Lab Supply Companies Have Been Selling Antibodies Using Manipulated Images
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Antibodies play a central role in your body’s immune defense. But they’re also nearly ubiquitous in biological research, being essential for several widely used lab techniques. While some researchers need to go through the process of producing their own antibodies, anti … ⌘ Read more
Chrome/Chromium Experimenting With Flatpak Packaging
Google engineers responsible for the Chrome/Chromium web browser are experimenting with Flatpak packaging on Linux. They aren’t yet committed to officially supporting Flatpak packages but for now are at least exploring the option… ⌘ Read more
Alabama Launches Investigation Into OpenAI’s Hack of Hugging Face
Alabama’s attorney general has subpoenaed OpenAI as part of an investigation into whether inadequate safeguards contributed to an incident in which an unreleased cybersecurity model escaped its isolated environment and hacked Hugging Face. The state is examining whether OpenAI violated consumer protection laws, while OpenAI says it is conducting … ⌘ Read more
New Zealand Introduces Under-16 Social Media, AI Companion Ban
New Zealand has introduced legislation that would ban children under 16 from social media platforms and AI companion services. “We have protections to keep children safe in the real world and we need them in the virtual world too,” said Prime Minister Christopher Luxon in announcing the bill. Jurist.org reports: The Online Safety (Minimum Age and Chil … ⌘ Read more
Linux 7.0-mk2 Released For Multi-Kernel Linux With Promising Performance Results
Last year a multi-kernel architecture was proposed for the Linux kernel to allow multiple independent kernel instances to co-exist on a single physical machine. Each kernel with “multikernel” Linux can run on dedicated CPU cores whole sharing the underlying hardware resources. Linux 7.0-mk2 released today with the kernel patched for this multi-kernel behavior… ⌘ Read more
FDA Approves First Wearable Device to Monitor Glucose, Ketone Levels
The FDA has authorized the first wearable in the U.S. to continuously monitor ketone levels and the first device globally to track both ketones and glucose together in a single system. From a report: [Abbott’s] Libre Duo 10 Day continuously measures both glucose and ketone levels in the fluid just beneath the skin every minute, day and … ⌘ Read more
COSMIC Epoch 1.7 Released: No Longer Slow Browsing Network Filesystems
COSMIC Epoch 1.7 is out today as the newest update to this Rust-based open-source desktop environment with development led by System76… ⌘ Read more
Canadian Streaming Content Becomes a US Trade Issue
Canada’s cultural-content rules have become a flashpoint in its trade fight with the U.S., after American negotiators reportedly demanded that Ottawa drop requirements for streaming services to promote Canadian and French-language content. Canada refused, even as it has already backed away from some financial levies on streamers. “We were not prepared to compromise on our … ⌘ Read more
LLVM/Clang 23.1 Released With AMD Zen 6 & NVIDIA Rigel Support, Partial C++26 Support
LLVM 23.1 was released today on-schedule as the first stable release of the LLVM 23 series as the H2’2026 update to this open-source compiler stack… ⌘ Read more
Perplexity and Nvidia Launch Fully Local AI Agent With Zero Token Costs
Perplexity and Nvidia have launched “Portable Computer,” a local-first version of Perplexity’s agent platform that runs AI models, files, tools, and workflows directly on Nvidia-powered Linux hardware. Local tasks incur no token charges and keep data on-device by default, with users asked for permission before the system escalates a step … ⌘ Read more
AI Is Hitting Entry-Level Jobs Hardest, Stanford Study Finds
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: For years, AI industry watchers of all stripes have been warning of a coming jobs apocalypse driven by ultra-intelligent AI systems that will be able to replicate most human tasks more cheaply. Now, newly updated research from Stanford University economists suggests AI seems to be causing significant entry … ⌘ Read more
Wayland Found To Be “Intrinsically Faster Than X11, But Not Necessarily More Efficient”
The PorteuX Linux distribution focused on being a high performance, modular, and minimalist distro took to forking Xfce’s xfwm4 window manager into “xfwm4-gl” for OpenGL compositing support. As part of that they developed a window manager / compositor benchmark for evaluating the performance and efficiency of typical operations. Their results are fascinating… ⌘ Read more
Wayland Found To Be “Intrinsically Faster Than X11, But Not Necessarily More Efficient”
The PorteuX Linux distribution focused on being a high performance, modular, and minimalist distro took to forking Xfce’s xfwm4 window manager into “xfwm4-gl” for OpenGL compositing support. As part of that they developed a window manager / compositor benchmark for evaluating the performance and efficiency of typical operations. Their results are fascinating… ⌘ Read more
Waymo Is Expanding to Germany
Waymo plans to launch its robotaxi service in Munich by the end of 2027, marking the Google-owned company’s first expansion into the European Union. “It already operates in 11 cities in the United States and has applied for a license in the United Kingdom to launch its robotaxis in London this year,” notes Reuters. From the report: The Google subsidiary will start rolling out vehicles in the German city this year, w … ⌘ Read more
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@itsericwoodward I gotta re-watch that movie. Loved it back then. 😃
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@itsericwoodward@itsericwoodward.com I still have the movie in my archive. It’s a “TV capture” from 20 years ago, in German, super low resolution, noisy, … 🤪
Despite the shitty quality, the file is 1.1 GB large. Video codecs were really bad back then.
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@lyse Huh, didn’t expect that. :-D
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@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Nattfödd was the last album I heard / bought. I liked Katla and Wilska as singers (saw them live with Wilska, that was a ton of fun), but then they switched again and the new guy wasn’t really my thing. Maybe I should check them again. 🤔
AI/LLM Usage Becoming A “Denial of Service Attack” On Open-Source Project Maintainers
The latest criticism of the increased burden placed on open-source software project maintainers caused by AI / LLM agents is around too many bug reports effectively causing a “denial of service” attack on project maintainers… ⌘ Read more
Apple Announces New Mac Mini With M6 and M5 Pro Chips
Apple has unveiled a new Mac mini with either its new M6 chip or the M5 Pro chip released earlier this year. It adds faster CPU, GPU, storage, and AI performance along with Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 6, and 2.5Gb Ethernet as standard. There’s also a new higher starting price of $899, which is up from the previous $799 base price and far above the $599 starting price of th … ⌘ Read more
Steam Machine and Steam Controller support coming to NVIDIA GeForce NOW, plus DLSS 4.5 Ray Reconstruction out now for desktop gamers
NVIDIA announced at Gamescom 2026 a number of things - like direct Steam Machine and Steam Controller support will be coming to NVIDIA GeForce NOW.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](htt … ⌘ Read more
Motorola’s 2027 Flagships Will Officially Support GrapheneOS
Motorola is working with GrapheneOS to officially support the privacy-focused Android alternative on its 2027 flagship phones, starting with a non-folding model and later expanding to the next Razr Fold and Razr Ultra. “These will ship with Motorola’s normal Android skin, but you will be able to switch to GrapheneOS later if you want to,” notes GSMArena.c … ⌘ Read more
Benchmarking Some Incredible Performance Gains With Btrfs On Linux 7.3
With the Btrfs pull request for Linux 7.3 having delivered more performance optimizations with some ~3x and ~5x gains mentioned in specific areas, I was eager to test out the new Btrfs performance on the in-development kernel. In today’s article are some benchmarks of Btrfs on Linux 7.2 stable compared to Linux 7.3 Git with some very enticing performance gains confirmed in various workloads. ⌘ Read more
Apple Launches The M6 2nm 12-core CPU, Quad-Die M5 Ultra
Apple today unveiled the M6 as their first 2nm SoC design while also introducing the M5 Ultra as their first quad-die product… ⌘ Read more
The Modern NTFS Linux Driver Adds Read Support For Windows System Compression (WOF)
The pull requests for the existing Paragon NTFS3 kernel driver as well as the new modern “NTFS” drivers have been submitted for the ongoing Linux 7.3 kernel cycle. Besides bug fixes, most notable among these NTFS file-system drivers are Windows System Compression “WOF” read support for the modern NTFS driver… ⌘ Read more
Drop Loot is a slick reinvention of Tetris as an engrossing dungeon crawler
Stop what you’re doing and check out Drop Loot, which takes the basic idea of Tetris block-dropping and mashes it into a cool dungeon crawler.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/drop-loot-is-a-slick-reinvention-of-tetris-as-an-engrossing-dungeo … ⌘ Read more
Linux 7.3 Device Mapper Sees Many Fixes, Including Code Cleanups By Claude Opus
The Linux Device Mapper “DKM” framework for mapping block devices to higher-level virtual block devices doesn’t see any major new features for Linux 7.3 but there are many bug fixes, including code clean-ups carried out by AI… ⌘ Read more
Windows Backdoor ‘Sleepwalker’ Hides in Memory Until Activated by a ‘Magic Packet’
“The Register has a story about a Windows backdoor that waits silently in memory for a ‘magic packet’ before springing into action,” writes Slashdot reader fred133. “No outgoing traffic, just waiting…” From the report: Like a sleeper cell awaiting activation, a never-before-seen Windows backdoor dubbed Sleepwalker w … ⌘ Read more
DisplayPort 2.1 ALPM Still Being Worked On For Intel Xe3P / Nova Lake
The in-development Linux 7.3 kernel is marking Nova Lake Xe3P graphics as stable in being enabled by default and no longer hidden behind the “force probe” flag. While on-by-default, there still are some features that have yet to land like the DisplayPort 2.1 ALPM functionality… ⌘ Read more
True classic SNES JRPG ‘Terranigma’ comes to PC in early 2027
Much loved back in the 90s, the classic JRPG Terranigma is making a full return and this time with a PC release being confirmed right away.
Read the full article on GamingOnLinux. ⌘ Read more
KDE Remote Desktop Experience Improving For Closing The X11 vs. Wayland Gap
KDE developer David Edmundson is out today with a blog post around improvements that have been ongoing for the Plasma 6.8 release in improving the KDE remote desktop experience. As part of ensuring a good Wayland experience and hitting all the needs fulfilled by X11, Plasma 6.8 is seeing improvements for its remote desktop functionality… ⌘ Read more
Lots Of New Audio Hardware Support In Linux 7.3
Linux sound subsystem maintainer Takashi Iwai of SUSE submitted all of the sound feature updates last week for the Linux 7.3 kernel. Besides the continued AI/LLM-generated patch churn, the sound code for Linux 7.3 sees a lot of new hardware support… ⌘ Read more
W4 Games, the company formed by Godot Engine veterans, gets help and funding from Tencent
With an extra $18 million raised, W4 Games plan to continue to expand their enterprise technology and support for the open-source Godot Engine.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/w4-games-the-company-formed-by-godot-engine-veterans-gets-help … ⌘ Read more
Cult-classic horror point-and-click adventure Sanitarium returns as Sanitarium Enhanced
Sanitarium Enhanced is a modernized and improved edition of the cult-classic psychological horror adventure Sanitarium, originally released in 1998.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/cult-classic-horror-point-and-click … ⌘ Read more
Bazzite 44 getting a hotfix for various issues after the recent big release
The Bazzite Deck 44 release for handhelds and TV PCs was a huge change for the popular gaming focused version of Linux, which sadly came with lots of issues.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/bazzite-44-getting-a-hotfix-for-various-issues-after-the-recent-big-rele … ⌘ Read more
Valve updated a bunch of their older Steam shooters
While Valve didn’t seem to publicly celebrate their 30th anniversary, they did at least go back to some older titles to fix them up.
Read the full article on GamingOnLinux. ⌘ Read more
Alien Breed 35th Anniversary Collection announced for September
Licensed by Team 17 and developed by Antstream, Alien Breed 35th Anniversary brings together six brutal games with modernised controls and new modes.
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@fossham@twtpub.com I hope you enjoy it 😅 You might want to update your Avatar and Description at some point in your settings 👌
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Had no clue @prologic has his own computer mouse brand now, straight up giving them away, for under $3 a piece.
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@thecanine@twtxt.net LOL 😂
Had no clue @prologic@twtxt.net has his own computer mouse brand now, straight up giving them away, for under $3 a piece.
I got one and well pleasantly surprised, especially for the price. It fits perfectly in the hand, decent rubber, weighs nothing, clicks very silently. The scroll wheel is where you can feel some of the cost cutting, it’s pretty wonky, but good enough.
Classic cheap thin long cable, you better like 1600 DPI, cause there’s no button to change that. Sensor is the usual red light, but works on all surfaces, bedsheets included. Gliders are small and not around the sensor, but at this weight, that makes next to no difference.
Decent 8/10 option
Had no clue @prologic@twtxt.net has his own computer mouse brand now, straight up giving them away, for under $3 a piece.
I got one and well pleasantly surprised, especially for the price. It fits perfectly in my hand, decent rubber, weighs nothing, clicks very silently. The scroll wheel is where you can feel some of the cost cutting, it’s pretty wonky, but good enough.
Classic cheap thin long cable, you better like 1600 DPI, cause there’s no button to change that. Sensor is the usual red light, but works on all surfaces, bedsheets included. Gliders are small and not around the sensor, but at this weight, that makes next to no difference.
Decent 8/10 option
AliExpress Leverages User Audio Systems For Fingerprinting
A developer says AliExpress is using the browser’s WebAudio API to help fingerprint users by playing inaudible audio and measuring tiny differences in how their devices process it. CyberNews reports: The developer, “laserphile,” wrote on their blog that they recently ran into some weird issues with their Bluetooth headphones. They couldn’t play music via thei … ⌘ Read more
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@itsericwoodward I gotta re-watch that movie. Loved it back then. 😃
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@movq@www.uninformativ.de It’s still excellent, IMHO, and both very, very 90s and way ahead of its time. 🐦⬛
World’s Oceans Hit Highest Temperature On Record As El Nino Grows
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the BBC: The world’s oceans are hotter than ever recorded, new data suggests, as they suffer from human-caused climate change and the growing El Nino weather phenomenon. The average surface temperature of the planet’s seas outside the polar regions hit 21.1C (70F) on Saturday, according to figures from th … ⌘ Read more
Linux 7.3 Merges Initial Kernel Driver Support For The 2026 Steam Controller
The HID subsystem updates were recently merged for the ongoing Linux 7.3 kernel merge window. Among other hardware additions, the 2026 Valve Steam Controller is seeing initial kernel driver support… ⌘ Read more
Amazon Hikes Hardware Prices By 60%, Blaming Memory Shortage
Amazon has raised the prices of its hardware devices by as much as 60%, blaming “significant increases in memory and storage component costs.” TechCrunch reports: The price explosion impacted Fire TVs, Echos, Kindles, and Eeros. One egregious example that’s been cited is that of the Echo Dot, one of Amazon’s cheapest smart speakers, the price of which jumpe … ⌘ Read more
SEC Investigating Near-Implosion of AI Hedge Fund
The SEC is investigating the near-collapse of AI-focused hedge fund Situational Awareness, sending subpoenas to major Wall Street banks for details about the fund’s trades, borrowing, and communications with lenders. The fund, founded by former OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner, managed over $30 billion and borrowed tens of billions more before leveraged bets unraveled, … ⌘ Read more
Trump Admin Moves to Impose More Than $100K Fee For H-1B Worker Visas
The Trump administration is proposing to make permanent a $103,265 fee on certain new H-1B visas, dramatically increasing costs for employers that rely on highly skilled foreign workers in tech, education, and research. “A federal judge in June ruled that the fee was illegal and blocked the Trump administration from collecting it,” repor … ⌘ Read more
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@movq Hahaha! Turns out there's a reason I didn't know this album. :-D
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So far, I totally approve of Nifelvind. Currently listening to Under Bergets Rot. What an absolute banger! <3
But now, my bed is calling.
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@lyse Huh, didn’t expect that. :-D
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@movq@www.uninformativ.de I usually don’t listen to metal where the singers scream. There are only very, very few bands where I find that actually pleasing.
Two decades ago or so, we young supervisors compiled ourselves a cassette for our forest recreation week. One of us had an old ruggedly built radio with a cassette deck powered by a bunch of large Baby (?) batteries. One side had “working music” which we played back while working in the evenings and night, e.g. gathering firewood in a handtruck for the campfire and things like that.
I used something by either Finntroll or Turmion Kätilöt for the “wakeup music” side in the morning. The kids slept at home, but there were always some supervisors sleeping at the camp. The SÜT, the Standard-Übernachtungsteam, consisted of mostly young folks, about sixteen to early twenties. It was completed by wiser people in their fourties. Each morning, metal blasted through the dining tent that we converted into a sleeping tent. :-) Good times!