The first-generation Nissan Leaf was an incredible achievement for the company and for the industry. A mass-market EV that wasn’t priced out of reach was something the industry needed at the time.
That’s important. Since then, things have stagnated. To say that the 2026 Leaf is the most important EV launch for Nissan since the original car would be an understatement. It must get it right, because the competition is too good not to.
Starting things off, the car is available with two battery options. There is a 52 kWh base pack and a 75 kWh longer-range option. Each option has an active thermal management system—a first for Leaf—to address DC fast-charging concerns. Those batteries also deliver more range, with up to 303 miles (488 km) on the S+ model.
Also featured in this post are videos about FTP tests, training in the heat, and winning a Zwift race.
Zwift LEVEL 100 Unlock Ride // Livestream
Watch as Shane Miller, GPLama, streams his last ride before hitting level 100.
3 Months of Training – Did My FTP Improve? | Zwift Ramp Test
Every 3 months, Lake District Cyclist does an FTP test to track his progress. Catch his latest FTP test to see how much he has improved with his recent training.
Why You SUCK IN THE HEAT (And How to Fix It)
Struggling to train through the summer heat? Everything is Photogenic breaks down how you can train better in the heat.
I Finally Won a Zwift Race
After lots of training and racing, Adam from Road to A finally won his first Zwift race. Watch as he breaks the race down and shares how he secured the win.
The “Fresh Mix” Tiny Races! ZRS 230-350, Zone 2
Beeblebrox returns to the Tiny Races after a 16-month hiatus, and experiences all the joy and pain over this tough 4-race set.
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This article identifies flexible and useful diary tools for the Linux desktop. With features like tag support, encryption, multiple journals, and live searches, Linux diary software makes it easier to keep track of events as they occur.
Oh, Gold. It’s not April 1, it’s just a weird surprise. Donald Trump is launching a phone called Trump Mobile, which comes with wireless plans (starting at $47.25) and even a phone called the T1 Phone.
During the announcement event at Trump Tower in New York City, Donald Trump Jr. said they were building something for “people who have been underserved,” and to “make sure that real Americans could get true value from their mobile carriers.”
(Trump Mobile’s only plan is roughly double that of equivalent offerings at other low-cost carriers, like Mint Mobile and Boost Mobile.)
It’s not just phone service, however: The plan will supposedly include a telemedicine service powered by Doctegrity, roadside assistance provided by Drive America and mobile device protection by Omega Mobile Care.
The T1 Phone will be a gold-accented (of course) smartphone manufactured in the United States. So expect to factor that into what it might eventually cost. (Bloomberg has reported it will be a $500 device.)
According to the Trump Mobile site, the T1 phone will have 6.8-inch AMOLED screen with a 120Hz refresh rate, a rear three-camera setup with a 50MP main camera and a “5000mAh long life camera,” which we’re all guessing is meant to say battery.
Earlier this year, reports teased that Meta was working with Oakley on smart glasses, and it seems they’ve almost finished the project. A new Instagram account called @oakleymeta has popped up, and its first post teased an announcement for this Friday (June 20). Instagram’s own official account and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg shared the clip on their stories. Unlike the Ray-Ban iteration, these new smart glasses are said to be for cyclists and other athletes.
Major updates include new live update notifications.
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Google has released Android 16 to early compatible handsets. The company says new devices will come preloaded with the OS in “the coming months.” As usual, it’s first coming to Google’s own Pixel phones. The biggest noticeable change might be live updates in notifications. This means actions like ride shares and food deliveries will get a progress bar directly in the notifications. Camera wise, Android 16 adds automatic night mode scene detection, hybrid auto exposure and more precise color temperature adjustments. UltraHDR images have been improved, with support for HEIC encoding.
Anti-Tesla organizations repeated the test-drive trial eight times.
Tesla has reportedly pushed back the rollout of its upcoming all-electric, fully autonomous car called the Cybercab. Meanwhile, a recent demonstration in Austin, Texas, showed a Tesla Model Y running through a school bus’ flashing lights and stop signs and repeatedly hitting child-size mannequins. The Dawn Project conducted the tests by , alongside Tesla Takedown and ResistAustin, and showed Tesla’s Full Self-Driving software repeating the same mistake eight times.
Tesla’s autonomous driving feature is formally known as Full Self-Driving (Supervised) and “requires a fully attentive driver.” Tesla even has a warning that says, “failure to follow these instructions could cause damage, serious injury or death.”
The Switch 2 Pro controller is the most refined gamepad Nintendo has ever made. It’s just a shame that, at $85, it’s so expensive and doesn’t have Hall effect sticks. There are also a decent number of third-party options, if you’re looking for more refined controls.
Badminton Time VR brings the multiplayer arcade sports game to PlayStation VR2 today.
Developed by Fishing Cactus, Badminton Time VR first appeared last year on Nintendo Switch before getting a VR version on Quest. Now available on PlayStation VR2, this family-friendly multiplayer game comes with mini-games, an arcade mode with power up items, and a more realistic mode for recreating the popular racket sport.
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I went hands-on with the new PlayStation VR2 edition before today’s launch. After spending some time with the surprisingly expansive cartoony avatar creator, which also hides the welcome comfort setting for choosing between left and right-handed gameplay, it isn’t long before you start diving in.
At its core, Badminton Time VR offers a faithful recreation of the sport that’s serviceable without ever being truly exciting. While it’s hardly exactly pushing the headset’s limits, there’s an enjoyably colorful range of courts ranging from tropical locations to the North Pole. Both arcade mode and realistic mode feature a good range of gameplay modes; tournaments, AI matches, online against friends, and ranked options are all here.
Arcade mode tries to keep things interesting with power ups you can use against opponents. VR makes items like the octopus obscuring your vision more challenging, while others include ghost shuttlecocks your opponent can’t see. It’s an appealing set of gimmicks for a younger audience, though realistic mode is my preferred choice as I enjoy playing a more direct adaptation of the sport.
I’m not fond of the mini-game selection, though. Whether it’s trying to shoot your shuttlecock into a treasure chest for points or hitting balloons of a specific color, they’re quite simplistic. Hitting the targets requires a level of precision that’s difficult to achieve without the weight feedback. Haptic feedback only goes so far, the auto aim is often noticeable, and I can’t see myself coming back.
We’ve seen no end of VR tennis games before like Tennis On-Court and First Person Tennis, so I’m glad Badminton finally gets one too. While it benefits from a colorful presentation that’s got plenty of gameplay modes, it’s just not that compelling and often feels shallow. If you’re after a new family-friendly sports game, Badminton Time VR just about does the job.
Merged recently for the Linux 6.16 kernel was initial support for Intel QAT Gen6 hardware. A new qat_6xxx driver was added for supporting the next-gen QuickAssist Technology accelerator IP being found with upcoming Intel Xeon processors. Patches being prepared now for the Linux 6.17 kernel are building out a new decompression service for that next-generation hardware…
Merged for Linux 6.14 at the beginning of the year were the Intel THC drivers for supporting the Touch Host Controller IP found in modern Intel Core Ultra laptops for dealing with the touchpad, touchscreen, and related touch-control functionality. This open-source driver is still being built-out ahead of next-generation Core Ultra laptops hitting the market…
The Dbus-Broker project from the BUS1/systemd developers is out with its first update in more than one year for this D-Bus implementation that aims to be more reliable and higher performing than D-Bus itself…
sciencehabit shares a report from Science.org: The newly discovered microbe provisionally known as Sukunaarchaeum isn’t a virus. But like viruses, it seemingly has one purpose: to make more of itself. As far as scientists can tell from its genome — the only evidence of its existence so far — it’s a parasite that provides nothing to the single-celled creature it calls home. Most of Sukunaarchaeum’s mere 189 protein-coding genes are focused on replicating its own genome; it must steal everything else it needs from its host Citharistes regius, a dinoflagellate that lives in ocean waters all over the world. Adding to the mystery of the microbe, some of its sequences identify it as archaeon, a lineage of simple cellular organisms more closely related to complex organisms like us than to bacteria like Escherichia coli.
The discovery of Sukunaarchaeum’s bizarrely viruslike way of living, reported last month in a bioRxiv preprint, “challenges the boundaries between cellular life and viruses,” says Kate Adamala, a synthetic biologist at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities who was not involved in the work. “This organism might be a fascinating living fossil — an evolutionary waypoint that managed to hang on.” Adamala adds that if Sukunaarchaeum really does represent a microbe on its way to becoming a virus, it could teach scientists about how viruses evolved in the first place. “Most of the greatest transitions in evolution didn’t leave a fossil record, making it very difficult to figure out what were the exact steps,” she says. “We can poke at existing biochemistry to try to reconstitute the ancestral forms — or sometimes we get a gift from nature, in the form of a surviving evolutionary intermediate.”
What’s already clear: Sukunaarchaeum is not alone. When team leader Takuro Nakayama, an evolutionary microbiologist at Tsukuba, and his colleagues sifted through publicly available DNA sequences extracted from seawater all over the world, they found many sequences similar to those of Sukunaarchaeum. “That’s when we realized that we had not just found a single strange organism, but had uncovered the first complete genome of a large, previously unknown archaeal lineage,” Nakayama says.
The convergence of AIOps (Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations) and Linux expertise is redefining the IT landscape, creating unprecedented opportunities for professionals who adapt. As organizations prioritize automation, observability, and security in complex cloud-native environments, Linux remains the backbone of modern infrastructure and AIOps is its intelligent nervous system. Here’s how these forces are shaping careers and how to stay ahead.
LONG BEACH, CALIFORNIA – I’m on the sun deck of the Queen Mary with Steve Lukas on the release day of his app to Meta’s storefront.
Lukas’ 15-year-old son Christian joined him for Augmented World Expo last week, and pressed the button a few hours earlier on stage to launch Jigsaw Night into early access for buyers.
A gentle breeze whips away the heat of the sun from our skin as we breathe in the fresh ocean air and talk about what he’s built over the last seven months. Or eight years, depending on how he looks at it. We’re piecing together a jigsaw puzzle and filling in the last hole in the picture on the box with a satisfying click. Each of us is wearing a Quest 3 headset.
“I don’t know what that looked like to you,” Lukas apologizes for the limits of his code at launch.
“Can you do me a favor and hold [the puzzle] and walk over here?” I asked him, gesturing to the side of the ship.
He carries it over and hangs the finished puzzle in the air as we look out over the water to the Aquarium of the Pacific.
“This is nice,” he says.
“This is nice,” I agree.
“Why did this take so long and why does this feel so good,” I ask him.
“I’ve been working on shared spaces for a little over eight years,” Lukas replies.
“Ever since I integrated ARKit, the Microsoft HoloLens and the Vive, and from that I was able to get 6DOF controllers with an AR transparent headset and anyone could see me using ARKIt. And I said, that’s a magical moment. But it takes all this tech to make that happen. And so from there, I’ve been looking at all the different ways to make that happen easier. And the progress of technology has brought these tools to do automatic spatial anchors, automatic detection, and I had encountered that there are folks who said, ‘you can’t do it manually, it needs to be automatic.’
“That’s like saying, ‘we won’t make cars until we get rid of the stick shift.’ And then you have years that you don’t learn. Because once you get past ‘this works’, then you go onto other problems. Thinking about these problems hasn’t been done by that many people. Some have been doing it very well, but the number of people looking at these problems is smaller than I expected it to be.”
After our puzzling session, which goes on longer than intended because we can’t stop talking, he shows me the component list of his Unity project. Among the neatly sorted pieces in Unity:
World Anchoring
Meta Quest Platform
Puzzle Generation
Puzzle Tracking
Puzzle Database
Music Box
Voice Chat
Mixed Reality Utility Kit
Wit.Ai
LivCam
FacebookSDK
Leaderboards
Shop
When I saw him before the AWE show floor opened on Tuesday, he wasn’t certain Jigsaw Night was going to launch. After I completed my single-player demo, and told him I thought it was fantastic work, he committed to the plan he executed with his family on Thursday.
If you have a pair of Quest 2, 3, 3S, or Pro headsets that run Horizon OS, Jigsaw Night is currently one of the best experiences you can buy from Meta for those headsets to have in the same room with someone else.
Jigsaw Night isn’t perfect yet, but it is already better than most apps because that component list does some things people have only experienced in business or research labs with access to thousands of dollars of equipment.
For instance, Lukas uses the terms “co-presence” and “co-location” to mean two different things, while other developers without his understanding of the medium might use them interchangeably. In Jigsaw Night, you can be co-located in the same physical space as several other players also in the room with you. Or you can have a couple of people remote in from another location using co-presence, sending their body movements or voice over the internet, and receiving back yours in return. From this, you all have a shared reality — a playground sharing an architecture for spending time together — and the idea is so important that a stupid number of Silicon Valley marketing leaders have tried to brand this experience in different ways.
Making a shared space in headsets of any kind that allows for both co-presence and co-located interactions is exceedingly rare. It’s the stuff pursued by platform giants like Microsoft, Apple, Google, and Meta, as well as by startups hoping for acquisition by one of those larger companies. In essence, the race to make a shared reality for people is both competitive and vulnerable to rapidly changing executive priorities. This means many developers have opted to avoid using these early tools, helping them to avoid platform lock-in and the limited market opportunity associated with it.
Not Lukas and not Jigsaw Night. This isn’t just a puzzle game. It’s a study in both the blockers and opportunities in front of the entire XR industry. Lukas’ work might as well be a sample project demonstrating best practices for mixed reality design on Horizon OS — the sample project Meta should have made for developers and headset buyers so they can understand the potential of this mixed reality platform.
I’ve written about Lukas’ work twice before. First when his son Christian, then a 3rd grader, demonstrated this same essential concept to his classmates in 2017 on HoloLens. Then I covered Lukas’ work again in 2018 as Magic Leap shipped its first version of limited field of view high cost Augmented Reality goggles as a group of developers showed off this general idea. The same idea that Lukas is now bringing directly to VR and mixed reality via Quest headsets.
One particularly impactful moment testing Jigsaw Night came when I activated the LIV virtual camera. The camera is more fully featured than some mobile phone cameras, allowing for angles in first-person or third-person, adjustment for FOV and stabilization, as well as for a selfie cam that can hang in midair or be handheld.
The magic is that the LIV camera is technically capable of only filming what appears in your shared virtual reality space. The camera cannot capture your physical environment, even while you are looking at it, as the headset passes AR through VR. The feature only works because Jigsaw Night triggers a scan of your physical room, giving the headset and apps a semantic understanding of its shape as well as the furniture, windows, and doors inside. The feature has been available in Meta’s ecosystem since early 2024, and still today very few developers utilize it.
A four-minute video I captured with the LIV tool shows the effect of the combination my first time testing it out. Inside the headset, I can still see my hotel room aboard the permanently docked ship in Long Beach using passthrough mixed reality. On the LIV selfie cam I see only VR, the same as the viewer sees, using Meta’s latest avatar tech and my room represented as a sparse representation of what actually surrounds me. I only really understand what’s happening at the end of the video, when I see my own reflection in a physical mirror and end the recording.
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Many of the videos you see on UploadVR showing gameplay are often not our first times attempting to do what you see depicted. It often takes practice. For instance, learning through trial and error how a developer implements the simple human action of grasping an object.
The 4-minute video I embedded above is my first time trying LIV integration in his app, and what you see is that it just worked, demonstrating what amounts to a master class in interaction design. Lukas took the effort to support both pinch and grasp gestures for holding things with hand tracking, and supports the same with both the trigger and grip buttons on controllers. He even supports the use of one each — tracked controller for advanced interactions in one hand and just your hand for the other.
That video is what led me to invite Lukas to the Queen Mary for a puzzling session together on the top deck. I wanted to test co-location away from the Augmented World Expo show floor, where earlier in the week I saw him concerned as he struggled with the intense wireless interference. In fact, our first article on Tuesday was only published that day because Lukas’ and I exited the event so he could Airdrop video to me illustrating the work.
I left my controller in the room, put my headset in a bag, and brought Lukas up to the top of the ship. A little while later, Scott Stein from CNET joined us. Lukas put on a headset and supplied Stein with one too. I logged onto the terrible hotel Wi-Fi and clicked “Party Up”. That activates an invisible handshake between the three headsets and creates a Meta Shared Spatial Anchor, which essentially locks our digital content to the same anchoring point in the world.
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And then we were chatting as we pieced together a double-sided puzzle. Stein and I reached for the same piece from opposite sides, bumping hands and then laughing.
Lukas and I believe in about 20 years, children will live in a world where they cannot conceive what it was like being unable to simply hand purely digital 3D content to a friend or family member. Right now in 2025, doing that is such a rarity an early access app from a single developer showed up the entire market by integrating features which should be standard, but aren’t yet.
Jigsaw Night gets so much right out of the box that it becomes a more tangible piece of our world, creating memories in places VR headsets don’t usually go — at least not yet.
“I feel like the focus of the immersive technology conversation has recently moved away from co-present collaboration before it’s even really truly begun,” Lukas wrote me over direct message. “This industry is always looking to tomorrow’s technology to solve mainstream adoption, but really it’s all possible right here for us now. I just hope there are enough of us out there that are still focused on it, and am grateful that we now have a framework – and maybe even a new medium – to have that conversation.”
While scouring the exhibition centre floor at the Outdoor Trade Show in Liverpool, we spotted an unreleased Bollé Avio MIPS helmet in a rather distinctive colourway, plus some new Striver sunglasses.
The Avio, which is described as Bollé’s ultimate high-performance road helmet, is designed with venting in mind rather than aero gains.
Deep internal channels and large vents are used in conjunction with small exhaust ports. This is said to create less pressure at the rear of the helmet for extra air circulation.
The Avio MIPS helmet is said to be made from recycled material. Nick Clark / Our Media
This latest helmet has a ‘Coloria Matte’ colourway that features an array of vibrant colours.
Bollé says the process of applying the design (we assume a hydro dipping method) results in slight variations, meaning each helmet will be unique.
As with the regular Avio MIPS, the helmet uses Bollé’s Opti-Dock glasses retention system on the inside of the temple vents to keep your glasses secured when not in use.
MIPS ensures impacts are dissipated around the head. Nick Clark / Our Media
It also uses the MIPS Air safety system, which is the lightest MIPS brain protection system.
Bollé claims the helmet weighs in at 250g, and while the retail price is yet to be confirmed for this special edition, the regular version retails for £275.
The arms of the glasses feature central cut-outs. Nick Clark / Our Media
Also on the Bollé stand were its new Striver glasses, which feature a visor-style frame similar to many of the best cycling sunglasses.
The Striver glasses feature modern styling Nick Clark / Our Media
The new sunnies use Bollé’s proprietary lenses, which are said to be made using 50 per cent recycled material.
While the release of the glasses is yet to be confirmed, we’re told pricing will be around the £100 mark.
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Denmark has deployed four uncrewed robotic sailboats (known as “Voyagers”) for a three-month trial to boost maritime surveillance amid rising tensions in the Baltic region. The Associated Press reports: Built by Alameda, California-based company Saildrone, the vessels will patrol Danish and NATO waters in the Baltic and North Seas, where maritime tensions and suspected sabotage have escalated sharply since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022. Two of the Voyagers launched Monday from Koge Marina, about 40 kilometers (25 miles) south of the Danish capital, Copenhagen. Powered by wind and solar energy, these sea drones can operate autonomously for months at sea. Saildrone says the vessels carry advanced sensor suites — radar, infrared and optical cameras, sonar and acoustic monitoring. Their launch comes after two others already joined a NATO patrol on June 6.
Saildrone founder and CEO Richard Jenkins compared the vessels to a “truck” that carries sensors and uses machine learning and artificial intelligence to give a “full picture of what’s above and below the surface” to about 20 to 30 miles (30 to 50 kilometers) in the open ocean. He said that maritime threats like damage to undersea cables, illegal fishing and the smuggling of people, weapons and drugs are going undetected simply because “no one’s observing it.” Saildrone, he said, is “going to places … where we previously didn’t have eyes and ears.” The Danish Defense Ministry says the trial is aimed at boosting surveillance capacity in under-monitored waters, especially around critical undersea infrastructure such as fiber-optic cables and power lines.
Amazon has officially announced the dates for its next annual shopping event, and there’s a twist this year. Prime Day 2025 will be four days long, running from July 8 through July 11. A departure from previous years in which Prime Day was a 48-hour affair, this year the shopping event will span nearly an entire week, bringing thousands of exclusive, Prime-only deals on everything from electronics to fashion.
In addition to spurring a large number of sales in a short period of time, Amazon Prime Day has always been a way for the online retail giant to increase the overall number of Prime subscribers. Prime Day isn’t necessarily a perk of the $139-per-year service like access to Prime Video content or free two-day shipping are, but it certainly helps that most deals you’ll find on Amazon during the event are exclusively available to Prime members.
With the event being four days long this year, we expect to see some one-day-only deals as well as sales that span the entirety of Prime Day(s) proper. We usually recommend buying things on your list as soon as you see them go on sale just to avoid the disappointment that comes with items selling out, and this time is no different. That’s especially true for deals that as listed as “limited time,” or any Lightning Deals that only last a few hours.
Prime Day in July has been the main shopping event for Amazon for a decade now, but that hasn’t stopped the company from expanding the event’s reach. “October Prime Day” has become a mainstay in the fall, and Amazon’s Big Spring Sale is a relatively new shopping event that has taken place in March over the past couple of years. No word yet on if October Prime Day 2025 will be a thing, but we believe it’s almost guaranteed at this point.
If you do plan on putting that Prime membership to use next month, you can turn to Engadget to find the tech deals worth your month during the two-day event. Unsurprisingly, Amazon Prime Day is one of the best times of the year to get Amazon devices, since most of them will likely be down to all-time-low prices. But we also expect to see worthwhile sales on headphones, robot vacuums, laptops, SSDs and much more. You can also follow Engadget Deals on X for the latest news during Prime Day.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/big-tech/amazon-prime-day-2025-dates-officially-announced-the-shopping-event-returns-from-july-8-to-11-050449132.html?src=rss
You can grab a number of games from Amazon at no cost if you have a Prime subscription in the days leading up to Prime Day 2025, which takes place from July 8 to July 11. Starting today, June 17 at 12 PM Eastern time, you can get Dungeon of the Endless Definitive Edition without paying for it through the Amazon Games App. In the roguelike game, you take on the role of a prison spaceship survivor who has to fight off several floors of creatures after your escape pod crashes into a strange planet. Amazon will also give you free access to TOEM, a photography game by Swedish studio Something We Made, through a GOG code. You’re a photographer in this game who has to solve puzzles using the character’s camera.
In addition to those two, you can also get Tomb Raider I-III Remastered Starring Lara Croft at no cost through GOG. It includes all the original three Tomb Raider Adventures games, all its expansions and secret levels. Saints Row 2, an open world action-adventure game that’s a direct sequel of the first, is free via GOG, as well. In it, you play the same character in the first Saints Row, except you wake up after a coma to find your gang disbanded. You can also claim Saints Row IV: Re-Elected and Star Wars: Rebellion for free via GOG.
Mordheim: City of the Damned, The Abandoned Planet, Station to Station and Death Squared are also all free to claim. Dark Envoy and FATE: Undiscovered Realms will be available on June 19, while Thief: Deadly Shadows, Jupiter Hell and Gallery of Things: Reveries will be available on June 26.
Prime Gaming comes bundled with all your other Amazon Prime membership perks. It gives you access to a rotating selection of free games, in-game content, along with a free monthly Twitch subscription. Prime costs $15 a month or $139 a year, but you can get a free 30-day trial when you sign up if you’re unsure about paying for it.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/gaming/pc/amazon-is-giving-away-some-great-games-in-the-lead-up-to-prime-day-050012540.html?src=rss
Arch Linux transitions wine and wine-staging packages to pure WoW64 builds, removing the multi-lib dependency. Thus, Wine on Arch can now run 32-bit Windows applications seamlessly on 64-bit systems without requiring separate 32-bit libraries.
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the BBC: Social media and video networks have become the main source of news in the US, overtaking traditional TV channels and news websites, research suggests. More than half (54%) of people get news from networks like Facebook, X and YouTube — overtaking TV (50%) and news sites and apps (48%), according to the Reuters Institute. “The rise of social media and personality-based news is not unique to the United States, but changes seem to be happening faster — and with more impact — than in other countries,” a report found. Podcaster Joe Rogan was the most widely-seen personality, with almost a quarter (22%) of the population saying they had come across news or commentary from him in the previous week. The report’s author Nic Newman said the rise of social video and personality-driven news “represents another significant challenge for traditional publishers.” Other key findings from the report include:
– TikTok is the fastest-growing social and video platform, now used for news by 17% globally (up 4% from last year).
– AI chatbot use for news is increasing, especially among under-25s, where it’s twice as popular as in the general population.
– Most people believe AI will reduce transparency, accuracy, and trust in news.
– Across all age groups, trusted news brands with proven accuracy remain valued, even if used less frequently.
We benchmark a Raspberry Pi 5 (16GB RAM) against a DreamQuest N100 Mini PC. The Pi 5 runs Raspberry Pi OS (Debian-based), whereas the N100 runs Ubuntu 25.04. The tests are run using the Phoronix Test Suite.
