Linux 7.1 started phasing out support for Intel's 37-year-old i486 processor. Linux 7.2 removed drivers for the old AMD Elan 32-bit systems on a chip.

And now some i586 and i686 class processors are being removed, reports Phoronix:

Supporting those vintage GPUs without the Time Stamp Counter "TSC" instruction are becoming a burden... TSC-capable Intel Pentium processors and the likes will still be supported with this just being for TSC-less i586/i686 CPUs. Among the CPUs impacted by this latest change is the AMD K5 as well as various Cyrix processor models. The K5 was AMD's first entirely in-house designed processor that was first introduced in 1996 to counter the Intel Pentium CPU.

TSC "support can now be assumed as a boot requirement for modern Linux," the article points out, which will allow the removal of various non-TSC code paths from the Linux kernel's x86 code.


Tom's Hardware remembers the K5 "wasn't a very popular processor as it arrived late, then offered lackluster performance in the competitive environment it joined."


Launch SKUs in 1996 were limited to clocks from 75 MHz to 133 MHz, and, due to being late, Intel's Pentium line was already faster. AMD still managed to get an edge on the Cyrix 6x86, though.

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Following a better weekend for McLaren in Miami, Team Principal Andrea Stella has given his assessment on whether the squad can potentially defend both titles in 2026.

Vice-president is accused of misusing public funds and threatening the lives of President Marcos Jr and his wife

The Philippine vice-president, Sara Duterte, has been impeached over allegations she misused public funds, amassed unexplained wealth and threatened the lives of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr and his wife, in a case that could complicate her presidential ambitions.

Duterte, the daughter of the detained former president Rodrigo Duterte, was impeached by an overwhelming majority of lawmakers in the House of Representatives, which is dominated by allies of Marcos.

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More than 1.2 million people have been forced to flee their homes amid bombings, evacuation orders and demolitions

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Israel’s destruction in southern Lebanon happened in phases. Hours after Hezbollah launched rockets at Israel on 2 March, the Israeli military issued forced evacuation orders for more than 100 villages close to the Lebanese-Israeli border.

Bombing quickly followed. Tens of thousands of residents of south Lebanon began heading north, taking shelter in cities such as Tyre, Sidon and Beirut. Many people outside the formal evacuation zones fled their homes prematurely, recalling the autumn 2024 war in which Israel bombed wide swathes of south Lebanon without warning.

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It will be the first time a US president has visited China in nearly a decade, with the last visit being Trump in 2017

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Ahead of travelling to China tomorrow, Donald Trump is in Washington today.

We’re expecting to hear from the president a couple of times. First at an event for maternal healthcare in the Oval Office at 10:30am ET. Later, at 4pm ET, he’ll welcome the 2026 College National Football Champions, Indiana University, to the White House.

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Decision made to grant US tech firm ‘unlimited access’ to data in project to build integrated platform, according to reports

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MPs have warned that an NHS decision to grant Palantir access to identifiable patient information in its plan to use AI to improve the health service is “dangerous” and will fuel public fears that data privacy is not being prioritised.

NHS England has allowed staff from the US tech firm and other contractors access to patient data before it has been pseudonymised, despite internal fears of a “risk of loss of public confidence”, the Financial Times reported.

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Enjoy this 30-minute cheesy polenta for dinner, then chill the excess polenta and get an even quicker meal the next day

I love polenta, but very often forget about it in favour of pasta or rice. However, for those transitional spring evenings, it’s perfect comfort food: warm, filling, and cooks in under two minutes when you buy quick-cook. But the very best thing about making a pan of polenta is that with barely any extra effort, it’ll give you the basis for a meal the next day. Try pouring half of it into a tray – studded with olives, or with extra cheddar stirred through, perhaps – and chill overnight. The next day, cut it into squares, chips, or even star shapes, and fry until crisp – a cook once, eat twice win.

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Diego Céspedes’s striking debut mixes magic realism and melodrama in a tender tale of an LGBTQ+ community facing fear and superstition in 1980s Chile

Here is a beautiful, raw debut from young Chilean director Diego Céspedes, a film that is part queer western, part beguiling fable, with some glorious scenes straight out of a Latin soap opera, magic-realist effects and moments of heartbreakingly tender emotion. It’s set in the early 1980s, in a mining town on the dusty edge of nowhere where a ramshackle establishment, something like a bordello in a spaghetti western, is run by a small LGBTQ+ community. By day, they serve up food to worn-out, dust-covered miners; by night, cabaret is performed in drag.

The club is also raising a child, 11-year-old Lidia (Tamara Cortes), who was abandoned on the doorstep as a baby (possibly by parents who saw how well the club looks after its own). When Lidia is bullied by transphobic local boys, the women of the club come out in force to beat the crap out of the gang. Lidia’s adopted mum is Flamenco (Matías Catalán), a transgender woman in love with a Marlon Brando lookalike miner called Yovani (Pedro Muñoz), a man with an angelic pout and murder in his eyes. They both have a disease that local people are calling “the plague”. Yovani blames Flamenco and shows up with a gun.

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Opponents say administration’s plan prioritizes big agriculture at expense of wildlife and protected species

New legal action aims to head off a Trump administration plan to open up to 24m acres of federal lands to cattle grazing, which opponents characterized as a gift to big agriculture and said could cause a spike in deaths among already imperiled wolves, grizzlies, steelhead salmon and other wildlife.

The plan also calls for opening up parts of Grand Canyon national park, and other sensitive landscapes. Cattle destroy critical habitats for wildlife because they strip land bare of essential vegetation and pollute streams with feces, urine, sediment and carcasses. Meanwhile, park rangers and ranchers often kill grizzly bears and other predators who prey on cattle, despite that ranchers and the government pushed the cattle into the predators’ home range.

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Checkmarx’s software engineers are still working to remove a malicious version of the code security outfit's Jenkins plugin after detecting an unauthorized upload over the weekend. It updated customers on Saturday, May 9, after discovering a version of its AST Scanner, which is used for security scans in Jenkins CI pipelines, was made available via the Jenkins Marketplace. “We are aware that a modified version of the Checkmarx Jenkins AST plugin was published to the Jenkins Marketplace,” it said in a statement. “We are in the process of publishing a new version of this plug-in.” Versions published as of May 9, 2026, should not be trusted, it added, before urging all users to check they’re running the correct release (2.0.13-829.vc72453fa_1c16) published on December 17, 2025. Installed by several hundred controllers, the plugin remains available at the time of writing, and appears as the most recently available version, although pull requests actioned on Monday morning suggest this will soon be pulled down. “What makes this particularly dangerous for Jenkins users is the trust model at play,” said SOCRadar in its coverage. “The Checkmarx Jenkins plugin is a tool people install specifically to improve the security of their pipelines. “A backdoored version doesn’t just compromise one project; it rides trusted infrastructure into every build pipeline it touches, with access to source code, environment variables, tokens, and whatever secrets the runner can see.” Security engineer Adnan Khan spotted the compromise quickly over the weekend. The crew behind the early supply chain attack affecting Checkmarx in April, TeamPCP, defaced the company’s GitHub and published six packages, each with a description alluding to the Shai-Hulud wormable malware. These packages no longer appear on Checkmarx’s GitHub, but TeamPCP made multiple changes to the AST plugins page, renaming it to “Checkmarx-Fully-Hacked-by-TeamPCP-and-Their-Customers-Should-Cancel-Now,” and altering the description to claim CheckMarx failed to rotate its secrets. The latest infiltration of Checkmarx’s internals marks the third time TeamPCP has compromised the company’s packages in as many months. As previously seen in The Register, the crooks successfully targeted Checkmarx’s AST plugin for GitHub Actions and its KICS static analysis tool back in March, deploying credential-stealing malware. SOCRadar said the latest TeamPCP compromise of the Jenkins plugin suggests that either TeamPCP was telling the truth about Checkmarx’s secrets rotation, or its members took advantage of an additional persistence mechanism that the security vendor failed to notice during its response to the March intrusion. ®

MAASTRICHT (ANP) - Maastricht Aachen Airport krijgt dinsdag te maken met extra vliegverkeer. De luchthaven meldt dat dit veroorzaakt wordt door een staking in België, waar Charleroi Airport en Brussels Airport last van hebben. Verschillende maatschappijen die normaal op Belgische luchthavens zouden landen, wijken uit naar Maastricht.

Zo komen er tien passagiersvluchten van Wizz Air en twee van Corendon extra aan op het vliegveld. Ook komen er drie extra vrachtvluchten aan in Maastricht.

In België is er een zogenoemde nationale stakingsdag op 12 mei. De vakbonden ABVV, ACV en ACLVB voeren dinsdag opnieuw actie tegen het regeringsbeleid. De luchthaven van Charleroi voert hierdoor geen vluchten uit. Eerder meldde Brussels Airport dat minder dan de helft van de geplande vertrekken op 12 mei kan doorgaan door de staking.

QUEZON CITY (ANP/AFP/RTR) - Een meerderheid van het Filipijnse parlement heeft ingestemd met een afzettingsprocedure tegen vicepresident Sara Duterte. Ze wordt beschuldigd van fraude, corruptie en doodsbedreigingen.

De zaak zou een einde kunnen maken aan haar kans op het presidentschap in 2028. Als de dochter van voormalig president Rodrigo Duterte wordt veroordeeld, wordt ze uit haar functie gezet en levenslang verbannen uit de politiek.

Ze zou onder meer haar voormalige bondgenoot president Ferdinand Marcos met de dood hebben bedreigd. Ze zei in een persconferentie een huurmoordenaar te hebben ingehuurd voor het geval de president van haar af zou willen. Later zei ze dat die uitspraak verkeerd was begrepen.

Rodrigo Duterte verblijft in een gevangenis in Scheveningen in afwachting van een zaak die tegen hem loopt bij het Internationaal Strafhof. Hij wordt verantwoordelijk gehouden voor een oorlog tegen drugs die duizenden mensen het leven heeft gekost.

BREDA (ANP) - Het Openbaar Ministerie heeft maandag veertien jaar cel geëist tegen de 24-jarige Jordy C. voor de dodelijke schietpartij in een supermarkt in Vlissingen op 22 juni vorig jaar. Daarbij kwam de 44-jarige Thomas van Wanrooij om het leven.

De schietpartij was aan het eind van de ochtend in de hal van de Jumbo in winkelcentrum Papegaaienburg, in het bijzijn van klanten en personeel. De schoten bij de bloemenafdeling volgden op een vechtpartij verderop in de winkel tussen de vriendin van C. en de vriendin van de zoon van Thomas.

Het OM noemt het doodslag en geen moord, omdat C. geen vooropgezet plan had. Hij zegt dat hij schoot uit angst en zelfverdediging, maar volgens het OM is geen sprake van noodweer.

Naast de celstraf eist het OM een gedragsbeïnvloedende en vrijheidsbeperkende maatregel, zodat C. verplicht kan worden behandeld. Gedragsdeskundigen achten hem licht verminderd toerekeningsvatbaar.

De rechtbank doet op 27 mei uitspraak.

BRUSSEL (ANP) - De EU-ministers van Buitenlandse Zaken hebben maandag sancties ingesteld tegen nog eens zestien mensen en zeven instellingen die verantwoordelijk zijn voor de ontvoering van Oekraïense kinderen. Sinds het begin van de oorlog heeft Rusland naar schatting bijna 20.500 Oekraïense kinderen gedeporteerd en gedwongen naar Rusland overgeplaatst, melden de ministers in een verklaring.

"Deze acties vormen ernstige schendingen van het internationaal recht en een schending van de fundamentele rechten van het kind", aldus de verklaring. "Ze zijn erop gericht de Oekraïense identiteit uit te wissen en het behoud van toekomstige generaties te ondermijnen."

De nieuwe sancties zijn onder meer opgelegd aan federale staatsinstellingen die zijn verbonden aan het Russische ministerie van Onderwijs. Zij organiseren programma's voor Oekraïense kinderen waarin ze worden onderworpen aan pro-Russische indoctrinatie. De kinderen worden onder meer gedwongen deel te nemen aan patriottische evenementen en militair georiënteerde activiteiten.