Steam Client Beta - October 22nd revamps Remote Play HDR support
Valve just released another upgrade with the Steam Client Beta - October 22nd update bringing overhauled Remote Play HDR support.

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@arne@uplegger.eu Ganze acht Millimeter, irre?! Zwei Stunden klingen für mich recht flott, sehr schön. Ich bin schon gespannt, was Du uns als nächstes zauber^Whäkelst. :-)

Hahaha, beim Lesen des Filmrequisitenkommentars musste ich lauthals loslachen. :‘-D

@zyak@twtxt.z85b.xyz There are many different reasons. For me it’s usually that perhaps somebody like-minded finds something also interesting, funny, whatever. Maybe not.

UN Says Breaching 1.5C Warming Limit Is ‘Imminent and Unavoidable’
For the first time, the UN has declared that exceeding the Paris Agreement’s 1.5C warming limit is “imminent and unavoidable.” “We are now saying this window has closed, but we can open it again by making the overshoot as brief as possible,” UN Environment Program Executive Director Inger Andersen said on a call with reporters. “This is about ho … ⌘ Read more

@xuu@txt.sour.is Great to see you resurrected, mate! <3

@thecanine@twtxt.net I fell you 100%.

My son asked me to fix his Win11 laptop: When he logs in, he gets a GSoD (gray screen of death). So, I fiddle with it for a few minutes, and I get it to login, but now the start menu button doesn’t work. So, I fiddle with it for another hour, and I get the start menu working, but he only has 2 GB free on his primary drive, and that’s not enough for all of the “critical” Windows updates it needs, so now I’m moving files around…

I know everyone says how “user friendly” Windows is, but I call BS on that - my Manjaro install may not always work perfectly, but at least my Start menu button does…

Unvetted AI Agents Are Accessing US Bank Accounts
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Axios: Major U.S. banks are detecting unauthorized third-party AI agents operating inside customer accounts, with some agents attempting to take actions that appear to be independent of user instructions, sources tell Axios. The difficulty in distinguishing between a human and an unauthorized bot is forcing banks to block the technolog … ⌘ Read more

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Spam is as spam does (or maybe it’s “slop is as slop does”).

What’s the point of writing text with UTF-8 formatting and always sticking to the boring-old ASCII set? 😃

@prologic@twtxt.net Understood, and I apologize if it sounded like I was trying to do a price comparison (I really wasn’t). Instead, let me ask this way: as I am still unlearned in the art of small VMs, what does one do with a 64MB container? I’m old enough to remember when apps were really small, but even most “simple” apps are too big for a 64MB machine, right? Or am I missing something?

I guess that’s why I made the comparison with the 512MB droplet at DO - that’s the smallest machine I’ve run in a VPS so far (and even my home servers have 8-32 GB of RAM).

Maybe a better question is: What would you run on a service like what you’re talking about? Or what do you envision people using it for?

Linux 7.4 Workqueue Changes Bring A “10 To 100 Times Faster” Optimization
Adding to all the exciting performance optimizations and other improvements for Linux 7.4 is an exciting workqueue improvement. It’s not too often getting to talk about “10 to 100 times faster” software improvements… ⌘ Read more

@xuu@txt.sour.is Duuuuude, you Have been missed!! Happy seeing you around after all this time. I hope life has been treating you well 🙏

To Make Way For Data Centers, Google Will Pay Others to Use Less Power
Google is funding one of the nation’s largest “virtual power plants,” paying homes and businesses indirectly to reduce electricity consumption during periods of peak demand so more grid capacity can be available for data centers. Under its expanded deal with Voltus, the program could provide up to 1,070 megawatts in the Mid-Atlantic … ⌘ Read more

Microsoft Says October Updates Didn’t Actually Fix VPN Issues
joshuark shares a report from BleepingComputer: Microsoft says it mistakenly flagged a bug causing Always On VPN connection issues as fixed in the October 2026 Windows 11 cumulative updates. Always On VPN replaced the legacy DirectAccess technology and supports domain-joined, non-domain-joined, and Microsoft Entra ID-joined devices running Windows 10, Win … ⌘ Read more

Fedora 45 Hits A Second NO-GO: Not Releasing Until November
Fedora 45 wasn’t released this week as its ideal early release target due to not having a release candidate build in time for last week’s Go/No-Go meeting. At today’s Go/No-Go meeting, Fedora 45 was delayed by at least one more week due to open blocker bugs… ⌘ Read more

The Browser Company Retires Its Arc Browser, Pushes Users to Dia
The Browser Company is shutting down its Arc browser on December 22 and encouraging users to migrate to Dia, its newer AI-powered browser for Apple Silicon Macs and Windows 11 PCs. Thurrott reports: In the message explaining why it was sunsetting Arc, The Browser Company explained that maintaining two separate browsers was difficult to justify, es … ⌘ Read more

Moderna Shares Plunge After Leak of Cancer Vaccine Data
Moderna shares plunged as much as 25% after partial clinical trial data leaked for its personalized cancer vaccine developed with Merck, despite the full results showing promising outcomes for melanoma patients. Analysts attribute the selloff largely to inflated investor expectations rather than disappointing clinical results. CNBC reports: The personalized vaccine, kno … ⌘ Read more

Since honesty is kindness, Microsoft is by far the worst company I ever had the displeasure of trying to communicate with. Getting them to fix the most basic of bugs always took years. In some cases it’s been over two and a half decades and it’s still broken.

I never thought it was even possible to make an operating system so broken, I’d have to manually restart my background services and set “network interface metrics” by hand, in advanced TCP/IP settings, while using it.

There are buttons that don’t even do anything when clicked and ones I’ve never seen do anything other than throw an error message.

The AI they rent to pretend to be an AI company, was for years outputting paragraphs, describing the beautiful and artful checkerboard pattern in the background, whenever trying to analyze transparent images. Transparent profile pictures work only on GitHub, the one product where the implementation was done prior to Microsoft acquisition.

Many engineers in their own forums, still manage to make that very AI sound smart, in comparison.

The design is an absolute shitshow, where no two things look like they belong in the same system — the only thing almost consistent, is excessive padding and rounded corners, placed wherever they fit the least.

But hey, 5000 engineers were fired, that will surely improve things!

AI Helping To Improve Linux’s AMD Zen CPU Microarchitecture Detection
A request for comments (RFC) was sent out last night on the Linux kernel mailing list in seeking to clean-up the AMD Zen microarchitecture detection within the kernel. This is for enhancing the kernel where there are code paths specific to a certain generation of AMD Zen processors or select generations such as Zen 3 through Zen 5 CPUs. AI was leveraged in helping to clean-up this AMD Zen code in the Linux kernel… ⌘ Read more

Bose Is Buying Skullcandy
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Longtime audio giant Bose announced on Wednesday that it’s acquiring Skullcandy, the lifestyle brand known for its bass-heavy headphones. Skullcandy will remain a separate company within Bose’s Premium Consumer Audio business and will still be based in Park City, Utah.

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@movq@www.uninformativ.de Good to know!

Modular’s MAX Source Code Now Fully Opened, Under New MAX License
Back in August Modular’s Mojo language was open-sourced following the acquisition of Chris Lattner’s company by Qualcomm. The latest achievement now out of the company is their MAX software being fully opened up with the entire source tree available… ⌘ Read more

LOL:

@arne@uplegger.eu Sauber! Sowas ist echt die Pest.

Zoe Kleinman: PHP Is the Cyber Equivalent of an Unexploded Bomb
BBC technology editor Zoe Kleinman likens the recently discovered PHP security vulnerabilities to an unexploded bomb, writing, “The PHP story feels like the cyber equivalent of an unexploded bomb – I have never seen such a dramatic, public and global response to a cyber event that hasn’t happened yet.” Although no successful attacks have been confi … ⌘ Read more

@arne@uplegger.eu @movq@www.uninformativ.de Hut ab! Die Schnur sieht fast aus wie ein Seil von der Dicke. Das muss ja eine mords Häkelnadel sein, die Du dazu nimmst. Wie lang hast Du dafür gebraucht? Müsste ja eine ganze Weile gedauert haben, wenn ich mich sehr wage an die Schulzeit zurückerinner, als ich das letzte Mal gehäkelt habe. Also nicht nur Luft-, sondern richtig mit Kettmaschen. Luftmaschen mach ich regelmäßig von Hand.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Yeah, this diff… :-D

@movq@www.uninformativ.de @itsericwoodward@itsericwoodward.com @prologic@twtxt.net Hahaha, I didn’t see the Zalgo either. My own rendering can’t keep up:

But funnily enough, the raw view does it:

@movq@www.uninformativ.de That’s why it’s suddenly getting really cold over here!1 I hope that your workmate keeps it up.

@zyak@twtxt.z85b.xyz That sounds absolutely lovely to me. Enjoy while it lasts.

Anthropic Takes On Muse With Claude Duet
Anthropic has launched Claude Duet, an AI agent aimed at professionals and small businesses that competes with Meta’s Muse and OpenAI’s Dots. Here’s Anthropic’s description of what it can do: Each morning, it sends you a short brief on the most important items across your connected apps. Throughout the day, it keeps tabs on those apps and messages you only when something needs your attention. You c … ⌘ Read more

The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.

Several Linux Kernel Vulnerabilities Accidentally Posted To Public Kernel Mailing List
Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative appears to have accidentally disclosed several unpatched Linux kernel vulnerabilities on the public LKML instead of the private security list, including two CVSS 9.0 flaws that could enable remote code execution through SMB Direct and KSMBD. “This seemingly was a mistake … ⌘ Read more

Linux 7.4 Improves Scheduling Latency For Short-Slice Tasks, NVIDIA Vera SMT Preference
The scheduler updates have been merged for the in-development Linux 7.4 kernel to deliver several nice scheduling enhancements… ⌘ Read more

Google Staff Resign In Backlash Over Its AI Contracts With Military
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the BBC: Google is facing a backlash from some staff members over the company’s deployment of its AI technology for military use. The BBC has spoken to several tech workers who have either recently resigned from Google’s AI company, Google DeepMind, or are in the process of leaving, over concerns wit … ⌘ Read more

x86 Kernel Shadow Stacks Being Worked On For Linux As Powerful Control Flow Protection
Linux user-space for several years had shadow stack support for hardware-enforced control-flow enforcement in defending against return oriented programming (ROP) attacks. Intel Tigerlake and newer CPUs or AMD Zen 3 and newer have the necessary hardware shadow stacks support. Shadow stacks have been effective for helping user-space software fend ROP attacks while now there is new work toward bringing shadow stack support for k … ⌘ Read more

@arne@uplegger.eu Hut! Hut! Hut!

@itsericwoodward@itsericwoodward.com No worries. I’m sure we’re all UTF-8-clean. 😏

@itsericwoodward@itsericwoodward.com @prologic@twtxt.net Bwahaha. 🤣 (I didn’t see the zalgo effect in my terminal, until prologic posted the screenshot. 😅)

@kamme@twtxt.thanatos.be I’m certainly not $deity nor a huge expert on this, but what are you struggling with? 😅

Mesa Loosens Rules Around AI Agents For Code Comments / Commit Messages
The Mesa 3D graphics driver project has loosened its rules laid out in their AGENTS.md for AI agents to permit AI/LLM assistance in generating code comments and commit/patch messages, as long as a human is ultimately reviewing/editing it in the end… ⌘ Read more

Myrlyn 1.1 Released For SUSE/openSUSE GUI Package Manager
Myrlyn, the package manager GUI that began as YQPkg during a SUSE Hack Week and has evolved quite well, is out with version 1.1 as the first new feature update since the beginning of the year… ⌘ Read more

Airbnb Bans Making Guests Do Dishes, Take Out the Trash
Airbnb is banning hosts from requiring guests to perform time-consuming checkout chores, including washing dishes, stripping beds, doing laundry, and taking trash off-site. The updated policy applies to reservations booked on or after November 20. The Verge reports: Airbnb is displaying hosts’ requests more prominently now in a new “rules and requests” section on listin … ⌘ Read more

Mesa RADV Change Satisfies More Steam Play Games On Aging AMD GFX8 GPUs
Valve landed a patch in Mesa 27.0 and to be back-ported to current Mesa stable series to satisfy more games running under Steam Play with VKD3D-Proton for working on AMD GFX8 GPUs like Polaris… ⌘ Read more

Cyberpunk 2077 Edgerunners update brings improved modding, better HDR, new content and more
CD PROJEKT RED have released another major free update for Cyberpunk 2077 adding new content from the Anime, along with other tech upgrades.

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Several Linux Kernel Vulnerabilities Accidentally Posted To Public Kernel Mailing List
Seemingly as an accident, overnight several new Linux kernel vulnerability reports were posted to the public Linux kernel mailing list rather than the private security mailing list. The vulnerabilities have yet to be patched on mainline but at least in some cases there are patches undergoing testing or queued in “-next” branches. The CVSS scores are as high as 9.0… ⌘ Read more

Linux 7.4 Adapts AMD Zen 6 For Less Costly CPU Security Mitigation
The x86/bugs pull request was merged this week for the Linux 7.4 kernel. Most notable here is adjusting the CPU security mitigations for AMD Zen 6 processors… ⌘ Read more

Another set of 15 demos to try in Steam Next Fest - October 2026 edition
Another chance for you to find your next favourite, with our second set of demo highlights from Steam Next Fest - October 2026 edition.

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Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War IV has an exciting new gameplay overview trailer
We’ve got another close look at Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War IV ahead of the December release, with an impressive new trailer.

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Serious Sam: The Third Encounter gets teased by Croteam and Devolver Digital
Back for another helping of ridiculous action, Croteam and Devolver Digital have revealed Serious Sam: The Third Encounter.

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