Another good deal live in the Fanatical Resident Evil Bundle: Demonic Edition (FrightFest)
The Fanatical Build your own Resident Evil Bundle: Demonic Edition (FrightFest) is live and with it, your next chance to grab a good deal.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/11/another-good-deal-live-in-the-fanatical-re … ⌘ Read more
Bad Flock Info Leads Police To Tow Wrong Car, Then Towing Company Totals It
“Police continue to blindly trust Flock cameras above and beyond the evidence in front of their own eyes,” reports Jalopnik.com.
“After incorrectly connecting Rosalyn Crump’s car to a shooting that had occurred the previous day, police had her car towed and impounded as evidence, reports Moneywise…”
According to WWBT 12 On … ⌘ Read more
DWProton 11.0-16 brings fixes for NIKKE and Arknights: Endfield
The popular community-made DWProton for running various Anime games has a new release out with DWProton 11.0-16 now available to download.
Read the full article on GamingOnLinux. ⌘ Read more
Here’s the most played Steam Deck games from October 2026
October is finished and done with, so here’s the most up to date look at what has been popular on the Steam Deck for another month.
Read the full article on GamingOnLinux. ⌘ Read more
Steam Survey - October 2026 shows an uptick for the Linux user share
Valve just published the Steam Hardware & Software Survey for October 2026, showing an uptick in the Linux user share putting it back to nearly 4%.
Read the full article on GamingOnLinux. ⌘ Read more
Rocky Linux Creator Built a New ‘Not Linux’ Kernel in 11 Days Using AI
From the blog It’s FOSS
Gregory Kurtzer is no stranger to the Linux world. He created CentOS, and when Red Hat messed it up, he started Rocky Linux as the community replacement. He also co-founded CIQ, the company offering enterprise support around Rocky. His latest project has nothing to do with rebuilding another Linux distro, though … ⌘ Read more
Experts Expect ‘Security Reckoning’ As AI Tools Find And Exploit Software Bugs
The Washington Post reports:
Tens of thousands of South Koreans had their financial data exposed online in recent weeks after at least nine major banks there suffered cyberattacks that suggested a dark future for online security. One man, a 26-year-old living in southern China, was allegedly behind the attacks, according t … ⌘ Read more
In more frustrating news, I did something to my primary laptop, and now it crawls along like a 2005 Celeron trying to run Windows Vista.
My laptop is nothing too special (a Lenovo powered by an i7-1255U (4+8) @ 4.70 GHz with integrated “Iris Xe” graphics), but I’ve been running Manjaro Linux (with KDE Plasma) on it for the past couple of years, and apart from the odd pamac / pacman / “Add Remove Software” inconsistency (or Plasma widget issue), it’s been running pretty well.
Then, a few days ago, it started bugging about updates, and yesterday it added complaints about an unsupported kernel, so I finally pulled the trigger on it, and boy do I regret it.
I initially kept having issues downloading all of the updates (it was trying to download some kind of non-existent Quake-related library, which I had to remove), and I also had issues getting rid of the unsupported 7.1 kernel (due to some “meta” packages that had been installed), but in the end, I resolved both issues, got the kernel removed and the updates installed, and everything seemed fine after the post-update reboot… for about 10 minutes.
And that’s when the machine just decided to start moving at 1/3 speed: typing, moving the cursor, changing windows - everything started acting like it was 2008.
When I first tried to diagnose it, top showed kwin_wayland eating 50% of the CPU, and plasmashell another 10%, but it wasn’t consistent (they both came and went). I disabled all of the desktop effects, which helped some, as did blanking my plasma config (setting my desktop back to default), but things are still noticeably laggier than they were a few days ago.
Someone online suggested freeing up 25% space total on my root drive (which typically runs 90-95% full), so I’ve been cleaning up (and offloading) as much as I can. If that doesn’t work and I don’t find a solution by the end of the week, I’ll probably have to backup my data, wipe the machine clean, and start fresh. 🙃
And what a great pull-quote:
“Norway has opened what might be the most idyllic public convenience in the world.”
🤣🤣🤣
Binance Reopens to $3.64 in Net Outflows. ‘98% Choose to Stay’, Says Its Founder
Binance now says it’s replenished 90% of assets stolen last week in a $6.3 billion security breach, its customers still “rushed to move funds off the platform” when it reopened Sunday, CNBC reports, and Binance “said it recorded $3.64 billion in net outflows after reopening withdrawals on Sunday.”
The exchange processed … ⌘ Read more
Steam On Linux Just Under 4% For October 2026
Valve just published their Steam Survey results for October and point to a small uptick in Linux gaming use on a relative basis… ⌘ Read more
Stack Overflow: ‘Reports of Our Death are Greatly Exaggerated’
Stack Overflow’s senior VP of community says predictions of their demise “make for compelling headlines, but they confuse a change in how people access knowledge with the disappearance of the knowledge — and the company — behind it.
AI has changed developer behavior. In our recently released 2026 Developer Survey, 64% of respondents said they vis … ⌘ Read more
#Magic update - for the 2nd time in a row, I went 2 for 2 (this time, in a pair of 3-player games).
For game 1, I ran a re-tweaked “Jace and the Echoverse” deck (a modified version of the recent Reality Fracture precon), dominating most of the game before pulling a 1-2 punch of making my creatures indestructible and then blowing up the board (so the other 2 players both quit, including an Ur-Sphinx deck). Then, for game 2, I ran my nearly-perfected Dune deck, which pulled out to a surprising early lead before finally winning with an unblockable commander (killing 1 opponent outright and making the other quit again).
I gotta say, I’m really digging both of these decks: not only do they win more often than not, but they’re both thematic as hell and fun to play. I plan to add them to my decklists page soon.
Toyota’s EV Sales More Than Doubled In a Year, While Its Gas Car Sales Drop 20% In China
Toyota’s EV sales have jumped 127% through September, reports Electrek:
Including Lexus, Toyota sold 309,766 battery electric vehicles (BEVs) globally through the first nine months of 2026, up 127.4% from the same period last year. Except for January (+87.5%), Toyota’s EV sales have more than doubled … ⌘ Read more
SystemD’s Creator Opens Signups for Private Preview of Amutable’s Cryptographically Verified Linux Systems
SystemD creator Lennart Poettering left Red Hat for Microsoft in 2022, but 10 months ago left to co-found Amutable a company that aims to build cryptographically verified Linux systems that stay trusted over time.
It’s FOSS calls it “a read-only, image-based system … ⌘ Read more
Linux 7.4-rc1 Released With Nice Performance Improvements, AMD Ryzen Zen 6 Preparations & AMDGPU HDMI 2.1 Default
Even with Linus Torvalds having been on holiday, Linux 7.4-rc1 is out today on-schedule for capping off the Linux 7.4 merge window… ⌘ Read more
We went on a hike in super beautiful autumn sun. We had a northeastern wind blowing strong, so the 10°C felt a hell lot colder. My fingers were frozen and I had to stop taking photos every now and then to let them warm up in my jacket pockets again. My mate was smarter and wore a beanie and gloves.
Religious Exemption from Using AI in Workplace Granted to Humanist
“David Durman, a nontheistic humanist, recently secured a religious exemption from using AI in the workplace,” reports TechCrunch.
Durman, a University of Kentucky administrator, told TechCrunch that humanism centers on “human well-being and flourishing, both individually and collectively … and implores a person to try to improve both their wel … ⌘ Read more
@arne@uplegger.eu Geile Idee, der sieht echt klasse aus. :-) Mir gefällt auch besonders gut, dass Du den Gelben-Sack-Schriftzug schön mittig oben platziert hast. Macht richtig was her. <3
Wir haben heute auf unserer kleinen Wanderung auch einige Leute ihre Drachen steigen lassen sehen und da musste ich sofort an Dich denken. Freut mich riesig, dass das bei Dir trotz Windmangel ein geglücktes Unterfangen war. :-) Leider hatten wir dafür sehr kräftigen, bitterkalten Nordostwind und mussten dann weiter, es war einfach zu eisig im Schatten. Ich hätte gern noch weiter zugeschaut.
AI Makes Linux 7.4 Merge Window the Largest in Kernel History
“On a Git commit basis, the Linux 7.4 merge window has been the busiest on record,” writes Phoronix,” with 19,671 commits since Linux 7.3:
As of this morning in Linux Git ahead of v7.4-rc1, the kernel source tree is up to 41,605,120 lines. That’s from 5,193,578 blank lines, 4,993,604 lines of comments, and 31,417,938 lines of detected code. Or nearly … ⌘ Read more
Which Tech Companies Started Using Trump’s Phrase ‘Super Intelligence’?
CNBC reports:
A month after President Donald Trump ordered that “super intelligence” replace the term artificial intelligence within executive branch departments and agencies, his leading tech allies, Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg, followed suit on earnings calls. Their fellow tech CEOs were less eager to do the same… SpaceX and Tesl … ⌘ Read more
College Students are Pushing Colleges to ‘De-Flock’
Inside Higher Ed reports:
In September, Emory University removed a dozen license plate-reading cameras from its campus in Atlanta and declined to renew its contract with Flock Safety, the company that sells and operates the automatic license plate readers and other mass-surveillance technology. For the coalition of Emory students and employees who had spent months pushing t … ⌘ Read more
@movq@www.uninformativ.de That’s amazing! :-)
Amid AI Bans, Microsoft and OpenAI Plan a ‘Joyful’ Hour of AI for Kids
Generative AI was recently banned in America’s two largest school districts, just weeks after OpenAI launched ChatGPT for Teens.
But forging ahead, tech-backed nonprofit Code.org — now renamed CodeAI — has named OpenAI the “Lead Partner” for its 2026 Hour of AI (which last year replaced its signature event, “the Hour of Code”). Long-tim … ⌘ Read more
In case you missed it:
@prologic@twtxt.net Yeah, restic it is. 👍 Looks like the best option.
Kwi Being Developed As New KDE Terminal Emulator With 3x To 35x Performance
A new KDE terminal emulator is in development as a modern alternative to Konsole. Kwi is this new terminal app being built atop the Ghostty library… ⌘ Read more
The Linux 7.4 Merge Window Is Easily The Largest In Kernel History
After writing this morning with some stats about the size of the Linux 7.4 merge window and the kernel’s source tree approaching 42 million lines, I was curious to run some numbers for putting the size of the merge window into perspective against the major kernel releases of the past 15 years. This shows the definite recent uptick due to AI/LLM activity… ⌘ Read more
OverlayFS Sees Many Fixes Thanks To AI Code Review
Merged this weekend for Linux 7.4 and also marked for back-porting to current stable kernel versions are a number of fixes to the OverlayFS union mount file-system… ⌘ Read more
Meta Discussed ‘Whisper Strategy’ to Discredit Social Media Critic Jonathan Haidt, Files Show
The Guardian reports:
Meta staff discussed deploying a “whisper strategy” to undermine the influential US academic whose work has inspired a global social media crackdown, according to court documents. Employees at the parent group of Facebook and Instagram sought to discredit Jonathan Haidt, … ⌘ Read more
@david@daiwei.me Oh dear. That’s … a lot. 😃
@aelaraji@aelaraji.com “Nut-flex”, lol 😅
Maybe I should give “Homeland” a try. I’ve already finished the latest “Diplomat” season. 😖 It’s not super long.
AI Use In The Linux Kernel, Microsoft Defender On Linux & Other October Highlights
October brought the releases of Linux 7.3, Ubuntu 26.10, the KDE Plasma 6.8 desktop, and a wealth of other open-source software releases. The expanding use of AI/LLMs within Linux kernel development also made for interesting discussions in October. Microsoft bringing their Defender software to the Linux desktop was perhaps the biggest surprise out of October. Here is a look back at the past month… ⌘ Read more
Linux’s Perf Python Scripts More Robust & Faster With Linux 7.4
Merged this weekend to Linux 7.4 Git were all of the perf subsystem tooling updates. Most notable to these tooling updates for dealing with performance counters and more on Linux is an overhaul to the Python code… ⌘ Read more
Linux 7.4 Merge Window Saw Nearly 20k Commits, Source Tree Approaching 42 Million Lines
Linux 7.3 started out just under 41 million lines in total in the kernel source tree. In the end the Linux v7.3 tag came in at 41,019,555 lines as measured by cloc while now with Linux 7.4 we are inching ever closer to 42 million lines. On a Git commit basis, the Linux 7.4 merge window has been the busiest on record… ⌘ Read more
America’s Clocks Are Still Falling Back Tonight Despite Trump’s Daylight Saving Push
Clocks “fall back” one hour tonight to end Daylight Saving Time — though many Americans want to end the twice-yearly clock change, reports Axios.
But the U.S. Congress “remains deadlocked about how to make that happen.”
The clocks are falling back despite a bipartisan House vote in July to make daylight savi … ⌘ Read more
@prologic@twtxt.net The second method is the only one I remember, because that’s the one I’m used to. :-D No matter how you tie it, the result is always the same. So, I agree, both are equally effective in my opinion.
Xbox Manager: AI Already Being Used In Xbox Game Development - And Throughout the Game Industry
Should generative AI be used for videogame development? Brandon Stirrup, a strategy manager at Xbox, claims Xbox is already using AI, reports Engadget. And he also says that those who say they aren’t are merely “pretending.”
Stirrup deactivated his social media account shortly after … ⌘ Read more
Binance Replenishes 90% of Stolen $6.3B, Pledges They’ll Cover It All, Reopen Sunday
“We’ve now replenished 90% of the stolen assets, and we’re committed to covering the remaining 10%,” Binance co-CEO Richard Teng posted on X, adding that “Our users will not bear the financial impact of this incident.”
“Binance said it was able to replace the funds taken in the record hack by using company money … ⌘ Read more
Brief Server Downtime Expected Tonight
Just a friendly heads up that Phoronix.com and associated sites will be down briefly at around midnight PST / 3AM EST on 1 November for a failed drive in the NVMe SSD RAID array… ⌘ Read more
OpenShot 4.1 Released With Auto-Optimize, CLI Automation & ARM64 Linux Builds
OpenShot is closing out the month of October by releasing OpenShot 4.1 as the latest major feature release for this useful open-source video editing solution… ⌘ Read more
Computer Simulations Suggest Building Blocks of Life Didn’t Arrive on Prehistoric Comets
CNN reports:
The popular theory that comets were crucial in kick-starting life on Earth billions of years ago may not hold up, according to new computer simulations that counter decades of scientific thinking. The finding suggests the fragile organic molecules supposedly carried by the icy object … ⌘ Read more
Recycling ANSI Art: Tracing the Origins of BBS Logon Screens
BBS-era “door” games are preserved by the site Break Into Chat, along with their history. Now the site’s actually traced the origins of several ANSI art screens in the 1980s and “how different people later transformed the original images,” starting from one of the most popular bulletin board systems in St. Louis, Missouri.
Slashdot reader Kirkman14 writ … ⌘ Read more
I think they are effectively the same right?
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Which do you find easier to remember? 🤔
French Lawmakers Back Per-Gigabyte Internet Traffic Tax
Companies like Google, Netflix, TikTok, and Meta may soon owe the French government, reports Tom’s Hardware:
France has approved a proposed tax that aims to tax the amount of internet data per gigabyte sent to French users in the country… According to minutes released by the National Assembly, members voted 11-10 in support of the motion on October 30 — which n … ⌘ Read more
NASA Seeks Proposals for Reboosting the Hubble Space Telescope
The Hubble Space Telescope “will plunge back into the atmosphere in the early-to-mid-2030s,” reports Ars Technica.
So now NASA has released a Request For Information (RFI) “asking commercial companies for ideas on how to reboost, service, or a controlled disposal of Hubble.”
Specifically, NASA is looking for information about companies’ current … ⌘ Read more
Dozens of Unexplained Drones Have Buzzed America’s Nuclear Plants Since 2024
Slashdot reader ElectricVs shares this report from American Buildout, a new site covering “the intersection of data centers, energy and power, finance, and Main Street.”
Dozens of unexplained drones flew over and near U.S. nuclear facilities between February 2024 and March 2026, according to records the Nuclear Regulatory … ⌘ Read more
Flock Reinstalled Its Cameras After Another City Canceled Its Contract
Earlier The Drive reported a police chief “had to direct his staff to disconnect the power cords from Flock cameras in Plymouth, Minnesota after Flock Safety ignored and failed to respond to the department’s notice the city was canceling its service.
“But in other instances Flock’s gone and reinstalled cameras without permission,” The … ⌘ Read more
Google’s AI Overviews Lowered Reddit’s Traffic. Its Stock Dropped 29%
Reddit’s stock plunged 29.22% on Friday, reports CNBC, its worst drop since becoming a public company in 2024.
Thursday Reddit reported a sales growth that was weaker than previous quarters, and also forecast weak sales for the quarter to come (below analysts expectations):
The report comes as the company has seen a shift in its search re … ⌘ Read more