After 40 Years, Microsoft Excel Will Add Single-Cell Lists and Arrays
Microsoft’s senior product manager for Excel acknowledges that “Throughout Excel’s 40-year history, you’ve only been able to put one value per cell.” But that’s now changing with arrays in cells (as well as nested arrays) and lists.

“You can create a list by selecting Insert > List or pressing Ctrl+J, then typing or pasting items separated b … ⌘ Read more

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Oh yeah, very interesting. Thanks for telling us!

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Ah, I see. Didn’t cross my mind to use Inkscape for that. I hope to remember this once I run into a similar situation.

🎶 “Regina” - The Sugarcubes https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=QpEz9pfJS7g&si=lKj-diIWGoi5BrWJ

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Yeah, some letters are really unreadable. And I always, always read the “s” as an “f”. Every time.

Yeah, I find it telling when Nazis use Fraktur. Very interesting, I wasn’t aware that occupied regions couldn’t read the orders.

“Toolpak” Being Devised By GNOME OS Developers, Akin To Flatpak For Tools
GNOME developer Jordan Petridis published a blog post today to introduce the world to the Toolpak plans for GNOME OS… ⌘ Read more

AI Finds So Many Linux Bugs, Canonical Changes to a Two-Week Stable Release Update Cycle
“Finding vulnerabilities faster also puts pressure on Linux distributions to fix and deliver patches faster,” writes Slashdot reader BrianFagioli

AI has transformed bug discovery from “a manual, time-intensive process into a highly automated engine,” notes Canonical’s blog, leading to a “recent expl … ⌘ Read more

MM Change Slated For Linux 7.4 Yields +22904539.81% In One Metric, More Modest Wins In Others
Queued this week into the slab/for-next Git branch ahead of next month’s Linux 7.4 merge window is a memory management change for refilling pre-filled sheaves from the barn. In some cases this yields wild improvements to specific synthetic benchmarks… ⌘ Read more

That was an interesting read about C:

https://pikuma.com/blog/c-integer-sizes-not-a-mistake

Is Microsoft Quietly Killing Off Its ‘Copilot+ PC’ Brand?
“Copilot+ PCs” were Microsoft’s official branding for Windows 11 “AI PCs” that met their system requirements. But the 2024 launch “didn’t go smoothly,” writes Windows Central, after security researchers discovered its proposed “Recall” feature was woefully insecure:

This pretty much tarnished the Copilot+ PC brand, and over the last two years more and more OEMs h … ⌘ Read more

AI Bug Fixes, Crescent Island Power Brake & Nouveau Fixes For Linux 7.3-rc5 DRM
The Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) subsystem fixes for the week are heavier on the side with many fixes to these kernel graphics/display drivers ahead of Sunday’s Linux 7.3-rc5 release… ⌘ Read more

Wisp Makes It Easier To Manage Btrfs Snapshots From The GNOME Desktop
Wisp is a new GNOME Shell extension making it easier to graphically manage Btrfs file-system snapshots… ⌘ Read more

AMDXDNA Linux Driver Being Enhanced For Current NPU3 Hardware
The AMDXDNA open-source Linux kernel accelerator driver is seeing a fair amount of work for better supporting current-generation NPU3 neural processing units. The AMD NPU3 is what’s found in current AMD Ryzen AI 300 / Ryzen AI 300 PRO series SoCs… ⌘ Read more

KDE Plasma 6.8 Continues With Last Minute Tweaks & Fixes
Even with this week’s KDE Akademy conference and releasing KDE Plasma 6.8 Beta 2, KDE developers still found time to land last minute changes for Plasma 6.8 plus ongoing early work toward Plasma 6.9… ⌘ Read more

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Might be because the typical “German Fraktur” (this isn’t a thing) uses very unusual uppercase letters. And “k” is just weird. And “f” and “ſ” (long “s”) are very close together.

This is “Luther’sche Fraktur” from around 1708 (a photo from the book “Fraktur” by Albert Kapr), the book says this was one of the most popular ones:

I have lots of trouble deciphering those uppercase letters.

By the way, this is worth mentioning: Fraktur fonts are often associated with Nazi Germany, but did you know that the Nazis eventually banned these fonts in 1941?

Yeah. Typical Nazi stuff.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Coloring wasn’t too bad, I did it in Inkscape where I can easily move those rectangles around. 😅

Proton Experimental brings fixes for Crysis, Crysis Wars, CEG-protected games, early support for 32bit OpenXR
Another smaller but great sounding upgrade for Proton Experimental to run more Windows games smoothly on SteamOS / Linux is here.

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Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/proton-experimenta … ⌘ Read more

SteamOS 3.9.2 Beta brings fixes for VRR, VR Streaming, Remote Play, Boot Time and more
A bumper weekend of Steam updates - with a SteamOS 3.9.2 Beta now available with a whole bunch of extra fixes and improvements for all devices.

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Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/steamos-3-9-2-beta-brings-fixes-for-vrr-vr-stre … ⌘ Read more

Steam Client Beta - September 25th brings more Remote Play and Linux fixes
Valve released a Steam Client Beta update for all desktop / handheld users bringing more enhancements and bug fixes for the likes of Remote Play and Linux.

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Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/steam-client-beta-september-25th-brings-more-remote-play-and-linux-fi … ⌘ Read more

@movq@www.uninformativ.de That’s dedication. And it really shows. Again, your font is easier to read for me than the average Fraktur I come across. I don’t really understand it, but I trip more often in books.

SteamOS 0.4.1 Beta for Steam Frame fixes some nuisance bugs
Valve released an opt-in Beta update with SteamOS 0.4.1 for Steam Frame, bringing some new features and fixing up a bunch of nuisances.

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Rogue OpenAI Agents Posted 53 User-Uploaded Images Onto the Internet, Accessed US Government Websites
53 images that users uploaded into OpenAI models were included in training data — and then AI agents in an OpenAI research environment posted those 53 images on public image hosting sites.
While posted as links that weren’t publicly listed, “the images could still be discovered e … ⌘ Read more

@movq@www.uninformativ.de One more human to add, I just got to read it. Cool stuff, coloring in these hexdumps by hand must have been a ton of work, my goodness. Much appreciated, though. :-)

Oh, and only 29 clients have requested the actual image:

29 movq.de/blog/postings/2026-09-25/0/bine-initial.png

Assuming that that’s an actual human being who’s interested in the content, then it’d be less than 1% of the hits that I get.

I’d estimate that ~90% of the traffic I get is some kind of non-human / non-browser thing.

Here are some numbers on the recent blog post:

3804 movq.de/blog/postings/2026-09-25/0/POSTING-en.html
 404 movq.de/blog/postings/2026-09-25/0/t/bine-initial.png.jpg

The HTML page is obviously the blog post itself. The image is the thumbnail of the “opener” image: That’s the thing that you’re pretty much guaranteed to see when you open the post in a browser.

But out of the 3800 hits on the HTML page, only 400 (~10%) are also requesting that image.

So … it’s ~90% noise, right?

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Thanks. 😅 I didn’t check the time, but I guess something between 15 and 30 minutes? 🤔

Meta Made 43M Misleading Statements, New Mexico Jury Finds, Including on Its Cambridge Analytica Response
A New Mexico jury on Friday “found Facebook liable for deceiving users” about its privacy protections, reports the Associated Press.

A New Mexico newspaper calls it “another massive legal victory” against Facebook, reporting that the jury found Facebook “had committe … ⌘ Read more

New FUTEX Syscalls Back To Being Worked On For Helping Valve’s ARM64 Gaming Ambitions
Going back to last year the Igalia open-source consulting firm has been working on enhancing the Linux kernel to help Steam Play gaming on ARM64 and ensuring the FEX emulator is operating efficiently for x86/x86_64 games running on the likes of the Steam Frame. After other kernel work in recent months, there’s finally an updated round of the FUTEX get_robust_list2 and set_robust_list2 system call patches… ⌘ Read more

There’s a New Way to Break RSA Encryption
“Signature forgery.” It’s a new way to break RSA keys — and it doesn’t require factoring. Ars Technica reports on new research using classical computing to “reduce the current RSA security level to an unacceptably low threshold” and lower the required computing resources by orders of magnitude.

There’s “a gap in current RSA-type security assumptions,” according to a paper co-authored by Univer … ⌘ Read more

@david@daiwei.me The “e” in “tired” and the “a” in “that”. 🥴

Asteroids Named After Tom Lehrer and ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic
“Weird Al” Yankovic’s name has just been approved for a new asteroid — (14331) Alyankovic = 1981 EC26 — by the International Astronomical Union, reports Space.com.

Yankovic’s asteroid was championed by planetary scientist Allison McGraw joined by “several heavy hitters in the planetary science field, according to the Tucson Star. (Astrophysicist Steve Desch fro … ⌘ Read more

@movq@www.uninformativ.de :-(

GDB 18.1 Debugger Brings Better Windows Support
GDB 18.1 is out today as the newest version of the GNU Debugger that works across C/C++, Fortran, Rust, and other languages like Go, Ada, and more… ⌘ Read more

@movq@www.uninformativ.de The tax inspector is here.

@prologic@twtxt.net Voyeur! :-D

@prologic@twtxt.net Still enjoy nevertheless!

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I like it! Even the accidents. So pretty! How long did it take you to write this?

Redox OS Adds IO_uring-Like API, NUMA & Gets QEMU Working
The Redox OS open-source, Rust-based operating system has seen a lot of activity in recent weeks with many notable improvements landing… ⌘ Read more

Approaching A 10 Second Linux Kernel Build
The coffee window is closing. Going back many years with the time it’s taken to compile the Linux kernel has been a well known opportunity for a coffee break or even eating a meal during the lengthy Linux kernel build process. Even when the Linux kernel was much smaller than it is today, with the hardware at the time it would often be a very time consuming process… Thus incredible to think that we are now on the horizon of a ten second clean, default kernel build on … ⌘ Read more

🫩🫠 #FrakturFreitag

Raspberry Pi Stock Jumps 30% as Demand Surges. (And Boards Now Locked to Their Original RAM Size)
Raspberry Pi’s stock shot up over 30% in the last week. Why are investors so excited? For the six months ending June 30, revenue for Raspberry Pi Holdings “jumped 90% to $256.9 million,” reports Investing.com, “while adjusted EBITDA more than doubled to $40.3 million, and profit be … ⌘ Read more

@david@daiwei.me 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@david@daiwei.me But it was on the side of the road!!! and she had her pants around her ankles, stark naked for all passing traffic to see ad she did a shit!!! 💩

@david@daiwei.me yea but it’s very windy, uncomfortably so and very crowded 🤯

we’re here now 👌

a woman!

gah this was full of typos 😅

Patches Posted For Enabling NVMe On All Apple M3 Based SoCs With Linux
While Linux 7.2 brought initial Apple M3 support and Linux 7.3 brought M3 Pro / Max / Ultra support, the mainline Linux kernel support for the M3 series hardware remains very basic and not yet ready for daily driving. But more work continues to be upstreamed and today the patches were posted for getting NVMe storage up and running across all Apple M3 hardware… ⌘ Read more

AMD Sends Out New Linux Patches Further Enhancing HDMI 2.1 Reliability
Linux 7.4 is going to be the big kernel release where the AMD graphics driver will finally expose HDMI 2.1 by default and comes with features including HDMI FreeSync, VRR, and ALLM. Ahead of that milestone there have been various other last minute tweaks and improvements to its HDMI 2.1 support. Sent out on Thursday was the latest round of AMDGPU DC patches that includes a few more patches for improving the HDMI 2.1 reliability… ⌘ Read more

Last Call For The Autumn Special For Ad-Free Viewing & Supporting Linux Hardware Testing
Last call for the Phoronix autumn “Oktoberfest” Premium sale: it runs through end of day Sunday, 27 September (any timezone - I’m not particularly strict). If you have been meaning to support the site, this is the window… ⌘ Read more