AMD Is Bringing FSR 4.1 to Xbox Consoles and Handhelds
AMD is expanding its FSR 4.1 upscaling technology beyond Radeon RX 9000-series GPUs to Xbox Series X/S consoles, Xbox Ally handhelds, laptops, and Radeon RX 6000-series graphics cards. The Verge reports: AMD launched its FSR 4.1 update for Radeon RX 9000-series graphics cards in March, and promised to bring the technology to older GPUs and handhelds this year. FSR 4 … ⌘ Read more

Google Support Pages Start Defaulting to AI Chatbots
Google is beginning to replace traditional support articles with “Ask Google Help,” a Gemini-powered interface that summarizes documentation and lets users troubleshoot through a chatbot. 9to5Google reports: “Ask Google Help” will display a condensed version of the support article with direct troubleshooting steps, with the user then able to type in queries to have Gemin … ⌘ Read more

DHS Lied About Why It Wanted To Search Activist’s GrapheneOS Phone
New court records reportedly show that DHS targeted Stop Cop City activist Samuel Tunick at an Atlanta airport because he was under investigation for suspected “terrorist activities.” However, the CBP officers told him instead that they wanted to search his phone for child sexual abuse material (CSAM). Tunick, who is not accused of terrorism or … ⌘ Read more

OpenBSD 8.0 Released
OpenBSD 8.0 has been released with major virtualization and hardware upgrades, including support for up to 64 vCPUs per VM, Intel Arc graphics, ARM64 hibernation, and expanded RISC-V support. Linuxiac points out that it marks the “61st release of the security-focused Unix-like operating system.” From the report: Several fixes improve compatibility with 32-bit Linux guests, while changes to virtual machine ownership management and inte … ⌘ Read more

Improved Performance & Resource Usage For XFS Checksumming With Linux 7.4
Among the many VFS pull requests merged as the initial material for the in-development Linux 7.4, the VFS IOmap pull introduced lazy bounce buffering for checksummed reads. This improvement is benefiting checksumming on XFS with improved performance and lower resource usage… ⌘ Read more

Meta Muse Exposes Users’ Personal, Business Secrets When They Share Conversations
Security researchers say Meta’s Muse AI assistant exposed thousands of users’ shared conversations because conversation titles were placed in subdomains that could be discovered through public DNS records. Meta has since suspended the sharing feature while it considers making changes. Ars Technica reports: Like many … ⌘ Read more

Intel & AMD Now Collaborating On Software Optimizations With PyTorch/oneDNN
Intel has long worked on tuning their oneDNN neural network library for their hardware and saw its adoption by PyTorch and other AI frameworks. AMD has maintained ZenDNN as their downstream fork that is oneDNN API compatible while catering to their Zen processor designs. As an interesting twist, AMD and Intel jointly announced today they will be collaborating around oneDNN for PyTorch and pushing the AMD Zen improvements into oneDNN… ⌘ Read more

You know that “badger, badger, badger” video, right? From like 84 years ago?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIyixC9NsLI

The guy who made that is still alive and kicking. He has a music project called “Savlonic”: It’s him, his wife, and Katt Wade, probably a friend, dunno. And they’re amazing (look at their horse!).

https://weebl.bandcamp.com/album/ultraviolet

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com Are/were you trying to run it on your desktop system? Or on a server?

I’m not aware that OpenBSD has an explicit “no AI” policy like NetBSD, but, uhm, the song for the 8.0 release makes it pretty clear. 😅

https://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html#80

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org First this:

I have seen black sheep that actually improved the code base

And now a coworker actually reviewed an AI PR today. With criticism!

Hell is freezing over!

US Bans DeepSeek From Government Use
The Trump administration has banned DeepSeek AI from most US civilian federal agencies, ordering the removal of the Chinese company’s models and technology developed using them. The Department of Homeland Security did not specify the security threats behind the decision. The BBC reports: The order (PDF) is broad, as it requires agencies to ditch “all DeepSeek and DeepSeek-affiliate products, and third- … ⌘ Read more

AMD FSR Upscaling 4.1 expands support to older Desktops, Laptops, Handhelds, Consoles and Vulkan
Many asked for this and AMD have finally delivered - today they announced AMD FSR Upscaling 4.1 support has expanded to older hardware.

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Nscale, Anthropic In Talks For New $45 Billion AI Cloud Deal
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Nscale is in talks to sell AI computing power to Claude maker Anthropic in a new deal that could be worth about $45 billion, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters on Monday. The data center developer is seeking another major deal with the AI lab for a second facility at its Monarch data center campus in … ⌘ Read more

Intel Core Ultra 9 Arrow Lake On Star Labs StarFighter Shows Nice Gains On Ubuntu 26.10
For those running a Star Labs StarFighter Ultra or other Intel Core Ultra Arrow Lake laptop, the recent Ubuntu 26.10 release is providing some nice performance gains over the Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release. Here is a look at how Ubuntu 26.04 LTS vs. Ubuntu 26.10 performs with the Intel Core Ultra 9 285H over dozens of different benchmarks. ⌘ Read more

Naaah, forget it… I just had a couple of flashbacks.

Linux Foundation Estimates 25% Of New Pull Requests To Be Low-Quality AI Slop
The Linux Foundation published a new study today around the impact of generative AI on open-source software development. One key takeaway is that ~25% of new open-source software pull requests amount to AI slop… ⌘ Read more

Linux Coredumps Via Sockets Can Be Much Smaller Now With Sparse Support
Added to the Linux kernel last year was Coredump support via Unix domain sockets as an alternative to the pipe-based Coredumps. With code now merged for Linux 7.4, the core dumps via sockets has the potential of being much smaller thanks to sparse support. In extreme cases they can be 1% of the size without sparse support… ⌘ Read more

Ich weiß, es ist alles nicht zum Lachen und im zweiten Link gibt es auch Aufklärung, aber ich möchte an dieser Stelle trotzdem lieber weder Journalist noch Diplomat sein.

https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/israel-wahlkampf-eisenkot-100.html

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gadi_Eizenkot#Herkunft

Maybe it’s a sign 😏 I’m just too lazy to backup my Home dir …

Here’s the highlights from the recent 2026 Out of Bounds Showcase
Entalto Publishing recently held the second edition of its Out of Bounds Showcase, highlighting 16 indie games from developers around the world.

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BFS Removed With Linux 7.4 As Old UnixWare File-System
Linus Torvalds began honoring pull requests overnight of new code entering the Linux 7.4 kernel – as well as removing old code. BFS is the latest obsolete file-system removed from the mainline kernel… ⌘ Read more

KDE Plasma 6.8.1 Released With Dozens Of Fixes
Following last week’s release of Plasma 6.8, the Plasma 6.8.1 point release is out today with dozens of bug fixes… ⌘ Read more

Omarchy 4.5 Expanding To AArch64 World With Snapdragon X & NVIDIA N1X Laptops
The Omarchy Linux distribution to date has been centered on x86_64 support for this Arch Linux distribution. Released today was Omarchy 4.5-RC1 and with this new version there is initial AArch64 support centered around Snapdragon X and NVIDIA N1X laptop support… ⌘ Read more

HEAT: Pedal to the Metal by Days of Wonder is getting an official video game adaptation
Play your cards strategically and push your engine to the limit in HEAT: Pedal to the Metal, an official digital adaptation of the award-winning board game.

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Unforgiving cave-exploration survival simulator Casualties: Unknown arrives November 9
Casualties: Unknown is a game for people who love a tough challenge, with simulated limb and cardiovascular systems.

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Oh, OpenBSD 8.0 has been released today? Has it been 6 months already? Man, time flies this year. 😲

Microsoft Abandons UK AI Supercomputer As Grid Struggles to Keep Up
Microsoft has reportedly abandoned plans to serve as the anchor customer for Britain’s largest proposed AI supercomputer after learning that the project’s Essex data center might not receive sufficient grid power until the early to mid-2030s. “Its departure leaves Nscale without a publicly announced customer for the site, although the n … ⌘ Read more

Score touchdowns and win it all in the retro-inspired, side-scrolling Classic American Football
Classic American Football is an upcoming sports game from IsoTyger Studios, bringing back some retro fun in a neat looking package.

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Linux 7.4 Adding New Emulation Function For Some Old CPUs That May Soon Be Phased Out
Linux 7.4 is seeing a new emulation function added for cmpxchg() for compare and exchange. This is being done so that two-byte cmpxchg() can be used in common Linux kernel code that is already natively supported on newer CPU architectures. The pull request notes though that these old CPU architectures might no longer be supported by the Linux kernel moving ahead… ⌘ Read more

Helldivers 2 switches over from GameGuard to Easy Anti-Cheat
While it’s still unavailable in the UK along with some other Sony published games, Arrowhead have moved Helldivers 2 over to Easy Anti-Cheat.

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17k Lines Of New Rust Kernel Code Heading Into Linux 7.4
Miguel Ojeda sent out his pull request of the new Rust kernel code slated for introduction in Linux 7.4. It’s a big one this round due to updating the Zerocopy vendored library plus updating other Rust crates for the kernel… ⌘ Read more

Time-looping claymation puzzle-platformer UvsU: You vs You launches in January 2027
Claymation is something I love to see more of and we’re getting a fun looking treat here with the upcoming puzzle-platformer UvsU: You vs You.

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@itsericwoodward@itsericwoodward.com Good context and info thank you 🙏 Obviously I’m into self hosting too, d’uh, but it’s just an interesting experiment and price point. It isn’t about whether you can get xyz VM/VPS for $abc but more about all the times you don’t have to maintain or build yourself.

OpenBSD 8.0 Released With Intel Arc A-Series, Other Hardware Improvements
Theo de Raadt released OpenBSD 8.0 today as the 61st release of this BSD operating system… ⌘ Read more

@david@daiwei.me Yes, you can. THat’s true, sometimes. Not always, though, promotional pricing etc. The differentiator is the extra bits you don’t have to maintain/manage.

@jecxjo@sh0.xyz Good to know 👌 Thank you! 🙏

@arne@uplegger.eu Oh, that’s cute. libcaca, eh? 😃

@kamme@twtxt.thanatos.be herbstluftwm! I haven’t had much luck with netbsd (skill issues). I had given it a try in a VM, ~4 years ago, and managed to brick it in less than a week xD The sad thing though, was deleting the VM. missing out on an opportunity to boot in single user mode and try fixing my mess.

Dark first-person fishing adventure DREADMOOR looks awesome, arrives November 9
DREADMOOR is probably one of the most interesting looking fishing games ever - with a dark post-apocalyptic world.

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GE-Proton 11-11 released to fix more issues with Windows games on SteamOS / Linux
As is tradition, a new release of GE-Proton came with issues and so another hotfix is out with GE-Proton 11-11.

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Intel submits code to Proton to improve XeSS to use the fast upscaler XMX
Looks like Proton with Intel XeSS is set for some improvements, with Intel submitting code directly to Valve.

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Steam Next Fest Oct 2026 is live with thousands of demos
Steam Next Fest Oct 2026 has arrived and with it - there’s multiple thousands of demos included.

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Japan Launches Historic MMX Sample-Return Mission to Mars’ Moon Phobos
Japan has successfully launched its Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) mission to study Mars’ two moons, Phobos and Deimos. Scheduled to arrive in August 2027, “MMX will become the first spacecraft to land on and return samples from Phobos for study back on Earth, which scientists think could shed light on a decades-old mystery about t … ⌘ Read more

Amazon To Fund 12 Small Nuclear Reactors At Former Indiana Coal Plant
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Amazon is funding development of a proposed 960-megawatt nuclear plant in Indiana and would be the first customer to buy its power, the companies announced Monday. Utility company American Electric Power (AEP) would operate the plant. X-energy, which designs small modular nuclear … ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net Potentially, but 64 MB is kinda small. I haven’t run a host with < 512 MB in quite some time, and it would take 8 @ 64MB to match that, although that would only be $1.40 (for the first 3) + $3.50 (for the last 5), so still under $5 a month…. Yeah, most likely, even if just for a couple of off-site services and secure backups.

I’ll be honest - I’ve had a VPS at DigitalOcean for years, but I barely use it anymore because I got big into “owning my own servers” (hence my interest in Self Hosted, which I just signed up for), so now I run a few repurposed old desktops throughout my house. But I trust you way more than I do some other random VPS provider, so again…. Yeah, most likely. 🙂

AMD GAIA 0.25 Brings Several Improvements For Local AI Agents On Ryzen AI
AMD GAIA 0.25 is out this week as the latest feature release for this open-source project that began as “Generative AI Is Awesome” and is now going on a tag line of “AMD’s open-source agent factory” in building/using local AI agents on AMD Ryzen AI hardware… ⌘ Read more

Professor Calls To Abolish Business Schools For Failing Society
joshuark writes: Professor Christopher Marquis makes a provocative argument about business schools: “We need to abolish them.” A 20-year business educator at Harvard, Cornell and Cambridge, Marquis argues in The New York Times and on LinkedIn that MBA programs sanctify profit-driven dealmaking at the expense of public life. “That’s not the institut … ⌘ Read more

TP-Link Moves to Assemble Routers In the US Following Import Ban
TP-Link plans to begin assembling routers in Mississippi as early as 2027 after the FCC banned imports of new foreign-made consumer routers over security concerns. Engadget reports: The company has signed a letter of intent with manufacturer Key Tronic and, pending approval from regulators, TP-Link says stateside assembly of its routers could st … ⌘ Read more

Linux 7.4 Sunsetting Old EDAC Drivers Due To “AI Generated Fixes Frenzy”
In addition to introducing the new Intel BFF driver, the Error Detection And Correction “EDAC” kernel subsystem is sunsetting a number of old hardware drivers due to increased noise to AI/LLM-generated bug fixes for these likely unused or minimally used drivers… ⌘ Read more