Ubisoft begin removing Ubisoft Connect from Steam with the new Ubisoft Connect Services
Finally, another publisher has realised extra launchers on Steam are a pain in the ass, surprisingly this time it’s Ubisoft doing something good.
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Ubuntu 24.04.5 LTS Released With Linux 7.0 HWE Stack
For those continuing to make use of the Ubuntu 24.04 Long Term Support “LTS” series, Ubuntu 24.04.5 LTS is out today as the newest point release… ⌘ Read more
@movq@www.uninformativ.de It’s becoming a bit ludicrous to be frankly honest. I’m not sure I can continue to justify these kinds of prices. But at the same time, I’ll probably stick with Apple regardless, even if I hate their exorbitant prices, and just buy their low-end stuff 🤦♂️ It is fucking crazy when you consider what these things are actually made for over in China or wherever they’re manufactured.
Automattic’s Board Forces CEO Matt Mullenweg Into Leave of Absence
Automattic’s board has placed founder and CEO Matt Mullenweg on a paid leave of absence against his will, with CFO Mark Davies taking over as interim CEO. The reason for the move remains unclear, but it follows years of legal fights, layoffs, employee departures, and controversy surrounding Mullenweg’s leadership. TechCrunch reports: Earlier Wednes … ⌘ Read more
@prologic@twtxt.net Is simply not buying it an option? Or is there too much social pressure?
Intel Xeon 600 Workstation Performance vs. AMD Threadripper 9000 In Nearly 400 Benchmarks
Last month I had the chance to test the Xeon 678X workstation processor as my first hands-on opportunity with the Xeon 600 “Granite Rapids WS” series. The Intel Xeon 678X was within the HP Z4 G6i workstation and used it for a number of different benchmarks. In that HP workstation review were also some comparison points to the likes of AMD Ryzen Threadripper while in this article are some much more concentrated … ⌘ Read more
KDE Plasma 6.8 Beta Released With Many Great Improvements, Kup Backup Scheduler
Ahead of the stable release of Plasma 6.8 due out on 14 October that also marks the 30th anniversary of the KDE project, out today is the much anticipated beta release… ⌘ Read more
I am not fucking paying ~3.5 grand for a fucking phone, geez christ, kill me now 🤦♂️
Oh no, sorry I was wrong! That was the fucking US price 🤣
This is the Australian (AUD) price:
From A$3,499.00 or A$145.79/mo.
Fuck me dead 😵
iPhone Duo - Apple Sorry Apple™, I’m really finding it quite hard to justify spending thousands of dollar on your products!
From $1999 or $83.29/mo. for 24 mo.*
Fark me 🤦♂️ When it was just me and my wife, maybe, fine, okay. But now I have two young children that also want the same shit™ as we do. This starts becoming a nearly ~$8k expensve just for some fucking whoop-ti-do-da foldable iPhone with a bigger screen.
Who cares? 🤔 I want my ~A$800 iPhone back that fits in my hand. #Apple #Rants #Expensive #Crap
The Apple Watch Gets Its Siri AI Upgrade
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Apple has unveiled the Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4 today during itsSeptember hardware event. The new models retain the signature designs of their predecessors but add a faster S11 chip, new health and fitness features, and the watchOS 27 software update announced atWWDC last June. Both the Series 12 and Ultra 4 run on the upgraded S11 c … ⌘ Read more
The deeply mysterious delivery adventure Truckful arrives in October
MythicOwl and Pocketpair Publishing have announced that Truckful, their peaceful looking delivery sim with plenty of mystery releases October 9th.
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No Man’s Sky Cosmos preps for Steam Frame plus - orbital construction, alliances, colossal shipwrecks and tons more
Hello Games are truly expanding No Man’s Sky into a forever space sandbox aren’t they? The new Cosmos update is out and it’s another massive one.
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Intel BFF Driver Slated For Linux 7.4 Introduction
Last month I covered Intel posting a new driver named “BFF” for the Linux kernel. This BFF driver is for a new hardware feature debuting with next-gen Diamond Rapids processors for better dealing with aging CPU silicon where some bits may become stuck over time… ⌘ Read more
NVIDIA NVK Driver Lands Improvement To Help With Valve’s Gamescope
Merged today for next quarter’s Mesa 26.3 release is an improvement for the open-source NVIDIA “NVK” Vulkan driver paired with the Nouveau kernel driver. This latest NVK improvement benefits usage of Valve’s Gamescope micro-compositor and should help with performance during game recording and remote play… ⌘ Read more
Europe May Finally Have Found a Space Entrepreneur Who Is Meeting the Moment
French entrepreneur Helene Huby is emerging as one of Europe’s most ambitious space leaders, with The Exploration Company raising a record $450 million Series C as it develops the Nyx cargo capsule, a crewed spacecraft, and a reusable heavy-lift rocket. Huby argues Europe risks falling irrelevance without a much larger … ⌘ Read more
If it fills the air with toxic smoke when burned, poisons the soil and water when buried, or requires a hazmat suit to handle safely, I think we humans ought to learn to live without it.
X.Org Server 26.1 Moves Closer To Release As Half-Decade Update
We’re getting closer to the X.Org Server 26.1 stable release as the first new tagged feature release since X.Org Server 21.1 debuted back in October 2021. There have been some new features, many code reverts, and many bug fixes merged over the past five years that will culminate with the X.Org Server 26.1 stable release… ⌘ Read more
GNOME 51 Adds Support For Custom Pointer Acceleration Profiles
As a last minute change ahead of next week’s GNOME 51 desktop release, changes to Mutter and gsettings-desktop-schemas have now landed for supporting custom pointer acceleration profiles… ⌘ Read more
METAL SLUG ULTIMATE COLLECTION announced for Steam
SNK recently announced the METAL SLUG ULTIMATE COLLECTION which will come to Steam sometime in 2027.
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COSMIC Epoch 1.8 Provides Latest Fixes & Minor Improvements For This Rust Desktop
Released overnight was the newest version of the Rust-based COSMIC desktop environment developed by System76 as part of the effort on their Pop!_OS Linux distribution… ⌘ Read more
GNU Automake 1.19 Released With More Than One Year Worth Of Fixes
For those continuing to use GNU Automake over the likes of Meson or CMake for your build system, Automake 1.19 is out today as the first new release in 15 months. Among the many fixes in this release is for a bug dating back 14 years… ⌘ Read more
Watch - Valve’s GDC 2026 talk on how they’re helping developers succeed on PC
Valve went along to GDC Festival of Gaming 2026 to give a talk titled “Steam Platform 2026: How Valve is Helping Game Developers Succeed on PC Gaming”.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/watch-valves-gdc-2026-talk-on-how-theyre-helping-develop … ⌘ Read more
Try the new demo for If Red Then Stop - a traffic coding automation puzzler
If you love puzzle games that teach a little programming and automation - If Red Then Stop looks like your next visit.
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Denshattack! review
Denshattack! is about becoming the greatest acrobatic train driver in Japan by competing in over-the-top battles by flipping trains like they’re skateboards.
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Spy Drops Gaiden looks like a fun retro stealth-action throwback
Spy Drops Gaiden is channelling some retro Metal Gear here with their upcoming old school 2D stealth action game that arrives in October.
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PHYSINT from Hideo Kojima moves from PlayStation to XBOX
PHYSINT, a new action-stealth game coming from Hideo Kojima has split from PlayStation and jumped over to XBOX.
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Dark Energy Debunked? Cosmic Acceleration May Be an Illusion
alternative_right shares a report from ScienceDaily: A new analysis of more than 1,700 supernovae is questioning whether the universe is really accelerating at all. After accounting for the ages of the stars that produce these explosions, researchers found signs that cosmic expansion may actually be slowing. They also argue that the apparent accelerat … ⌘ Read more
Steam Beta for Sept 9th has huge changes - Big Art Mode, Screensaver, Proton option changes, Desktop Mode toggle for SteamOS
Valve have been cooking on this one! A new Steam Beta update for September 9th brings some big additions for Desktop gamers and SteamOS systems.
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@prologic@twtxt.net And don’t think that it goes unappreciated. 😁
Anthropic Reveals Fourth Likely Crime Committed By Its AI
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Register: Amid industry soul-searching about the possibility of AI improving itself to the point that it kills everyone, Anthropic has revealed yet another incident that would qualify as a crime if perpetrated by a person. The AI biz published “an alignment assessment” detailing four times Claude models accessed thir … ⌘ Read more
@itsericwoodward@itsericwoodward.com Don’t worry, we’ll tell you rather loudly if your client is misbehaving or your feed is down 🤣
@movq@www.uninformativ.de This is actually pretty cool! I like this one! ☝️
@prologic@twtxt.net @david@daiwei.me @movq@www.uninformativ.de No, I dig it - I absolutely love the slower pace here compared to even the Fediverse (and especially compared to corporate social media, which is always trying to sell something).
I did have a bit of a “down or just me” moment, thinking I might have broken my client (since it’s still WIP and it’s happened before), but beyond that, it was no worries. 🙂
Steam Client Beta Improves Big Picture Mode, Several Linux Enhancements
Tonight Valve released a big Steam client beta update with a number of new features and fixes… ⌘ Read more
Google to Invest Record $15 Billion In AI Infrastructure In Finland
Google plans to invest at least $15 billion in AI infrastructure in Finland through 2028, its largest single investment in Europe. The company also signed a 22-year power agreement with Finnish utility Fortum and said it will explore business models that could support new nuclear reactors at Fortum’s Loviisa site.
Finland has emerged as … ⌘ Read more
Apple’s New iPhone Camera Mode Promises to Prove Your Photo Isn’t AI
Apple is introducing a new “Reference Image” mode on the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max that uses the camera sensor to digitally sign captured data and create an “unalterable” version of a photo, giving users a way to verify what the camera actually saw before any edits were made. The Verge reports: As AI-generated images and videos become mor … ⌘ Read more
Anthropic Researcher Believes More Than 10% Chance AI ‘Could Kill All Humans’
Longtime Slashdot reader fahrbot-bot shares a report from the BBC: A top safety researcher at Anthropic has warned AI is advancing so quickly he believes there is a greater than 10% chance it “could kill all humans” within the next decade. Evan Hubinger said in a post on X the risk from the models which currently exist was “low” … ⌘ Read more
ReactOS Dev Gets FEX Running For x86_64 Games On This “Open-Source Windows” OS Under ARM
A ReactOS developer for this open-source operating system project striving for binary compatibility with Windows drivers and applications has achieved an intriguing software stack. With the experimental ReactOS ARM64 build for running on 64-bit ARM hardware like Raspberry Pi SBCs, he’s paired that “open-source Windows” OS with the open-source FEX emulator for in turn being able to run Windows x64 games/apps on ReactOS atop … ⌘ Read more
OpenAI’s Rogue Agents Used At Least 10 More Sites For Unauthorized Communications
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: AI agents unleashed by OpenAI used more than 10 previously undisclosed websites for unsanctioned communications earlier this year, according to six sets of independent investigators and data reviewed by Reuters, showing that the agents’ rogue activity was wider ranging … ⌘ Read more
Apple Launches iPhone 18 Pro With Variable-Aperture Camera System
Apple’s iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max were announced today and keep last year’s overall design but put the emphasis on camera upgrades, including a 48-megapixel variable-aperture system, new manual controls, and 4K Dolby Vision recording. Prices for the devices start at $1,199 and $1,299, respectively. TechCrunch reports: The new Pro series cam … ⌘ Read more
Apple Unveils the iPhone Duo, Its First Foldable iPhone
At its September event today, Apple unveiled the iPhone Duo, its first foldable iPhone and one of the biggest changes to the device’s form factor since its debut. Starting at $1,999 and available for preorder beginning October 16th, the device is roughly the size of a passport when closed and pairs a 5.4-inch outer screen with a 7.6-inch Super Retina XDR inner di … ⌘ Read more
I love David Revoy’s comics: https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/miniFantasyTheater/069.html
@thecanine@twtxt.net I love it. %)
Running AMD openSIL + Coreboot On The First Available Ryzen AM5 Motherboard
Earlier this year the 3mdeb firmware consulting firm ported AMD openSIL CPU open-source silicon initialization library and Coreboot to an EPYC motherboard, the Gigabyte MZ33-AR1. Their next feat now achieved is bringing AMD openSIL and Coreboot to a desktop AMD Ryzen motherboard with their downstream Dasharo firmware solution. I have been running this alternative firmware on the MSI PRO B850P WiFi motherboard and it’s been working out … ⌘ Read more
maximum nostalgia slop (themed SpaceHey profile + QMMP with a bad Winamp skin)
Microsoft Breaks Another Patch Tuesday Record
Microsoft’s September 2026 Patch Tuesday is its largest ever, fixing a record 966 vulnerabilities, including 105 rated critical and two zero-days already being exploited in attacks. BleepingComputer reports: This Patch Tuesday addresses 105 “Critical” vulnerabilities, 81 of which are remote code execution, 20 are elevation of privileges, 2 are information disclosure, and 1 security fea … ⌘ Read more
XWayland 26.1 RC2 Released For Testing With More Fixes
Following last month’s initial release candidate of XWayland 26.1 with its many new features, a second release candidate is now available with a number of fixes… ⌘ Read more
NVIDIA driver 615.71.09 released for Linux with Vulkan / Proton improvements with NVIDIA Reflex
Released as part of their slightly less tested New Feature Branch, NVIDIA driver 615.71.09 is out now for Linux.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/nvidia-driver-615-71-09-released-for-linux-with-vulkan-proton-improvements- … ⌘ Read more
