Vulkan Adds Extension For OCP’s Microscaling MX Formats To Help Machine Learning
Vulkan 1.4.356 is out today and it’s interesting for the lone new extension debuting: VK_EXT_shader_ocp_microscaling_types. The VK_EXT_shader_ocp_microscaling_types is for enabling the Open Compute Project’s Microscaling MX data types to help with machine learning workloads with Vulkan… ⌘ Read more

ReactOS Implements First Windows NT6 System Call In Step Toward Vista Compatibility
The ReactOS project that is striving to be the “open-source Windows” with Windows driver and software binary compatibility hit another milestone today. ReactOS to date has primarily targeted Windows NT 5.2 as the architecture from Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 but with an eye toward Windows NT 6.0 for Windows Vista and later compatibility with software. ReactOS has now landed their first NT6 system call… ⌘ Read more

Canonical First Gold Sponsor Of Trifecta Tech For Building More Infrastructure In Rust
Ubuntu Linux maker Canonical continues making more inroads in the Rust infrastructure space. Canonical announced today they have become the first gold sponsor of the Trifecta Tech Foundation that works on projects like sudo-rs for building more open infrastructure in the Rust programming language… ⌘ Read more

Servo Browser Engine Continues Making Much Progress On Less Than $8k Monthly
Released last week was the Servo 0.3 browser engine release along with their latest Servoshell demo browser. Today the project has published their monthly development recap to highlight all of the interesting changes made. Here’s a look at what they accomplished over the past month while doing so on less than $8k in monthly donations… ⌘ Read more

ZLUDA v6 Gets PhysX Running Well On AMD GPUs But Loses Commercial Funding
ZLUDA as a reminder is the open-source project that began as drop-in CUDA support for Intel graphics hardware and then was quietly funded by AMD for years as a drop-in CUDA replacement on AMD GPUs that went open-source after losing funding. That was then taken down and since late 2024 ZLUDA then began focusing on multi-GPU CUDA focused on AI after beginning to receive funding from an unspecified party. Now, unfortunately, funding has once again bee … ⌘ Read more

TLAC Aims To Be An Open-Source Alternative To Kernel-Level Anti-Cheat Systems
It’s not clear that any games have yet to deploy this open-source anti-cheat system but TLAC is a new open-source project that aims to provide a privacy-respecting alternative to kernel-level anti-cheat systems like Denuvo, Easy Anti-Cheat, and BattlEye… ⌘ Read more

IBM is Getting Ready to Scale Quantum Computing
IBM spent a decade “building, testing and improving” quantum computing, reports the Wall Street Journal.

“This year, the company is laying the groundwork to turn that technology into a fully-fledged, scalable business from an expensive science project.”

IBM said last month it plans to form a new independent subsidiary called Anderon, a foundry to produce the silicon wafers n … ⌘ Read more

Coreboot 26.06 Brings Support For Intel Nova Lake, AMD Strix Halo & 31 New Boards
Coreboot 26.06 is out today as the latest quarterly feature release for this software project providing open-source system firmware support for a growing number of platforms… ⌘ Read more

Linux Foundation & Others Launch “Akrites” To Defend Open-Source Software From AI-Enabled Exploits
The Linux Foundation along with others like Amazon, Anthropic, OpenAI, NVIDIA, Microsoft, Red Hat, and others have joined forces to launch Akrites. The Akrites project is aiming to help defend critical open-source software from the brisk pace of new AI/LLM-discovered software bugs and vulnerabilities in ensuring that said issues are effectively addressed before they can be exploited by bad actors… ⌘ Read more

Academy Software Foundation Announces The “Wayland For Artists Working Group”
The Academy Software Foundation that advances open-source efforts for the VFX/cinema industry and more with the likes of OpenVDB, OpenMoonRay, Open Shading Language, and other projects, has announced the formation of a new working group to help with Wayland adoption for artists… ⌘ Read more

🎵 Doganon - I fought management
(just a joke, those who know, know)

[verse]
Barkin’ at cars in the hot sun,
I fought management and uh they won,
I fought management and uh they won,
I needed a raise cause I had none,
I fought management and uh they won,
I fought management and uh they won,

[chorus]
I wake up at five and it feels so bad,
Guess my project’s gone,
It was the best team that I ever had,
I fought management and uh they won,
I fought management and uh,

[pre-churus]
Stuck in traffic since round 6:01,
I fought management and uh they won,
I fought management and uh they won,
I lost my team and project lost funds,
I fought management and uh they won,
I fought management and uh they won,

[chorus]

Some Electricians Think Building Data Centers Is For Sellouts
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: As Big Tech dumps billions of dollars into America’s data center buildout, a slew of opportunities have opened up to the electricians wiring these massive facilities. In some cases, the scale of the projects and the demanding construction timelines are fueling talent wars for the industry’s best and brigh … ⌘ Read more

Olisse · 2026-06-20 22:27 UTC
haihaihiii! mbox.blue is awesome ;)

So nice of the very few folks that have discovered mbox to say such nice things about my little experimental project and free service offering 😁

Remembering When Alan Turing Developed a Portable Voice Encryption Device
Long-time Slashdot reader smooth wombat writes: Alan Turing, one of the more famous people who worked at Bletchley Park to decipher the German Enigma coding machine, was also working on a separate project. His private papers, known as the Bayley papers for his assistant Donald Bayley who held onto the papers until his death in 2020 … ⌘ Read more

FSF Patches Two-Year-Old Vulnerability Found by AI Researchers in GNU Savannah Repository
The Free Software Foundation’s GNU Savannah hosts thousands of free software projects — both GNU and non-GNU projects, including Drupal.

But in early May, security researchers from Hacktron.AI reported vulnerabilities and demonstrated an exploit, according to a new statement Friday from the FSF:
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Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI Back Linux Foundation’s Appia AI Standards Initiative
BrianFagioli writes: Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, Arm, Mastercard, Siemens, and other companies have joined the newly launched Appia Foundation under the Linux Foundation. The project aims to create common specifications and assessment frameworks that organizations can use to demonstrate AI systems meet emerging s … ⌘ Read more

@movq@www.uninformativ.de That’s right, way harder than centrally managed. They even didn’t reach concensus over the main folder: “Alle Programme, “Alle Programme (x86)”, “All Programs”, “All Programmes”, etc. Anyway.

For class 11 (or maybe already in 10, I don’t remember exactly) we could choose either between traditional maths class with a graphical calculator or “Mathe mit CAS”. There were two teachers in my entire school who were able to teach the latter. It was also fairly new at the time I believe. Certainly unheard of for a „allgemeinbildendes Gymnasium“, maybe the technical ones were already offering it for some time, not sure. It was clear to me that I would take the maths with CAS class.

Each kid had to buy their own Cassiopeia A-Something. I don’t know how much that thing was (definitely more expensive than a graphical calculator) and whether the school subsidized that in any form. But it was slow and underpowered as hell. We rarely used it in class nor for homework (most if not all had already a desktop at home). Typically, when we worked with the CAS, we sat down on the desktop computers. Our class took place in one of the two computer rooms. The desktops were placed on the three sides (left, right, back, facing the walls or windows) and the regular school desks were in the middle. Since there were more pupils than desktops, we always shared. Nowadays, we call it pair programming. ;-)

For the exams we had the “mandatory part” (Pflichtteil) without any tools. Once we finished that and handed the papers to our teacher, we were then allowed to boot up our Cassiopeias and work with them for the second part. Before the exam started, everyone had to show the teacher that they reset their small computer to factory settings. This second part was called „Wahlteil“. But you had to do it in order to pass. So, I never understood the choice of this term. Maybe it’s because the first part is the exact same for everyone (graphical calculator and CAS class), but the second part was definitely different for the two classes. Each suited to their tools.

After one or two exams, it became clear that the Cassiopeia was far from ideal. So, we took the second part at the desktop computers from then on. Our teacher unplugged the network cables himself to avoid cheating. Each computer had an “HDD Sheriff” running that reset the disk at startup. There was also an issue that the personal user accounts were affected by that. Sometimes all your data were lost. If you were lucky, they were still there. So, we saved our Maple project to local disk (if the computer didn’t crash in between, that was no problem) and at least eventually before leaving the classroom, we then also saved it on the server. For that, the teacher quickly plugged in the cable, we saved, and then the cable was unplugged again immediately. Oh, and everybody used their USB sticks, too.

All in all, this Cassiopeia A-* was quite a useless purchase. :-D I’m not sure if I still have it. At least I thought several times about giving it to the flea market. Don’t know if I did or not.

Myna Announced As Speech-To-Text Solution For The Ubuntu Desktop
Earlier this month plans were shared publicly of Ubuntu 26.10 aiming to build a context-aware desktop with local AI features and one of the first capabilities to be integrated speech-to-text support. Now we have more details on the speech-to-text plans with Canonical announcing the Myna project… ⌘ Read more

Intel Performance Skills: New Open-Source Project Leveraging AI For Linux Performance Optimizations
The newest open-source project out of Intel is the Intel Performance Skills project that is providing AI agent skills to help with CPU performance analysis and performance optimizations on Linux… ⌘ Read more

FreeBSD Receives Funding To Launch AI-Assisted Vulnerability Discovery
The FreeBSD Project announced today the launch of an AI-Assisted Vulnerability Discovery Project with grant funding provided by the Linux Foundation backed Alpha-Omega project. Alpha-Mega has sponsors including Microsoft, AWS, Google, Anthrophic, OpenAI, and others who will now be helping with FreeBSD uncovering new vulnerabilities by leveraging AI… ⌘ Read more

Blizzard Sues To Take Down Another Private World of Warcraft Server, Project Ascension
“Blizzard Entertainment is continuing its crusade against private World of Warcraft servers,” reports the gaming news site Aftermath:

The company filed a new lawsuit on Friday in a California court against the makers of Project Ascension, alleging copyright infringement, Digital Millennium Copyright A … ⌘ Read more

Intel Ending Development Of BigDL: An Open-Source AI/LLM Effort Getting Axed
Among Intel’s ongoing reduction in open-source projects they maintain, their BigDL open-source project focused on running large language models across Intel XPUs from Core Ultra laptops to discrete GPUs to cloud / data center hardware all in a low-latency manner, is being ended… ⌘ Read more

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Thanks!

On the AI changelog part, though, I’d rather recommend to just not have a changelog at all.

I’m afraid that ship has sailed. You can rest assured that someone who uses AI/LLMs for their code (which is almost everybody at this point) will most certainly also use it for changelogs.

I actually considered not mentioning AI output at all, because this just opens a huge can of worms … 😞

While going through these terrible GitHub release pages, I also found these “New Project Contributors” sections

Yeah, they play on a nerd’s pride.

Now, it’s just the same auto shitshow with MR titles in a rolling date-versioned release scheme. It’s just our team who has to deal with that, though. I think I’m the only one who is not a fan of it.

I’ve found that this whole situation is much worse at work than it is in the Free Software world. At work, it’s literally work and hardly anybody actually cares. We still don’t have all people convinced that writing good commit messages or using good branch names is worth the time. It’s … oh god, no, I’m going to stop here, this is bad for my mental health. 😅

Suffice it to say, all release notes at work are now AI-generated. Nobody gives a fuck.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Hahaha, great timing! :-D I love your article and agree with almost all your points.

On the AI changelog part, though, I’d rather recommend to just not have a changelog at all.

Another important thing for me is the deprecation notice section. What do I need to look out for in the future? Should I start to migrate to another API soon? Even right now? Or does it have time?

While going through these terrible GitHub release pages, I also found these “New Project Contributors” sections (yeah, for that, they found the time to make a section) annoying. Don’t get me wrong, sure, credit where credit is due. But come on. Soooooo much space for an inefficiently formatted (and also unsorted) list. At least it was easy enough to skip over it.

And then, there are also these changelogs or rather notice documents in general that are infested with multicolored emojis all over the place. My brain’s spam filter kicks in and shoves everything to /dev/null immediately. It’s especially a thing at work.

In my previous work project, we also used the Keep A Changelog Format. That was great. You wouldn’t believe how often I resorted back to that document. At least twice a week, often several times a day. I was very glad that we put in this effort. Of course, writing the changelog took its time, but it was worth every minute and more. Reading a many months old item, it was immediately clear. I was our best customer in that regard.

Now, it’s just the same auto shitshow with MR titles in a rolling date-versioned release scheme. It’s just our team who has to deal with that, though. I think I’m the only one who is not a fan of it.

Data Center Opponents Have Blocked Or Delayed Projects Worth Nearly $130 Billion In 2026
An anonymous reader quotes a report from NBC News: The first quarter of 2026 produced the most blocked and delayed data center projects on record, according to a new study shared with NBC News. The study – conducted by Data Center Watch, a project of the AI intelligence firm 10a Labs that tracks loc … ⌘ Read more

The Blair Witch Project Star Reveals Why They Aren’t in New Reboot Movie
A vital member from 1999’s The Blair Witch Project has explained why they are not in the upcoming reboot. The new movie will see several cast members coming back from the original horror blockbuster, except for Heather Donahue. Why isn’t Heather Donahue in the new The Blair Witch Project movie? Heather Donahue, who changed her […]

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Steven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day Box Office Will Tell Us What Project Hail Mary Didn’t
Steven Spielberg‘s Disclosure Day is out in theaters this week. The film’s box office performance will tell us a lot about future movies of its kind. Disclosure Day’s is set for release on June 12, 2026, and it features a massive cast led by Emily Blunt, Josh O’Connor, Colin Firth, Colman Domingo, Eve Hewson, and more. Based on a story by […]

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Hundreds of AUR packages compromised
Hundreds of orphaned packages hosted by the Arch User Repository (AUR) have
been compromised by an attacker who has added a malicious npm\
package ( atomic-lockfile) that can exfiltrate sensitive
data. The project is currently working\
on cleaning up the mess. There is a [list of affected packages](htt … ⌘ Read more

Following The Bride! Flop, Maggie Gyllenhaal Is Set for a ‘Dark Humor’ Spy Movie
After the box office disappointment of The Bride!, Maggie Gyllenhaal is already moving toward a dramatically different project. This time, it takes her into the world of espionage, dark humor, and political intrigue. Maggie Gyllenhaal to adapt Rachel Kushner’s Creation Lake next Warner Bros. is continuing its collaboration with Maggie Gyllenhaal despite the commercial performance […]

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An Algorithm Determines How Fast You Should Drive On California’s I-15 Freeway
Riverside County has launched an 8-mile “smart freeway” pilot on northbound I-15 near Temecula, using roadway sensors and an algorithm to coordinate ramp meters and suggest speeds rather than widening the freeway. Officials say the $33 million project could reduce stop-and-go traffic and travel times. According to SFGAT … ⌘ Read more

Architect much more than creator of brutalist UTS Tower
Michael Dysart was one of Australia’s most significant architects, designing everything from universities to hundreds of schools, and reshaping the project home market. ⌘ Read more

Jennifer Lawrence’s Next Movie Comes From the Team Behind Backrooms
Jennifer Lawrence just signed on to a romantic comedy that had many producers fighting to land it. The Oscar winner’s next project pairs her with the team behind one of 2025’s biggest box office hits at a streamer she knows well. The team behind Backrooms is expanding into romantic comedy with Jennifer Lawrence Apple Original […]

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Manhattan rolls out Canadian gold strategy under new leadership
Following a board overhaul, Manhattan Gold Corp has unveiled a new exploration strategy, launching a 4000m RC drill program at its Hook Lake gold project in Nunavut, Canada. ⌘ Read more

Obsession Team Returns With New Wilderness Grizzly Bear Thriller
The producers behind 2026’s biggest horror hit just revealed their wild next project. Obsession team Capstone Pictures and Teashop Films are reteaming for a grizzly bear survival thriller. Grizzly Bear thriller film from Obsession producers revealed The producers of the box office hit Obsession have set their sights on a new thriller project. Jeff Sneider […]

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Fast & Furious Star’s Cyberpunk Thriller Gets US Release Push, Frank Grillo Calls ‘Bulls–’
A cyberpunk action thriller just landed a domestic distributor, but not everyone attached to the film is celebrating. Frank Grillo fired back at the project’s marketing on Instagram, while Quiver Distribution prepares for a July digital release. Cyberpunk action thriller Kill Code finds a domestic studio Quiver Distribution has picked up the domestic rights to cyberpunk actio … ⌘ Read more

Jennifer Lawrence Cast in New Comedy Movie from Backrooms Producers
Jennifer Lawrence is all set to star in a rom-com backed by the co-producers of Backrooms. She became attached to the project after its spec script sparked a bidding war among producers and studios. The Hunger Games actor will also produce the upcoming film, which has been acquired by Apple Original Films. What new comedy […]

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Toy Story 5 Box Office Predictions Show That 1 Hollywood Movie Trend Isn’t Ending
Toy Story 5‘s box office predictions are unsurprisingly very strong. The latest look at the movie’s projected earnings shows that one major Hollywood trend isn’t going anywhere. Ahead of the highly anticipated film’s release on June 19, 2026, the film is projected to do very well at the box office. An early box office forecast […]

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A state-first trial was trying to save WA’s prized reefs, until a cyclone threatened months of hard work
Millions of coral eggs and embryos during two separate spawning events – one in Exmouth and the other in Coral Bay – to save the reefs after a mass bleaching event. But Cyclone Narelle threatened to derail the project. ⌘ Read more

Cambridge to Piarere highway procurement underway, tolling a consideration
The $1.77 billion Cambridge to Piarere expressway project is being broken into two contracts, a 6.4km “online” section and the “offline” section to be cut through farmland.

The Government funded [the long-promised extension to the Waikato Expressway at the 2026 Budget](https://businessdesk.co.nz/article/infrastructure/budget-2026-sector-glad-for-68b-capital-commitment-no … ⌘ Read more

Superman: James Gunn Clarifies Important DCU Plot Point Ahead of Man of Tomorrow
James Gunn clarifies an important Superman plot point ahead of Man of Tomorrow. The movie serves as the sequel to 2025’s DCU blockbuster featuring David Corenswet as Clark Kent. What Superman DCU plot point did James Gunn clarify? James Gunn remains quite active on Threads and regularly shares updates about his projects. He also occasionally […]

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Ryan Coogler’s X-Files Reboot Gets Release Date Update From Star
Ryan Coogler‘s new take on The X-Files is moving ahead with production already underway. A recent update from the show’s star has offered fans a clearer idea of where things stand. The long-awaited revival remains wrapped in secrecy, but filming has already begun. The latest comments hint that the project is progressing steadily behind the […]

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Signal Alums Reveal ‘Encrypted Spaces,’ a System for Making Private Collaboration Apps
The new open-source project could serve as the basis for a future of apps with features as complex as Slack, Discord, or Google Docs—but with added protection against surveillance. ⌘ Read more

Victoria back down from explosive confrontation over BBL sale
Cricket Victoria have backed down from the potentially explosive call to send chief executive Nick Cummins to the meeting where Australian cricket’s leaders meet to decide the fate of the BBL privatisation project ⌘ Read more

David Harbour Breaks Silence on Lily Allen’s Explosive Album: ‘It Was Weird’
David Harbour spoke about Lily Allen’s album, West End Girl, for the first time in a recent interview. After Allen used her personal experiences as inspiration for the project, Harbour shared that his perspective on the events differed from what was reflected in the album. Why David Harbour says ‘West End Girl’ wasn’t his experience […]

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Tim Allen Says Iconic ‘90s Sitcom Reboot Is ‘Stuck’ & Shares Reasons Why
Tim Allen just dropped a brutally honest update on a beloved ’90s sitcom reboot, and it’s not looking good. The actor revealed why the long-awaited project remains at a standstill, pointing to ongoing issues with key cast members. Tim Allen says the Home Improvement reboot is ‘stuck’ Tim Allen recently revealed that a potential Home […]

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Norfolk bets US$55M in blockbuster Chilean copper reset
Norfolk Metals is set to buy Chile’s permitted Ciclón copper project in a US$55M ($69M) deal, backed by a raising of up to $120M and planned resource-growth drilling. ⌘ Read more

Augustus wraps up drilling at emerging WA gold discovery
Augustus Minerals has wrapped up a 1650m RC drill program at its Music Well gold project in WA. Assays are pending, with near-term sample re-split results also due from its maiden campaign. ⌘ Read more

Aguia launches Brazilian phosphate play with capacity surprise
Aguia Resources has officially transitioned from developer to producer after commissioning its Tres Estradas phosphate project in southern Brazil, upping its expected capacity by 30%. ⌘ Read more

MCU’s Fantastic Four Filmmaker to Direct Nicole Kidman’s New NSFW Thriller for A24
Fantastic Four’s filmmaker has just locked in his next major project, and it’s nothing like the MCU. He will helm a Nicole Kidman legal thriller for A24 that pairs two of Hollywood’s biggest names. What to know about Nicole Kidman’s upcoming A24 thriller Discretion Matt Shakman will direct the first four episodes of Paramount+’s legal […]

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Michael Douglas Comes Out of Retirement for Beloved Director’s New Movie
Michael Douglas stepped away from acting last year but is now back for his beloved director’s new project. The Hollywood star had no plans to return soon but eventually had to. What movie is Michael Douglas coming out of retirement for? Michael Douglas has joined director Oliver Stone‘s upcoming movie, White Lies, reports Variety. Stone […]

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