Darling Now Embraces AI For Running macOS Binaries On Linux
Darling is the software project more than a decade in development that is designed to run macOS binaries on Linux. This macOS compatibility layer for Linux is now gaining more brisk developments as it turns to AI/LLMs to assist in this creation… ⌘ Read more

ChaCha AVX-512 Optimization For Linux 7.5 Yields Up To 99% Improvement On AMD Zen 5
The Linux kernel’s ChaCha symmetric stream cipher code has long had an AVX-512 optimized code path but it was catering to the early generations of Intel CPUs with AVX-512 (Skylake) that suffered from down-clocking under use. But now slated for arrival with Linux 7.5 is tuning the code to perform better on today’s AVX-512 Intel and AMD processors that don’t suffer from this limitation. In turn the ChaCha performance is as much as 9 … ⌘ Read more

Orbiter Detects Signs of Possible Volcanic Activity on Mars
Futurism reports:

While many scientists have long held that Mars is “geologically dead” inside, new research is adding to the growing body of evidence to the contrary.

As detailed in a new paper published in the journal Science Advances, an international team of researchers examined data collected by the European and Russian ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter … ⌘ Read more

@klaxzy@klaxzy.net Yeah, it’s a CD from my cabinet. It’s old, though, I got it when buying CDs was just a normal thing to do. 😅

It’s not necessarily my “mission” to collect this stuff, but I still buy new CDs these days. I just like having something physical, I like reading the booklet, I enjoy the artwork. Guess I’m just old-fashioned.

But it has become rare. The last one was “Leitmotif” by Dredg about 1.5 years ago. And that’s an old record as well (1998), I just never got around to buying it back then.

Okay, I admit it. Maybe I do collect this shit a little bit. 🤣

Linux Seeing Driver Work For MSI Mystic Light On Latest Ryzen Motherboards
MSI’s latest Ryzen motherboards with AMD 800 series chipsets feature a new capability marked as Mystic Light for RGB lighting controls of the motherboard as well as compatible graphics cards and cases. MSI Mystic Light control software is only offered for Microsoft Windows but thanks to an open-source developer with the help of Claude Code, a Mystic Light open-source driver is being worked on for the Linux kernel… ⌘ Read more

Linux 7.5 To Convey To User-Space Multi-Grain Timestamp Usage On Files
Merged for Linux 6.13 back in 2024 was multigrain timestamp support for being able to switch between coarse and fine-grained change/modification time reporting on a per-file basis. This is useful if caring about accuracy more than the once-per-jiffy timestamps on files and was originally devised as a way of addressing NFS caching issues. A limitation of multigrain timestamps though has been the lack of user-space to know whether a file’s t … ⌘ Read more

Call of Duty Zombies merged with Team Fortress 2 - Mann Versus Zombies is coming to Steam
Love the idea of fighting off zombies in the Team Fortress 2 world? Mann Versus Zombies is bringing the action to Steam.

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New Linux Patches Bring-Up The Samsung Galaxy XR Headset, Qualcomm Halliday SoC
Samsung’s Galaxy XR headset runs on Android XR by default with its own downstream kernel patches. A user leveraging AI with multiple LLMs has now drafted an initial set of patches getting the Galaxy XR headset working on the mainline kernel along with bringing up the Qualcomm Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 2 “Halliday” SoC that powers this VR/XR headset… ⌘ Read more

Intel ANV Lands Bitrate Control For AV1 Encoding
Hyunjun Ko of Igalia continues working on enhancing the Vulkan Video support in the Mesa ANV driver for better open-source video acceleration support… ⌘ Read more

Lumen Keeper looks like a fun mixture of roguelite action meets tower defense
Fight off the swarms while you also build up defences, and push back the darkness in Lumen Keeper.

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Path of Exile 2 releases December 11 with a huge update it goes free to play
The big day is approaching, Path of Exile 2 hits the 1.0 on December 11 when it will also finally go free to play.

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New skateboarding deckbuilder Grab Your Deck looks very unique
Jump onto your deck and build up some tricks using cards in Grab Your Deck, a new skateboarding deckbuilder that looks unique.

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Surprise for Cast of ‘Return of the Living Dead’ Sequel. They Were Replaced by AI
A crowdfunded sequel to the movie Return of the Living Dead was uploaded last weekend — but producer Richard Driscoll is drawing criticism for what he did to the 1985 punk/zombie classic.

Kotaku reports:
[The release of the movie] came to the surprise to the original cast, who were attached to star in th … ⌘ Read more

Fight through the districts of a dead city in the demo of SAMOPAL Protocol
If you’re in need of more interesting retro shooters, how about check out SAMOPAL Protocol. Inspired by 1960s Eastern Europe.

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Aftermind is a promising looking boomer-shooter set inside a coma patient’s nightmares
Things look a bit spooky and full of gibs in the boomer-shooter Aftermind, set inside the mind of a coma patient.

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Under-equipped and far from help, retro shooter DERELIKT arrives November 13
DERELIKT is a narrative retro FPS built for fans of claustrophobic PS1-era sci-fi horror, and it’s set to release on November 13.

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Heroes of Might and Magic 2 project fheroes2 version 1.1.18 is out now
Dear players of HoMM2 and fans of the fheroes2 project! After a very long delay and endless waiting, we are finally releasing the next version.

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Asahi Linux Drops MIT and Goes Full GPL After Spotting LLM-Assisted License Laundering
It’s FOSS reports:

Asahi Linux is the reason you can run Linux on an Apple Silicon Mac today. For years, the project put most of its own code under the MIT license so that anyone, including the BSDs, could reuse it as needed… They have announced that Asahi is moving all of its repositories to the GNU … ⌘ Read more

Electric Cars Are Close to Overtaking Petrol In the UK, Data Shows
69 million people people live in the United Kingdom. And now >Electrek reports:

Battery-electric cars took 32% of the UK’s new car market in October, while petrol cars fell to just 37.2%, according to new data from the SMMT. That’s the closest the two have been. At the current pace, electric cars will outsell petrol in the UK within a yea … ⌘ Read more

Linux 7.4-rc2 Released With FAT32 Optimization, AMDGPU HDMI 2.2 Improvement
Linus Torvalds just released the second weekly release candidate of Linux 7.4 with some notable bug fixes and other changes routed in past the merge window. It’s another big one in the AI era… ⌘ Read more

Can CrowdStrike’s New ‘AI Kill Switch’ Shut Down Rogue AI Agents?
CrowdStrike’s “Falcon Guardian” protects Windows systems by enforcing policy, restricting unauthorized applications and blocking USB devices, notes Gartner.
And now CrowdStrike says they’re giving security teams “the ultimate human control over AI agents” with — an “AI Kill Switch… a defender can terminate it where it runs, block it from launching … ⌘ Read more

Coool 😎 This app is working nicely 👌

Nvidia CEO Admits Affair With Alleged Chinese Spy. Investigation Opened
CNBC reports new details about the relationship of alleged Chinese spy with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang:

Huang told Nvidia staff in a email on Sunday that he had an affair with the woman and that Nvidia’s board of directors had opened an independent investigation into the spying allegations. “I was unfaithful to my wife. My actions … ⌘ Read more

Parents Sue Google Over AI Safety Risks On School Chromebooks
The New York Times reports:

After chatting for months with Google’s artificial intelligence on a school-issued Chromebook laptop, a 13-year-old student made plans to end her life, according to a lawsuit filed in California Superior Court on Monday, the latest in a wave of litigation over Big Tech’s effects on young people. The lawsuit, which refers to … ⌘ Read more

Salon, One of the Web’s Pioneering News Outlets, Shuts Down After 31 Years
“It has been an extraordinary privilege,” says the subheading on Thursday’s announcement. After 31 years Salon.com will stop publishing, according to an announcement which appeared on the site under the byline “Salon”. It remembers that Salon “was an idea about what journalism could be, born at a moment when the internet was stil … ⌘ Read more

Claude Code’s ‘Don’t Ask Again’ File Exposes Passwords and Keys in 1,122 Public Copies on GitHub
Be careful with the file .claude/settings.local.json, warns The Hacker News:

Passwords and API keys that developers typed into commands they approved in Claude Code are sitting in public GitHub repositories, where anyone can read them. When a user selects “Yes, and don’t ask again,” Anthro … ⌘ Read more

Do Data Centers Have a Smaller Effect on Electricity Prices Than We Think?
“According to a new study by researchers at Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania, data centers are probably having only a small effect on residential electricity prices,” reports the Washington Post.

“The researchers calculated that these operations were responsible for just 4% of the utility rate increase … ⌘ Read more

Norwegians Release FOSS GNOME Software for Music Recording, Internet Radio, and Cameras
ole (Slashdot reader #19,909) writes in about his free, Norwegian open-source music recording studio for GNOME called GarageJam, which he says allows musicians to compose, record, and share original music seamlessly on the Internet.
The latest release, GarageJam 8.0.1, is available in C and Pyth … ⌘ Read more

Python’s CVEs Triple. Anthropic Funds a New Security Developer
In the last year CVEs have increased 3x for Python and its package manager Pip, according to Python’s security developer in residence Seth Larson. “And the amount of malware published and removed from the Python Package Index (PyPI) is up 60%.” Securing Python’s ecosystem is getting more complex, he writes, especially given “the evolving role of … ⌘ Read more

Aaron Swartz Would’ve Been 40 Today. His ‘Legacy Lives On’ Says FSF
“Aaron Swartz would have turned forty this year,” writes FSF deputy director Sean O’Brien. “November 8 is Aaron Swartz Day, when we remember a pioneer of free software and information sharing whose contributions helped shape the modern internet.”

The Internet Archive will host a hackathon Sunday in San Francisco celebrating Aaron’s Swartz’s li … ⌘ Read more

Linux 7.5 To Provide More AMD Ryzen AI NPU AIE4 Enablement
Even before the Linux v7.4 merge window was over, there were already two pull requests of drm-misc-next material targeting for what will be Linux 7.5. This week already saw the third drm-misc-next pull request of more feature patches targeting this next kernel version… ⌘ Read more

AMD PerfOpt Performance Boosting Code Tweaked For Linux 7.4-rc2
Of the many exciting changes in Linux 7.4, one of the exciting out-of-the-box performance improvements is the new “PerfOpt” functionality for AMD SoCs with integrated Radeon graphics. AMD PerfOpt can deliver some nice iGPU performance improvements especially for AI/LLM workloads. With today’s Linux 7.4-rc2 kernel release there are a few tweaks to the PerfOpt code in the IOMMU area… ⌘ Read more

Yunsilicon Working To Upstream Their High Performance Linux Network Driver
Yunsilicon is a Chinese semiconductor startup founded in 2021 that is working on producing high performance networking adapters and DPUs. Over the past month has been their first foray into posting patches to the Linux kernel mailing list and working to get their networking hardware supported by the mainline Linux kernel… ⌘ Read more

GCC 17 Feature Development Ends Next Week
How time flies with the GCC 17 feature development set to end next week and transitioning over to a bug fixing focus… ⌘ Read more

Linux Fixes Faulty Mitigation Selection For BHI Vulnerability
This week’s batch of x86 fixes have been sent out ahead of the Linux 7.4-rc2 kernel releasing later today… ⌘ Read more

NASA Announces It’s Looking for New Astronauts
Saturday NASA officials announced it’s accepting applications for a new astronaut class, reports the Associated Press:

With only 32 active astronauts, the space agency needs more recruits as it looks to expand humanity’s presence beyond low-Earth orbit as quickly as possible… “We have far more work than we have astronauts,” Artemis III commander Randy Bresnik told The Associat … ⌘ Read more

@klaxzy@klaxzy.net Boo!

Extra boo!

Can’t blame you. 😅

Scifi Magazine ‘Starlog’ Relaunches, and Back Issues Return to Internet Archive
Slashdot reader sandbagger brings news about the classic science ficdtion magazine Starlog. It’s 33-year run from 1976 to 2009 is now available on the Internet Archive.

And 17 years after publishing its final issue, Starlog is relaunching, publishing one issue a year starting November 13, according to The Holly … ⌘ Read more

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Testing unposted draft…

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AlpineBSD Announced - an AI-free FOSS OS
Lproven (Slashdot reader #6,030) shares his article about a new OS in the BSD family “combining NetBSD’s kernel and libc with a port of the Alpine Linux userland” — and promising it won’t use AI-generated code:

AlpineBSD is so new that it barely exists yet. There are no installation media available, though it’s possible to manually bootstrap an installation. What AlpineBSD does already have i … ⌘ Read more

Microsoft Removes PC-to-PC Migration from Windows 11, Points Users to OneDrive-Based Backup
Windows 11 offered a PC-to-PC Migration feature that “moved files and settings directly between two PCs over Wi-Fi or Ethernet,” reports Ghacks. But according to an updated Microsoft support page, the tool is no longer available.

“Microsoft’s support documentation now redirects users to Window … ⌘ Read more

OpenIndiana 2026.10 Released With Updated Tools & Compilers, New Apps
OpenIndiana Hipster 2026.10 is out today as the newest six-month update to this operating system based on Illumos and with the lineage tracing back to the fruitful Sun OpenSolaris days… ⌘ Read more

Data Centers are Being Powered By Giant Gas Plants, Possibly Increasing Carbon Pollution for Decades
Rather than racing toward their net-zero targets, Amazon and other AI/cloud computing companies “are driving emissions sharply higher,” reports the Washington Post:

To support their data centers, tech firms are driving construction of a new generation of supersized, gas-f … ⌘ Read more

Is Mandating AI Use in the Workplace Backfiring?
Some workplaces are holding mandatory AI training sessions, while others “are requiring employees to use a specific number of tokens,” reports the Washington Post, “or log a certain amount of time on AI platforms.”
The article’s headline? “Why mandating AI use in the workplace can backfire.”

[A] lot of employers are going about it the wrong way, said Arvind Karunakaran, an assi … ⌘ Read more

Scientists Find Rare Meteorite From Mars With Signs of Ancient Water
“I didn’t think a rock like this existed on Earth,” a geologist at the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Texas told the Washington Post. It looks like a polished rock, dark brown with a clay-colored stripe — but it’s actually one of the oldest Mars meteorites ever found, blasted by an impact from the surface of Mars billions of years ag … ⌘ Read more