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Mesa 25.3 Merges Vulkan WSI Support For Using Atomic Mode-Setting

A nearly five year old merge request was merged today to Mesa Git for Q4's Mesa 25.3 release. This merge transitions the Vulkan windowing system integration (WSI) from using the DRM "legacy" kernel mode-setting APIs over to the modern atomic mode-setting interfaces...
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ICE Arrests Criminal Illegal Alien Who Concealed and Abused Body of a Missing Woman After Sanctuary City Judge Freed Illegal Alien onto Streets of Chicago (Department of Homeland Security)

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I’m a writer from the Balkans. Why do people assume I only know about war and tragedy? | Ana Schnabl

Readers lose out when English-speaking gatekeepers decide what books are sold and whose stories get told I attended an American writers’ conference in Texas, just before the world plunged into Covid-19 lockdowns.
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Will Alpine co-wrote Microsoft's manifesto on how AI will be a powerful force for good for climate change In a new interview, Alpine disavows the manifesto, saying he believes Microsoft used his work to distract from the much larger climate harms the…



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Is Trump Really Turning the Tables on the Epstein Story? The Beltway Press's Favorite Source Thinks So. (Ben Mathis-Lilley/Slate)

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The Art of the Settlement ... For weeks, according to multiple people familiar with the matter ... (Oliver Darcy/Status)

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#BBC Wafcon 2024: Nigeria vs South Africa and Morocco vs Ghana in last four w.st/8du8
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FEMA search and rescue chief resigns after frustration with Texas flood response (Gabe Cohen/CNN)

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