China Begins Mass Production of Homegrown DUV Chip Tools
According to The Information (paywalled), a state-backed Shanghai company has begun mass-producing China’s first homegrown immersion DUV lithography machines, with about five units expected this year for SMIC, Hua Hong, and CXMT. Roughly 20 more units are expected in 2027. Tom’s Hardware reports: The Information didn’t name the manufacturer, but its sources … ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net Just out of curiosity, have you ever ran this on real hardware? 😃

Hm, interesting: https://git.mills.io/prologic/muos/src/branch/main/nucleus/nucleus.asm You’re clearing the VGA buffer in each mode (real mode, protected mode, long mode). Why’s that? Wouldn’t it be good enough to only do that after you’ve reached long mode? 🤔

Germans love consonants – and it’s the opposite with Scandinavian languages, isn’t it? 😅 This is so crazy for me to listen to:

https://translate.google.com/?sl=auto&tl=no&text=good%20morning%2C%20how%20are%20you%20today%3F%20my%20name%20is%20katharina%20and%20I%20am%20eating%20a%20banana%20and%20hopefully%20also%20an%20apple.%20everything%20I%20say%20is%20a%20blur.&op=translate

Love me some Finnish:

https://translate.google.com/?sl=auto&tl=fi&text=good%20morning%2C%20how%20are%20you%20today%3F%20my%20name%20is%20katharina%20and%20I%20am%20eating%20a%20banana%20and%20hopefully%20also%20an%20apple.%20everything%20I%20say%20is%20crystal%20clear.&op=translate

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Ja und auch so: „Raus mit den Entwickler:innen! Das Marketing macht seine Software jetzt mit KI selber!!1!“ Kannste dir alles nich ausdenken. (Jaja, ist natürlich im Moment billiger. Aber diese Kurzsichtigkeit …)

ChatGPT Starts Blocking Direct Requests To Copy an Author’s Style
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: OpenAI’s ChatGPT is now refusing requests to generate text that directly mimics the style of famous authors. When asked to do so, the popular LLM instead offers a response that draws on the “broad qualities” of those authors “while remaining distinct in its own voice,” for example. This morning, A … ⌘ Read more

Apple Will ‘Watch Everything Burn’ When AI Bubble Bursts
MacRumors interviewed AI critic Ed Zitron, author of the Where’s Your Ed At newsletter and host of the Better Offline podcast, about what could happen to Apple if the costly AI infrastructure boom collapses. Zitron argued that Apple is relatively well insulated because it has spent far less on data centers than rivals such as Microsoft, Google, and Amazon. He sai … ⌘ Read more

Mysterious 16-Tile & 32-Tile AMX Implementations Talked Up For More Performance
Last October on Phoronix we were first to point out there being some mysterious intrigue around a new x86 implementation from a “corporate entity other than Intel/AMD” with the developer involved not elaborating on the matter. Now that same developer has posted another semi-cryptic message to the Linux kernel mailing list to talk about 16-tile and 32-tile Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX) implementations. To date Intel only has … ⌘ Read more

Fwupd 2.1.7 Released With Many Bug Fixes
Fwupd 2.1.7 is out today as the newest update to this open-source firmware updating utility that pairs with the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) for offering a nice firmware upgrade story on Linux systems… ⌘ Read more

Big Tech Accused of Stonewalling European Social Media Researchers
European misinformation researchers say TikTok, X, and Meta are obstructing access to platform data required under the EU’s Digital Services Act through rejections, restrictive quotas, costly APIs, and burdensome security demands. Although regulators have fined X and pushed platforms to improve access, researchers remain skeptical that the ch … ⌘ Read more

@david@daiwei.me I seei tnow 👌

da hell? What’s the root of this thread? 🧵

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Pff, wer will schon Ansätze von Qualität? GESCHWINDIGKEIT!!!

Nvidia In Talks With OpenAI To Guarantee $250 Billion Financing For Data Center
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Nvidia is in talks to provide roughly $250 billion in financing guarantees for OpenAI as part of a massive data center project, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday. The backstop from Nvidia would help the ChatGPT maker lease a 10-gigawatt project that SoftBank’s … ⌘ Read more

Framework Laptop 13 Pro: Aiming To Be One Of The Best Upgradeable Linux Laptops
Back in April, Framework Computer announced the Framework Laptop 13 Pro as a ground-up re-design of their modular/upgradeable laptop. This new Framework Laptop 13 Pro features a much larger battery (74Wh), LPCAMM2 memory support, a full CNC aluminum chassis, haptic touchpad, and a new power-optimized touch display. Paired with the very efficient Intel Core Ultra Series 3 “Panther Lake” SoCs, the Framework Laptop 13 Pro ends up being … ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net @david@daiwei.me I agree about @xuu@txt.sour.is (still a few months left before hitting this timeout). :-D

But I don’t know the feeds anymore, because, well, I deleted them. :-D

@david@daiwei.me Yeah, it’s a bee keeper channel. Oh, with all the epoxy, this handle is really strong.

NVIDIA, Red Hat, Cloudflare, The Linux Foundation and more launch the “Open Secure AI Alliance”
Some big names are coming together to form the “Open Secure AI Alliance”, with a plan to “share open tools that promote responsible use of and trust in AI”.

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@lafe@tilde.club Try again, that’s only a quarter of the year! :-P

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Cost of Hope DLC releases in August along with a big free upgrade
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Cost of Hope is the first major expansion for the open-world shooter, with a release date now set for August 20th.

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@thecanine@twtxt.net This is of course disgusting! I have first hand experience with my neighbors next door where I told them about one of their LG (older models) “spying” on what they were watching. I’ve of course since blocked that shit™ at the network level for them, But man, don’t ever buy LG. In fact don’t ever buy any of this “Smart” shit™. Period.

So… my little experimental Mu (µ) OS is now ~8.7k of Mu and ~2k of Assembly, which makes this about an ~80/20 split. I’ve managed to achieve most of the goals I had set out, by ensuring a tiny Nucleus of only ~2k Assembly and all Policy, Services and Userland written entirely in Mu (a language I also deisnged and created, which still has no support for floats LOL)

Ich könnt’ so platzen ob des ganzen Vibecoding-Schrotts, der dann jetzt doch wieder vor meinen Füßen landet …

Alles so vorhersehbar. Mann, ey.

https://youtu.be/Q9uefFYe6bM

I really am saddened by the current state of LG, as someone who used their phones and monitors for decades and still uses and albeit cautiously recommends their TVs, to those who can also go through the hours long process, to reconfigure them.

They really are the ultimate great hardware, burdened by adware and spyware filled anti-consumer firmware company.

Skate 3 Recomp 2.0 brings native rendering to the PC port of the Xbox classic Skate 3
Skate 3 Recomp 2.0 brings the classic Xbox 360 version of Skate 3 to modern platforms, and now with a modern renderer using Vulkan (or Direct3D on Windows).

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Crack open planets in the idle incremental game Swarmslam
I’ve grown to love a few idle incremental games recently and started discovering more - like Swarmslam, which has a fun idea about smashing through planets.

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‘KVM Chainsaw’ Expected to Hit Linux 7.3 For Dealing with ‘God Data Structure’
An anonymous reader shared this report from Phoronix:

A patch series that appears destined for the upcoming Linux 7.3 merge window is what’s dubbed the “KVM Chainsaw” as a major code clean-up in dealing with the kvm_mmu “god data structure”. Red Hat engineer and KVM maintainer Paolo Bonzini has merged the kvm-chainsaw br … ⌘ Read more

Ubuntu To Provide Virtualization HWE Stack For Ubuntu 26.04 LTS
Ubuntu has long provided hardware enablement “HWE” stacks for Ubuntu LTS releases to provide a newer kernel and Mesa drivers and more for better supporting new/modern hardware on the long-term support Ubuntu Linux releases. With Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, Canonical will also now be providing a virtualization HWE stack for shipping newer virtualization / confidential computing features… ⌘ Read more

EmuDeck announce they are now ready for the Steam Machine
For those of you who want to do some emulation on the Steam Machine, EmuDeck is likely a good option and it should work better now.

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Qualcomm announce a big price rise - bad news for Valve’s Steam Frame
Valve don’t seem to be able to catch a break with their hardware releases - as Qualcomm reportedly plan to raise prices a lot.

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AMD “Low Power” CPU Core Type Patches Queued Ahead Of Linux 7.3
Last month I wrote bout new AMD Linux patches introducing a new “low power” CPU core type as an alternative to their standard performance cores and dense efficiency cores. That work now is poised to land with the upcoming Linux 7.3 kernel… ⌘ Read more

The awesome crime noir FPS ‘Fallen Aces’ has episode 2 out now
From publisher New Blood Interactive, the wonderful retro crime noir FPS ‘Fallen Aces’ has episode 2 out now.

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FreeBSD Developing New NTSYNC Driver For Accelerating Windows NT Sync Primitives
The FreeBSD project published today their Q2-2026 status report that highlights all of their interesting open-source development initiatives for the past quarter. A lot is happening including FreeBSD seeing an AMD ROCm port and also their own NTSYNC driver being created… ⌘ Read more

NVIDIA & Others Form The Open Secure AI Alliance
NVIDIA and more than two dozen other companies have started the Open Secure AI Alliance for helping to keep open-source AI models secure. The other founding members range from Microsoft to Adobe, IBM, Red Hat, SpaceX, OpenClaw, Palantir, and others… ⌘ Read more

A New Middle Class of Content Creators Is Quietly Quitting the 9-to-5
“The rise of TikTok, Instagram Reels and Amazon storefronts has created a new kind of white-collar exit strategy,” reports Bloomberg. Workers ditch office jobs not to become celebrities, necessarily, “but to piece together an income online through brand deals, affiliate links and highly personal videos documenting everyday life.”

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2.1 Million People View Leaked ‘Odyssey’ Bootleg on X
Variety reports:

“The Odyssey” leaks have begun, as a high-quality bootleg of the film reached millions of people on X thanks to a viral tweet on July 25. At 2:25 p.m. PT, a post on X reading “Someone uploaded ‘The Odyssey’ full movie on X. Can you believe it?” amplified a message from a now-suspended account. The message included a high-quality version of the … ⌘ Read more

@bender@twtxt.net probably just too busy with real life and work to interact with us plebs 🤣

‘Inside the Dystopian World of Germany’s Free Speech Crackdown’
Thousands of Germans have been threatened with fines or prison sentences for social media posts, reports The Telegraph, calling the country’s political speech laws “unusually stringent for an EU member state.”
One German had his home raided for calling a minister a “Schwachkopf [dummy]” while another was fined €2,000 (£1,700) for calling Friedrich Me … ⌘ Read more

Yeah, I wonder what the mouse is up to these days. Certainly missing him.

@david@daiwei.me Danke 🙏

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org which ones?

Linux 7.2-rc5 Released: “Once More We Have Quite A Massive -rc5”
In working toward releasing the stable Linux 7.2 kernel in less than one month’s time, out today is Linux 7.2-rc5 to ship this week’s latest bug/regression fixes and help facilitate more testing of this in-development kernel version… ⌘ Read more

NASA Replaces ULA’s Vulcan Centaur With SpaceX Falcon Heavy For Solar Storm Research
There’s been a change to NASA’s launch of six satellites for solar storms research. Space.com reports that those satellites “were originally slated to lift off on a United Launch Alliance Vulcan Centaur rocket but have now been assigned a SpaceX Falcon Heavy, according to a NASA mission update.”

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Apple’s Smart Glasses Delayed, As Engineers Consider Privacy Concerns
Digital Trends reports:

Apple could unveil its first smart glasses at WWDC in June 2027, followed by a consumer release toward the end of the year, according to Bloomberg… Part of the delay reportedly stems from Apple’s engineering and marketing teams spending more time refining the product and deciding how to address the privacy conc … ⌘ Read more

Fuck me dead, how cool does this knive handle made from honeycomb and epoxy look!? :-) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZDLkqVoK5w

Google’s Anti-search-scraping Lawsuit Dismissed
A U.S. district court “has dismissed Google’s case against SerpApi over that company’s scraping of search results to train AI models,” reports Computerworld. Google had claimed that it was protecting copyright holders — and that SerpApi’s actions breached America’s Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA):

[Google] made two claims: first, that no person shall circumvent a technol … ⌘ Read more

GNU Binutils 2.47 Released With More RISC-V Extensions, New Options
Along with this weekend’s release of GNU C Library 2.44, the GNU Binutils 2.47 release is also now available for this important set of binary utilities common to Linux systems and other platforms with the GNU toolchain… ⌘ Read more

Wildfires, Evacuations, and Smoke Hit Europe and North America
270,000 people have been displaced by wildfires in France and Spain, reports the Guardian. A wildfire even forced evacuations in Scotland.

And wildfires “have now scorched four million acres of land in the U.S.,” reports NPR, as tens of millions of people in North America “are continuing to endure hazardous smoke from out of control wildfires burning a … ⌘ Read more

Time to remove two feeds that have not seen a single update for over a year. I reckon they’re just dead.

AI-Equipped Garbage Trucks Could Soon Start Spying On People in the US
America’s garbage trucks can do more than just collect trash, reports Newsweek. They may also help identify code violations using AI.

Officials in Cape Coral, Florida, recently considered equipping sanitation trucks with AI-powered cameras that would photograph properties as crews complete their normal collection routes. The system w … ⌘ Read more

@david@daiwei.me Go ahead and grab something, mate!