Steam On Linux In April Pulled Back From Its Record High Marketshare
Steam on Linux use in March had skyrocketed to 5.33%, a 3.1% boost month-over-month and easily the highest level we’ve seen Steam on Linux at since its inception more than a decade ago. This record growth came amid the ongoing success of the Steam Deck handheld and Steam Play (Proton) for enabling more Windows games to run well on Linux. The April numbers are in and the Linux gaming marketshare pulled back somewhat but still remaining healthy… ⌘ Read more

GPT-5.5 Matches Heavily Hyped Mythos Preview In New Cybersecurity Tests
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Last month, Anthropic made a big deal about the supposedly outsize cybersecurity threat represented by its Mythos Preview model, leading the company to restrict the initial release to “critical industry partners.” But new research from the UK’s AI Security Institute (AISI) suggests … ⌘ Read more

Seven new stable kernels for Thursday
Greg Kroah-Hartman has released the 7.0.3, 6.18.26, 6.12.85, 6.6.137, 6.1.170, 5.15.204, and 5.10.254 stable kernels. The 7.0.3 and
6.18.26 kernels only contain fixes needed for Xen users; he advises
that all users of the other kernel series … ⌘ Read more

[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for April 30, 2026
Inside this week’s LWN.net Weekly Edition:

• Front: Famfs; Python packaging council; Zig concurrency; pages and folios; Strawberry music manager; 7.1 merge window.

• Briefs: GnuPG 2.5.19; Copy Fail; Plasma security; Fedora 44; Ubuntu 26.04; Niri 26.04; pip 26.1; RIP Seth Nickell; RIP Tomáš Kalibera; Quotes; …

• Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patc … ⌘ Read more

Valve Updates GameNetworkingSockets After Nearly Four Year Hiatus
Back in 2018, Valve open-sourced their Steam networking sockets library as a basic network transport layer for games. This library is used by games from Counter-Strike to Dota 2 and since its public open-source drop has been picked up elsewhere. Finally after going nearly four years without a new version, GameNetworkingSockets v1.5 dropped today… ⌘ Read more

InkPoster Tela 28.5 Review: A Luxe Home Digital Frame
It’s the world’s best E Ink picture frame, but you’ll need Monet money to make the most of it. ⌘ Read more

California’s Billionaire Tax Has the Signatures to Make the Ballot
California’s proposed billionaire tax appears headed for the November ballot after backers said they gathered more than 1.5 million signatures, well above the threshold needed to qualify. SF Standard reports: Backers of the initiative announced this weekend that more than 1.5 million people signed a petition to bring the one-time, 5% wealth ta … ⌘ Read more

Intel Core Ultra 5 250K Plus Provides Exceptional Value For Linux Users
After looking at the new Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus processor earlier this month with its nice performance evolution for Arrow Lake on Linux, today we are looking at the other new Intel desktop CPU offering: the Core Ultra 5 250K Plus that retails for just $219 USD. ⌘ Read more

Tech giants ship more than $14 billion offshore amid AI debate
New filings show the extent to which Google, Meta and Amazon send revenue overseas, as new media laws loom. ⌘ Read more

Meta’s Australian cash machine: $1.5 billion shipped offshore
New filings show the tech giant sent most of its revenues offshore and paid its first dividend in years, as new media laws loom. ⌘ Read more

Google To Invest Up To $40 Billion In Anthropic
Google plans to invest up to $40 billion more in Anthropic, starting with $10 billion now and another $30 billion tied to performance milestones. CNBC reports: Anthropic said the agreement expands on a longstanding partnership between the two companies. Earlier this month, Anthropic secured 5 gigawatts worth of computing capacity as part of an announcement with Google and Broadcom … ⌘ Read more

GnuPG 2.5.19 released
Werner Koch has announced
the release of GnuPG 2.5.19. This release includes a few new options
and a number of bug fixes, and comes with the reminder that the
GnuPG 2.4 series will reach end-of-life soon

The main features in the 2.5 series are improvements for 64 bit Windows
and the introduction of Kyber (aka ML-KEM or FIPS-203) as PQC encryption
algorithm. Other than PQC support the 2.6 series will not differ a lot
from 2.4 because th … ⌘ Read more

5 Reasons to Think Twice Before Using ChatGPT—or Any Chatbot—for Financial Advice
As people increasingly rely on AI chatbots for guidance, even on financial matters, a healthy dose of skepticism is critical. ⌘ Read more

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS 发布，支持到 2041 年，附升级方法
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS 已经发布，代号 Resolute Raccoon（坚毅浣熊），支持期为 5 年，并提供额外 5 年的安全支持，以及再额外 5 年的继续安全更新。@Appinn Ubuntu 26.04 LTS 还对新的 CPU / GPU / NPU 做了优化，并且引入了 TPM ⌘ Read more

OpenAI Says Its New GPT-5.5 Model Is More Efficient and Better At Coding
OpenAI released its new GPT-5.5 model today, which the company calls its “smartest and most intuitive to use model yet, and the next step toward a new way of getting work done on a computer.” The Verge reports: OpenAI just released GPT-5.4 last month, but says that the new GPT-5.5 “excels” at tasks like writing and debugging code, doing … ⌘ Read more

Cloudflare 把邮箱改了：一封邮件，就是一次 AI 调用
Cloudflare 电子邮件服务已经可以同时支持收邮件和发邮件了。不同的是，这一次，无论收还是发，邮件都可以直接进入 AI 处理流程。 注意：使用 Cloudflare 发邮件需要订阅 Workers 套餐，最低 5 美元/月，收免费。 旧功能：收邮件（Email Routing） Cloudfl ⌘ Read more

Just saw the video. Can’t believe that ladder is that expensive. Even in AUD, it is almost $100. It is also 2.5 stars, with 13 reviews. Gulp. Engineering aside (and you are right, it is pretty interesting, and some, if not most of it went over my head), the ladder is rubbish. This is the one I have. Not super, but have been with me for a while, and used quite a bit, still as good as new.

Pentagon Wants $54 Billion For Drones
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The US military’s massive $1.5 trillion budget request for the next fiscal year includes what Pentagon officials described as the largest investment in drone warfare and counter-drone technology in US history. The proposed spending on drone and autonomous warfare technologies within the FY2027 budget proposal for the US Department of Defense would … ⌘ Read more

Mid 30’s, 5’5, HH tits, super horny. Now you know a bit about me, let me take these out for you to suck ⌘ Read more

Windows 开始菜单，差点变成另外 5 种样子
下面这些图片是微软发布的 Windows 11 开始菜单设计稿，从未使用过。 回忆 回想一下你第一次按下 “开始 “键的情景。 也许你九岁时借用妈妈的笔记本电脑玩扫雷游戏。 也许你当时 23 岁，正在赶最后期限，寻找 PowerPoint。 青小蛙当时连启动程序都不会，插入光 ⌘ Read more

I won our only game of Magic for this week with my (yet-to-be published) “Bolas Triumphant” deck: 5 players over 3 hours, including 4 board wipes (one of which came from my Nicol Bolas, God-Pharaoh), and I even got to cast Omniscience via a Fae of Wishes. I can’t speak for everyone, but I know I had a good time. 😁

Seven stable kernels for Saturday
Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 6.19.13, 6.18.23, 6.12.82, 6.6.135, 6.1.169, 5.15.203, and 5.10.253 stable kernels. Each contains a
number of important fixes throughout the tree; users are advised to
upgrade. ⌘ Read more

Security updates for Thursday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (bind, bind9.16, bind9.18, cockpit, fence-agents, firefox, fontforge, git-lfs, grafana, grafana-pcp, kernel, nghttp2, nginx, nginx:1.24, nginx:1.26, nodejs:20, nodejs:22, nodejs:24, pcs, perl-XML-Parser, perl:5.32, resource-agents, squid:4, thunderbird, and vim), Debian (incus, lxd, and python3.9), Fedora (cef, composer, erlang, libpng, micropython, mingw-openexr, moby-engine, NetworkManager-ssh, perl, perl-Devel-Cover, perl-PAR-Packer, polymake, … ⌘ Read more

Modal 提供免费的 GLM-5.1 模型到月底，但限速 1
Modal 是一个提供云AI算力的平台，目前提供免费的 GLM-5.1 模型到月底，但限制并发请求 1。 模型入口 直接在该页面左侧点击 Sign in 注册即可： 然后可以看到并发请求限制为 1，也就是同一时间段只能有一个连接。 以及模型来自 Z.ai，2026年4月发布，746B 参数。 免费到 ⌘ Read more

AMD ROCm 7.2.2 Brings Optimization Guide For Ryzen AI / RDNA 3.5 Hardware
ROCm 7.2.2 is out today as a small point release to this open-source AMD GPU compute stack. There are a few code changes but most notable is arguably on the documentation side… ⌘ Read more

Ubuntu 26.04 Delivers Great Performance Improvements For AMD Strix Point, Especially For RDNA 3.5 Graphics
As part of my ongoing testing around the upcoming Ubuntu 26.04 release I have been running a lot of benchmarks. After recently showing some nice performance gains for AMD Ryzen AI Max “Strix Halo” with Ubuntu 26.04, several Phoronix readers inquired about any performance uplift from the more modest but still powerful Strix Point laptops like the popular Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 SKU. Here are benchmarks showing the … ⌘ Read more

Security updates for Tuesday
Security updates have been issued by Debian (gdk-pixbuf, gst-plugins-bad1.0, and xdg-dbus-proxy), Fedora (chromium, deepin-image-viewer, dtk6gui, dtkgui, efl, elementary-photos, entangle, flatpak, freeimage, geeqie, gegl04, gthumb, ImageMagick, kf5-kimageformats, kf5-libkdcraw, kf6-kimageformats, kstars, libkdcraw, libpasraw, LibRaw, luminance-hdr, nomacs, OpenImageIO, OpenImageIO2.5, photoqt, python-cryptography, rawtherapee, shotwell, siril, swayimg, vips, and webkitgtk), Red Hat (firefox an … ⌘ Read more

jemalloc 5.3.1 Released With Many Improvements After Nearly Four Year Hiatus
Jemalloc 5.3.1 was released today with next month marking four years since the prior release, jemalloc 5.3.0. While the version bump may not seem like much, jemalloc 5.3.1 comes with many performance improvements, new features, and other enhancements… ⌘ Read more

Roblox reveals sweeping changes amid Australian crackdown
Facing a $49.5 million fine threat and an eSafety investigation, the gaming giant has announced its biggest child safety overhaul – splitting the platform by age. ⌘ Read more

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D7VK 1.7 Brings More Improvements For Legacy Direct3D On Vulkan
D7VK as the open-source project that began as a fork of DXVK in adding support for Direct3D 7 atop Vulkan has with time extended its range to also supporting Direct3D 6, 5, and 3 APIs. Out today is D7VK 1.7 in continuing to better support those vintage versions of Microsoft’s Direct3D API… ⌘ Read more

Anthropic Reveals $30 Billion Run Rate, Plans To Use 3.5GW of New Google AI Chips
Anthropic says its annualized revenue run rate has surpassed $30 billion and disclosed plans to secure roughly 3.5 gigawatts of next-generation Google TPU compute starting in 2027. Broadcom will supply the key chips and networking gear for the effort, the company announced. The Register reports: News of the two d … ⌘ Read more

Ubuntu 26.04 Provides More Performance For AMD Ryzen AI Max “Strix Halo”
Last week I provided benchmarks to quantify how the AMD Strix Halo graphics performance has evolved since launch one year ago, in today’s article is a look at how the Zen 5 CPU performance with the flagship Ryzen AI Max+ 395 has evolved under Linux in the year since these exciting APUs began making their way to high-end laptops and desktops. Complementing the nice Radeon 8060S performance gains are also some nice CPU performance benefits q … ⌘ Read more

Intel QAT Driver With Linux 7.1 Adding Zstd Offload Support
The Intel QuickAssist “QAT” driver for the mainline Linux 7.1 kernel is adding support for Zstd offloading across QuickAssist Gen 4 / Gen 5 / Gen 6 accelerators for Zstandard compression as well as Zstandard decompression (limited there to the latest Gen 6 hardware)… ⌘ Read more

China Flies World’s First Megawatt-Class Hydrogen Turboprop Engine
Longtime Slashdot reader walterbyrd shares a report from Fuel Cells Works: China says the AEP100, a megawatt-class hydrogen-fueled turboprop engine developed by the Aero Engine Corporation of China, has completed its maiden flight on a 7.5-ton unmanned cargo aircraft in Zhuzhou, Hunan. The 16-minute test covered 36km at 220km/h and 300 meters … ⌘ Read more

Scientists Engineered a Plant To Produce 5 Different Psychedelics At Once
Plants, toads, and mushrooms “can all produce psychedelic substances,” writes ScienceAlert.

“And now their powers have been combined in one plant.”

[S]cientists have taken the genes these organisms use to make five natural psychedelics and introduced them into a tobacco plant ( Nicotiana benthamiana), which then produced a … ⌘ Read more

Amazon Must Negotiate With First Warehouse Workers Union, US Labor Board Rules
Amazon “must negotiate with a labor union representing some 5,000 workers at a company warehouse on Staten Island,” reports Reuters, citing a ruling Wednesday from America’s National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).

The union formed in 2022, according to the article, and “has been seeking to negotiate with Amazon over pay, … ⌘ Read more

Amazon Imposes 3.5% Fuel Surcharge For Many Online Merchants
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: Amazon will start charging sellers who use its shipping services a 3.5% “fuel and logistics” surcharge later this month, joining the ranks of shipping companies raising prices as the war in Iran pushes oil prices higher. The fees take effect on April 17 for customers of the company’s Fulfillment by Amazon … ⌘ Read more

Steam On Linux Use Skyrocketed Above 5% In March
Valve’s March 2026 Steam Survey shows Linux gaming usage jumping to a record 5.33% share – more than double macOS’s 2.35%. Phoronix reports: Steam on Linux was never above 5% and easily an all-time high for the Linux gaming marketshare, especially in absolute numbers. It was a massive 3.1% spike in March while macOS also jumped surprisingly by 1.19% to 2.35%. The Steam Survey … ⌘ Read more

KTransformers Adds AVX2 MoE Support For Viable Performance On CPUs Without AMX/AVX-512
KTransformers 0.5.3 released today for this framework for efficient inferencing and fine-tuning of large language models (LLMs) with a focus on CPU-GPU heterogeneous computing. With this release, KTransformers 0.5.3 is now more applicable for CPUs lacking Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX) and AVX-512 in now providing some AVX2-only kernels too… ⌘ Read more

Steam On Linux Use Skyrocketed In March - More Than Double The macOS Gaming Marketshare
If Valve’s latest Steam Survey monthly figures are accurate, Steam on Linux enjoyed a very wild month of March. Steam on Linux is now above the 5% threshold and more than twice the size of the Steam on macOS marketshare… ⌘ Read more

MediaTek MT7927 “Filogic 380” WiFi Support Coming Together For Linux
In addition to the MediaTek MT7902 WiFI Linux support emerging in recent months, the Linux support for the MediaTek MT7927 is also coming together for WiFi 7 and Bluetooth 5.4 support for the upstream Linux kernel… ⌘ Read more

Five social media giants face crackdown over under-16 ban
Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat and YouTube are under investigation and facing fines of up to $49.5 million for potential non-compliance with Australia’s world-first social media ban. ⌘ Read more

Five social media giants face crackdown over under-16 ban
Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat and YouTube are under investigation and facing fines of up to $49.5 million. for potential non-compliance with Australia’s world-first social media ban. ⌘ Read more

Microsoft Copilot Is Now Injecting Ads Into Pull Requests On GitHub
Microsoft Copilot is reportedly injecting promotional “tips” into GitHub pull requests, with Neowin claiming more than 1.5 million PRs have been affected by messages advertising integrations like Raycast, Slack, Teams, and various IDEs. From the report: According to Melbourne-based software developer Zach Manson, a team member used the AI to fix … ⌘ Read more

Ubuntu 26.04 Showing Nice Gains Over Ubuntu 25.10 On AMD Ryzen 9000 Series
While having the new System76 Thelio Mira in the lab I ran some benchmarks of Ubuntu 24.04 LTS vs. 26.04 development on that AMD Ryzen 9000 series powered desktop. Those results were interesting for how the Ubuntu performance has changed over the past two years, but even if drilling down to just the past six months there have been some nice gains on the AMD Zen 5 desktop. In this article is a look at how Ubuntu 26.04 in its near-final state … ⌘ Read more

Livret A, assurance-vie, expatriation : la grande fuite silencieuse des Français
C’est officiel, les finances françaises vont mieux, l’État peut gagner un cran à sa ceinture et pousser un soupir de soulagement : Sebastien Lecornu, dans un tweet manifestement écrit par ChatGPT qui laisse traîner des tirets cadratins un peu partout, annonce avec emphase un déficit moins énormissime que prévu ; ce sera 5,1% du PIB au lieu […] ⌘ Read more

Apple almost went broke – now it’s celebrating 50 years
Apple is now one of the most valuable companies in the world - a market capitalisation of over $3.5 trillion, but a core part of Apple’s history is the time it almost went broke. ⌘ Read more

Amazon Gambles on $4B Push Into America’s Rural Areas, May Soon Carry More Parcels Than USPS
In many rural areas, America’s online shoppers can wait half a week or more for deliveries. But Amazon started a $4 billion “rural delivery push” last year, reports Bloomberg, and has now cut delivery times to under 24 hours for 1 in 5 rural and small-town households, with 48-hour delivery to 62 … ⌘ Read more

Sony is Raising PlayStation 5 Prices Again, Between $100 and $150
Memory and storage shortages and price hikes have “steadily rippled outward across all kinds of consumer tech,” reports Ars Technica.

“Today’s bad news comes from Sony, which is raising prices for PlayStation 5 consoles in the US just eight months after their last price hike.”

The drive-less Digital Edition will increase from $500 to $600; the … ⌘ Read more