More than $100M in costs could be cut by gutting duplicative IT alone, making DOGE itself look a bit redundant

Comment  Cost-trimming in the US federal government is all the rage right now – and a new report finds more than $100 million in savings available to the Feds by doing nothing but eliminating redundant and unnecessary IT investments. …

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: We've known for months now that Valve is expanding its Linux-based SteamOS operating system beyond the Steam Deck to other handheld PCs, starting with some versions of the Asus ROG Ally. This week, Valve began making some changes to its Steam storefront to prepare for a future when the Deck isn't the only hardware running SteamOS. A new "SteamOS Compatible" label will begin rolling out "over the next few weeks" to denote "whether a game and all of its middleware is supported on SteamOS," including "game functionality, launcher functionality, and anti-cheat support." Games that don't meet this requirement will be marked as "SteamOS Unsupported." As with current games and the Steam Deck, this label doesn't mean these games won't run, but it does mean there may be some serious compatibility issues that keep the game from running as intended.

Valve says that "over 18,000 titles on Steam [will] be marked SteamOS compatible out of the gate," and that game developers won't need to do anything extra to earn the label if their titles already support the Steam Deck. SteamOS uses a collection of app translation technologies called Proton to make unmodified Windows applications run on SteamOS. This technology has dramatically improved SteamOS's game compatibility, compared to older SteamOS versions that required games to support Linux natively, but it still can't support every single game that Windows does. Valve says that the "SteamOS Compatible" label isn't meant to imply how well a game will run on the Steam Deck or any other SteamOS handheld but that this label is "just the first step." The company is "continuing to work on ways for people to have a better understanding of how games will run on their specific devices."

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Palantir CEO Alex Karp criticized Europe's AI adoption while praising Saudi Arabia's engineering talent at Tuesday's Saudi-US Investment Forum in Riyadh. "It's like people have given up," Karp said of Europe, while commending Saudi engineers for their "meritocracy and patriotism" and "deep tradition in engineering excellence."

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Feyenoord won gemakkelijk de laatste thuiswedstrijd van het seizoen. RKC werd met 2-0 aan de kant gezet, maar het draaide woensdagavond maar om twee andere dingen: Het eerbetoon aan het bombardement op Rotterdam en het afscheid van Peter Houtman. "De spandoeken waren echt heel indrukwekkend", vertelt Dennis Kranenburg.

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Tenryū-ji (天龍寺), formally known as Tenryū Shiseizen-ji (天龍資聖禅寺), is the head temple of the Tenryū-ji branch of the Rinzai sect of Zen Buddhism, located in Susukinobaba-chō, Ukyō Ward, Kyoto, Japan. The temple was founded by Ashikaga Takauji in 1339, primarily to venerate Gautama Buddha, and its first chief priest was Musō Soseki. Construction was completed in 1345. As a temple related to both the Ashikaga family and Emperor Go-Daigo, the temple is held in high esteem, and is ranked number one among Kyoto's so-called Five Mountains. In 1994, it was registered as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, as part of the "Historic Monuments of Ancient Kyoto".

天龍寺是一坐位於日本京都府京都市右京區嵯峨天龍寺芒之馬場町的寺院，為臨濟宗天龍寺派大本山的寺院。山號「靈龜山」（れいぎざん）。本尊釋迦如來、開基（創立者）為足利尊氏、開山（初代住持）為夢窗疎石，當初是足利尊氏為了撫慰後醍醐天皇的亡靈而下令夢窗國師興建。該寺規模十分宏大，在京都五山中位居第一位，除了被日本列為特別名勝古蹟外，也在1994年12月時以「古都京都的文化財」的一部份而被聯合國教科文組織列入世界遺産名單之中。

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Ajax verspeelt de koppositie, na een tegengoal in extremis bij FC Groningen. PSV, dat al uitgeschakeld leek voor de titel, is zondag bij een zege op Sparta landskampioen. Hoe kon het zover komen?

Het blijft spannend of er een meerderheid is voor het NSC-plan voor inspraak bij de pensioenhervorming. De onenigheid tussen de fractie van NSC en vicepremier Eddy van Hijum duurt hoe dan ook voort.

Bayrou moest verklaren waarom hij de signalen over fysiek en seksueel geweld op een katholieke middelbare school niet oppikte als Onderwijsminister.

Ajax en FC Groningen speelden woensdagavond met 2-2 gelijk. PSV won met 4-1 van Heracles en gaat met nog één speelronde voor de boeg aan de leiding in de Eredivisie.

Topdiplomaten van Rusland en Oekraïne komen in Istanbul bij elkaar om over de oorlog te praten. Hoe beginnen Moskou en Kyiv aan de besprekingen, en welke inzet hebben de VS en Europa?

The NY Times has a nice feature on NASA astronaut Don Pettit’s photography from his latest stay in space, a 220-day mission aboard the ISS.

Now, you know I like a good astronomical image (like the one above of an ISS sunrise), but the thing that really caught my eye was the video of Pettit’s experiment involving charged water droplets and a teflon needle:

I could watch that allllll day long.

More Pettit: Swirling Green Aurora Captured From the ISS.

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10,000 Drum Machines is a growing collection of web-based drum machines. I like the Extremely Long-Term Drum Machine (“20 bass drums a millennium”).

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