US To Award $2 Billion To Quantum Companies, Take Equity Stakes
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Quantum Insider: The Trump administration is preparing a new round of industrial policy aimed at quantum computing, with roughly $2 billion in grants expected to go to nine companies developing quantum hardware and related technologies. According to Reuters, citing a Wall Street Journal report, the U.S. Dep … ⌘ Read more
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In this issue, we explore how private capital continues to dominate global commercial real estate investment, driv … ⌘ Read more
Government puts $2.5m towards billion-dollar underground asset striking problem
The Government is putting $2.5 million towards a possibly $1.45 billion problem: the accidental damage of underground cables and pipes.
Infrastructure Minister Chris Bishop announced on Thursday that work on a national underground asset … ⌘ Read more
Get your passwords out of Bitwarden while you still can
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OpenBSD 7.9 released
The OpenBSD 7.9 release is
out, right on schedule. There is the usual long list of new features,
including improved architecture support, CPU scheduling on heterogeneous
systems, the ability to hibernate a suspended system after a configurable
delay, socket splicing, a
__pledge_open()
system call giving special access to the C library, and much more. See the
announcement and [the full\
changelog]( … ⌘ Read more
Ryzen AI AMDXDNA Driver Adding Expandable Heap Support With Linux 7.2
AMD engineers continue enhancing the AMDXDNA accelerator driver for supporting the Ryzen AI NPUs on Linux… ⌘ Read more
VKD3D 2.0 Released For Wine’s Direct3D 12 Implementation Atop Vulkan
Wine developers have announced the release of VKD3D 2.0, the newest feature release for this Direct3D 12 API implementation built atop the Vulkan API. VKD3D is what’s used by upstream Wine for D3D12 compared to Valve’s downstream VKD3D-Proton within Steam Play (Proton)… ⌘ Read more
More AMDGPU Driver Fixes Prepped For Linux 7.2
AMD is ready with more AMDKFD compute driver and AMDGPU kernel graphics driver changes for the upcoming Linux 7.2 merge window… ⌘ Read more
Pensionen steigen um 2,95 Prozent
Die Regierung hat sich im Zuge der Budgetverhandlungen auf die Pensionserhöhung geeinigt. Im kommenden Jahr sollen die Pensionen um 2,95 Prozent steigen, teilte das Sozialministerium am Donnerstag mit. Die Erhöhung liegt damit knapp unter der prognostizierten Inflationsrate. ⌘ Read more
Patrick Simon, sociodémographe: «Une nouvelle société est en train d’advenir, avec une multiplicité de références culturelles et sociales»
La grande enquête «Trajectoires et origines 2», qui porte sur la diversité des populations en France, vient percuter de nombreuses idées reçues sur les personnes immigrées et leur descendance. Entretien avec le sociodémographe Patrick Simon, qui a codirigé ce livre très attendu e … ⌘ Read more
Pensionen: Erhöhung um 2,95 Prozent ⌘ Read more
SpaceX Is Spending $2.8 Billion to Buy Gas Turbines for Its AI Data Centers
The investment comes as Musk’s AI unit faces complaints about the carbon-emitting units and looks to become a big player in cloud computing. ⌘ Read more
My Food Bag lifts profit and revenue as board weighs possible sale
Listed meal-kit company My Food Bag has reported revenue growth of 6.2% for the second half of the 2026 financial year.
In an NZX announcement on Thursday, My Food Bag (MFB) announced a net profit after tax of $6.7 million, up 5.3% year on year. ⌘ Read more
AMDGPU HDMI 2.1 FRL To Be Initially Disabled-By-Default
One of the most exciting developments in recent times for the open-source AMDGPU kernel graphics driver is HDMI 2.1 FRL support for the AMDGPU driver along with Display Stream Compression support as they work toward providing full HDMI 2.1 support for this open-source AMD Radeon driver. The details how AMD managed to pull this feat off given prior resistance from the HDMI Forum remains to be confirmed, but it’s moving ahead and out today is the latest … ⌘ Read more
RHEL 10.2 Released With New AI Command Line Assistance
Red Hat has released RHEL 10.2 and 9.8 with new AI-assisted command-line tools. The releases also add updated developer toolchains such as Go 1.26, LLVM 21, Rust 1.92, Python 3.14, and PHP 8.4. Phoronix reports: Red Hat Enterprise Linux has introduced the goose command for power users. Goose is an optional CLI AI assistance with model context protocol (MCP) integrati … ⌘ Read more
The Very Exciting Cache Aware Scheduling Looks Like It Will Land For Linux 7.2
As a very exciting development ahead of the Linux 7.2 kernel merge window opening in about one month’s time, it looks like the long-awaited Cache Aware Scheduling support will finally be merged! CONFIG_SCHED_CACHE has made it into a TIP branch with all the Cache Aware Scheduling code for helping with Linux performance on modern CPUs sporting multiple last level caches… ⌘ Read more
RHEL 10.2 Released With New AI Command Line Assistance
Red Hat today announced the releases of both Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.2 as well as RHEL 9.8… ⌘ Read more
Security updates for Wednesday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (kernel, libpng, nginx, nginx:1.24, ruby, and ruby:3.3), Debian (gnutls28 and linux-6.1), Fedora (dnsmasq, kernel, keylime-agent-rust, perl-Net-CIDR-Lite, python-pysam, python-urllib3, rust-cargo-vendor-filterer, rust-ingredients, rust-oo7-cli, rust-rpki, rust-sevctl, and rust-tealdeer), Mageia (bind), Oracle (bind, giflib, gimp:2.8, kernel, libpng, rsync, ruby, and vim), Slackware (haveged and mozilla), SUSE (cockpit, dnsmasq, e … ⌘ Read more
NordVPN Coupons and Deals: 77% Off in May 2026
Save up to 77% on 2-year plans and get 3 free months with our NordVPN discount codes. ⌘ Read more
«L’État druze» de Soueïda, en rupture avec le reste de la Syrie
Depuis la tentative de Damas d’imposer son autorité par la force en juillet 2025, et la mort de 2 000 personnes, Druzes et Bédouins sunnites, une «garde nationale» composite fait office de forces armées. Et le soutien israélien est de plus en plus présent. ⌘ Read more
Linux 7.2 Will Fix The Intel P-State Driver For The New Bartlett Lake CPUs
The fix is set to land in the upcoming Linux 7.2 kernel so the P-core-only Bartlett Lake processors will not report bogus maximum frequency values… ⌘ Read more
Gartner: Weltweite KI-Ausgaben 2026 bei 2,59 Bio. Dollar ⌘ Read more
OneXPlayer Configuration Driver Destined For Linux 7.2
The latest Linux gaming handheld driver work by Derek Clark of Valve’s Linux efforts is the OneXPlayer Configuration Driver that is now set to premiere in the upcoming Linux 7.2 kernel cycle… ⌘ Read more
Linux 7.2 Expected To Introduce “OPENAT2_REGULAR” To Avoid Tricking Secure Programs
Among the VFS patches queued into “-next” branches ahead of next month’s Linux 7.2 merge window is the code for introducing the new OPENAT2_REGULAR flag for the openat2 system call… ⌘ Read more
Security updates for Monday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (freerdp, gimp:2.8, jq, kernel, and rsync), Debian (chromium, ffmpeg, firewalld, kernel, nginx, openjpeg2, openssh, php7.4, and redis), Fedora (apptainer, chromium, coturn, dnsmasq, firefox, kernel, libgit2_1.8, libmetal, nginx, nginx-mod-brotli, nginx-mod-fancyindex, nginx-mod-headers-more, nginx-mod-js-challenge, nginx-mod-modsecurity, nginx-mod-naxsi, nginx-mod-vts, open-amp, perl-Net-CIDR-Lite, pgbouncer, pypy, python-jupytext, python-uv-build … ⌘ Read more
So viele Hinrichtungen wie zuletzt 1981
Die Zahl der weltweiten Hinrichtungen war 2025 laut einem am Montag veröffentlichten Bericht von Amnesty International (AI) so hoch wie seit über 40 Jahren nicht mehr. Mindestens 2.707 Personen seien hingerichtet worden – ein neuer Höchststand seit 1981. Die Dunkelziffer könnte allerdings viel höher liegen, denn China dürfte Schätzungen zufolge die meisten Hinrichtungen vollziehen, will aber die Zahl nicht bekanntgeben. ⌘ Read more
发现频道：最近10日的热门排行榜[2026年第20期]
最近10日，来自小众软件论坛的发现频道的热门排行榜，由系统自动生成，直接列出来： 序号 主题 1️⃣ 新闻雷达：把财经新闻翻译成“A 股代码” 2️⃣ iOS CollectorCam(朝暮集) 首发限免 – 邮票、明信片、拍立得相机收藏册 3️⃣ 【自荐】AI Agent 的网页浏览工 ⌘ Read more
Open-Source “low_latency_layer” Brings Reflex & Anti-Lag 2 To AMD & Intel GPUs On Linux
A new open-source project called low_latency_layer is an implicit Vulkan layer that enables AMD Anti-Lag 2 and NVIDIA Reflex 2 to reportedly work in a hardware-agnostic manner so that AMD and Intel graphics cards can both enjoy Reflex or Anti-Lag 2 working on non-AMD graphics cards as well… ⌘ Read more
Best Buy Discount Codes: Up to 60% Off
Find the latest Best Buy promo codes and offers, including 10% back in rewards for new cardmembers and free 2-day shipping with My Best Buy Plus, here at WIRED. ⌘ Read more
ZimaCube 2 Makes For A Nice Personal Cloud/NAS With Power Of Linux + Intel CPU
Earlier this year we reviewed the ZimaBoard 2 for building a Linux home storage server. That was a nifty little device but for those looking for a more polished product than assembling your storage devices in cardboard cut-outs and the like, IceWhale has launched the ZimaCube 2. The ZimaCube 2 is a nice and polished, literal cube, to serve as your personal cloud / network attached storage (NAS) device. ⌘ Read more
Centris 2 Folding Ebike Review: Compact, Sturdy, Budget-Friendly
The budget-friendly Centris 2 ebike can fit the back seat of a car and has narrow handlebars for miles of easy riding—until it needs a recharge, that is. ⌘ Read more
Loop Earplugs Discount Codes: 40% Off
Save on Loop Earplugs, including Quiet 2 and popular gift sets for improved sleep, focus, and comfort. ⌘ Read more
ROCm 7.0.0 vs. ROCm 7.2.3 Performance On The AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700
With the new System76 Thelio Major workstation review unit having arrived equipped with an AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 graphics card, I took the opportunity of having the extra RDNA4 workstation GPU to satisfy a curiosity over whether there has been any meaningful performance gains from ROCm 7.0.0 released last year to now with the latest ROCm 7.2.3 stable release. Here are those benchmarks results if you are curious about the impact of just updating the use … ⌘ Read more
AMD Preps More AIE4 NPU Hardware Enablement For AMDXDNA Driver In Linux 7.2
Since March we have been seeing patches from AMD software engineers beginning to enable their next-generation “AIE4” NPU platform under Linux. We still don’t know for sure when this AIE4 NPU will premiere for sure in new Ryzen AI products, but the Linux enablement continues coming along nicely for the AMDXDNA accelerator driver… ⌘ Read more
New AMDGPU Driver Pull Request For Linux 7.2 Preps For HDML 2.1 FRL
Sent out on Wednesday was the latest AMDGPU/AMDKFD driver pull request of new feature code ready for DRM-Next as the staging area ahead of the upcoming Linux 7.2 kernel. This doesn’t yet land the HDMI 2.1 enablement work that’s finally been taking place but it is preparing for that with the FRL register headers now in place as part of this merge… ⌘ Read more
Physicists Find Possible Errors In 100-Year-Old Model of the Universe
A trio of preprint papers suggests the universe may not be perfectly uniform on the largest scales, finding tentative 2-to-4-sigma deviations from a core assumption of standard cosmology known as FLRW geometry. Live Science reports: The work combines observations of distant exploding stars and large-scale galaxy surveys to probe whet … ⌘ Read more
KDE Receives $1.4 Million Investment From Sovereign Tech Fund
The German Sovereign Tech Fund has invested 1.2 million euros ($1.4 million USD) in KDE Plasma technologies to help strengthen the structural reliability and security of the desktop environment’s core infrastructure, including Plasma, KDE Linux, and the frameworks underlying its communication services. Longtime Slashdot reader jrepin shares an excerpt fro … ⌘ Read more
KDE Receiving Over 1.2 Million EUR Investment From Sovereign Tech Fund
KDE today announced a significant investment into the project by Germany’s Sovereign Tech Fund. KDE will be receiving €1,285,200 EUR (or roughly 1.5 million USD) over the years 2026 and 2027 to make some significant improvements into their software stack… ⌘ Read more
xAI Adds 19 New Gas Turbines Despite Ongoing Lawsuit
Emails show that Elon Musk’s company is expanding its use of portable gas-fired power at its Colossus 2 site as a fight over air quality continues. ⌘ Read more
OpenZFS 2.4.2 Released With Linux 7.0 Kernel Support, Many Bug Fixes
For those making use of OpenZFS on Linux or FreeBSD, OpenZFS 2.4.2 is out today as the newest stable release of this ZFS file-system implementation… ⌘ Read more
FreeBSD 15.2 Will Aim For The Nice KDE Desktop Installation Experience
FreeBSD 15.0 had aimed to provide a KDE desktop install option from its text-based OS installer to make for a more compelling FreeBSD out-of-the-box desktop experience. That was then delayed to FreeBSD 15.1 but that didn’t end up materializing. Now the KDE desktop install option is diverted to FreeBSD 15.2… ⌘ Read more
Le Sénat rejette l’aide à mourir et vote pour le développement des soins palliatifs
Pour la seconde fois, le Sénat a rejeté le texte sur l’aide à mourir, dès son article 2. Le texte doit donc repartir à l’Assemblée. Une très large majorité a en revanche été trouvée en faveur des soins palliatifs. ⌘ Read more
DXVK-NVAPI 0.9.2 Further Improves NVIDIA Integration For Steam Play Linux Gaming
DXVK-NVAPI 0.9.2 is now available for this implementation of NVIDIA’s NVAPI/NVOFAPI interfaces atop DXVK and VKD3D-Proton that is used in turn by Valve’s Steam Play (Proton) for enhanced NVIDIA Linux gaming support… ⌘ Read more
Affaire Luc Besson: le parquet général demande la réouverture de la procédure pour viol
Selon nos informations, le parquet général de la cour d’appel de Paris a requis la réouverture de la procédure pour viol concernant le cinéaste. La plaignante, Sand Van Roy, avait demandé la réouverture de l’affaire en produisant de nouvelles analyses ADN. La chambre de l’instruction examinera cette demande le 2 juin. ⌘ Read more
ARCTIC Fan Controller Driver Expected To Land In Linux 7.2
A new driver expected to land in the upcoming Linux 7.2 kernel is the ARCTIC Fan Controller driver to allow fan speed monitoring and PWM controls for this upcoming ARCTIC product. Making this new driver all the more exciting is that it was worked on by ARCTIC directly compared to the typical workflow for such desktop/consumer hardware peripherals often being left up to the reverse-engineering, open-source community… ⌘ Read more
Fwupd 2.1.3 Brings Firmware Updating To Modular Smartphones
Fresh off the milestone of Dell and Lenovo becoming premier sponsors of the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS), there is a new feature release of the Fwupd firmware updating tool for Linux systems… ⌘ Read more
In today’s episode of “everything goes to shit because we want it to”: https://about.gitlab.com/blog/gitlab-act-2/
The supply of deep technical problems is multiplying, and the engineers who can solve them will be among the scarcest and most valuable talent in the market.
And yet:
We’re reevaluating our operational footprint, and are planning to reduce the number of countries by up to 30% where we have small teams.
HDMI 2.1 Display Stream Compression “DSC” Also Ready For AMDGPU Linux Driver
At the beginning of the month was the surprise milestone of AMD posting AMDGPU kernel driver patches for HDMI 2.1 Fixed Rate Link (FRL) support. The HDMI FRL patches have since been updated to also enable HDMI 2.1’s Display Stream Compression (DSC) functionality for higher resolutions and higher refresh rates with the open-source AMDGPU driver… ⌘ Read more
Intel IGC 2.34.4 Compiler Brings Many Improvements
The Intel Graphics Compiler “IGC” 2.34.4 release is out today as this compiler used by the Intel Compute Runtime for Level Zero and OpenCL compute on Intel graphics hardware plus is also used as the graphics shader compiler under Windows… ⌘ Read more
Security updates for Monday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (corosync, freeipmi, kernel, and kernel-rt), Debian (corosync, firefox-esr, kernel, lcms2, libpng1.6, linux-6.1, php8.2, php8.4, postorius, pyjwt, and tor), Fedora (dotnet10.0, exim, gnutls, kernel, nextcloud, nodejs22, php, proftpd, prosody, python-pulp-glue, python-requests, rclone, and SDL3_image), Mageia (firefox, nss, rootcerts, openvpn, thunderbird, and vim), Oracle (corosync, freeipmi, gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free, gstreamer1-plugins … ⌘ Read more