The old way of building satellite ground systems is unsustainable. According to ST Engineering iDirect’s CEO, the future is “Collective Alignment” with standards, cloud infrastructure, and AI. The company is betting its new Intuition platform is the answer.
The Qt toolkit is getting a significant performance boost for Linux. The just-released Qt 6.10 Release Candidate introduces a native abstraction for the modern io_uring I/O interface and adds a PipeWire audio backend.
AMD has officially unveiled FSR Redstone, its biggest update to the upscaling tech. It promises support in over 200 games by the end of 2025, but it only works on the upcoming Radeon RX 9000 series. This move creates a clear divide with older hardware.
According to a rumor, Microsoft might be trying to bring official Xbox 360 backwards compatibility to Windows PCs and handhelds. The company has teased big plans for the Xbox brand’s 25th anniversary in 2026. But it’s all very speculative for now.
Valve ended official support for Windows 7 and 8.x in the Steam client a year ago. Now, a developer named “Eazy Black” has backported the December 4, 2025 beta client to run on the old operating systems, requiring specific updates like Service Pack 1 and SHA-2 patches.
A massive coalition of environmental organizations is calling on Congress to pause new AI data center construction. They cite skyrocketing electricity demand, water consumption, and community disruption as key reasons for a federal moratorium.
The upcoming Linux 6.19 kernel is showing some early performance regressions compared to the stable 6.18 release. Using a powerful AMD Threadripper workstation, Phoronix is bisecting the code to find the problematic commits. The issues are affecting both server workloads and real-world tests like th
The Linux kernel is flipping a switch for better storage performance. In version 6.19, per-CPU BIO caching will be enabled by default, a move that showed a nice speed bump in early tests.
The upcoming Mesa 26.0 graphics driver stack is packing some serious upgrades for Linux users. It’s bringing initial support for Qualcomm’s newest Adreno Gen 8 graphics and has finalized OpenGL mesh shader support for AMD Radeon hardware.
Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian has identified energy as the biggest bottleneck for AI’s future. He outlined a strategy focusing on diversified power sources, extreme efficiency, and new energy technologies to meet surging demand.
