TikTok to Pay Alabama $100 Million, Limit Teen Use In First State Settlement
TikTok has agreed to pay Alabama at least $100 million and adopt new restrictions for teenage users, including a two-hour daily limit, overnight access restrictions, stronger age verification, a ban on beauty filters, and an option for a non-personalized feed. The settlement could grow to as much as $300 million if enough oth … ⌘ Read more
Data Center Developer Offers $10,000 Checks To Nearby Households
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Tom’s Hardware: NorthPoint Development wants to build a data center on 1,300 acres in the Pocono foothills, near Hazle Township, Pennsylvania. As well as seeking to charm the local government with various funding packages, it has proposed paying checks of $10,000 per household. Despite the Pennsylvania town’s … ⌘ Read more
NVIDIA Developing “Display Config Server” To Improve Linux/Wayland On Display Walls
As an initiative from NVIDIA for improving the Linux ecosystem outside the world of AI, they have been developing Display-Config-Server as a new solution to help enhance the Linux capabilities for complex display walls… ⌘ Read more
The moon looked really nice on today’s night stroll: 
SIMDjson 5.0 Released: Still Making JSON Parsing Even Faster
SIMDjson is the open-source, high performance JSON parser that surprisingly began making use of AVX-512 to deliver big performance gains years ago. SIMDjson has continued further refining itself to deliver even greater speeds and out today is SIMDjson 5.0… ⌘ Read more
Meta Taps MongoDB CEO Desai to Drive Enterprise AI Push
Meta has hired MongoDB CEO Chirantan “CJ” Desai to lead a new enterprise AI business aimed at turning Meta’s models, agents and tools into products companies can deploy themselves. Reuters reports: Desai, a veteran technology executive, took over the role from Dev Ittycheria. MongoDB has appointed Ittycheria as interim CEO as it searches for a permanent repl … ⌘ Read more
Nvidia Unveils AI Agent Safety Platform With Hardware-Based Watchdog
wiredmikey shares a report from SecurityWeek: Nvidia on Monday announced the Open Agent Safety Platform, which combines open source software and a reference system design to keep AI agents within set boundaries from testing through deployment. The chipmaker explained that the platform pairs the open-source OpenShell runtime with Sentry, an o … ⌘ Read more
Amazon Evaluating Drone Deliveries In Australia, Asia
Amazon is preparing to expand Prime Air drone deliveries into Australia and potentially other Asia-Pacific markets, with a new regulatory role tasked with securing the approvals needed to launch service there. The Register reports: “As Prime Air evaluates Australia and other countries, we are hiring a Head of Regulatory Approvals, Australia – the person responsible fo … ⌘ Read more
Fedora 45 To Feature Smoother Experience For Snapdragon X1 Laptops
Qualcomm hiring one of Red Hat’s top x86_64 Linux laptop experts last year, Hans de Goede, is indeed having a positive benefit on enhancing the Fedora Linux support for Qualcomm Snapdragon X powered hardware… ⌘ Read more
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@zyak@twtxt.z85b.xyz Sounds great! Next time, you have to snap a pic or two. :-)
Bill Gates Says an AI ‘Kill Switch’ Isn’t Enough
Bill Gates said an AI “kill switch” alone would be insufficient to address the technology’s risks. “The kill switch is, that’s kind of a weird thing. It’s not enough to have a kill switch,” the Microsoft co-founder said in an interview that aired Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” He said the more immediate concern is people using AI for cyberattacks or bioterrorism rather than systems … ⌘ Read more
SpaceX Launches Starship Into Orbit
SpaceX’s Starship reached orbit for the first time, successfully deploying 26 operational Starlink V3 satellites after overcoming an early Raptor 3 engine shutdown during ascent. “SpaceX plans to eventually deploy 100,000 upgraded Starlink V3s to expand the company’s wireless satellite internet services,” notes Space.com. Here’s the latest update from the report:
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Walmart Says It’s Not Using Personal Info To Set Prices As It Expands Digital Shelf Labels
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Associated Press: Walmart is aiming to assuage customers’ fears about its new pricing technology as it rolls out digital price labels at its stores. In a statement posted on the company’s website, Walmart’s CEO John Furner vowed that the Bentonville, Ar … ⌘ Read more
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@prologic@twtxt.net Right, sorry!
It’s a video filmed by a person standing on a beach. The hero of this little movie is a guy on a stand-up paddle board: He’s out on the ocean and tries to reach his air mattress, which is floating on the ocean next to him. But it’s a cloudy and windy day, and he can’t quite reach it. So he keeps paddling and paddling, until he almost got it. Then, another gust of wind – the mattress is gone again. But he doesn’t give up! He keeps paddling, almost reaches it – and another gust of wind. This keeps going for quite a while. Eventually, he is so close to his air mattress that he jumps off his board and tries to truly grab the mattress. And he aaaaaaalllllmooooooooost got it! But then, of course, another big gust of wind and the mattress gets pushed far, far away. Probably gone for good. 🥲
Firefox 157 Now Available With Visual Refresh, WebRTC Hardware AV1 Decode
As part of the Mozilla Firefox bi-weekly release regiment, the Firefox 157 binaries are now available for this open-source web browser… ⌘ Read more
Space bullet heaven roguelike Sublight is full of chaotic battles
Sublight is a new Early Access release from CODEBREW SOFTWARE LTD, bringing survivor-likes into the space age. I took a look to see what I thought.
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Flatpak 1.18.4 Released With Important Security Fixes
Flatpak 1.18.4 is out today with a number of high profile security fixes for this app sandboxing and distribution tech… ⌘ Read more
NVIDIA Vera SMT Performance Benchmarks
Recently I was provided remote access to a NVIDIA Vera server with the dual socket Vera CPU Superchip providing 176 Olympus cores plus with NVIDIA’s Spatial Multithreading “SMT” implementation providing 352 total threads. With this benchmarking was free rein for testing, including CPU power and frequency monitoring. Over the next few weeks will be a number of articles looking at different areas of NVIDIA Vera performance. One of the areas I was most eager to test was looking at Ver … ⌘ Read more
AMD PerfOpt To Deliver New Performance Optimization For AMD iGPUs With Linux 7.4
Those using AMD integrated graphics on Linux such as the beefy Ryzen AI Max+ Strix Halo and Gorgon Halo hardware will be able to enjoy even better performance with the upcoming Linux 7.4 kernel… ⌘ Read more
Linux 7.4 To Introduce The Steal Governor For Helping Virtualized Workloads
Now queued up for introduction in the Linux 7.4 merge window later in October is the steal governor driver for preferred CPUs and steal-driven vCPU backoff for today’s virtualized world… ⌘ Read more
Legacy Code is a bizarre looking mechanical creature action-physics sim
Legacy Code is one of the more quirky games to enter the GamingOnLinux inbox recently, where you build up a mechanical creature in a action-physics sim.
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Minecraft LIVE Fall 2026 reveals a new dimension for Minecraft called The Sift
The first new Minecraft dimension in over 14 years – joining the Overworld, the Nether and the End is The Sift.
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Shotcut 26.9 Video Editor Brings UI Improvements, Automatic Audio Ducking
Following the earlier Shotcut 26.9 beta at the beginning of September, the open-source developers behind the open-source non-linear video editor are out with the Shotcut 26.9 stable release… ⌘ Read more
King in the Mountain is like if Dwarf Fortress was a mini casual incremental
Time for you to check out King in the Mountain if you like casual incremental games, with a demo available that works great on Linux systems.
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Are AI Chatbots Spreading Misinformation to US Voters?
Are AI chatbots quietly shaping the perceptions of U.S. voters? Voters trying to educate themselves about candidates “are unknowingly being served partisan talking points in the guise of neutral news summaries,” write two news researchers in Politico magazine:
Leading AI chatbots cite partisan websites masquerading as independent local news outlets nearly half o … ⌘ Read more
PlayStation 3 emulator RPCS3 gets a new showcase of big improvements
RPCS3 is a multi-platform open-source Sony PlayStation 3 emulator that keeps pulling in some massive improvements - check out their new showcase.
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Hytale Chapter 1 arrives October 12 with lots of new content
Hytale is set for a huge content expansion with Chapter 1 arriving October 12th, bringing the first hand-crafted dungeon and a multi-phase boss fight.
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FEX code cache enabled for Proton Experimental (ARM) to improve frame timings
Valve have upgraded Proton Experimental (ARM) with a feature that should hopefully improve some frame timings for devices like the Steam Frame.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/fex-code-cache-enabled-for-proton-experimental-arm-to-improve-frame- … ⌘ Read more
Steam Beta fixes non-Steam games to failing to launch
Now and then a fresh Steam Beta comes with issues - and for Linux, Valve recently broke non-Steam games.
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Apple Faces $5.7 Billion Patent Infringement Verdict Over iPhone And Apple Watch Haptics
“A federal jury in San Diego awarded Taction Technology more than $5.7 billion in damages Friday after finding that Apple infringed claims from two haptics patents,”
reports CNBC:
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@zyak@twtxt.z85b.xyz Hah 🤣 The property of Twtxt / Yarn.social that we all enjoy is how slow that ecosystem is 😅
Just How Big is the AI Buildout - and How Risky?
A new Brookings Institution study notes the “strikingly physical” economic footprint of AI’s buildout, from specialized chips and electricity to purpose-built data centers. (Two-thirds of a data center’s costs are IT equipment, with one-third going to real estate and its associated power infrastructure.) “At an average of 3.63 percent of GDP per year, the projected buildout would be l … ⌘ Read more
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@zyak@twtxt.z85b.xyz Nice! 👌 let me know if there are any other improvements we can make 🙏
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@zyak@twtxt.z85b.xyz Oh nice! 👌 Are you using the Twtxt.spp with it too? 🧐
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what am I saying here? Can someone explain it to me in words? 🧐
Linux 7.3-rc5 Released: “Another Week, Another Large RC”
In working toward the stable Linux 7.3 kernel release hopefully on 18 October, out today is Linux 7.3-rc5 as the newest weekly test candidate… ⌘ Read more
Waymo Says Its Self-Driving Cars Reduced Injury-Causing Accidents by 82%
Waymo’s self-driving car technology “continues to outperform human benchmarks,” the company claimed this week. “It was involved in 841 fewer injury-causing crashes — an 82% reduction compared to human drivers.”
Electrek reports:
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@movq@www.uninformativ.de Sometimes you lose, sometimes the others win.
Did I post this here already?
“A short film about hope”
https://movq.de/v/eb0675d4ce/a-short-film-about-hope.mp4
Source: https://social.tchncs.de/@grumpy_copi/117257509153287572
Budgie 10.10.3 Released With Favorites In Budgie Menu, Labwc Bridge Improvements
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@prologic@twtxt.net Let’s hope there are no more … ahem … party poopers. 🤣
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@prologic@twtxt.net Nice! Looks tranquil.
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@lyse Yeah, it's what we use for streaming. We've had a YouTube Faamily plan for years (we originally signed up to keep the ads away from the younglings), and it's included as part of the deal. I also have some hard-to-find music I uploaded to it back when it was Google Play Music. Still, I wouldn't recommend it to anyone, per se.
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@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Agreed, and I have an extensive library of “my own” files. However, we bought into the Google Home ecosystem some years ago (we have those little hockey-puck-shaped speakers throughout the house), and the only way to get multi-room streaming to work with them is to use a streaming service that they support. Hence, YT Music.
I’ve been expecting Google to EoL those speakers for the past few years, and figured I’d finally pivot to something self-hosted once that happens. But not yet!
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Hey, folks. Sorry to disappear for the last couple of weeks.
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@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Thanks!
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@david@daiwei.me
My email is hey (at) itsericwoodward.com, if that works. While I agree it doesn’t help test federation in the short term, right now I don’t really have a frame of reference for how it should work, which makes it doubly hard to setup. 🙂
TBH, my biggest concerns with running my own instance is with DNS, just because of the “unique” way my home network is setup (plus, it’s always DNS…).
After Dozens of Incidents at OpenAI and Anthropic, OpenAI Pauses Model Training to Build More Safeguards
“OpenAI said it has paused training of its latest AI models,” reports the Associated Press, “as reports of AI agents going rogue mount.”
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Linux Kernel’s LZ4 Compression Code Being Resynced For Better Performance & Cleanliness
In addition to the Linux kernel’s Zstd compression code being improved, the LZ4 compression code within the kernel tree is also seeing a separate set of enhancements… ⌘ Read more
Intel Delivers A Significant Memory Hotplugging Performance Optimization For Linux
Adding to the features expected to land for Linux 7.4 is a significant performance optimization for the memory hotplugging speed for adding additional RAM. In particular, the memory hotplugging being most applicable for cases like expanding the amount of memory for VMs or in today’s CXL world for adding additional system memory… ⌘ Read more
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Hello! 👋