NVIDIA released today the NVIDIA 590.48.01 graphics drivers for NVIDIA GPUs on Linux, BSD, and Solaris systems as the first stable release in the NVIDIA 590 series.

The NVIDIA 590.48.01 graphics driver improves support for Wayland users by raising the minimum supported Wayland version to 1.20 and fixes a bug that prevented the PowerMizer preferred mode drop-down menu in the nvidia-settings control panel from functioning correctly on Wayland systems.

It also improves support for Vulkan apps by boosting the performance of recreating Vulkan swapchains, which helps prevent stuttering when resizing Vulkan application windows, and fixes several issues that prevented Vulkan apps from working on the Venus VirtIO virtual GPU.

OpenZFS 2.4 has been tagged today on GitHub as the latest stable version of this open-source advanced file system and volume manager for Linux and FreeBSD systems.

Supporting kernels from Linux 4.18 up to the latest Linux 6.18 LTS, OpenZFS 2.4 introduces many exciting changes, such as support for setting default user/group/project quotas, direct IO fallback to a light-weight uncached IO when unaligned, and a new algorithm designed to reduce vdev fragmentation.

OpenZFS 2.4 also features better encryption performance using AVX2 for AES-GCM, extends special_small_blocks to land ZVOL writes on special vdevs and allows non-power-of-two values, and adds the zfs rewrite -P command to preserve logical birth time when possible for minimizing incremental stream size.

This is the sale event you've been waiting on isn't it? The Steam Winter Sale 2025 has arrived with a great many thousands of games discounted. No doubt the Steam store will be a little flaky for a while, as it usually struggles to cope with the increased demand of everyone madly throwing their payment cards at the servers.

Valve's Steam Awards is also now open for voting, with nominations over. No big surprise in the final nominations for Game of the Year which includes:

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
ARC Raiders
Dispatch
Kingdom Come: Deliverance II
Hollow Knight: Silksong

All of them are on sale too.

In the statement, Martin called the completed report a “comprehensive review of what happened in 2024” and said the party is “already putting our learnings into motion.” The decision that releasing the report would work against the party, Martin suggested, emerged from “conversations with stakeholders from across the Democratic ecosystem.”

But if the report is “comprehensive” in its look at 2024, keeping it secret raises more questions about who specifically inside that “Democratic ecosystem” will benefit from its remaining under wraps.

[...]

There are grounds for thinking the DNC report digs into these problems. According to a DNC official, the analysis found, among other things, that the party didn’t invest sufficiently in innovative digital tools; that its digital ads didn’t reach young voters who no longer engage with broadcast and cable TV; and that Trump—with the help of an ecosystem of right-wing podcasters and influencers—outworked the Democrats in the information wars. Democrats must play catchup in this department, the report found.

It’s good to hear the report concludes this. But it would be nice to know what specifically the party found on this front and precisely how it’s resolving to do better. Any such analysis of advertising and communications failures would seemingly have to look at Future Forward’s role; in fact, over the summer word leaked that Future Forward would come under heavy criticism in the analysis. If so, that will now remain undisclosed.

[...]

Or take the big question about Joe Biden’s age and fitness for a reelection campaign. It’s unclear what the DNC analysis concludes about key decisions made by the Biden campaign’s high command—people like reelection chair Jen O’Malley Dillon and senior adviser Anita Dunn, who is now an adviser to Future Forward—including the decision to stay in the race too long. That hamstrung Kamala Harris’s ability to get her campaign up and running in time. The lack of a public report may mean accountability falls by the wayside.

Asked directly whether the DNC had decided not to release the report out of concern for how it might impact the reputations of key party players—or whether the DNC faced pressure from key actors to keep its conclusions secret—the DNC official denied this and said the only consideration was what benefits the party. And the official declined to comment on whether Future Forward’s performance and the fate of all the money channeled into it was scrutinized in the report.

NYT reporting:

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/us/politics/dnc-2024-autopsy-democrats-ken-martin.html

Still, even if it is good politics to stuff the report in a filing cabinet, Democrats may well be avoiding self-examination and a chance for introspection.

The party’s brand still appears deeply damaged in the eyes of many voters. A national poll from Quinnipiac University this week found that only 18 percent of voters approved of how Democrats in Congress were doing their jobs, a record low.

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Some Democratic donors have demanded a more thorough accounting of how exactly the party and Ms. Harris spent $1.5 billion in 15 weeks en route to losing every battleground state in 2024. Since the election, it has come out that a former top aide to Mr. Biden, Mike Donilon, received $4 million from the campaign — even though he did not work meaningfully with the Harris campaign after Mr. Biden left the ticket.

“I read about that,” Ms. Harris said of Mr. Donilon’s compensation in an interview last month with The New York Times. “That was before I got there.”

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Both of the November 2025 patches have been provided in our regular non-security-preview releases for over a month, so we've already had the 2025-11-05 Android security patch level for over a month. Our patch level is set based on providing both the Android and Pixel security patches, so we're leaving it at 2025-11-01 until the Pixel stock OS release and Pixel Update Bulletin are published. The stock Pixel OS also included both November 2025 patches in early September. We expect they made a 2nd October release to ship the November carrier changes and will make a release in mid-November with patches from future Android Security Bulletins.

Tags:

• 2025110600 (Pixel 6, Pixel 6 Pro, Pixel 6a, Pixel 7, Pixel 7 Pro, Pixel 7a, Pixel Tablet, Pixel Fold, Pixel 8, Pixel 8 Pro, Pixel 8a, Pixel 9, Pixel 9 Pro, Pixel 9 Pro XL, Pixel 9 Pro Fold, Pixel 9a, emulator, generic, other targets)

Changes since the 2025102800 release:

• raise declared patch level to 2025-11-01 which has already been provided in GrapheneOS since our regular 2025090200 release (not a security preview) since the patches were included in the September security preview and were then pushed to AOSP despite not being listed in the bulletin
• kernel (6.1): update to latest GKI LTS branch revision
• kernel (6.1): keep POSIX_MQUEUE disabled to avoid increasing attack surface
• kernel (6.6): update to latest GKI LTS branch revision including update to 6.6.114
• kernel (6.12): update to latest GKI LTS branch revision
• adevtool: switch to obtaining Android 16 QPR1 backports from the latest October releases for 7th/8th/9th gen Pixels (6th gen Pixels did not have an October release) for very minor radio carrier configuration changes (no code changes)
• Settings: add 1 second delay for approving device admin activation to mitigate tapjacking (this matches the 1 second delay we add to both permission prompts and ADB authorization prompts which is currently not configurable)
• Vanadium: update to version 142.0.7444.138.0

All of the Android 16 security patches from the December 2025, January 2026, February 2026 and March 2026 Android Security Bulletins are included in the 2025110601 security preview release. List of additional fixed CVEs:

• Critical: CVE-2025-48631, CVE-2026-0006
• High: CVE-2022-25836, CVE-2022-25837, CVE-2023-40130, CVE-2025-22420, CVE-2025-22432, CVE-2025-26447, CVE-2025-32319, CVE-2025-32348, CVE-2025-48525, CVE-2025-48536, CVE-2025-48555, CVE-2025-48564, CVE-2025-48565, CVE-2025-48566, CVE-2025-48567, CVE-2025-48572, CVE-2025-48573, CVE-2025-48574, CVE-2025-48575, CVE-2025-48576, CVE-2025-48577, CVE-2025-48578, CVE-2025-48579, CVE-2025-48580, CVE-2025-48582, CVE-2025-48583, CVE-2025-48584, CVE-2025-48585, CVE-2025-48586, CVE-2025-48587, CVE-2025-48589, CVE-2025-48590, CVE-2025-48592, CVE-2025-48594, CVE-2025-48596, CVE-2025-48597, CVE-2025-48598, CVE-2025-48600, CVE-2025-48601, CVE-2025-48602, CVE-2025-48603, CVE-2025-48604, CVE-2025-48605, CVE-2025-48609, CVE-2025-48612, CVE-2025-48614, CVE-2025-48615, CVE-2025-48616, CVE-2025-48617, CVE-2025-48618, CVE-2025-48619, CVE-2025-48620, CVE-2025-48621, CVE-2025-48622, CVE-2025-48626, CVE-2025-48628, CVE-2025-48629, CVE-2025-48630, CVE-2025-48632, CVE-2025-48633, CVE-2025-48634, CVE-2026-0005, CVE-2026-0007, CVE-2026-0008

2025110601 provides at least the full 2025-12-01 Android security patch level (a Pixel Update Bulletin for November 2025 hasn't been released could have fixes we don't get early, although it's likely empty) but will remain marked as providing 2025-11-01.

For detailed information on security preview releases, see our post about it.

Changes in version 142.0.7444.138.0:

• update to Chromium 142.0.7444.138

A full list of changes from the previous release (version 142.0.7444.48.0) is available through the Git commit log between the releases.

This update is available to GrapheneOS users via our app repository and will also be bundled into the next OS release. Vanadium isn't yet officially available for users outside GrapheneOS, although we plan to do that eventually. It won't be able to provide the WebView outside GrapheneOS and will have missing hardening and other features.