Dealer’s Dice blends tower defense and incrementals together into a quirky game
Face off against the dealer with your random rolls in Dealer’s Dice, which blends together tower defense and incrementals.
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Three Cities, 16 Years And $1 Billion Later, ‘Defiant’ Lucas Museum of Narrative Art Opens To Mixed Reviews
It looks like a spaceship hovering over South Los Angeles, writes CNN, with futuristic tube-like elevators and an exhibition of Banksy murals. There’s a room featuring Luke Skywalker’s X-34 Landspeeder, but in its gardens there’s a 19th-century cast of a scu … ⌘ Read more
Snap the Cat is a super cute incremental game about taking pictures of cats
For fans of cats and incremental games - Snap the Cat is a cute and fresh entry into the genre for fans of relaxing casual games.
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puzzlez is a mini-puzzle game spin-off from the factory building shapez series
If you enjoy puzzle games you’ll want to keep an eye on puzzlez - a shapez game, a spin-off from the shapez series from tobspr Games.
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With a fully destructible simulated world the factory automation game FluxWerks arrives soon
A factory-building automation sim with a destructible world and simulated heat and fluids, FluxWerks sounds like it’s going to stand out in the genre.
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The new teaser for retro horror shooter BLIGHTEN has me wanting more
BLIGHTEN was covered here on GamingOnLinux back in April, and recently it had a new teaser that really badly made me want to see a lot more.
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Beam Eye Tracker gets Linux and macOS support
After being in Beta for a while, Linux and macOS support has arrived for the clever Beam Eye Tracker app.
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Why Google Told Drivers to Drive a Longer Way On Purpose
“A team at Google’s research arm used Google Maps to reroute a small portion of drivers in 10 U.S. cities,” reports SFGate — including San Francisco and Los Angeles.
“Through their experiment, which was published in the journal Nature Cities in June, the researchers sought to evenly spread traffic down more corridors as the drivers head to similar destinations, … ⌘ Read more
Does Brave Browser Load Faster Than Chrome, Firefox, and Microsoft Edge?
The Brave web browser published a new round of benchmarks claiming its desktop browser uses less system resources than Chrome, Microsoft Edge, and Firefox — and also loads pages faster.
The blog Linuxiac reports:
According to Brave’s testing, the browser used 44% less CPU, 28% less memory, and 10% less energy on average compared wit … ⌘ Read more
FreeBSD 14.5 Released With Hardware Support Improvements, Many Bug & Security Fixes
For those that haven’t yet made the move to FreeBSD 15 with still relying on FreeBSD 14 in production, out today is FreeBSD 14.5-RELEASE… ⌘ Read more
Switzerland’s Federal Government Tests Open-Source Alternatives to Microsoft on 3,000 Computers
Switzerland has a population of 9,154,242. And its federal government just launched a pilot program to test open source alternatives to Microsoft 365 on 3,000 workstations, reports the blog It’s FOSS. “That’s about 7% of the federal workforce.”
The target is to complete the migration by … ⌘ Read more
Instead of Fighting AI, Some Teachers Work It Into Their Lessons
Last year the writing program at the University of Baltimore used an app that tracks students while they’re writing in Google Docs, offering teachers a video playing back revisions “with a scoreboard of all the edits, pastes and minutes spent on it,” writes the Washington Post. “Is it surveillance? Yes, I think obviously,” says the program’s direc … ⌘ Read more
Mysterious x86 CPU Already Has APX, x86S Where Intel Left Off For Legacy-Free x86
The mystery deepens around an x86 implementation from a corporate entity other than AMD and Intel and has been making some very intriguing changes for coming from a seeming start-up. Beyond 16 tile and 32 tile AMX implementations that already surpass Intel’s current Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX) capabilities in shipping Xeon CPUs, new disclosures were made today concerning Advanced Performance Extensions (APX), Flexible Return and E … ⌘ Read more
A Man Charged His EV at a Dealership - and Was Billed $418
The EV blog Electrek reports:
A Clinton Township, Michigan man was charged $418 for a single EV charging session at Elder Hyundai’s Macomb Township store after finding the charger listed as publicly available on the EVgo app, but didn’t discover the charges until after wrapping up his 40-ish minute charging session. “I was flabbergasted,” explained Stanle … ⌘ Read more
‘She Lost Her Sight. Her Billionaire Father Bet On a Daring New Treatment.’
“Billionaire Bill Ackman’s life was upended this February when his 26-year-old daughter collapsed in her Brooklyn apartment, suffering a brain hemorrhage that would render her unable to move, speak or see,” writes the Washingon Post. But then…
The hedge fund manager did what any good father would do — at least, any father … ⌘ Read more
Ubuntu 26.10 amd64v3 Daily ISOs Now Being Published
As an interesting development for Ubuntu 26.10, the daily ISOs of the “Stonking Stingray” now include amd64v3 images… ⌘ Read more
CoolerControl app for Linux v5.0 brings a big overhaul
Managing various types of coolers under Linux has never looked sleeker! The latest CoolerControl v5.0.0 release is out now.
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Linux Preps For New AMD Zen 6 BTB CTX Isolation Security Feature
A recently posted Linux kernel patch has revealed a new security improvement with Zen 6 processors… ⌘ Read more
‘The Jobs Apocalypse Is Postponed. An AI Jobs Boom Is Here’
A new article about AI in The Economist argues that “Initial effects of the technology on employment look positive.”
Perhaps AI will eventually make many humans unemployable — but there is no sign of it yet. On September 4th the Bureau of Labour Statistics reported that the American economy added 162,000 jobs in August, far above expectations. The unemployment ra … ⌘ Read more
Nouveau Preparations For HDMI 2.1 DSC, AMD HDMI FreeSync Fixes For Linux 7.4
Last week’s set of DRM-Misc-Next changes submitted to DRM-Next with targeting the upcoming Linux 7.4 kernel cycle features HDMI 2.1 related work for both the AMDGPU kernel driver as well as the Nouveau open-source NVIDIA driver… ⌘ Read more
Intel’s Dynamic PAMT Appears Ready For Linux 7.4 To Help With TDX Memory Overhead
Intel’s Dynamic PAMT feature looks like it’s finally going to be ready for mainline with Linux 7.4. The Intel Dynamic PAMT is used for helping to reduce memory overhead when making use of Trusted Domain Extensions (TDX) for confidential VMs… ⌘ Read more
Rustls 0.23.44 Released With ML-DSA Certificates Enabled By Default
Rustls as the modern TLS library implementation written in the Rust programming language is out with a new feature release. This morning’s Rustls 0.23.44 release enables post-quantum secure ML-DSA certificates by default… ⌘ Read more
Asahi Linux now officially supports Macs with the M3 series SoC
Asahi Linux is a project and community with the goal of porting Linux to Apple Silicon Macs - and now it supports Macs with the M3 series SoC.
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Ghostship - the Super Mario 64 PC port from Harbour Masters gets Vulkan, post-processing, a web player and more
Ghostship is the impressive unofficial PC port of Super Mario 64 from the Harbour Masters crew, newly upgraded with a web player and Vulkan support.
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Bitcoin-based Liquid Network Says $320 Million Withdrawn in Hack
Reuters reports:
Liquid Network, a Bitcoin-based payments and settlement network, said on Sunday that about $320 million was withdrawn from its federation wallet in a hack.
“Purported white-hat hackers” withdrew around 4,000 of the 4,200 bitcoin held in its Liquid Federation wallet, Liquid Network said in a post on X.
“Liquid wallets will be imp … ⌘ Read more
Get some hit games in the Dread and Dark Fantasies RPG Collection Humble Bundle
Want some more interesting action RPGs in your life? Check out the Dread and Dark Fantasies RPG Collection Humble Bundle.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/get-some-hit-games-in-the-dread-and-dark-fantasies-rpg-collection-humble-bundl … ⌘ Read more
KDE Plasma 6.8 gets a Windows-like Autoscroll feature
KDE Plasma 6.8 is due out in mid-October and it’s coming with all sorts of new features, and one I’m particularly happy to see with autoscrolling.
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Thank You Bus Driver is the first game post-XBOX from Double Fine
Double Fine announced a brand new game - Thank You Bus Driver, their first since splitting off from XBOX.
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Lossless Scaling’s frame generation for Linux lsfg-vk 2.0 is out now
The popular lsfg-vk project that brings Lossless Scaling’s frame generation to Linux now has the big 2.0 release officially out.
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Bazzite Linux 44 gets even more fixes for September 6th
The Bazzite Linux team continue powering through getting lots of updates since the recent major Bazzite 44 release for handhelds.
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Roku’s 24/7 AI Slop Channel Is Even Worse Than Expected
A new streaming TV channel shows films made with genAI, reports Engadget. “Fairground AI Creator TV” is free — and supported with ads — describing its material as “AI Cinema”:
“AI-generated” can make it sound as though someone typed a sentence into a machine and came back five minutes later to find a finished movie. Fairground’s catalog shows why that desc … ⌘ Read more
While I was at Magic, my wife captured this photo of the princesses, Peaches and Astrid, resting together. Sadly, it didn’t last, and it was soon time to return to Crazytown, but for a brief, shining moment, there was peace and quiet.
US Military Disables Ad Trackers On Devices To Protect Troops
Slashdot reader DeanonymizedCoward writes: Reuters reports that the US Military is disabling ad tracking on devices, to prevent adversaries from buying publicly-available tracking data to assist in targeting troops. Military officials say that they have disabled trackers on a variety of computers and mobile devices, according to letters released on Frid … ⌘ Read more
Where a Massive Solar Storm Could Take Down the US Power Grid for Millions
A new study published Friday in AGU Advances “depicts the most advanced picture yet of how a rare but massive solar storm could affect some US industries and electric systems more than others,” reports CNN.
“During a 250-year solar storm, the East Coast would have widespread potential for grid failure.”
Researchers mode … ⌘ Read more
Linux 7.3-rc2 Released Following Another Busy Week
After the Linux 7.3 merge window concluded last weekend, today we are up to the Linux 7.3-rc2 test kernel release in working toward the stable v7.3 kernel during the second half of October… ⌘ Read more
TiVo Will Start Charging Fees For Its Automatic Commercial Break-Skipping Feature ‘SkipMode’
TiVo is notifying customers about changes to “one of its longest-standing and most popular DVR features,” reports the blog Cord Cutter News:
Starting November 2, 2026, the current version of SkipMode that allows users to jump over commercial breaks with a single button press on the r … ⌘ Read more
Shotcut 26.9 Video Editor Beta Brings UI Improvements, Better Audio Quality
Following the recent Shotcut stable release with a stock asset library and other improvements, Shotcut 26.9 Beta is out today with yet more improvements for this open-source video editing application for Linux, macOS, and Windows systems… ⌘ Read more
NetBSD 9.5 Released To Cap Off The Series
NetBSD 9.5 released today as the final release of the NetBSD 9 stable branch… ⌘ Read more
Flock Offered Webinar Teaching Cops How to Surveil ‘No Kings’ Protesters
Thursday 404 Media reported that Flock taught America’s cops “how they could surveil the No Kings protests” against President Trump (as well as “small parades”) in a webinar last year that described “using a mix of Flock’s technology and law enforcement’s own databases.”
In the webinar, Flock’s director of market management Caity Pe … ⌘ Read more
UN Votes To Encourage Map Projections More Accurately Reflecting the True Size of Continents
The United Nations has an announcement. “The UN General Assembly has voted overwhelmingly to encourage governments, schools and tech companies worldwide to stop using maps that make Africa look far smaller than it really is.”
By 164 votes to one, Member States on Friday endorsed a resolution … ⌘ Read more
Linux 7.3-rc2 Scheduler Fix For Cache Aware Load Scheduling Misfits On Hybrid CPUs
Ahead of the Linux 7.3-rc2 kernel being released later today, a set of scheduler fixes have been sent out for this week’s kernel test release. Most notable with the scheduler fixes are dealing with possible misfits for Cache-Aware Load Scheduling on hybrid CPUs like Intel Core (Ultra) processors… ⌘ Read more
Private German Rocket Makes History, Reaches Orbit From European Soil
“No rocket had ever reached orbit from Western European soil — until today,” reports Space.com.
DW.com reports that a Spectrum space rocket from German company Isar Aerospace launched today from the Arctic Norwegian spaceport at Andoya:
“Germany has spaceflight capabilities,” said the country’s Ministry for Research, Technology and … ⌘ Read more
Asahi Linux Now Officially Supports Apple M3 Macs - With Caveats
Asahi Linux developers announced today that they are now officially supporting the Linux distribution on Apple M3 powered Macs. With the exception of the Mac Studio M3 Ultra, other M3 / M3 Pro / M3 Max devices should now work with the latest Asahi Linux builds but with some feature caveats… ⌘ Read more
LLVM Developers Discuss Enabling ClangIR Build By Default
ClangIR has been in development for a number of years now as a new intermediate representation for the Clang compiler. ClangIR makes use of MLIR and is higher-level than LLVM IR. With ClangIR able to preserve more C/C++ source semantics, its usage can lead to better diagnostics, code/static analysis, and more performance optimizations compared to everything lowered straight away from AST to LLVM IR. While not enabling its usage by default, LLVM stakehol … ⌘ Read more
Linux 7.3-rc2 Transitions More kmalloc Calls To The Superior kmalloc_obj
Ahead of the Linux 7.3-rc2 kernel release due out later today, a merge causing a lot of code churn was pulled in by Linus Torvalds. This tree-wide effort converts more of the kmalloc() function calls over to the newer and superior kmalloc_obj() family of functions… ⌘ Read more
Slackware 16 Alpha 1 Available Following GCC 16.2, Glibc 2.44 & Binutils 2.47 Upgrade
The timing on Saturday’s Slackware-based Zenwalk ISO “current milestone” update is now more clear with upstream Slackware having prepared what is its first alpha release of the upcoming Slackware 16… ⌘ Read more
2026 Hugo Award Winners Include Ursula Le Guin-Authored Graphic Novel
This year’s Hugo Award winners were announced last weekend at Worldcon — the world’s longest-running science fiction/fantasy convention. The Orange County Register reports there were fans “clad in capes, gowns and elaborate character costumes,” with famous attendees including Game of Thrones author George R. R. Martin, who held a book s … ⌘ Read more
To Promote Grand Theft Auto 6, Mayor Might Transform Miami into ‘Vice City’
Rockstar Games and the mayor of Miami-Dade county are discussing a joint marketing campaign transforming parts of the county to look like areas from Grand Theft Auto 6, reports the blog Rock Paper Shotgun:
The proposed publicity event would include “an immersive arrival experience” at Miami International Airport. with signs f … ⌘ Read more
How US Campaigns Are Already Using AI to Try to Sway Voters
39 U.S. congressional candidates “reported paying for an OpenAI subscription this election cycle,” writes the Washington Post, citing campaign finance disclosures.
This means the campaigns “are using the technology to court voters — despite limits imposed by leading AI companies to protect elections from the technology’s risks.”
Two [candidates] sai … ⌘ Read more
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