Framework Reports More Memory Cost Increases, Some Good News For Framework 16
Framework Computer on Monday issued their latest update concerning the ongoing price increases for memory and solid state drives affecting the industry. There has been some more price increases, signs of some temporary reprieve, and then a bit of good news on pricing for select Framework hardware… ⌘ Read more
LinkedIn Faces Spying Allegations Over Browser Extension Scanning
LinkedIn is facing allegations that it quietly scans users’ browsers for installed Chrome extensions. The German group Fairlinked e.V. goes so far as to claim that the site is “running one of the largest corporate espionage operations in modern history.”
“The program runs silently, without any visible indicator to the user,” the group says. “It … ⌘ Read more
AMD ISP4 Driver On Track To Be Merged For Linux 7.2
It looks like with the Linux 7.2 kernel later in the year the AMD ISP4 driver will finally be merged to mainline. This driver is needed for the web camera on the HP ZBook Ultra G1a Strix Halo laptop and other future AMD Ryzen laptops… ⌘ Read more
Mesa Granted Permanent Updates Exception For Fedora Linux
It doesn’t change too much in practice with how Mesa updates typically have been handled under Fedora Linux, but now it’s officially documented: Mesa graphics drivers have a permanent updates exception so new Mesa versions can be shipped as updates in Fedora stable releases… ⌘ Read more
Lemonade 10.1 Released For Latest Improvements For Local LLMs On AMD GPUs & NPUs
Following last month’s Lemonade SDK 10.0 release that finally makes AMD Ryzen AI NPUs under Linux useful for running large language models (LLMs) where as before the Linux build could only target GPUs, released on Monday was Lemonade 10.1 with more enhancements to this local LLM solution… ⌘ Read more
China Flies World’s First Megawatt-Class Hydrogen Turboprop Engine
Longtime Slashdot reader walterbyrd shares a report from Fuel Cells Works: China says the AEP100, a megawatt-class hydrogen-fueled turboprop engine developed by the Aero Engine Corporation of China, has completed its maiden flight on a 7.5-ton unmanned cargo aircraft in Zhuzhou, Hunan. The 16-minute test covered 36km at 220km/h and 300 meters … ⌘ Read more
New Jersey Cannot Regulate Kalshi’s Prediction Market, US Appeals Court Rules
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: A federal appeals court ruled on Monday that New Jersey gaming regulators cannot prevent Kalshi from allowing people in the state to use its prediction market to place financial bets on the outcome of sporting events.
A three-judge panel of the Philadelphia-based 3rd U.S. Ci … ⌘ Read more
OpenAI Calls For Robot Taxes, Public Wealth Fund, and 4-Day Workweek To Tackle AI Disruption
OpenAI is proposing (PDF) sweeping policy changes to help manage the societal disruption caused by advanced AI, including taxes on automated labor, a public wealth fund, and experiments with a four-day workweek. The company said the policy document offered a series of “initial ideas” to address … ⌘ Read more
Mesa Developers Decide On Two Gen AI Policies For Development Moving Forward
Building on prior Mesa contributor guidelines and discussions among upstream Mesa developers, there are two generative AI “GenAI” policies that have now been decided upon for Mesa development moving forward… ⌘ Read more
Rust Coreutils 0.8 Brings Significant Performance Gains
Rust Coreutils 0.8 was released today as the newest major release to this alternative to GNU Coreutils… ⌘ Read more
Teardown of Unreleased LG Rollable Shows Why Rollable Phones Aren’t a Thing
A teardown video of LG’s never-released Rollable phone helps explain why rollable phones never became a real product category: they were likely too expensive, fragile, and complicated to manufacture at scale.
“The complexity of the internals would have made the Rollable extremely expensive to manufacture, and it would have … ⌘ Read more
AP Offers Buyouts As Part of Pivot Away From Newspaper Journalism
The Associated Press is offering buyouts to U.S. journalists “as part of an acceleration away from the focus on newspaper journalism that sustained the company since the mid-1800s,” the not-for-profit outlet reported today. AP says it is making the move from a position of strength, responding to shrinking newspaper revenue and growing demand fr … ⌘ Read more
@firekeeper@b0nfire.xyz That looks nice! With all the things popping up in spring, the scenery turns even prettier. :-)
Artemis II Astronauts Break Apollo Record For Farthest Distance Humans Have Traveled From Earth
Artemis II has broken the Apollo 13 record for the farthest distance humans have ever traveled from Earth. NASA reports: The Artemis II crew of NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, along with CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen have set th … ⌘ Read more
Samsung’s Messages App Is Shutting Down
Samsung says it will discontinue its Samsung Messages app in July 2026 and is directing Galaxy users to switch to Google Messages instead. Android Central reports: […] Samsung says users can switch to Google Messages as their default app to maintain a consistent Android messaging experience. The fine print also states that once the app is discontinued, “sending messages via Samsung Messages … ⌘ Read more
FreeBSD Aims To Better Track Laptop Hardware That Works Or Doesn’t For Their OS
Over the past year the FreeBSD project has been making much progress on making it more viable to run this BSD operating system on laptop hardware. They have worked on better graphics driver support, improved power management / suspend, making sure audio is working, and even rolling out a KDE desktop option from the FreeBSD OS installer to ease the deployment on desktops. While that engineering work continues, they are also working now to … ⌘ Read more
Germany Doxes ‘UNKN,’ Head of RU Ransomware Gangs REvil, GandCrab
An anonymous reader quotes a report from KrebsOnSecurity: An elusive hacker who went by the handle “UNKN” and ran the early Russian ransomware groups GandCrab and REvil now has a name and a face. Authorities in Germany say 31-year-old Russian Daniil Maksimovich Shchukin headed both cybercrime gangs and helped carry out at least 130 acts of computer … ⌘ Read more
A Small But Useful Debugging Addition For AMD Zen Systems With Linux 7.1
A small but convenient feature is coming with the Linux 7.1 that will be useful in debugging AMD Zen system problems and information reporting/transparency purposes… ⌘ Read more
More Americans Are Breaking Into the Upper Middle Class
More Americans have moved into upper-middle-class incomes over the past several decades (source paywalled; alternative source), with new research suggesting that group has grown sharply while the lower and core middle class have shrunk. The Wall Street Journal reports: In 2024, about 31% of Americans were part of the upper middle class, up from about 10% in 1979, … ⌘ Read more
Peter Thiel Is Betting Big On Solar-Powered Cow Collars
Halter, a New Zealand agtech startup now valued at $2 billion, has raised $220 million to expand its AI-powered cattle management system. “Halter is now valued at $2 billion following the Series E, which was led by Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund with participation from Blackbird, DCVC, Bond, Bessemer, and several others,” reports Inc. From the report: alter plans to … ⌘ Read more
Copilot Is ‘For Entertainment Purposes Only,’ According To Microsoft’s ToS
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: AI skeptics aren’t the only ones warning users not to unthinkingly trust models’ outputs – that’s what the AI companies say themselves in their terms of service. Take Microsoft, which is currently focused on getting corporate customers to pay for Copilot. But it’s also been getting d … ⌘ Read more
NetBSD 11.0 Nears Release With RC3 Released For Testing
For the better part of the past year NetBSD developers have been preparing for the NetBSD 11.0 release and in February NetBSD 11.0-RC1 released followed by 11.0-RC2 and now a third release candidate was announced today… ⌘ Read more
Wine Staging 11.6 Ships Big Patch Series For Working On DirectComposition
Following Friday’s release of Wine 11.6 with reviving the Android driver and improving game mod support as part of DLL loader updates, Wine-Staging 11.6 is out today with extra patches atop… ⌘ Read more
Linux Finally Starts Removing Support for Intel’s 37-Year-Old i486 Processor
“It’s finally time,” writes Phoronix — since “no known Linux distribution vendors are still shipping with i486 CPU support.”
“A patch queued into one of the development branches ahead of the upcoming Linux 7.1 merge window is set to finally begin the process of phasing out and ultimately removing Intel 486 CPU support from … ⌘ Read more
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@lyse easy come, easy go. They grow so fast! :-) Also, Azabache allows to be seeing when ready for it, you know, just like Gandalf “a wizard is never late, nor is he early, he arrives precisely when he means to”. :-D
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Interesting. Another parsing issue? Let’s test: this should be italics. Then this also should be “italics”. End.
Many MediaTek MT76 WiFi Driver Improvements Coming For Linux 7.1
Separate from the recently discussed work on MediaTek MT7927 “Filogic 380” support being worked on for the MT76 Linux driver (still undergoing review), a number of other MediaTek MT76 wireless driver improvements are queued up ahead of the Linux 7.1 merge window opening as soon as next week… ⌘ Read more
Google Proposes JSIR As A High-Level IR For JavaScript
Google engineers have been developing JSIR as a high-level intermediate representation (JSIR) for JavaScript that they are already using in production at the company code code analysis and transforming other code/bytecode to JavaScript as well as for deobfuscating JavaScript code… ⌘ Read more
Tiny Corp Begins Accepting Pre-Orders For Their $10M Exabox
Open-source friendly company Tiny Corp that is behind the Tinygrad MIT-licensed neural network framework and developing a “sovereign” AMD GPU driver stack with their Tinybox hardware offerings has their sights on shipping the Exabox next year. The Tiny Corp’s Exabox is expected to retail for around $10M USD but offer immense AI compute power… ⌘ Read more
Russia’s VPN Crackdown Caused Bank Outages, Telegram Founder Says
Russia’s “great crackdown” on VPNs — and a clampdown on Telegram’s messaging platform — had an unintended side effect, reports Bloomberg. It “triggered the widespread banking outage seen across the country this week, Telegram’s billionaire founder Pavel Durov said.”
“Telegram was banned in Russia, yet 65 million Russians still use it daily via VP … ⌘ Read more
Artemis Astronauts Enter Moon’s Gravitational Pull, Catch First Glimpses of Far Side
NASA’s Artemis astronauts are now entering “the lunar sphere of influence,” reports NBC News, “meaning the pull of the moon’s gravity will become stronger than Earth’s.” Now as they begin their swing around the moon, the Artemis astronauts “are chasing after Apollo 13’s maximum range from Earth,” reports t … ⌘ Read more
I went 1 for 2 at Magic this week… Temmet made a good showing the first game before being overwhelmed by an infinite number of Wylls (aka Fred Durst, on account of all his “rollin’, rollin’, rollin’!”). As a result, I unleashed Chatterfang on the group for the second game, and he lead his squirrel army to victory once again. Good times!
Internet Bug Bounty Pauses Payouts, Citing ‘Expanding Discovery’ From AI-Assisted Research
The Internet Bug Bounty program “has been paused for new submissions,” they announced last week.
Running since 2012, the program is funded by “a number of leading software companies,” reports InfoWorld, “and has awarded more than $1.5m to researchers who have reported bugs “
Up to now, 80% of its p … ⌘ Read more
Claude Code Leak Reveals a ‘Stealth’ Mode for GenAI Code Contributions - and a ‘Frustration Words’ Regex
That leak of Claude Code’s source code “revealed “all kinds of juicy details,” writes PC World.
The more than 500,000 lines of code included:
- An ‘undercover mode’ for Claude that allows it to make ‘stealth’ contributions to public code bases
- An ‘always-on’ age … ⌘ Read more
Linux 7.0-rc7 Released With Improved Docs For AI Agents, WiFi Driver Performance Fix
Timed for Easter this year is the seventh weekly release candidate for the Linux 7.0 kernel. If all goes well, Linux 7.0 stable will be out next week… ⌘ Read more
Hundreds of Theatres Show Apocalyptic-Yet-Optomistic New Movie, ‘The AI Doc’
Hundreds of theatres are now showing a new documentary called The AI Doc: Or How I Became An Apocaloptimist. Variety calls it “playful and heady,“edited “with a spirit of ADHD alertness.” The New York Times suggests it “tries to cover so much that it ends up being more confusing than clarifying, but parts are fascina … ⌘ Read more
Will ‘AI-Assisted’ Journalists Bring Errors and Retractions?
Meet the “journalist” who “uploads press releases or analyst notes into AI tools and prompts them to spit out articles that he can edit and publish quickly,” according to the Wall Street Journal.
“AI-assisted stories accounted for nearly 20% of Fortune’s web traffic in the second half of 2025.” And most were written by 42-year-old Nick Lichtenberg, who has … ⌘ Read more
@kiwu@twtxt.net meh, wish I could say I had a great day. What is worse, tomorrow is back at work again. There isn’t a single day I think: did we evolved, and when through all those troubles, to end up like this?!
Crooks Behind $27M in ‘Refund’ Scams Busted By YouTube Pranksters After Being Lured to Fake Funeral
One crime ring scammed 2,000 elderly people of more than $27 million between 2021 and 2023 using tech support/bank impersonation/refund scams. “Victims were in their 70s and 80s,” reports the U.S. Attorney’s office for California’s southern district. Victims were first told they’d r … ⌘ Read more
Apple Brings Device-Level Age Verification to Two More Countries
11 days ago Apple launched device-level age restrictions in the U.K. There were some glitches, reports the blog 9to5Mac.
For me, the experience was an entirely painless one, taking less than 30 seconds. All I had to do was tap a confirm and continue button, and Apple told me that the length of time I’d had an Apple account was used to confirm t … ⌘ Read more
Linux 7.1 Expected To Begin Removing i486 CPU Support
It’s finally time: a patch queued into one of the development branches ahead of the upcoming Linux 7.1 merge window is set to finally begin the process of phasing out and ultimately removing Intel 486 CPU support from the Linux kernel. Anyone still using an i486 CPU with an upstream Linux kernel would be incredibly rare and no known Linux distribution vendors are still shipping with i486 CPU support, but in case you are, you can continue to be running one of … ⌘ Read more
Linux 7.1 To Begin Removing i486 CPU Support
It’s finally time: a patch queued into one of the development branches ahead of the upcoming Linux 7.1 merge window is set to finally begin the process of phasing out and ultimately removing Intel 486 CPU support from the Linux kernel. Anyone still using an i486 CPU with an upstream Linux kernel would be incredibly rare and no known Linux distribution vendors are still shipping with i486 CPU support, but in case you are, you can continue to be running one of the exis … ⌘ Read more
Chrome 148 Will Start ‘Lazy Loading’ Video and Audio to Improve Performance
“Google has announced that it’s currently testing a new feature for Chrome 148 that could speed up day-to-day browsing,” reports PC World:
[T]he browser can intelligently postpone the loading of certain elements. Why load all images at the start when it can instead load images as you get close to them while scrolling? Chrome and … ⌘ Read more
Scientists Engineered a Plant To Produce 5 Different Psychedelics At Once
Plants, toads, and mushrooms “can all produce psychedelic substances,” writes ScienceAlert.
“And now their powers have been combined in one plant.”
[S]cientists have taken the genes these organisms use to make five natural psychedelics and introduced them into a tobacco plant ( Nicotiana benthamiana), which then produced a … ⌘ Read more
AMD & Valve Deliver Better Kaveri / Kabini APU Experience With Upcoming Linux 7.1
A nice Easter surprise are some last minute updates submitted to DRM-Next of the final planned AMDGPU/AMDKFD feature changes for the upcoming Linux 7.1 feature cycle… ⌘ Read more
Linux 7.0-rc7 Adding More Documentation For AI Tools To Send Better Security Bug Reports
For helping with the increase of AI tools scouring the Linux kernel source tree and sending security bug reports, a pull request sent today ahead of the Linux 7.0-rc7 improves the documentation to better guide AI agents – and anyone reading the documentation – how to send better quality bug reports… ⌘ Read more
Does Ubuntu Now Require More RAM Than Windows 11?
“Canonical is no longer pretending that 4GB is enough,” writes the blog How-to-Geek, noting Ubuntu 26.04 LTS “raises the baseline memory to 6GB, alongside a 2GHz dual-core processor, and 25GB of storage…”
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) set the floor at 1GB — a modest ask when it launched more than a decade ago in 2014. Then came the Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) that pus … ⌘ Read more
hid-omg-detect: Linux Driver In Development To Detect Malicious HID Devices
Zubeyr Almaho has been leading work on a new HID driver named hid-omg-detect with an intent on passive monitoring to watch out for any malicious HID devices being connected to the system… ⌘ Read more
Linux Sees Fixes For Its GD-ROM Driver In 2026 For Sega Dreamcast
Seeing new Linux patches for benefiting Sega Dreamcast devices wasn’t on my bingo card for 2026. A patch series was sent out today for fixing the Linux kernel’s GD-ROM driver for accessing media using the drivers on “real” Sega Dreamcast devices… ⌘ Read more