@quark@ferengi.one Ta-tah 🥳
AMD Sends Out Linux Patches For Their Next-Gen AIE4 NPU
Hitting the mailing list today are patches providing initial support for AMD’s next-gen NPU “AIE4” platform, complete with SR-IOV support… ⌘ Read more
Microsoft Copilot Is Now Injecting Ads Into Pull Requests On GitHub
Microsoft Copilot is reportedly injecting promotional “tips” into GitHub pull requests, with Neowin claiming more than 1.5 million PRs have been affected by messages advertising integrations like Raycast, Slack, Teams, and various IDEs. From the report: According to Melbourne-based software developer Zach Manson, a team member used the AI to fix … ⌘ Read more
@movq@www.uninformativ.de woot! 🥳
git pull
warning: redirecting to https://movq.de/git/jenny.git/
Fetching objects: 38, done.
From https://uninformativ.de/git/jenny
ac51ce5..f44424c main -> origin/main
* [new tag] v26.03 -> v26.03
Updating ac51ce5..f44424c
Fast-forward
CHANGES | 4 ++++
LICENSE | 2 +-
README | 10 +++++-----
3 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
Ubuntu 26.04 Showing Nice Gains Over Ubuntu 25.10 On AMD Ryzen 9000 Series
While having the new System76 Thelio Mira in the lab I ran some benchmarks of Ubuntu 24.04 LTS vs. 26.04 development on that AMD Ryzen 9000 series powered desktop. Those results were interesting for how the Ubuntu performance has changed over the past two years, but even if drilling down to just the past six months there have been some nice gains on the AMD Zen 5 desktop. In this article is a look at how Ubuntu 26.04 in its near-final state … ⌘ Read more
Sony Shuts Down Nearly Its Entire Memory Card Business Due To SSD Shortage
For the “foreseeable future,” Sony says it has stopped accepting new orders for most of its CFexpress and SD memory card lines due to the an ongoing memory supply shortage. “Due to the global shortage of semiconductors (memory) and other factors, it is anticipated that supply will not be able to meet demand for CFexpress m … ⌘ Read more
Coreboot 26.03 Released With Support For Intel Panther Lake
Coreboot 26.03 was christened today as the newest quarterly feature release for this open-source system firmware implementation that strives to replace proprietary BIOS/firmware. Most notable with Coreboot 26.03 is full support for Intel Core Ultra Series 3 Panther Lake SoCs… ⌘ Read more
Tech CEOs Suddenly Love Blaming AI For Mass Job Cuts
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the BBC: Sweeping job cuts at Big Tech companies have become an annual tradition. How executives explain those decisions, however, has changed. Out are buzzwords like efficiency, over-hiring, and too many management layers. Today, all explanations stem from artificial intelligence (AI). In recent weeks, giants including Google, Amazon, … ⌘ Read more
Open-Source RadeonSI+Rusticl Nearing Formal OpenCL 3.0 Conformance
The open-source RadeonSI Gallium3D driver with Rusticl for modern Rust-based OpenCL is nearing formal OpenCL 3.0 conformance with all necessary OpenCL test cases passing. Making this all the more interesting is that this is the first modern AMD graphics hardware in a decade likely to see formal recognition for OpenCL conformance with AMD having not submitted any of their own OpenCL conformance results since 2015… ⌘ Read more
@movq@www.uninformativ.de cd ~/jenny && watch -n 25 git pull. :-D
Woah, now this “rain, snow, hail, thunder, wind and sunshine” is truly something! We have started to get our “summer-in-spring” afternoon rains, turning the previously brown lawn super green, and making it grow at an exorbitant pace. Soon I will be force to mow weekly, and I am certainly not looking forward to it. 😅
@prologic@twtxt.net @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Yay! Time for a new jenny release, then. 😊
@itsericwoordward@itsericwoodward.com Nice. I just wanted to let you know that the black text color on nearly black button background color in the twtHash tab is basically unreadable. I’ve no idea why the dark theme is preferred over the light one in my browser anyway. :-D
Once again, there’s rain, snow, hail, thunder, wind and sunshine today. I have the feeling that this spring we’ve had a significantly higher appearance of hail than in previous years combined. That can only mean one thing, the cloud seeders went on strike!!
The next thunderstorm is already brewing on the horizon. The rolling thunder is getting loader and the wind picks up, too.
Intel FRED Appears Ready To Enable By Default With Linux 7.1
Last week I ran benchmarks quantify the performance benefit to Intel FRED for Flexible Return and Event Delivery initially found with the new Core Ultra Series 3 “Panther Lake” processors and also for upcoming Nova Lake and Diamond Rapids CPUs. The FRED performance impact was very beneficial across a variety of workloads but rather strangely was not enabled by default. Mere hours after publishing that article, an Intel engineer posted a patch to en … ⌘ Read more
@movq@www.uninformativ.de @itsericwoordward@itsericwoodward.com @prologic@twtxt.net These are excellent news! \o/
RVCC Proposed As An LLVM Incubator For High Performance RISC-V Optimizations
A proposal was submitted today for launching the RISC-V Compiler Collaboration “RVCC” as an LLVM Incubator project to focus on compiler optimizations for better performance on RISC-V. But before getting too excited, there is already some opposition to the proposal… ⌘ Read more
Ubuntu MATE Leader Stepping Down, Seeking New Contributors
After starting and leading the Ubuntu MATE flavor since 2014, Martin Wimpress announced he’s looking to step down from leading this flavor of Ubuntu Linux with the MATE desktop environment. He’s hoping for new passionate contributors to keep it going… ⌘ Read more
Rspamd 4.0 Released For Open-Source Spam Filtering
Rspamd 4.0 is out today as a big update to this powerful open-source spam filtering system… ⌘ Read more
RADV Vulkan Video Adds Low-Latency Encode/Decode Options
The Mesa Radeon “RADV” Vulkan driver has added new low-latency Vulkan Video encode/decode options for those seeking better performance… ⌘ Read more
New Company Hopes to Build Age-Verification Tech into Vape Cartridges
Their goal is to use biometric data and blockchain to build age-verification measures directly into disposable vape cartridges.
Wired reports on a partnership between vape/cartridge manufacturer Ispire Technology and regulatory consulting company Chemular (which specializes in the nicotine market) — which they’ve named “Ike Tech”:
[U … ⌘ Read more
Intel Graphics Driver For Linux 7.1 Preps Workaround For Dell XPS Panther Lake Laptop
Sent out today was the latest batch of drm-intel-next changes as feature work toward DRM-Next for Linux 7.1 winds down. This week’s drm-intel-next pull is mostly fixes and some low-level code refactoring. The only item really standing out is some new quirk infrastructure for dealing with laptop display panels that may have buggy Panel Replay handling… ⌘ Read more
AMD Revives Linux Kernel Patches For Hardware-Accelerated vIOMMU
Back in 2023 AMD posted hardware-accelerated virtualized IOMMU patches for the Linux kernel as a request for comments (RFC). In 2024 they then posted a second iteration of the AMD vIOMMU patches but then seemingly fell off the radar. This morning is now the first set of updated AMD vIOMMU patches sent out on the Linux kernel mailing list with the RFC tag now removed… ⌘ Read more
SolveSpace 3.2 3D CAD Tool Adds Qt Frontend, Experimental Web Version
SolveSpace 3.2 was released this past week as the newest feature update to this open-source parametric 3D CAD tool for creating 2D/3D parts and other CAD diagrams… ⌘ Read more
Apple’s Early Days: Massive Oral History Shares Stories About Young Wozniak and Jobs
Apple’s 50th anniversary is this week — and Fast Company’s Harry McCracken just published an 11,000-word oral history with some fun stories from Apple’s earliest days and the long and winding road to its very first home computers:
Steve Wozniak, cofounder, Apple: I told my dad when I was in high school, “I’ … ⌘ Read more
Merged 👌
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Thanks for the heads-up.
It lead me to publish an updated version of twtxt-lib (v0.10.0) which supports the v2 hashing algorithm: https://twtxt-lib.itsericwoodward.com/
Rivian and Lucid Win Right to Sell Their EVs Directly to Buyers in Washington State
The Wall Street Journal reports that Rivian “just won a yearslong battle with car dealers in Washington state that threatens the model of how cars are sold.”
After fighting to sell its vehicles directly to buyers, Rivian threatened to take its case to voters with a ballot measure to permit direct sales. The … ⌘ Read more
Will Social Media Change After YouTube and Meta’s Court Defeat?
Yes, this week YouTube and Meta were found negligent in a landmark case about social media addiction.
But “it’s still far from certain what this defeat will change,” argues The Verge’s senior tech and policy editor, “and what the collateral damage could be.”
If these decisions survive appeal — which isn’t certain — the direct outcome would be multi … ⌘ Read more
Is It Time For Open Source to Start Charging For Access?
“It’s time to charge for access,” argues a new opinion piece at The Register. Begging billion-dollar companies to fund open source projects just isn’t enough, writes long-time tech reporter Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols:
Screw fair. Screw asking for dimes. You can’t live off one-off charity donations… Depending on what people put in a tip jar is no way to fu … ⌘ Read more
Linux 7.0-rc6 Released With The Fixes Still Coming In Heavy
Linux 7.0-rc6 was just released in quickly working toward the stable Linux 7.0 release in mid-April. This was another busy week with lots of bug fixes… ⌘ Read more
‘Project Hail Mary’: Real Space Science, Real Astrophotography
Project Hail Mary has now grossed $300.8 million globally after earning another $54.1 million this weekend from 86 markets, reports Variety, noting that after just nine days it’s now Amazon MGM’s highest-grossing film ever. And last weekend it had the best opening for a “non-franchise” movie in three years, adds the Associated Press — the best … ⌘ Read more
World’s Smallest QR Code - Smaller Than Bacteria - Could Store Data for Centuries
“Scientists have created a microscopic QR code so tiny it can only be seen with an electron microscope,” reports Science Daily. It’s “smaller than most bacteria and now officially a world record.”
“But this isn’t just about size; it’s about durability. By engraving data into ultra-stable ceramic materials, th … ⌘ Read more
This Friendly Robot Just Installed 100 MW of Solar Power
Utility-scale solar construction… by robots! It’s “one of the largest real-world demonstrations,” notes Electrek, with 100 MW of capacity installed by the “Maximo” robots from AES, one of the world’s top power companies.
Maximo uses AI “to automate the heavy lifting of solar panels and accelerate solar installation,” according to their web page, which sho … ⌘ Read more
Bluesky’s Newest Product: an AI Tool That Gives You Custom Feeds
“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 a … ⌘ Read more
Amazon Gambles on $4B Push Into America’s Rural Areas, May Soon Carry More Parcels Than USPS
In many rural areas, America’s online shoppers can wait half a week or more for deliveries. But Amazon started a $4 billion “rural delivery push” last year, reports Bloomberg, and has now cut delivery times to under 24 hours for 1 in 5 rural and small-town households, with 48-hour delivery to 62 … ⌘ Read more
Apple Now Requires Device-Level Age Verification in the UK. Could the US Be Next?
Apple unveiled new device-level age restrictions in the UK on Wednesday. “After downloading a new update, users will now have to confirm that they are 18 or older to access unrestricted features,” reports Gizmodo.
“Users will be able to confirm their age with a credit card or by scanning an ID.”
For those underag … ⌘ Read more
Linux Ham Radio KISS Serial Driver Being Modernized In 2026
Here’s something that wasn’t on my bingo card for this year of the “MKISS” driver for ham radio being modernized in 2026 as opposed to just being dropped. The MKISS code hasn’t seen much driver activity since the original Git import of the Linux kernel more than twenty years ago… ⌘ Read more
Jupiter’s Lightning May Have the Force of Nuclear Weapons
How powerful is Jupiter’s lightning? Thick clouds cover the view, notes Science magazine. But using an instrument on NASA’s Juno spacecraft (orbiting Jupiter for the past decade), researchers determined Jupiter’s lightning bolts are 100 to 10,000 times more energetic than earth’s:
A single bolt of lightning on Earth releases about 1 billion joules of energy. … ⌘ Read more
Intel Prepares Wireless Mode Support For QAT Gen6 Hardware
Last year Intel began preparing their QuickAsist Linux driver support for QAT Gen6 hardware with upcoming platforms. That initial Intel QAT Gen6 driver enablement landed back in Linux 6.16 while for the upcoming Linux 7.1 kernel they are preparing support for a new wireless mode with this next-gen QuickAssist hardware… ⌘ Read more
Many EXT4 Fixes Lined Up For Linux 7.0-rc6
Ahead of the Linux 7.0-rc6 kernel due to be released later today, quite a number of EXT4 file-system fixes were sent out this morning… ⌘ Read more
What Made Bell Labs So Successful?
Bell Labs “created many of the foundational innovations of the modern age,” writes Jon Gertner, author of The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation — from transistors and telecommunications satellites to Unix and the C programming language.
But what was the secret to its success? he asks in a new article for the Wall Street Journal. Start with its lucky arrival in a “problem-ri … ⌘ Read more
Nginx 1.29.7 Delivers Multipath TCP Support
Released this week was Nginx 1.29.7 as the newest mainline version of this HTTP(S) web server. Releasing alongside Nginx 1.28.3 stable, it fixed buffer overflow vulnerabilities and some other vulnerabilities. Making Nginx 1.29.7 more exciting though is that it landed Multipath TCP support… ⌘ Read more
RadeonSI Driver Lands Fixes For EDuke32 For Those Wanting To Enjoy Duke Nukem 3D In 2026
It’s fairly rare for the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver to hit OpenGL rendering game bugs these days as besides more games going opting for Vulkan API use, RadeonSI is rather robust and very mature at this stage. Recently though a Linux gamer that upgraded to a Radeon RX 9070 XT RDNA4 graphics card noticed that the open-source EDuke32 Duke Nukem 3D build and its derivatives were failing to render properly with the RadeonSI driver… ⌘ Read more
Disney Ends $1B OpenAI Investment After Sora’s Surprise Closure. What’s Next?
Just six days ago — and 30 minutes after a Disney-OpenAI meeting about a project with Sora — Disney’s team was “blindsided” with the news Sora was being discontinued, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters, describing OpenAI’s move as “a big rug-pull.”
Even some Sora employees were surprised by the cancellati … ⌘ Read more
Do Emergency Microsoft, Oracle Patches Point to Wider Issues?
“Emergency out-of-band fixes issued by enterprise IT giants Microsoft and Oracle have shone a spotlight on issues around both update cycles and patching,” reports Computer Weekly:
Microsoft’s emergency update, KB5085516, addresses an issue that arose after installing the mandatory cumulative updates pushed live on Patch Tuesday earlier this month. Accordi … ⌘ Read more
MacOS 26.4 Adds Warnings For ClickFix Attacks to Its Terminal App
An anonymous Slashdot reader writes: ClickFix attacks are ramping up. These attacks have users copy and paste a string to something that can execute a command line — like the Windows Run dialog, or a shell prompt.
But MacRumors reports that macOS 26.4 Tahoe (updated earlier this week) introduces a new feature to its Terminal app where it will … ⌘ Read more
SystemD Contributor Harassed Over Optional Age Verification Field, Suggests Installer-Level Disabling
It’s FOSS interviewed a software engineer whose long-running open source contributions include Python code for the Arch Linux installer and maintaining packages for NixOS. But “a recent change he made to systemd has pushed him into the spotlight” after he’d added the optiona … ⌘ Read more
IBM Quantum Computer Simulates Real Magnetic Materials and Matches Lab Data
“IBM says its quantum computer can now simulate real magnetic materials and match actual lab experiment results,” writes Slashdot reader BrianFagioli, “which is something people have been waiting years to see.”
Instead of just theoretical output, the system reproduced neutron scattering data from a known material, meaning it lin … ⌘ Read more