Linux Fixes AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 Regression Due To Cache Aware Scheduling
Merged for Linux 7.4 Git and marked for back-porting to Linux 7.2/7.3 stable is a regression fix affecting at least the AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 “Strix Point” laptop SoC when making use of Cache Aware Scheduling… ⌘ Read more

PlayStation 5 Linux project upgraded to support PS5 Pro and newer firmware
The impressive PlayStation 5 Linux project is continuing on, and recent updates to it have again expanded what it can support.

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Moxnox: NT-Like, POSIX-Compatible Hobby OS Running Atop Btrfs
Open-source developer Mark Harmstone who is known for his work on developing a Btrfs file-system driver for Windows has spent the past few years working on a new hobby operating system. Moxnox is an HT-like, POSIX-compatible operating system… ⌘ Read more

EXT4 Lands Optional Buffered IOmap For Significant Performance Win With Large Writes
The EXT4 file-system changes were merged Sunday night for the ongoing Linux 7.4 merge window. The headline feature of EXT4 in this new kernel version is opt-in support for buffered IOmap usage that can lead to “significant” performance improvements for large writes… ⌘ Read more

Steam’s useful Personal Calendar gets a full release
I forgot it was ever a Beta, because Steam’s Personal Calendar is actually one of the most useful features they’ve added to the store recently.

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Epic’s Tim Sweeney believes AI notices on Steam are a “political statement” for the “hate mob”
Valve requires developers to disclose AI-generated content in games and on Steam store pages, something Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney isn’t happy about.

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Steam Next Fest - October 2026, here’s the most-played demos so far
Valve sent word via email as Steam Next Fest - October 2026 beings to wind down about what has been the most popular during this event.

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Amazon Deforestation Fell To Lowest Level Since 1988 - And Silva Wins Reelection
Brazil’s 80-year-old president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was re-elected Sunday, reports the Guardian, “defeating his far-right opponent, Flávio Bolsonaro, to claim a historic fourth term in power.”

And the results could impact the climate, suggests the Associated Press, since under da Silva the annual deforestation … ⌘ Read more

👋 Just a friendly reminder that if I don’t actually see any “use in anger” of this little container service I call cas.run – Then I can’t actually see how it will behave, perform and whether or not something like this will even remotely work and is worth continuing ot build out 😅 Please 🙏 and thank you 🙇‍♂️

Microsoft Announces Open Source Tool Evaluating Your Software’s Optimization For AI Coding Agents
The problem? Understanding how AI coding agents interact with the software you build. “Whether you’re maintaining an SDK, building a command-line interface, or publishing an MCP server or skills… you need to understand whether agents can discover and use what you ship, and what yo … ⌘ Read more

I (mostly) completed my second Halloween one-shot for 2026 earlier today. It went much quicker than last night’s game, but we had to cut it short due to a scheduling conflict, so there’s another 1-3 hours session probably still to go (and 🤞 we’ll get to finish it).

Both sessions were alot of fun, and really rekindled my interest in role-gaming. I hope to get back to regular campaign play after the new year, and I’ve already been bouncing some ideas off of some of my heavy players.

25% of Incoming Pull Requests May Be AI Slop, Finds Study From Linux Foundation Research
“59% of maintainers report growing contribution volume since the rise of GenAI,” according to a new study published by Linux Foundation Research. But 25% of their incoming pull requests “are estimated to be low-quality, also known as ‘AI slop’.” And on large projects, 69% see growing contributions — a … ⌘ Read more

Redox OS Landed Nice Performance Improvements In September
The Rust-based open-source operating system Redox OS had a very eventful September as they outlined in a status update published this weekend… ⌘ Read more

Systemd Merges Support for Rust Programs
“As of today in systemd Git it’s now possible for the systemd programs to be written in the Rust programming language as an alternative to C,” reports Phoronix:

Core systemd code like the systemd library doesn’t yet support Rust code, but for the various systemd programs / leaf components there is now support for using Rust… The new systemd-keyring-setup utility in Rust is used for provisi … ⌘ Read more

AI Use Convinces California Math Professor There’s ‘No Point’ Grading Homework
From the student newspaper at the University of California, Berkeley:

Richard Borcherds, a UC Berkeley professor and Fields medalist, no longer grades his students’ homework. After seeing how many of his students used AI to consistently receive top scores, he felt there was “no point” in paying readers to grade for correc … ⌘ Read more

A Newly Proposed Linux Filesystem Can Fix Corrupted Data
BeamFS creator Aurelien Desbrieres is not calling for a merge, but is requesting feedback on an 18-patch proposal that takes the place of FTRFS, an earlier filesystem he proposed in April.

The Linux/Open Source blog It’s FOSS reports:

Filesystems that can repair damage, like Btrfs and ZFS, usually do it by falling back on a spare copy of the data. BeamFS skip … ⌘ Read more

AI Delivers ‘Zero Financial Payoff’ To Most Companies, Economist Says
“Despite massive investments and widespread hype around AI , the technology has delivered zero financial payoff to corporate America outside of tech,” writes the chief economist at U.S. asset management firm Apollo Global.

He adds that “there are still no signs of AI boosting productivity growth… [M]ainstream corporate America is pulling b … ⌘ Read more

Google Says Gmail and Photos Data Shared with AI Search Could Be Used for Targeted Ads
The blog Android Authority offers this TLDR:

Google updated its privacy policy to clarify that it could use information shared through Personal Intelligence to personalize ads. Gmail, Drive, and Photos content isn’t used for targeted ads by default, but connecting them to eligible Google services could … ⌘ Read more

Free Software Foundation Hosts Free ‘Encryptfest’ Event on Sunday
The Free Software Foundation’s “EncryptFest” today covers both encryption and privacy. The free two-hour event runs from 13:00-15:00 Eastern Daylight Time (17:00-19:00 UTC), and includes:

— A discussion on “bulk surveillance, and how encryption protects personal privacy”
— A short video from renowned cryptographer Bruce Schneier.
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@movq@www.uninformativ.de Oh shit! A false alarm or was something actually on fire?

@movq@www.uninformativ.de LOL! :‘-D This is great!

@david@daiwei.me :‘-D Brilliant!

As eMudhra Exits Cert Business, Users Face New PKI Trust Decisions
“As of 2026, the company has issued more than 60 million digital certificates,” notes Wikipedia. But now, InfoWorld reports:

A certificate authority’s decision to abandon the global SSL/TLS market is exposing a weakness many organizations rarely examine: their dependence on complex PKI trust chains. Following the compromise of private keys behi … ⌘ Read more

New Wayland Protocol Proposed For VNC/Remote Software
Prominent Wayland developer Simon Ser sent out a merge request today for introducing the new ext-transient-output protocol. With ext-transient-output, it’s intent is for helping remoting software like VNC servers in a Wayland world… ⌘ Read more

Getty Images Files For US Bankruptcy, Advances Restructuring Plan
Reuters reports:

Last week, Getty announced plans to file for bankruptcy, marking a major reset after its planned merger with rival Shutterstock collapsed under the weight of heavy debt and growing competition from AI-generated imagery. Getty said the affiliates of the Getty family and Koch Equity Development, which committed to provide up to $533 m … ⌘ Read more

Linux 7.4 Sound Changes Merged: “The AI Flood Continues”
Linux sound subsystem maintainer Takashi Iwai of SUSE began the Linux 7.4 sound pull request by noting that “the AI flood continues” with there continuing to be a lot of new patches coming as a result of AI/LLM agents devising patches as well as uncovering new kernel bugs… ⌘ Read more

Old Blood Cells Have Been Transformed Into Brain Stem Cells That Get Younger
“Scientists have transformed old blood cells into young brain stem cells, which continued to grow younger as they grew older,” reports ScienceAlert:

Cellular transformations can be done in two main ways. The first, more circuitous route turns a specific cell back into a pluripotent stem cell, or an embryonic “blank slat … ⌘ Read more

Cheap GameSir Nova Lite Gaming Controller Supported By Linux 7.4
Following all the HID driver updates/additions in Linux 7.4, the input subsystem changes were merged this weekend for this new kernel version… ⌘ Read more

AV2 Video Codec Adoption Talked Up, SVT-AV2 Being Developed
Back in May the AV2 v1.0 specification was released for this next-generaton, royalty-free video codec. This week the Alliance For Open Media issued a press release talking up the early adoption of AV2… ⌘ Read more

Realtek rtl8723bs Driver Graduates Out Of Staging Area In Linux 7.4
After nearly a decade in the Linux kernel’s staging area and being worked on by many different kernel developer newcomers, the Realtek rtl8723bs graduated out of the staging area and is now a full-fledged member of the Linux networking subsystem… ⌘ Read more

AMD 600 Series Chipsets Now Have Temperature Monitoring Support On Linux
With the Linux 7.4 kernel and also marked for back-porting to the v7.2 and v7.3 series is finally the ability to monitor temperature sensors on AMD 600 Series chipsets that launched alongside the Ryzen 7000 series processors… ⌘ Read more

Google’s C Binder Driver Removed With Rust Binder Ready For “Few Billion Devices”
Linus Torvalds merged the “char/misc” changes for the Linux 7.4 kernel driver on Saturday. Most notable this cycle for char/misc is what’s being removed: Google’s C-written Binder driver has left the kernel with the Rust-based modern Binder driver ready to take for the role of being used by all future Android devices… ⌘ Read more

CIOs Admit They Are Being Forced To Upgrade Enterprise IT
Computer Weekly reports:

A Censuswide survey of 2,018 CIOs and senior IT decision-makers at large organisations in the US and UK for independent software maintenance provider Origina has found that organisations spend almost $13m on upgrades pushed by IT providers. On average, 28% of enterprise software budgets go on upgrades, migrations and licensing changes d … ⌘ Read more

My first Halloween one-shot of 2026 is in-the-bag (as of about 90 minutes ago).

Mind you, it didn’t start until way later than anticipated (due to a scheduling conflict with one of the players), and then it ran for a marathon 6 hours before the 3 players “won” by rescuing the surviving vanished villagers and escaping with their lives. There were flying heads, vampire mercenaries, even a werewolf butler, all of whom met a sticky end at the “hands” of our heroes. Good times were had by all!

I’ll be running it again for 3 different players in about 10 hours. Hopefully their session goes as well for them (although I wouldn’t mind if it went a bit quicker, too 😁).

America’s Defense Department Is Building an ‘Elite New Tech Sabotage Agency’
America’s Defense Department “has spent months quietly building an elite new tech agency,” reports Politico, “to help covertly disrupt and sabotage foreign technology programs considered threats to American military superiority.”

Information on the Technology Support Office, or TSO as it is called internally, is nearly impos … ⌘ Read more

Linux 7.4 Block Updates Range From Floppy Disk Driver Fixes To Apple M4 NVMe Support
The Linux 7.4 block/storage and IO_uring updates were merged today for the ongoing merge window. With the breadth of Linux hardware support, the pull request varies from fixes to Linux’s floppy driver to enabling support for NVMe storage on Apple M4 devices… ⌘ Read more

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Honestly restic + Object Storage with whoever you like is “good enough”™. Backblaze B2’s Object Storage is still the most cost effective and competitive in the market.

SteamOS 3.9.5 Released With Linux 7.2 Kernel, KDE Plasma 6.7 Desktop & Other Updates
On Friday Valve released SteamOS 3.9.5 as their first stable release in the SteamOS 3.9 series. This brings all the great improvements previously available in preview form with many package updates and other enhancements… ⌘ Read more

@shinyoukai@twtxt.net To my surprise:

https://www.worldmeteo.info/en/europe/norway/hell/weather-194988/

11 °C? At this time of year? wtf

@prologic@twtxt.net Yeah, I need to switch to something like restic or borg. And probably a big storage server at a hoster like Hetzner. 🤔

I do have several layers of backups already, even offsite ones, but it requires me carrying external HDDs around. That used to be acceptable for me (or maybe I was just being naive). But now I’m living in a 20-story building and there are SO MANY IDIOTS in close proximity who might fuck shit up … Fire is a real threat.

New cabinet on the arcade 🥳 Warlords (1990) — the whole of Illuria, 80 cities, 8 empires, heroes digging dragons out of ruins. Rules straight from the manual, new painted art. And it’s the first one you can play online: host a game, hand out a 6-letter code 👉 https://games.mills.io/play/warlords.html

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I cannot recommend restic enough and a good TB or 2 External USB Disk 😅

@itsericwoodward@itsericwoodward.com Coo! 👌 @david@daiwei.me also signed up tonight too, even paid for an extra unit 🤣 I’m very keen to see how this goes honestly, before scaling up the service 🤔

There just was a fire alarm.

Again.

I didn’t expect this to happen so often. My strategy for making backups of my data isn’t good enough. The risk of all this shit actually burning down is real.

@prologic@twtxt.net

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I’m tied up for most of the day today, but I’ll see what I can get running here later tonight. Very cool! 🤩🤘

TL;DR: $1/month hosting or whatever you want to run 🏃

👋 Introducing (_after a 3yr hiatic where the project actually begin in ~2023+); cas.run: give it a container image and it runs it on the web at its own hostname. This is an alpha service at the moment, so; every account gets one service, 64 MB of memory and a gigabyte of disk space. You can purchase more units at a $1/month (AUD), so it’s like $0.70 USD I think. Don’t use this for anything big please (not yet), the infra behind it runs on a single host in Sydney right now. https://cas.run

SteamOS 3.9.5 released with Plasma 6.7, Linux 7.2, Security Fixes, better Steam Frame wireless adapter support
Valve just released SteamOS 3.9.5 as stable for all users across all supported systems, bringing with it many exciting enhancements for Linux gaming.

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Linux’s Early Boot-Time Physical Memory Allocator Sees Big Speed-Up: ~268s To ~50ms
Sent out today for the Linux 7.4 kernel were a set of memblock improvements. Most notable is a performance optimization within mm/memblock.c that implements the kernel’s early boot-time physical memory allocator that is used prior to the bring-up of the full page allocator… ⌘ Read more

539 MM Patches Merged For Linux 7.4 From Optimizations To More DAMON
Andrew Morton sent out the big set of memory management “MM” related patches for the Linux 7.4 merge window. This cycle it topped out at 539 total patches and a reviewed rate of 76%… ⌘ Read more