Netflix to buy Warner Bros film and streaming businesses for $72bn
The major Hollywood deal means Netflix will takeover ownership of franchises including Harry Potter and Game of Thrones. ⌘ Read more

How a ‘fertility gap’ is fuelling the rise of one-child families
‘For every three children wanted… only two are born,’ says one expert. So, what has led to this gap? ⌘ Read more

Intel Updates Cache Aware Scheduling For Linux With Better NUMA Balancing
Intel engineer Tim Chen has sent out a second version of the proposed Cache Aware Scheduling patches for the Linux kernel to enhance the CPU performance of modern processors sporting multiple cache domains… ⌘ Read more

Netflix to buy Warner Bros film and streaming businesses for $72bn
The major Hollywood deal means Netflix will takeover ownership of franchises including Harry Potter and Game of Thrones. ⌘ Read more

Netflix to buy Warner Bros film and streaming businesses for $72bn
The major Hollywood deal means Netflix will takeover ownership of franchises including Harry Potter and Game of Thrones. ⌘ Read more

Netflix to buy Warner Bros film and streaming businesses for $72bn
The major Hollywood deal means Netflix will takeover ownership of franchises including Harry Potter and Game of Thrones. ⌘ Read more

AV1 Open Video Codec Now Powers 30% of Netflix Streaming
Netflix says its open AV1 video codec now powers about 30% of all streaming on the platform and is rapidly becoming its primary delivery format thanks to major gains in compression, bandwidth efficiency, HDR support, and film-grain rendering. TVTechnology reports: The blog by Liwei Guo, Zhi Li, Sheldon Radford and Jeff Watts comes at a time when AV2 is on the hor … ⌘ Read more

Norris fastest as he makes good start in Abu Dhabi
Championship leader McLaren’s Lando Norris sets the pace in Friday practice at the title-deciding Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net that some kind of apple native to the area. Mum grows a tree of it, I will ask her for the Vietnamese name.

Venus Vulkan Driver Lands Mesh Shader Support In Mesa 26.0
Venus is the VirtIO-GPU driver that allows for Vulkan support within guest virtual machines permitting sufficient host driver support and other requirements in place with hypervisors like CrosVM and QEMU. The Venus driver now supports Vulkan’s mesh shader capabilities and in turn advances the DXVK-Proton support for Linux gaming within VMs… ⌘ Read more

Residents remain out of 200 homes in major incident
Two people were arrested on Thursday before 200 homes were evacuated. ⌘ Read more

Netflix to buy Warner Bros film and streaming businesses for $72bn
The major Hollywood deal means Netflix will takeover ownership of franchises including Harry Potter and Game of Thrones. ⌘ Read more

Netflix to buy Warner Bros film and streaming businesses for $72bn
The major Hollywood deal means Netflix will takeover ownership of franchises including Harry Potter and Game of Thrones. ⌘ Read more

Elon Musk’s X fined €120m over ‘deceptive’ blue ticks
The European Commission says the social media site is opening its users up to scams and impersonations. ⌘ Read more

Intel Graphics Score A Big Win With Linux 6.19: Color Management & Xe VFIO Driver Merged
On top of enabling Xe3P graphics for Nova Lake and Crescent Island plus other changes like CASF adaptive sharpening for Lunar Lake and newer, another set of Intel kernel graphics driver updates were merged overnight as a big win for the open-source Intel graphics stack on Linux… ⌘ Read more

AI Chatbots Can Sway Voters Better Than Political Ads
An anonymous reader quotes a report from MIT Technology Review: New research reveals that AI chatbots can shift voters’ opinions in a single conversation – and they’re surprisingly good at it. A multi-university team of researchers has found that chatting with a politically biased AI model was more effective than political advertisements at nudging both Democrats … ⌘ Read more

Netflix to buy Warner Bros film and streaming businesses for $72bn
The major Hollywood deal means Netflix will takeover ownership of franchises including Harry Potter and Game of Thrones. ⌘ Read more

Netflix to buy Warner Bros film and streaming businesses for $72bn
The deal means Netflix will takeover ownership of franchises including Harry Potter and Game of Thrones, and Warner Bros streaming service HBO Max. ⌘ Read more

Australia in control of second Test despite late England fightback
England take three late wickets but are left to rue five dropped catches as Australia close on 378-6 at stumps on day two of the second Ashes Test in Brisbane. ⌘ Read more

Netflix to buy Warner Bros film and streaming businesses in major Hollywood deal
The deal means Netflix will takeover ownership of franchises including Harry Potter and Game of Thrones, and Warner Bros streaming service HBO Max. ⌘ Read more

Netflix to buy Warner Bros film and streaming businesses for $72bn
The streaming giant agrees a deal, fighting off rival interest from Comcast and Paramount Skydance. ⌘ Read more

Residents remain out of 200 homes in major incident
Two people were arrested on Thursday before 200 homes were evacuated. ⌘ Read more

Netflix to buy Warner Bros film and streaming businesses for $72bn
The streaming giant agrees a deal, fighting off rival interest from Comcast and Paramount Skydance. ⌘ Read more

Man, 18, struck on motorway Tasered before death
Logan Smith, 18, died after getting out of an ambulance on the M5 on Sunday evening. ⌘ Read more

England face Ashes battle despite Gabba fightback
England produce a floodlit fightback late on the second day of the second Test against Australia but still face a huge battle to stay alive in the Ashes. ⌘ Read more

England face Ashes battle despite Gabba fightback
England produce a floodlit fightback late on the second day of the second Test against Australia but still face a huge battle to stay alive in the Ashes. ⌘ Read more

Residents remain out of 200 homes in major incident
Two people were arrested on Thursday before 200 homes were evacuated. ⌘ Read more

@shinyoukai@neko.laidback.moe that has to be one of my stupid designs of activity pub 😆

Residents remain out of 200 homes in major incident
Two people were arrested on Thursday before 200 homes were evacuated. ⌘ Read more

Residents remain out of 200 homes in major incident
Two people were arrested on Thursday before 200 homes were evacuated. ⌘ Read more

Intel Nova Lake Audio Support Merged For Linux 6.19
The sound subsystem updates were merged on Thursday for enabling a variety of new audio hardware with the Linux 6.19. Among the hardware standing out is getting Intel Nova Lake audio support in order… ⌘ Read more

Residents remain out of 200 homes in major incident
Two people were arrested on Thursday before 200 homes were evacuated. ⌘ Read more

‘Smith can’t believe it!’ - Jacks takes stunning catch as England fight back
Will Jacks “comes up with something special” to dismiss Steve Smith, taking a brilliant diving catch at backward square leg as Australia fall to 292-5 on day two of the second Ashes Test. ⌘ Read more

Residents remain out of 200 homes in major incident
Two people were arrested on Thursday before 200 homes were evacuated. ⌘ Read more

Norris just edges Verstappen in Abu Dhabi practice
Title contenders Lando Norris and Max Verstappen are tied together at the top of the times in first practice at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. ⌘ Read more

Green makes ‘huge error’ as Carse bowls him for 45 to give England hope
Cameron Green ‘gifts’ England a wicket, opening up and exposing the stumps to Brydon Carse as Australia sit on 291-4 on day two of the second Ashes Test in Brisbane. ⌘ Read more

‘Always in my mind to start’ - Slot on Salah
Liverpool boss Arne Slot says Mohamed Salah is ‘always in my mind to start’ after the Egypt forward was left out of the last two starting line-ups. ⌘ Read more

Residents remain out of 200 homes in major incident
Two people were arrested on Thursday before 200 homes were evacuated. ⌘ Read more

Satellite Captures the First Detailed Look At a Massive Tsunami
NASA and CNES’s SWOT satellite captured the first high-resolution, wide-swath image of a major tsunami in the open ocean after the July 2025 Kuril-Kamchatka quake. “Instead of a single neat crest racing across the basin, the image revealed a complicated, braided pattern of energy dispersing and scattering over hundreds of miles,” reports Earth.com. … ⌘ Read more

Residents remain out of 200 homes in major incident
Two people were arrested on Thursday before 200 homes were evacuated. ⌘ Read more

India travel chaos worsens as IndiGo cancels hundreds of flights
IndiGo, India’s largest carrier, has said operations will return to full normalcy only by 10 February. ⌘ Read more

‘A wonderful miracle’ - how Messi & Beckham made Miami shine
In the world of team sport, no-one adores the achievements of its most accomplished individuals more than America’s sports-mad fans, writes Guillem Balague. ⌘ Read more

When I hear someone say the word “afterwork” ⌘ Read more

Government pledges to end children living in B&Bs
The strategy also includes making childcare more accessible for families on Universal Credit. ⌘ Read more

Deep-sea mining tests impact over a third of seabed animals, scientists say
The findings contribute to a controversial debate that pits green technology against the environment. ⌘ Read more

The World Cup draw is here - this is how it will work
Pots, quadrants, confederation constraints, group position grids … the World Cup draw is not going to be straightforward. ⌘ Read more

The Papers: Russian assets ‘deal’ plan and ‘Joe the GOAT’
A mixed range of stories feature on Friday’s front page - but many picture England cricketer Joe Root after his heroics in the Ashes. ⌘ Read more

**‘Absolutely plumb!’ - Confident Archer ends Weatherald’s innings **
Jofra Archer bowls a brilliant yorker to dismiss Jake Weatherald lbw for 72, leaving Australia on 146-2 on day two of the second Ashes Test in Brisbane. ⌘ Read more

Pointers to making Universal Ctags work with the latest versions of Scheme (r6rs and r7rs) ⌘ Read more

Sugars, ‘Gum,’ Stardust Found In NASA’s Asteroid Bennu Samples
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx samples from asteroid Bennu have revealed bio-essential sugars, a never-before-seen “space gum” polymer, and unusually high levels of supernova-origin dust. The findings bolster the RNA-world hypothesis, suggest complex organics formed early on Bennu’s parent body, and show preserved presolar grains that escaped alteration for billion … ⌘ Read more