Automake 1.20 Brings New Features, Desires To Re-Establish GNU As Leading Build System
Out today is GNU Automake 1.20 with the new –enable-jobserver option and opting for GPLv3+ licensing… ⌘ Read more
HyprBSD Provides Wayland-Based Desktop Built Atop FreeBSD, Complete With Steam Gaming
While FreeBSD has been working to improve its desktop and laptop experience, that work isn’t yet shipping in released form for the OS installer and other ongoing efforts. Now there’s a new desktop FreeBSD distribution on the scene with HyprBSD providing a Wayland-based desktop experience and with the Linux binary compatibility layer even an easy route to gaming with Steam… ⌘ Read more
Kmorph Aims To Provide Rebootless Linux Kernel Crash Recovery
Kmorph aims to provide reboot-less kernel crash recovery for Linux systems and can yield as little as ~2 second downtime for recovering the Nginx web server or other important services in the case of a kernel crash… ⌘ Read more
Give your brain a challenge with the Non Non Nonograms Humble Bundle
Stop your brain from getting bored with the new Non Non Nonograms Humble Bundle which is overall a pretty great deal.
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SteamOS 0.5.8 Beta for Steam Frame and SteamVR Beta 2.19.2 released
Valve just released SteamOS 0.5.8 Beta for Steam Frame and SteamVR Beta 2.19.2 for all users, bringing numerous improvements to smoothen some rough edges.
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KDE Plasma 6.9 Will Stop Leaking Memory When Right Clicking Files/Folders On Desktop
With Plasma 6.8 stable approaching one month old, KDE developers continue ramping up work toward Plasma 6.9. Here is some of the interesting work they’ve been up to so far in November… ⌘ Read more
Cryosphere Faces Permanent Damage When World Overshoots 1.5C, Scientists Warn
A UN-backed report warns that even temporarily overshooting the Paris agreement’s 1.5C warming target could cause permanent and widespread losses of glaciers, snow and polar ice sheets. With Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets already melting about six times faster than in the 1990s, the report argues that global temperatur … ⌘ Read more
Vulkan 1.4.368 Released With New Extensions From Valve & NVIDIA
Vulkan 1.4.368 is out as the newest weekly spec update for this high performance graphics and compute API… ⌘ Read more
Microsoft’s Azure Linux 3.0.2022 Ships With More Than 470 Security Fixes
Microsoft released Azure Linux 3.0.2022 on Friday night as the newest version of their in-house Linux distribution. Given the rampant AI/LLM-fueled bug reporting and security research, Azure Linux 3.0.2022 ends up incorporating more than 470 security fixes for different CVEs across the many open-source projects making up Azure Linux… ⌘ Read more
Asahi Linux Makes Progress On Gaming, More Apple Silicon Upstreaming
Given the recent Linux 7.3 upstream kernel release, the Asahi Linux project published a new status report to outline recent code they have upstreamed to the mainline kernel as well as other efforts taking shape in their downstream codebase… ⌘ Read more
Vibrating Mattress Helps Clear Alzheimer’s Protein From the Brain
A vibrating mattress combined with two pills that release nitric oxide enhanced the brain’s ability to clear an Alzheimer’s-related protein. According to New Scientist, the experiment “caused the brain’s blood vessels to swell and constrict more strongly, which enhanced the glymphatic system’s clearance of [the protein].” From the report: \ … ⌘ Read more
How come no one ever talks about Mambos 1-4? Is there some big secret about them? Did they contain some forbidden dance steps or something?
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@zyak@twtxt.z85b.xyz It’s good to have a hobby… 😁
I kid, but I also know what you mean. For me, it’s not so much a hobby as a necessary evil.
Mexico’s Senate Approves ISP Rules To Disconnect Persistent Online Pirates
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: On Tuesday, Mexico’s Senate approved (PDF) a reform of the Federal Copyright Law that ties ISP liability to having a policy to terminate repeat infringers. [This policy has to be published permanently on their website and in their terms of service, and it must include a basi … ⌘ Read more
FreeBSD 15.2 Beta 1 Allows Experimental Cross-Building Of Base Packages On Linux/macOS
FreeBSD 15.2 Beta 1 is out today as the release dance kicks off in working toward the next installment of FreeBSD 15… ⌘ Read more
EU Says TikTok’s ‘Rabbit Hole’ Effect Must Stop
The European Commission has preliminarily found that TikTok violates the Digital Services Act because its For You recommendation algorithm can create a “rabbit hole effect,” repeatedly exposing users to potentially harmful content involving topics such as sadness, isolation and body image. TikTok must change the feed’s design or potentially face fines of up to 6% of its global annua … ⌘ Read more
Chainalysis Says Breach Exposed Credentials For All Customers
Chainalysis says attackers exposed usernames, password hashes and live tokens for all of its customers. “While the company locked Chainalysis accounts as a precaution after discovering that some customers’ passwords had been exposed and asked users to reset their passwords before signing in again, it has now taken the login portal offline, together with … ⌘ Read more
Activists Breach Microsoft Data Center Construction Site As Protests Spread In Europe
More than 100 activists breached a Microsoft AI data center construction site in Amsterdam as part of coordinated protests against the rapid expansion of AI infrastructure. “These data centres are destroying our world. It’s becoming uninhabitable because of all the resources they consume. That’s why we’re … ⌘ Read more
ReactOS Lands Initial USB3 Driver Support
After years of work, ReactOS as the “open-source Windows” operating system striving for Windows program and driver compatibility now has an initial USB 3.0 driver stack in place… ⌘ Read more
Developer Pulls Roku’s Popular Fish Tank Screensaver Following Fox Sale
Roku is removing its popular Aquatic Life fish tank screensaver on December 1 and automatically switching affected users to Roku City. According to Cord Cutters News, the creator pulled the license after Roku’s sale to FOX was announced. Ars Technica reports: The screensaver has been an option for Roku OS users for 10 years. Roku has … ⌘ Read more
OpenAI’s New Cyber Model Found Ways to Attack Nearly 1,000 Linux Flaws
OpenAI says its new GPT-6 Cyber model helped an automated system identify 1,724 security flaws in the Linux kernel and exploit 948 of them to gain administrator-level access during testing, including at least 10 previously unknown techniques. Axios reports: During testing, the system identified 1,724 security flaws and found ways to use 9 … ⌘ Read more
A RISC-V Based TEE With AMD Zen 6 CPUs
An interesting technical detail I noticed today from the latest AMD Linux activity is that Zen 6 processors apparently are featuring a RISC-V based Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) where in the past it was an ARM-based core… ⌘ Read more
Epic Games comments on planned Linux distribution support
With the new Epic Games Launcher Preview out with Linux support, you might be wondering what distros exactly they plan to support - we have an answer for you.
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Summoned By Congress Over Chinese Espionage Concerns
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Top Republican lawmakers have asked Jensen Huang to appear before Congress to answer questions after it was reported that US intelligence officials believe Nvidia’s chief executive has been targeted by a Chinese spying operation. The chairs of the House committees on Ch … ⌘ Read more
Made one with even more dithered fur, a couple days ago.
Tesla to Wind Down Cybertruck Production
Elon Musk says Tesla will be “winding down” Cybertruck production at its Texas Gigafactory around mid-2027 to free up capacity for increased production of its Cybercab robotaxi. CNBC reports: The Cybertruck is exclusively produced at the company’s plant in Texas alongside the Tesla Model Y and two-seat Cybercab, which Musk has touted as a crucial product for the automaker moving forward. Musk … ⌘ Read more
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@zyak@twtxt.z85b.xyz Wow, you’re quite active!
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@zyak@twtxt.z85b.xyz @klaxzy@klaxzy.net Nice writeup, indeed.
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@arne@uplegger.eu Achso, stimmt! Ich vergaß, mein Fehler. Dass der Lyse auch immer solche unrealistischen Ansprüche erhebt. ;-)
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@arne@uplegger.eu Brilliant, I love it! :-D
Britain to Make Salary Disclosure In Job Ads Mandatory
Britain plans to require employers to disclose salaries in job advertisements. “Whether you’re a young person starting out or a parent trying to support your family, you should know what a job pays before spending your time and effort applying for it,” Prime Minister Andy Burnham said in a statement. Reuters reports: The government said requiring companies to disclo … ⌘ Read more
Linux 7.4-rc2 Change Yields As Much As 162x Improvement For FAT32
In addition to a FAT32 optimization yielding as much as a 265x improvement that was merged for the Linux 7.4 cycle and separately another big FAT32 improvement expected for Linux 7.5, merged this week as part of the non-MM fixes for Linux 7.4-rc2 was another big FAT32 performance optimization… ⌘ Read more
Sony Revives the Original Walkman Headphones, Adds USB-C
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Sony has brought back the MDR-3-series headphones that debuted in 1979 alongside the Walkman TPS-L2 cassette player. […] The new MDR-3R (originally called the “MDR-3L2”) headphones look just like the originals and come with orange and blue ear cushions. New headphones are often wireless these day … ⌘ Read more
Arch Linux vs. CachyOS vs. Omarchy 4.5 Performance Benchmarks
With CachyOS recently having rolled out its Linux 7.3 based kernel and various other improvements plus with Omarchy 4.5 having been released this week, this article provides a look at how CachyOS and Omarchy are competing on the performance front relative to upstream Arch Linux. ⌘ Read more
Linux x86 32-bit Patches Clean Old Kernel Code After Recently Removing Vintage CPUs
With the Linux kernek having phased out i486 CPU support and dropping old AMD Elan SoC code along with removing other obsolete and stagnate 32-bit x86 hardware support, some x86 32-bit clean-ups are proceeding along with being able to make the kernel depend unconditionally now on some features… ⌘ Read more
FEX Awaits The Linux Kernel To Align With Windows & macOS On ARM Register Usage
FEX 2611 is out for running Linux (and Wine) x86/x86_64 games/applications on AArch64 Linux. FEX 2611 brings JIT improvements while also waiting for the Linux kernel to align with the AArch64 specification and Windows on ARM and macOS Apple Silicon behavior around a particular register’s usage… ⌘ Read more
Roguefort is an open-world roguelike RPG where magic comes from cheesemaking
Want some cheese? You’re going to need plenty in Roguefort, a new open-world traditional roguelike RPG that has some peculiar ideas.
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EXD - Extra Dimensional adds Steam Frame support with a big update
Action-adventure VR game EXD - Extra Dimensional recently had a huge upgrade, and with it support for the Steam Frame was added.
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Star Trek: Infection gets official Steam Frame standalone support
Star Trek: Infection gets official Steam Frame standalone support, with the developer bringing over their Meta Quest 3 build with enhancements.
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Linux Developers Look To Drop RT_GROUP_SCHED As It’s “Broken Beyond Repair”
Linux kernel developers are looking at dropping the RT_GROUP_SCHED feature that is used for group scheduling of real-time tasks using cgroups… ⌘ Read more
Blue Origin Announces New Glenn Third Stage, New Booster Engine
Blue Origin has unveiled a third stage called GS3 for its New Glenn rocket, designed to deliver satellite constellations directly to geostationary orbit and support heavy-lift missions to the Moon and deep space. The company also announced Northstar, a new methalox booster engine that it says produces 715,000 pounds of thrust while cutting mass b … ⌘ Read more
Sound Subsystem Seeing Lots Of Fixes & Laptop/Device Quirks For Linux 7.4-rc2
The sound subsystem is seeing a “unsurprisingly high amount” fixes and device workarounds/quirks for this weekend’s Linux 7.4-rc2 kernel release… ⌘ Read more
OpenCV 5.1 Brings More AVX-512 Optimizations, Other Improvements
OpenCV 5.0 debuted back in June with a rewritten DNN engine and many other exciting improvements for this widely-used computer vision (CV) library. Out today is OpenCV 5.1 with tons of fixes and other incremental improvements to this important code… ⌘ Read more
Fate of the Galaxy is a big new free Star Wars space combat sim based on FreeSpace Open
Fate of the Galaxy is a free total conversion for FreeSpace Open developed by a team of fan volunteers, and it looks really impressive.
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Alchi, a deck-builder built around a unique card-mixing system adds Linux and macOS versions
With some fun looking scribbly artwork, Alchi is a deck-builder for those of you that want something a bit different with the mixing system.
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Knives Out-inspired mystery thriller from the Duck Detective devs, ‘Apple Crumble’ arrives December 2
Ready for a new mystery thriller adventure? Duck Detective devs next game is a Knives Out-inspired mystery thriller, ‘Apple Crumble’ set to arrive December 2nd.
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A slot machine is your weapon in the new release of Slots & Skulls
A slot machine as a weapon? Well, they can be pretty dangerous to your wallet but in Slots & Skulls you spin to fight.
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itch.io founder announces the ‘return of Flash games’ thanks to open source
After dealing with all the AI slop, the founder of itch.io has announced that Flash games are set to make a fun return thanks to open source.
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EA bring back many classic games to Steam including Road Rash, Wing Commander, Ultima and more
Along with the GOG Showcase that mentioned some revamped classics - EA also restored many classic games and put them on Steam for the first time.
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