Get plenty of action in the Sniper Elite Classics Collection Humble Bundle
Need some first-person shooter action? The Sniper Elite Classics Collection Humble Bundle is live now with a good price for multiple games.
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GE-Proton 11-7 brings more Wine Wayland upgrades, launcher fixes, game fixes and more
GE-Proton 11-7 has arrived and there’s quite a lot of gaming improvements here for SteamOS / Linux fans.
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OptiScaler Client 1.0.7 brings major improvements for FSR 4 and improved recommended game configs
OptiScaler Client continues maturing as one of the easiest ways to upgrade all the different upscalers across various different games.
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DXVK 3.1.1 brings fixes for Adobe software, Call of Duty: Ghosts, Rayman 3, Skyrim SE
DXVK is a Vulkan-based translation layer for Direct3D 8/9/10/11 to run lots of games nicely on Linux with Wine / Proton.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/dxvk-3-1-1-brings-fixes-for-adobe-software-call-of-duty-ghosts-rayman-3 … ⌘ Read more
s&box from Facepunch gets a price cut and more improvements
Facepunch are trying desperately to pull in more players for their game creation platform s&box, with a permanent price cut now live.
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Valve now say your data is safe from the CEVA Logistics cyberattack
Back in early August, we covered the CEVA Logistics cyberattack which affected Steam hardware deliveries in Europe and now we have an update for you.
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Ubuntu’s ‘Rust-ification’ Hits New Milestone: Coreutils Migration is Complete
“Ubuntu has managed to do away with GNU Core Utilities in its default stack,” reports the blog It’s FOSS.
The last three utilities — cp, mv and rm — have been moved to versions from the uutils project (which reimplements utilities in Rust).
Everything else, from ls and cat to chmod and du, made that jump in earlier release … ⌘ Read more
Linux 7.4 Slated To Land The AVX-512 Optimized xor_gen For A Big Performance Win
Over the past few months there have been patches floating around for an AVX-512 optimized xor_gen() for the Linux kernel for that functuon used by the Linux software RAID code. It’s been shhowing very nice performance gains with this function being used for generating and validating parity blocks such as for RAID5 and RAID6. The upcoming Linux 7.4 cycle is slated to merge this nice enhancement for benefiting AMD Zen 4 and new … ⌘ Read more
🎶 “Falling to Pieces” - Faith No More (1989) https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=j5Z8X-dm3w8&si=Ig-oAL4kpDHcy5QF
While Hollywood Fears an AI Future, China’s Film Industry is Embracing It
The Los Angeles Times reports:
Chen Yilong has racked up plenty of film and TV credits in his two decades as an actor, but with work getting scarcer he signed a contract in August to license the image of his face to a Chinese production studio. Chen’s role will be to sit in front of a video camera and make facial express … ⌘ Read more
@thecanine@twtxt.net Haha, my brain first tricked me into thinking this dog is scratching behind its ear with its paw.
@movq@www.uninformativ.de Since you liked this silly joke, what’s a duck’s favorite TV program to watch?
echo YSBkdWNrdW1lbnRhcnkK | base64 -d
Simplified logo doggo
@movq@www.uninformativ.de We just need to set up a very good telescope some roughly 50 million light years away from earth. %-S
Which side of a duck has the most feathers?
echo dGhlIG91dHNpZGUK | base64 -d
Scientists Discover Mysterious New X-Ray Objects ‘Unlike Any They Have Seen Before’
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Space.com: NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has found a brand new type of an otherwise familiar object – compact binary systems that steal gas from other stars, but which do so while emitting very low-energy X-rays but copious amounts of ultraviolet. Chandra spotted 8 … ⌘ Read more
AMD P-State Driver For Linux 7.4 Will Tune For Zen 6 Client CPUs
Linux 7.4 looks like it will be a very exciting kernel update for AMD customers. On the AMD Radeon graphics side HDMI 2.1 is being enabled by default with the AMDGPU driver with the HDMI FreeSync, VRR, and ALLM features in tow. On the AMD Ryzen client CPU side, there will be Zen 6 tuning with the AMD P-State CPU frequency scaling driver… ⌘ Read more
SDL3 Ported To HarmonyOS / OpenHarmony
The SDL3 library commonly used for games and applications for cross-platform hardware and software abstractions now has upstream support for Huawei’s HarmonyOS and OpenHarmony… ⌘ Read more
Ubuntu 26.10 Set To Deliver Better Performance For Intel Core 3 Wildcat Lake
While Ubuntu 26.04 LTS is working fine out-of-the-box on new Intel Core 3 “Wildcat Lake” laptops like the CHUWI UniBook, next month’s release of Ubuntu 26.10 will help deliver better performance out of these low-cost laptop options. ⌘ Read more
What a fucking shit show of a year. Jesus Fucking Christ. Gimme a break.
Cops Searched Thousands of Flock Cameras for Reasons of ‘LMAO,’ ‘IDK,’ ‘Hehe,’ And ‘Asdfg’
404 Media reports:
Last summer, a cop with the Lake County, Indiana Sheriff’s Department used Flock’s surveillance search engine to look for a license plate across more than 19,000 cameras in 1,558 cities and towns. The cop’s stated reason for the search, according to a record of Flock’s system, was “LMAO. … ⌘ Read more
Fedora 45 Beta Released With KMSCON Console, GNOME 51 & Other Updates
The beta release of Fedora 45 is out today and right on schedule for this wonderful Linux distribution… ⌘ Read more
Java 27 Reaches GA With The G1 Garbage Collector By Default Everywhere
Oracle christened Java 27 today with the OpenJDK 27 release reaching general availability (GA) status… ⌘ Read more
Get more Steam Deck / Steam Machine Verified games in the Fanatical Play on the Go Bundle
New for September is the Fanatical “Build your own Play on the Go BundleFest Edition” bundle, with all games being rated Steam Deck / Steam Machine Verified.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/get-more-steam-deck-stea … ⌘ Read more
Sound Open Firmware 2.15 Released With AMD ACP 7.x Support, Intel UAOL
Sound Open Firmware as the open-source, vendor-independent audio DSP firmware stack and driver framework is out today with a new feature update… ⌘ Read more
Firefox 157 Beta Released With Latest Enhancements
The Firefox release train keeps on rolling. With Firefox 156 released, Firefox 157 is now in beta ahead of the planned release coming up at the end of September… ⌘ Read more
New Linux Patches Improving Hibernation Speed In 2026
A new patch series being worked on is enhancing the Linux kernel’s hibernation allocator to allow for faster performance when hibernating the system… ⌘ Read more
Raspberry Pi Desktop Overhauled On Raspberry Pi OS, Adds Icon Dock
The Raspberry Pi Desktop on Raspberry Pi OS has seen a major overhaul to better modernize the desktop computing experience on the ARM64 single board computers… ⌘ Read more
Khronos Group opens EU Entity to support European Projects with open standards
Khronos Group, who oversee various open standards like Vulkan and OpenGL, have formally opened up a Brussels-based European entity.
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Math Professor Accuses OpenAI of Copying His Work, Says AI Compute Power Makes Racing to Publish ‘Pointless’
The New York Post wrote that OpenAI “stunned the mathematics world” last week when it announced its AI model “cracked a legendary math problem left unsolved for nearly a century in just 88 hours.”
But a New York University professor “has come forward alleging … ⌘ Read more
OpenAPV Sees Big Update For Advancing The Advanced Professional Video Codec
OpenAPV as the open-source reference implementation of the Advanced Professional Video (APV) codec today saw its v1.1.1 release, succeeding v0.3.0 as the prior release… ⌘ Read more
JUJUTSU KAISEN RUMBLE: SURVIVATON delayed into 2027
JUJUTSU KAISEN RUMBLE: SURVIVATON, from the creator of Vampire Survivors and Shueisha Games, has been delayed into 2027 so they can get it right.
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The Triple-i Initiative showcase returns October 8th
Crammed full of what will no doubt be some really interesting looking games, The Triple-i Initiative showcase is back again on October 8th.
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Digiphile’s VR collection is back to celebrate the Steam Frame launch
Stock up on some quality VR games for the launch of the Steam Frame, or just bag a good deal for whatever headset you’re using with Digiphile’s VR collection.
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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.
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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