens In a 3D-Printed Artificial Eggshell
Colossal Biosciences says it has grown chickens inside 3D-printed artificial eggshells. “The company says the egg technology could help conserve at-risk bird species,” reports MIT Technology. “It could also play a role in a project to re-create the extinct giant moa, a flightless 12-foot-tall bird that once lived in New … ⌘ Read more

Intuit To Lay Off Over 3,000 Employees To Refocus On AI
Intuit is reportedly cutting about 3,000 jobs, or 17% of its workforce, as it restructures around AI and simplifies its corporate organization. TechCrunch reports: The layoffs come during a bad year for the tech workforce. The tech industry has already cut more than 100,000 jobs this year, per Statista, and is on track to outpace both 2024 and 2025 if the layoff trend c … ⌘ Read more

Google Publishes Exploit Code Threatening Millions of Chromium Users
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Google on Wednesday published exploit code for an unfixed vulnerability in its Chromium browser codebase that threatens millions of people using Chrome, Microsoft Edge, and virtually all other Chromium-based browsers. The proof-of-concept code exploits the Browser Fetch programming inte … ⌘ Read more

AMDGPU HDMI 2.1 FRL To Be Initially Disabled-By-Default
One of the most exciting developments in recent times for the open-source AMDGPU kernel graphics driver is HDMI 2.1 FRL support for the AMDGPU driver along with Display Stream Compression support as they work toward providing full HDMI 2.1 support for this open-source AMD Radeon driver. The details how AMD managed to pull this feat off given prior resistance from the HDMI Forum remains to be confirmed, but it’s moving ahead and out today is the latest … ⌘ Read more

RHEL 10.2 Released With New AI Command Line Assistance
Red Hat has released RHEL 10.2 and 9.8 with new AI-assisted command-line tools. The releases also add updated developer toolchains such as Go 1.26, LLVM 21, Rust 1.92, Python 3.14, and PHP 8.4. Phoronix reports: Red Hat Enterprise Linux has introduced the goose command for power users. Goose is an optional CLI AI assistance with model context protocol (MCP) integrati … ⌘ Read more

GitHub’s Internal Repos Breached Via Employee’s Use of Malicious VS Code Extension
Longtime Slashdot reader Himmy32 writes: GitHub has announced on X that their internal repositories have been breached through a compromised VS Code Extension on an employee’s workstation. Bleeping Computer reported that the attack is linked to TeamPCP who have been in the news for a recent campaign affecting Checkm … ⌘ Read more

The Very Exciting Cache Aware Scheduling Looks Like It Will Land For Linux 7.2
As a very exciting development ahead of the Linux 7.2 kernel merge window opening in about one month’s time, it looks like the long-awaited Cache Aware Scheduling support will finally be merged! CONFIG_SCHED_CACHE has made it into a TIP branch with all the Cache Aware Scheduling code for helping with Linux performance on modern CPUs sporting multiple last level caches… ⌘ Read more

Anna’s Archive Hit With Global Domain Takedown Order
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: A coalition of thirteen major publishers has won a massive $19.5 million default judgment against shadow library Anna’s Archive. A New York federal judge fully approved the publishers’ requests, issuing a broad permanent injunction that orders more than twenty specific global registries, hosts, and service providers t … ⌘ Read more

Seagate Sparks Memory Sell-Off As CEO Says It Would ‘Take Too Long’ To Build New Factories
Seagate CEO Dave Mosley said Monday that building new memory chip factories or adding capacity would “take too long” to keep up with AI-driven storage demand. “If we took the teams off and started building new factories or bringing up new machines, that would just take too long. You would end … ⌘ Read more

Yearslong Fight Over Users’ Right To Tweak Smart TV Software Heads To Trial
A long-running lawsuit over Vizio’s Linux-based smart TV software is headed to trial in August, with the Software Freedom Conservancy arguing that GPL rules require Vizio to release complete source code owners could use to modify, maintain, or strip ads and tracking from their TVs. Ars Technica reports: The outcome could rever … ⌘ Read more

Firefox 153 Nightly Rolls Out New Settings UI
The latest nightly builds of Firefox 153 have rolled out a new appearance for the browser’s settings area… ⌘ Read more

Regional Winners of Prestigious Literary Prize Suspected of Using Chatbots
The 2026 Commonwealth Short Story Prize is facing backlash after several winning entries were accused of being AI-generated, with one Caribbean winner’s story flagged as fully AI-written by a detector that WIRED says it independently confirmed. From the report: Each year, the Commonwealth Foundation, a nongovernmental organization … ⌘ Read more

Initial Benchmarks Of The SpacemiT K3 RVA23 RISC-V CPU With The K3 Pico-ITX
One of the RISC-V SoCs we have been most looking forward to this year is the SpacemiT K3 that features the X100 RISC-V cores that are RVA23 compliant and among the first readily available RVA23 RISC-V platform for running on the likes of Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. In this article is a preview of some very early benchmarks of the SpacemiT K3 with the new Pico-ITX single board computer offering. ⌘ Read more

Google’s AI Studio Now Lets Anyone Build Android Apps In Minutes
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: The AI coding boom is now coming directly for Android app development. On Tuesday at Google IO 2026, the company announced new native Android app creation capabilities in its web-based Google AI Studio, shrinking a process that takes weeks of setup and coding down to minutes. The company also sa … ⌘ Read more

Patches Trying To Bring Mainline Linux Support For The Infineon/Intel XMM6260 Modem
While it has been nearly seven years since Apple acquired the Intel Mobile Communications’ smartphone modem business and fifteen years since Intel acquired the wireless solutions division of Infineon, in 2026 we might see mainline Linux kernel support for the out-of-date XMM6260 modem… ⌘ Read more

RHEL 10.2 Released With New AI Command Line Assistance
Red Hat today announced the releases of both Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.2 as well as RHEL 9.8… ⌘ Read more

Greg KH Calls For More Rust Linux Developers
Greg Kroah-Hartman took time away from his duties as Linux’s second-in-command as stable maintainer, various subsystem maintainer, and recent hobby of using AI/LLMs for uncovering Linux kernel bugs to present at the Rust Week conference… ⌘ Read more

Google Accused of Pushing ‘Free For Life’ G Suite Users Onto Paid Plans
Google is again pressuring some longtime G Suite Legacy users to move onto paid Workspace plans, warning that accounts flagged as “commercial use” could lose access to Gmail, Drive, Calendar, and other services if appeals fail. “The trouble, according to users, is that the appeals system appears about as transparent as a brick,” adds … ⌘ Read more

@tftp@tilde.town you say that like it is a bad thing. It is not! 😅 Once you have learned your way around, all works together quite lovely. Of course, experimenting with new clients is fun too!

HP Now Sponsoring The Linux Vendor Firmware Service / Fwupd
That didn’t take long. Mere days after Dell and Lenovo began sponsoring the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) as premiere sponsors in contributing $100k+ annually to this open-source firmware updating initiative, HP is also now a premiere sponsor… ⌘ Read more

FFmpeg Introduces Vulkan Accelerated Decoding For APV Video
FFmpeg already supports CPU-based decoding for Samsung’s APV as the Advanced Professional Video Codec. FFmpeg also has APV encode support too while now an interesting addition was merged this week: Vulkan-based acceleration for APV… ⌘ Read more

Valkey 9.1 Delivers More Performance & Enhanced Security
Valkey 9.1 released on Tuesday as the latest version of this popular fork of the Redis in-memory, key-value database… ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net Bloated websites? Naaaaah, that’s unheard of. 😅

Webb Discovers One of the Universe’s First Galaxies
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have identified an ultra-faint galaxy seen just 800 million years after the Big Bang. The galaxy contains almost no heavy elements, shows signs of intense early stellar radiation, and could offer a rare glimpse into the first stages of galaxy formation. Phys.org reports: In a paper published in the journal Nature, a team o … ⌘ Read more

Minnesota Becomes First State To Ban Prediction Markets
An anonymous reader quotes a report from NPR: Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has signed the nation’s first law banning prediction market sites from operating in the state, and in response, the Trump administration has sued, teeing up a legal battle over the most far-reaching crackdown on popular services like Kalshi and Polymarket. It comes as states confront a growing st … ⌘ Read more

@movq@www.uninformativ.de are you sure it’s the browser is getting slow or is it website developers adding more more crap to their sites?

Vim Merges GTK4 Toolkit Support, Co-Authored-By Claude
The GTK-based GUI version of the Vim text editor, gVim, now has support in place for the modern GTK4 toolkit as an alternative to its long present GTK2/GTK3 support… ⌘ Read more

Plex Triples Lifetime Subscription Cost To $750
BrianFagioli shares a report from NERDS.xyz: Plex is raising the price of a new Lifetime Plex Pass from $249.99 to $749.99 on July 1. That’s a $500 increase for media server software. Plex says it needs the money for “long-term development” and future features, but a lot of self-hosting folks are already wondering if this is basically a soft way of killing the Lifetime option with … ⌘ Read more

Google Changes Its Search Box for the First Time in 25 Years
Google is giving its iconic search box its first major redesign since 2001. The new design incorporates, you guessed it, artificial intelligence, “getting bigger and more interactive so that people can ask even longer questions and upload photographs and videos into queries,” reports the New York Times. “In addition, people can ask follow-up questions … ⌘ Read more

NextEra and Dominion’s $67 Billion Mega-Merger Is All About the Data Centers
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Inside Climate News: A proposed merger of the largest utility in the country by market value, NextEra Energy, with the sixth-largest, Dominion, would create a megacompany at a time when data centers and rapid increases in electricity demand are reshaping the industry. The proposal … ⌘ Read more

OpenAI Co-Founder Andrej Karpathy Joins Anthropic
OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy has joined rival AI lab Anthropic. “The hire is a major coup for Anthropic in the high-stakes competition for elite AI talent – and another sign the company is emerging as a magnet for some of the industry’s most respected technical minds,” reports Axios. From the report: Karpathy will start this week on Anthropic’s pre-training team, which is re … ⌘ Read more

StanChart To Cut Over 7,000 Jobs, Boost AI To Replace ‘Lower-Value Human Capital’
The London-headquartered lender Standard Chartered announced plans to cut more than 7,000 jobs by 2030, with CEO Bill Winters saying the bank will replace some “lower-value human capital” through automation and AI while offering retraining to affected workers. “It’s not cost-cutting. It’s replacing in some cases lower-val … ⌘ Read more

Fedora Retiring Its Deepin Desktop Packages
A year after SUSE decided to remove its Deepin desktop packages over ongoing security concerns, Fedora Linux is now also removing their Deepin packages over similar concerns and lack of activity in maintaining the packages… ⌘ Read more

CISA Admin Leaked AWS GovCloud Keys On Github
An anonymous reader quotes a report from KrebsOnSecurity: Until this past weekend, a contractor for the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) maintained a public GitHub repository that exposed credentials to several highly privileged AWS GovCloud accounts and a large number of internal CISA systems. Security experts said the public archive included files detailing how … ⌘ Read more