@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org We’ll see. Hasn’t really happened in the past. 🤔
YouTube Expands AI Deepfake Detection To Politicians, Government Officials, and Journalists
YouTube is expanding its AI deepfake detection tools to a pilot group of politicians, government officials, and journalists, allowing them to identify and request removal of unauthorized AI-generated videos impersonating them. TechCrunch reports: The technology itself launched last year to rough … ⌘ Read more
@thecanine@twtxt.net are you referring to the “WE FUCKING WON!” twtxt?
@movq@www.uninformativ.de Now, they’re always cloning the entire repo I suppose. X-(
AMD Ryzen AI NPUs Are Finally Useful Under Linux For Running LLMs
Over the past two years AMD has developed the AMDXDNA accelerator driver in the mainline Linux kernel for supporting the AMD Ryzen AI NPUs. But when it comes to user-space software on Linux actually able to leave the Ryzen AI NPUs it’s been… extremely limited with nothing really useful besides some niche bits of code. Even AMD’s own software like their GAIA on Linux has used Vulkan with their iGPUs rather than any NPU support. But finally tod … ⌘ Read more
China Moves To Curb OpenClaw AI Use At Banks, State Agencies
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: Chinese authorities moved to restrict state-run enterprises and government agencies from running OpenClaw AI apps on office computers, acting swiftly to defuse potential security risks after companies and consumers across China began experimenting with the agentic AI phenomenon. Government agencies and state- … ⌘ Read more
Ubuntu 26.04 With GNOME 50 Offering Some Performance Benefits For NVIDIA Linux Gaming
With GNOME 50 that is being used by default with the upcoming Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release, you may be curious about the out-of-the-box performance especially compared to prior Ubuntu Linux releases – especially with Mutter 50 having some NVIDIA optimizations. In today’s article is a first look at how the NVIDIA Linux gaming performance on Ubuntu 26.04 is looking compared to the current Ubuntu 25.10 release. ⌘ Read more
@arne@uplegger.eu (Arrrrrgh, bitte lass’ mich nicht noch ein Spielzeug kaufen … 😂)
Now that Winter has come to an end, I’m realizing that the default amber color scheme of my widget toolkit might be problemaic.
Readability isn’t great when the sun is blasting through the windows. 🥴
I should probably make this full themeable by the user …
(Haven’t worked on this code in a month, sadly.)
ASUS Executive Says MacBook Neo is ‘Shock’ to PC Industry
ASUS says the MacBook Neo is a “shock” to the Windows PC ecosystem. “In the past, Apple’s pricing situation has always been high, so for them to release a very budget-friendly product, this is obviously a shock to the entire industry,” said ASUS co-CEO S.Y. Hsu in a Tuesday earnings call. While he expects PC makers to respond, rising AI-driven memory shortag … ⌘ Read more
as things are now in fact even worse
You mean this, right?
Contrary to a vague mention of a possible “advanced flow” that may eventually allow “experienced users to accept the risks of installing software that isn’t verified”, Google’s description of the program continues to state plainly that:
Starting in September 2026, Android will require all apps to be registered by verified developers in order to be installed on certified Android devices
Until such time that they have shown evidence that it will be possible to bypass the verification process without undue friction, we must believe what is stated on their official page: that all apps from non-registered developers will be blocked once their lock-down goes into effect.
Putting obstacles in their way: To make scraping my code slightly less trivial, the repos on my website now only show the newest 15 commits, e.g.: https://movq.de/git/katriawm/log.html
Meta To Charge Advertisers a Fee To Offset Europe’s Digital Taxes
Meta will begin charging advertisers a 2-5% “location fee” to offset digital services taxes imposed by several European countries, including the UK, France, Italy, Spain, Austria, and Turkey. Reuters reports: The fee, for image or video ads delivered on Meta platforms including WhatsApp click-to-message campaigns and marketing messages together w … ⌘ Read more
D7VK 1.5 Released With Direct3D 3 Now Implemented Over Vulkan
The open-source D7VK project began to implement Direct3D 7 over Vulkan similar to DXVK and VKD3D-Proton providing support for newer Direct3D APIs atop Vulkan. With succeeding releases D7VK was extended to Direct3D 6 too and then Direct3D 5 support. Now with today’s D7VK 1.5 release, Direct3D 3 is implemented for faster acceleration using Vulkan… ⌘ Read more
Intel Posts New Linux Graphics Driver Patches For Improved Adaptive Sync Support
Posted today were new Intel kernel graphics driver patches for Linux to enable Adaptive Sync SDP (Secondary Data Packet) handling for Panel Replay and Auxless Adaptive Link Power Management (ALPM) modes… ⌘ Read more
Yann LeCun Raises $1 Billion To Build AI That Understands the Physical World
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Advanced Machine Intelligence (AMI), a new Paris-based startup cofounded by Meta’s former chief AI scientist Yann LeCun, announced Monday it has raised more than $1 billion to develop AI world models. LeCun argues that most human reasoning is grounded in the physical world, not lan … ⌘ Read more
AlmaLinux To Focus On Increased Testing & Other Goals For 2026
Developers behind AlmaLinux as this popular community alternative to Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) have drafted some new goals for 2026… ⌘ Read more
Valve Faces Second, Class-Action Lawsuit Over Loot Boxes
Valve is facing a new consumer class-action lawsuit two weeks after New York sued the video game company for “letting children and adults illegally gamble” with loot boxes. The new lawsuit is similar, alleging that loot boxes in games like Counter-Strike 2, Dota 2, and Team Fortress 2 are “carefully engineered to extract money from consumers, including children, t … ⌘ Read more
Linux’s KVM Virtualization Preparing For Intel Advanced Performance Extensions (APX)
Intel’s Advanced Performance Extensions (APX) debuting with Nova Lake and Diamond Rapids is ready with Linux 6.16+ and recent open-source compilers. One piece of the support puzzle still coming together though that will be especially important for Xeon Diamond Rapids is the KVM virtualization support. New patches there were posted this week… ⌘ Read more
Azure Linux 3.0 Enables Core Scheduling, More Tracing Capabilities
Microsoft on Tuesday released Azure Linux 3.0.20260304 as the newest monhtly update to their in-house Linux platform… ⌘ Read more
A 1,300-Pound NASA Spacecraft To Re-Enter Earth’s Atmosphere
Van Allen Probe A, a 1,300-pound (600 kg) NASA satellite launched in 2012 to study Earth’s radiation belts, is expected to re-enter Earth’s atmosphere this week. While most of it is expected to burn up during descent, “some components may survive,” reports the BBC. “The space agency said there is a one in 4,200 chance of being harmed by a piece of the p … ⌘ Read more
After Outages, Amazon To Make Senior Engineers Sign Off On AI-Assisted Changes
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Financial Times: Amazon’s ecommerce business has summoned a large group of engineers to a meeting on Tuesday for a “deep dive” into a spate of outages, including incidents tied to the use of AI coding tools. The online retail giant said there had been a “trend of incidents” in rece … ⌘ Read more
Tony Hoare, Turing Award-Winning Computer Scientist Behind QuickSort, Dies At 92
Tony Hoare, the Turing Award-winning pioneer who created the Quicksort algorithm, developed Hoare logic, and advanced theories of concurrency and structured programming, has died at age 92.
News of his passing was shared today in a blog post. The site I Programmer also commemorated Hoare in a post highlighting … ⌘ Read more
Fedora Evaluating New Idea For For Experimental Concepts & Fostering New Innovations
Fedora Project Leader Jef Spaleta announced a new proposal for “A Technology Innovation Lifecycle Process for Fedora.” With the help of Google’s Gemini AI, Spaleta laid out a proposal to help Fedora make greater accommodations for experimental concepts and building more interest around innovative ideas without a firm commitment to integrate them into Fedora proper until they can be assured of sustainability… ⌘ Read more
Intel Demos Chip To Compute With Encrypted Data
An anonymous reader quotes a report from IEEE Spectrum: Worried that your latest ask to a cloud-based AI reveals a bit too much about you? Want to know your genetic risk of disease without revealing it to the services that compute the answer? There is a way to do computing on encrypted data without ever having it decrypted. It’s called fully homomorphic encryption, or FHE. But ther … ⌘ Read more
Amazon Wins Court Order To Block Perplexity’s AI Shopping Bots
Last November, Amazon sued Perplexity demanding that the AI search startup stop allowing its AI browser agent, Comet, to make purchases for users online. Today, a judge ruled in favor of the tech giant, granting it a temporary court injunction blocking the scraping of Amazon’s website. According to court filings, the judge found strong evidence the too … ⌘ Read more
@rdlmda@rdlmda.me I never saw the point of a registry to be honest, as it defeated the point of what I believed to be a truly decentralised non-social social ecosystem. What can and does work however is a search engine and crawler. I used to run one, but I took it down, mostly because it got expensive to operate, at least the implementation I built… Maybe one day i’ll try again with a SQLite backend.
What @bender@twtxt.net said ☝️
@rdlmda@rdlmda.me We see and read yout mutterings just fine 😅
Silicon Valley Is Buzzing About This New Idea: AI Compute As Compensation
sziring shares a report from Business Insider: Silicon Valley has long competed for talent with ever-richer pay packages built around salary, bonus, and equity. Now, a fourth line item is creeping into the mix: AI inference. As generative AI tools become embedded in software development, the cost of running the underlying models - … ⌘ Read more
@bender@twtxt.net I agree, I had oats in yoghurt for dinner. :-)
AT&T Outlines $250 Billion US Investment Plan To Boost Infrastructure In AI Age
AT&T plans to invest more than $250 billion over the next five years to expand U.S. telecom infrastructure for the AI age. The company says it will also hire thousands of technicians while partnering with AST SpaceMobile to extend coverage to remote areas. Reuters reports: Rapid adoption of artificial intelligence … ⌘ Read more
@rdlmda@rdlmda.me You might or might not find this useful: https://lyse.isobeef.org/tmp/twthash.py
You are brilliant, @aelaraji@aelaraji.com! I laughed my ass off reading the first sentence. :‘-D
@movq@www.uninformativ.de Interesting.
Current RISC-V CPUs Being Too Slow Causes Headaches For Fedora: ~5x Slower Builds
The current crop of RISC-V SoCs are still much slower than alternative CPU architectures and lead to much longer build times for Fedora packages as a result. There’s hope with next-gen RISC-V processors being faster but for now even compiling Binutils as an example is around five times slower than x86_64 – and that’s with disabling compiler link-time optimizations (LTO) for RISC-V to avoid an even longer build process… ⌘ Read more
@aelaraji@aelaraji.com Ta! Haha, there’s a snake with a wide open mouth in 01 in my opinion. :-)
Ig Nobels Ceremony Moves To Europe Indefinitely, Citing US Safety Concerns
Since 1999, Slashdot has been covering the annual Ig Nobel prize ceremonies – which honor real scientific research into strange or surprising subjects. “After 35 years in Boston, the annual prize ceremony will take place in Zurich, Switzerland, this year and will continue to be held in a European city for the foreseeable fu … ⌘ Read more
MSI PRO B850-P WiFi: A Special AMD Ryzen AM5 Motherboard For Linux / Open-Source Enthusiasts
The MSI PRO B850-P WIFI motherboard is a unique AMD Ryzen AM5 motherboard for Linux/open-source enthusiasts that is competitively priced at just $179 USD. It’s interesting not because of the doings of MSI but rather 3mdeb with this being the desktop motherboard they are working on porting AMD openSIL and Coreboot to for allowing an open-source firmware stack. ⌘ Read more
Registries suck. Or, should I say, “bend”. I say look at the people @prologic@twtxt.net is following, and you have found the whole twtxt world. 😅
@rdlmda@rdlmda.me most of our conversations used to be about twtxt, I am not going to lie. Lately? Not so much. It turns out (a) we don’t need a longer hash, (b) we don’t care so much about changing addressing, and © I am just Bender, what else can I say? :-D :-P
@rdlmda@rdlmda.me I read too. What I am afraid, though, is that you might miss our replies. Also, twtxt is very asynchronous (although in my early years I was checking and replying every minute).
@rdlmda@rdlmda.me you’ve got to get a nice client. For example, that mention is broken.
@rdlmda@rdlmda.me robots are people too, you know? :-P Follow me, and be amused with my sarcasm, and lack of empathy for humans! (there I said it!)
Oracle Is Walking Away From Expanding Its Stargate Data Center With Oracle
OpenAI is reportedly backing away from expanding its AI data center partnership with Oracle because newer generations of Nvidia GPUs may arrive before the facility is even operational. CNBC reports: Artificial intelligence chips are getting upgraded more quickly than data centers can be built, a market reality that expos … ⌘ Read more
@rdlmda@rdlmda.me Well, I’m reading. 😅 twtxt/Yarn is rather slow and low-traffic, though. And let’s be honest, there aren’t that many people around.
Claude AI Finds Bugs In Microsoft CTO’s 40-Year-Old Apple II Code
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Register: AI can reverse engineer machine code and find vulnerabilities in ancient legacy architectures, says Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich, who used his own Apple II code from 40 years ago as an example. Russinovich wrote: “We are entering an era of automated, AI-accelerated vulnerability discov … ⌘ Read more
OpenSSL 4.0 Alpha 1 Released With Encrypted Client Hello “ECH” & Other Features
The first alpha release of OpenSSL 4.0 is now available for testing. With OpenSSL 3.0 they are removing support for SSLv3 that has been deprecated for over one decade while also dropping OpenSSL engines and other removals while also adding in some new features… ⌘ Read more
Meta Acquires Moltbook, the Social Network For AI Agents
Axios reports that Meta has acquired Moltbook, the viral, Reddit-like social network designed for AI agents. Humans are welcome, but only to observe. Axios reports: The deal brings Moltbook’s creators – Matt Schlicht and Ben Parr – into Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL), the unit run by former Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang. Meta did not disclose Moltbook’s purchas … ⌘ Read more
Well, someone just did this:
https://codeberg.org/NerdNextDoor/evi
We’ll see how long it’ll last …