Heroic Games Launcher v2.22.2 brings fixes for Rockstar, Ubisoft and more
Heroic Games Launcher continues being an essential tool in the box for SteamOS / Linux gamers, with a fresh hotfix release out now.
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SteamOS 3.8.27 Beta and SteamOS 3.9.1 Preview released - Valve continue working on NVIDIA support
Valve released two new testing builds with SteamOS 3.8.27 Beta and the much bigger SteamOS 3.9.1 Preview.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/steamos-3-8-27-beta-and-steamos-3-9-1-preview … ⌘ Read more
ChatGPT-Using Lawyer Cited Its Fake Witnesses and Police Testimony in Court
Reuters reports:
A defense lawyer appealing his client’s murder conviction submitted a brief containing made-up police testimony and witnesses fabricated by OpenAI’s ChatGPT, New Mexico’s highest court said. The New Mexico Supreme Court on Wednesday fined the attorney, Stephen Aarons [for $5,000], and held him in contempt for … ⌘ Read more
@david@daiwei.me I just wanted some cheap USB disks to test with, nothing fancy LOL, serves me right 😂
/msg james@mills.io Hey! at which point you should automatically start peering with my instance. You should then be able to /join #lobby1 (a globally federated channel already across 2 instances so far). 🤞
And by design 😅
Reservations Go Live for Valve’s Steam Frame VR Headset. An Experiment in Progress?
Reservations are now live for Valve’s “Steam Frame” VR headset (with its Linux-based SteamOS and an ARM CPU). “It starts at $1,059 for 256GB or $1,299 for 1TB,” reports CNET, “and every purchase includes a copy of Half-Life: Alyx if you don’t already own it.”
Reservations are open through Sept. 17 at 10 a.m. P … ⌘ Read more
I never thought I’d ever get scammed by an Amazon counterfeit product in my life 🤦♂️ I suppose with all the many 10’s of thousands of items sold there every day (and all the junk) I suppose it was bound to happen sooner or later. I just tested a couple of USB Flash drives that were being sold as 512G, but were in fact only internally 8G, you write past the 8G and try to read those bytes back and you get a whole pile of zero’s back 🤣
A Visit to San Francisco’s AI-run Store: No Customers, Nothing Useful, And Losing Money Fast
Previously Andon Labs handled the hardware and software integration for that AI-powered vending machine that went bankrupt after Wall Street Journal reporters “systematically manipulated the bot into giving away its entire inventory for free”.Today they announced “we are opening up the platform we us … ⌘ Read more
AMD Preparing Linux For Enhanced SMT Protection “ESMTP” For EPYC VMs
AMD engineers today sent out patches on the Linux kernel mailing list for beginning to enable Enhanced SMT Protection “ESMTP” for better security with virtual machines running atop EPYC server processors with SEV-SNP… ⌘ Read more
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Ahh, ohh! Thanks! :D
Both of these scenarios is mindboggling – imagine such a world:
Gastornis species were very large birds that were traditionally thought to have been predators of various smaller mammals, such as ancient, diminutive equids. However, several lines of evidence, including the lack of hooked claws (in known Gastornis footprints), studies of their beak structure and isotopic signatures of their bones, have caused scientists to now consider that these birds were probably herbivorous, feeding on tough plant material and seeds.
If they ever invent a time machine, I wanna go back to the Dinos. 🦕
GNU Coreutils 9.12 Released With Performance Optimizations, New uname Option
GNU Coreutils 9.12 released today with a mix of fixes, some new options, and various performance improvements to these widely-used set of core system utilities… ⌘ Read more
Steam Frame pricing and release date revealed by Valve - it’s a lottery again
Valve today finally announced the price of their new VR kit the Steam Frame with SteamOS Linux, and it’s actually not as bad as I expected.
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Valve’s Steam Frame Now Available At $1059+ USD
Valve just announced their long-awaited Steam Frame headset is now available… ⌘ Read more
No Rolling Power Outages for California Since 2020 - Thanks to 17,000 MW of New Battery Storage
“Californians just made it through the hottest August on record without having to endure any rolling power outages,” reports the Los Angeles Times. In fact, the state hasn’t implemented rotating power outages since 2020.
Because “Over the last few years, California has quietly but drama … ⌘ Read more
Rustls 0.23.45 Released To Fix Two Year Old Security Issue
While the Rustls modern TLS library is written in the Rust programming language with a focus on memory safety, as we’ve seen out of other Rust project re-implementations in the past, the new implementations can lead to other security bugs of their own. Out today is Rustls 0.23.45 to fix a security issue introduced back in 2024 with Rustls while the likes of OpenSSL, BoringSSL, and others are unaffected… ⌘ Read more
Firefox 156 Available With Its Built-In PDF Viewer Starting Up To 45% Faster
Mozilla today published their Firefox 156.0 release binaries ahead of the official Tuesday announcement… ⌘ Read more
Linux 7.3 Delivering Some Performance Gains On Intel Panther Lake / Framework Laptop 13 Pro
Linux 7.1 brought some performance improvements for Intel Core Ultra Series 3 “Panther Lake”, Linux 7.2 enhanced the performance for the integrated Arc B390 Xe3 graphics, and now for the in-development Linux 7.3 kernel are various performance improvements at large. Today’s article is looking at the performance of the in-development Linux 7.3 kernel compared to Linux 7.2 stable using the Core Ultra X9 388H within the Framewo … ⌘ Read more
Removing Drivers For Outdated ARM Platforms Will Lighten The Kernel By ~247k Lines
The Linux kernel is going to see the removal of a number of recently deprecated ARM 32-bit platforms. Following the deprecation in Linux 7.3, removing the old ARM platforms will lighten the kernel by around 55k lines of code. But removing now unused drivers only relevant to those platforms will mean roughly a quarter million lines of code can be removed from the kernel source tree… ⌘ Read more
Tempest Rising: The Veti’s Wrath arrives September 29 along with a free update
Some more RTS goodies are coming with Tempest Rising: The Veti’s Wrath DLC arriving September 29th, and everyone can play the Veti free in multiplayer.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/tempest-rising-the-vetis-wrath-arrives-september-29- … ⌘ Read more
OpenRGB 1.0 released to help you control all your fancy gamer lights
A PC is never truly a gamer PC unless it has some fancy RGB lighting right? Now easier to control than ever with OpenRGB 1.0 released.
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Union Contract with Microsoft Ratified by 1,900 Blizzard Developers and Workers
Nearly 1900 Blizzard Entertainment workers “voted to ratify their first union contract with parent company Microsoft after over two years of bargaining,” reports Kotaku, “consolidating Blizzard’s many smaller unions into three larger bargaining units.”
The workers now gain new protections “on issues such as generati … ⌘ Read more
Linux 7.4 Could End Up Seeing Kernel Builds ~36% Faster, Incremental Builds ~70% Faster
Earlier this month I wrote about a patch series posted to the Linux kernel mailing list that addressed a lot of “hideous code” to make Linux kernel builds faster. A number of single-threaded bottlenecks were tracked down and fixed within the Linux kernel thanks to the assistance of AI. A second revision of those patches hit the mailing list this morning and there is hope they could be upstreamed for Linux 7.4… ⌘ Read more
Bazzite’s September 13 update adds Strix Halo TDP controls, restores desktop TDP controls and brings fixes
The September 13th update for the popular Bazzite Linux is out now, bringing with it some excellent sounding improvements for handheld and desktop gamers.
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Linux Patched For Silent User-Space Data Loss Bug That’s Existed Since 2023
Being merged after yesterday’s Linux 7.3-rc3 release was an important fix for addressing a silent, user-space data loss bug that has existed in the kernel the past three years… ⌘ Read more
Transport Fever 3 gets a brand new gameplay overview
Transport Fever 3 from Urban Games and Paradox Interactive has a new gameplay overview to check out ahead of the release this month.
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Respect The Horde combines top-down shooting, tower defense and extraction all in one
Respect The Horde is coming from GFX47 (No Plan B, GLADIABOTS) as a curious mixture of top-down zombie shooting, with tower defense and extraction mechanics.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/respect-the-horde-combines-top-d … ⌘ Read more
The classic Robot Roller-Derby Disco Dodgeball just got a major free upgrade
A blast from the not so distant past, Robot Roller-Derby Disco Dodgeball is a highly rated multiplayer game that just had a huge surprise update.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/the-classic-robot-roller-derby-disco-dodgeball-just-got-a-maj … ⌘ Read more
The rather good The King is Watching adds Steam Deck & gamepad support
The King is Watching from Hypnohead and tinyBuild has a major new update out with Steam Deck and gamepad support.
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Goblin-crushing PvE brawler Fangstorm looks juicy with a playtest on Steam
Wave-based tower defence with juicy visceral combat - Fangstorm looks like a lot of fun. Getting some Orcs Must Die! vibes from this one.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/goblin-crushing-pve-brawler-fangstorm-looks-juicy-with-a-playtest-on-ste … ⌘ Read more
High-tech future survival city-builder XIRI: Oasis Cities announced
XIRI: Oasis Cities is a survival-driven city builder set in a high-tech future. You build up and defend your city from pretty much everything.
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Should US Open-Weight AI Labs ‘Distill’ Frontier Models Too?
Silicon Valley giants and national security experts “are calling for action against Chinese companies engaged in model distillation,” reports CNBC. But “I would do nothing,” says Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan. “We could argue that there should be an American distillation regime.”
Distillation is the process of using the outputs of a more capable AI model to t … ⌘ Read more
StarCraft returns in 2030 - plus Diablo V, World of Warcraft: Forever and more from BlizzCon 2026
BlizzCon 2026 just happened and with it we got some big announcements - here’s your highlights of some of the big stuff coming.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/starcraft-returns-in-2030-plus-diablo-v- … ⌘ Read more
220 Million Traveler Records Exposed In Vietnam-Linked APIS Leak
A misconfigured Advance Passenger Information System (APIS) database linked to Vietnam exposed more than 220 million passenger and crew travel records spanning 2017 to 2026, including names, passport numbers, nationalities, flight details, seat assignments, and baggage references. Researchers said the database was reachable through a chain of secu … ⌘ Read more
NASA and IBM Open Source Lunar Mapping Tools
NASA and IBM have released an open-source AI model trained on a large collection of lunar observations to help scientists analyze the Moon at scale. “The NASA-IBM Lunar Foundation Model gives scientists a foundation to explore the Moon at scale, connecting observations across instruments, revealing patterns that are difficult to see in isolation, and providing an open platform the gl … ⌘ Read more
Linux 7.3-rc3 Released: “Another Fairly Large RC”
Out today is the third weekly release candidate of Linux 7.3 as this next kernel version works its way toward a stable release in the second half of October… ⌘ Read more
@movq@www.uninformativ.de I had really hoped nobody asked this question since I forgot to take a photo of the plaque. In fact, I didn’t even look at it when I was in the museum! The ratite itself was just too fascinating. Fortunately, I was able to dig it up. It’s a Gastornis giganteus:
So, thanks for asking. :-)@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org What is that crazy large Dino Chicken in 23.jpg? :D
git, curl and a web server of some kind.
@prologic@twtxt.net I’m planning to have a look. Soon. I hope.
California’s Gig Drivers Just Secured Collective Bargaining Power with Newly Certified Union
A union representing Uber and Lyft drivers was just certified by California’s Public Employment Relations Board, officially recognizing them as the drivers’ bargaining organization.
The Sacramento Bee reports that this new bargaining structure :
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@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Thanks! Easy to read? Damn, I need to try harder. 🤪
Zstd Improvement For Linux 7.4 To Avoid Redundant Initialization
In addition to Usama Arif’s recent Linux patches for addressing a major inefficiency within the Linux kernel’s Zstd compression code, he also has a separate patch series destined for Linux 7.4 to further enhance the Zstd compression/decompression performance by avoiding redundant initialization… ⌘ Read more
Flock Worker Calls Police On Reporter - For Filming Them in Public
“This is what happened when we tried to record Flock installing a new camera on public roads,” says Emmy award-winning reporter Brendan Keefe in a new video for InvestigateTV. In an accompanying article, InvestigateTV says their reporter “parked on the public street at a distance, donned a yellow safety vest and a hat emblazoned with the logo … ⌘ Read more
BFS File-System Being Removed For Linux 7.4
The latest upstream file-system to be removed from the mainline Linux kernel is… BFS… ⌘ Read more
ARCTIC’s Fan Controller Driver For Linux Being Dual-Licensed With BSD-2-Clause
Earlier this year ARCTIC published a fan controller driver for Linux. Besides being rare for an enthusiast-oriented company to publish a Linux driver themselves where typically it’s left up to the open-source community for driver support for such peripherals, it was all the more interesting as they published the Linux driver and got it mainlined before the product was even released. In the end the ARTCIC Fan Controller is the best des … ⌘ Read more
GNOME Shotwell 33 Photo Manager Released With GTK4 Port
It’s been quite some time since hearing any news out of the Shotwell photo manager project for GNOME, but out today is Shotwell 33 with the long-awaited GTK4 port… ⌘ Read more
Malicious OpenAI Agents Linked to RubyGems Campaign That Gained RCE on RubyDoc Servers in May
A swarm of OpenAI agents launched a “major malicious attack” against RubyGems last May, according to a new report. That coordinated attack hit Ruby’s package manager “with hundreds of junk gems, prompting the maintainers to suspend new user sign-ups for about four days,” writes The Hacker News, … ⌘ Read more
Happy Programmer’s Day! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programmer%27s_Day
Ta, @david@daiwei.me! Most of them are just cider apples, too sour to eat. But they sure look tasty. :-)
@itsericwoodward@itsericwoodward.com Oh, another classic! :-)