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'There is *zero* point in talking about AI slop. That's just plain stupid': Linus Torvalds weighs in on AI debate in Linux kernel documentation  PC Gamer

I switched to Linux: Bye macOS and Windows  overkill.wtf

Abstract of a paper on NBER: We construct an international panel data set comprising three distinct yet plausible measures of government indebtedness: the debt-to-GDP, the interest-to-GDP, and the debt-to-equity ratios. Our analysis reveals that these measures yield differing conclusions about recent trends in government indebtedness. While the debt-to-GDP ratio has reached historically high levels, the other two indicators show either no clear trend or a declining pattern over recent decades. We argue for the development of stronger theoretical foundations for the measures employed in the literature, suggesting that, without such grounding, assertions about debt (un)sustainability may be premature.

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The world's oceans absorbed yet another record-breaking amount of heat in 2025, continuing an almost unbroken streak of annual records since the start of the millennium and fueling increasingly extreme weather events around the globe. More than 90% of the heat trapped by humanity's carbon emissions ends up in the oceans, making ocean heat content one of the clearest indicators of the climate crisis's trajectory. The analysis, published in the journal Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, drew on temperature data collected across the oceans and collated by three independent research teams. The measurements cover the top 2,000 meters of ocean depth, where most heat absorption occurs. The amount of heat absorbed is equivalent to more than 200 times the total electricity used by humans worldwide. This extra thermal energy intensifies hurricanes and typhoons, produces heavier rainfall and greater flooding, and results in longer marine heatwaves that decimate ocean life. The oceans are likely at their hottest in at least 1,000 years and heating faster than at any point in the past 2,000 years.

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3 Linux apps to try this weekend (January 9 - 11)  How-To Geek

Daily driving Linux for 3 years taught me these 6 habits  How-To Geek

Vitalik Buterin Says Ethereum Should Become Civilization Infrastructure Like Linux  icobench.com

Steam Frame and Steam Machine will be another good boost for Flatpaks and desktop Linux overall too  GamingOnLinux

Steam Frame and Steam Machine will be another good boost for Flatpaks and desktop Linux overall too  GamingOnLinux

Linux 6.19-rc5 To Fix Broken Nouveau Driver With Newer NVIDIA GPUs  Phoronix

Latest SteamOS Beta Now Includes NTSYNC Kernel Driver  Phoronix

Qualcomm Sends Out Linux Patches For RAS Support On RISC-V For Reporting Hardware Errors  Phoronix

How to Tar Compress Files in Linux  commandlinux.com

Why Ethereum Mirrors BitTorrent Scale and Linux Trust?  Altcoin Buzz

Linux In ML And AI Infrastructure Statistics In 2026  commandlinux.com

alternative_right shares a report from ScienceAlert: At the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST), physicists successfully exceeded what is known as the Greenwald limit, a practical density boundary beyond which plasmas tend to violently destabilize, often damaging reactor components. For a long time, the Greenwald limit was accepted as a given and incorporated into fusion reactor engineering. The new work shows that precise control over how the plasma is created and interacts with the reactor walls can push it beyond this limit into what physicists call a 'density-free' regime. [...] A team led by physicists Ping Zhu of Huazhong University of Science and Technology and Ning Yan of the Chinese Academy of Sciences designed an experiment to take this theory further, based on a simple premise: that the density limit is strongly influenced by the initial plasma-wall interactions as the reactor starts up. In their experiment, the researchers wanted to see if they could deliberately steer the outcome of this interaction. They carefully controlled the pressure of the fuel gas during tokamak startup and added a burst of heating called electron cyclotron resonance heating. These changes altered how the plasma interacts with the tokamak walls through a cooler plasma boundary, which dramatically reduced the degree to which wall impurities entered the plasma. Under this regime, the researchers were able to reach densities up to about 65 percent higher than the tokamak's Greenwald limit. This doesn't mean that magnetically confined plasmas can now operate with no density limits whatsoever. However, it does show that the Greenwald limit is not a fundamental barrier and that tweaking operational processes could lead to more effective fusion reactors. The findings have been published in Science Advances.

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After testing over 125,000 Linux bugs, one researcher found the average one takes over two years to be fixed  PC Gamer

After testing over 125,000 Linux bugs, one researcher found the average one takes over two years to be fixed  PC Gamer

After testing over 125,000 Linux bugs, one researcher found the average one takes over two years to be fixed  PC Gamer

After testing over 125,000 Linux bugs, one researcher found the average one takes over two years to be fixed  PC Gamer