LZ Experiment Sees Surprising Result In Search For Dark Matter
New submitter greytree shares a report from Brown University: LUX-ZEPLIN, an experiment co-led by Brown University faculty and students, observed a particle interaction that could be interpreted as a signal from WIMPs, a dark matter candidate – but researchers need more data to confirm. […] The result does not yet meet the statistical thresho … ⌘ Read more

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Steam On Linux Dips Below 4% For August
Valve just published the Steam Survey results for August 2026. After jumping above 4% in July, in August it fell back below that threshold. Meanwhile CachyOS continues gaining ground among Linux gamers… ⌘ Read more

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GoPro Says It’s Moving Into Data Centers As Part of a $285 Million Merger
GoPro plans to expand into AI infrastructure through a $285 million merger with optical-photonics company Starman Optical, whose transceivers will give the action-camera maker a foothold in the fast-growing data center market. GoPro also plans to push into defense, robotics, aerospace, and government markets while continuing its existi … ⌘ Read more

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Who Is John Ternus, the New Apple CEO?
John Ternus has officially taken over as Apple CEO after 15 years under Tim Cook, stepping up from his role as senior vice president of hardware engineering. A 25-year Apple veteran who helped oversee products including AirPods, Apple Watch, Vision Pro, Apple silicon, and the new MacBook Neo, Ternus now inherits the challenge of pushing Apple forward in AI while Cook stays on as executive chairm … ⌘ Read more

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WinBtrfs 1.10 Released With Two Years Worth Of Improvements For Btrfs On Windows
WinBtrfs is a driver for Microsoft Windows to support reading and writing to Btrfs file-systems. WinBtrfs works with Windows XP and newer. It hadn’t seen a new release in over two years but a big feature release is now available with a combination of new features and bug fixes… ⌘ Read more

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Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1 Arrive With a 75% Cost Reduction For Fable Cache Reads
Anthropic has released Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1, two versions of the same underlying model aimed at longer-running agentic work. “For enterprise buyers, however, the release is about more than another round of benchmark gains,” reports VentureBeat. “Anthropic is simultaneously c … ⌘ Read more

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AMDGPU Linux Driver’s Latest Patches For HDMI Passive VRR Support
As part of AMD’s ongoing effort for getting HDMI 2.1 support squared away in their upstream AMDGPU kernel graphics driver, sent out today were the latest patches around passive variable refresh rate “Passive VRR” for HDMI connections… ⌘ Read more

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Dyson Made a Camera-Equipped Toothbrush That Flosses For You
Dyson is entering oral care with the $499 CameraJet, a smart toothbrush that uses a tiny camera and on-device AI to detect gaps between teeth and automatically blast them with mouthwash while you brush. Regular toothpaste and mouthwash will work with the CameraJet, but Dyson plans to sell its own non- or low-foaming formulas designed to give the toothbru … ⌘ Read more

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BT’s Old Copper Landline Network Could Be Worth Over $2 Billion
BT could make more than $2.7 billion by recycling copper from its aging UK landline network as BT subsidiary Openreach replaces legacy wiring with full-fiber broadband. Engadget reports: BT’s recovered copper was previously valued at around $2 billion. But prices have surged, thanks to rising global demand tied to AI data centers, renewable energy an … ⌘ Read more

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OpenClaw 2.0 Is Here, Ushering In the Era of ‘Multiplayer’ AI Coding
An anonymous reader quotes a report from VentureBeat: The viral fervor we saw earlier this year around OpenClaw, the open source AI harness that turns powerful language models into autonomous workers the user can message via their favorite channels (Telegram, iMessage, WhatsApp, Discord etc), has cooled off substantially from its peak i … ⌘ Read more

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In-reply-to » Literally just a day after Elon came out with his legal threats towards all of Nitter and people like me complained about it, Open AI decides to no longer work with Cursor (acquired by Space X), explicitly saying it's because Elon wouldn't stop breaking their signed contracts and scraping (distilling) their models, behind their back.

@thecanine@twtxt.net @prologic@twtxt.net I get the lulz every time an AI company complains about getting scraped… 🤣

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Anthropic Signs $35 Billion Cloud Deal With Nvidia-Backed Lambda
Anthropic has reportedly signed a $35 billion cloud-computing deal with Nvidia-backed Lambda for a roughly 350-megawatt Texas data center being developed by Hut 8. “Lambda will install Nvidia chips at the Hut 8 facility, with the arrangement designed to expand the pool of Nvidia computing resources available to power Anthropic’s Claude AI products,” rep … ⌘ Read more

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Linux Gets A Reverse-Engineered Driver For ASUS ROG NVMe Enclosure RGB Lighting
If you are into RGB lighting, you can even find NVMe external enclosures these days with RGB LEDs like the ASUS ROG Strix Arion. Now thanks to reverse engineering there is a Linux driver for allowing the RGB lighting controls for the ASUS ROG Strix Arion NVMe enclosure… ⌘ Read more

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Jensen Huang and Lisa Su Snubbed By TIME’s 2026 List of Top 100 AI Leaders
TIME’s 2026 list of the 100 most influential people in AI omits Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and AMD CEO Lisa Su, despite both having appeared on previous editions and playing central roles in the hardware powering the AI boom. Nvidia’s only representative this year is sustainability chief Josh Parker, while the list includes figures suc … ⌘ Read more

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In-reply-to » I am finally building a Twtxt / Yarn.social inspired Git forge. I'm actually quite confident that y'all will quite like it, but I won't post links yet until I'm quietly confident in its design, functionality and behaviour(s).

@prologic@twtxt.net Hmm. 🤔

Okay, suppose you host a project using this new forge, and I want to send a pull request. What do I have to do?

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In-reply-to » I am finally building a Twtxt / Yarn.social inspired Git forge. I'm actually quite confident that y'all will quite like it, but I won't post links yet until I'm quietly confident in its design, functionality and behaviour(s).

@movq@www.uninformativ.de What if I told you there were in fact zero account(s) at all? And that you signed into your own instance or a multi-user instance with your own SSH key? 🔑 Hmmm? 🧐

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In-reply-to » I am finally building a Twtxt / Yarn.social inspired Git forge. I'm actually quite confident that y'all will quite like it, but I won't post links yet until I'm quietly confident in its design, functionality and behaviour(s).

@prologic@twtxt.net Haha. 😅

I’m not really sure what you have in mind. All I can safe with relatively big confidence is that users hate having to make another account. That’s why GitHub/Codeberg are so successful: One account gives you access to millions of projects.

So, once that problem is solved, anything else will probably just fall into place … ? 😅

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Florida Bans Flock Cameras From State Highways
schwit1 shares a report from WCTV: Florida Governor Ron DeSantis said he’s removing Flock camera from state roadways. The announcement comes amid a growing concern over the misuse of automated license plate readers. On Monday, DeSantis ordered all Flock cameras removed from what he calls the ‘state highway system’ within the next 30 days, which would include interstates like I-10 an … ⌘ Read more

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In-reply-to » I am finally building a Twtxt / Yarn.social inspired Git forge. I'm actually quite confident that y'all will quite like it, but I won't post links yet until I'm quietly confident in its design, functionality and behaviour(s).

@movq@www.uninformativ.de In the meantime tell me all your “wishes” and things you wish/want a good decent “pure” decentralised Git forge should do 😅

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In-reply-to » I am finally building a Twtxt / Yarn.social inspired Git forge. I'm actually quite confident that y'all will quite like it, but I won't post links yet until I'm quietly confident in its design, functionality and behaviour(s).

@prologic@twtxt.net I’m really curious about that. 🤔🤔🤔

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I am finally building a Twtxt / Yarn.social inspired Git forge. I’m actually quite confident that y’all will quite like it, but I won’t post links yet until I’m quietly confident in its design, functionality and behaviour(s).

Stay tuned 🤞 It’ll be like no other Git forge you’ve ever seen! 🤣 Actually, it’s already more like cgit than anything with plain text feeds that power it’s “pure decentralization” as you can no doubt imagine 😅 #twtxt #git #forge

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Lekuo SouthBridge Max Puts An AMD B650 Chipset Onto A PCIe Card For More I/O
For those looking at expanding the SATA, NVMe, and/or the USB/USB-C capabilities of your system, the Lekuo SouthBridge Max PB65MX3 is an interesting creation that I have been trying out. The Lekuo SouthBridge Max puts an AMD B650 chipset onto a low-profile PCIe add-in card to provide all of the above without any bifurcation required. Given that it’s an AMD B650 chipset, it also “just works” nicely under Linux. ⌘ Read more

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systemd 262-rc1 Released With Live Update Orchestrator Integration & More
Debuting today is systemd 262-rc1 as the first test release of this next major update to this Linux init system and service manager… ⌘ Read more

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California Lawmakers Greenlight Solar Panels You Can Plug Into the Wall
California lawmakers have passed a bill that would legalize plug-in “balcony” solar systems, allowing residents to connect small solar panels directly to a standard wall outlet after completing a simple online registration. The systems would be capped at 1,200 watts and must meet safety requirements designed to prevent power fro … ⌘ Read more

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Linux Changes For CPPC On Zen 6 Clients - Hard-Coded Default Puts Low-Power Core At 0.47x
Following yesterday’s Linux kernel patches for tuning ACPI EPP for Ryzen Zen 6 client processors, another patch series made it out on the mailing list with adjustments for ACPI Collaborative Processor Performance Control (CPPC) with upcoming Zen 6 client processors… ⌘ Read more

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Intel Graphics Driver Introducing Cold Reset Recovery For Linux 7.4, Panther Lake IBC v3
While the Linux 7.3 merge window just wrapped up this weekend, on Monday Intel already sent out their first feature pull request of new Xe kernel graphics driver material that is destined for Linux 7.4… ⌘ Read more

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The Linux Kernel AI Flood, Linux 7.2 Release & Other August Highlights
It was a very busy month of August with the Linux kernel developers continue to be flooded with AI/LLM-generated patches and bug reports. Plus there was the general resolution on AI usage within the Debian project and other open-source projects now evolving in the AI era. With the Linux 7.2 stable release and Linux 7.3 merge window, the past month was all the more eventful… ⌘ Read more

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EDAC Changes Merged For Linux 7.3 After Being Forgotten About During The Merge Window
While the Linux 7.3 merge window officially closed on Sunday with the Linux 7.3-rc1 release, the Error Detection And Correction “EDAC” subsystem changes were mistakenly forgotten about during the two week window. The pull request ended up being sent out on Monday evening and the late feature changes were already merged to Git… ⌘ Read more

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Electrically Charged Raindrops Can Corrode Cars and Buildings
Researchers have found that tiny electrical charges picked up by moving water droplets may be damaging cars and buildings like the Eiffel Tower. In experiments, thousands of charged droplets degraded Teflon and corroded the copper beneath it, while uncharged droplets caused no comparable damage. C&EN reports: For years, researchers at the Max Planck … ⌘ Read more

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In-reply-to » FTR, I’m seeing veeeeeeeeery few actual git clone operations in the logs. Most crawlers simply don’t do that and rely on the Git history being available as HTML pages.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I am seriously rethinking and re-contemplating building a new Git forge of some description that avoids all of these stupid problems that we’re now seeing in the wild

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In-reply-to » Literally just a day after Elon came out with his legal threats towards all of Nitter and people like me complained about it, Open AI decides to no longer work with Cursor (acquired by Space X), explicitly saying it's because Elon wouldn't stop breaking their signed contracts and scraping (distilling) their models, behind their back.

@thecanine@twtxt.net some people in this world are just giant douche bags and complete sociopaths 🤯

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Trump Tells FCC To Punish Journalist For Calling His Election Results ‘Mixed’
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: President Trump yesterday demanded that the Federal Communications Commission punish or rebuke an NBC journalist for saying he has “mixed results” in his election endorsements. In the latest example of how Trump is using the FCC to harass reporters and news organization … ⌘ Read more

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KDE Linux Now Providing Automatic Btrfs Snapshots For All User Files
With the end of the month comes a new monthly status report from the KDE Linux project as their in-house distribution project… ⌘ Read more

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NVIDIA Posts Linux Scheduler Patches To Further Boost SMT Performance On NVIDIA Vera
Hitting the Linux kernel mailing list today is a new kernel scheduler patch series to enable preferred SMT siblings for NVIDIA Vera with its Olympus cores… ⌘ Read more

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FTC Sues Amazon, Accusing the E-Commerce Giant of Misleading Advertisers
The FTC and 22 state attorneys general are suing Amazon, accusing the company of secretly inflating advertising prices through undisclosed changes to its auction system that may have extracted more than $20 billion from advertisers since 2019. “Amazon has millions of advertising customers who were misled into paying significantly hig … ⌘ Read more

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Apple Caught Off Guard by AI Demand for Mac Mini and Mac Studio
According to The Information (paywalled), Apple reportedly moved up the release of new Mac mini and Mac Studio models after unexpectedly strong enterprise demand for Macs capable of running AI workloads. MacRumors reports: Apple normally releases new Mac models in the autumn, closer to October or November, making this week’s announcement unusua … ⌘ Read more

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Rust Coreutils 0.11 Released With Some Nifty Debug Helper Messages
Rust Coreutils 0.11 was just released as this alternative to the GNU Coreutils. Besides the long-running task of catching up the GNU Coreutils compatibility with the GNU test suite and never-ending work on optimizing the performance, Rust Coreutils 0.11 is quite a nice release for its improved error messages… ⌘ Read more

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Broadcom Pledges to Lock Down Open Source Python, Java Libraries
Broadcom is launching “TrueSource,” an effort to curate and secure open-source components used with its Tanzu platform, including Spring, RabbitMQ, and libraries across Java, Python, and Node.js. “The idea is to provide a set of solutions focused on providing clean and secure artefacts,” Purnima Padmanabhan, vice president of Broadcom’s Tanzu Divisi … ⌘ Read more

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