New York’s MetroCard Era Ends After 31 Years
After more than three decades of service, New York City’s iconic MetroCard is about to retire, as December 31, 2025 marks the final day commuters can purchase or refill the gold-hued plastic cards that replaced subway tokens back in 1994. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority has been transitioning to OMNY, a contactless payment system introduced in 2019 that lets riders tap a credi … ⌘ Read more
Camera Makers Went Weird in 2025 - and That’s Exactly What the Shrinking Industry Needed
The camera industry shipped 6.5 million interchangeable lens cameras last year – a 50% decline from 2010’s peak – yet 2025 may have been the most creatively ambitious year in nearly two decades of digital photography. DPReview’s Richard Butler argues that this year’s releases displayed “invention, … ⌘ Read more
Intel’s Xe Linux Driver Ready With Multi-Device SVM To End Out 2025
Intel’s open-source graphics driver engineers are ending out 2025 with a bang. Sent out today was the final drm-xe-next pull request of the year of new feature material ready for the next version of the Linux kernel. Today’s pull adds support for SR-IOV scheduler groups as well as multi-device Shared Virtual Memory (SVM) support… ⌘ Read more
Vale mais tarde que nunca: o anunciado Plano de Ação 2026-2027 para a Estratégia Digital Nacional está finalmente publicado.
Sem surpresas, não faz menção ao facto de estar a substituir o de 2025-2026, as coisas que eram para ter sido feitas em 2025 agora aparecem com para começar a fazer em 2026, e zero explicação sobre porque é que a coisas (incluindo aquelas que eram “passar a cumprir a lei”) não foram feitas.
https://digital.gov.pt/pt/documentos/estrategia-digital-nacional-plano-de-acao-2026-2027
22 Million Affected By Aflac Data Breach
An anonymous reader quotes a report from SecurityWeek: Insurance giant Aflac is notifying roughly 22.65 million people that their personal information was stolen from its systems in June 2025. The company disclosed the intrusion on June 20, saying it had identified suspicious activity on its network in the US on June 12 and blaming it on a sophisticated cybercrime group. The company said it imme … ⌘ Read more
The Open-Source OpenGL & Vulkan Drivers Enjoyed A Rather Remarkable 2025
The open-source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers making up Mesa had another very successful year. Even with all the years being invested into Mesa largely by Intel, AMD, Valve, Red Hat, and others, the upward trajectory continues for Mesa on expanding the hardware support, punctually adding new Vulkan extensions, and racking up other wins… ⌘ Read more
Oh, suddenly Mother Hulda dumped a centimeter of snow tonight! 
Magpie from the day before yesterday: https://lyse.isobeef.org/elster-2025-12-28/
Fedora Continued At The Forefront Of Upstream Linux Innovations In 2025
Phoronix’s Michael Larabel is “reliving some of the best moments for Fedora Linux in 2025” by highlighting the year’s most popular news around the distro. Throughout 2025, Fedora continued to lead upstream Linux innovation with bold changes like Wayland-only GNOME, newer kernels, architecture cleanups, and experimental features – … ⌘ Read more
Hyprland 0.53 Released With New Launcher For Crash Recovery & Safe Mode, New Welcome App
Hyprland 0.53 was released today as the last feature update to this Wayland compositor for 2025… ⌘ Read more
Americans Are Watching Fewer New TV Shows and More Free TV
Americans are settling into streaming habits that should worry Hollywood executives, as new Nielsen data analyzed by Bloomberg reveals that not a single new original series cracked the top 10 most-watched streaming shows in 2025 – the first time this has happened since Nielsen began publishing streaming data in 2020.
The shift extends beyond origi … ⌘ Read more
‘I Switched To eSIM in 2025, and I am Full of Regret’
Google’s Pixel 10 series arrived this year as the company’s first eSIM-only lineup in the United States, forcing users who wanted to review or buy the new phones to abandon their physical SIM cards entirely. Ryan Whitwam, a senior technology reporter at Ars Technica, made the switch and now regrets it, he says. “In the three months since Google forced me to give up my phys … ⌘ Read more
NTFSPLUS Linux Driver Renamed To Just “NTFS” With Latest Code Restructuring
One of the unexpected Linux kernel surprises of 2025 was NTFSPLUS being announced as a new driver for Microsoft’s NTFS file-system with better performance and more features compared to the classic read-only NTFS driver or the “NTFS3” kernel driver that Paragon Software submitted upstream. That NTFSPLUS driver has continued expanding its feature set and robustness and sent out today was the third iteration of the patches. Now this driver is s … ⌘ Read more
Ask Slashdot: What’s the Stupidest Use of AI You Saw In 2025?
Long-time Slashdot reader destinyland writes: What’s the stupidest use of AI you encountered in 2025? Have you been called by AI telemarketers? Forced to do job interviews with a glitching AI?
With all this talk of “disruption” and “inevitability,” this is our chance to have some fun. Personally, I think 2025’s worst AI “innovation” was the AI-powered web … ⌘ Read more
Eiffage, voitures : rentes et dégâts du tout-électrique
Un article de Henry Bonner Le groupe de construction Eiffage entre au CAC 40, l’indice des actions de la Bourse de Paris. Le titre grimpe depuis environ 10 ans, suite à une chute lors de la crise de 2008, avec l’effondrement de la construction de logements. Les résultats du troisième trimestre montrent la performance pour […] ⌘ Read more
KDE Plasma’s Wayland Transition “Nears Completion” In Ending Out 2025
In addition to today’s blog post calling out the need for others to takeover the This Week In Plasma series, KDE developer Nate Graham also published another blog post to highlight the successes of the Plasma desktop over 2025. In particular, the KDE Plasma Wayland transition “nears completion” as it works to become Wayland-only in early 2027… ⌘ Read more
There Was Some Good News on Green Energy in 2025
Yes, greenhouse gas emissions kept rising in 2025, writes Bloomberg (alternate URL here). And the pledges of various governments to lower greenhouse gases “are nowhere near where they need to be to avoid catastrophic climate change…”
But in 2025, “there were silver linings too.”
The world is decarbonizing faster than was expected 10 years ago and investment into the clean e … ⌘ Read more
Fedora Continued At The Forefront Of Upstream Linux Innovations In 2025
Fedora Linux this year continued in punctually shipping the very latest upstream Linux innovations from the freshest Wayland components to Linux kernel features and continuing to leverage other improvements in the open-source world… ⌘ Read more
Fish 4.3 Brings Scripting & Interactivity Improvements, Enhanced Terminal Support
Fish 4.3 is out today as the newest update to this user-friendly command line shell. Fish 4.0 released at the beginning of this year in porting the codebase from C++ to Rust and now before closing out 2025 they have out Fish 4.3… ⌘ Read more
HarfBuzz 12.3 Released - Nice Performance Improvements To This Text Shaping Engine
HarfBuzz 12.3 was just released for ending out 2025 with some nice performance improvements to this widely-used text shaping engine. HarfBuzz in turn is used by the prominent Linux desktop environments, Java, Flutter, various game engines, and apps like Chrome and Firefox for text shaping needs with OpenType fonts and more… ⌘ Read more
Open Source Initiative Estimates the ‘Top Open Source Licenses in 2025’
The nonprofit Open Source Initiative offers “enriched” license pages with “relevant metadata to provide deeper insights and better support”.
So which pages got the most pageviews in 2025? The MIT license, Apache 2.0 license, BSD licenses (3-clause and 2-clause), and GNU General Public license:
mit
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apache-2-0
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44% Of GNOME Core Apps Are Written In C, 13% In JavaScript & 10% In Rust
GNOME developer Sophie Herold has shared some interesting end-of-year code stats for the GNOME project. The “GNOME” codebase is up to 6,692,516 lines of code at the end of 2025 with 1,611,526 lines of that being from GNOME apps. Where the data gets interesting is on the programming language breakdown in different areas… ⌘ Read more
Linux Kernel Highlights For 2025: Schedulers, Rust & Torvalds’ Commentary
With the end of the year quickly drawing to a close, here is a look back at the most-viewed Linux kernel news of 2025… ⌘ Read more
NASA Chief Says US Will Return To Moon Within Trump’s Second Term
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman, who was confirmed by the Senate just last week after a turbulent nomination process that stretched across most of 2025, said Friday that the United States will return to the moon within President Donald Trump’s second term. Isaacman made the comments during an interview on CNBC, calling Trump’s recommitment … ⌘ Read more
👉 ANTI-DEMOS-CRACIA | BALANÇO DE 2025
Em 2025, a ADC lançou 14 edições! Foi com muito prazer que participei, com #kokori, em duas delas.
É o vosso apoio que garante o propósito da ADC e permite continuar esta jornada, iniciada no já longínquo ano de 1988.
REGISTO DAS EDIÇÕES DE 2025
. ADC 2024 Sampler (Digital, Janeiro)
. Turning Point - Porque a Lua se Quebrou (CD, Fevereiro)
. Carnal Depression - Carnal Depression (CD, Março)
. Sci Fi Industries - Initial States (CD, Março)
. Orquestra Popular de Paio Pires - 150 A Morte do Borrego (Pendrive, Abril)
. Herr G meets Fuel2Fight & Casa Ukrania - O Fogo Brilha no Horizonte (Digital, Maio)
. The Dreams Never End - Alma Partida (CD, Maio)
. Floating Ashes + Kokori - idiossINcrasias - Vol. 1 (CD, Junho)
. Spray - War Songs and Other Stories (CD, Junho)
. Aftervoid - Negative Space (CD, Setembro)
. Herr G meets Fuel2Fight + Primata - idiossINcrasias - Vol. 2 (CD, Outubro)
. Resonant - Ecos (de estilhaços planetários endossomáticos) (CD, Novembro)
. Principia Parallax - Tremal Naik (CD, Novembro)
. 25.12 (Digital, Dezembro)
🎧 Posto de escuta: anti-demos-cracia.bandcamp.com
ANTI-DEMOS-CRACIA, desde 1988, a registar sonoridades diferenciadas!
AMD RDNA3/RDNA4 Go Down Hard On Linux 6.19, But Here’s How The Older AMD GPUs End Out 2025
As part of the various end-of-year benchmarking comparisons on Phoronix and with Linux 6.19 switching older AMD GCN 1.0/1.1 graphics cards to the AMDGPU driver by default, I planned for a very large AMD Radeon graphics card comparison on the latest open-source Linux driver for ending out 2025. In the end though I was thwarted by newer AMD RDNA3 / RDNA4 graphics cards regressing hard on Linux 6.19 that led to ending this testing … ⌘ Read more
Almost all photos turned out to be blurred today. That made sorting a very quick process. Delete, delete, delete, … https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2025-12-26/
My little toy operating system from last year runs in 16-bit Real Mode (like DOS). Since I’ve recently figured out how to switch to 64-bit Long Mode right after BIOS boot, I now have a little program that performs this switch on my toy OS. It will load and run any x86-64 program, assuming it’s freestanding, a flat binary, and small enough (< 128 KiB code, only uses the first 2 MiB of memory).
Here I’m running a little C program (compiled using normal GCC, no Watcom trickery):
https://movq.de/v/b27ced6dcb/los86%2D64.mp4
Next steps could include:
- Use Rust instead of C for that 64-bit program?
- Provide interrupt service routines. (At the moment, it just keeps interrupts disabled.)
Ubuntu’s Rust Infatuation, New Optimizations & Other Ubuntu Linux 2025 Highlights
It was a very interesting year for Ubuntu Linux. Ahead of the important Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release due out this coming April, Ubuntu Linux this year was expeditiously migrating to new Rust-based system tools like sudo-rs and Rust Coreutils, new performance optimizations continued to be explored for bettering the out-of-the-box Ubuntu performance, better ARM64 support with its desktop ISO, and enhancing the Snapdragon X Elite laptop supp … ⌘ Read more
Nova Driver Progress & Other NVIDIA Linux News From 2025
This year there was a lot of going on in the NVIDIA Linux world from their official driver stack seeing better Wayland support to a lot on the open-source scene from NVIDIA engineers contributing a lot directly to the Rust-based Nova open-source driver that continues taking shape, the Mesa NVK Vulkan driver becoming more performant and capable, and a lot of other happenings. Here is a look back at the most popular NVIDIA content of 2025 on Phoronix… ⌘ Read more
#musiquinta “Te superei”
Escolho uma música de um dos meus “discos de 2025” (que não é bem, é um disco de 2000 mas em 2025 saiu uma edição de comemoração de 25 anos, com um lado extra, e lá tive eu de comprar a nova edição também…). É possível argumentar que todo o álbum, “Clear Hearts Grey Flowers” das Jack Off Jill, é um álbum com o tópico “te superei”, mas se é só uma musiquinha, então “Losing His Touch” é capaz de ser o clímax. Fica aqui a música, mas façam a vocês mesmos um favor e ouçam o disco na íntegra!
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@prologic@twtxt.net @movq@www.uninformativ.de Oh, I take my 0°C over the 36°C anytime! Even with yesterday’s gray and windy sleet in my face. However, there are definitely more pleasant times to walk in town, I’ll give you that. For example on 0°C sunny today: https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2025-12-25/
The Death Of Clear Linux, Other Intel Linux Engineering Setbacks In 2025
When it came to the most viewed AMD Linux/open-source news of 2025 there were a lot of accomplishments for the company this year both on the CPU and graphics side of the house and from consumer to server hardware. Today is a look back at the most popular Intel open-source/Linux news of the year, which unfortunately, their layoffs and other cuts to their software engineering were attracting a lot of interest… ⌘ Read more
Snadragon X Elite Laptop Performance On Linux Ends 2025 Disappointing
As part of my various end-of-year benchmarking comparison articles for looking at the performance evolution of Linux is a fresh look at the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite laptop experience when using Ubuntu 25.10 with the latest X1E Concept packages, which includes taking the X1 Elite optimized kernel to the latest Linux 6.18 stable series. Unfortunately, there are significant performance regressions observed compared to a few months ago … ⌘ Read more
25.2% of Energy EU Used in 2024 Came From Renewables
An anonymous reader shares a report: In 2024, 25.2% of gross final energy consumption in the EU came from renewable sources, up by 0.7 percentage points compared with 2023. This share is 17.3 pp short of meeting the 2030 target (42.5%), which would require an annual average increase of 2.9 pp from 2025 to 2030.
Among the EU countries, Sweden recorded the highest shar … ⌘ Read more
👋 Merry (2025) Xmas y’all 🎄 Ho ho ho! 🎅
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@movq@www.uninformativ.de Only the roofs are a little white. It’s also windy here. 
Wayback 0.3 Released For Advancing This X11 Compatibility Layer
One of the interesting open-source projects to come about this year was Wayback as an X11 compatibility layer using Wayland. Wayback could be used by default on Alpine Linux next year among other distributions. For ending out 2025 development, Wayback 0.3 is now available… ⌘ Read more
A Recap Of The Top AMD Linux News Of 2025: Strix Halo, AI, Kernel Improvements
As part of our various “year end” articles, here is a look back at the most popular AMD Linux/open-source news and hardware reviews of 2025… ⌘ Read more
Ireland’s Diarmuid Early Wins World Microsoft Excel Title
Irish competitor Diarmuid Early, dubbed the “Lebron James of Excel spreadsheets,” has won the 2025 Microsoft Excel World Championship in Las Vegas, dethroning three-time champion Andrew Ngai. The BBC reports: The esport showpiece in December attracted competitors worldwide as 256 spreadsheet heads battled it out across knockout rounds to join the final 24 in Ve … ⌘ Read more
Happy birthday Katrina! https://www.uninformativ.de/blog/postings/2025-12-23/0/POSTING-en.html :-)
AMD Krackan Point Sub-$500 Laptop Linux Performance Improves By ~8% In Just Six Months
As an end-of-year tradition at Phoronix for running a lot of year-over-year comparison performance benchmarks and other long-term performance evaluations, it’s typically done on the higher-end hardware. That’s done for a matter of time savings with maximum performance when running often 100~200+ benchmarks per article, the highest-end hardware typically being the most interesting in terms of features and capabilities, and more … ⌘ Read more
Linux Sensor Monitoring For ASUS ROG MAXIMUS X HERO, Pro WS TRX50-SAGE WIFI A
For those currently owning an ASUS ROG MAXIMUS X HERO or ASUS Pro WS TRX50-SAGE WIFI A motherboard, Linux sensor monitoring support will be in place for the next kernel release… ⌘ Read more
Mastodon has a “Wrapstodon 2025” now, showing you a “wrap up” of the year. Of course, a pointless funny shitpost was my most “successful” post in 2025. 😂
2025 end the year rewind:
Compared to only 3 new artworks in 2024 and next to no work, on other projects, this year I not only met the self-imposed goal of monthly pixelart, but exceeded it by 50%, with 18 additions in total.
Relicensed the majority of canine faction owned art and projects, under two less restrictive Creative Commons licensees*. This also applies retroactively, to everyone who used/archived our art and projects, back when the old license didn’t allow it.
Disappointed by the current state of the Internet and continued lack of competition among browsers, completely reworked the main website* and made Smol Drive** (a new image gallery project), both made to be compatible with as many web and Gemini browsers, as possible.
*see https://thecanine.smol.pub
**see https://thecanine.smol.pub/smolbox
Visa Says AI Will Start Shopping and Paying For You In 2026
BrianFagioli writes: Visa says it has completed hundreds of secure, AI-initiated transactions with partners, arguing this proves agent driven shopping is ready to move beyond experiments. The company believes 2025 will be the last full year most consumers manually check out, with AI agents handling purchases at scale by the 2026 holiday season. Nearly half of U … ⌘ Read more
State of Play: Who Holds the Power in the Video Games Industry in 2025?
The video games industry in 2025 finds itself caught between the familiar forces of consolidation and job losses that have plagued creative industries, and a newer development: governments and the ultra-wealthy have begun treating games as tools of political influence. Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund closed a $55 billion deal fo … ⌘ Read more
Ler fichas técnicas de sondagens é um exercício interessante - e mostra como a matemática prova mas também pode ser usada para enganar. Um exemplo: sabiam que a última sondagem para a Euronews sobre as Presidenciais perguntava às pessoas se votariam em Joana Amaral Dias, mas nunca perguntava se votariam, por exemplo, em Jorge Pinto, encaixando-o na opção “Outros”? Nos resultados dessa sondagem, Joana Amaral Dias figura com 0% de votos, contra os 0,6% de Jorge Pinto, mas deve-nos deixar a pensar… qual seria o resultado se o nome de Jorge Pinto fosse dito explicitamente? E talvez mais importante, qual foi o critério usado para incluir um dos nomes e excluir o outro?