America Officially Loses Its Measles-elimination Status After Continued Spread of the Disease
Reuters reports:
The Pan American Health Organization has revoked the United States’ measles-elimination status, ending a 26-year run after determining the country failed to halt continuous transmission of the highly contagious virus for more than a year, the Wall Street Journal reported o … ⌘ Read more
Manjaro Linux Moves Toward Independent Community Governance
Arch-based Manjaro Linux “has announced that Manjaro Project e.V. is now officially registered as a non-profit in Germany,” reports Linuxiac, “and is therefore a legally separate entity from the commercial Manjaro GmbH & Co. KG… after months of internal wrangling over who was in charge of the project, who had access to the infrastructure and who didn’t, … ⌘ Read more
Quick #Caturday update: Max tired of his claim and went to take a nap, so Shadow found his way into the box after all.
@david@daiwei.me Thank you, he is. ❤️
EFF Criticizes US Government’s Use of AI For Evaluating Senior Health Insurance Requests
“When we need medical care, we expect decisions about our treatment to be made by our doctors, not a tech company’s algorithm,” writes the EFF newsletter EFFector.
But in January America’s federal government launched a program called WISeR that uses AI to evaluate authorization requests for certain p … ⌘ Read more
Hundreds of Fake Accounts Defended Jensen Huang On Social Media
The Washington Post reports on something peculiar about support for Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang online after he’d told the world he’d been unfaithful to his wife (before reports of his second extramarital affair):
Joining the chorus online were voices of seemingly everyday people: a chef, a stock trader, a Hebrew teacher and several environmental acti … ⌘ Read more
Amazon Expands Drone Deliveries, and Gets Noise Complaints. ‘Like a Swarm of Bees’
“In August, Amazon announced it was expanding its airborne shipping to suburban areas in nearly 500 U.S. cities,” reports the Chicago Sun-Times, “including the Chicago, Atlanta, Cleveland and Boise, Idaho, metro areas.” And on Tuesday Amazon cut the ribbon on its new drone delivery center Tuesday 24 miles south of … ⌘ Read more
Was America’s Nationwide Grounding of Aircraft Caused By Its New AI System?
America’s nationwide grounding of flights on Friday happened “amid growing scrutiny… of a new AI-powered air traffic management system” deployed by America’s Federal Aviation Administration, reports Texas news station KXAN.
Ironically, the system is called SMART — but the outage happened “following warnings” from members of th … ⌘ Read more
Linus Torvalds Wonders If Linux’s AI-Prompted Patch Flood Has Peaked
The Register writes that “The worst of the patchpocalypse may be behind us, according to Linus Torvalds.” In his weekly kernel update post, Torvalds said Linux 7.4 rc2 was a big release partly because it contained code he’d left out of rc1 because he’d been busy and it was already the largest such release in kernel history.
But Torvalds s … ⌘ Read more
Redox OS Gets Golang Working, GIMP Ported & Simplified AI Policy
The Rust-based Redox OS open-source operating system is now out with its October development summary that highlights recent software ports, progress on NUMA, and other enhancements made to this from-scratch platform… ⌘ Read more
Australian STEM Videogame Challenge Canceled Due To AI
PC Gamer reports:
The Australian STEM Videogame Challenge, a “free national videogame development competition for students,” has confirmed that the rise of generative AI means this year’s event will be the last…
Speculation as to the cause of the program’s cancellation focused primarily on the presence of AI in entries: Another self-proclaimed judge said the prob … ⌘ Read more
Basic Support For The Apple M5 Expected To Land For Linux 7.5
Very basic support for the Apple M5 SoC base model is expected to be merged for the Linux 7.5 kernel now that it’s been queued into the “apple-soc/dt-7.5” Git branch… ⌘ Read more
Red Hat Working To Improve Memory Tiering For QEMU VMs To Save RAM
Red Hat engineers are working through a few possible approaches to enhance memory tiering for QEMU-based virtual machines to help in conserving memory. Ultimately they are after leveraging NVMe SSDs in more scenarios for QEMU VMs to save on RAM usage given today’s sky high memory pricing… ⌘ Read more
Intel Begins Linux Kernel Enablement For Coral Rapids & Razor Lake
Along with Intel posting initial GCC compiler patches for Coral Rapids and Razor Lake processors, the first Linux kernel patch for these future Intel server and desktop/laptop processors have also arrived… ⌘ Read more
Rugged Emdoor Laptops Beginning To See Improved Linux Support
Emdoor that is a leading manufacturer of rugged laptops and tablets used by various industries is beginning to see improved Linux support thanks to a new platform driver being developed… ⌘ Read more
Ex-Nvidia CEO Misled Company Leaders On Affair With Chinese Businesswoman
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Former Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang misled several of the company’s leaders, including general counsel Tim Teter and chief marketing officer Alison Wagonfeld, about the nature of his relationship with Chinese businesswoman Alice Huang, with whom he had an affair, according to two peopl … ⌘ Read more
KDE Plasma 6.9 Finally Allows XWayland To Run On-Demand, New Wobbly Windows Presets
This Week in Plasma is out with its latest issue following a week of exciting developments toward the KDE Plasma 6.9 desktop… ⌘ Read more
FreeBSD 15.2 Beta 2 Delivers Updated OpenSSL, Bug Fixes
FreeBSD 15.2 Beta 1 debuted last week for this updated operating system bringing improved laptop/desktop hardware support, experimental cross-building of base packages on Linux and macOS, updated LLVM/Clang compiler, updated OpenZFS file-system support, and other improvements. Released overnight was FreeBSD 15.2 Beta 2… ⌘ Read more
SteamVR 2.19.3 Beta and SteamOS 0.5.9 Beta for Steam Frame released
Valve released both SteamVR 2.19.3 Beta for all VR gamers, and SteamOS 0.5.9 Beta for Steam Frame as well. Here’s all that’s new and improved.
Read the full article on GamingOnLinux. ⌘ Read more
Proton Experimental fixes ArcheAge Chronicles, Warhammer 40,000: Darktide, Deep Rock Galactic
Valve pushed out a small update for Proton Experimental, fixing issues in a few specific games.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/11/proton-experimental-fixes-archeage-chronicles-warhammer-40-000-darktide-deep-ro … ⌘ Read more
Wine 11.22 brings improved support for ARM64, MSXML and address space randomisation
The Wine 11.22 development release is out now for this compatibility layer, continuing to bring more improvements to run Windows software on Linux.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/11/wine-11-22-brings-improved-support-for-arm64-msxml-and-address … ⌘ Read more
SteamOS 3.10.0 Preview brings HDMI 2.1 VRR, FRL, and ALLM for AMD and improvements for NVIDIA
Valve released SteamOS 3.10.0 Preview which brings a pretty big set of features, especially if you’re on an AMD GPU and now improved NVIDIA support too.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/11/steamo … ⌘ Read more
gq} and gqG. They're real lifesavers.
(I’ve been a bit quiet lately, because I was still absorbed by this. 😅 Kept writing/extending that story from different angles and the whole thing grew from 120 to 260 pages. 📜 I think I’ll give it a rest now. 😅)
I forgot to post a #magic update earlier in the week, so here it is:
Despite having 5 players, we managed to get 3 games in:.
Game 1 was a “Battle of the Jaces” with 3 of us running variations on the Jace precon from Reality Fracture. In the end, one of the Jaces won, but it wasn’t mine (I was still 1-2 turns from victory).
For game 2, I ran my modified Warhammer 40k Forces of the Imperium deck, but it also lost to (yet another) Jace.
Finally, in game 3, my (still unlisted) Marvel Avengers deck lived up to its name, avenging my previous defeats thanks to the timely intervention of Doctor Strange (aka Jodah).
@arne@uplegger.eu It was indeed a tiny little bit quieter at work. ;-)
@arne@uplegger.eu Nur zu, kann ich sehr empfehlen.
Amazon’s Plan to Index the World’s Online Shopping Data
Amazon is considering a “World Product Graph” that would index information about products sold across the internet in an effort to keep shoppers and AI agents from turning to Google, Reddit or other sources for product research. The proposed database could also improve Amazon’s AI shopping assistant by addressing inaccurate or incomplete answers and allowing it to u … ⌘ Read more
GET /v2/instances API whereby ?tags= filter no longer works. This API is marked as "deprecated" on their API docs website, but not removed. The trigger was my own software/services performing VM claned using this API call and filter that no longer works all of a sudden. More to come on this soon™ -- I'll have to write this up as a longer blog post I think 🤔 #VultrCloud #API
For those of you that are used/customers of casn.run:
cas.run was down from 13 November 16:32 UTC until 14 November 02:12 UTC, after the server it runs on was deleted by mistake. We restored it from the nightly backup taken on 12 November at 17:00 UTC, so anything you changed between then and the outage (a new token, service or setting) needs doing again. We’re sorry for the disruption. Paid accounts have been credited a month.
Windows 0-Day Dropped By Disgruntled Researcher Hands Hackers System Rights
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Nightmare Eclipse, the pseudonym of a researcher with an ongoing, very public beef with Microsoft, has dropped yet another Windows zero-day. On Tuesday, Nightmare Eclipse disclosed SignDrop, a vulnerability that gives local users full System rights on some versions of Windo … ⌘ Read more
‼️ At 16:32:54 UTC 13 Nov to 01:12 UTC 14 Nov the infamously known Mills DC suffered an ~8h40m long incident that impacted all Ingress to my infra as well as several other services such as cas.run and mbox.blue. The cause is Vultr Cloud deciding between the 8th Nov 2026 and 13th Nov 2026 to break their GET /v2/instances API whereby ?tags= filter no longer works. This API is marked as “deprecated” on their API docs website, but not removed. The trigger was my own software/services performing VM claned using this API call and filter that no longer works all of a sudden. More to come on this soon™ – I’ll have to write this up as a longer blog post I think 🤔 #VultrCloud #API
Wine 11.22 Introduces x86 AVX Emulation On ARM64
Wine 11.22 is out today as the latest bi-weekly development release and inching quite closely toward the Wine 12.0 stable release preparations… ⌘ Read more
FAA Orders Nationwide Ground Stop for All Aircraft
Longtime Slashdot readers cold fjord and sinij share news that the FAA grounded flights nationwide after a communications failure disrupted air traffic control centers across the country. By Friday evening, the outage had resulted in nearly 5,000 flight cancellations and roughly 10,000 delays, with no timeline for restoring normal operations. Rumors are swirling that this c … ⌘ Read more
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SpaceX Falls Short of Historic Double Starship Catch
SpaceX’s 15th Starship test flight successfully reached orbit Friday, but its historic attempt to catch both stages at the launch tower was derailed when the Super Heavy booster malfunctioned, forcing controllers to abort its return before it exploded after splashing down in the Gulf of Mexico. The upper-stage Starship did, however, successfully deploy 26 Starlink sa … ⌘ Read more
Lego’s BrickLink Marketplace Back Online After Week-Long Outage Caused By ‘Cyber Incident’
LEGO’s BrickLink marketplace is back online after a week-long outage caused by what the company described as a “cyber incident,” during which an unauthorized third party accessed some user data. Details about exactly what data was accessed remain unclear. The site went offline on November 5 and rem … ⌘ Read more
US Seizes $1.2 Billion In Crypto Stolen From Binance
U.S. authorities have seized or restrained more than $1.2 billion in cryptocurrency stolen during Binance’s $6 billion October hack, which the FBI attributes to North Korean military-linked hackers known as “TraderTraitor.” The DOJ also said it disrupted infrastructure behind the “FaceStealer” deepfake scam, blamed for stealing more than $400 million in cryptocurrency. CN … ⌘ Read more
Cloudflare Open Sources Kitesurf: Their Web Browser For AI Agents
Earlier this year Cloudflare announced Kitesurf as a stateless web browser for AI agents. After building out its features, they have now made good on their word to open-source it… ⌘ Read more
Mozilla to Shut Down Solo, Deleting Users’ Websites and Data
Mozilla is shutting down Solo, its AI-powered website builder and hosting service, on November 30. A notice on the Soloist.ai homepage reads: “We’ve made the difficult decision to close Solo. We have appreciated all of your support building and growing this product, and the feedback we’ve received from all of you. Solo will cease operations on Nov 30, 2026 … ⌘ Read more
Microsoft’s Global Outage May Be Worse Than Amazon’s Or Crowdstrike’s, Expert Says
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: A global outage taking down a wide range of Microsoft 365 services remains ongoing Friday morning. The outage started midday Thursday, impacting users of Microsoft email, cloud, and AI services. Microsoft has documented the full list of services impacted by the … ⌘ Read more
ChatGPT’s New Wallet Lets AI Agents Shop For You
OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Wallet, a feature that lets its Dots AI agents help users choose products and complete purchases on their behalf. TechCrunch reports: The option will initially be available to a limited number of U.S. ChatGPT Pro subscribers, ages 18 and up, with a U.S.-issued Visa, Mastercard, or American Express. OpenAI says that users are fully in control of the pu … ⌘ Read more
AMD openSIL Achieves Its Production Goal With 6th Gen EPYC “Venice”
Since 2023 I and many open-source advocates have been very eager for AMD’s openSIL project for delivering open-source CPU silicon initialization as a replacement to the traditional AGESA code. With Zen 5 there was proof-of-concept support that we have enjoyed with Coreboot on an MSI Ryzen motherboard and a Gigabyte EPYC server motherboard thanks to the Coreboot-based Dasharo ports by 3mdeb. The goal for production readiness was for Zen 6, but with … ⌘ Read more
Advocacy Groups Sue AI Giants to Freeze New Models, Warning of ‘Catastrophic’ Risks
A coalition of online safety and consumer advocacy groups has sued five of the world’s leading artificial intelligence companies, asking a California judge to halt the development and deployment of new AI models until the companies can address what the plaintiffs describe as potentially “catastrophic” risks. The … ⌘ Read more
KDE Frameworks 6.32 Released With That Fix For USB File Transfer Notifications
KDE Frameworks 6.32 shipped today as the newest monthly update to this set of KDE components. Notable this month is a fix for the previously-reported 15 year old bug around inaccurate notifications for USB file transfers… ⌘ Read more
Nvidia Employees Petition For Jensen Huang’s Return
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Some Nvidia employees are calling for Jensen Huang’s return even after his multiple reported extramarital affairs and abrupt resignation, according to internal correspondence reviewed by WIRED. An internal “suggestion box” post submitted before Huang’s resignation by a longtime engineer at Nvidia urged the company’s board to take … ⌘ Read more
GDC November 2026 survey shows 40% of developers using generative AI
The GDC 2026 survey has been released, and it’s another interesting look behind the scenes of the gaming industry as a whole.
Read the full article on GamingOnLinux. ⌘ Read more
Parents and Teachers Decry Google Pledge To Yank Search If Schools Block AI
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Parents and teachers across the US are criticizing Google’s announcement that schools choosing to block AI tools could also lose access to Google Search. Google announced last week a range of new AI tools for schools and classrooms, alongside options allowing teachers an … ⌘ Read more
AMD Leverages AI + HRX Loom In Experiment For Quickly Porting 50 LLMs To Client GPUs
Following the recent release of HRX Loom v0.1 and leveraging an AI agent workflow, a team at AMD experimented with bringing 50 trending Hugging Face models over to AMD client GPUs. They accomplished this feat in just around three days, thanks to their HRX software work paired with the power of Ryzen AI Max “Strix Halo” hardware… ⌘ Read more
Linux 7.5 To Include New hwpoison-panic Tool For Intentionally Crashing Your System
A new tool expected to be merged to the Linux 7.5 source tree provides a new exercise for the kernel and in the process bringing down the system… ⌘ Read more
AMD AOCL 6.0 Introduces New RNG Library, Initial Zen 6 CPU Optimizations
In addition to AOCC 6.0 releasing this week as their updated C/C++ compiler along with the new “AOF” Fortran compiler, AMD also released AOCL 6.0 as the AMD Optimizing CPU Libraries… ⌘ Read more