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Climate Scientists Aghast at How Bad Things Are Getting, and So Fast
Climate scientists, who have long watched as global warming rears its ugly head, are astonished at accelerating temperatures.
The Ugly Politics of the Beautiful Game
Alex Shephard on greed, corruption, and the enduring magic of the World Cup
College Football 27, the good, bad and ugly. Plus: World Cup lessons
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NFL Analyst Claims Vikings’ Locker Room Could Get Ugly
The Minnesota Vikings will host a quarterback competition at training camp in three weeks, and for the most part, fans […]
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House Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-OR) released a report on the state of maternal health care in the United States one year after President Trump signed his Big Ugly Bill into law.
Derek Shelton Addresses Minnesota Twins' Ugly Night Against the Yankees
Minnesota went 1-for-12 with runners in scoring position on Friday, but the bigger picture still looks promising.
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House Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone Jr., D-N.J., and Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today released their latest report monitoring the devastating impact of Donald Trump and Republicans’ Big Ugly Bill, which has forced millions of Americans to face skyrocketing health care costs and even drop coverage entirely.
Imai Implodes Again, Astros Blasted by Twins 8-3
It’s never a good sign when your first mile feels like you’ve already run a full marathon. For Tatsuyi Imai, the outing was quick and ugly. Twins 8 Astros 3. Imai’s early game struggles were on full display before an announced crowd of 29,179. In the opening several minutes, Trevor Larnach […]
Justices Clash on Whether Race Played a Role in Trump’s Bid to Deport Haitians
The split mirrored one that has long divided Americans: how seriously to take the president’s loose, provocative and sometimes ugly remarks.
How should European scientists respond to the US AI kill switch?
Earlier in June, Europe’s worst fears of technological dependence were confirmed when the White House ordered the AI firm Anthropic to stop non-US citizens using its leading models. This kill-switch moment crystalised anxieties in Brussels that the continent, lagging the US on the creation of leading-edge AI models, is now a technological of vassal of Washington. The shock has specific implications for European scientists and universities. Some governments are now worried that with AI being integrated into labs, Donald Trump now has his finger hovering over an off switch for European science. “Having restrictions on this tool, it can have an impact on our own research,” said France’s research minister, Philippe Baptiste, at the VivaTech conference in Paris on June 18.Baptiste, himself a former academic, said that colleagues in mathematics had recently warned him they were now cut off from leading-edge US models, risking their work. “This model is not available anymore now because of the US restriction, and for the first time this had an impact on mathematics,” a field where large language models (LLMs) are making a significant contribution, said Baptiste. So, should European scientists avoid relying on US models in the future? Or would this be a self-harming overreaction? And how is AI being used in science, anyway? What happened?On June 12, it emerged that Washington, citing cybersecurity concerns, had ordered Anthropic to stop non-US citizens using two models: Claude Mythos 5, and Claude Fable 5, a version of Mythos but with guardrails to prevent abuse. Anthropic said Washington’s concerns were overblown. But forced to follow the order, yet with no way to check who was using the models, the company suddenly shut down access for everyone, US citizens included. There’s still no agreement on how to restore broad access. But last week, Bloomberg reported that select US companies, and the US government, still had access to Mythos despite the ban, but the EU’s cybersecurity agency Enisa had been shut out. Class division of researchersIn the longer term, access outside the US should be restored, said Marcel Salathé, co-director of the AI centre at the Federal Polytechnic School of Lausanne (EPFL), because a permanent restriction would be financially ruinous to US AI firms. “Even Trump will eventually budge to economic pressure,” he said.However, US AI firms might end up operating rather like banks, doing due diligence on users of their leading-edge AI models, he went on.European scientists are unlikely to fall foul of such checks, he said. But having a Chinese postgraduate in their lab, or doing a type of research the US disapproved of, could potentially result in access being denied. “It will create a sort of class division of researchers,” he said. More than frontier modelsHowever, successfully deploying AI in science is about far more than just having access to leading LLMs such as Mythos.Instead, many science-specific tools, most famously Alphafold, which predicts protein folding structures, require “far less” computing power to train than frontier models, well within the capabilities of European supercomputers, according to a recent analysis by the Arq Foundation, a Brussel-based AI think tank. Instead, tools such as Alphafold are possible because certain fields, like protein folding, weather prediction or astronomy, have large, clean, standardised datasets that can be used to train predictive models. Rather than compute, “data is the central constraint for AI for science,” the report says. For example, a less powerful physics model trained on CERN’s data “will be more valuable than the best model without certain data,” said Bengüsu Özcan, author of the report. European advantage?Europe could therefore steal a march by using its scientific data and infrastructure to create models US digital giants cannot. “They might actually match or go even beyond what these big [US] companies are doing,” said Özcan.Indeed, some European start-ups hope to create automated testing labs to create the kind of standardised data that could speed up the discovery of new materials. Materials scientists say there’s currently too little data to train models. AI scientistsHowever, even if the bottleneck for AI in science is often data, rather than compute, being at the mercy of the US for LLM access could still become a problem for European scientists. A new class of “AI scientists” based on leading LLMs is also emerging, Özcan’s report says.Unlike domain-specific tools like Alphafold, these try to automate day-to-day scientific work, by providing an overarching tool that coordinates specific models to synthesise existing literature, generate hypotheses or run analysis of data. The problem for Europe, however, is that these tools are sometimes based on US leading models. Google Deepmind’s AI Co-Scientist, for example, is built on Google’s Gemini LLM. Systematic failureThese scientific automation tools are still in their early stages, and still exhibit “systematic failures on scientific tasks,” Özcan’s report says. One of the problems is that the messy, day-to-day process of scientific discovery is largely not documented, meaning LLMs don’t have a good source of data to learn how scientists actually work. Meanwhile, some tasks, such as literature synthesis, don’t typically require access to leading edge models.However, the performance of AI scientific assistants could improve as companies such as Google pour resources into developing them. Rely on US“Unfortunately, for scientific assistants, there is not much we can do right now except rely on US frontier AI,” said Antoine Bosselut, a natural language processing expert based at EPFL. Chinese-built open models, which can run on local computers, lessening the risk of a shutdown, are touted as one alternative to US dependence. There’s also Mistral, once seen as Europe’s main AI hope, but the Paris-based company has seen its recent models fall behind in performance. But the Chinese alternatives are generally not as capable as US frontier AI models, said Bosselut, unless paired with fiddly, custom tools that allows them to act as independent agents. “Most scientists do not have the time,” he said. Don’t jump ship yetAlthough the kill switch moment is seen a warning shot for European scientists, it doesn’t mean labs should abandon US AI tools immediately. “I do not think the right response is simply to abandon US-based models and systems under the banner of sovereignty or independence,” said Mattias Björnmalm, secretary general of the Cesaer university association. “That would be an overreaction.”Related articlesEuropean sovereignty in AI requires ‘ugly trade-offs,’ say experts Robotic lab start-up makes case for €500M EU-funded materials testing facilityAI in science: is it useful? Instead, European researchers need to ask themselves whether they’re becoming dependent on technology that could be turned off in Washington, said Özcan. “They might not see this today, but they should really start asking this question,” she said. European researchers need a plan B, said Salathé. “I would recommend to every researcher, very proactively explore alternatives.”Own toolsIn addition, Björnmalm and others want European research institutions to develop their own scientific AI tools.Instead of signing AI deals with US digital giants, European universities should be using this money to create their own models, which may end up being superior for research, said Sabine Leonelli, an expert on the use of AI in science at the Technical University of Munich. “Universities in Europe seem to be happy to sign commercial contracts with US companies on the assumption [their AI tools] are better,” she said. But US frontier LLMs are typically opaque, and have been developed without independent scientific input, she said. “This is not good enough for science.”Last year, Swiss researchers released Apertus, an LLM designed to be completely transparent, from its development methods to its training data. The idea is that this makes scientific tools built on top of the model far more reproducible than with closed, commercial alternatives.“Europe needs more of this: serious capacity-building that gives researchers, universities and companies credible options,” said Björnmalm.
Twins at Diamondbacks live updates. More moves to bolster staff
The Diamondbacks will look to bounce back from an ugly loss against the Minnesota Twins in the rubber match of a three-game series.
Merchants of Doubt and the attacks on Extreme Event Attribution science
Last week, I attended a meeting at Columbia University on attribution science and climate law, hosted by the Sabin Center. It was a fantastic event, bringing together scientists and legal experts working at the intersection of extreme event attribution and climate law. Subscribe For those unfamiliar with it, extreme event attribution attempts to quantify the contribution of climate change to an extreme event. For example, several groups analyzed the impact of climate change on Hurricane Harvey’s enormous rainfall totals over Houston, Texas and they found that climate change increased rainfall by 15 to 38%. One thing that came up again and again was how terrified fossil-fuel interests are of extreme event attribution science. They are acutely aware that this research could land them in court. And losing those cases would leave them legally liable for billions of dollars in climate damages. Because the legal stakes are so high, the blowback has turned ugly. I spoke with several scientists at the meeting who are facing ongoing harassment over their work. This blowback is a coordinated campaign to make the entire field look suspect. The goal is to create the impression that attribution science is too uncertain, too political, or too conflicted to be useful in court or in public policy. The strategy is not based on actual science or evidence of misconduct, but on the generation of doubt. The new Merchants of Doubt We’ve seen this before. In fact, not that long ago: We only have to go back a year to the Department of Energy (DOE) Climate Working Group (CWG) report to see an example of using doubt as the tool to push back against well-established science. This strategy is laid out in an email from a member of the CWG, Dr. Roy Spencer, that was released during litigation over the Climate Working Group process. The key quote is: About all I can hope is that what we write will provide sufficient “reasonable scientific doubt” regarding the science claims in the 2009 TSD [technical support document], based upon almost 2 decades of new science, to call into question the original reasoning for the EPA Administrator’s decision that CO2 presents a threat to human health and welfare. This statement is strong evidence that at least some members of the committee were working to support a particular policy outcome: revoking the Endangerment Finding. The email also explains how they planned to do it: by attempting to generate “reasonable doubt”. This is going to be hard, Spencer implies. Despite falsely claiming that “2 decades of new science” weakens the case, Spencer explicitly acknowledges that the actual peer-reviewed science of climate change overwhelmingly rejects his position: But if the science argument is decided upon by a vote, or by the number of published citations, we lose the science argument. We can go back even further: This CWG email shares unmistakable DNA with the infamous 1969 tobacco memo that declared: “Doubt is our product, since it is the best means of competing with the ‘body of fact’ that exists in the mind of the general public. It is also the means of establishing a controversy.” The tobacco memo also acknowledges the limit of this strategy: Like the CWG, they knew the science was not on their side. Share The new new Merchants of Doubt The people attacking the IPCC chapter on extreme event attribution are the newest iteration of the Merchants of Doubt. Their goal, like all Merchants before them, is to introduce doubt into the process. Because the report is not even out yet, they cannot attack its conclusions. So they are attacking the authors instead. Here is a press release from the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee: In the letter, the Chairmen express concerns about potential conflicts of interest involving members of the Attribution Committee, stating that “publicly available information suggests a troubling pattern” in which committee members are affiliated with nonprofits that support climate accountability lawsuits, “raising the appearance of impropriety and member bias.” To be clear, this is just innuendo. There is no actual evidence of bias. And given the robust process that these reports go through, including multiple lines of peer review, it seems very unlikely that significant bias can survive into the report. When the report comes out, critics will have the opportunity to make legitimate criticisms of the report — if any exist. If none do, however, they’ll still make criticisms, but they’ll be bogus, simply designed to generate doubt. We’ll see. A note to the press: Fix your frame To any journalists reading this: The public debate over extreme event attribution science is not going away. The science is simply too dangerous to fossil-fuel interests for them to stop fighting it. You very well might be assigned to write an article about this area of research in the future. When you do, do not automatically adopt the framing that climate misinformers want you to use. They want you to frame the story around questions like: Are climate scientists trying to put their thumb on the scale to achieve a predetermined, politically motivated result? Are climate scientists improperly letting their politics invade the science of the IPCC? That frame is a trap. Instead, you need to view this through the historical lens of the Merchants of Doubt. How does the ecosystem of doubt operate? Who funds it? What methods do they use to misrepresent science and slime researchers? What scientific results are they trying to keep people from understanding are legitimate? Ultimately, you instead need to focus your article on the generation of doubt as a way to maintain the fossil fuel industry’s social and legal license to keep burning oil, gas, and coal. If you treat the misinformers’ frame as a legitimate, good-faith scientific critique, you are helping them produce doubt. Don’t do it. Don’t be a Merchant of Doubt. Thanks for reading The Climate Brink! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support our work. Subscribe other stuff The Staying Curious Substack has an interesting post about the different flavors of climate sensitivity. This is crucial information if you want to understand how scientists think about how much warming the Earth will experience. I’d be grateful if you could hit the like button ❤️ below! It helps more people discover these ideas and lets me know what’s connecting with readers.
Ugly scenes in Belfast expose a broken politics
Letters: Readers respond to nights of rioting in the city fuelled by anti-migrant rhetoric
World Cup Day 1 scores, results: Korea tops Czechia after wild finish, Mexico handles South Africa in ugly affair
Inside America’s Ugly Birthday Battle
Trump advisers broke an agreement to fund the bipartisan semiquincentennial celebrations, saying they will not “light taxpayer money on fire.”
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House Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone Jr. (D-NJ) and Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-OR) today released their latest report monitoring the terrible impact of Donald Trump and Republicans’ health care agenda, with a focus on the fallout of the Republican Big Ugly Bill.
Mets' ugly moments fly in the face of offseason plans
New York wanted to get better in this area of the game.
Why is Michigan loosening its rules for parents wanting to exempt kids from vaccines?
A decade ago, Michigan had high rates of parents not vaccinating their children, so it required them to attend an in-person education class to get an exemption. It worked — until things got ugly.
Phanteks’ new EX cases let users put ugly graphics cards in their own "shame box"
Phanteks has a new case series for users who want to build a clean PC (with GPU hidden) We have first footage from Computex thanks to Hardware Canucks who
Hicks: Surprise — nasty politics creep into a Charleston School Board election
An endorsement in a Charleston County School Board special election has sparked ugly intraparty partisanship in the nonpartisan race.
One UI 8.5 reportedly ruined Dark mode with ugly Gray interface
Samsung users are reporting color palette inconsistencies across Google apps in One UI 8.5 with Dark mode enabled. Reports indicate that the interface of some Google apps has become excessively Gray, which should be optimized. Galaxy users who have updated their devices to the Stable One UI 8.5 build are reporting that the interface of Google apps […]
Black Women, Beauty Politics and the Power of Rage in 'Is God Is'
In one of the film’s most surreal scenes, the twins at the center of *Is God Is*—Racine, “the Rough One,” and Anaia, “the Quiet One”—pretend to be strippers for a room full of men. But while Racine is welcomed, Anaia is rejected because her scarred face disrupts the men’s fantasies. That moment crystallizes one of the film’s central questions: What happens when Black women refuse to shrink themselves for the comfort of others? In Aleshea Harris’ Gothic revenge thriller, ugliness becomes both a burden and a source of power, as the film transforms into a stereotype-busting meditation on misogynoir, beauty politics and righteous rage. As the twins travel cross-country seeking vengeance against the father who burned their mother alive, Harris layers the conventions of the revenge genre with distinctly Black feminist aesthetics. The film moves between absurd comedy, trap music, intimate sisterhood and brutal violence while interrogating the ways Black women are expected to manage their pain, suppress their anger and perform acceptability. Anaia’s scarred face and Racine’s consuming rage become mirrors of the same misogynoir that shapes Black women’s lives—whether through beauty standards, domestic violence or the demand to remain silent. What makes *Is God Is* so striking is its refusal to look away from the “ugly.” Harris insists that Black women marked by violence, scars and fury still deserve visibility, complexity and even divinity. The film embraces the “angry Black woman” and the “ugly” Black woman as figures worthy of space, power and humanity. In doing so, it expands the tradition of Black feminist filmmaking by asking viewers to confront the realities dominant culture would rather ignore—and to recognize the beauty, dignity and selfhood that exist beyond respectability.
The ugly reality of racial politics in today’s Republican Party
The GOP is increasingly embracing racial politics, with many of its members either expressing racist views or playing along by ignoring them, as evidenced by the recent Supreme Court ruling that di…
David Bednar Stat is Very Concerning for Yankees' Future
It's been an ugly past week or so for the New York Yankees, a very concerning sign for a team that was one of the best in Major League Baseball prior to this. Now sitting at 28-19, the Yankees are 3-7 over their last 10 games and are three games behind the first-place Tampa Bay Rays in the American League East.
Don Mattingly Sends Words of Encouragement to Struggling Andrew Painter
It's been a very ugly start to Andrew Painter's professional career with the Philadelphia Phillies, though it's still far too early to press the panic button just yet.
The beautiful game meets America's ugly moment
The World Cup, swept into Washington’s partisan vortex, splits into red and blue.
Padres drop second straight in ugly shutout loss to Cardinals
SAN DIEGO -- The Padres' stars are simply not starring.
Orioles news: An ugly loss and another pitcher injury
Cade Povich suffered a forearm injury during the Orioles’ loss to the Marlins.
Mess Fest: It could get ugly, educational at science center
Weekend event features hands-on experiments, foamy explosions
The week in politics (May 6, 2026)
On Wednesday's show: We discuss the latest developments in politics in our weekly roundup. And foodies discuss great food that looks really ugly -- but still tastes great.
Anjelah Johnson-Reyes blends motherhood with her funny tia tendencies in 'Ugly Baby'
Comedian Anjelah Johnson-Reyes releases her seventh special, 'Ugly Baby,' on Mother's Day, marking a vulnerable shift from material about not wanting kids to exploring motherhood.
NYC business bigwig slams Zohran Mamdani's 'Tax the Rich' video outside Ken Griffin's home as 'ugly'
Reds pitchers make ugly MLB history with seven consecutive walks
Cincinnati Reds pitchers Rhett Lowder and Connor Phillips walked seven consecutive Pirates, tying a 43-year old MLB record.
The ugly politics of chasing One Nation – Full Story newsroom edition
Jo Tovey sits down with Mike Ticher, Patrick Keneally and Krishani Dhanji to discuss the risks of chasing One Nation to the right
In our ugly politics, rhetoric matters
The latest attempt on Trump's life revives the question of political violence in America.
New issue: Mirrorlife | BBC Science Focus Magazine
Mirror life could end all life on Earth. That sounds dramatic, but senior biologists have raised the alarm about experiments happening all around the world. It sounds like something in a Doctor Who plot, but no – mirror life is a real possibility. So why do scientists want to create something that’s potentially apocalyptic? Well, it could also have huge benefits (think back to splitting the atom). The first thing to say, however, is that mirror organisms are still a little way away yet – but only decades, not centuries. So far, scientists have only made mirror molecules, one of life’s building blocks. What for? Life works because its building blocks fit together. Imagine drilling a screw into a piece of wood. The screw cuts a hole with a thread that snugly matches its own. If, for some reason, the Doctor showed up and handed you a mirror version of the screw, its thread would be in reverse. It wouldn’t twist into the hole you’d just made as the threads wouldn’t match. That said, the mirror screw would still work; you’d just have to create a mirror hole for it. Mirror molecules, including DNA, work a bit like that. They follow the same principles as the biology around us, but they’re entirely incompatible with traditional biological functions. In medical terms, this means they’re effectively invisible to your body’s systems. Our biology doesn’t have the tools to recognise these molecules and break them apart. And if someone took these mirror molecules and put them together to make a cell and then an organism… you’d have mirror life. But we don't have any way of breaking it down. If it escaped the lab, we’d just have to hope it didn’t have an appetite.
College basketball transfer portal 2026-27 winners and losers: Duke, Florida lead free agency victors
The good, the bad and the ugly from the first wave of college basketball's free agency period
Ohio governor race between Ramaswamy, Acton turns ugly
The fight over who'll be the next Ohio governor is getting ugly. And the election is still more than six months away.
Train Day, 'The Ugly Duckling' and children's garden party: 3 things to do this weekend
Check out our top 3
From dumplings to pickleball, check out these new North Jersey shops
Ugly Dumpling, Open Play Pickleball, a health care imaging clinic and a Khaadi fashion store at American Dream make our latest list of new businesses.
Senator contacts leagues over 'gambling's ugly takeover'
As prediction markets expand partnerships with major U.S. sports leagues, a U.S. senator sent letters to six league commissioners Thursday raising concerns about "gambling's ugly takeover of sports."
April 9: An ugly number for social science
Public-funding pinch. Gen Z sours on AI. Graduating lawyers get $10,000?
Final Four 2026: Lauren Betts, UCLA shut down Texas in 'ugly' game to reach national championship
Follow along with the latest as the Texas Longhorns and UCLA Bruins face off in the Final Four for a bid to the championship.
NBA opens investigation into Bucks’, Giannis’ contradicting stories on health status
Things have gotten ugly, once again.
Kings beat Blues in OT, take Wild Card spot lead
LOS ANGELES -- When battling for postseason survival, getting wins is the only thing that matters, no matter how ugly they may be.
A YouTuber channeled his distaste for the PS5’s design into slick console covers
Would you pay $90 to make your PS5 less ugly?
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Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and House Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone Jr., D-N.J., today released their latest report spotlighting the consequences of Donald Trump and Republicans’ health care nightmare, with a focus on the fallout of the Republican Big Ugly Bill.
The Antidote to Our Growing Crises Must Transcend Politics
Each day, the challenges in our nation pile up. In just recent weeks, there has been the ongoing war in Iran and the Middle East, and ongoing debates about the growing negative impact of the Internet, looming AI challenges, and the Epstein files. The anticipation of divisive, even ugly, midterm elec...
Nvidia Wants to Slop-ify Your PC Games With Its New AI Upscaler
You'll love DLSS 5 if you can't get enough of ugly, uncanny, and overly textured AI slop.
Linux Finally Catches Up to Windows with a Game-Changing Performance Feature
For years, the Linux kernel’s scheduler has been world‑class at balancing loads, yet it missed a crucial, cache‑aware instinct. In modern multi‑core systems, that gap can turn into measurable latency, especially when threads bounce between cores that don’t share the same cache. A new upstream feature, often called Cache Aware Scheduling, is now set to change that equation. A cache‑savvy scheduler arrives At the heart of any OS, the scheduler decides which thread runs where and for how long. In modern CPUs, small private caches (L1 and L2) sit beside each core, while a larger Last Level Cache (LLC, typically L3) is shared among groups of cores. When a task migrates across LLC boundaries, its warm data may vanish from the cache, forcing slower trips to main memory. Cache Aware Scheduling keeps related tasks close to their shared LLC, reducing destructive migrations. By respecting cache topology, the kernel minimizes cold‑start penalties and preserves locality that many workloads desperately need. The result is less thrashing, fewer memory stalls, and more consistent throughput. "Keep tasks close to their data, and the system will keep performance close to its peak." Why this narrows the Windows gap Windows has long leaned on topology‑aware, cache‑sensitive heuristics, especially since the Windows 10 era. That advantage helped Microsoft handle hybrid designs with P‑cores and E‑cores, plus complex cluster and NUMA layouts. With cache awareness integrated upstream, Linux brings parity to this vital dimension, without sacrificing its trademark flexibility. The Linux approach remains deeply configurable, reflecting the ecosystem’s breadth across servers, desktops, and embedded devices. It layers atop existing NUMA‑balancing and energy‑aware logic, refining placement rather than reinventing the wheel. Crucially, it aligns scheduling with the hardware’s real shape, not just with abstract CPU counts. Real‑world gains and who benefits Early tests on Intel Sapphire Rapids platforms point to gains in the 30–45% range for select workloads. Those wins appear in cache‑sensitive tasks like in‑memory analytics, high‑thread compilation, and microservices with tight working‑sets. Games and latency‑bound engines can also feel steadier frame‑times, especially when threads share hot assets. The benefits extend to AMD’s 3D V‑Cache parts, where keeping threads near enlarged cache slices prevents needless misses. Hybrid x86 designs with performance and efficiency cores further profit when cache and core roles are scheduled in concert. Even handhelds running SteamOS can squeeze more out of limited power, translating cache locality into smoother play. Key advantages include: Lower end‑to‑end latency Fewer expensive misses to RAM Better multi‑socket and NUMA behavior Improved energy efficiency More predictable QoS under mixed loads Stronger scaling on dense servers Caveats, tuning, and rollout No scheduler change is purely free, and trade‑offs still exist. Favoring locality can reduce cross‑cluster balance if limits are set too tight. Likewise, fairness and utilization must remain healthy, especially under heterogeneous, bursty workloads. Linux’s implementation is designed to be measured and tunable, not a blunt instrument. It cooperates with energy‑aware scheduling for mobile efficiency, and with NUMA‑balancers on big iron. Expect architecture‑specific refinements as vendors surface richer topology hints and cache‑sharing maps. Upstream integration has begun, with broad distribution adoption likely over the next cycles. Many users will encounter the change through standard kernel updates in 2025–2026, depending on distro cadence. Server‑class kernels may enable or tune it sooner for targeted fleets where cache locality is money in the bank. How to think about performance impact Cache Aware Scheduling amplifies gains when your workload is both CPU‑bound and cache‑sensitive. Think tight inner loops, hot code paths, and datasets that fit snugly in shared LLC. It’s less dramatic for I/O‑bound services or memory‑hungry tasks that blow past cache capacity. Still, even modest locality improvements often translate into smoother tail‑latency, which is where user experience and SLAs typically break. Developers can further help by pinning related threads, batching work, and aligning data to reduce cross‑cluster chatter. The scheduler’s new awareness works best when applications expose good hints. The bottom line By understanding and honoring cache topology, Linux removes a subtle yet costly bottleneck. The kernel’s smarter placement keeps hot data hot and work near where it belongs. That narrows a long‑standing gap with Windows, while preserving the openness and tunability Linux champions. For gamers, creators, and operators, the payoff is practical: more consistent frames, faster builds, and snappier services. For the ecosystem, it’s another step toward hardware‑savvy scheduling that turns transistor complexity into real‑world speed. And for Linux itself, it’s a timely upgrade that matches today’s silicon with tomorrow’s expectations.
The Texas Senate Race Is About to Get Very Ugly
A runoff, resentments, and the question of whether a Democrat can win statewide
Trump’s and Hegseth’s awkward comments about US troop deaths in Iran war
From the start of his war with Iran, President Donald Trump took care to acknowledge the ugly headlines that could result. This was to be a much more significant operation than his previous military strikes, he said in a video posted shortly after the military action began, and that meant likely US deaths.
Whole Hog Politics: A gusher of turnout in Texas, but who will benefit?
The midterms start in earnest on Tuesday, and they’re beginning with a bang: Texas has a double-barreled Senate primary that has been expensive and ugly. How the parties move forward next week will significantly shape...
Candidate for Miss Connecticut shares her mental health and addiction struggles
At a glance, one may get a misguided perception of Christa Steiner. She’s a musician and candidate for Miss Connecticut. While the sash and crown are beautiful parts of Steiner, it’s her struggle that illustrates her story. She recognized the ugly pieces of addiction while living with an undiagnosed bipolar disorder. “When you have an untreated mental illness, self-medication is a big…
Rutgers Basketball Snaps 7 Game Losing Streak Against Maryland
Rutgers basketball earns an ugly 68-57 win over Maryland
Danbury OKs ‘ugly on paper’ zone change to benefit local business
"To be very frank, the petition looks ugly on paper, because we just got finished getting rid of these things,” said Theodore Haddad.
Analysis: Racist video is merely the latest in a long line of Trump’s ugly social media posts
The White House has belatedly backed down from a racist video shared on President Donald Trump’s social media feed after blowback from Republicans.
The Eagles are showing change can be very ugly
The departure of Jeff Stoutland is one ripple effect of the change we’ve all been asking for.
Asking Eric: My son stopped speaking to me after ugly divorce - and won’t tell me why
I don’t know if I should keep trying to contact him. I have no idea why he cut me out of his life and he hasn’t told me.
A toast to ugly politics
“Acceptance of the antagonistic nature of politics though, does not mean that compromise is pointless.”
NCAA Tournament resume grades: Good, bad, ugly for 2026 March Madness contenders
An early look into some fascinating resumes for some of the college basketball teams hoping to shine in March
Trump has tariffs. Europe has a ‘trade bazooka.’ This Greenland standoff could get ugly, fast
President Donald Trump threatened Saturday to impose new 10% tariffs on imports from several European countries. It could unravel months of progress made during trade negotiations settled after Trump’s trade war last year.
Following ugly loss, Panthers oppose up-and-down Capitals
The Washington Capitals are searching for consistency going into their Saturday home game against the Florida Panthers.
Video: Opinion | Conservative Politics Can’t Just Be About Hate
Politics in America has taken an ugly turn, the conservative analyst Yuval Levin says on “The Ezra Klein Show,” arguing it has become too influenced by fear.
Jennifer Lawrence says she lost part in Quentin Tarantino film because critics said she wasn't 'pretty enough'
Jennifer Lawrence says she lost a part in a buzzy Quentin Tarantino movie because trolls said she wasn't 'pretty enough' to play it: 'The internet just, like, went out of their way to call me ugly.'
‘Go back’ has returned to American politics, and it’s ugly
Anxiety about change is tempting society to narrow who counts as a full member of the nation.
The good, bad, and the ugly of Apple's AI deal with Google
The Apple-Google partnership validates Google's AI comeback, highlights Apple's AI struggles, and could spell trouble for OpenAI.
Patriots smother Justin Herbert, Chargers in dominant wild-card victory
Justin Herbert fell to 0-3 in career postseason games with another ugly performance.
Say Goodbye To Ugly Power Strips With This Sleek Solution
Say goodbye to messy wires. The D-Line Cable Management Box is the stylish, safe solution for hiding power strips and reclaiming your space.
UNC women’s basketball takes ugly loss at Notre Dame
The Tar Heels put out a worrying performance in South Bend.
Wednesday Dots: K-fin Demond Hunter
‘Cause I see your real face, and it’s ugly as sinTime to put you in your place ’cause you’re Dots within
A very quick look at the year in sports in 2025
There was some good, some bad and some ugly, but at least it was memorable.
Knicks, smarting from ugly loss, pursue improvement vs. Sixers
Fresh off perhaps their most lethargic performance of the season, the New York Knicks hope to author a crisper effort Saturday when they host the Philadelphia 76ers.
Cup of Cavs: News and links for Saturday, Jan. 3
The Cavs won an ugly game last night and have tonight off.
Offensive struggles hurt Eagles players just like they do fans
The Eagles offense regressed in an ugly Week 17 win over the Bills and Jordan Mailata says he's hurt by the team's struggles too.
Eagles vs. Bills: The good, the bad, and the ugly
Highlights and lowlights from Philadelphia’s Week 17 win.
2025 NFL Odds: Expect Ugly Offense in Giants-Raiders
The No. 1 pick in next year's NFL Draft is up for grabs as the Giants and Raiders face off in a battle of two-win teams. Here's how Will Hill is wagering that "showdown."
Jake Paul's constant falling looked like an ugly tactic. But was it?
Conversation about Jake Paul's ugly falls during his heavyweight fight against Anthony Joshua Dec. 19 in Miami continue.
NFL Week 16 grades: Bills earn 'C' for ugly win over Browns
Here are the grades for every team that has played in Week 16.
Tom Izzo Teases Ref With 'Naughty List' Ugly Christmas Sweater vs. Oakland
Michigan State Spartans head coach Tom Izzo trolled a referee with a custom sweater worn during its Saturday game against Oakland.
Olympic sports weekend preview: Lindsey Vonn back in action, Chloe Kim makes season debut
Trump’s ugly Rob Reiner post undercuts the GOP’s post-Charlie Kirk claims to civility
One of the downsides of serving in President Donald Trump’s movement is that the moral high ground is extremely unsteady terrain.
Shedeur Sanders news: Bears defense calls out rookie Browns QB after ugly game
What Chicago's defense said about Shedeur Sanders after the Bears dominated the Browns
Jets' defense overwhelmed in ugly 48-20 loss to Jaguars
The Jets' defense had no answers for the Jaguars' offensive attack on Sunday, as the unit gave up six touchdowns in a brutal 48-20 road loss in Jacksonville.
Microsoft’s ugly sweaters return with Clippy, Xbox, and Zune brown options
All three holiday sweaters can be purchased at Microsoft’s company store.