5K Gaming Is Too Hard, Even for an RTX 5090D
Asus has been showcasing its new 5K 27-inch ROG Strix 27 Pro gaming monitor running at 5,120 x 2,880 resolution and up to 180Hz, but even Nvidia’s flagship RTX 5090 struggles to deliver smooth frame rates at this demanding pixel count. In testing conducted by Asus, the RTX 5090D – a Chinese-exclusive variant with weaker AI performance – achieved just 51 frames per second in a Cyberpu … ⌘ Read more

Uber, Lyft Set To Trial Robotaxis In the UK In Partnership With China’s Baidu
Uber and Lyft plan to trial robotaxis in London starting in 2026 using autonomous vehicles from Baidu, as the UK fast-tracks approvals for self-driving cars on public roads. CNBC reports: Lyft’s testing of Baidu’s initial fleet of dozens of vehicles will begin in 2026, pending regulatory approval, “with plans to scale to h … ⌘ Read more

Instacart Kills AI Pricing Tests That Charged Some Customers More Than Others
Instacart has ended its AI-powered pricing tests after a study from Groundwork Collaborative, Consumer Reports and More Perfect Union revealed that the grocery delivery platform was showing different customers different prices for identical items at the same store. The company said Monday that retailers can no longer use Ever … ⌘ Read more

Oh great, I received an e-mail that my SMTP credentials have been exposed. Once again, just another shitty scanner that generates garbage reports from tests it doesn’t understand. Thank you for nothing!

conf := &Config{
    SMTPHost: "smtp.example.com",
    SMTPPort: 587,
    SMTPUser: "user",
    SMTPPass: "hunter2",
    SMTPFrom: "from@example.com",
}

Linux 6.19-rc2 Released Following A Quiet Week
The second weekly release candidate of Linux 6.19 is now available for testing in leading up to the stable release in early February… ⌘ Read more

Linux Mint 22.3 Beta Released With Cinnamon 6.6 Desktop
The beta release of Linux Mint 22.3 “Zena” is now available for testing ahead of the holidays for this latest incremental update to this desktop OS built atop an Ubuntu 24.04 LTS base… ⌘ Read more

Microsoft Made Another Copilot Ad Where Nothing Actually Works
Microsoft’s latest holiday ad for its Copilot AI assistant features a 30-second montage of users seamlessly syncing smart home lights to music, scaling recipes for large gatherings, and parsing HOA guidelines – none of which the software can actually perform reliably when put to the test. The Verge methodically tested each prompt shown in the ad and foun … ⌘ Read more

Tests Find AI Toys Parroting Chinese Communist Party Values
A plush AI toy marketed for children as young as three years old delivers detailed instructions on sharpening knives and lighting matches, and when asked about Chinese President Xi Jinping’s resemblance to Winnie the Pooh – a comparison censored in China – responds that “your statement is extremely inappropriate and disrespectful.”

The Miriat Miiloo, ma … ⌘ Read more

Anthropic’s AI Lost Hundreds of Dollars Running a Vending Machine After Being Talked Into Giving Everything Away
Anthropic let its Claude AI run a vending machine in the Wall Street Journal newsroom for three weeks as part of an internal stress test called Project Vend, and the experiment ended in financial ruin after journalists systematically manipulated the bot into … ⌘ Read more

Intel’s Cache Aware Scheduling Presentation At LPC 2025
One of the exciting Intel innovations to the Linux kernel this year has been around the Cache Aware Scheduling for helping to deliver better performance on modern CPUs with multiple last level caches. The kernel patches have yet to be upstreamed but testing has shown to be quite promising for grouping tasks sharing data to the same LLC domain to help reduce cache misses and cache bouncing. Those wishing to learn more about Cache Aware Scheduling, there wa … ⌘ Read more

The Significant Performance Gains For Radeon RADV Ray-Tracing Performance In 2025
As part of my various year-end comparison benchmarking, I recently ran some tests looking at how the Radeon RX 9000 series RDNA 4 performance has evolved since its debut near the beginning of the year. The Vulkan ray-tracing performance in particular was standing out this year as having evolved quite nicely while for conventional OpenGL and Vulkan performance the performance has been largely stable this year with its great at-launch su … ⌘ Read more

@shinyoukai@neko.laidback.moe These are all Debian release names: https://www.debian.org/releases/

• Bookworm is current oldstable
  
• Trixie is current stable
  
• Forky is current testing

I cleaned up all my of AoC (Advent of Code) 2025 solutions, refactored many of the utilities I had to write as reusable libraries, re-tested Day 1 (but nothing else). here it is if you’re curious! This is written in mu, my own language I built as a self-hosted minimal compiler/vm with very few types and builtins.

https://git.mills.io/prologic/aoc2025

Rust Coreutils 0.5 Released - Inching Toward Full GNU Compatibility
Rust Coreutils 0.5 is now available as the latest milestone for this Rust-based alternative to GNU Coreutils. Rust Coreutils 0.5 continues moving closer to “full GNU compatibility” with nearly a 90% pass rate on the GNU test suite… ⌘ Read more

Amazon Prime Video Pulls AI-Powered Recaps After Fallout Flub
An anonymous reader shares a report: Amazon Prime Video has pulled its AI-powered video recap of Fallout after viewers noticed that it got key parts of the story wrong. The streaming service began testing Video Recaps last month, and now they’re missing from the shows included in the test, including Fallout, The Rig, Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, Up … ⌘ Read more

Opera Wants You To Pay $20 a Month For Its AI Browser
Opera has opened its AI-powered browser Neon to the public after a couple of months of testing, and anyone interested in trying it will need to pay $19.90 per month. The Norway-based company first unveiled Neon in May and launched it in early access to select users in October. Like Perplexity’s Comet, OpenAI’s Atlas, and The Browser Company’s Dia, Neon bakes an AI chat … ⌘ Read more

LibreOffice 26.2 Beta 1 Now Available For This Free Software Office Suite
LibreOffice 26.2 Beta 1 is now available for testing in working toward the stable release in February for this cross-platform, open-source office suite solution… ⌘ Read more

Genetic trick to make mosquitoes malaria resistant passes key test
The rollout of a type of genetic technology called a gene drive for tackling malaria could be edging closer after a lab study supports its success ⌘ Read more

FreeBSD 15.0 vs. Ubuntu Linux For AMD EPYC Server Performance
Given the recent release of FreeBSD 15, I started off my testing in looking at how FreeBSD 15.0 improves performance versus FreeBSD 14.3. Now it’s onto the next important question: how is FreeBSD 15.0 performing relative to Linux on servers? Here are some benchmarks exploring that topic today. ⌘ Read more

2nd Release Candidate Build of iOS 26.2 Available for Testing
Release candidate builds typically match the final version of an operating system, unless a last minute bug or issue has been found anyway, and that’s perhaps what happened in this case, as a 2nd release candidate build for iOS 26.2 has been made available for testing. macOS Tahoe 26.2 RC remains on the first release … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2025/12/10/2nd-release-candidate-build-of-ios-26-2-available … ⌘ Read more

Beekeepers pay for imported honey testing to uncover hidden additives
Australian beekeepers are funding their own investigation into the authenticity of imported honey, with tests showing other products are being added. ⌘ Read more

Cummins’s return made official as Aussies name squad for Adelaide
Australia’s captain is poised to make his return for the Ashes as Australia names its squad ahead of the third Test at the Adelaide Oval. ⌘ Read more

Abuse survivors say Centrelink’s ‘couple rule’ puts women in danger
Financial and domestic abuse survivors say the way Centrelink assesses benefit payments for people in a relationship makes it harder for women to leave dangerous relationships. ⌘ Read more

Quiz: Test you knowledge of Australian geography
Which state has the longest land border? Test your knowledge in today’s quiz. ⌘ Read more

England need to win next Test or Ashes will get embarrassing - McGrath
Australia legend Glenn McGrath says England must now know they need to adapt their approach and win the third Test in Adelaide or they could be facing a 5-0 Ashes defeat. ⌘ Read more

Mackay to host first Test match when Australia faces Bangladesh in 2026
The Australian men will play a two-match series against Bangladesh in 2026, with the second venue yet to be decided. ⌘ Read more

Marsh open to Test recall despite announcing Sheffield Shield retirement
Mitch Marsh tells his Western Australia teammates he is retiring, but keeps the door ajar for a Test recall. ⌘ Read more

Pub test differs for Barnaby Joyce and Anika Wells
The “pub test” tends to be applied when we’ve run out of avenues to pursue a public figure, but are still super annoyed. ⌘ Read more

Extreme heat hampers children’s early learning
Children regularly exposed to temperatures over 30°C (86°F) have lower scores on literacy and numeracy tests at age 3 to 4, according to UNICEF data from six countries ⌘ Read more

Early Benchmarks Of Linux 6.19 Git Showing Some Concerns
While just half-way through the Linux 6.19 merge window, over the weekend I began running some benchmarks of the current Linux 6.19 Git state compared to Linux 6.18 LTS stable. There are some minor performance improvements to note in a few of the tests on the first system I tested but also some regressions at this very early pre-RC1 state of the Linux 6.19 kernel… ⌘ Read more

Proposed testing changes for imported raw prawns labelled ‘short-sighted’
The federal government is being accused of allowing “trade to trump biosecurity”, over proposed changes critics claim will “weaken” and “roll back” testing of potentially diseased raw prawn imports. ⌘ Read more

More than 30 zinc sunscreen brands using formula that failed preliminary SPF testing
It’s been almost two years since Craig Jones first ran preliminary tests on his zinc sunscreen. When he discovered it wasn’t providing the SPF it was supposed to he threw it out and set out on a quest to find out why. ⌘ Read more

Labuschagne praises Aussies’ makeshift opening pair as Khawaja call looms
Marnus Labuschagne says Australia’s opening partnership is making the rest of the batting order improve, as selectors deliberate over Usman Khawaja’s Test future. ⌘ Read more

Coalition puts heat on Wells over trips to cricket and AFL with family
The Coalition is applying more heat to Sport Minister Anika Wells over flights she claimed for herself and her husband to attend two Boxing Day cricket test matches in recent years, and several AFL Grand Final events. ⌘ Read more

England coach says team ‘over-prepared’ for Brisbane Test, as players head for Noosa getaway
England coach Brendon McCullum claims his team trained too hard for the Gabba Test, which ended in a bruising eight-wicket loss that leaves the tourists’ Ashes hopes in tatters. ⌘ Read more

How the internet reacted to the Aussies going 2-0 up
Mitchell Starc was the hero, again, as the English were comprehensively outplayed in Brisbane — but how did the internet react? ⌘ Read more

OpenAI Insists Target Links in ChatGPT Responses Weren’t Ads But ‘Suggestions’ - But Turns Them Off
A hardware security response from ChatGPT ended with “Shop for home and groceries. Connect Target.”

But “There are no live tests for ads” on ChatGPT, insists Nick Turley, OpenAI’s head of ChatGPT. Posting on X.com, he said “any screenshots you’ve seen are either not real or not ads.” … ⌘ Read more

Hong Kong votes in election as city mourns deadly fire
The Legislative Council election is seen as a test of public sentiment following a deadly fire. ⌘ Read more

Hong Kong votes in election as city mourns deadly fire
The Legislative Council election is seen as a test of public sentiment following a deadly fire. ⌘ Read more

Many Privileged Students at US Universities are Getting Extra Time on Tests After ‘Disability’ Diagnoses
Today America’s college professors “struggle to accommodate the many students with an official disability designation,” reports the Atlantic, “which may entitle them to extra time, a distraction-free environment, or the use of otherwise-prohibited technology.”

Their st … ⌘ Read more

As Stokes questions England’s toughness, McCullum warns of ‘glass jaw’
England’s famed captain-coach duo aren’t going to let their relationship fray in the face of the biggest test of their polarising tenure. ⌘ Read more

McCullum says England ‘trained too much’ as Stokes questions mentality
Coach Brendon McCullum says England trained “too much” while captain Ben Stokes raised questions about his side’s mentality after their defeat in the second Ashes Test. ⌘ Read more

McCullum says England ‘trained too much’ as Stokes questions mentality
Coach Brendon McCullum says England trained “too much” while captain Ben Stokes raised questions about his side’s mentality after their defeat in the second Ashes Test. ⌘ Read more

England soundly beaten by Australia in second Test drubbing
England capitulate to a damning eight-wicket defeat on day of the second Test to give Australia a 2-0 lead in The Ashes. ⌘ Read more

Five quick hits: Smith fires up, takes miracle catch as Bazball leaves the building
Smith “champs” Archer, Bazball leaves the building and the Australian captain breaks the game open with a miraculous grab. Here are the quick hits from the fourth and final day of the Gabba Ashes Test. ⌘ Read more

England 2-0 down in Ashes after Gabba hammering
England’s Ashes hopes are all but over in fewer than six days of cricket after an eight-wicket defeat by Australia in the second Test at the Gabba. ⌘ Read more

Ashes player ratings: Who may be wilting under the pressure?
Chief cricket reporter Stephan Shemilt marks the performances of the Australia and England teams after the second Test in Brisbane. ⌘ Read more

England 2-0 down in Ashes after Gabba hammering
England’s Ashes hopes are all but over in fewer than six days of cricket after an eight-wicket defeat by Australia in the second Test at the Gabba. ⌘ Read more

Atkinson dismissed cheaply as England near second Test defeat
Gus Atkinson is dismissed for three runs after pulling his shot directly to Australia captain Steve Smith at mid-wicket, as England lose their third wicket in four overs to slump to 231-9 on day four of the second Ashes Test in Brisbane. ⌘ Read more

Smith takes ‘brilliant catch’ to break England’s resistance
Steve Smith takes a brilliant diving catch at first slip to dismiss Will Jacks for 41 as Australia take the first wicket of day four in the evening session as England fall to 224-7 in the second Ashes Test in Brisbane. ⌘ Read more