Study Claims Vizio Simply Ignores ‘Smart’ TV Spying Opt Out Requests
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Techdirt: Recently, reports emerged that LG TVs are sniffing around your local network, and even listening to your local environment, even when the TV is purportedly “off.” Some of those voice commands were then stored in plain text and uploaded to the internet. LG’s response? To deny everyt … ⌘ Read more
Apple HomeView Ultra, Drone and Laundry-Folding Robot Reportedly In Development
According to The Information, Apple is developing a $1,000 HomeView Ultra smart home hub with a 9-inch touchscreen mounted on a motorized arm that can follow users around a room and autonomously respond to its surroundings. It’s also said to be experimenting with more ambitious home robots, including a wheeled rob … ⌘ Read more
SpaceX Is Reportedly Looking At Buying Boost Mobile
SpaceX has reportedly held talks with EchoStar about acquiring Boost Mobile or gaining access to its network, potentially giving Starlink a shortcut toward becoming a full-fledged U.S. mobile carrier. Engadget reports: According to Washington Post’s sources, the deal could look like SpaceX acquiring Boost Mobile outright or gaining access to its cell network, which is le … ⌘ Read more
OpenAI Might Rebrand Its Data Centers As ‘AI Compute Campuses’
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Data centers are deeply unpopular. But what if we called them something else? Axios reports that OpenAI is preparing a “PR blitz” for after the midterm elections on Tuesday, as Democrats seem likely to win back the House of Representatives, and possibly the Senate, too. The company’s chief global affairs … ⌘ Read more
The New York Times Sues Brave Web Browser For AI Scraping, Bypassing Paywalls
The New York Times and several other publishers have sued (PDF) Brave Software, accusing the browser maker of scraping their websites without permission and helping users bypass paywalls. The Verge reports: According to a complaint (PDF) filed by the companies that run New York Daily News, the Chicago Tribune, and the Orla … ⌘ Read more
Microsoft’s Canada Timezone Troubles Leave Admins Fixing Calendars, Pretending They’re In Bogota
Microsoft is scrambling to fix time-zone problems across Outlook, Power Automate, Fabric, SharePoint and other products after parts of Canada stopped observing seasonal clock changes on November 1. “The company has confirmed problems across a chunk of its software estate, leaving some c … ⌘ Read more
Marvell to Buy Lumentum In $115 Billion Bet On AI Connectivity
Marvell has agreed to acquire optical components maker Lumentum in an all-stock deal with an implied enterprise value of $115 billion. “AI infrastructure is undergoing a fundamental architectural shift toward optical connectivity, creating an opportunity that comes along once in a generation,” said Marvell Chairman and CEO Matt Murphy. “The companies that … ⌘ Read more
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Supermarket Freezers Across Europe Hit By Second Suspected Cyberattack
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Supermarket chains in Sweden, Belgium and Luxembourg have said the temperatures of their refrigerators and freezers in dozens of stores rose overnight, prompting fears of a cyber-attack similar to one that caused millions of euros of food losses in France. Sweden’s Coop chain told t … ⌘ Read more
Check out some of the highest-rated Steam Deck Verified games released in October 2026
Here’s some of the highest-rated Steam Deck Verified games released on Steam during October 2026. Helping you find something great to play on the go!
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/11/check-out-some-of-the-highest-rated- … ⌘ Read more
Here’s the most popular Native Linux releases for October 2026
Here’s some of the highest-rated Native Linux games released on Steam during October 2026. Helping you to find something interesting!
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Crunchy retro shooter Selaco Chapter 2 arrives November 13
The crunchy retro-shooter Selaco is about to get a massive content update with Selaco Chapter 2: The Machines of War releasing November 13th.
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Itch Is Being Flooded By AI-Generated Garbage
The number of game pages being created per-day on Itch has doubled, the indie games site announced Saturday on Bluesky. When asked why, they responded: “take a guess.”
As the gaming news site Aftermath puts it, “the surge has been almost entirely down to AI-created garbage racing onto the platform as the popularity of vibe-coded theft, copycats and machine-built slop explodes.”
Ba … ⌘ Read more
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Radeon RADV Vulkan Driver Adopts An LLM Policy
The Mesa RADV driver that provides Vulkan API support for AMD Radeon GPUs on Linux has adopted its own policy around AI / large language models (LLMs) for code contributions… ⌘ Read more
FreeRDP 3.33 Released With WebAssembly Support, Huge Influx Of Activity Due To AI
The FreeRDP 3.33 software released today as the newest version of this open-source Microsoft Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) implementation… ⌘ Read more
OpenMW 0.52.0 for Morrowind gets a fresh release candidate to test new features
The amazing open source game engine OpenMW for the classic RPG Morrowind has released a release candidate for the upcoming 0.52.0 release.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/11/openmw-0-52-0-for-morrowind-gets-a-fresh-release-candidate-to … ⌘ Read more
DXVK-NVAPI 0.9.3 adds initial ARM64 support, DirectX Raytracing (DXR) upgrades
DXVK-NVAPI is the implementation of NVIDIA’s NVAPI/NVOFAPI library for usage with DXVK and VKD3D-Proton - with a new release out now.
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KDE Linux Nearing Its Beta Milestone, Now Ships With NTSYNC By Default
KDE developer Nate Graham published his monthly blog post on Sunday to outline the current state of KDE Linux and some of the changes made to this in-house Linux distribution over the course of October. Additionally, KDE Linux is nearing its beta milestone after beinbg in development for over one year as a reference Linux distribution for KDE… ⌘ Read more
SK Hynix expect the hardware crisis to continue through 2030
Thought the hardware crisis would be over next year, or the year after? We’re seemingly going to be stuck for quite a while longer.
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Raspberry Pi 5 16GB Price Rises To $385 USD
Raspberry Pi announced their latest round of price hikes as a result of the RAM shortages and increased pricing continuing to affect the industry… ⌘ Read more
Raspberry Pi has another price increase thanks to AI data centres
The dream of cheap single-board computers seems a little far from reality nowadays, with the Raspberry Pi announcing another price increase.
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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.
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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.
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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%.
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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.”
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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
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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
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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