Between the DXVK and VKD3D(-Proton) projects there is good support for Direct3D 8 through Direct3D 12 implementations atop the Vulkan API for Linux gaming usage. For those preferring more retro classic gaming, D7VK came about more recently for Direct3D 7 as a DXVK fork. Out today is D7VK 1.1 and bes…

The two parties have settled their respective lawsuits

The veteran actor was known for his vivid character work and signature catchphrase: “Sheee-it"

Hyprland 0.53 was released today as the last feature update to this Wayland compositor for 2025...

A$AP Rocky, Kehlani, French Montana, and others are featured on Public Domain 7: The Purge

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Even most rocket scientists would rather avoid hard math when they don’t have to do it. So when it comes to figuring out orbits in complex three-body systems, like those in Cis-lunar space, which is between the Earth and the Moon, they’d rather someone else do the work for them. Luckily, some scient…

Research shows that watching a simulated fire may have real psychological benefits.

Commissioner of the Australian Federal Police Krissy Barrett said during a news conference that the two alleged Bondi attackers “acted alone” and were "not part of a broader terrorist cell." Barrett went on to say that there had been speculation around the alleged shooters’ visit to the Philippines,…

A monument overlooking the Panama Canal appears to be the latest casualty in President Trump’s simmering contest with China for influence over the key waterway.

Editor’s note: This story is part of a collaboration that includes the Institute for Nonprofit News, Borderless, Ensia, Planet Detroit, Sahan Journal, and Wisconsin Watch, as well as the Guardian and Inside Climate News. The project was supported by the Joyce Foundation. You can read the launch stor…

Aviation experts and pilot groups say IndiGo’s unprecedented scheduling crisis this month was due in part to an industry failure to address pilot fatigue.

Neutrinos may be nearly invisible, but they play a starring role in the Universe. Long-standing anomalies had hinted at a mysterious fourth “sterile” neutrino, potentially rewriting the laws of physics. Using exquisitely precise measurements of tritium decay, the KATRIN experiment found no evidence …

Josephine Wentzel spent years tracking down the suspect in her daughter’s death and is now helping others grieving cold cases.

A comprehensive report on food waste published in March by the United Nations Environment Programme shares some sobering statistics: In 2022, people around the world wasted the equivalent of more than 1 billion meals each day. But the key take-home message is a far more encouraging one. In addition …

InputPlumber 0.70 is out today as the newest feature update to this open-source input router and re-mapper daemon for Linux systems. With more gaming handhelds coming to market and other controllers as well as the upward trajectory of Linux gaming, InputPlumber is becoming more applicable for this d…

Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have discovered the largest planet forming disk ever observed around a young star, stretching nearly 40 times the diameter of our Solar System. Nicknamed “Dracula’s Chivito” for its hamburger like appearance when viewed edge on, this massive disk reveals …

President Donald Trump on Thursday said he ordered “numerous” strikes on Islamic State terrorists in Nigeria he accused of killing Christians.“The United States launched a powerful and deadly strike against ISIS Terrorist Scum in Northwest Nigeria, who have been targeting and viciously killing, prim…

Chimps may revise their beliefs in surprisingly human-like ways. Experiments showed they switched choices when presented with stronger clues, demonstrating flexible reasoning. Computational modeling confirmed these decisions weren’t just instinct. The findings could influence how we think about lear…

Vast amounts of valuable research data remain unused, trapped in labs or lost to time. Frontiers aims to change that with FAIR² Data Management, a groundbreaking AI-driven system that makes datasets reusable, verifiable, and citable. By uniting curation, compliance, peer review, and interactive visu…

The best phone cameras of 2025 will likely launch in the back half of the calendar, but there are a few worth celebrating now.

Over the past few years building the Linux kernel with Clang has matured a lot thanks to upstream improvements to both LLVM/Clang and the Linux kernel. As it's been a while since our last comparison for GCC vs. Clang built kernels on the resulting system performance, our latest year-end 2025 benchma…

British heavyweight and Olympic gold medalist Anthony Joshua was in a speeding Lexus and survived a crash Monday morning in Nigeria that killed two other people, authorities said

In 2023, the ALICE experiment was ready for their best year yet, until a mysterious signal threatened everything. As the LHC wraps up its 2025 lead-ion run, physicists recall how they worked together to solve the puzzle.

A 30-year-old man has been given a suspended prison sentence after admitting to operating an illegal waste site on rural land in Northumberland, following a long-running investigation by the Environment Agency. A Northumberland man who dumped waste illegally on his land has been sentenced at court a…

The year's top paleontological wonders ranged from a 540-million-year-old penis worm to a decades-old rodent impression.

X.Org package wrangler Alan Coopersmith at Oracle announced today the release of imake 1.0.11, the newest version of this utility that 20+ years ago was used extensively as part of the X Window System build process for generating Makefiles from a template. With this first imake point release in two …

LIMA, PERU, Oct 27 – The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) today opened its 63rd Plenary Session in Lima, Peru, bringing together some 300 delegates from IPCC member governments and observer organizations to advance its work in the seventh assessment cycle. Over the four-day session, …

During November 2025, ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) used five of its science instruments to observe 3I/ATLAS. The instruments collected information about how the comet is behaving and what it is made of.

See the moon phase expected for December 30, 2025 as well as when the next full moon is expected.

Life’s origin story just became even more mysterious. Using mathematics and information theory, Robert G. Endres of Imperial College London found that the spontaneous emergence of life from nonliving matter may be far more difficult than scientists once thought.

REST IN BASS: ENCORE includes 14 new tracks

The venue's owners have decided not to renew the lease

“It is HIS responsibility to tell everyone what happened”

The latest Christmas-themed project from the duo

Kendrick and Chappell Roan also make appearances

His attorneys accuse the district judge of acting “as a thirteenth juror”

The second chapter of the blockbuster Wicked franchise is officially available to watch at home, and we show you how

The award-winning writer had been battling leukemia

Rapper teamed up with Bilt for a “Rent Free” campaign to celebrate the upcoming release of his fourth studio album

The film is billed as a 'raw and riveting look at fame, fallout, and the fine line between genius and self-destruction'

Five people are treated by paramedics after they were assaulted in a hospital in Merseyside.

Fionnghuala Shearman and her daughter Eve and son Ohner died in the house fire on Boxing Day.

The British heavyweight boxer suffered minor injuries in the crash, which killed two team members and close friends.

Cast members also impersonated Cameron Winter, Kate Bush, Björk, and more

The singer says the release is her “final act of self love this year”

U.K. police ended their investigation due to “insufficient evidence”

Lady Gaga in Harlequin Live: One Night Only premieres on YouTube at 4 p.m. PST/7 p.m. EST on December 24

The Iranian rial hit a record low against the US dollar on Sunday, prompting shopkeepers in Tehran to stage protests, which have quickly spread.

She shared her cancer diagnosis in an essay last month, writing that she had less than a year to live.

Arsenal end 2025 with a statement win and clear at the top of the Premier League - can they make it count this time?

Taylor Swift was the biggest-seller, with Olivia Dean and Sabrina Carpenter also topping the charts.

A workforce fluent in AI techniques will be essential to ensure U.S. leadership in artificial intelligence continues. Jeremy Waisome, an assistant professor at the University of Florida, discusses the Shark AI project, which has introduced artificial…

The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) announced today that the agency is reviewing the structure of the research and observational capabilities operated by the NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). NSF remains committed to…

The trio recorded “Sold Out” to benefit Everytown, the gun violence prevention organization

The actor allegedly rented the home around the same time he departed Celebrity Big Brother UK due to inappropriate behavior

The New England Patriots wide receiver and boyfriend of Cardi B is due for arraignment on Jan. 23

New collaboration is produced by Jay Versace and samples Birdman and Clipse's classic, "What Happened to That Boy"

A petition for a national homage to Brigitte Bardot - who died on Sunday - attracts more than 23,000 signatures.

Ronan Keating says he hopes his BBC One concert will help people who are finding things difficult.

Peter Parker wants people to forget he is Spider-Man, but Dr Strange’s spell goes wrong.

Gelsenkirchen Police say thieves used the "quiet" days after Christmas to break into the high street branch.

A train driver died and at least 40 people were injured in the crash on the single-track line to Machu Picchu.

BBC Radio 5 Live's boxing analyst Steve Bunce on the fatal car accident that killed two of Anthony Joshua's close friends.

The U.S. National Science Foundation is investing $6.2 million in 24 exceptional researchers who have been selected as NSF Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research...

With the end of the year quickly drawing to a close, here is a look back at the most-viewed Linux kernel news of 2025...

HarfBuzz 12.3 was just released for ending out 2025 with some nice performance improvements to this widely-used text shaping engine. HarfBuzz in turn is used by the prominent Linux desktop environments, Java, Flutter, various game engines, and apps like Chrome and Firefox for text shaping needs with…

The next Linux kernel cycle, which will be known as Linux 6.20 or more than likely Linux 7.0, is expected to land some IO_uring improvements for better IOPOLL polling...

Added to the Linux kernel earlier this year was the new X86_NATIVE_CPU Kconfig option to enable compiler optimizations for the local/native CPU in use when building the Linux kernel. In effect about ensuring that the "-march=native" compiler flag is set for the kernel build for optimizing the Linux …

NVIDIA's Olympus are the ARM64 cores found within the upcoming Vera CPU that will be paired with Rubin. Olympus cores are claimed to be twice as fast as NVIDIA's current CPU cores found in Grace and based on Neoverse-V2. Earlier this year the open-source compilers landed initial support for Olympus …

In demonstrating one of the gaps of man pages in modern times and likely having hindered the adoption of the Linux kernel's new mount API, it took more than six years for those system calls to be properly documented within man pages. The Linux "new" mount API was introduced back in mid-2019 with Lin…

The Simple DirectMedia Library that is widely-used by many cross-platform games and part of the Steam Runtime now has better support for handling more mouse button events under Wayland...

The open-source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers making up Mesa had another very successful year. Even with all the years being invested into Mesa largely by Intel, AMD, Valve, Red Hat, and others, the upward trajectory continues for Mesa on expanding the hardware support, punctually adding new Vulkan exte…

December happens to be a busy month for video editor releases in the open-source world. This month there's been the release of Flowblade 2.24, OpenShot 3.4, Kdenlive 25.12, and now there is Shotcut 25.12 before closing out the month and year...

There was more good health news about the COVID-19 vaccine for infants, kids and adults in December. There’s still time to get the shot this winter.

Data from Axial, the most-monitored underwater volcano, are helping geophysicists hone eruption predictions. For Axial, 2026 is their next bet.

Are we reading our dog’s moods right? Does TV really comfort them when we’re away? These pet stories were catnip to us this year.

A massive collision between two asteroid-sized bodies around a nearby star offers a rare look at the violent process of planetary construction.

An NIH scientist’s maverick approach reveals legal, ethical, moral, scientific and social challenges to developing potentially life-saving vaccines.

Ready for another amazing year of skywatching? 2025 was a wild year, with a steady parade of comets knocking on naked eye visibility, and one extra special interstellar comet, 3I/ATLAS.

The sky just keeps on turning into 2026. Watch for mutual eclipse season for the major moons of Jupiter, as the…

Fictional gems, debut thillers, cracking biographies and everything in between.

Five-year-old Edward can walk independently, his mum says, and she hopes he will lead a happy life.

The history of New Year's Eve street parties in Edinburgh goes back centuries.

Next year could be hugely significant for video games - here are the big things to keep an eye on.

The U.S. National Science Foundation National Quantum Virtual Laboratory (NSF NQVL) is coming into sharper focus with the selection of the first four teams that will design high-tech infrastructure...

The U.S. National Science Foundation Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (NSF SBE) has launched the Collaboratory to Advance Mathematics Education and Learning (CAMEL), a new $9 million investment aimed at transforming K-12…

The U.S. National Science Foundation and United Kingdom Research and Innovation (UKRI) are investing in eight joint research projects that could open the door to breakthroughs in quantum computing...

GNOME developer Sophie Herold has shared some interesting end-of-year code stats for the GNOME project. The "GNOME" codebase is up to 6,692,516 lines of code at the end of 2025 with 1,611,526 lines of that being from GNOME apps. Where the data gets interesting is on the programming language breakdow…

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) was involved in yet another first discovery recently available in pre-print form on arXiv from Cicero Lu at the Gemini Observatory and his co-authors. This time, humanity’s most advanced space telescope found UV-fluorescent carbon monoxide in a protoplanetary de…

For the first time, astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have spotted a pair of catastrophic collisions in another solar system. They were observing Fomalhaut, a bright star about 25 light-years away, and detected a pair of planetesimal collisions and their light-reflecting dust clouds. The …

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, a team of international researchers has discovered chemical fingerprints of gigantic primordial stars that were among the first to form after the Big Bang.

A team led by the Institute of Space Sciences (ICE-CSIC) analyzed samples of C-type asteroids in a recent study. Their findings support the idea that these asteroids can serve as a crucial source of materials if and when asteroid mining is realized.

A joint research team from South Korea has developed a fascinating wheel inspired by origami and Da Vinci bridge principles that could unlock access to the Moon’s most dangerous and scientifically useful terrain. The wheel expands from 230 mm to 500 mm in diameter on demand, allowing small rovers to…

It’s a familiar scene – the wee hours of the morning are ticking away and your head is bent over a stack of notes, desperately trying to cram as much knowledge into your head before the test in the morning. Because of the way our education system works, this process of hard studying has become […]

Restoration Ecology, Volume 33, Issue 8, November 2025.

Restoration Ecology, EarlyView.

Restoration Ecology, EarlyView.

10 November 2025, video address CHECK AGAINST DELIVERY Your Excellencies, distinguished delegates, colleagues and friends, ladies and gentlemen, On behalf of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change – the IPCC – I would like to thank you for the invitation to address the opening of the Earth In…

How to watch Africa Cup of Nations for free. Live stream Senegal vs. DR Congo in the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations for free.

As of Dec. 30, these are the best deals to help you cut down on screen time in 2026.