Meta Earnings, Turning Dials, Zuckerberg’s Motivation
Meta is up, despite massive CapEx plans. The company is turning every dial to drive revenue, because Mark Zuckerberg thinks winning in AI is existential.
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How the grid can ride out winter storms
The eastern half of the US saw a monster snowstorm over the weekend. The good news is the grid has largely been able to keep up...
Read moreNVIDIA VA-API Driver 0.0.15 Released With A Few Fixes
The NVIDIA-VAAPI-Driver 0.0.15 was released overnight as this VA-API driver implementation built atop NVIDIA’s NVDEC interface used by their proprietary user-space driver stack. The purpose of...
Read moreMeet the Vitalists: the hardcore longevity enthusiasts who believe death is “wrong”
“Who here believes involuntary death is a good thing?” Nathan Cheng has been delivering similar versions of this speech over the last couple of years, so...
Read moreC.J. Collier: Part 3: Building the Keystone – Dataproc Custom Images for Secure Boot & GPUs
Part 3: Building the Keystone – Dataproc Custom Images for Secure Boot & GPUs In Part 1, we established a secure, proxy-only network. In Part 2,...
Read moreBits from Debian: New Debian Developers and Maintainers (November and December 2025)
The following contributors got their Debian Developer accounts in the last two months: Aquila Macedo (aquila) Peter Blackman (peterb) Kiran S Kunjumon (hacksk) Ben Westover (bjw)...
Read moreGoogle DeepMind Introduces ATLAS Scaling Laws for Multilingual Language Models
Google DeepMind researchers have introduced ATLAS, a set of scaling laws for multilingual language models that formalize how model size, training data volume, and language mixtures...
Read moreFOSS Weekly #26.05: Clawdbot Mania, NexPhone, Things We No Longer Use Terminal for and More Linux Stuff
When was the last time you were forced to use the terminal?
Read moreX-Cube Prism Becomes Dichoric Disco Ball
You’ve likely seen an X-cube, a dichoric prism used to split light into its constituent colours–you know, those fun little cubes you get when tearing apart...
Read more16 Lightweight Linux Distributions for Older Machines in 2026
The post 16 Lightweight Linux Distributions for Older Machines in 2026 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides . In this guide, we feature...
Read moreGNU gettext Reaches Version 1.0 After 30+ Years In Development – Adds LLM Features
Sun Microsystems began developing gettext in the early 1990s and the GNU Project began GNU gettext development in 1995 for this widely-used internationalization and localization system...
Read more[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for January 29, 2026
Inside this week’s LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: PostmarketOS; LKRG 1.0; Fedora elections; EROFS, NTFS, and XFS; Fedora and GPG 2.5; BPF kfuncs. Briefs: curl bounties; GPG...
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