[$] BPF support in GCC 16 and beyond
José Marchesi and the GCC-BPF developers opened the BPF track at the 2026
Linux Storage,\
Filesystem, Memory-management, and BPF Summit
with a 90-minute summary of what has changed for GCC’s BPF support in the past year.
This kind of session has become something of a tradition. There were similar
updates in
2025 and
2024. This time around, GCC seems to be closing in on
feature p … ⌘ Read more

[$] Support for private memory nodes
Gregory Price started his session in the memory-management track of the
2026 Linux Storage,\
Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit by saying that, in
current kernels, if a NUMA node has memory, the assumption is that anybody can
make use of it. He is trying to implement the opposite policy — to make
some memory off-limits for all processes except those designed specifically
to use it. The session was used to present his goals and to discuss h … ⌘ Read more

3 Best Smart Ring Brands: Oura, RingConn, and Samsung (2026)
A svelte smart ring can track important activity, sleep, and health metrics. Plus—unlike most smartwatches—it doesn’t need to be charged every day. ⌘ Read more

Intuit To Lay Off Over 3,000 Employees To Refocus On AI
Intuit is reportedly cutting about 3,000 jobs, or 17% of its workforce, as it restructures around AI and simplifies its corporate organization. TechCrunch reports: The layoffs come during a bad year for the tech workforce. The tech industry has already cut more than 100,000 jobs this year, per Statista, and is on track to outpace both 2024 and 2025 if the layoff trend c … ⌘ Read more

A Bipartisan Amendment Would End Police License Plate Tracking Nationwide
One line tucked into a federal highway bill would strip funds from cities and states unless they kill their automated plate tracking programs—effectively banning the tech for all but toll collection. ⌘ Read more

Yearslong Fight Over Users’ Right To Tweak Smart TV Software Heads To Trial
A long-running lawsuit over Vizio’s Linux-based smart TV software is headed to trial in August, with the Software Freedom Conservancy arguing that GPL rules require Vizio to release complete source code owners could use to modify, maintain, or strip ads and tracking from their TVs. Ars Technica reports: The outcome could rever … ⌘ Read more

[$] What is to be done about MGLRU?
“Reclaim” is the task of finding memory that can be taken away from its
current user and put to better uses within the system; it is a core part of
the memory-management picture. The addition of the multi-generational LRU (MGLRU) was meant to
provide a better reclaim implementation than the “traditional LRU” that
preceded it, but MGLRU has complicated the situation instead. No fewer than
three memory-management-track sessions at the 2026 [Linux Storage,\
Filesyst … ⌘ Read more

Siren Gold’s Golden Bay mining application is declined
Siren Gold’s application to mine for gold in Golden Bay has been rejected, it announced on May 20.

The application was not on the fast-track approvals process and was declined by New Zealand Petroleum and Minerals (NZPaM), a division of the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) ⌘ Read more

[$] In search of faster this_cpu operations
The kernel’s this_cpu\
operations are meant to speed access to per-CPU variables. They are
more optimal on some CPUs than others, though. During a
memory-management-track session at the 2026 Linux Storage,\
Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit, Yang Shi proposed a
fundamental, and somewhat controversial, change to how these operations
work in order to provide better performance on … ⌘ Read more

[$] What’s brewing in CXL
Compute\
Express Link (CXL) is a technology intended to enable the provision of
“memory nodes” in data centers that provide (possibly shared) memory to
nearby CPUs. It has, Dan Williams said at the beginning of his
memory-management-track session on the topic at the 2026 Linux Storage,\
Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit, “been making
memory-management problems worse since 2021”. He used the sessi … ⌘ Read more

[$] Improving the per-CPU memory allocator
There are many places in the kernel where performance can be improved by
using per-CPU data. But, as it turns out, the kernel’s allocator for
per-CPU data has some performance problems of its own. Harry Yoo led a
session in the memory-management track of the 2026 Linux Storage,\
Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit to explore ways to
address those problems and accelerate the allocation and initialization of
per-CPU data. ⌘ Read more

[$] Swap tables, flash-friendly swap, swap_ops, and more
The kernel’s swap subsystem is charged with managing anonymous pages in
secondary storage when those pages are (hopefully) not being used and the
memory they occupy is needed elsewhere. This long-unloved subsystem has
seen a resurgence of developer interest in recent times, so it is not
surprising that it was the topic of three separate sessions in the
memory-management track at the
2026 [Linux Storage,\
Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit](https://events.linuxfoundat … ⌘ Read more

I’m a Normie. Can Normies Really Vibe Code?
Apparently anyone can vibe code anything these days. So Claude and I tried to make a database for tracking the petty grievances of the masses. ⌘ Read more

America’s Library of Congress Officially Inducts… the Soundtrack for the Videogame ‘Doom’
America’s Library of Congress “is preserving a little piece of Hell,” jokes Engadget, “by inducting the soundtrack to the original Doom into the National Recording Registry.”

The album of demon-slaying tracks is joined by several other notable 2026 additions to the registry, like Weezer’s self-ti … ⌘ Read more

The running boom brings business for brands, retailers
Four days a week, the Zone Blue run club gathers for runs of varying length on Wellington’s waterfront, on the track at Newtown Park, and at Freyberg Beach.

There’s a “take it easy” Tuesday evening run, a speed session on the track on Wednesday, and a 30-minute effort followed by a coffee on Saturday mornings. ⌘ Read more

GNOME 51 Could End Up Replacing System Tools With “Resources” App
The current GNOME System Monitor is on track to be replaced by the GNOME Resources app for as soon as the GNOME 51 desktop release… ⌘ Read more

[$] Controlling memory-management with BPF
Roman Gushchin began his session in the memory-management track of the
2026 Linux Storage,\
Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit by saying that the
community has seen a lot of proposals adding BPF-based interfaces for
memory management. None of them have made their way into the mainline,
though. He wanted to explore the ways in which BPF might be helpful and
the obstacles that have kept BPF-based solutions out so far. This session
was … ⌘ Read more

[$] HugeTLB preservation over live update
Recent times have seen a lot of effort put into the implementation of the kexec handover and live update orchestrator
features in the Linux kernel. But that work is not yet complete. At the
2026 Linux Storage,\
Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit, Pratyush Yadav led a
memory-management-track session on adding the ability to preserve [hugetlbfs](https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.html … ⌘ Read more

An Engineer’s Post Protesting Laptop Surveillance Is Going Viral Inside Meta
Meta employees in the US and UK are organizing against corporate software that tracks workers’ keystrokes and mouse activity. ⌘ Read more

[$] Policy groups for memory management
The kernel’s control-group\
subsystem works well for resource management, Chris Li said at the
beginning of his memory-management-track session at the 2026 Linux Storage,\
Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit. Control groups work
less well for other use cases, though. He was there to present his
proposed enhancement, called “policy groups”, that would address some of
the shortcomings t … ⌘ Read more

[$] Keeping COWs in context (a.k.a. anonymous reverse mapping)
The kernel’s reverse-mapping machinery is charged with locating the
page-table entries that refer to a given page in memory. The reverse
mapping of anonymous pages is handled differently than for file-backed
pages. The kernel’s implementation of reverse mapping for anonymous pages
is, according to Lorenzo Stoakes in his proposal
for a memory-management-track session at the 2026 [Linux Storage,\
 … ⌘ Read more

Meta Employees Launch Protest Against Mouse-Tracking Tech At US Offices
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Meta employees distributed flyers at multiple U.S. offices on Tuesday to protest the company’s recent installation of mouse-tracking software on their computers, according to photos of the pamphlets seen by Reuters. The flyers, which appeared in meeting rooms, on vending machines and … ⌘ Read more

[$] Managing pages outside of the direct map
When Brendan Jackman proposed
a session for the 2026 Linux Storage,\
Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit, his topic was “a
pagetable library for the kernel”. During the actual
memory-management-track session, though, he stated that the idea had
“fizzled” and he was going to cover related topics instead. What
resulted was a session on ways to efficiently mana … ⌘ Read more

[$] Using dma-bufs for read and write operations
The kernel’s dma-buf\
subsystem provides a way for drivers to share memory buffers, usually
in order to support efficient device-to-device I/O. At the 2026 Linux Storage,\
Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit, Pavel Begunkov, assisted
by Kanchan Joshi, led a joint session of the storage and memory-management
tracks to explore ways to make the use of dma-bufs more efficient yet, a … ⌘ Read more

[$] Providing 64KB base pages with 4KB kernels, two different ways
Some CPU architectures are able to run with a number of different base-page
sizes; using a larger size can often result in better performance at the
cost of increased memory use. Other architectures are more limited. At
the 2026 Linux\
Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit, two sessions in
the memory-management track explored options for letting processes run with
64KB page sizes when the underlying kern … ⌘ Read more

NYT: ‘Meta’s Embrace of AI Is Making Its Employees Miserable’
“Meta’s embrace of AI is making its employees miserable,” reports the New York Times.

And “After Meta said late last month that it would start tracking employees’ computer use, hundreds of workers spoke up.” (One employee even told Meta’s CTO in an internal post, “Your callousness to the concerns of your own employees is concerning.”
In an internal post … ⌘ Read more

NASA Keeps Track As Mexico City Sinks Into the Ground
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Guardian: Walking into Mexico City’s sprawling central Zocalo is a dizzying experience. At one end of the plaza, the capital’s cathedral, with its soaring spires, slumps in one direction. An attached church, known as the Metropolitan Sanctuary, tilts in the other. The nearby National Palace also seems off-kilter. The tee … ⌘ Read more

[$] A new era for memory-management maintainership
On April 21, Andrew Morton let\
it be known that he intends to begin stepping away from the
maintainership of kernel’s memory-management subsystem — a responsibility
he has carried since before memory management was even seen as its own
subsystem. At the 2026 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and
BPF Summit, one of the first sessions in the memory-management track was
devoted to how the … ⌘ Read more

Linux Drivers For The AMD Elan SoCs From The 1990s On Track For Retirement
Merged for the current Linux 7.1 cycle was beginning to phase out the Intel 486 processor support from the mainline kernel moving forward. That initial step with Linux 7.1 was dropping the various Kconfig options to allow compiling Linux kernel builds for targeting various i486 platforms. As part of that, the AMD Elan SoC configuration patches were dropped. The next step is proceeding on the AMD Elan side with beginning to remove the … ⌘ Read more

Zest Maps Is the AI-Powered ‘Spiritual Successor to Foursquare’
This new app tracks every time you swipe your card at a cool restaurant—and tells all your friends. ⌘ Read more

Flatpak 1.17.7 To Track The Age Of Configurations For Providing Much Better Performance
Flatpak 1.17.7 is now available for continuing to advance open-source app sandboxing and distribution on the Linux desktop. Some interesting new features are in tow with this Flatpak update plus there is also an updated XDG-Desktop-Portal release too… ⌘ Read more

How to Track Your Luggage (2026): AirTag, Pebblebee, CaseSafe
A Bluetooth tracker can prevent vacation hell, aka arriving at the beach sans bathing suit. Here are our travel tips for using one. ⌘ Read more

OpenAI Enables Marketing Cookies by Default for Free ChatGPT Users
ChatGPT’s new privacy policy states how the company uses cookies for tracking, to turn free users into paying subscribers. ⌘ Read more

Hackers Are Actively Exploiting a Bug In cPanel, Used By Millions of Websites
Hackers are actively exploiting a critical cPanel and WHM vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-41940, that allows remote attackers to bypass the login screen and gain full administrative access to affected web servers. Major hosts including Namecheap, HostGator, and KnownHost have taken mitigation steps or patched systems, bu … ⌘ Read more

Smart Cat Collars: Which Is Best for Health and GPS Tracking?
I pitted Tractive and Fi Mini smart cat collars against each other to crown the best for activity, sleep, and GPS tracking. ⌘ Read more

Discord Sleuths Gained Unauthorized Access to Anthropic’s Mythos
Plus: Spy firms tap into a global telecom weakness to track targets, 500,000 UK health records go up for sale on Alibaba, Apple patches a revealing notification bug, and more. ⌘ Read more

Deezer Says 44% of Songs Uploaded To Its Platform Daily Are AI-Generated
Deezer says AI-generated songs now make up 44% of all new uploads to its platform, with nearly 75,000 arriving each day and more than two million per month. The company notes that consumption of these tracks is still very low, “between 1-3% of the total streams,” and 85% are flagged as fraudulent. TechCrunch reports: The l … ⌘ Read more

Nevada Police Can Now Track Cellphones Without a Warrant
“Nevada quietly signed an agreement earlier this year with a company that collects location data from cellphones, allowing police to track a device virtually in real time,” reports the Associated Press. “All without a warrant.”

The software from Fog Data Science, adopted this January in Nevada through a Department of Public Safety contract, pulls information fr … ⌘ Read more

Duolingo CEO Says They’ve Stopped Tracking Employees’ AI Use for Performance Reviews
Last May Duolingo’s stock peaked at $529.05. But while the learning app passed $1 billion in revenue in 2025 and 50 million daily active users, today its stock price has dropped more than 81%, to $100.51.

And there’s been other changes, reports Entrepreneur:

In April 2025, Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn made headline … ⌘ Read more

@kiwu@twtxt.net I returned home from an on-site week at work. Commute was an adventure every day. It started off with a canceled train on Monday morning. Luckily, some very good mates granted my asylum. But even with shorter rides, I faced delays due to fuckwits on the tracks, then the train was terminated early due to the large delay, so we had to change trains. On the bright side, they then sent an entirely empty one, but I don’t get why they just didn’t continue with the first one instead. Due to another delayed train I didn’t catch my connection and the next one was canceled, so I had to wait for the following one. Super great fun. I’m very exhausted now and am very glad that I had already filed in flex time for tomorrow before the on-site event was scheduled.

Meeting my workmates in person was actually nice. It’s okay to do that once a quarter, I don’t need to do that more often. We should have had more meetings, though, trying to work in the office was expectedly incredibly inefficient. We certainly would have had more topics to actually discuss and think about. And most of them would have really benefited from nearly everybody being in the same room. Anyway.

Today, I even met my workmates from past projects in the office, too. So, the socializing was great.

Anna’s Archive Loses $322 Million Spotify Piracy Case Without a Fight
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: Spotify and several major record labels, including UMG, Sony, and Warner, secured a $322 million default judgment against the unknown operators of Anna’s Archive. The shadow library failed to appear in court and briefly released millions of tracks that were scraped from Spotify via Bit … ⌘ Read more

Audit Finds Google, Microsoft, and Meta Still Tracking Users After Opt-Out
alternative_right shares a report from 404 Media: An independent privacy audit of Microsoft, Meta, and Google web traffic in California found that the companies may be violating state regulations and racking up billions in fines. According to the audit from privacy search engine webXray, 55 percent of the sites it checked set a … ⌘ Read more

Maine Set To Become First State With Data Center Ban
Maine is on track to become the first U.S. state to impose a temporary statewide ban on new data center construction. “Lawmakers in Maine greenlit the text of a bill this week to block data centers from being built in the state until November 2027,” reports CNBC. “The measure, which is expected to get final passage in the next few days, also creates a council to suggest … ⌘ Read more

Apple’s Foldable iPhone Is ‘On Track’ To Launch In September
Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman says Apple’s foldable iPhone is still “on track” for a September unveiling alongside the iPhone 18 Pro lineup. 9to5Mac reports: The report notes that Apple’s stock took a hit earlier today after Nikkei Asia indicated the iPhone Fold was having serious production issues. Clearly, sources within Apple were motivated to share positive … ⌘ Read more

Cloudflare Fast-Tracks Post-Quantum Rollout To 2029
Cloudflare is accelerating its post-quantum security plans and now aims to make its entire platform fully post-quantum secure by 2029. “The updated timeline follows new developments in quantum computing research that suggest current cryptographic standards could be broken sooner than previously expected,” reports SiliconANGLE. From the report: The decision by Cloudflare t … ⌘ 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

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

Colorado’s New Speed Camera System Makes Waze Nearly Useless
Colorado is rolling out an average-speed camera system that tracks vehicles across multiple points instead of catching them at a single camera, making it much harder for drivers to dodge tickets with apps like Waze and Radarbot. Motor1 reports: The state’s new automated vehicle identification systems (AVIS) use several cameras to calculate your average spe … ⌘ Read more

Azabache returned just a few minutes later when the sparrow or great/blue tit was gone. Next time I will use a tripod to record the video. Also sorry about the sound, I used all my Audacity skills to remove the noise, but somehow, combining the video and audio track in kdenlive somehow messed up the sound. There’s some horrible sqealing towards the beginning.

The sun was out and tricked everybody to believe it’s nice and warm. However, with the wind, the 11°C felt way colder. Still, super nice out there, I enjoyed it a lot. The quick trip to the dairy farm took me more than double the regular time, because I took close to 400 photos. Oh boy, Lyse is such an idiot!

https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2026-04-02/

Self-Propagating Malware Poisons Open Source Software, Wipes Iran-Based Machines
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: A new hacking group has been rampaging the Internet in a persistent campaign that spreads a self-propagating and never-before-seen backdoor – and curiously a data wiper that targets Iranian machines. The group, tracked under the name TeamPCP, first gained visib … ⌘ Read more