Minecraft Java Edition 26.3 ‘Wilderness Bound’ update released
The latest content drop is out now with Minecraft Java Edition 26.3 ‘Wilderness Bound’ update released.
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Harbour Masters release ‘PaperBoat’ their Paper Mario 64 PC port
Another Nintendo game has a new unofficial PC port with PaperBoat from Harbour Masters for Paper Mario 64.
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Xbox classic Lost Odyssey has a experimental PC build - now with a Linux version
Recently we had the Blue Dragon unofficial open source native PC release, and we also have one for another Xbox classic with Lost Odyssey.
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OpenAI Admits Six More Instances of AI Models Acting Deceptively
OpenAI announced Wednesday that “We do not believe that the AI industry has solved alignment and monitoring to a sufficient degree to continue responsibly scaling at maximum speed for much longer.”
But along with the announcement, OpenAI announced it “found additional incidents of AI models acting deceptively and taking unsanctioned actions during tr … ⌘ Read more
GNOME 51 released with performance improvements, various app upgrades
GNOME 51 has officially arrived, and with it - plenty of fancy new features for the popular Linux desktop environment.
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Trump suggests EU allowing Canada as associate member could be a ‘hostile act’ | Hacker News👈 Trump is a fucking idiot! 🤯 My god! 🤦♂️
Tonight, my son and I attended a screening of the original Highlander (1986) at my local indie cinema, the Independent Picture House in North Charlotte (about 35 minutes away by car). Very cool place with a great atmosphere, and I thoroughly enjoyed seeing one of my favorite films in an actual cinema, even if it was 40 years after its release.
We already have tickets for Psycho (1960) and Chopping Mall (1986), both playing next month. 😎
👋 Calling all decentralised enthusiasts that still remembers and use IRC 😎
Please come join us in a new, truely, decentralised IRC-based chat experience by standing up your own Parley instance on your own domain (bring your own OIDC auth or use the built-in).
Pick your favourite IRCv3-compatible client (there’s heaps out there!).
And peer with either me james@mills.io or Admin -> Peers -> Add mills.io or @david@daiwei.me via david@ratha.us or simply ratha.us (in Admin -> Peers -> Add).
See you online! 🤞 #decentralised #irc #chat
Adafruit’s New CircuitPython ‘Turbo’ Brings Native Code To Tiny Boards
Targeting students and beginners, Adafruit released “CircuitPython” in 2017 (as a derivative of the MicroPython microcontroller-optimized programming language).
Now Adafruit managing director Phillip Torrone (also long-time Slashdot reader ptorrone) brings this update:
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Mir/Wayland-Powered Miracle-WM 0.11 Released With New Overview Mode, Window Urgency
Canonical engineer Matthew Kosarek rolled out Miracle-WM 0.11 today as an end-of-summer update to this Wayland compositor built atop the Mir library… ⌘ Read more
As Part of California’s Coast Begins to Crumble, Is the Clock Ticking on Moving Radioactive Waste?
“As parts of the Southern California coastline crumbled into the sea, slammed by intense waves and flooding in recent days, oceanographer Kim McCoy had one thing on his mind,” reports the Los Angeles Times.
He was thinking about “the nuclear waste set in concrete on the beach n … ⌘ Read more
Mesa 26.2.3 Released With AMD GFX1171 Support, Other Fixes
Mesa 26.2.3 is out today as the newest stable point release in this quarter’s Mesa 26.2 series… ⌘ Read more
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@movq@www.uninformativ.de Then let’s continue. Who has webbed feet and fangs?
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Ubuntu 26.10 amd64v3 Can Provide A Nice Boost For Low-End/Budget Hardware
Canonical recently began producing Ubuntu 26.10 amd64v3 daily ISOs to complement their experimental amd64v3 package archive that they have been trialing the past few release cycles. While we still don’t know what any official plans are for amd64v3 with Ubuntu 26.10, the performance gains can be very worthwhile over the generic amd64 binaries even for low-end/budget hardware. ⌘ Read more
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@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Yes! That’s the good stuff. That’s why I’m here. Mmmmmhhhhhhhhh! 😃
Anthropic Commits to Independent AI Evaluators, Wants Slower Development. Nvidia’s CEO Wants It ‘As Fast as You Can’
“Anthropic’s CEO took the stage at a conference in San Francisco on Tuesday to reiterate his call for a slowdown of AI development,” reports the Guardian, “ while Nvidia’s CEO argued against slowing its development. “Run as fast as you can.”
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Took advantage of the warm^Whot day yesterday. Should have worn shorts, though. The long trousers were very uncomfortable in this awfully humid heat. But the sunset was very nice.
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@itsericwoodward@itsericwoodward.com Wow, this is the very first time I ever come across YouTube Music. :-O
GNOME 51 Released With Improved Frame Scheduling, Many App Improvements
Right on schedule and in time for appearing in the likes of Ubuntu 26.10 and Fedora Workstation 45, the GNOME 51 desktop is officially released… ⌘ Read more
Big Break Showcase from Coffee Stain Publishing highlights more games on September 29
Even more indie games are going to be shown off soon in the Big Break Showcase from Coffee Stain Publishing.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/big-break-showcase-from-coffee-stain-publishing-highlights-more-games-on-septem … ⌘ Read more
Crash-Safe & Copy-On-Write GEFS As The “Good Enough File-System” For OpenBSD
Ori Bernstein announced an early preview of his Good Enough File-System “GEFS” for OpenBSD. GEFS is a crash-safe, snapshotting, copy-on-write file-system that he wrote initially for 9front and now porting to OpenBSD… ⌘ Read more
Linux Randomly Picking Idle CPU Cores Shows Modest Win On High Core Count Systems
Arm engineer Christian Loehle sent out a patch series today proposing that the Linux scheduler code randomize its picking of equally shallow idle CPU cores. This randomization is showing to deliver a win at least for high CPU core counts for better distributing workloads… ⌘ Read more
Firefox Touts Lower CPU Use for Large JPEGs, Faster PDF Viewer Startup (and AI Controls)
Firefox 156 is the second release since Mozilla moved to a twice-monthly release schedule, and the blog OMG Ubuntu notes it has faster start-up times for its built-in PDF viewer and also lower CPU usage when viewing large JPEG images:
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AMD Sends Out Linux Patches For Enabling SEV-TIO TDISP With PCIe 6.0+
The newest Linux kernel patches out of AMD for enhancing the upstream support with the new AMD EPYC 9006 “Venice” processors is for enabling SEV-TIO TDISP that is supported with PCI Express 6.0 and beyond… ⌘ Read more
Ubuntu 26.10 Moves cp, mv & rm Over To Rust Coreutils For 100% Transition
While Ubuntu Linux has been making use of the Rust Coreutils project over the past year since Ubuntu 25.10 as an alternative to GNU Coreutils and part of their effort to get more system components implemented in the memory-safety-focused Rust programming language, Ubuntu 26.10 finally completes the transition with the cp, mv, and rm commands now coming from Rust Coreutils… ⌘ Read more
Linux’s Yogafan Driver Prepares Support For Newer Lenovo Laptops
Introduced back in Linux 7.1 was the Yogafan HWMON driver for supporting fan speed monitoring across various Lenovo Yoga, Legion, Flex, Slim, and IdeaPad laptops. An initial set of Lenovo laptops was initially supported by this driver while succeeding kernel versions have continued building out the support… ⌘ Read more
AMD’s GAIA Local AI Now Able To Transcribe & Summarize Meeting Recordings
AMD’s GAIA software for building AI agents on your PC and leveraging generative AI locally with the power of AMD Ryzen and Radeon hardware continues becoming more featureful. Out today is AMD GAIA 0.24/0.24.1 and with it comes the ability to transcribe and summarize meeting recordings locally along with other functionality… ⌘ Read more
OpenVDB Introduces SIMD Framework With Some 2~4x Performance Improvements
OpenVDB is the sparse volume data structure and tooling library maintained by the Academy Software Foundation. OpenVDB in turn is used by various CGI software for dealing with sparse volumetric data such as Houdini, RenderMan, and Cinema 4D to the open-source Blender. It’s even won an Academy Award for technical achievement while now in 2026 it’s finally establishing a SIMD framework for better leveraging modern x86 ISA capabilities… ⌘ Read more
America’s Cryptocurrency ‘Clarity Act’ Fails Spectacularly, Despite Hundreds of Millions in Industry Lobbying
“The crypto industry’s top legislative priority failed on Tuesday in spectacular fashion,” reports Barron’s.
A procedural motion to advance the bill failed by a vote of 49 to 50, with a handful of Republicans joining all Democrats to shoot it down. The motion n … ⌘ Read more
SUPERHOT VR gets various upgrades ready for the Steam Frame
SUPERHOT VR has been upgraded with a number of improvements to make the first-person shooter better on Valve’s Steam Frame kit.
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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.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/get-plenty-of-action-in-the-sniper-elite-classics-collection-humble-bu … ⌘ Read more
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.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/optiscaler-client-1-0-7-bring … ⌘ Read more
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).
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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
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@thecanine@twtxt.net Haha, my brain first tricked me into thinking this dog is scratching behind its ear with its paw.
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@movq@www.uninformativ.de Since you liked this silly joke, what’s a duck’s favorite TV program to watch?
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@lyse Ahh, ohh! Thanks! :D
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@movq@www.uninformativ.de We just need to set up a very good telescope some roughly 50 million light years away from earth. %-S
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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