Apple Preparing New ‘Gen AI’ Website Ahead of WWDC — and New AI Features?
Apple just registered a new subdomain record: genai.apple.com.

The domain was spotted by a MacRumors contributing researcher, and though it doesn’t yet lead to a live web page, they believe it’s tied to Apple’s annual developers conference WWDC which starts June 8, “where the company has promised to announce ‘AI advancements’ … ⌘ Read more

GitHub Copilot & Claude Code Helped With Graphics, WiFi Linux Driver Issues This Week
For those curious about the growing use of AI and coding agents within the Linux kernel, this week there was another large batch of new patches fixed that were generated or co-authored by agents like Claude Code and GitHub Copilot… ⌘ Read more

Wind and Solar Generated More Power Than Gas Globally in April
Last month saw a world first, reports Electrek. Wind and solar generated more power globally than gas:

According to new analysis from independent energy think tank Ember, wind and solar produced 22% of the world’s electricity in April 2026, compared to 20% from gas. Together, the two renewable sources generated a record 531 terawatt-hours (TWh) … ⌘ Read more

I just missed the 20 year anniversary of my blog. 😬 What a stupid long time to do this.

This started out as a PHP page with user comments, MySQL as a database, a PHP webadmin … can you believe that? Totally unnecessary. But everything was “LAMP” back then, so that’s what I was using as well. I kicked out MySQL in 2011 (it just stored files since then) and eventually switched to static HTML pages in 2015.

RSS feeds have only been there since 2009, because I was late to the party. For a long time, I didn’t understand what they were good for. 🤦

@tftp@tilde.town Ah, I see. I have a feeling that a lot of stuff is going on under the hood all the time and it’s mostly the userland-visible things that stay the same? 🤔 But yeah, some stuff is really, really old, like the TCP code I’ve recently (tried to) read.

@itsericwoodward@itsericwoodward.com Those are some really nice shots. I mean, the cat and also the shots themselves. Which cam is that? (Don’t tell me it’s an iPhone, that’d be boring. 😂)

Scammers Are Abusing an Internal Microsoft Account to Send Spam Links
“For months, scammers have been taking advantage of a loophole that allows them to send spammy emails from an internal Microsoft email address typically used for sending legitimate account alerts,” TechCrunch reports:

[The scammers] have been able to set up new Microsoft accounts as if they are new customers and use that access to send out … ⌘ Read more

Lenovo, Dell, and HP Financially Support Linux Vendor Firmware Service
The It’s FOSS blog has news about the Linux Vendor Firmware Service, which gives hardware vendors a secure portal to upload firmware updates “which can then be downloaded and installed by users through clients such as GNOME Software or fwupdmgr.” (Originally developed in 2015 by GNOME maintainer Richard Hughes…)
The issue, however, o … ⌘ Read more

FreeBSD Foundation Executive Director Tries Daily Driving FreeBSD On Laptop
With FreeBSD having worked on improving its laptop support over the past two years with some big changes and ongoing efforts for making a nice KDE desktop experience on FreeBSD, FreeBSD Foundation’s Executive Director has been trying to daily drive FreeBSD on laptops… ⌘ Read more

Linux To Remove ISA Speech Synthesizer Driver That Likely Hasn’t Been Used In Decades
Following the process of phasing out Intel 486 CPU support and other old hardware drivers that were dropped in the Linux 7.1 kernel cycle for reducing the kernel maintenance burden, the upcoming Linux 7.2 cycle is continuing the trend of phasing out some of the old hardware support that is very obsolete, likely having no users on the latest upstream kernels, and no one formally maintaining the obsolete drivers… ⌘ Read more

More Videogames Developers Consider Unionization - Some Spurred By Changes to Remote Work Policies
Developers for several top videogames have joined unions under the Communication Workers of America — including Call of Duty, Fallout, Overwatch, Diablo and World of Warcraft. Last month workers on the online game Magic: The Gathering Arena team announced their own CWA union.

T … ⌘ Read more

KernelScript: A Programming Language For Kernel Customization & App Optimizations
Multikernel Technologies Inc has been working on a multi-kernel architecture for the Linux kernel while in addition to that they have been developing KernelScript as a domain-specific language for carrying out Linux kernel customizations and app-specific optimizations… ⌘ Read more

Boot-Time Wizard Aims To Help Reduce Linux Boot Times
While in the past decade or so Linux desktop/laptop users likely have little to complain about boot times and there hasn’t been much emphasis around trying to make boot times even faster on the Linux desktop especially in an era where many systems are always-on and suspend/resume working more reliably these days, boot times are still an important factor in the embedded Linux world. Boot-Time Wizard is one of the new efforts aiming to help embedded Linux makers c … ⌘ Read more

‘Underminr’ CDN Vulnerability Hides Malicious Traffic Behind Trusted Domains
Slashdot reader wiredmikey writes: Threat actors are exploiting a vulnerability in shared content delivery network (CDN) infrastructure to hide connections to malicious domains. Researchers say the vulnerability could impact roughly 88 million domains and can bypass DNS filtering and protective DNS controls, potentially enab … ⌘ Read more

@itsericwoodward@itsericwoodward.com Very nice 👍

Tesla’s Electric Cybercab is Certified as the Most Efficient EV Ever
Tesla’s upcoming Cybercab “has been certified at 165 Wh/mi,” reports Electrek — which makes it “the most efficient electric vehicle ever produced — by a wide margin.”

The next most efficient EV on the market, the Lucid Air Pure, consumes 28% more energy per mile. Tesla VP of Vehicle Engineering Lars Moravy confirmed the figure, which repre … ⌘ Read more

I really dig #caturday on the Fediverse, so I thought I would start doing it here as well.

For this week, I’d like to introduce my spirit animal, Bowie.

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May his supreme laziness (and fuzzy-chunky-monkey cuteness) serve as an inspiration to you, too.

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Linus Torvalds on How AI is Impacting the Hunt for Linux Kernel Bugs
Linus Torvalds spoke this week at the Linux Foundation’s Open Source Summit North America, reports ZDNet — and described how AI is impacting Linux kernel development:

“In the last six months, we’ve seen a lot more commits,” Torvalds noted, estimating that “the last two releases, it’s been about 20% more commits than we had in the previo … ⌘ Read more

Rust-Based Wild Linker 0.9 Brings New Platform Coverage, Linker Plugin API
Wild Linker 0.9 was released today as the latest version of this very fast linker for Linux systems that is written in the Rust programming language… ⌘ Read more

Is America Closer to Ending Daylight Saving Time?
A proposal to make daylight saving time permanent has advanced in the U.S. House of Representative, reports California news station KCRA:

A proposal to make daylight saving time permanent has advanced in the House, reigniting an age-old American debate around the twice-annual clock changes. And this time, the proposal has the president’s backing. President Donald Trump said T … ⌘ Read more

AMD (Xilinx) is Excluding Linux From the Free Tier For Its FPGA Dev Tool
Long-time Slashdot reader Sun writes:

AMD has announced a change to the way they are licensing Vivado, their FPGA development tool… Hidden between the lines of the announcement [of a new model starting with the 2026.1 release] is the change to the free of charge tier. AMD is adding more devices to be supported in this tier, … ⌘ Read more

US Layoffs Haven’t Increased, and New Tech Industry Hiring Balances Firings
“The numbers show that layoffs in the U.S. are roughly at or below levels from before the pandemic,” reports the Washington Post, “although they are higher than in 2022 when businesses snapped up workers as the economy roared back to life…

“A different measure that accounts for the growing U.S. workforce shows that layoffs aff … ⌘ Read more

Air France, Airbus Guilty of Corporate Manslaughter In 2009 Air France 447 Crash
Long-time Slashdot reader UnknowingFool shares this report from the BBC:

Air France and Airbus have been found guilty of manslaughter over a 2009 plane crash which killed 228 people. The Paris Appeals Court found the airline and aircraft manufacturer “solely and entirely responsible” for the incident, in which flig … ⌘ Read more

Free Software Foundation’s Call for ‘LibreLocals’ Answered on Six Continents - With More Coming
The Free Software Foundation announced this week that “its global call for free software supporters to organize LibreLocals this May resulted in free software supporters organizing forty-six LibreLocal events on six continents thus far.” (And new dates and locations are being added daily. … ⌘ Read more

Friday Google’s AI-Powered Search Results Glitched on the Word ‘Disregard’
On Friday TechCrunch reported they could no longer Google the word “disregard”.

Google’s AI Overview responded “Understood. Let me know whenever you have a new prompt or question!” below an icon for hearing the word “disregard” pronounced — then displayed several inches of blank whitespace.
“The Merriam-Webster link is still in … ⌘ Read more

Researchers Say the Worst Climate Future is Less Likely. But the Best One is Also Slipping Away
Citing new research, the Associated Press reports that “modest gains in the fight to curb climate change have dialed back the most catastrophic of future heating.”
That’s the good news. But the same research “also confirmed that there’s no chance to limit warming to the international go … ⌘ Read more

Linux Kernel Flaw Lets Unprivileged Users Access Root-Only Files, Execute Arbitrary Commands as Root
Qualys’s Threat Research Unit (TRU) has discovered and published a logic flaw in Linux kernel “that permits an unprivileged local user to disclose sensitive files and execute arbitrary commands as root on default installations of several major distributions.” Friday their blo … ⌘ Read more

Linux Mint Making Improvements To Its File Manager, Theme & Dialogs
The Linux Mint project today published their May 2026 status report to outline recent work done to this Ubuntu/Debian-based Linux platform and much of their focus in recent weeks on enhancements to their Cinnamon desktop environment… ⌘ Read more

Tech CEOs Call for a Universal Basic Income. But What are the Alternatives?
The Washington Post looks at arguments that “AI’s coming upheaval may demand massive infusions of cash to everyday Americans”. But they also look at some of the alternatives:

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has called for similar public-relief measures, including, potentially, universal basic income, or UBI. Eventually “our current … ⌘ Read more

Intel’s Latest Round Of Open-Source Projects Ended: OBS Studio Plugin, CVE Binary Tool & More
With Intel having been one of the most dominant open-source contributors for years across the software ecosystem, months after they began sunsetting various software projects no longer aligned with today’s Intel, they continue formally sunsetting/archiving different open-source projects… ⌘ Read more

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org … this reminds me that I should finally write that tutorial on how to make your own X11/Wayland keymaps. That helps a lot in mitigating stupid design issues like these.

@bender@twtxt.net This shit is back. But with SSHFS instead of SMB now. SMB is still fucked for no reason. Let’s see, when it explodes.

I should have changed the key binding from Print to Shift+Print a long time ago to launch import and upload the screenshot to my server. I was constantly hitting that stupid key on accident when I actually wanted to press [AltGr].

If I only could map a key binding to slap these damn ThinkPad T15 keyboard layout designers at Lenovo remotely in the face. Seriously, who in their right mind puts Print (in German Druck) between AltGr and Ctrl at the bottom row to begin with?! Exactly. Nobody. What a horrible location.

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@tftp@tilde.town Please elaborate. 😅

AV2 Codec Looks Like It Will Be Officially Released Next Week
For years already AV2 has been in development as the successor to AV1 for this wonderful open-source, royalty-free video codec. While there was talk about releasing AV2 by the end of 2025, that didn’t happen but now latest indicators are pointing toward its formal debut next week… ⌘ Read more

KDE Plasma 6.8 To Support System Monitor With Intel Xe, Plasma 6.7 Sees More Crash Fixes
KDE developers continue to be quite busy in preparing for next month’s Plasma 6.7 stable desktop release due out in mid-June while also beginning more feature work toward Plasma 6.8… ⌘ Read more

DreamWorks’ Open-Source MoonRay Renderer Now Part Of The Academy Software Foundation
Back in 2022 it was announced DreamWorks Animation was open-sourcing their MoonRay renderer that has been used in production feature films. It ended up being published as open-source in March 2023 as OpenMoonRay and since then has continued advancing with new feature releases and improvements. Now it’s being contributed to the Academy Software Foundation as the newest project… ⌘ Read more

Caltech Could Lose Control of JPL For First Time In Decades
NASA plans to open competition for the contract to operate JPL for the first time in nearly a century, meaning Caltech’s historic role managing the iconic deep-space lab could come to an end when its current agreement expires in 2028. According to JPL, Caltech has managed the lab since the its inception in the 1930s, and has done so for NASA since the ag … ⌘ Read more

Pentagon Releases Second Batch of UFO Videos, First-Hand Testimony
The Pentagon released a second batch of UAP files, including 50 videos and documents showing unexplained objects over the Middle East, Syria, Iran, and in NASA recordings. Despite the reports, the agency stresses that it has found no evidence of extraterrestrial origin. The Guardian reports: In one video from the Middle East in 2019, … ⌘ Read more

@tftp@tilde.town hey, my pleasure! Have a great weekend! I am going to off for a few days to do a whole lot of nothing. Can’t wait! 😂

FreeBSD 15.1-RC1 Released: Fixes With Now Seeing More AI-Discovered Security Issues
In addition to the recent influx of Linux security vulnerabilities affecting Linux, FreeBSD has also begun receiving security reports via AI/LLM-driven discovery tools. FreeBSD 15.1-RC1 is out today ahead of the planned official release in June and it brings a handful of security fixes out of this new AI-driven security research space… ⌘ Read more

SpaceX’s Upgraded Starship V3 Launches For First Time
SpaceX’s upgraded Starship V3 launched today from Starbase, Texas for the first time, successfully deploying 22 dummy Starlink satellites and completing a planned fiery splashdown in the Indian Ocean. Reuters reports: The towering vehicle, consisting of the upper-stage Starship astronaut vessel stacked atop a Super Heavy booster rocket, blasted off at about 5:30 p.m … ⌘ Read more

GNOME Commander 2.0 Released Following Rewrite In Rust & GTK4
GNOME Commander, the orthodox file manager for the GNOME desktop that was inspired by Norton Commander, has been rewritten in the Rust programming language and also now using the GTK4 toolkit… ⌘ Read more

Google API Keys Remain Active After Deletion
Aikido Security found that deleted Google API keys can continue authenticating for a median of about 16 minutes and as long as 23 minutes, despite Google Cloud’s UI claiming that once a key is deleted it can no longer make API requests. Dark Reading reports: Joe Leon, researcher at Belgian startup Aikido Security, recently analyzed the revocation window – the time between a key’s dele … ⌘ Read more

Major Streamers Must Pay 15% of Revenues To Canadian Content, CRTC Says
Canada’s broadcast regulator says major streaming services such as Netflix must contribute 15% of their Canadian revenues to Canadian and Indigenous content. “That’s three times the five-per-cent initial contribution requirement the CRTC set out in 2024, which is being challenged in court by major streamers, including Apple and Amazon … ⌘ Read more

NTSB Wants PDF Removed After It Exposed Final Cockpit Audio From UPS Crash
The NTSB temporarily closed public access to nearly all investigation dockets after people used a spectrogram image from a PDF in the UPS flight 2976 crash file to reconstruct approximate cockpit voice recorder audio and post it online. “We show our work and we’ve been doing this type of thing for years. Nobody was aware that … ⌘ Read more

@kiwu@twtxt.net Wuuiii, what to do with all this free time suddenly!? Wait, what? Free time? Nah, nevermind. Now, the time begins where it gets even worse once you start a fulltime job. Congratulations, mate! :-D

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Don’t worry, the agents will forget everything for them. Ehh…

@movq@www.uninformativ.de That certainly paid for itself.

Trump Mobile Exposed Customers’ Personal Data, Including Phone Numbers and Home Addresses
Trump Mobile confirmed that a third-party platform exposed customers’ personal data to the open internet. The data included names, email addresses, mailing addresses, phone numbers, and order IDs. TechCrunch reports: Chris Walker, a spokesperson for the Trump-branded phone maker, told TechCrunch that … ⌘ Read more