Proton CEO Is In ‘Full AI Psychosis’
According to 404 Media, Proton CEO Andy Yen is aggressively pushing AI adoption while fostering what workers describe as a culture of fear that discourages raising security concerns or challenging leadership. The investigation is based on interviews with eight current and one former Proton employees, as well as internal Slack chats, meeting recordings, and an AI manifesto written by the company’s CTO. Longti … ⌘ Read more
Polymarket Halted International Trading After Hackers Drained Accounts
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Trading has resumed on Polymarket’s flagship international platform after a hack that drained money from the wallets of some traders. A third-party vendor based in the United Kingdom was breached, not the prediction market’s website itself. Law enforcement in the UK have been notified of t … ⌘ Read more
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@movq@www.uninformativ.de Awesome, maybe I can actually finish it this year. 😃
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@prologic@twtxt.net Pretty graph! 🤩
Very cool.
RISC-V Has A Nice Portable Performance Optimization With Linux 7.4
The RISC-V architecture changes were merged today for the Linux 7.4 kernel with one nice optimization standing out… ⌘ Read more
Trump’s CTFC Steps In to Defend Kalshi As Utah Brings Criminal Charges Against Execs
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has sued Utah to defend its claimed exclusive authority over federally registered prediction markets, as the state files (PDF) 14 criminal charges against Kalshi and its co-founders for allegedly violating anti-gambling laws. The Verge reports: On Wednesday, Utah … ⌘ Read more
Fedora Linux 45 Shipping Next Week On 3 November
Fedora 45 is ready to ship! It will be formally released on Tuesday, 3 November… ⌘ Read more
Multi-Billion Binance Hack Hitting Crypto Markets
Binance is investigating a potential hack after more than $2 billion in crypto was drained from one of its wallets into a new external account, with Blockaid estimating nearly $3.3 billion was moved.
“Our teams are aware of reports of a potential security issue and are actively investigating,” said Binance on X.
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Patrick Stewart, ‘Star Trek’ Captain and ‘X-Men’ Superhero, Dies At 86
Slashdot readers Cpt_Kirks, eklektic, sconeu, and Vrallis share the unfortunate news of Patrick Stewart’s passing. Longtime spokesperson Kelly Bush Novak said Stewart died Wednesday at the age of 86 at his home in Los Angeles following “a brief and poignant journey with Alzheimer’s disease and Lewy body dementia.”
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Nvidia Chief Seen As Target of Chinese Spy Plot
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The New York Times: American spy agencies had gathered striking intelligence. A top executive at a Singapore-based data center company was under scrutiny for possibly steering advanced Nvidia A.I. chips to China. And now American officials had concluded that she was a Chinese intelligence asset (source paywalled; alternative source), funneling i … ⌘ Read more
Alphabet Heads For a $500 Billion Drop In Market Value
Yesterday, Google reported its Q3 results that showed searches made through its AI Mode generate less revenue than traditional search, even as overall search revenue grew 12% year over year to $63.25 billion. The news sent Alphabet shares plunging, with Bespoke Investment Group reporting that the stock is on track for its steepest post-earnings decline since the comp … ⌘ Read more
I’m happy to report that there is going to be an Advent of Code event this year:
To be honest, I really wasn’t sure if it was going to happen. “Programming” has changed so much this year …
Canada to Join EU Network of Supercomputers
Canada is joining the European Union’s supercomputing network to give Canadian companies, startups, and researchers access to European computing resources for AI development. The partnership aims to strengthen AI cooperation and reduce dependence on US technology. Politico reports: The EU’s supercomputing network is run by the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking, an EU public-private vehicle with … ⌘ Read more
Should have called it quits earlier to enjoy more of the last sunrays of the day. https://lyse.isobeef.org/2026-10-29-waldspaziergang/
DoorDash Strikes $17 Billion Deal For US Rival Instacart
DoorDash has agreed to acquire Instacart for about $17 billion as it expands beyond restaurant delivery and deeper into the U.S. grocery market. The deal, expected to close in late 2027 or the first half of 2028, could face regulatory scrutiny over further consolidation in the delivery industry. Reuters reports: DoorDash has offered Instacart shareholders $65 per shar … ⌘ Read more
F2FS Adds Opt-In Multi-Grain Timestamps With Linux 7.4, Other Improvements
The F2FS (Flash Friendly File-System) improvements have been merged for Linux 7.4 to further enhance this flash-optimized solution… ⌘ Read more
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@zyak@twtxt.z85b.xyz Yeah, that was an additional bonus. But I still think that I added more than I lost in total. Better than nothing for sure.
I’ve been on that tour on foot three times before. But it’s really not something to recommend. If I run into the same situation again, I’ll take the forest detour. It is actually pretty towards the end.
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@arne@uplegger.eu Backpapier klingt ja mal spontan auch richtig gut! Ich finde es ja immer sehr befriedigend, wenn man Dinge einfach sinnvoll zweckentfremded. :-) Schön zu hören, dass der heimische Gemüseanbau von Erfolg gekrönt war.
Reddit Is Getting a ‘For You’ Feed
Reddit is overhauling its homepage with separate “For You” and “Following” feeds, with the former combining posts from subscribed communities and algorithmic recommendations based on users’ interests and activity. The Verge reports: It’s a big shift for the platform, but not an entirely surprising one, as Reddit hasn’t been shy about wanting to switch up the homepage. Earlier this year, the company announce … ⌘ Read more
‘Please Let the Internet Die’
Slashdot reader fjo3 shares an article from Wired: The internet must be put out of its misery. Any rational observer can admit that the current iteration of the web – and the social fabric woven there – is not what they signed up for. Symptoms of advanced cultural decay can no longer be ignored. This thing is eating itself. Giants including Meta and Google have been forced to settle massive consumer lawsuits brought … ⌘ Read more
Jagex are now publishing Melvor Idle 2 as an official RuneScape game
Melvor Idle 2 (now Melvor Idle 2: A RuneScape Adventure) massively expands on the very popular original game and now has publishing help.
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@shinyoukai@twtxt.net Yeah, I think you can get pretty far with a few careful lines of config. But what I have here is a bit more sophisticated. Picket fingerprints connecting clients and is table to work out for example what software and stack your client is, if it really is Chrome or you’re pretneding to be Chrome.
System76 tease the new mini Thelio Prime Desktop coming in November
System76 have been busy cooking, with a teaser of their new mini Thelio Prime Desktop that will be launching November 18th.
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GOG and Retrovibe team up for indie game publishing
Indie game publisher Retrovibe and GOG are formally teaming up to offer more ways for indie game developers to get published.
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NVIDIA Vera Single vs. Dual Socket CPU Performance
For those curious how NVIDIA Vera is scaling between single and dual socket deployments, here are some benchmarks I carried out a while back exploring the power and performance from one to two Vera CPUs. ⌘ Read more
Linux 7.4 Networking Brings Hardware Pacing Offload, New Drivers & More Performance
The many Linux wired and wireless networking driver improvements were merged this week for the ongoing Linux 7.4 merge window…. ⌘ Read more
No Man’s Sky Forsaken update brings Seamless Warping, New Cockpits, Forsaken Traders and more
Somehow, Hello Games keep on adding impressive new bits into their ageing space survival game, with the No Man’s Sky Forsaken update out now.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/no-mans-sky-forsaken-update-brings … ⌘ Read more
Build up your spooky game collection with the Horror Trifectas Humble Bundle
A great game bundle has arrived for fans of spooky games, just in time for Halloween in the Horror Trifectas Humble Bundle.
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CachyOS Linux working on a dedicated kernel for supporting Easy Anti-Cheat v2
With the new Epic Games Launcher supported on Linux, along with a remade Easy Anti-Cheat coming, the CachyOS team are working on kernel support for EAC v2.
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Google Struggling to Make AI Mode Searches Pay
Alphabet shares fell nearly 10% after Google disclosed that searches through its AI Mode generate less revenue than traditional search, even as overall search revenue grew 12% year over year to $63.25 billion. The Register reports: Alphabet on Wednesday reported its Q3 results, which included news that its year-over-year search query growth rate is the highest it’s been in the last … ⌘ Read more
Ubuntu Core Desktop has been restarted with a dedicated team with plans to improve Linux gaming
Ubuntu Core Desktop is Canonical’s immutable version of Ubuntu Linux, and they’re back to working on it for desktop users.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/ubuntu-core-desktop-has-been-restarted-with-a- … ⌘ Read more
Discord servers are set to become more public for web searches
One long-standing issue with platforms like Discord is how they’re like a walled-garden, but part of that is going to be changing soon.
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Mesa 26.2.6 brings fixes for The Witcher 3 Remastered and various other Linux driver issues
Mesa 26.2.6 is out now as the latest upgrade for Linux open source graphics drivers, focused on fixing up some bugs reported.
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AMD’s ROCm HRX Loom v0.1 Released For Targeting AMD CPUs, GPUs & NPUs
At this year’s AMD Advancing AI event Hyperloom was announced among the ROCm improvements to expect. Hyperloom aims for agentic workload optimizations and more with quote powerful abilities if everything works out right. As part of the latest round of ROCm advancements, the Loom SDK v0.1 release was released today… ⌘ Read more
DLSS Updater 5.2 released with AMD FSR 4.1.2 support
DLSS Updater enables you to scan your system for games, and then replace their upscaling and frame-generation with updated versions or something else entirely.
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D7VK 2.4 released along with GXVK for Vulkan-based 3Dfx Glide
A nice surprise for more retro gaming! Along with the release of D7VK 2.4 for older Direct3D, we also now have GXVK for Vulkan-based 3Dfx Glide.
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FAT32 File-System Seeing As Much As 265x Improvement With Linux 7.4
A change merged for Linux 7.4 is showing some mighty big speed-ups for the FAT32 file-system… ⌘ Read more
Graphics/NPU Driver Changes Already Begin Queuing Up For What Will Be Linux 7.5
Since last week drm-misc-next pull requests have already been sent out to DRM-Next to begin staging new feature code for what’s intended for the Linux 7.5 kernel cycle kicking off at the end of the year… ⌘ Read more
KSMBD Adds New Options With Linux 7.4
A number of improvements to KSMBD, the in-kernel SMB3 file server, were merged for the Linux 7.4 kernel… ⌘ Read more
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Here’s a pretty graph 📈 
Since building a new Edge service and capability I’ve decided to call “Picket”, I’m now dropping about ~40% of incoming traffic to the floor in various ways. Whole botnets, search engines, crawlers and all sorts of unwanted traffic are just going splat 💥 – Turns out measuring cohorts by fingerprinting and behaviour analysis from connection stats and logs alone is “enough”™ to block most unwanted traffic. Things like Anubis, using a PoW, which I tried, don’t really work in my expeirence.
Ink Droplets In Motion Snag Top Prize In Nikon Small World Contest
A 25-year-old German photographer won the 2026 Nikon Small World competition with a microscopic image freezing ink droplets in midair as an inkjet printer deposits them onto paper. Ars Technica reports that Ole Bielfeldt “beat out 1,802 other entries hailing from 69 different countries.” From the report: Bielfeldt became interested in photomicrogr … ⌘ Read more
📽️ Watchmen (2009) https://youtu.be/wdiHDzT6YbQ
“I triggered it 35 minutes ago.”
Bank of America Kindly Asks That You Don’t Share Your Password With Your AI Assistant
Longtime Slashdot reader schwit1 shares a report from TechCrunch: In an email blast to customers titled “Protecting your finances in the Al World,” Bank of America urged customers to never share their username and password with another person or an outside service, “including an Al-enabled tool or agent tha … ⌘ Read more
GXVK: 3Dfx Glide API Implemented Atop Vulkan For Modern Usage
The open-source D7VK project that implements the Direct3D 7 / 6 / 5 / 3 APIs atop the Vulkan API for faster, modern performance is out with a new release. This new D7VK 2.4 release came as a bit of a surprise since it was just last month D7VK announced its maturity status and more or less in maintenance mode. But brought up in today’s D7VK 2.4 announcement is an even bigger surprise: there’s now an implementation of the 3Dfx Glide API atop Vulkan… ⌘ Read more
Anthropic Engineer Declares the Coding Interview Dead
An Anthropic engineering manager says he has stopped using traditional coding interviews because AI can now outperform candidates on the kinds of programming challenges they typically contain. “There’s no more point in giving you a little React challenge than there is in quizzing people about assembly; Claude is now better at both,” said Felix Rieseberg in a blog post. “Ou … ⌘ Read more
Massive Leak Exposes 41,000 Homeland Security Workers
A massive leak has exposed records tied to more than 41,000 DHS employees and contractors, including roughly 10,000 ICE personnel. The data, reportedly taken from DHS’s Okta login system, reveals phone numbers, email and office addresses, reporting relationships, and permission groups associated with undercover operations, wiretapping and surveillance tools. Wired repor … ⌘ Read more
In the stormy Swabian Alps the other day: https://lyse.isobeef.org/2026-10-24-berneck/
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@arne@uplegger.eu Der Fachmann erkennt sofort die guten Raketenstecken! :-) Hast Du das Zeitungspapier irgendwie verstärkt? Je nach Qualität dieses Druckerzeugnisses könnte ich mir durchaus vorstellen, dass das recht bald einreißt. Ich wünsche allezeit gutes Steigen und bin schon auf Deine Berichte dazu sehr gespannt.
Amazon Puts a Camera In Its Echo Studio So Alexa Can See
Amazon has added a camera to its Echo Studio speaker, allowing Alexa to visually identify objects, help with tasks and remotely monitor a room. For those concerned about privacy, Amazon is keeping a camera-free version available. The Next Web reports: The camera speaker ships today for $249.99. Hold up a board game box and Alexa can explain the rules, or show it a … ⌘ Read more