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NVIDIA Hiring Engineers to Optimize Proton and Vulkan API Performance on Linux  TechPowerUp

NVIDIA Hiring Engineers to Optimize Proton and Vulkan API Performance on Linux  TechPowerUp

More than two decades after Maine became the first state to hand laptops to middle schoolers -- distributing 17,000 Apple machines across 243 schools in 2002 -- neuroscientist Jared Cooney Horvath told a U.S. Senate committee earlier this year that Gen Z is the first generation in modern history to score lower on standardized tests than the one before it. The U.S. spent more than $30 billion in 2024 alone putting laptops and tablets in classrooms, and Horvath cited PISA data from 15-year-olds worldwide showing a stark correlation between time on school computers and worse scores. A 2014 study of 3,000 university students found they were off-task on their machines nearly two-thirds of the time. Fortune reported back in 2017 that Maine's own test scores hadn't budged in the 15 years since the program launched, and then-governor Paul LePage called it a "massive failure." Horvath framed the generation's eroding capabilities not as a personal failure but a policy one, calling them victims of a failed pedagogical experiment.

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Clonezilla Live 3.3.1 Released with Linux 6.18 LTS, Improved BitLocker Support  9to5Linux

D7VK 1.4 Released With More Improvements For Old Direct3D On Vulkan Under Linux  Phoronix

'We have a new major number purely because I'm easily confused and not good with big numbers' says Linus Torvalds about Linux 7.0 rc1  PC Gamer

'We have a new major number purely because I'm easily confused and not good with big numbers' says Linus Torvalds about Linux 7.0 rc1  PC Gamer

An anonymous reader shares a report: Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich and VP of Developer Community Scott Hanselman have written a paper arguing that senior software engineers must mentor junior developers to prevent AI coding agents from hollowing out the profession's future skills base. The paper, Redefining the Engineering Profession for AI, is based on several assumptions, the first of which is that agentic coding assistants "give senior engineers an AI boost... while imposing an AI drag on early-in-career (EiC) developers to steer, verify and integrate AI output." In an earlier podcast on the subject, Russinovich said this basic premise -- that AI is increasing productivity only for senior developers while reducing it for juniors -- is a "hot topic in all our customer engagements... they all say they see it at their companies." [...] The logical outcome is that "if organizations focus only on short-term efficiency -- hiring those who can already direct AI -- they risk hollowing out the next generation of technical leaders," Russinovich and Hanselman state in the paper.

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Linux Foundation Announces the Formation of the React Foundation  PR Newswire

Google Renews Platinum Membership with the Linux Foundation, Continuing its Ongoing Support for the Open Source Community  PR Newswire

New Linux Foundation Report Shows Active Open Source Contribution Delivers 2-5x ROI, While Passive Consumption Increases Costly Technical Debt  PR Newswire

Linux Foundation Announces the Formation of the React Foundation  PR Newswire

Google Renews Platinum Membership with the Linux Foundation, Continuing its Ongoing Support for the Open Source Community  PR Newswire

New Linux Foundation Report Shows Active Open Source Contribution Delivers 2-5x ROI, While Passive Consumption Increases Costly Technical Debt  PR Newswire

Linux Foundation Announces the Election of Panasonic Automotive Systems' Shojiro Nakao and Toshiba Corporation's Yoshitake Kobayashi to the Board of Directors  PR Newswire

Linux Foundation Announces the Formation of the React Foundation  Yahoo Finance

Linux Foundation Announces the Formation of the React Foundation  PR Newswire

Google Renews Platinum Membership with the Linux Foundation, Continuing its Ongoing Support for the Open Source Community  PR Newswire

New Linux Foundation Report Shows Active Open Source Contribution Delivers 2-5x ROI, While Passive Consumption Increases Costly Technical Debt  PR Newswire

Linux Foundation Announces the Election of Panasonic Automotive Systems' Shojiro Nakao and Toshiba Corporation's Yoshitake Kobayashi to the Board of Directors  PR Newswire