Mark Zuckerberg Says Meta Has Reached AI ‘Frontier’, Rejects Calls For Slowdown
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg says the company has reached the AI “frontier” with its new Muse Wonder model and will be offered as a closed, paid product for businesses. Zuckerberg also rejected calls for an industry-wide slowdown, arguing that AI can be managed with conventional guardrails as Meta continues spending heavily … ⌘ Read more

Intel Announces The GPU D Series For Crescent Island
Intel announced today the GPU D Series for the enterprise-focused, inference-optimized GPU accelerators known to now as Crescent Island… ⌘ Read more

Google’s Fitbit Edge Debuts a Replaceable Battery, Brings Back the Screen
Google has introduced the $179 Fitbit Edge, a new fitness tracker with a 1.34-inch OLED display, built-in GPS, ECG support, week-long battery life, and Fitbit’s first user-replaceable battery. “And unlike the Pixel Watch, it’s compatible with Android and iPhones via the Google Health app,” reports Wired. From the report: The Edge … ⌘ Read more

Russia Was Not Ready For the Data Center War It Started With Ukraine
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: When Russia began attacking Ukrainian data centers and telecommunication infrastructure, it apparently failed to prepare for possible retaliation. Now Russia’s digital services are facing widespread outages after Ukrainian drone strikes knocked out three of the largest data centers ow … ⌘ Read more

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org What is that “tower” in the top left of 05? 🤔 And wow, 20 and 21 are great!

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org lol 😅 Nein. :(

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com @david@daiwei.me @jecxjo@sh0.xyz Yes, it’s sad. But I don’t think they died. If they did, I expected the feeds to be completely gone, with the hoster shutting their accounts down when no more payments were received anymore. Well, at least for those with own domains or not on shared systems. We can only hope.

Chilly 15°C in the shade with a slight breeze, but it was very nice in direct sun. I jumped outside after calling it quits. There were five herons on that meadow, super sweet. One even caught something fairly large when I returned, but it was already too dark, so my camera just cooked up a blurry pixel soup.

The country road is closed for construction. There’s now a one-way detour on the field road. For the opposite direction, you need to take a giant detour. It looks like they installed a temporary traffic light just for that one dairy farm, so that the farmer can also go in the opposite direction, just like before. Surprisingly to me, the traffic wasn’t too heavy on that field road. Of course, I really don’t wanna walk there anymore for the time being, but I expected a hell lot more.

As always, the sunset looked much cooler in person.

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Hackers Heat French Supermarket Fridges, Sparking Fires and Spoiling Food
Hackers remotely manipulated connected refrigeration systems at hundreds of French supermarkets, reportedly pushing some fridges and freezers to 50C (122F), spoiling food and even sparking fires. According to Reuters, French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu ordered a cybersecurity investigation into the hacks, with similar incident … ⌘ Read more

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Ta! :-)

Ubuntu’s Myna Speech-To-Text Now Available In Tech Preview
A few months ago Canonical announced Myna as a speech-to-text solution for Ubuntu 26.10 as part of their effort for building a context-aware desktop. Myna as of today is available in “tech preview” form not only for Ubuntu 26.10 but also the LTS releases… ⌘ Read more

@david@collantes.us Oh the joy of getting old(er). 🥲 Close friends – gone. Acquaintances – gone. Former coworkers – gone. They all just disappear at some point …

AI Coding Agents Generate More Code, But Not More Software
A study of more than 700 software firms found that AI coding agents significantly increase the amount of code developers produce, but not the amount of software companies actually ship. Ars Technica reports: A recent study (PDF) of actual coding practices across hundreds of firms finds that human code review forms a significant “bottleneck” for the overall ef … ⌘ Read more

ROCm 10 OpenCL vs. Mesa 26.3-dev Rusticl Performance On AMD Strix Halo
With all the recent progress on Mesa’s Rusticl driver as a Rust-based OpenCL driver working across the different Mesa Gallium3D hardware drivers, a Phoronix Premium supporter inquired about seeing some fresh benchmarks of this open-source OpenCL solution. Here is a look at how the Mesa 26.3 Rusticl driver is looking against AMD’s official OpenCL driver within ROCm 10. ⌘ Read more

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Stellt fick raus. Hihihi. Gab es wenigstens einen schönen Unfall beim Rennen?

Amazon In Talks To Buy AI Startup Decart For Around $7 Billion
Amazon is reportedly in talks to acquire AI startup Decart in a deal that could value the company at up to $7 billion. Decart’s DOS software helps developers optimize AI models for different processors in weeks rather than months, a capability that could be particularly useful to AWS as it pushes its own Trainium chips. SiliconANGLE reports: The c … ⌘ Read more

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Working fine for me, I believe.

Q3 2026 Was Historically Bad For PC Shipments
PC shipments fell 20.1% year over year to 62.7 million units in the third quarter of 2026, the worst Q3 decline IDC has recorded. “The top three PC makers – Lenovo, Dell, and HP – also saw their shipments fall by over 20% year over year,” reports PCMag. From the report: “If looking at all quarters, then we have seen other quarters in recent years with larger declines, such as 2 … ⌘ Read more

Firefox 158 Now Available With JPEG-XL Support By Default
With Mozilla’s bi-weekly release cycle for Firefox, the Firefox 158 release binaries are now available. Making Firefox 158 particularly notable is finally having JPEG-XL support enabled by default… ⌘ Read more

I follow @aelaraji@aelaraji.com’s feed, but it never updates. 🤔 Manually fetching individual twts works, though. Do you do any aggressive filtering or something like that? 🤔

@oberon@portal.mozz.us Your twt is from 2029 … 🥴

Stellt sich raus, dass ich den Frakturfreitag vergessen hab’.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Awww, so many nice sun shots. 💚

Should We Beware of Other License Plate Surveillance Companies Besides Flock?
NPR reports:

Police officers in cities across the U.S. are quick to extol the virtues of real-time crime centers as a game changer that helps them find missing children, monitor large events from the skies and scope out dangerous scenes before putting an officer in harm’s way. Hundreds of police departments have one of th … ⌘ Read more

Linux 7.4 To Upstream Support For Three Snapdragon X2 Elite Laptops
For those looking to run Linux on new Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 hardware, there are laptops from ASUS, HP, and Lenovo that are powered by the X2 Elite and will be supported with the mainline Linux 7.4 kernel… ⌘ Read more

Linus Torvalds “Did What I Preach”, Used AI To Make Code Decipherable & Uncovered More Bugs
After using Claude Code to draft code to help make a fundamental improvement to the Linux kernel, Linux creator Linus Torvalds continued using AI this weekend and talking up its benefits. Beyond generating initial patches and a test program for that noted I/O enhancement, he separately talked up using AI/LLMs for making patches more decipherable to understand in the process the AI noted more long-standing bugs within the … ⌘ Read more

Intel Posts Updated Linux Driver Code For HDMI 2.1 FRL On Meteor Lake & Newer
Following AMD completing their HDMI 2.1 implementation for the open-source AMDGPU Linux driver after beginning with HDMI FRL patches earlier in the year, Intel’s open-source driver developers are following in their footsteps… ⌘ Read more

EXT4 Introducing IOmap Buffered I/O Path With Some Performance Gains
EXT4 with the upcoming Linux 7.4 kernel looks like it will introduce opt-in support for IOmap buffered I/O in replacing the file-system’s buffer_head usage with IOmap… ⌘ Read more

Guide: What Steam Deck, Steam Machine, Steam Frame and SteamOS verified ratings mean
Confused by all the different compatibility ratings across Steam Deck, Steam Machine, Steam Frame and SteamOS? Here’s a clear explainer for them in one place.

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Linux 7.3-rc7 Released With Linux 7.3 Hopefully Out Next Weekend
Linus Torvalds has made available what is hopefully the final release candidate before Linux 7.3 is ideally minted next Sunday… ⌘ Read more

Pimax to improve Linux VR support, announces Crystal Pro headset and their own Steam Machine
Pimax recently revealed a new high-end VR kit, along with their own version of a Steam Machine, and they plan better Linux support overall.

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SEEDS - Echoes Beneath the Sands is an upcoming survival game about terraforming and restoring life
Developer Against All Odds revealed SEEDS - Echoes Beneath the Sands, a very interesting sounding sandbox survival game about terraforming and creating life.

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ScummVM 2026.4 brings nearly 200 newly supported retro games
ScummVM 2026.4.0 has released, bringing with it support for nearly 200 more retro games across 12 different game engines.

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Cardsharp has you play Blackjack in a dark room where you might lose a finger
A demo for Cardsharp is available for you to try it early. Think Blackjack, except your five fingers are your health bar.

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Design and customize your own space platform in the auto-battler NebulArena
Another demo worth checking out if you like autobattlers, NebulArena has you build up a space platform and watch the chaos.

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runz is a top-down roguelite arena shooter where every bullet in your magazine matters
Available with a demo now, runz is a top-down twin-stick shooter in the spirit of Brotato and others similar, but with a twist where your build is your gun mag.

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How the US Nuclear Plant Fleet Is Leaning Into AI
“This year, nearly the entire fleet of 94 U.S. nuclear reactors has been offered the chance to integrate AI into its operations, and most have taken it,” reports IEEE Spectrum:

In August, California-based Atomic Canyon launched NIVA, the Nuclear Industry Virtual Assistant, which was developed in cooperation with nuclear-industry groups. The assistant was pilot-tested in … ⌘ Read more

Brews & Kings is an upcoming city-builder about brewing
A city builder about brewing. Grow grain and vines, scout the wilderness for pure water and rare ingredients, brew and ferment in your own cellars.

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So many Yarn™ folk went to get some milk then never came back. I hope they’re doing alright.

Let’s Encrypt to Cut SSL Certificate Lifetimes to 64 Days in February 2027
Let’s Encrypt “will shorten the default validity period of its TLS certificates from 90 days to 64 days, starting February 10, 2027,” reports the blog Linuxiac:

All certificates issued or renewed from that date will have a 64-day lifespan unless users explicitly select one of the shorter options already available: 45 or six days … ⌘ Read more

Game Console Market Craters: Xbox and PS5 Sales Plummet Over 25%
“Video game console sales in the U.S. have cratered,” reports Tom’s Hardware, with sales through August far below where they’d been in 2025:

Mat Piscatella, the video game industry advisor at research firm Circana, shared the numbers on his Bluesky account — PlayStation 5 sales have dropped by 25%, putting it at its lowest point since 2013, whe … ⌘ Read more

@kamme@twtxt.thanatos.be Hello! 👋

Today I got to take my doll and a couple other cats to see this nifty new flick at the Independent Picture House, a supermurgitroid, nonprofit theater in Charlotte.

It’s called “Psycho”, and let me tell you, it was Fat City - easily the ginchiest flick I’ve seen in a hot minute (and that’s the word from the bird).

If you haven’t seen it, I don’t want to be a wet nag, so I’ll keep the ending on the down low, but don’t wait, daddy-o - it’s radioactive!

OK, I can’t keep it up. :D

Yes, today I took the wife, son, and daughter-in-law to the theater to see a 66 year-old movie (and one which we’ve all seen before, many times). But the experience was great, and it’s one of my wife’s favorite movies (as well as a very important and influential one), so it was well worth it.

One might even say it was the bee’s knees. 😁

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Linus Torvalds Working On A Hefty Linux Kernel Improvement With Claude Code
Linux creator Linus Torvalds has been known to use AI to help with kernel debugging and outside of the kernel tree has also done some vibe coding with Google’s Antigravity. He has previously said he views AI as a useful tool. It turns out he’s even now using Claude Code for working on new Linux kernel features… ⌘ Read more

Research Firm Calls Anthropic’s Upcoming IPO ‘Unprecedented Test of Investor Gullibity’
CNBC reports:

As Anthropic barrels toward a potential $2 trillion market cap on the Nasdaq, one research firm is valuing the artificial intelligence company at a mere $150 billion and says Wall Street is about to face an “unprecedented test of investor gullibility.” In a report on Tuesday, independent financ … ⌘ Read more

Gas Cars Fall Below 50% of Global New Car Sales for the First Time
“Gas cars are now a minority of the world’s new car sales,” reports Electrek.

Gasoline-only vehicles made up 49% of global new-vehicle sales in the first half of 2026, down from 73% in 2021, according to Mobility Global data first reported by Nikkei. It’s the first time on record that they’ve been under half. But there’s a catch: most of the … ⌘ Read more

‘The Social Reckoning’ Bombs with $5.5 Million Opening
Why didn’t The Social Reckoning enjoy the box office success of 2010’s The Social Network, asks IndieWire/A>:

[T]here wasn’t the same urgency in the story being told. The Social Reckoning focuses less on Zuckerberg, and more on data engineer Frances Haugen’s decision to blow the whistle on how Facebook’s algorithms were promoting political content that radica … ⌘ Read more

On the way back I exited the car early to quickly walk up my backyard mountain and enjoy the sunset. I hoped for more, but it could have been much worse. It was a nice evening stroll, that’s for sure: https://lyse.isobeef.org/2026-10-11-abendhimmel/

Blade Runner, Star Trek, Godzilla, Star Wars + Marvel (and Legos): News From New York Comic-Con
There was some Blade Runner news at New York Comic-Con this weekend — and also some news about Godzilla. Ars Technica reports:

We got our first look at Prime Video’s new sci-fi series Blade Runner 2099 in July at San Diego Comic-Con. With the show’s premiere roughly six weeks away, … ⌘ Read more

OMT - in my experience, having just a single hardware token (for a password, passkey, 2FA, or whatever) is dangerous, as it’s too easy to lose it or get it wet, so I tend to keep two: one on my keychain, one at the house. I’m not sure how well this kind of device would work in tandem with another just like it, especially at $100 a pop (and coupled with my previously mentioned concerns about crowdfunding hardware).