Intel Enables Buffer Compression For Better Gaming Performance With DXVK
Merged today to Mesa 26.3-devel is a nice performance boost for Intel graphics with Valve’s Steam Play when using DXVK for Direct3D 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 over the Vulkan API. The open-source Intel ANV driver is seeing up to 5% better performance with DXVK… ⌘ Read more
XFS Lands FALLOC_FL_WRITE_ZEROES For Efficiency Improvement In Linux 7.3
The XFS file-system improvements have been merged for Linux 7.3. For end-users the only notable change for this file-system on the new kernel is adding support for FALLOC_FL_WRITE_ZEROES… ⌘ Read more
A deck-builder where you burn your cards - Burn With Me releases October 12
Build a deck and burn it all away for power? Burn With Me has a fun idea and the full game is now set to arrive on October 12.
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Solar Power and Batteries Have Been Keeping Europe’s Grid Stable
AleRunner writes: “Solar has been doing the ‘heavy lifting’ to help Europe meet its energy needs amid a string of blistering heatwaves,” Euronews tells us. Meanwhile, as Europe’s energy demands rise with the heat, jellyfish have been causing shutdowns and reduced power output at multiple reactors at French nuclear plants, as we already discuss … ⌘ Read more
‘Buy Now, Pay Later’ Lenders Pitch Loans For Needs Like Electricity and Rent
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The New York Times: Buy now, pay later” loans took off during the pandemic as a way for online shoppers to go on retail splurges without using a credit card. Now, lenders are offering the loans as a means for people to finance basic households needs. The lending apps Flex and Zip allow … ⌘ Read more
EFS & FreeVxFS File-Systems Get Booted While FailFS Merged For Linux 7.3
Among the early pull requests merged today by Linus Torvalds for the Linux 7.3 kernel cycle were removal of some ancient file-systems while adding in a new pseudo file-system… ⌘ Read more
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Website might come back soon, although probably mostly unchanged. I have no idea how to stop the bots. 🤷♀️ So I’ll just gonna live with it? Is that the key to happiness™? 🤷♀️
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@movq@www.uninformativ.de Glad to hear it. Hopefully this, too, shall pass.
Maybe the bots will get tired of web-surfing, or the companies paying for it will all crash, or we’ll find a way to protect our content while still being able to share it, or maybe we’ll just all suddenly learn to live together with the bots in peace and prosperity for all. ¯_(ツ)_/¯ 🤞
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Today, we have a pair of pics presenting the preening Princess Peaches posing in pink (from earlier this year, when it was cooler and she was wearing t-shirts). #dogs
https://itsericwoodward.com/images/e07cf394.jpg https://itsericwoodward.com/images/c088f1f9.jpg
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@GabesArcade@gabesarcade.com On behalf of her royal highness, we thank you for your kind words.
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Too much information? 🤔
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@arg@twtpub.com You actually can, but we highly discourage it and I haven’t really built “Edit” / “Delete” functionality in the Twtxt App that I know you’re using 😅 Twtxt being purely decentralised, meaning that there are absolutely zero decentralised, with the exception of the twtpub.com service you’re using to reduce as much friction as possible for newcomers to try things, makes supporting threads a bit of a controversial topic 😆 – In the end we are sticking with the Hash v2 extension, making threads use content addressing, so even if you did delete/edit a Twt, you have to be carefuly it hasn’t already been replied to in the ecosystem 🤣
Supreme Court Rejects Verizon Bid For $47 Million Refund of FCC Fine
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The Supreme Court today rejected Verizon’s attempt to get a $47 million refund from the Federal Communications Commission. In a list of orders (PDF) issued by the court, Verizon’s petition was denied without explanation. The denial apparently ends any possibility of Verizon asking a lowe … ⌘ Read more
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@david@daiwei.me Haha 😆
Apple Wallet Driver’s License Feature to Launch in Four More US States
Apple Wallet’s driver’s license and state ID feature is set to expand to North Carolina, Oklahoma, Utah, and Virginia, bringing the total to 18 states plus Puerto Rico. The digital IDs can be used at participating TSA checkpoints and businesses without handing over or unlocking an iPhone, though users are still generally advised to ca … ⌘ Read more
Linux 7.3 To Land Initial Code Improving vRAM Management, More Improvements Coming
Earlier this year Natalie Vock of Valve’s Linux graphics team laid out some patches for improving the Linux gaming experience for systems with limited vRAM. The kernel work for improving that video memory management is set to be introduced in the Linux 7.3 kernel. While that’s a celebration on its own, Vock is pursuing more improvements still for bettering the Linux GPU driver video memory management behavior… ⌘ Read more
Judge Sets Framework For Nine PBS to Retrieve 70 Years of Archival TV Data
District Court Judge Eric Elliff has ordered Iron Mountain to cooperate with Nine PBS in recovering roughly 50TB of archival material stored through now-defunct vendor OSS. “He found that the station is the rightful owner of the materials and entitled to recover them from OSS’ storage systems,” reports Current.org. Nine PB … ⌘ Read more
FFmpeg Lands H.265 Vulkan Encode Performance Optimizations
The FFmpeg multimedia library can now enjoy faster H.265/HEVC video encoding with the Vulkan-powered encode path. With the optimizations merged today, the H.265 encode performance should be roughly at parity to the H.264 encode speed… ⌘ Read more
Meta Faces $1.4 Trillion Reckoning In Latest Trial Over Social Media Addiction
Meta is heading to trial in a case brought by dozens of states accusing it of deliberately designing addictive features, misleading users about safety, and illegally collecting data from children under 13. Meta says the states are seeking penalties as high as $1.4 trillion, though the judge has already called that figure … ⌘ Read more
Offloading Rust To GPUs Proves Capable Of High Performance With Memory Safety
A new research paper published on LLVM offloading to GPU accelerators using the Rust programming language is talking up the prospects of making use of safe Rust code for GPU kernels while retaining Rust’s memory safety and other advantages over C++ / CUDA / HIP… ⌘ Read more
US Grid Operator PJM Proposes Forcing Data Center Off Grid During Emergencies
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: PJM Interconnection, the biggest U.S. grid operator, proposed on Thursday a new framework that would force data centers to use back-up generators when electricity supply on the grid approaches dangerously low levels. The grid operator’s proposal dovetails with Preside … ⌘ Read more
Website might come back soon, although probably mostly unchanged. I have no idea how to stop the bots. 🤷♀️ So I’ll just gonna live with it? Is that the key to happiness™? 🤷♀️
OpenAI Announces Massive Data Center In Ohio With $105 Billion Nvidia Guarantee
OpenAI has signed a 10-year lease for an enormous Ohio data center that will eventually provide 8 gigawatts of computing capacity and require at least 10 gigawatts of new power generation. According to OpenAI, Nvidia will be supplying the chips and guaranteeing up to $105 billion in lease and power obligations. From t … ⌘ Read more
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@david@daiwei.me since I became linuxpilled and embraced SSH, I do my Wordles through https://late.sh/
Can strongly recommend it, even has all the other daily puzzles: minesweeper, sudoku, solitaire, nonogram (kinda hate those),…
Maybe not the best family activity, the chat can be somewhat spicy and so can the collaborative ASCII art drawing game.
Tracking Rare Books Leads to an Amazon AI Training Facility
alternative_right shares a report from 404 Media: Amazon is buying massive quantities of books, scanning them for AI training data, and destroying them in the process. A 404 Media investigation was able to reveal Amazon’s book buying operation, which hasn’t been previously reported, by placing a tracking device in a rare book we suspected would be acquire … ⌘ Read more
ARCTIC Fan Controller: The Best Fan Controller For Linux Desktops, Less Than $10 USD
Back in March were patches posted by ARCTIC Cooling for an ARCTIC fan controller driver for Linux. Typically we aren’t used to seeing desktop/enthusiast focused vendors providing such Linux drivers for peripherals directly but the sad fact is most often it’s left up to the open-source community to reverse engineer and create such drivers for Linux. Making it all the more surprising besides it coming from ARCTIC Cooling directly wa … ⌘ Read more
Check out the demo for HYPERDROP an explosive neon-soaked pachinko roguelite
Now being published by Devolver Digital - HYPERDROP: A Pachinko Roguelite is a game that looks worth keeping on your wishlist with a demo out now.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/check-out-the-demo-for-hyperdrop-an-explosive-neon-soaked-p … ⌘ Read more
Anthropic CEO Says AI Backlash Is ‘Fundamentally a Crisis of Trust’
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says the growing backlash against AI is less about executives sounding alarms and more about a broader “crisis of trust” in companies, governments, and the tech industry. TechCrunch reports: Amodei’s comments came in response to investor Gavin Baker, who argued – both on the All-In podcast and on X – that Amodei’s warn … ⌘ Read more
AMD Working On A New Backend For Improving ROCm Compute In QEMU/VMs
AMD engineers are working on enhancing the open-source ROCm compute stack for better handling GPU virtualized compute under QEMU… ⌘ Read more
OpenAI Ditches Recall-Style Screenshot Surveillance For Friendly Keylogging
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Register: If you want to record whatever you do on a computer, send those records to OpenAI, use more ChatGPT tokens, and increase your vulnerability to prompt injection, then OpenAI has something for you. It’s called Computer History, an opt-in way to record your computer interact … ⌘ Read more
Linux 7.3 SMP Improvement To Help Reduce Latency, Improve Real-Time Performance
Among the pull requests sent out today now that the Linux 7.3 merge window is open are the SMP improvements for this next kernel version. Standing out among the SMP code are some enhancements for helping reduce latency and ultimately enhancing real-time Linux performance… ⌘ Read more
Firefox 154 Now Available With “Manage AI” Quick Action
Firefox 154 is now available as the newest monthly update bringing a few new features, enhancements, and other alterations to this open-source web browser… ⌘ Read more
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Intel & AMD Power Management Driver Improvements Ready For Linux 7.3
In advance of the Linux 7.3 merge window opening, Linux power management subsystem maintainer Rafael Wysocki of Intel submitted all the power management, ACPI, and thermal control code. As not too much of a surprise, Intel and AMD driver updates dominate the power management changes for Linux 7.3… ⌘ Read more
EFF’s Position on Flock Camera Database Searches: ‘Get a Warrant First’ - and Police Use Should Be Restricted By Law
Some take their criticism even further. Reacting to Flock’s changes, an EFF statement calls it “Too little, too late,” while calling it Flock’s admission that their technology needs reforms. But…
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KTransformers 0.7 Expands AVX-512 Support To Benefit AMD EPYC Servers
KTransformers as the framework for heterogeneous LLM inference and fine-tune optimizations is out today with its v0.7 feature release… ⌘ Read more
Warcraft 2-inspired incremental auto-battler ‘Orc Incremental’ arrives September 8
I foresee a great many hours being lost to this one - inspired in part by Warcraft 2, Orc Incremental is an incremental auto-battler with RPG elements.
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Con Kolivas Revives “-ck” Patches & MuQSS To Improve Linux Desktop Responsiveness
Huge surprise this morning! Longtime Linux users may recall the out-of-tree work done years ago by open-source developer Con Kolivas… And as part of that his work on the Brain F*** Scheduler that evolved into the MuQSS scheduler, all in the name of working to improve Linux desktop and mobile responsiveness. While a number of years ago he decided to retire from this out-of-tree Linux kernel work, out of the blue he announc … ⌘ Read more
Linux 7.3 On PowerPC Now Supports In-Kernel Rust, Initial Power12 Enablement Begins
The PowerPC pull request has already been sent in for the now open Linux 7.3 merge window. The headline feature this cycle on the POWER side is Rust kernel support for PowerPC 32-bit PPC32BE big endian and PowerPC 64-bit PPC64LE little endian architectures… ⌘ Read more
Dystopian block-pushing puzzler ‘Hazard Pay’ arrives September 10
One for fans of clever puzzle games, Hazard Pay is releasing with Linux support on September 10th - built with Godot Engine.
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ARM64 BBML3 Feature Ready With Linux 7.3, NVIDIA Olympus Workarounds
AI/LLM patch craziness hurt ARM64 development for the Linux 7.2 cycle that no real features landed for that kernel version on AArch64. Fortunately, the ARM Linux developers are more prepared now and for Linux 7.3 are introducing some new ARM64 features… ⌘ Read more
He Who Watches will confuse your eyes and your brain when it releases in September
He Who Watches is an upcoming first-person puzzle game where you can walk on walls, manipulate gravity and more - looks like it will confuse every part of me.
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GNU Linux-libre 7.2-gnu Released Following More Driver Cleaning
Following yesterday’s release of the Linux 7.2 kernel, GNU Linux-libre 7.2-gnu is now available for this kernel downstream that strips out support for drivers depending upon non-free-software microcode/firmware, the ability to load closed-source kernel modules, and other restrictions in the name of software freedom… ⌘ Read more
Build cities, worlds and gardens in the Builder Games Humble Bundle
Some really nice picks for a good price here in the Builder Games Humble Bundle with a varied selection across city building, vehicle building and more.
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KINGDOM HEARTS IV releases late in 2027 - Steam page is up with a new trailer
KINGDOM HEARTS IV was properly revealed during D23: The Ultimate Disney Fan Event 2026 with a release year and an extended look trailer.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/kingdom-hearts-iv-releases-late-in-2027-steam-page-is-up-with-a-new-tr … ⌘ Read more
Supernatural, post-apocalypse adventure ‘Sally Face 2’ revealed
The much loved unsettling supernatural adventure Sally Face is getting a sequel, with the post-apocalypse Sally Face 2 formally announced.
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Amazon’s New User Agreement Seeks To Curb Class-action Suits
Amazon has “reintroduced a clause in its user agreement that seeks to prevent shoppers from filing class-action lawsuits against the online retailer,” reports Bloomberg, “inserting a legal buffer between itself and plaintiffs attorneys that it removed five years ago.”
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Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Wildlands has Easy Anti-Cheat removed
Good for players on Linux / SteamOS and modders - Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Wildlands is now free from Easy Anti-Cheat.
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Linux kernel 7.2 is officially out now
The Linux kernel version 7.2 has now been officially released with optimizations, new hardware support and lots of bug fixes.
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A Rosier Future for Linux Gamers? Epic Games Announces Linux Version of Its Storefront
“Epic Games has confirmed that it is working on a Linux version of its storefront, potentially removing the need for third-party launchers on platforms such as Steam Deck,” reports PC Guide:
The confirmation came during an Ask Me Anything (AMA) on the Epic Games Store’s community Discord server. When a … ⌘ Read more
Bipartisan ‘Uprising’ Against Flock Cameras: a Larger Fight Against Big Tech and Surveillance?
Politico notes that over 20 local jurisdictions in America “either stopped using Flock cameras or began the process of doing so in July, according to a tracker maintained by DeFlock, an activist group that has been mapping the company. It’s the highest amount in a single month since they began … ⌘ Read more