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Zendaya and Robert Pattinson's upcoming dark new film The Drama has been condemned by a grieving Columbine victim's father.

Linux gamers are seeing massive performance gains with Wine's new NTSYNC support, "which is a feature that has been years in the making and rewrites how Wine handles one of the most performance-sensitive operations in modern gaming," reports XDA Developers. Not every game will see a night-and-day difference, but for the games that do benefit from these changes, "the improvements range from noticeable to absurd." Combined with improvements to Wayland, graphics, and compatibility, as well as a major WoW64 architecture overhaul, the release looks less like an incremental update and more like one of Wine's most important upgrades in years. From the report: The numbers are wild. In developer benchmarks, Dirt 3 went from 110.6 FPS to 860.7 FPS, which is an impressive 678% improvement. Resident Evil 2 jumped from 26 FPS to 77 FPS. Call of Juarez went from 99.8 FPS to 224.1 FPS. Tiny Tina's Wonderlands saw gains from 130 FPS to 360 FPS. As well, Call of Duty: Black Ops I is now actually playable on Linux, too. Those benchmarks compare Wine NTSYNC against upstream vanilla Wine, which means there's no fsync or esync either. Gamers who use fsync are not going to see such a leap in performance in most games. The games that benefit most from NTSYNC are the ones that were struggling before, such as titles with heavy multi-threaded workloads where the synchronization overhead was a genuine bottleneck. For those games, the difference is night and day. And unlike fsync, NTSYNC is in the mainline kernel, meaning you don't need any custom patches or out-of-tree modules for it work. Any distro shipping kernel 6.14 or later, which at this point includes Fedora 42, Ubuntu 25.04, and more recent releases, will support it. Valve has already added the NTSYNC kernel driver to SteamOS 3.7.20 beta, loading the module by default, and an unofficial Proton fork, Proton GE, already has it enabled. When Valve's official Proton rebases on Wine 11, every Steam Deck owner gets this for free. All of this is what makes NTSYNC such a big deal, as it's not simply a run-of-the-mill performance patch. Instead, it's something much bigger: this is the first time Wine's synchronization has been correct at the kernel level, implemented in the mainline Linux kernel, and available to everyone without jumping through hoops.

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Boyan Chowdhury (pictured), who was a founding member of the indie rock band, said the attack happened in the Wavetree area of Liverpool on Saturday afternoon.

Cyber rights org retools for the days of AI and unrestrained government

interview  The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) on Tuesday appointed Nicole Ozer to succeed Cindy Cohn as the cyber rights group's executive director when Cohn departs this summer.…

In 2024, I got a new patio laid but, just a year later, some of the slabs started to move. The tradesman fixed it once but now the slabs are sliding again

My husband passed away in November last year. He held three separate pensions with Prudential (now part of M&G) totalling more than £400,000.

LEWIS STEELE: Mohamed Salah has thanked Liverpool for the best time of his life after announcing he will leave the club at the end of the season.

Unemployment rates are rising. Salaries are stagnating. The economy is flatlining - and businesses are turning to AI to cut costs. But there is one sector where work is booming.

Investigators believe the drugs would have been worth around £80 million on the streets if cut and sold in the UK

On Tuesday police shared with the Daily Mail that they would not be charging the Reacher actor in the Sunday altercation with a neighbor named Ronnie Taylor.

If you log into one of the main investment platforms to set up a stocks and shares Isa, you'll find as many as 8,000 funds, shares and trusts to choose from.

In his nine-year spell, the 33-year-old provided the Reds with no fewer than 255 moments of joy, elation and delight to help steer the club to silverware at home and abroad.

Google is expanding Android Automotive from the infotainment screen into the broader non-safety "brain" of software-defined vehicles. With its new Android Automotive OS for Software-Defined Vehicles, the in-car experience will feel "much more cohesive and the latest features will reach your driveway faster," Matt Crowley, Android Automotive's group product manager, writes in a blog post. "From a truly integrated voice experience to proactive maintenance reminders, your car will become a true extension of your digital life," Crowley adds. The Verge reports: With its new software, Google is promising faster over-the-air software updates, better voice assistants, and more proactive vehicle maintenance alerts. Non-driving functions like climate control, lighting, and seating adjustment would fall under Android's control. And the system would move beyond basic infotainment to create a unified ecosystem for features like remote cabin conditioning, digital key management, and personalized driver profiles. For automakers, the new system promises less expensive software development costs and an opportunity to focus on what matters most to them: branding. By providing the "foundational code and a common language for their software," Google says automakers will be free to design cool experiences for their customers. Google says its already working with companies like Renault Group and Qualcomm to bring its new software-defined vehicle version of Android Automotive to more cars. A variety of automakers already use regular Android Automotive, like Volvo, Polestar, General Motors, Nissan, and Honda.

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Concern for the 66-year-old, an eight-time winner of Mr. Olympia, has swelled since his children revealed that their dad's kidney is 'failing.'

A new investigation into the Georgia Guidestones bombing suggests conspiracy theories, not just a single suspect, may explain why the monument was destroyed.

Dayton Webber, 27, is accused of killing Bradrick Wells, also 27, during an argument in his high-end car in La Plata, Maryland on March 22.

Shannon, now 26, from Manchester, was diagnosed with psoriasis - an autoimmune condition affecting more than a million Britons - at just 12 years old.

Ipswich Town have insisted they are a 'welcoming organisation' in response to a backlash after the Championship club hosted Nigel Farage and the Reform UK party at Portman Road.

Nicola Peltz shared a photo of the gushing love note she woke up to from her husband Brooklyn Beckham on Tuesday.

In the early hours of last Sunday morning, Kelly Osbourne could be found giggling with her friend in a hidden-away corner among the plush sofas of the luxurious Broadwick Hotel in Soho.