Graphics coverage.

Baby bonus to continue? We’ll consult widely, John Lee says

City leader says government to consult public and ‘collect wisdom’ before deciding whether incentive measures should carry on.…

Nvidia raises RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell GPU pricing to $13,250 — 55% increase over MSRP in a year's time

Blackwell Pro continues to go up in value amid the AI boom.…

Gaussian Point Splatting

The Population Bust

A revealing global journey into declining birth rates, ageing societies, and their far-reaching impact.…

Google's most underrated AI tool is actually a free graphics editing suite in disguise

It's packed with graphics editors that nobody's talking about…

Intel XPU Manager Adds Support For Arc Pro B65 + Arc Pro B70

Intel this week rolled out new versions of their open-source XPU Manager and Linux NPU driver software.…

New ESA industry report reveals 212 million Americans are gamers

Gram-Gram can't get enough of that wonderful friendslop…

ESA: 67% of Americans played video games for more than an hour in 2025

Average age of US players is 37, with half of all players aged 35 or older…

New "KRAID" Compiler Merged To Mesa For Panfrost/PanVK Drivers

As a follow-up to the article last week about KRAID as a new compiler for modern Arm Mali graphics, that initial code has now been merged to Mesa 26.2 for benefiting the Panfrost a…

I spent 6 months building a zero-std, header-only graphics ecosystem from scratch—including my own container library

I’m currently using an Intel UHD Graphics 610, an Intel Pentium Gold G6400, and 8GB of RAM. I installed Plasma 6 on FreeBSD, but it’s extremely laggy. Other desktop environments either have bugs or just don’t look good. Since I’m a student, I can’t upgrade my hardware. I also want to run lightweig

去年の出生数67万人で過去最少 想定より15年早く少子化進行

【NHK】去年1年間に生まれた日本人の子どもの数は、67万1000人余りと前の年より1万4000人余り減少し統計を取り始めてから最も少なくなったことが、厚生労働省のまとめでわかりました。また、1人の女性が産む子…

Chaos erupts at NY reparations hearing as ‘Foundational’ Black Americans clash with left-leaning groups

Freedmen Project supporters said New York's reparations eligibility should be based on lineage to withstand legal challenges and protect foundational Black Americans' claims.…

Scientists are finally moving away from the UN-backed climate doomerism that scared a generation off having babies

Much of the climate anxiety shaping millennial and Gen Z attitudes toward the future was manufactured through exaggerated predictions that are now being abandoned.…

Help! Issues with my new graphics card.

AMD has submitted more graphics driver changes for Linux 7.2, largely around bug fixes

PC won't boot with GPU installed but does boot with integrated graphics

Which graphics card ist better value? 5060ti 8gb or 9060xt 8gb for same price?

Saturday assorted links

1. Which foreign food chains have made it in NYC? 2. Testing products on AI-generated buyers. 3. Are Vatican pronouncements rising in status? 4. A saner Argentina take.  I notice t…

I'm currently thinking of Upgrading my Graphics card and want to know if it's the right move

Linux won't boot after installing new graphics card.

Voxel Space

Terrain rendering algorithm in less than 20 lines of code…

What's a good graphics card

AMD Submits More Graphics Driver Changes For Linux 7.2

On Friday was the latest AMDGPU/AMDKFD pull request landing more kernel graphics/compute driver improvements in DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 7.2 merge window happening in mid-June.…

ARB v1.0: A C++23 Articulated Rigid-Body Dynamics Library for Computer Graphics

‘Not our friends’: Outgoing Liberal chief’s blunt One Nation warning

Andrew Hirst used his departure after nine years as Liberal federal director to warn of One Nation’s rise, and that party membership skewed heavily male – and old.…

My first rust graphics project!

Health cover, welfare drive India’s social gains: National Family and Health Survey

That’s the message from the results of the latest NFHS –– the sixth round, conducted in 2023-24 –– released by the ministry of health and family welfare. | India News…

National Family Health Survey-6: Kerala leads in women’s obesity and NCD prevalence

NFHS-6 reveals Kerala's obesity crisis and rising NCDs, despite improvements in child health and immunization coverage.…

The Democrats’ Greatest Fear: The GOP Will Turn James Talarico Into a Creepy, Unmanly Weirdo

According to court records, I have two children. Because I’m so gosh-darn manly, both my children ar…

Census in West Bengal to start from August 1: CM Suvendu

West Bengal's Census 2027 will take place from August 1 to February's end, emphasizing public participation and governance.…

Screw identification for Graphics Card Bracket

10 Friday AM Reads

My end-of-week morning reads: • One Million New-Car Buyers Are Gone and They’re Not Coming Back Soon: WSJ on the demand hole left by affordability — a million households permanentl…

This supply chain Sankey diagram for an Nvidia AI megachip is a handy guide to understanding just how easy it is to ruin the prices of graphics cards

One hiccup over there, a price increase here, and our precious GPUs become a whole lot more expensive.…

Japan Lost 3M People in Five Years

Japan’s population fell by more than 3 million over the past five years, a record drop that underscores the depths of the country’s accelerating demographic crisis.…

Intel To Support DRM Background Color Property With Linux 7.2

Introduced in Linux 7.1 is a dedicated CRTC background color property for DRM graphics/display drivers…

Linux 7.2 To Bring Graphics Driver Fix For Old Integrated Graphics On Intel Sandy Bridge

For those still making use of Intel Sandy Bridge processors from 15 years ago, the upcoming Linux 7.2 kernel is bringing a fix for an engine reset issue when using the old integrat…

86% of Hong Kong children get preferred school places as applications plunge 16%

Education Bureau reveals 14,093 children allocated place in one of their top three choices under central allocation stage.…

Japan’s 2025 census reflects steepest fall in population on record, data shows

Preliminary data shows the nation's headcount shrank 2.5%, the third straight decline in the nationwide survey conducted every five years.…

Oh No! I've invented SVG badly!

George Beglan: The tax system has a hidden free-rider problem

Child-rearing generates massive public returns. We price it as a private cost. That is not sustainable. A tax system designed in the mid-twentieth century for a very different demo…

Japan population sees record five-year drop: Census

A preliminary tally of Japan’s census found that the population slipped to 123 million people in 2025. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.…

Australia's declining fertility rate impacts families and our not-to-distant future

With one child or none becoming more common, we asked Australians what they want.…

日本の人口は1億2305万人 減少幅は過去最大 国勢調査速報値

【NHK】去年行われた国勢調査の速報値によりますと、日本の人口は1億2305万人で、前回・2020年と比べて309万7000人減りました。5年ごとの調査で3回連続で減少し、減少幅は過去最大となりました。 総…

Stuck between three graphics cards, 3070ti, 9060xt 16gb, or 9070xt 16gb.

UK Births drop for fourth straight year as costs and dread pile up

Last year was the quietest year for maternity wards in England and Wales since 1977, according to the BBC's reporting on the latest Office for National Statistics data. Fewer than……

What America’s Fastest-Growing Cities Tell Us About the Future

These communities aren’t debating diversity. They’re building it by accident, and profiting enormously, writes John Hope Bryant.…

NVIDIA DLSS 5: The future of graphics or the end of art?

NVIDIA's new generative enhancements are impressive -- but also highly controversial.…

Demographic changes due to illegal migration not limited to border areas: MHA

Demographic changes due to illegal migration not limited to border areas: MHA | India News…

Looking to Upgrade my graphics card, any recommendations?

Centre notifies resolution on high-level committee on demographic changes

MHA announces resolution addressing challenges from demographic changes due to illegal immigration and their impact on governance and social cohesion.…

AssetGen: Deployable 3D Asset Generation at Interactive Speed

While 3D generation is progressing rapidly, recent work has often focused on obtaining high-resolution assets, leaving user experience and deployability as afterthoughts. We presen…

I'm learning about PCs, is this the right way to choose a graphics card?

I need a new graphics card!

Govt panel to examine 'unnatural demographic changes' due to illegal immigration

NEW DELHI: Following up on PM Modi's announcement in last year's Independence Day speech, govt on Monday constituted a high-level committee to scientifically examine the nature, ca…

Non-whites set to become majority in US for first time by 2050 — with NY, NJ and Conn. reflecting same change

In 1980, the United States was 80% white, but that figure is expected to drop to 47% by 2050 and 44% by 2060.…

Best 007 First Light graphics settings for no lag and max FPS

The name is Bond!…

Incanter: A Clojure-based R-like platform for statistical computing and graphics

The First GPU Out of China Can’t Compete Against Nvidia… Yet

We desperately need alternatives to Nvidia's skyrocketing GPU prices.…

Germany news: Childfree adults to pay more for elder care

A new draft bill from the Health Ministy would see taxes raised for adults without children to support Germany's flagging elderly care system. DW has more.…