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Blender 5.0 promises exciting changes like support for displaying HDR and wide gamut colors, a working color space for Blend files, new Rec.2100-PQ and Rec.2100-HLG displays, new ACES 1.3 and 2.0 views, a new AgX HDR view, a new Convert to Display compositor node, and a new volume rendering algorithm based on null scattering.

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Linus Torvalds Announces First Linux Kernel 6.18 Release Candidate

Today marks two weeks since Linux kernel 6.17 was released and the merge window for Linux kernel 6.18 was opened, which means that it is time to test drive the Release Candidate (RC) versions during the next couple of months, the first one being available for download right now from Linus Torvalds’ git tree.

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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Mar 25, 2025

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Updated This Past Day

  1. Press Reports Say Almost 10,000 Western IBMers Laid Off
    We've been trying to verify/corroborate this somehow
  2. Days Ago yewtu.be Found a Workaround That Made Invidious Work Again. Then Google Broke All the Instances (Again).
    "Youtube changed something again, so if a video does not play, it's because of that."
  3. Cellphones (Mobile Phones) in Classrooms
    A recent study confirmed that people's intelligence has dropped in recent years/decades
  4. Is the FSF Being 'Trolled' by Microsofters Pushing C# (Microsoft)?
    Who stands to benefit from training people to use and spread Microsoft?
  5. Windows Has Now Fallen to Rather Ridiculous 3% "Market Share" in Iraq (Windows Was Measured at 100% Back in 2010)
    Iraq is not a place where Windows can make a comeback

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  6. IBM (and Red Hat) on a Fast Train to Nowhere
    What is the future of Fedora when IBM keeps removing its leadership?
  7. Gemini Links 24/03/2025: "Live Off the Land" and Life Without YouTube
    Links for the day
  8. Planet Ubuntu (or Ubuntu Planet) is LLM Slop
    Reading chatbots' output is bad use of time
  9. The European Patent Office (EPO) is Slowly Killing Its Own Staff; All It Cares About Is Money
    The Office hasn't been run by a scientist for about 18 years already
  10. Links 24/03/2025: US Detaining Innocent People, F-35 Contracts Suspended Due to Hostilities
    Links for the day
  11. Matthew J. Garrett is "Former Microsoft Researcher", According to Microsoft's Serial Strangler
    Their argument is something along the lines of, "what Roy published damaged my career prospects, so I want Roy to pay me...
  12. Links 24/03/2025: Political Catchup and Environmental Concerns
    Links for the day
  13. Gemini Links 24/03/2025: Working With Music and Unconscious Influence
    Links for the day
  14. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  15. IRC Proceedings: Sunday, March 23, 2025
    IRC logs for Sunday, March 23, 2025
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