Trump DHS Officials Asked CISA To Secretly Aquire and Hack a Voting Machine
Longtime Slashdot reader fahrbot-bot shares a report from ProPublica: A few months into President Donald Trump’s second term, political appointees at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) wanted Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to secretly acquire a voting machine and hack it. The appointees wa … ⌘ Read more
A Hacker Broke Into John Deere, SharkNinja With an Army of AI Agents
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: A hacker broke into more than 100 websites using an army of AI agents that mostly operated on their own, according to findings from the AI security firm Norforge. Though Norforge doesn’t name the targets, Reuters reports that the victims included companies like John Deere, SharkNinja, and C … ⌘ Read more
Apple Announces October 28 ‘Pro and Tell’ Event
Following its October 13 HomeView launch, Apple is gearing up for its second hardware event of the month. The event is scheduled for October 28 in Los Angeles and carries the tagline “Pro and tell.” 9to5Mac reports: Rumors say Apple has a slew of new products to announce at its next event, headlining by its first MacBook Pro with a touchscreen and OLED. According to Bloomberg’s … ⌘ Read more
Florida DMV Hacked After Police Dept Insecurely Stored Login Info
Florida’s DMV says a September 4 breach exposed driver’s license and motor vehicle records after attackers obtained credentials that a local law-enforcement employee had “improperly stored on an electronic device.” The ShinyHunters group has been linked to the intrusion. Ars Technica reports: In a notice posted Friday, [Florida Department of Hi … ⌘ Read more
Btrfs Brings More Performance Improvements For Linux 7.4
With Linux 7.3 there are some nice Btrfs performance improvements to enjoy while the in-development Linux 7.4 kernel is set to bring some additional performance optimizations for this copy-on-write file-system… ⌘ Read more
Elon Musk Vows To Give a SpaceX Share To ‘Every Kid In America’
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNN: Elon Musk has said he will give every child in America a stake in SpaceX, his $2 trillion aerospace and artificial intelligence company, as tech firms face intensifying scrutiny over their impact on society. “Next year, I will give one of my SpaceX shares to every kid in America,” he wrote on X on Monday. … ⌘ Read more
Wine Ported to OpenBSD
Wine has been successfully ported to OpenBSD, with developers reporting that dozens of 64-bit Windows applications now run on the operating system. “Even the Remaster of The Witcher 3 which released just last month runs, and runs well,” writes Thomas Frohwein, OpenBSD developer and ports maintainer. OSnews reports: The biggest limitation seems to be the lack of support for WoW64, so 32bit Windows software won’t work. Still, this … ⌘ Read more
Intel Working To Add XMX-Accelerated XeSS To Valve’s Steam Play (Proton)
An Intel engineer opened the pull requests today for adding Intel XeSS support to Valve’s Proton for Steam Play along with associated changes to VKD3D-Proton and DXVK… ⌘ Read more
Linus Torvalds’ AI Code Improved: Huge Performance Wins With Reworked Code
Last week I wrote about Linus Torvalds leveraging AI to come up with a hefty Linux kernel improvement using Claude Code. The code is for reading from the page cache without folio references to help workloads of small reads from a single file across many CPU threads. Meta engineer Kiryl Shutsemau has taken that code and reworked it and showing extremely promising performance results… ⌘ Read more
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@prologic Nothing compares to the server my mates and I share. :-)
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@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Fair, but not what I was trying to ask 😅
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Q: Would you pay $2 AUD / $1.40 USD per month for a micro container service that let you run up to 3 containers with up to 64MB of memory per container, shared CPU and nVME backed Disk? 🤔 Then $1 SUD $0.70 USD / month per additional 64MB slot/slice? 🤔 -- Assuming you can also run smaller containers where cost per container linearly scales, so $0.50 / $0.35 for 32MB containers.
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@prologic@twtxt.net Nothing compares to the server my mates and I share. :-)
Linux In 2026 Continues Improving Support For Benefiting Old Atari & Amiga Hardware
The Motorola 68000 “m68k” CPU support continues being maintained in the mainline Linux kernel and continuing to see new hardware support for these vintage systems from the likes of Commodore Amiga, Atari, and early Apple Macintosh models… ⌘ Read more
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In the age of AI, PR reviews at work only serve these purposes:
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@movq@www.uninformativ.de The vast majority, yes. However, I know it’s hard to believe, I have seen black sheep that actually improved the code base. Sometimes. Much more often, it’s not the case and I’m far from really understanding the merge request that I’m supposed to review.
One really looses the feeling for the software quickly. Those who think this is a bad thing are in the minority, unsurprisingly.
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@zyak@twtxt.z85b.xyz But look at all the free available space now!
Q: Would you pay $2 AUD / $1.40 USD per month for a micro container service that let you run up to 3 containers with up to 64MB of memory per container, shared CPU and nVME backed Disk? 🤔 Then $1 SUD $0.70 USD / month per additional 64MB slot/slice? 🤔 – Assuming you can also run smaller containers where cost per container linearly scales, so $0.50 / $0.35 for 32MB containers.
Trailblazers: Into the March shows off its unique blend of walking colony sim in a new demo
Trailblazers: Into the March is high up on my wishlist for the unique premise, with you building up a little colony on a walking landship.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/trailblazers-into-the-march-shows-off- … ⌘ Read more
Elizabeth Holmes Doc ‘You Can See Everything’ Shocks With Massive Opening
Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s Elizabeth Holmes documentary “You Can See Everything” earned more than $15 million in its limited opening weekend, making it one of the biggest documentary launches in decades and the strongest opening for a film on fewer than 1,000 screens since Borat in 2006. It was also “the biggest … ⌘ Read more
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@kamme@twtxt.thanatos.be It’s my favorite! It just feels like home 👍
In the age of AI, PR reviews at work only serve these purposes:
- A PR makes me vaguely aware that something exists. Like, I now know that there’s a component over here that probably does something with this other component over there. Maybe.
- I can “gauge the risk”: Is this something that I can simply throw away once it breaks? If not, I’ll have to bite the bullet and start a more detailed discussion about what the flying fuck your 8000 new lines of code actually do. And then you’ll pull the “but I don’t have time for this discussion”-card and we merge anyway.
- Shift the blame from author to reviewer: “It passed review! The builds were green!”
- I don’t need pills anymore to raise my low blood pressure.
It’s so disheartening to see everyone vomit out bullshit. “You can use AI responsibly and actually make the code better”, my ass. Nobody does that. Not a single soul. No human. Ever. None. Nobody.
Canonical’s Multipass 1.17 Adds Direct Support For Non-Ubuntu Linux Distros
Canonical’s Multipass software is used for orchestrating Ubuntu virtual instances with a single command to launch Ubuntu VMs across Windows, macOS, and Linux. Multipass 1.17 was released today and they are now offering direct support for enabling non-Ubuntu Linux distributions as well… ⌘ Read more
Crusader Kings III: Silk & Silver expansion arrives November 19
Paradox Interactive just announced a major expansion with Crusader Kings III: Silk & Silver now set to arrive on November 19th.
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GNU Linux-libre 7.3-gnu Removes More Firmware Blobs
GNU Linux-libre 7.3 is now available following yesterday’s Linux 7.3 release. The GNU Linux-libre downstream continues stripping out driver/hardware support where dependent upon firmware blobs or other proprietary elements deemed out of line with free software ideals… ⌘ Read more
Try the demo for The Mystery of Oak Island, a point and click mystery thriller from Visionaire Studio
The Mystery of Oak Island is a passion project from Visionaire Studio, who make the popular point and click game engine.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/try-the-demo-for-the-mystery-of-oak-i … ⌘ Read more
GNOME Mutter Lands Improvement For Reducing GPU Work While In Power Savings Mode
Stemming from a bug report one month ago with GNOME 51 over high GPU usage while the monitor is sleeping, a set of 17 patches were merged today for addressing this issue… ⌘ Read more
SpacemiT Announces The V100 Server-Class RISC-V Processor
Following the interesting SpacemiT K3 RVA23 RISC-V SoC, SpacemiT today announced the V100 server-class RISC-V processor… ⌘ Read more
SpacemiT Announces The V100 Server-Class RISC-V Processor
Following the interesting SpacemiT K3 RVA23 RISC-V SoC, SpacemiT today announced the V100 server-class RISC-V processor… ⌘ Read more
America Tries Reviving Shuttered Nuclear Plants - Partly to Help Power Data Centers
America is “making an unprecedented attempt to revive three shuttered nuclear plants to meet rising energy demand,” reports the Los Angeles Times,
“Two of the plants have contracts with Big Tech companies that will pay a premium to get large amounts of carbon-free energy for data centers…”
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BeamFS Sent Out As Newest File-System Proposal For Linux
There is yet-another-Linux-file-system attempt… An initial request for comments (RFC) patch series was sent out this morning for BeamFS. The proposed BeamFS is a Reed-Solomon protected file-system… ⌘ Read more
RADV Promotes VK_EXT_host_image_copy To Enabled By Default For RDNA1 GPUs
Going back to July 2025 the open-source Radeon RADV Vulkan driver has offered experimental host image copy support with the API’s VK_EXT_host_image_copy extension. This has been for RDNA1 and newer GPUs while now GFX10 RDNA 1 GPUs have this extension enabled by default while also enabling experimental support for prior GFX9 era GPUs too… ⌘ Read more
TAINT_FORCED_BIND Sent In For Linux 7.4 To Deal With Major Fuzzing Attack
Among the early pull requests sent out in advance of the Linux 7.4 kernel merge window opening were the driver core updates. Standing out here is the new TAINT_FORCED_BIND for dealing with the recent major fuzzing “attack” by AI agents/bots testing impractical driver/hardware combinations… ⌘ Read more
Dungeonbound is a unique dungeon crawler blending in auto-battlers, incrementals and inventory management
Dungeonbound is an upcoming first-person auto-battler dungeon crawler with some fun ideas and a mixture of modes that change how you play.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/dungeonbou … ⌘ Read more
Take on big oil and pirates as a lonely wind turbine in Spin Tide
Indie developers just keep coming up with absolute gems. Spin Tide is another survivor-like but it’s the style and animations that hooked me in.
Read the full article on GamingOnLinux. ⌘ Read more
Get some great Double Fine and Serenity Forge games across two new bundles
Ready to fill up on some more games? The Double Fine Publisher Humble Bundle and Serenity Forge Emotional Impact Humble Bundle have some great stuff included.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/get-some-great-double-fine-and-serenity-forge-games- … ⌘ Read more
Mozilla is Calling Out Microsoft for Forcing Edge on Users
“Mozilla reps tell me they’ve met with Microsoft about their concerns,” reports PC Magazine, “but that the company wasn’t responsive.”
“They’ll do the minimum the law requires to respect user choice,” explains Kush Amlani, Mozilla’s counsel overseeing global competition and regulatory work… Mozilla recently marked 100 days since it released an 87-page rep … ⌘ Read more
Enshrouded 1.0 rolls out and now it’s Steam Deck Verified
Enshrouded is a solo and co-op survival action RPG where your freedom and creativity come first - with a big 1.0 release out now.
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Hot Wax is an inventive new take on classic falling block puzzlers
Move over Tetris, it’s time for some Hot Wax - an inventive new take on classic falling block puzzlers.
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Proton-CachyOS 11.0-20261014, DWProton 11.0-15 and GE-Proton 11-10 released
A triple helping of community Proton builds to report on for you today with Proton-CachyOS 11.0-20261014, DWProton 11.0-15 and GE-Proton 11-10 released.
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Linux kernel 7.3 is out with some nice improvements for gaming
Linux kernel 7.3 has officially been released, bringing with it plenty of improvements for Linux gaming.
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Anthropic Announces ‘Public Benefit Fund’, Committing 5% of Its Shares
“Anthropic says it’s committing 5% of its shares to a ‘public benefit fund’,” reports TechCrunch, “structured as a wholly-owned entity within the company — with the option to contribute an additional 2% for every 50% increase in Anthropic’s value.”
Important context from CNBC:
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#Magic Update: This week, our Magic time was up against the local team’s Sportsball game, so we only had 4 players to start. I decided to try out a brand new deck, a lightly modified version of the new Jace, Multiverse Architect preconstructed deck that I picked up from my FLGS a few days ago, and let me tell you, that deck dominated, with everyone else quitting around the 90 minute mark. I know much of it was luck (especially in the early game), but it was so much fun to play, I look forward to breaking it out again… in a few weeks. 😁
By the time the second game started, the local team had won their Sportsball game (yay, sports team!), so it was one of our usual 5-player affairs. This time, I played my old-school Defenders of the Mirth deck, and it held up long enough for all but one other player to quit, and then I killed on my next turn with a truckload of unblockable commander damage at about the 2 hour mark. That put me at a rare 2/2 overall for the day. Good times! 🤘
‘Human Vs. Robot’ Cage Match Was Illegal, Says California
“A human defeated two of the three robots he faced in a cage fight recently held in San Francisco,” reports the Los Angeles Times, noting that videos of the event drew more than 10 million views on YouTube.
But “the humans behind that fight could face a battle of their own — the legal type — if they want to hold another event like ‘Human Vs. Robot,’ the Sept. … ⌘ Read more
Linux 7.3 Released With Faster I/O Performance, AMD Zen 6 Preparations & More
The Linux 7.3 kernel is out today for an on-time release of this next stable kernel version… ⌘ Read more
New Video Game Law Proposed: ‘If You Pay For It, You Own It’
“When you pay for a game, you should own it,” says U.S. Representative Ritchie Torres (D-NY), introducing a new bill to fight the practice of “a rental disguised as a sale”.
Kotaku reports:
The fifth best-selling game of 2024 in the U.S. was NBA 2K25. Every year, fans dump hundreds of hours and hundreds of dollars into the grindy NBA basketball sim. But ju … ⌘ Read more
Planned UK Data Center Delayed Until 2030s Over Power Grid Delays. Microsoft Pulls Out
July: Nvidia-backed Nscale is building a £2bn data centre at Loughton in Essex, with Microsoft signed up as its anchor tenant. But it can’t get the electricity to switch on, reported The Next Web:
Nscale’s problem is not really Nscale’s. It is Britain’s. Grid-connection times have become the single bigges … ⌘ Read more
Researchers Discover How To Lead Dying Coral Reefs To a ‘Fast And Full Recovery’
Gizmodo reports:
Roughly 84.4% of the world’s coral reefs suffered bleaching-levels of heat stress during the last major marine heat wave from January 2023 to September 2025, with over half already lost compared to coral coverage in the 1950s… But there’s some good news, thanks to a new study published this Wed … ⌘ Read more
Websites Are Closing Their Doors to AI Agents
The Verge reports:
OpenAI, Meta, Google, Instinct, and others promise their agents can scour the internet on your behalf, doing anything from booking a dinner reservation and cleaning out your inbox to buying new shoes. But what happens when the rest of the internet won’t play nice?
In recent weeks, users of services like Meta’s Muse, xAI’s Grok, OpenAI’s Dots, and Instinct have reporte … ⌘ Read more
More Details on Arrested Saudi OpenAI Employee, Who is Seeking Release on Bail
More details are emerging about Saudi OpenAI employee Abdulrahman Alfozan, who was arrested by the FBI for allegedly planting a recording device in an executive conference room. Previously Alfozan “was an engineer at Meta,” notes the New York Times, “before joining a start-up that went through Y Combinator, the Silicon V … ⌘ Read more
LinkedIn Fights AI Slop, Now 40% of Its Long-Form Posts
“Even LinkedIn is getting tired of your AI-written posts,” writes CNN, reporting that the Microsoft-owned, job-oriented social media site “is upping its fight against slop.”
A report published in July by Pangram, a research firm that tracks AI content online, found that more than 40% of long-form posts on the platform were AI-generated, compared to around 30% on X a … ⌘ Read more
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@jecxjo@sh0.xyz Pics or it didn’t happen!!
I thought modifying the Caps key was cool. Now I discovered Home Row mods and gave em’ a try … Dear goodness! There’s no going back from this xD