KDE Plasma 6.9 Stabilizes KWin’s Wayland Picture-In-Picture Support
With the wonderful KDE Plasma 6.8 having shipped just more than one week ago, KDE developers are beginning to go heavy on new features for Plasma 6.9… ⌘ Read more
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OBS Studio 33.0 Released With Massive Update To CEF, Improved Plugin Loading
OBS Studio 33.0 is out tonight as the latest major update to this popular open-source and cross-platform video recording and live streaming application… ⌘ Read more
Singapore Boffins Weave a GUI Into Fabric
Researchers at the National University of Singapore have developed a machine-washable electronic fabric that can turn clothing into an interactive graphical user interface. The prototype reportedly survived 50 gentle machine washes and 1,000 bending cycles, though it still relies on external batteries and controllers. The Register reports: The development could lead - at some point - to a “f … ⌘ Read more
People Are Vibe Coding Their Way to Better TVs
Frustrated by intrusive ads, sluggish interfaces, and data tracking, smart TV owners are using AI coding tools and open-source projects to strip unwanted software from their televisions and build customized home screens. The Verge reports: Several vibe-coded TV-debloating projects exploded in popularity over the weekend. Cleanyourtv (known as tv-vibehack until the 19th), t … ⌘ Read more
Greece Enacts Social Media Ban For Kids Under 15
Greece has passed a law banning children under 15 from social media platforms beginning January 1, 2027. The legislation requires platforms to implement reliable age verification and parents to use government-backed apps to restrict access, with penalties for noncompliance under the EU’s Digital Services Act. Engadget reports: “It would have been very easy to do absolutely noth … ⌘ Read more
Linux 7.4 Merges Slab Updates With A Nice Performance Improvement
The slab pull request was just merged for Linux 7.4. For end users nothing too incredibly exciting but there is one change that does yield a 24% throughput improvement in a benchmark exercising the kernel’s memory management subsystem… ⌘ Read more
SpaceX In Talks to Access 80,000 Cell Sites For New Network
SpaceX is reportedly seeking access to at least 80,000 cellular tower sites across the U.S. as it prepares to launch Starlink Mobile as a fourth nationwide wireless carrier. “We will be building out our terrestrial networks so there’s broad-based connectivity anywhere that SpaceX and Starlink are allowed to operate,” Musk said during SpaceX’s earnings cal … ⌘ Read more
Knicks Sent Employees Fake Offer of Championship Rings In Phishing Test
The New York Knicks reportedly sent employees a fake offer of complimentary NBA championship rings as part of an internal phishing test, requiring anyone who clicked the link to attend mandatory cybersecurity training. “Congratulations, your Employee Championship Ring is here,” the email said. According to The New York Times, Madison S … ⌘ Read more
Left Alone With Nothing To Do, AI Agents Started Playing
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: AI agents left to explore a virtual island without a specific task began inventing challenges of their own. MIT researchers say the behavior bears the hallmarks of play. The researchers put 13 AI agents called Eko, each running on Claude Opus 4.7, alone on a simulated desert island for 30 hours. They describe the ex … ⌘ Read more
Microsoft Announces Per-Hour Cost for Xbox Cloud Gaming Service
Microsoft has revealed pay-as-you-go pricing for Xbox Cloud Gaming, with introductory packages costing $3.99 for 10 hours, $7.99 for 25 hours, or $11.99 for 50 hours. Starting in November, Game Pass subscribers will receive only 5 to 15 included cloud-gaming hours depending on their tier and will have to buy additional time – even to stream games … ⌘ Read more
HPFS Is The Latest File-System Slated For Removal On Linux
HPFS is the latest file-system driver for the Linux kernel facing removal. The High Performance File-System (HPFS) was developed by IBM and Microsoft for OS/2… ⌘ Read more
Borealis: Asahi Linux’s Apple Silicon Mesa Vulkan Driver Forked For Vibe Coding
Seeing a Vulkan API driver pull request this morning for introducing a new “Borealis” driver ID caught me by surprise as it was the first time I was hearing of such a driver. It turns out to be a fork of the Asahi Linux project’s HoneyKrisp driver in Mesa for Apple Silicon hardware… ⌘ Read more
Ukraine Is Wiping Out Data Centers Across the Border
Ukrainian drone strikes have damaged three major Yandex data centers as well as facilities serving Sberbank and VKontakte (the country’s equivalent to Facebook), disrupting cloud services, banking, e-commerce, ride-hailing and other digital services across Russia. The attacks may deal a longer-lasting blow to Russia’s AI ambitions: Yandex’s affected facilities housed it … ⌘ Read more
The (only?) reason for having a Netflix subscription at the moment:
Comcast Loses More Customers, Claims Other ISPs’ Cheap Prices Are ‘Irrational’
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Comcast reportedly plans significant job cuts in its cable division as the firm continues to lose residential broadband and TV customers. Comcast lost 144,000 residential broadband customers in Q3 2026, up from a 91,000-customer loss in the same quarter a year ago, the … ⌘ Read more
oneDNN 3.14 Released With ACE Support, Initial AMD Zen Optimizations
The UXL Foundation announced today the release of oneDNN 3.14 as the latest feature update to this library providing optimized deep learning operations for software like PyTorch, TensorFlow, OpenVINO, and others. While oneDNN began as an Intel software project, making this version notable is beginning to see AMD Zen CPU optimizations land in oneDNN proper… ⌘ Read more
Linux 7.4 Power Management Preps For AMD Ryzen Zen 6 & Intel Rugged Panther Lake
The power management subsystem updates were merged this week for Linux 7.4 along with the related ACPI and thermal control updates too… ⌘ Read more
Be ready for spooky season with new games from Fanatical’s Build your own Frightmare Bundle (Halloween 2026)
Fanatical have launched their Build your own Frightmare Bundle (Halloween 2026), another good chance to save some monies and get new games.
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@kamme@twtxt.thanatos.be Ah. Oh. Yeah. That sounds annoying.
pkgsrc is still on my todo list, only used pkin so far. When I’m being honest, though, I don’t really want to compile from source anyway. I like binary packages. 😅
OpenSSL 4.1 Released With More AVX-512 Optimizations
OpenSSL 4.1 stable is out today with new AVX-512 optimizations, other performance improvements, and finally retiring Windows on Itanium and Windows CE support… ⌘ Read more
Linux 7.4 Brings Hibernation Improvement For Helping Meet Energy Certifications
The PCI/PCIe subsystem improvements have been merged for the ongoing Linux 7.4 merge window… ⌘ Read more
Vulkan 1.4.366 Released With SMPTE ST 2094-50 HDR Support
Vulkan 1.4.366 is out and representing the past two weeks of specification fixes, clarifications, and one new Vulkan API extension… ⌘ Read more
Factorio 2.1 is out now with the native ARM64 Linux build to run on Steam Frame, Raspberry Pi and more
That day is here! Factorio 2.1 stable has arrived as a big clean-up release along with new platform support with their Native Linux version.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/factorio-2-1-i … ⌘ Read more
Physicists Trap a Single Antimatter Particle For a Month
Physicists at Northwestern University have successfully trapped a single positron for an entire month, allowing researchers to study its quantum properties with unprecedented precision. “Further investigations using the trap might reveal the secret of why the world around us is made of matter and not antimatter, when things could have presumably gone either wa … ⌘ Read more
Total War: SHOGUN 2 - Complete Edition pulled from sale due to mass complaints
Oh dear, oh dear. Generative AI strikes again? The recently released Total War: SHOGUN 2 - Complete Edition was pulled down after mass complaints.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/total-war-shogun-2-complete-edition-pulled-from-sale-due-t … ⌘ Read more
Linux 7.4 Introduces New Driver For The Nintendo Switch 2 - Thanks To Valve
The HID subsystem updates have been merged for the Linux 7.4 kernel that included a few new drivers… ⌘ Read more
Epic Games has gone completely off the deep end with AI
Oh Epic Games, what have you become? An AI shell of your former self. Please make it all stop.
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LibreSSL 4.4 Released With Faster SHA3, Bug Fixes
LibreSSL 4.4 released on Thursday as the newest release of this decade-old OpenSSL fork maintained by OpenBSD developers… ⌘ Read more
Linux 7.4 Fixes AMD CPU TLB Size Reporting For Zen 5 & Newer
As a follow-up to the article in September about a Linux patch for fixing under-reported AMD Zen 5 TLB sizes, that work is now merged for the Linux 7.4 kernel… ⌘ Read more
GameMaker announce their next-gen runtime GMRT will be free for commercial use
GameMaker continue advancing their new next-generation runtime for developers, and they’ve had a nice announcement today that will save devs some monies.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/gamemaker-announce-their-next-gen-runtime-gmrt-w … ⌘ Read more
Check out ‘Clicky Islands’, a unique blend of incremental and city-builders
You might lose quite a few hours to this one! Clicky Islands from Karrot Games and Pocketpair Publishing has a fun genre mixture.
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@itsericwoodward Good context and info thank you 🙏 Obviously I'm into self hosting too, d'uh, but it's just an interesting experiment and price point. It isn't about whether you can get xyz VM/VPS for $abc but more about all the times you don't have to maintain or build yourself.
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@itsericwoodward@itsericwoodward.com So I can think of a number of services that can run in this memory “pool”. It’s not a limit, just a default “unit size”. yarnd, saltyd, any static web hosting, etc. There’a a non-zero no. of things that will consume very little memory.
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@xuu@txt.sour.is OH my god! 😱 You’re alive!!!!
Fanatical’s Build your own Legendary Bundle (Fall 2026) has some top hits for cheaps
With multiple games new to bundles here, Fanatical have launched the Build your own Legendary Bundle (Fall 2026).
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/fanaticals-build-your-own-legendary-bundle-fall-2026-has-some-top-hits-for-chea … ⌘ Read more
METRO 2033 Redux and METRO Last Light Redux next-gen update are out now
The brand new next-gen updates are now available free for both METRO 2033 Redux and METRO Last Light Redux - here’s everything that’s new and improved.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/metro-2033-redux-and-metro-last-light-redux-next-gen-update-are-o … ⌘ Read more
Legacy Games store is closing down
After being around in some form since the 90s, the time is officially up for Legacy Games as they’re set to close down.
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Steam Client Beta - October 22nd revamps Remote Play HDR support
Valve just released another upgrade with the Steam Client Beta - October 22nd update bringing overhauled Remote Play HDR support.
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@arne@uplegger.eu Ganze acht Millimeter, irre?! Zwei Stunden klingen für mich recht flott, sehr schön. Ich bin schon gespannt, was Du uns als nächstes zauber^Whäkelst. :-)
Hahaha, beim Lesen des Filmrequisitenkommentars musste ich lauthals loslachen. :‘-D
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@zyak@twtxt.z85b.xyz There are many different reasons. For me it’s usually that perhaps somebody like-minded finds something also interesting, funny, whatever. Maybe not.
UN Says Breaching 1.5C Warming Limit Is ‘Imminent and Unavoidable’
For the first time, the UN has declared that exceeding the Paris Agreement’s 1.5C warming limit is “imminent and unavoidable.” “We are now saying this window has closed, but we can open it again by making the overshoot as brief as possible,” UN Environment Program Executive Director Inger Andersen said on a call with reporters. “This is about ho … ⌘ Read more
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@xuu@txt.sour.is Great to see you resurrected, mate! <3
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Since honesty is kindness, Microsoft is by far the worst company I ever had the displeasure of trying to communicate with. Getting them to fix the most basic of bugs always took years. In some cases it's been over two and a half decades and it's still broken.
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@thecanine@twtxt.net I fell you 100%.
My son asked me to fix his Win11 laptop: When he logs in, he gets a GSoD (gray screen of death). So, I fiddle with it for a few minutes, and I get it to login, but now the start menu button doesn’t work. So, I fiddle with it for another hour, and I get the start menu working, but he only has 2 GB free on his primary drive, and that’s not enough for all of the “critical” Windows updates it needs, so now I’m moving files around…
I know everyone says how “user friendly” Windows is, but I call BS on that - my Manjaro install may not always work perfectly, but at least my Start menu button does…
Unvetted AI Agents Are Accessing US Bank Accounts
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Axios: Major U.S. banks are detecting unauthorized third-party AI agents operating inside customer accounts, with some agents attempting to take actions that appear to be independent of user instructions, sources tell Axios. The difficulty in distinguishing between a human and an unauthorized bot is forcing banks to block the technolog … ⌘ Read more
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@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Spam is as spam does (or maybe it’s “slop is as slop does”).
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This is the fix for the PHP vuln:
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What’s the point of writing text with UTF-8 formatting and always sticking to the boring-old ASCII set? 😃
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@prologic@twtxt.net Understood, and I apologize if it sounded like I was trying to do a price comparison (I really wasn’t). Instead, let me ask this way: as I am still unlearned in the art of small VMs, what does one do with a 64MB container? I’m old enough to remember when apps were really small, but even most “simple” apps are too big for a 64MB machine, right? Or am I missing something?
I guess that’s why I made the comparison with the 512MB droplet at DO - that’s the smallest machine I’ve run in a VPS so far (and even my home servers have 8-32 GB of RAM).
Maybe a better question is: What would you run on a service like what you’re talking about? Or what do you envision people using it for?
Linux 7.4 Workqueue Changes Bring A “10 To 100 Times Faster” Optimization
Adding to all the exciting performance optimizations and other improvements for Linux 7.4 is an exciting workqueue improvement. It’s not too often getting to talk about “10 to 100 times faster” software improvements… ⌘ Read more
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@xuu@txt.sour.is Duuuuude, you Have been missed!! Happy seeing you around after all this time. I hope life has been treating you well 🙏
To Make Way For Data Centers, Google Will Pay Others to Use Less Power
Google is funding one of the nation’s largest “virtual power plants,” paying homes and businesses indirectly to reduce electricity consumption during periods of peak demand so more grid capacity can be available for data centers. Under its expanded deal with Voltus, the program could provide up to 1,070 megawatts in the Mid-Atlantic … ⌘ Read more