Fireworks AI Confirms Wider Breach Affecting Notion AI Chats
Fireworks AI says its October breach was broader than initially disclosed, with attackers gaining access to customer account and billing information as well as some datasets, incomplete model weights and secrets. Notion, the popular productivity and note-taking app, disclosed that it was impacted in the breach but “fewer than 1% of Notion workspaces” were … ⌘ Read more
New York Launches Nation’s First State AI Testing Program
New York is launching a state-backed AI safety research center at Binghamton University that will independently study and test AI systems, develop safety and security techniques, and train researchers in responsible AI. “While the federal government fails to act, New York is leading the way on AI safety and holding big tech accountable,” New York Gov. Kathy Hoch … ⌘ Read more
Anthropic Launches New Workplace Features To Take On Microsoft and Google
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Anthropic announced new workplace features on Tuesday, including Claude Meetings, which brings Claude into video calls to begin working on tasks while participants are still talking. The company also unveiled Claude Whiteboards and Claude Sheets. The launch of Anthropic’s new … ⌘ Read more
Starlink Mini 2 Adds a Swappable Battery, Wi-Fi 6
SpaceX has unveiled the Starlink Mini 2, equipping the company’s smallest satellite internet terminal with a removable 71Wh battery and Wi-Fi 6. Preorders are opening to select U.S. customers for $999, which includes a year of Roam Unlimited service. Shipments are expected to begin in mid-December. InterestingEngineering reports: The removable battery represents the biggest fun … ⌘ Read more
Nintendo Is Officially Investing In Game Preservation
Nintendo is hiring a digital archivist to help ensure the company’s historical records are “preserved for future generations.” The 12-month position is tasked with designing and implementing a “structured framework for organizing technical records, engineering documentation, source materials, and institutional knowledge related to legacy systems and platforms.” Polyg … ⌘ Read more
Blender 5.3 Released With Nvidia DLSS 4.5 Ray Reconstruction, Vulkan Default
Blender 5.3 has been released with support for 3D Gaussian Splats, Nvidia DLSS 4.5 Ray Reconstruction and Vulkan as the default graphics backend on Linux. Phoronix reports: Blender now allows importing Gaussian Splats from PLY, SPZ, and glTF files. Also new to Blender 5.3 is NVIDIA DLSS 4.5 Ray Reconstruction support as a new … ⌘ Read more
AMD EPYC 9996 Benchmarks Show Unparalleled Performance With 256 Zen 6C Cores
Back in July AMD announced the EPYC 9006 “Venice” series at their Advancing AI event. Today they are announcing EPYC 9006 series Socket SP7 processor availability and with systems beginning to ship today from their OEM/ODM partners. With that we are also now allowed to begin sharing AMD EPYC 9006 performance benchmark figures. Back in July I expected EPYC 9006 to be a “grand slam” for performance… After hands-on with the 6th Gen EPYC processors … ⌘ Read more
AMD EPYC 9686F Linux Benchmarks: 96 Zen 6 Cores At Up To 5.3GHz
In addition to the AMD EPYC 9996 256-core CPU benchmarks out today in that dual socket configuration for a combined 512 cores / 1024 threads flagship Zen 6C server configuration, also tested recently at Phoronix was the EPYC 9686F part. The AMD EPYC 9686F is their new high-frequency Zen 6 part that features 96 cores / 192 threads at a boost clock of 5.3GHz! When the AMD EPYC 9686F they originally disclosed a 5.0GHz boost clock but with how well their product … ⌘ Read more
AMD Talks Up Their MEXT Software Amid RAM Crisis - Linux Support But Not Open-Source
This summer AMD acquired the company MEXT for their AI-powered predictive memory technology to make flash memory such as NVMe SSDs behave more like DRAM. AMD MEXT with EPYC servers allows for flash memory as DRAM tiering and uses a predictive AI engine for handling the tiering in an effective way. There is a Linux driver but this is one of the few offerings in the AMD space that isn’t open-source as part of their typical open ecosystem approach. … ⌘ Read more
AMD Confirms ACE With 7th Gen EPYC “Florence” While 8th Gen EPYC Is “Ravenna”
During the AMD briefings for 6th Gen EPYC SP7 availability, they did already tease next-gen EPYC processors… ⌘ Read more
Reddit Is Turning User Conversations Into AI-Powered Product Reviews
Reddit is rolling out an AI-powered shopping feature called “Reddit Reviews” that summarizes user conversations about products and turns them into dedicated reviews. TechCrunch reports: Reddit’s announcement points to its rules and its latest measures to combat automated abuse and spam, as well as its practice involving community moderato … ⌘ Read more
AMD EPYC Embedded 9006 Series SP7 Announced
In addition to today’s announcement of AMD EPYC 9006 SP7 availability, complete with reviews of the AMD EPYC 9996 256-core flagship and EPYC 9686F 96-core 5.3GHz part, AMD also announced the EPYC Embedded 9006 Series SP7 processors… ⌘ Read more
Blender 5.3 Released With NVIDIA DLSS 4.5 Ray Reconstruction, Vulkan Default
Blender 5.3 is out today as the newest stable release for this leading open-source 3D modeling software… ⌘ Read more
Massive scale RTS ‘Ashes of the Singularity II’ out now - review
Ashes of the Singularity II is out now from Oxide Games and Stardock Entertainment, here’s some of my thoughts on this massive RTS game.
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Europe Must Rethink Security As Big Tech Power Grows, EU Says
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: The European Union must rethink security to take into account challenges and risks posed by the growing power of major technology companies that go beyond traditional competition concerns, European Commission Executive Vice-President Teresa Ribera said on Monday. “We need to review and to deepen our concep … ⌘ Read more
KORA Announced As Linux Desktop OS “For The Age of Intelligence”
Backed by Samsung, Square Enix, and others, KORA Systems announced KORA OS today as a Linux distribution built for the age of “intelligent PCs”… ⌘ Read more
Eight More Security Issues Made Public For The X.Org Server / XWayland
With the assistance of AI/LLMs, eight more security vulnerabilities were made public today for the X.Org Server. These issues also end up affecting the XWayland code too… ⌘ Read more
X.Org Security Advisory released for November 10th - multiple security issues in X.Org X server
A fresh X.Org Security Advisory has been released today, noting multiple security issues in X.Org X server. Here we go again huh?
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Longtime Linux Developer Steps Down From Some Roles Due To Patch Flood Caused By AI
Linux memory management expert Lorenzo Stoakes at Arm who has been contributing to the kernel since 2014 is stepping away from some reviewership roles within the Linux kernel due to all of the noise from the flood of kernel patches resulting fro AI/LLMs… ⌘ Read more
Proton Experimental gets fixes for Phantom Blade Zero, AION 2, The Forest and more
Valve released an early update to Proton Experimental to bring fixes for Windows games on Linux / SteamOS including Steam Deck, Steam Machine and Steam Frame.
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Mesa 26.3.0 arrives with many Linux graphics driver enhancements
While there’s no announcement for it yet, the Mesa 26.3.0 open source drivers release is tagged and out now. Bringing many enhancements for gamers!
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x86 Ecosystem Advisory Group Posts ACE v2 & AVX10.3 Specs, GCC Patches Ready
While there aren’t any processors released yet with AI Compute Extensions (ACE) or AVX10.2 quite yet, the x86 Ecosystem Advisory Group led by AMD and Intel have now posted their ACE v2 and AVX10.3 specifications… ⌘ Read more
Uber Is Launching Its Own Parking Reservation Service
Uber is launching Uber Parking, integrating technology from its SpotHero acquisition to let users find and reserve parking garages and lots directly through the Uber app. “You can also filter your results based on criteria like whether you want to self-park or use a valet, or other specific amenities,” adds Engadget. From the report: To book a spot, you’ll need to pro … ⌘ Read more
openSUSE Tumbleweed Transitioning To Agama Installer
With openSUSE Leap making use of the modern Agama installer developed by SUSE engineers, the rolling-release openSUSE Tumbleweed is now preparing to make the same transitioning in replacing the YaST Installer… ⌘ Read more
RPM v6 Format Approved For Fedora 46, ThinLTO Flag Rejected
With Fedora 45 having shipped last week, developers are turning more of their attention to Fedora 46 that will debut by the end of next April… ⌘ Read more
KDE Plasma 6.8.3 Released With Dozens Of Fixes
KDE Plasma 6.8.3 is out today as the newest bug-fix release for last month’s major Plasma 6.8 debut… ⌘ Read more
exfatprogs 1.4.4 Brings Speed-Up For Making New exFAT Filesystems
The exfatprogs 1.4.4 release was issued today for these user-space open-source programs for managing exFAT file-systems on Linux… ⌘ Read more
Upcoming isometric action rogue-lite Everrest is “Hades meets EarthBound”
Everrest looks like one to stick onto your wishlist and keep an eye on, if you like the sound of “Hades meets EarthBound” as the developer tells me.
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OpenZ is an open-source 3D fan remake of the RTS ‘Z’ (The Bitmap Brothers, 1996)
Anyone remember the classic strategy game Z from The Bitmap Brothers? A true and brutally difficult classic that’s been revived by fans in 3D.
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Dune: Awakening gets fully offline single-player in the latest update
Dune: Awakening developers delivered what they promised, as the game can now be played entirely offline in single-player.
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Warhammer 40,000: Dark Heresy set for release in January, 2027
Warhammer 40,000: Dark Heresy from Owlcat Games just got a release date reveal of January 28, 2027, plus there’s a brand new trailer too.
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Dwarf Fortress now has audio for the Fortress Mode
Dwarf Fortress, the popular colony sim just had another big upgrade, with Fortress Mode now actually having audio in it.
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Valve now provide Steam Deck Framerate data to the public for each game
Now you don’t have to entirely rely on Valve’s sometimes iffy verification status for games on Steam Deck, as they’re providing Framerate data.
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Boston Dynamics Adds Wheels to Atlas Humanoid
Boston Dynamics has equipped its Atlas humanoid with wheels, allowing the robot to rapidly roll across flat terrain while still using its articulated legs to navigate obstacles and uneven surfaces. “The ‘experiment’ combined classical model-based motor control with whole-body reinforcement learning to maintain dynamic stability across unstructured, real-world terrain,” reports Th … ⌘ Read more
FDA Warns GLP-1s May Increase Risk of Sudden Blindness
An anonymous reader quotes a report from NBC News: The Food and Drug Administration said Monday that GLP-1 drugmakers must add a warning label about a rare eye condition that can cause sudden blindness. The condition, called nonarteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy, or NAION, affects the optic nerve, which carries signals from the eye to the brain. When blo … ⌘ Read more
Mesa 26.3 Released With VK_AMD_anti_lag For RADV, Many Other Vulkan Improvements
Mesa 26.3 is out today as the fourth quarter Mesa3D feature release for this collection of open-source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers… ⌘ Read more
Microsoft Took 31 Years to Let You Kill Windows 11’s Sticky Keys Popup
Microsoft is testing a Windows 11 option that lets users permanently disable the Sticky Keys and Filter Keys activation prompts directly from the pop-ups themselves, ending a 31-year-old annoyance without requiring a trip into Settings. Windows Latest reports: Sadly, the dialog is still the same aging Win32 window, but we spotted Micr … ⌘ Read more
Firefox 160 Available With Speech-To-Text, MKV Files With FLAC / MP3 / PCM Audio
The Firefox 160.0 release builds are now available as the latest bi-weekly stable update to Mozilla’s web browser… ⌘ Read more
Trump Backs Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Amid Chinese Spy Affair Investigation
President Donald Trump says the FBI is investigating Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s affair with a woman alleged by U.S. intelligence to have gathered information for Beijing. “I know the FBI is looking into it in terms of something else, and I think that he’ll be in good shape,” Trump said at a White House briefing. The Associated Pre … ⌘ Read more
Epic Games Comments On Planned Linux Distribution Support
Epic Games says it plans to support its new Linux launcher on as many distributions as possible, specifically naming Fedora, SteamOS, CachyOS and Omarchy. GamingOnLinux’s Liam Squires-Hand reports: Speaking to Jake Jones, Communications Director at Epic Games, they said: “Hey Liam! The new Epic Games Launcher is still in Preview and we plan to support as many … ⌘ Read more
France Accuses Iran of Supermarket Fridge Hacking
France has accused Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps of being behind last month’s cyberattacks on fridges and freezers across the country. French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot said the attack was “unprecedented in both its scale and its level of aggression,” adding those who were responsible would be hit with sanctions “at the European level.” The BBC reports: The cy … ⌘ Read more
Anthropic Launches New Claude Fable and Mythos 5.2 Models
Anthropic has released Claude Mythos 5.2 and Fable 5.2 with “improvements in areas like coding, reasoning, and vision,” while cutting Fable’s input price and claiming 30% faster responses. TechCrunch reports: It’s Anthropic’s first model release since the arrival of a third-party report from the assessment group METR, which suggested the lab might be approaching rec … ⌘ Read more
AMDGPU Linux Driver Patches Posted For Enabling GFX13 Graphics IP - RDNA5
Since the beginning of the year there have been AMDGPU LLVM back-end patches for GFX13 as AMD’s next-generation graphics IP. This is most likely for RDNA 5 graphics. Now out today are the GFX13 patches finally surfacing for the AMDGPU Linux kernel graphics driver… ⌘ Read more
Commerce Dept. Chip Inquiry Was Halted After Nvidia Intervention
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The New York Times: Investigators at the Commerce Department were deep into a monthslong investigation of a Singaporean company that they suspected of smuggling Nvidia’s artificial intelligence chips into China when their work came to a sudden halt late last year. The investigation centered on Megaspeed, a … ⌘ Read more
Google Unveils Two New Specialized AI Chips to Widen Its Challenge to Nvidia
Google is expanding its AI chip lineup with two specialized TPUs arriving next year: the TPU 8tx, which encrypts sensitive data at the chip level for confidential computing, and the TPU 8i Max, which combines two TPU chips to provide more processing power and memory for long-context workloads. The move broadens Google’s ch … ⌘ Read more
Huawei Says It’s Made a 100% Chinese PC
Huawei has unveiled the Qingyun HM650, a desktop PC it claims is made entirely from Chinese-manufactured components, including its own 10-core Kirin X90 processor and an enterprise version of HarmonyOS. “While Huawei has reportedly claimed local companies manufactured 100 percent of the components in the machine, it is unclear if all those components use Chinese designs,” notes The Register. Fr … ⌘ Read more
Theropods review - the joy of discovery without words
Theropods is a pixel-art point and click adventure set in prehistoric times of dinosaurs and cave-dwellers, and it proves you don’t need words for a good time.
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Reddit Founder Says Building Social Media Apps Is ‘Not Cool Anymore’
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Alexis Ohanian wants to figure out the future of user-generated content. According to the Reddit cofounder, building social media apps is “not cool anymore” and so much of the internet has been compromised. “I’m expecting some better version of the group chat to be that new version of UGC,” Oha … ⌘ Read more
Darling Now Embraces AI For Running macOS Binaries On Linux
Darling is the software project more than a decade in development that is designed to run macOS binaries on Linux. This macOS compatibility layer for Linux is now gaining more brisk developments as it turns to AI/LLMs to assist in this creation… ⌘ Read more
ChaCha AVX-512 Optimization For Linux 7.5 Yields Up To 99% Improvement On AMD Zen 5
The Linux kernel’s ChaCha symmetric stream cipher code has long had an AVX-512 optimized code path but it was catering to the early generations of Intel CPUs with AVX-512 (Skylake) that suffered from down-clocking under use. But now slated for arrival with Linux 7.5 is tuning the code to perform better on today’s AVX-512 Intel and AMD processors that don’t suffer from this limitation. In turn the ChaCha performance is as much as 9 … ⌘ Read more