Some days I can’t get over how pretty my kitty is. ⌘ Read more

In his majestic pawsition ⌘ Read more

New Mars Orbiter Manuever Challenges Theory: That May Not Be an Underground Lake on Mars
In 2018 researchers claimed evidence of a lake beneath the surface of Mars, detected by the Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionosphere Sounding instrument (or Marsis for short).

But new Mars observations “are not consistent with the presence of liquid water in this location and an alternat … ⌘ Read more

My kitty just cracked a smile ⌘ Read more

Intel Working On Linux Support For New Power Savings Feature With Xe3P_LPD
The upcoming Linux 6.19 kernel cycle is set to introduce initial support for Xe3P graphics to be found initially with Nova Lake processors. While that initial support is landing for Linux 6.19, other extra Xe3P features are still to be added to the open-source kernel driver over coming release cycles. One of those extra features being currently tackled is a new element with Xe3P_LPD: the ability to use the system cache for FBC… ⌘ Read more

Canonical Partners With AMI To Build Ubuntu Netboot Option Into UEFI Firmware
Canonical and AMI announced a partnership today so that there will be an Ubuntu Metbookt option added within AMI’s UEFI firmware to allow booting to the Ubuntu installer without the need for even having any install media… ⌘ Read more

This is what moms do… ⌘ Read more

Crease-Free iPhone Fold on Track for 2026 Launch as Development Advances
Apple is making progress on the development of the book-style foldable iPhone expected in 2026, according to a report from Chinese site UDN. The device has reportedly entered the engineering validation stage, and Apple is gearing up for mass production.

![](https://images.macrumors.com/article-new/2025/08/Apple-Foldable-Thum … ⌘ Read more

This broke me 😭 ⌘ Read more

How An MIT Student Awed Top Economists With His AI Study - Until It All Fell Apart
In May MIT announced “no confidence” in a preprint paper on how AI increased scientific discovery, asking arXiv to withdraw it. The paper, authored by 27-year-old grad student Aidan Toner-Rodgers, had claimed an AI-driven materials discovery tool helped 1,018 scientists at a U.S. R&D lab.

But within weeks his … ⌘ Read more

I know I’m biased but I’m pretty sure my baby boy is the cutest creature who has ever lived ⌘ Read more

Phoronix Premium Cyber Week “Black Friday” Deal To Help Enable Linux Hardware Reviews
The end of 2025 is quickly approaching and while there are the various end of year holidays, you can still expect to find new and original content on Phoronix each and every single day of the year just as it’s been for more than a decade of the now 21-year-old Phoronix.com. The last day without any new content on Phoronix was all the way back in May of 2012. That’s due to my passion for Linux hardware and open-source, paired in … ⌘ Read more

We got two kittens. I always wanted a black cat. Wife always wanted two cats of the same age ⌘ Read more

‘We Could’ve Asked ChatGPT’: UK Students Fight Back Over Course Taught By AI
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Guardian:

James and Owen were among 41 students who took a coding module at the University of Staffordshire last year, hoping to change careers through a government-funded apprenticeship programme designed to help them become cybersecurity experts or software engineers. But afte … ⌘ Read more

Memtest86+ 8.0 Released With Support For Latest Intel & AMD CPUs
Since the 2022 release of memtest86+ 6.0 as a rewrite of this long-used RAM testing utility, this open-source software has continued advancing nicely after a decade hiatus. Released on Sunday night was memtest86+ 8.0 as the latest iteration of this popular RAM tester for enthusiasts… ⌘ Read more

How someone could not love this beautiful, cute creature. ⌘ Read more

Adorable online classes.. ⌘ Read more

Napster Said It Raised $3 Billion From a Mystery Investor. But Now the ‘Investor’ and ‘Money’ Are Gone
An anonymous reader shared this report from Forbes:

On November 20, at approximately 4 p.m. Eastern time, Napster held an online meeting for its shareholders; an estimated 700 of roughly 1,500 including employees, former employees and individual investors tuned in. Th … ⌘ Read more

New Apple Ad Highlights iPhone 17 Pro’s Vapor Chamber Cooling
Apple has published a new ad for the iPhone 17 Pro on its YouTube channel, highlighting the device’s vapor chamber cooling and A19 Pro chip.

Titled “Peak Performance,” the minute-long ad opens with a man running through an arid desert landscape when storm clouds coalesce above him. A drop of water falls from the sky and evaporates on his forehead, providing him with super-human perform … ⌘ Read more

Obviously yarnd 🙋‍♂️

My uncle moved to a new house and abandoned his cat. I brought him home, he’s a little sad :( ⌘ Read more

New Research Finds America’s Top Social Media Sites: YouTube (84%) Facebook (71%), Instagram (50%)
Pew Research surveyed 5,022 Americans this year (between February 5 and June 18), asking them
“do you ever use” YouTube, Facebook, and nine of the other top social media platforms. The results?

YouTube 84%

Facebook 71%

Instagram 50%

TikTok 37%

WhatsApp 32%

Reddit 26%

Snapchat 2 … ⌘ Read more

17 Today! ⌘ Read more

Was the Moon-Forming Protoplanet ‘Theia’ a Neighbor of Earth?
Theia crashed into earth and formed the moon, the theory goes. But then where did Theia come from? The lead author on a new study says “The most convincing scenario is that most of the building blocks of Earth and Theia originated in the inner Solar System. Earth and Theia are likely to have been neighbors.”

Though Theia was completely destroyed in th … ⌘ Read more

Linux 6.18-rc7 Released With Late Hardware Improvements
Linux 6.18-rc7 just arrived in the Git tree as the newest weekly test build leading up to Linux 6.18 stable hopefully debuting next Sunday, 30 November… ⌘ Read more

Wayland Protocols 1.46 Released With New Experimental Additions
Wayland Protocols 1.46 released this evening with new experimental protocols for text improvements as well as refinements to the color management protocol for HDR… ⌘ Read more

Cryptologist DJB Criticizes Push to Finalize Non-Hybrid Security for Post-Quantum Cryptography
In October cryptologist/CS professor Daniel J. Bernstein alleged that America’s National Security
Agency (and its UK counterpart GCHQ) were attempting to influence NIST to adopt weaker post-quantum cryptography
standards without a “hybrid” approach that would’ve also included pre-quantum EC … ⌘ Read more

The art, vs the artist 😼 ⌘ Read more

Google Revisits JPEG XL in Chromium After Earlier Removal
“Three years ago, Google removed JPEG XL support from Chrome, stating there wasn’t enough interest at the time,” writes the blog Windows Report. “That position has now changed.”

In a recent note to developers, a Chrome team representative confirmed that work has restarted to bring JPEG XL to Chromium and said Google “would ship it in Chrome” once long-term ma … ⌘ Read more

How do you call it when a cat greets you like this? ⌘ Read more

Mozilla Announces ‘TABS API’ For Developers Building AI Agents
“Fresh from announcing it is building an AI browsing mode in Firefox and laying the groundwork for agentic interactions in the Firefox 145 release, the corp arm of Mozilla is now flexing its AI muscles in the direction of those more likely to care,” writes the blog OMG Ubuntu:

If you’re a developer building AI agents, you can sign up to get early acces … ⌘ Read more

Caught ya! ⌘ Read more

One Company’s Plan to Sink Nuclear Reactors Deep Underground
Long-time Slashdot reader jenningsthecat shared this article from IEEE Spectrum:

By dropping a nuclear reactor 1.6 kilometers (1 mile) underground, Deep Fission aims to use the weight of a billion tons of rock and water as a natural containment system comparable to concrete domes and cooling towers. With the fission reaction occurring far below the s … ⌘ Read more

You need to lose weight, you fatso. ⌘ Read more

Could High-Speed Trains Shorten US Travel Times While Reducing Emissions?
With some animated graphics, CNN “reimagined” what three of America’s busiest air and road travel routes would look like with high-speed trains, for “a glimpse into a faster, more connected future.”

The journey from New York City to Chicago could take just over six hours by high-speed train at an average speed of 160 mph, cutting … ⌘ Read more

@movq@www.uninformativ.de pinging @zvava@twtxt.net, on your behalf. And @falsifian@www.falsifian.org.

Our Cat With Cancer Just Found Two Tiny Reasons to Smile Again ⌘ Read more

Microsoft and GitHub Preview New Tool That Identifies, Prioritizes, and Fixes Vulnerabilities With AI
“Security, development, and AI now move as one,” says Microsoft’s director of cloud/AI security
product marketing.

Microsoft and GitHub “have launched a native integration between Microsoft Defender for Cloud and GitHub Advanced Security that aims to address what one e … ⌘ Read more

NVIDIA Preps 1.6Tb/s Networking For Linux 6.19
NVIDIA has a number of Linux kernel patches on the way to the Linux 6.19 kernel in preparing for 1.6 Tb/s networking on NVIDIA-Mellanox hardware… ⌘ Read more

We got lucky that the two kitties we got were instantly best buds. Otto and Ziggs. ⌘ Read more

Engineers are Building the Hottest Geothermal Power Plant on Earth - Next to a US Volcano
“On the slopes of an Oregon volcano, engineers are building the hottest geothermal power plant on Earth,” reports the Washington Post:

The plant will tap into the infernal energy of Newberry Volcano, “one of the largest and most hazardous active volcanoes in the United States,” according to t … ⌘ Read more

She was abandoned at my apartment complex ⌘ Read more

His uncle bought him a catnip plant… ⌘ Read more

How the Internet Rewired Work - and What That Tells Us About AI’s Likely Impact
“The internet did transform work — but not the way 1998 thought…” argues the Wall Street Journal. “The internet slipped inside almost every job and rewired how work got done.”

So while the number of single-task jobs like travel agent dropped, most jobs “are bundles of judgment, coordination and hands-on work,” and in … ⌘ Read more

Which actively maintained Yarn/twtxt clients are there at the moment? Client authors raise your hands! 🙋

Linux Patches Improve Intel Nested VM Memory Performance Up To ~2353x In Synthetic Test
AWS engineers have been working on Linux kernel improvements to KVM’s VMX code for enhancing the unamanged guest memory when dealing with nested virtual machines. The improved code addresses some correctness issues as well as delivering wild performance improvements within a synthetic benchmark… ⌘ Read more

A perfect loaf ⌘ Read more

Glibc Math Code Sees 4x Improvement On AMD Zen By Changing FMA Implementation
Merged this week to the GNU C Library “glibc” code is dropping the ldbl-96 FMA implementation from this library as in doing so they found a 4x improvement to throughput and latency on AMD Zen 3 hardware… ⌘ Read more

Google Looks To Bring JPEG-XL Support Back To Chrome / Chromium
Back in 2022 was the surprising decision by Google that they were going to deprecate JPEG-XL image support in Chrome. By the end of 2022 they went ahead and removed JPEG-XL support from Chrome/Chromium to the frustration of many web developers and end-users interested in this image format. Now though as we get ready to roll into 2026, Google engineers are looking at bringing back JPEG-XL support to the Chrome web browser… ⌘ Read more

I farted while she was on my lap (just seconds after this, she got up and puked) ⌘ Read more