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Linux Gamers on Radeon Graphics Get Ray Tracing Performance Boost in Mesa 26.0.0 Update  TechPowerUp

Linux Gamers on Radeon Graphics Get Ray Tracing Performance Boost in Mesa 26.0.0 Update  TechPowerUp

Linux Mint may make fewer releases a year  OMG! Ubuntu

Linux Mint may make fewer releases a year  OMG! Ubuntu

Linux Mint may make fewer releases a year  OMG! Ubuntu

Mesa 26.0 Open-Source Graphics Stack Officially Released, Here’s What’s New  9to5Linux

The world is closer than thought to a "point of no return" after which runaway global heating cannot be stopped, scientists have said. From a report: Continued global heating could trigger climate tipping points, leading to a cascade of further tipping points and feedback loops, they said. This would lock the world into a new and hellish "hothouse Earth" climate far worse than the 2-3C temperature rise the world is on track to reach. The climate would also be very different to the benign conditions of the past 11,000 years, during which the whole of human civilisation developed. At just 1.3C of global heating in recent years, extreme weather is already taking lives and destroying livelihoods across the globe. At 3-4C, "the economy and society will cease to function as we know it," scientists said last week, but a hothouse Earth would be even more fiery. The public and politicians were largely unaware of the risk of passing the point of no return, the researchers said. The group said they were issuing their warning because while rapid and immediate cuts to fossil fuel burning were challenging, reversing course was likely to be impossible once on the path to a hothouse Earth, even if emissions were eventually slashed. It was difficult to predict when climate tipping points would be triggered, making precaution vital, said Dr Christopher Wolf, a scientist at Terrestrial Ecosystems Research Associates in the US. Wolf is a member of a study team that includes Prof Johan Rockstrom at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany and Prof Hans Joachim Schellnhuber at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Austria.

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Linux Kernel Graphics Driver Development Now Experimenting With AI Code Review  Phoronix

Sabayon Linux Creator Now Developing Gentoo-Based, Immutable matrixOS  Phoronix

Bluefin Linux: ChromeOS simplicity meets Linux power  The New Stack

An anonymous reader shares a report: The U.S. economy experienced almost zero job growth in 2025, according to revised federal data. On a more encouraging note: hiring has picked up in 2026. Preliminary data had indicated that the U.S. economy added 584,000 jobs last year. But the Bureau of Labor Statistics revised that number after it received additional state data, and found that the labor market had added 181,000 jobs in all of 2025. This is far fewer than the 1.46 million jobs that were added in 2024. One bright spot was last month, when hiring increased by 130,000 roles. This was significantly more than the 55,000 additions that had been expected by economists. "Job gains occurred in health care, social assistance, and construction, while federal government and financial activities lost jobs," BLS said in a statement.

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FLOSS Weekly Episode 864: Work Hard, Save Money, Retire Early  Hackaday

New Proton Experimental update adds controller support to more launchers on Linux / SteamOS  GamingOnLinux

New Proton Experimental update adds controller support to more launchers on Linux / SteamOS  GamingOnLinux

New Proton Experimental update adds controller support to more launchers on Linux / SteamOS  GamingOnLinux

New Proton Experimental update adds controller support to more launchers on Linux / SteamOS  GamingOnLinux

New Proton Experimental update adds controller support to more launchers on Linux / SteamOS  GamingOnLinux

Mesa 26.0 Brings Ray Tracing Updates for AMD Radeon on Linux  VideoCardz.com

Electric vehicles accounted for just 1% of new car sales across Africa in 2025, but a study published in Nature Energy by researchers at ETH Zurich finds that EVs paired with solar off-grid charging systems -- solar panels, batteries and an inverter -- could become cheaper to own than gas-powered equivalents across most of the continent by 2040. The analysis considered total cost of ownership including sticker price, financing and fuel or charging costs, but excluded policy-related factors like taxes and subsidies. Electric two-wheelers could reach cost parity even sooner, by the end of the decade, thanks to smaller battery packs. Small cars remain the toughest segment. The biggest obstacle is financing: in some African countries, political instability and economic uncertainty push borrowing costs so high that interest on an EV loan can exceed the vehicle's purchase price. South Africa, Mauritius and Botswana are already near the financing conditions needed for cost parity; countries like Sudan and Ghana would need drastic cuts.

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Mesa 26.0 Released With Much Better Radeon Ray-Tracing, Many Vulkan Driver Improvements  Phoronix