As a late stage change for GNOME 50 ahead of its official debut next month and following last week's GNOME 50 beta is plumbing the Mutter compositor for a new "sdr-native" color mode option...

The NTFS3 driver maintained by Paragon Software for Microsoft NTFS file-systems today saw a batch of improvements merged for Linux 7.0 This comes as there is also the competing "NTFS Remake" driver that began a few months ago as the "NTFSPLUS" driver. That NTFS Remake driver isn't looking like it will be submitted for the Linux 7.0 merge window so at least for now the NTFS3 driver continues seeing improvements with the latest mainline kernel code...

A proposal within the Fedora Linux community suggests improving the kernel's DRM Panic screen to a more user-friendly, BSOD-style experience. Phoronix reports: Open-source developer Jose Exposito proposed today a nicer experience for DRM Panic integration on Fedora. Rather than using DRM Panic with just the kernel log contents being encoded in the QR code displayed when a kernel panic occurs, the proposal is to have a customized Fedora web-page with the encoded QR contents to be shown on that web page. Besides having a more pleasant UI/UX, from this web page the intent would also be to make it easier to report this error to the Fedora BugZilla. Being able to easily pass the kernel log to the Fedora bug tracker could help in making upstream aware of the problem(s) and seeing if other users are also encountering similar panics. Right now this idea was just raised earlier today as a "request for comments" on the Fedora mailing list. While a prototype at this point, Exposito already developed a basic web interface for demoing the solution.

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AMD sent out a set of Linux kernel patches today for enabling use of a new instruction dubbed RMPOPT. Given the timing of these patches, RMPOPT is presumably a feature coming with next-gen AMD EPYC Zen 6 "Venice" processors...

The LED subsystem updates for the Linux kernel typically aren't too noteworthy each kernel cycle but with Linux 7.0 is a new TI RGB LED driver that captured my attention in being curious over its "autonomous animation engine" integration...

YouTuber sam ustvaril, financiral in distribuiral film

• Matej Huš :: 17. feb 2026 ob 21:26
• Avtorsko pravo

Slo-Tech - Filmi, vsaj dobri, niso poceni - čeprav obstajajo izjeme - zato za njihovo produkcijo običajno stojijo veliki studii. Zato je toliko bolj neobičajna zgodba filma Iron Lung, ki je v ameriških kinematografih zbral že 30 milijonov dolarjev. Njegova produkcija je stala desetkrat manj, financiral pa jo je YouTuber, ki je poznan po popolnoma drugačnih vsebinah. Mark Fischbach je namreč znan kot Markiplier. Več na Slo-Techu.

Zmanjkovalo bo tudi diskov

• Matej Huš :: 17. feb 2026 ob 20:57
• Ostale najave

Slo-Tech - Western Digital in Seagate sta sporočila, da sta že prodala praktično vse proizvodne kapacitete diskov za to leto, pa se niti februar še ni končal. Tiang Yew Tan, direktor Western Digitala, je dejal, da so za koledarsko leto 2026 že prodali, kar bodo proizvedli, večino sedmim največjim strankam. Tri izmed petih glavnih strank so zakupile tudi svoje potrebe za leto 2027, ena pa celo za leto 2028. Za prodajo domačim uporabnikom in drugim končnim kupcem ne bo ostalo veliko. Več na Slo-Techu.

Irska preiskuje evropsko podružnico X-a

• Matej Huš :: 17. feb 2026 ob 20:57
• Tožbe

Slo-Tech - Po pričakovanjih je tudi irski informacijski pooblaščenec (DPC) uvedel preiskavo zoper X zaradi delovanja orodja Grok, ki omogoča ustvarjanje realističnih slik z umetno inteligenco. Ker je Grok komurkoli omogočal predelavo objavljenih fotografij ali ustvarjanje povsem svojih, varovalk pa praktično ni imel, je bil rezultat predvidljivo katastrofalen. X so preplavili posnetki predvsem žensk v opolzkih kadrih, v nekaterih primerih pa so bile osebe videti celo mladoletne. Četudi ne gre za resnične osebe, je slednje nezakonito. Več na Slo-Techu.

The Mesa 26.0 open-source graphics stack has been released today as a major update that introduces new features and improvements across most of the included graphics drivers.

The close_range system call for closing all file descriptors "FDs" in a given range should enjoy a nice speed boost with the in-development Linux 7.0 kernel...

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