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Valve's March 2026 Steam Survey shows Linux gaming usage jumping to a record 5.33% share -- more than double macOS's 2.35%. Phoronix reports: Steam on Linux was never above 5% and easily an all-time high for the Linux gaming marketshare, especially in absolute numbers. It was a massive 3.1% spike in March while macOS also jumped surprisingly by 1.19% to 2.35%. The Steam Survey numbers show Windows losing 4.28%, down to 92.33%.
Part of the jump at least appears to be explained by Valve correcting again the
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An East Bay apartment complex has been bought at a price that's well below its prior value. Read more ›
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A PG&E Corp. unit has bought a San Jose building in a move to bolster the utility's South Bay operations. Read more ›
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Not every workaholic is ambitious. Many are using the schedule to outrun feelings that would arrive the second the work stopped — and the cost of that avoidance is almost never visible until much later. Read more ›
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Two new foldable devices have entered Samsung’s Certified Renewed storefront, meaning you have two more options when it comes to lightly-used, preowned devices at a discount. Pricing is as follows: Galaxy Z Fold 7 models start at $1699 and Z Flip 7 models start at $939. Additionally, Samsung also offers trade-in deals on Renewed phones,... Read the original post: Galaxy Z Fold 7, Z Flip 7 Added to Samsung’s Certified... Read more ›
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Amid confusion over if Claude Code was being removed from Anthropic's Pro plan, OpenAI's CEO and employees did some trolling of their rival. Read more ›
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The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) yesterday issued the draft framework to regulate prepaid payment instruments (PPIs). Called the draft… Read more ›
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Google wants to challenge Claude Code, but its best models might be saved for internal use. Read more ›
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В январе я купил подписки на Cluely, Final Round AI и Sensei. Хотел посмотреть как они справляются с русским айти-собесами, раз уж все три заявляют о поддержке русского. Подключил по очереди к тестовому звонку в Телемосте (сомневаюсь, что платформа имела роль, но все же), прогнал одну и ту же запись: Senior Python backend разработчик, 45 минут, стек FastAPI + PostgreSQL + Kafka + Kubernetes. Обычный русский спикер, если важно -... Read more ›
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At the recent Cloud Next event in Las Vegas, Google unveiled a suite of generative artificial intelligence tools designed to enhance geospatial analysis and visualization. These innovations aim to provide urban planners, filmmakers, and large-scale enterprises with advanced capabilities for manipulating and interpreting environmental data. The centerpiece of this update is Maps Imagery Grounding, a technology that allows users to generate ultra-realistic scenes within the Street View interface using text... Read more ›
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A former social media exec alleged she was demoted and fired after she filed a complaint and took maternity leave. The company denies the allegations. Read more ›
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The Lenovo Legion Go S, originally positioned as an accessible entry in the handheld gaming market, has seen its price nearly double in several regions. This drastic upward trend is attributed to a deepening global crisis in the memory and semiconductor industries, forcing manufacturers to adjust MSRPs significantly. The price surge has been particularly severe in the United States, especially for models featuring high-end internals. The impact is most visible... Read more ›
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The chronic checker-inner isn't hiding their needs well. They've simply become so identified with the role of reaching out that unprompted care has started to feel like something that happens to other people. A look at how emotional labor calcifies into identity, and what actually shifts the pattern. Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: The Gates Foundation opened an external review earlier this year into its engagement with the late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, the philanthropic group said on Tuesday. The foundation has been mired in controversy due to Chairman Bill Gates' association with Epstein. A release of emails in January by the U.S. Justice Department also showed communication between Epstein and the... Read more ›
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There's a surprise Tech Week sale now underway at Amazon UK, so I've looked through the offers and picked out the 14 best deals I'd buy. Read more ›
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Интернет для избранных, рынок для своих: как Минцифры готовит зачистку связи в РоссииПока в публичном поле звучат разговоры о цифровом суверенитете, развитии инфраструктуры и поддержке регионов, в кабинетах Минцифры готовится совсем другая история. Не про развитие. Не про конкуренцию. И уж точно не про интересы граждан. Речь идёт о законопроекте, который под видом «наведения порядка» на рынке связи может стать одним из самых разрушительных решений для российского интернета, малого бизнеса... Read more ›
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The iOS 26.4.2, iPadOS 26.4.2, iOS 18.7.8, and iPadOS 18.7.8 updates that Apple released today address a security vulnerability that the FBI recently used to extract Signal message previews from an iPhone even after the app was deleted. A flaw with notification services allowed notifications that were supposed to be deleted to be retained on an iPhone or iPad. Apple says it fixed the logging issue with improved data redaction.... Read more ›
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Baby food can get pretty pricey, which is a shame since it's just regular food turned into mush. Can this baby food maker save you some money at the grocery? Read more ›
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Leaked images and an early retailer listing have shown off the Motorola Razr 2026 in four eye-catching finishes, confirming Motorola's color-first approach to the foldable market ahead of the phone's imminent announcement. Read more ›
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A Manhattan federal jury found that Live Nation and Ticketmaster illegally maintained monopoly power in the ticketing market. The findings follow an antitrust case brought by states after a separate DOJ settlement. CNN reports: The verdict was reached following a lengthy trial in New York federal court that included testimony from top executives in the music and entertainment industries. Jurors began deliberating on Friday. The Justice Department and 39 state... Read more ›
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Cal is moving its flagship scheduling software from open source to a proprietary license, arguing that AI coding tools now make it much easier for attackers to scan public codebases for vulnerabilities. "Open source security always relied on people to find and fix any problems," said Peer Richelsen, co-founder of Cal. "Now AI attackers are flaunting that transparency." CEO Bailey Pumfleet added: "Open-source code is basically like handing out the... Read more ›
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In an interview with Fox News, Ford CEO Jim Farley warned that allowing Chinese vehicle imports could put nearly a million U.S. jobs at risk. He said China's heavily subsidized auto industry has enough excess capacity to supply the entire U.S. market, while also raising serious cybersecurity concerns given how much data modern connected cars collect. Ars Technica reports: "First of all, the Chinese have huge direct support for their... Read more ›
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Boston Dynamics has integrated Google DeepMind into its robotic dog Spot, giving it more autonomous reasoning for industrial inspections like spotting spills and reading gauges. Spot can also now recognize when to call on other AI tools. IEEE Spectrum reports: Boston Dynamics is one of the few companies to commercially deploy legged robots at any appreciable scale; there are now several thousand hard at work. Today the company is announcing... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: Many scientists have contended that humans have evolved very little over the past 10,000 years. A few hundred generations was just a blink of the evolutionary eye, it seemed. Besides, our cultural evolution -- our technology, agriculture and the rest -- must have overwhelmed our biological evolution by now. A vast study, published on Wednesday in the journal Nature,... Read more ›
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Longtime Slashdot reader AmiMoJo shares a report from the Guardian: Households will be called on to boost their consumption of Great Britain's record renewable energy this summer to help balance the power grid and lower energy bills. Under the new plans, people could be encouraged to run dishwashers and washing machines or charge up their electric vehicles when there is more wind and solar power than the electricity grid needs.... Read more ›
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Some Japanese bullet trains will soon support premium private suites this October, featuring windows with embedded 5G antennas for steadier onboard Wi-Fi and NTT noise-cancelling cabin tech to reduce train noise. The 5G window antennas are designed to maintain line-of-sight connections as trains race past base stations at up to 285 km/h. The Register reports: Rail operator JR Central announced the new tech late last month and will initially deploy... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from UploadVR: A group of independent researchers built a device that can artificially induce smell using ultrasound, with no consumable cartridges required. [...] The team of four are Lev Chizhov, Albert Yan-Huang, Thomas Ribeiro, Aayush Gupta. Chizhov is a neurotech entrepreneur with a background in math and physics, Yan-Huang is a researcher at Caltech with a background in computation and neural systems, and Ribeiro... Read more ›
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The EU says a new age-verification app is technically ready and could let users prove they are old enough to access restricted online content without revealing their identity or personal data. Deutsche Welle reports: Once released, users will be able to download the app from an app store and set it up using proof of identity, such as a passport or national ID card. They can then use it to... Read more ›
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Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.7, calling it its strongest generally available model and an improvement over Opus 4.6 in areas like software engineering, instruction-following, tool use, and agentic coding. But the company says it is "less broadly capable" than the restricted Claude Mythos Preview, "which Anthropic rolled out to a select group of companies as part of a new cybersecurity initiative called Project Glasswing earlier this month," reports CNBC. From... Read more ›
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