Apple Tightens macOS ‘Full Disk Access’ Controls As AI Agents ‘Substantially’ Increase Risk
Apple says it will tighten macOS Full Disk Access controls as increasingly capable AI agents raise the risks of apps gaining broad access to users’ files, messages, mail, and browsing history. TechCrunch reports: Days after a journalist claimed that Meta’s Muse app on Mac read their private me … ⌘ Read more

Linux 7.4 To Introduce Initial Device Trees For Apple M4, A18 Pro For MacBook Neo
Asahi Linux developer Sven Peter today sent out the pull requests of the Apple SoC Device Tree changes they are ready to upstream for the Linux 7.4 merge window happening later this month. Most notable is the initial Device Tree for Apple systems using the base M4 SoC model as well as for the MacBook Neo with the A18 Pro SoC… ⌘ Read more

Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery to Become Skydance
Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery will operate under the Skydance name once their roughly $110 billion merger closes, which is expected on October 6. The combined company will bring together Paramount+, HBO Max, CBS, CNN, MTV and other networks, along with major franchises including The Lord of the Rings, Game of Thrones, DC and Yellowstone.

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Used Processor Leads To Game Ban
AmiMoJo shares a report from heise online: Anyone buying used hardware for a gaming PC needs to be careful: not just whether the components are still in order but also what the previous owner did with them. A case on Reddit shows this. Someone installed a used AMD processor, a Ryzen 7 5800X3D, in their PC. Because the previous owner was caught cheating, the new owner cannot start several online games.

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@movq@www.uninformativ.de Selbstredend nicht!

Intel Ready With A Big Improvement For Battlemage With Linux 7.4
Sent out on Thursday was the last round of planned Intel Xe kernel driver improvements targeting the upcoming Linux 7.4 cycle. There is one big improvement that is set to benefit Intel discrete GPUs with at least Battlemage benefiting nicely… ⌘ Read more

@jecxjo@sh0.xyz Na, good enough, I reckon. :-)

Ubuntu Working On SHA3 For Debian’s APT For If/When SHA2 Is Broken
Ubuntu developer Gianpiero Carpinelli at Canonical has been working on introducing SHA3-256 and SHA3-384 support for Debian’s APT packaging tool in preparing for if/when that SHA2 is broken… ⌘ Read more

EU’s Microsoft Teams Alternative Draws Bad Reviews From Officials
The European Commission has rolled out Element Pro as a self-hosted “sovereign back-up” to Microsoft Teams and the reviews aren’t great. Politico reported that several officials questioned its usefulness and usability, with one calling it “absolute shit.” Politico reports: “I don’t understand the added value here,” one official wrote on an internal s … ⌘ Read more

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaas? Hier plenkt niemand!!1! 😱😱😱

Judge Dismisses Chegg and Penske Antitrust Lawsuits Targeting Google AI Search
A federal judge has dismissed antitrust lawsuits from Chegg and Penske Media accusing Google of harming publishers by using their content in AI Overviews and other AI search features without compensating them or providing a meaningful opt-out. Ars Technica reports: The lawsuits were filed in 2025, and Google requested … ⌘ Read more

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Sehr hübsch! Aber wurde vor dem Ausrufezeichen etwa geplenkt? 8-)

Ach, mit dem Bildschirm hältst Du es schon noch ne Weile aus! Der ist noch pfundsgut.

Here’s the highest rated Native Linux Steam games from September 2026
Here’s some of the highest-rated Native Linux games released on Steam during September 2026. Helping you to find something interesting to go and play if Native

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Social Media Harms Democracy By Spreading Rumors, Survey Shows
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: A growing number of people think social media manipulates and divides people and harms democracy, Pew Research Center said on Thursday, echoing rising concern and tighter scrutiny across the world. Companies running popular social platforms, including Meta, Snap, and TikTok, have faced thousands of law … ⌘ Read more

Error-Prone AI Nearly Sparked World War Three Last Month
In an op-ed for The Guardian, authors Timnit Gebru and Emily M. Bender argue that policymakers are focusing too heavily on hypothetical “superintelligence” while overlooking the more immediate danger of deploying unreliable AI in high-stakes settings. They point to an as-yet independently unverified CNN report claiming U.S. officials nearly intercepted a Chinese … ⌘ Read more

AMD Ryzen AI Developer Platform OS Updated With ROCm 10.0, Linux 7.2
With the AMD Ryzen AI Halo mini PC that launched this summer that focused on local AI, one of the biggest surprises for me when reviewing the unit was finding that the Linux preload wasn’t just a stock Ubuntu/Debian OS but rather a customized AMD Linux distribution known as AMD Ryzen AI Developer Platform. Yesterday the newest version of AMD Ryzen AI Developer Platform was released with some nice software updates… ⌘ Read more

#FrakturFreitag: Jemand hat Geburtstag und hier ist der Draft für die Karte. (Oder – wie beim letzten Mal – die tatsächliche Karte, wenn ich zu faul bin, das nochmal „sauber“ zu machen. 😝)

Das Geschenk ist ein Zeitungsabo, daher dieses äußerst kreative „Gedicht“.

Diesmal auf die Uhr geschaut: Gedauert hat das ~30 Minuten. Und weil ich es wagte, so lange dasselbe Bild auf meinem Monitor anzuzeigen – meine Buchstabenreferenz –, hab’ ich jetzt erstmal für werweißwielange ’ne tolle Image Retention.

Ich brauche einen neuen Monitor.

systemd-appd Out For Review To Centralize Tracking Of User’s Apps
The newest systemd component being worked on and drafted for an initial pull request is systemd-appd as a new mechanism to centralizing the tracking of user’s apps… ⌘ Read more

Imagination Talks Up Their Open-Source Vulkan Driver, Volcanic Architecture Plans
Imagination Tech was at XDC 2026 Toronto this week to talk up their ongoing work around their PowerVR Mesa Vulkan driver (and PVR upstream DRM kernel driver) with this driver continuing to improve, plans for supporting their new Volcanic GPU architecture, and other improvements… ⌘ Read more

Planescape: Torment: Enhanced Edition gets upgrades to improve UI Scaling, Cloud Saving and more
Nice to see Beamdog still improving the classics - with a fresh update now available for Planescape: Torment: Enhanced Edition.

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Intel Iris Open-Source Driver Now Supports Efficient 64-bit Addressing Mode
As a follow-up to the news one month ago of Intel Nova Lake P’s graphics introducing a new 64-bit GPU mode, the latest driver-side enablement has now landed for Intel’s Iris Gallium3D OpenGL driver for supporting efficient 64-bit addressing… ⌘ Read more

20% of Swiss Glaciers Lost In Five Years
Swiss glaciers lost 5.5% of their ice volume in the first eight months of 2026, bringing total losses since 2021 to 19.4%. Researchers say some glaciers are now collapsing from within as meltwater carves out large cavities. The Guardian reports: Matthias Huss, a glaciologist at ETH Zurich and lead author of the report, said many people do not realize how fast glaciers are retreating, or that ju … ⌘ Read more

Ubuntu’s Next Rust Effort May See OpenPGP Replaced By Sequoia PGP
Canonical engineer Richard Scott McNew published a status update surrounding the Rust programming language efforts in the upcoming Ubuntu 26.10 release. Sequoia PGP is being rolled out to Ubuntu Linux and in a future release may end up replacing OpenPGP… ⌘ Read more

Apex Compute Developing Open-Source Mesa Vulkan Driver For Their Hardware
Apex Compute is the company started in California in 2024 that aims to produce high-efficiency AI accelerators for real-time edge AI inferencing. So far they have an FPGA prototype for licensing and deployment and carries the bold claim of being “20x faster than the NVIDIA Jetson” and at under 10W and one fifth the cost. Making Apex Compute much more interesting to us now is that they are developing an open-source, Mesa-based Vulkan driver … ⌘ Read more

KDE Nearing Decision Point On BuildStream-Based KDE Linux
KDE Linux developers have been experimenting with a build of their Linux distribution based on BuildStream to ship as an OS image rather than a set of Arch Linux packages. They are nearing a point soon where they will decide if they will officially ship this BuildStream-based KDE Linux image… ⌘ Read more

OCTOPATH TRAVELER and OCTOPATH TRAVELER II are coming to GOG in the Preservation Program
The GOG Preservation Program is expanding once again, on October 8th both OCTOPATH TRAVELER and OCTOPATH TRAVELER II will arrive on GOG.

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Here’s what’s coming to NVIDIA GeForce NOW during October 2026
NVIDIA revealed a bunch of new games coming to their cloud gaming service GeForce NOW during October, plus we had a small fix in the Linux app.

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Steam Client Beta for October 1st brings many Remote Play Pyrowave improvements
The new Pyrowave video codec is seeing rapid improvements in the Steam Client Beta, with an update for October 1st now available.

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SteamOS 0.4.3 (Beta) for Steam Frame brings improved power efficiency and battery life
Valve are working quickly to improve their new Steam Frame VR kit running SteamOS Linux, with another major Beta now available.

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Steam Survey for September 2026 shows a drop in Linux with Simplified Chinese rising
The Steam Hardware & Software Survey for September 2026 is here, showing another swing for Simplified Chinese as a language on Steam.

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OpenAI Alerts More Than 100 Groups About Rogue AI Agent Activity
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: OpenAI has informed more than 100 organizations about incidents involving unauthorized activity tied to its AI agents, according to a blog post by the ChatGPT maker, as AI labs face mounting scrutiny over rogue AI agent activity. Here are some other details:
- The Sam Altman-led company has been c … ⌘ Read more

“One thing about living in Santa Carla I never could stomach… All the damn vampires.”

California Rushes To Prepare For Massive ‘Kelvin’ Wave, Predicted Sea Level Rise
fjo3 shares a report from The Guardian: Communities across California are rushing to prepare for the imminent arrival of the so-called “Kelvin wave,” a massive underwater band of warm water threatening to inundate swaths of the vast North American shoreline. The wave is nearing southern California and expected to reac … ⌘ Read more

Siemens Slams The Door Shut On Promising Open-Source Radioss Project
As a major disappointment to the open-source community, Siemens has decided to end – and close-up access – to the OpenRadioss project as the open-source version opened up by Altair Engineering under the GNU AGPL License back in 2022. This was an open-source version of the industry-leading finite element solver that Altair developed. Siemens acquired Altair Engineering last year and have now completely shut the door on OpenRadioss… ⌘ Read more

Amazon’s New Kindle Accessories Bring Back Physical Controls
Alongside a refreshed Kindle lineup, Amazon today introduced two accessories that bring physical buttons back to its touchscreen e-readers. The $34.99 Kindle Click is a Bluetooth remote that lets readers turn pages and adjust brightness without touching the device, while a new $79.99 magnetic cover is available for select Paperwhite and Colorsoft models. … ⌘ Read more

Steam On Linux Dives Down To 3.05% For September
Steam on Linux use in March hit an all-time high of around 5.33% marketshare. Since then it pulled back to around 4% while for September 2026 the Steam Survey results are now in and it’s clocking in just above 3%… ⌘ Read more

Russian-Owned Snooping Software Used By US Secret Service
Bruce66423 shares a report from The Telegraph: British police forces, including specialist units within the Metropolitan Police, have used Oxygen Forensics software to break into the phones of suspects during live investigations, public documents show. The Virginia-based company behind the software has been accused in the US of having hidden its Russian ownersh … ⌘ Read more

Cloudflare Tries to Outplay Jev With Open-Weight Clef Models
Cloudflare has launched two open-weight decision models, Clef and Clef-flash, designed for structured yes/no, multiple-choice, and ranking tasks while also supporting images, video, and up to a 64K context window. Cloudflare says its models outperform TypeSafe’s Jev on several benchmarks and can run locally from Hugging Face. The Register reports: For st … ⌘ Read more

Ryan Roslansky Is Leaving After Nearly 18 Years At LinkedIn and Microsoft
Ryan Roslansky is leaving Microsoft and LinkedIn after nearly 18 years, triggering another leadership shuffle across Office and Teams. “Roslansky, who until recently was the CEO of LinkedIn, was promoted to the head of Office last year and then took control of Microsoft Teams earlier this year,” notes The Verge. From the report: “Rya … ⌘ Read more

Fedora 45 Beta Performance: The Satisfyingly Boring Benchmarks
While there have been a number of Ubuntu 26.10 development benchmarks in recent weeks and more on the way, some Phoronix readers have asked about the lack of any early Fedora 45 tests given its recent beta. For good reason, it’s largely boring but here are some to illustrate. ⌘ Read more

Mesa Drops Its Poorly Maintained & Rarely Used Direct3D 10 User-Mode Driver
Back in 2021 the Direct3D 10 User-Mode Driver “d3d10umd” was introduced as a new Gallium3D state tracker to work as a Windows WDDM UMD driver similar to Windows WARP while leveraging LLVMpipe for better performance. Now five years later the poorly maintained code is removed from the Mesa codebase… ⌘ Read more

Micron Projects Tightening RAM Shortages Through 2028 As It Generates Record Profit
Micron says the global RAM and storage shortage will tighten further through 2027 and 2028, with CEO Sanjay Mehrotra saying the company has already sold most of next year’s capacity. “In calendar 2027 as well as 2028, we see demand exceeding supply. In fact, we see greater tightness in the industry in 202 … ⌘ Read more

Ubuntu 26.10 Beta Released With Linux 7.3 Kernel, GNOME 51 Desktop
Ubuntu 26.10 beta is now available for the official Ubuntu editions as well as the various community flavors… ⌘ Read more

Cops Can Bypass iPhone’s Automatic Reboot To Get Into Locked Phones
An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: A company that makes phone hacking devices claims to have developed a solution that freezes iPhones in a state that lets cops more easily access sensitive data inside them, according to a video obtained by 404 Media. […] The new technology to get around inactivity reboot was developed by … ⌘ Read more

Pentagon Creates ‘Autowarcom’ to Expand AI and Drone Capabilities
Longtime Slashdot reader ThurstonMoore shares a report from Reuters: U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Wednesday announced the creation of a new military command that would be dedicated to building and providing autonomous and robotic capabilities across the U.S. military. The command, which Hegseth said would be called “Autonomous Warfare C … ⌘ Read more

Steam Autumn Sale 2026 is live now with lots of discounts
One of the bigger sale events of the year has arrived - the Steam Autumn Sale 2026 is now live.

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FTC Is Investigating OpenAI, Anthropic and Other AI Companies Over Product Risks
The Federal Trade Commission has opened an investigation into OpenAI, Anthropic and other AI companies over potential consumer and safety risks posed by their products, with the agency reportedly preparing requests for documents and executive testimony. CNBC reports: OpenAI stunned the industry in July when it disclo … ⌘ Read more

Nearing A 10 Second Kernel Build, Xeon 600 & Other September Excitement On Phoronix
During the past month on Phoronix were 284 original news articles and another 19 featured Linux hardware reviews/multi-page benchmark articles. A lot of exciting happenings both on the hardware and software fronts while October is sure to be another interesting month with the releases of Ubuntu 26.10, Fedora 45, and some more hardware fun… ⌘ Read more

@jecxjo@sh0.xyz Haven’t followed Python projects for quite a while. This is the first one that I come across that uses match. Cool.

Some Networking Fixes Being Diverted To Linux 7.4, AI/LLM Activity Still Increasing
With the vast array of wired and wireless networking drivers within the Linux kernel and range of protocols and other networking features, it’s a big expanse of code for AI/LLM agents to analyze and critique. The Linux networking developers have acknowledged being “complete overwhelmed” by the AI/LLM-driven patch activity and bug reports as well as battling against AI slop patches. Even though Linux 7.3 stable won’t be out f … ⌘ Read more