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Streamer spend on content is set to top the $100 billion mark for the first time this year, according to an Ampere Analysis report. From a report: The landmark figure will be met as global streamers "remain the primary driver of growth in content investment," according to Ampere. Spend by the likes of Netflix, Disney+, Prime Video, HBO Max, Paramount+ and Apple TV will shoot up 6% this year, helping lead to a 2% increase in overall global content spend, Ampere forecast. The $101 billion figure, the first time streamer spend has crossed that major $100 Billion landmark, will represent around two-fifths of the overall figure.

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5 Windows myths Linux users love to lecture you about  MakeUseOf

Big GPU & Kernel Update Headed to Ubuntu 24.04 LTS  OMG! Ubuntu

Nova Lake & Crescent Island Support Lands In The Intel Graphics Compiler  Phoronix

2026 Shift: Professionals Ditch Windows 11 for Linux’s Speed and Savings  WebProNews

4 productivity apps on Linux that replaced my favorite web apps  How-To Geek

A year ago the Steam Survey showed a 2.29% marketshare for Linux. Last May it reached 2.69%, its highest level since 2018. November saw another all-time high of 3.2%. But December brought a surprise, reports Phoronix: Back on the 1st Valve published the Steam Survey results for December 2025 and they put the Linux gaming marketshare at 3.19%, a 0.01% dip from November. But now the December results have been revised... [and] put the Linux marketshare at 3.58%, a 0.38% increase over November. Valve didn't publish any explanation for the revision but occasionally they do put out monthly revised data. This is easily an all-time high... both in percentage terms and surely in absolute terms too.

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A year ago the Steam Survey showed a 2.29% marketshare for Linux. Last May it reached 2.69%, its highest level since 2018. November saw another all-time high of 3.2%. But December brought a surprise, reports Phoronix: Back on the 1st Valve published the Steam Survey results for December 2025 and they put the Linux gaming marketshare at 3.19%, a 0.01% dip from November. But now the December results have been revised... [and] put the Linux marketshare at 3.58%, a 0.38% increase over November. Valve didn't publish any explanation for the revision but occasionally they do put out monthly revised data. This is easily an all-time high... both in percentage terms and surely in absolute terms too.

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Apple and Google have entered into a multi-year collaboration under which the next generation of Apple Foundation Models will be based on Google's Gemini models and clou…

Auto-CPUFreq 3.0 Released To Help You Extend Laptop Battery Life On Linux  Phoronix

BTW, Arch Users! Pacman Might Be Getting a Rust Replacement  It's FOSS

I tried the new Linux Mint 22.3 - it's a masterclass in polish and quality-of-life fixes  ZDNET

Over 1,500,000 Windows users downloaded this Linux distro in under three months  XDA

January 12, 2026  Hackaday

Ubisoft announced Wednesday it will close its studio in Halifax, Nova Scotia — two weeks after 74% of its staff voted to unionize. This means laying off the 71 people at the studio, reports the gaming news site Aftermath: [Communications Workers of America's Canadian affiliate, CWA Canada] said in a statement to Aftermath the union will "pursue every legal recourse to ensure that the rights of these workers are respected and not infringed in any way." The union said in a news release that it's illegal in Canada for companies to close businesses because of unionization. That's not necessarily what happened here, according to the news release, but the union is "demanding information from Ubisoft about the reason for the sudden decision to close." "We will be looking for Ubisoft to show us that this had nothing to do with the employees joining a union," former Ubisoft Halifax programmer and bargaining committee member Jon Huffman said in a statement. "The workers, their families, the people of Nova Scotia, and all of us who love video games made in Canada, deserve nothing less...." Before joining Ubisoft, the studio was best known for its work on the Rocksmith franchise; under Ubisoft, it focused squarely on mobile games. Ubisoft Halifax was quickly removed from the Ubisoft website on Wednesday...

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Linux Founder's "I Was So Wrong" Moment: Mocked AI Programming as Garbage, Now Dives into AI - Assisted Programming  36Kr

Big GPU & Kernel Update Headed to Ubuntu 24.04 LTS  OMG! Ubuntu

Mitsubishi Electric becomes Linux Foundation gold member  IT Brief Asia

Linux 6.19-rc5 Brings Fix For Newer NVIDIA GPUs, Logitech HID++ For Anywhere 3S & Fixes  Phoronix

Even Linux Creator Linus Torvalds is Using AI to Code in 2026  It's FOSS