[$] Practical uses for a null filesystem
One of the first changes merged for the upcoming 7.0 release was nullfs, an empty filesystem that cannot actually contain any files. One might logically wonder...
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SSH Escape Sequences Guide: Fix Frozen SSH Sessions Instantly
Stuck SSH session? Press Enter, type ~. to close frozen SSH instantly. Learn all SSH escape sequences most users never discover. The post SSH Escape Sequences...
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In the three decades between 1993 and 2024, measles in the US was relatively rare—a few hundred cases each year, at most. But suddenly, the disease...
Read moreFOSS Weekly #26.11: SUSE for Sale, Firefox Redesign, New-ish Terminal, i3 Customization and More
If rumors and Reuters are to be believed, SUSE Linux us up for sale again. Again because it has changed owners several times in the past....
Read moreAMD HDR/Color Improvement For Their Linux Driver & KDE – Co-Developed By Claude Code
Introduced with Linux 6.19 was the long in development DRM Color Pipeline API while it’s not the end of the road yet on enhancing the Linux...
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Released in 2016, Pokemon Go quickly became a worldwide phenomenon. Even folks who weren’t traditionally interested in the monster-taming franchise were wandering around with their smartphones...
Read moreAMD, NVIDIA, OpenAI & Others Form An Optical Scale-up Consortium
AMD, Broadcom, Meta, Microsoft, NVIDIA and OpenAI jointly announced today the formation of the Optical Compute Interconnect (OCI) Multi-Source Agreement (MSA) optical scale-up consortium…
Read moreTwo stable kernels for Thursday
Sasha Levin has announced the release of the 6.19.7 and 6.18.17 stable kernels. As usual, each contains important fixes throughout the tree; users are advised to...
Read moreSecurity updates for Thursday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (gimp, git-lfs, grafana-pcp, kernel, mysql8.4, nfs-utils, opentelemetry-collector, osbuild-composer, postgresql:16, and python3.12), Debian (imagemagick and netty), Fedora (dr_libs and python-lxml-html-clean),...
Read moreRadeon “RADV” Vulkan Driver Finally Lands VK_KHR_copy_memory_indirect
In Mesa 26.1 the Radeon Vulkan driver “RADV” has finally landed support for the VK_KHR_copy_memory_indirect extension that was introduced to the Vulkan API last year…
Read moreThe Download: Early adopters cash in on China’s OpenClaw craze, and US batteries slump
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Hustlers are...
Read moreRunpod report: Qwen has overtaken Meta’s Llama as the most-deployed self-hosted LLM
The rise of agentic AI services has enabled the enterprise technology market to blossom with a new, fully evolved set of automation and acceleration tools that...
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