Collaborate Disseminate
The blog It’s FOSS has an update on the Fedora AI Developer Desktop Initiative, a proposed platform for AI/machine learning workloads on Fedora. It’s now been blocked “after two Fedora Council members retracted their earlier approval votes.”
The initi… Continue reading Fedora’s AI Developer Desktop Initiative Blocked by Community Backlash
USA Today reports:
Trump Mobile phones are being shipped this week, the company exclusively confirmed to USA TODAY in an email May 11….
The company’s first smartphone — the T1 Phone — was originally scheduled for release in August. H… Continue reading Trump Phones Start Shipping – But Were There Really 600,000 Preorders?
What’s going on with the U.S. job market? “The economy is growing. Unemployment is low,” notes the Washington Post. “And yet, for millions of workers, finding a job has become harder than at almost any other point in decades,” with the hiring rate “wel… Continue reading Why Is the US Job Market So Tough, Especially for Recent College Grads?
Linux 7.1 started phasing out support for Intel’s 37-year-old i486 processor. Linux 7.2 removed drivers for the old AMD Elan 32-bit systems on a chip.
And now some i586 and i686 class processors are being removed, reports Phoronix:
Supporting those … Continue reading Linux Kernel Starts Retiring Support for AMD’s 30-Year-Old K5 CPUs
Ford’s sales of electrified vehicles — including hybrids and all-electric models — dropped 31% from April 2025, reports Electrek. “Hybrid sales fell 32% to 15,758 vehicles, while EV sales continued to crash with just 3,655 all-electric mode… Continue reading Ford’s Electrified Vehicle Sales Dropped 31% in April From One Year Ago
The free/open source project OrcaSlicer is a popular fork of 3D printer slicing software from Bambu Lab. But Tuesday independent developer Pawel Jarczak shuttered the project “following legal threats from Bambu Lab,” reports Tom’s Hardware:
Jarczak’s … Continue reading Open Source Project Shuts Down Over Legal Threats from 3D Printer Company Bambu Lab
In Polymarket’s prediction market, “most people end up losing money,” reports the Washington Post — typically a few bucks.
“Since Polymarket launched in 2022, a few thousand people have lost the bulk of the money… and an even smaller group &m… Continue reading Most Polymarket Users Lose Money, While Top 1% Claim 76.5% of Gains, Study Finds
Open-source PS3 emulator RPCS3 “has been around since 2011,” Kotaku notes, and has made 70% of the PlayStation 3’s library fully playable, “bolstered in part by the many users who contribute to its GitHub page.” But their dev team “took to X today to v… Continue reading PlayStation3 Emulator Devs Politely Ask Contributors to Stop Submitting ‘AI Slop’ Pull Requests
An anonymous reader shared this report from Electrek:
A newly revealed Honda patent shows the company developing a simulated electronic clutch system for electric motorcycles, complete with torque-boost launches and even haptic feedback designed to mi… Continue reading Honda Patents a Fake Clutch for Electric Motorcycles
Major American cloud companies with data centers in the Persian Gulf “are channeling data out of the war zone through fiber-optic cables that an Iraqi telecom has strung alongside crude-oil pipelines,” reports RestofWorld.org:
The data centers serve c… Continue reading Big Tech is Moving Data Through the Gulf Using Fiber-Optic Cables Alongside Iraq’s Oil Pipelines