FreeBSD 15.2 Beta 2 Delivers Updated OpenSSL, Bug Fixes
FreeBSD 15.2 Beta 1 debuted last week for this updated operating system bringing improved laptop/desktop hardware support, experimental cross-building of base packages on Linux and macOS, updated LLVM/Clang compiler, updated OpenZFS file-system support, and other improvements. Released overnight was FreeBSD 15.2 Beta 2… ⌘ Read more

SteamOS 3.10.0 Preview brings HDMI 2.1 VRR, FRL, and ALLM for AMD and improvements for NVIDIA
Valve released SteamOS 3.10.0 Preview which brings a pretty big set of features, especially if you’re on an AMD GPU and now improved NVIDIA support too.

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I forgot to post a #magic update earlier in the week, so here it is:

Despite having 5 players, we managed to get 3 games in:.

Game 1 was a “Battle of the Jaces” with 3 of us running variations on the Jace precon from Reality Fracture. In the end, one of the Jaces won, but it wasn’t mine (I was still 1-2 turns from victory).

For game 2, I ran my modified Warhammer 40k Forces of the Imperium deck, but it also lost to (yet another) Jace.

Finally, in game 3, my (still unlisted) Marvel Avengers deck lived up to its name, avenging my previous defeats thanks to the timely intervention of Doctor Strange (aka Jodah).

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US Seizes $1.2 Billion In Crypto Stolen From Binance
U.S. authorities have seized or restrained more than $1.2 billion in cryptocurrency stolen during Binance’s $6 billion October hack, which the FBI attributes to North Korean military-linked hackers known as “TraderTraitor.” The DOJ also said it disrupted infrastructure behind the “FaceStealer” deepfake scam, blamed for stealing more than $400 million in cryptocurrency. CN … ⌘ Read more

AMD Leverages AI + HRX Loom In Experiment For Quickly Porting 50 LLMs To Client GPUs
Following the recent release of HRX Loom v0.1 and leveraging an AI agent workflow, a team at AMD experimented with bringing 50 trending Hugging Face models over to AMD client GPUs. They accomplished this feat in just around three days, thanks to their HRX software work paired with the power of Ryzen AI Max “Strix Halo” hardware… ⌘ Read more

Survival horror Confronted gets a big performance boost ahead of the 1.0 release
It’s not very well-known but looks worth a go, survival horror Confronted recently had a big performance upgrade to it.

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Euclid Mission Data Release Spans More Than 900 Million Galaxies
The European Space Agency has released the largest dataset yet from its Euclid space telescope, containing 1.7 petabytes of observations covering more than 900 million galaxies. “The data unveiled on Thursday covered a survey of the sky equal to about 9,500 times the size of the moon as viewed from Earth,” reports Reuters. “The mission’s goal … ⌘ Read more

Rust 1.100 Released With The “Never” Type Finally Stable
Rust 1.100 is out today as the newest version of this popular programming language… ⌘ Read more

Linux 7.5 To Improve Support For Old ASUS Transformer Hybrid Laptops/Tablets
For those that happen to have ASUS Transformer devices as the roughly decade old convertible/hybrid 2-in-1 laptop/tablet computers, the Linux 7.5 kernel in 2027 is improving support for these aging systems powered by either NVIDIA Tegra or Intel Atom SoCs… ⌘ Read more

Polo Debuts As New Wayland Compositor For MATE Desktop
For those fond of the GNOME 2 forked MATE desktop but wanting to take it into the native Wayland world, Polo 1.0 released today as a new compositor option for modern desktop computing with MATE… ⌘ Read more

Testing 1 2 3

Sunken SS United States Set To Become World’s Largest Artificial Reef
An anonymous reader quotes a report from PBS: The historic ocean liner SS United States will be intentionally sunk Wednesday off the coast of the Florida panhandle. Live coverage of the sinking of the SS United States is expected to start at 1 p.m. EST, with the sinking expected at 2 p.m. EST. Watch live in the video player above. In its … ⌘ Read more

Teating testing 1 2 3 😂🤣🙏👌👋

Fireworks AI Confirms Wider Breach Affecting Notion AI Chats
Fireworks AI says its October breach was broader than initially disclosed, with attackers gaining access to customer account and billing information as well as some datasets, incomplete model weights and secrets. Notion, the popular productivity and note-taking app, disclosed that it was impacted in the breach but “fewer than 1% of Notion workspaces” were … ⌘ Read more

exfatprogs 1.4.4 Brings Speed-Up For Making New exFAT Filesystems
The exfatprogs 1.4.4 release was issued today for these user-space open-source programs for managing exFAT file-systems on Linux… ⌘ Read more

FDA Warns GLP-1s May Increase Risk of Sudden Blindness
An anonymous reader quotes a report from NBC News: The Food and Drug Administration said Monday that GLP-1 drugmakers must add a warning label about a rare eye condition that can cause sudden blindness. The condition, called nonarteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy, or NAION, affects the optic nerve, which carries signals from the eye to the brain. When blo … ⌘ 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. 🤣

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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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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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

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

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

AlmaLinux Shows Advantages of ABI Compatibility After RHEL Restricted Source Code Access
“AlmaLinux OS charted a new path in 2023 when Red Hat restricted source code access to Red Hat Enterprise Linux,” remembers Linux Magazine.

“Rather than pursue 1:1 compatibility with RHEL like other Enterprise Linux alternatives, the AlmaLinux OS Foundation chose application binary interface (ABI) … ⌘ Read more

Automake 1.20 Brings New Features, Desires To Re-Establish GNU As Leading Build System
Out today is GNU Automake 1.20 with the new –enable-jobserver option and opting for GPLv3+ licensing… ⌘ Read more

Cryosphere Faces Permanent Damage When World Overshoots 1.5C, Scientists Warn
A UN-backed report warns that even temporarily overshooting the Paris agreement’s 1.5C warming target could cause permanent and widespread losses of glaciers, snow and polar ice sheets. With Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets already melting about six times faster than in the 1990s, the report argues that global temperatur … ⌘ Read more

Vulkan 1.4.368 Released With New Extensions From Valve & NVIDIA
Vulkan 1.4.368 is out as the newest weekly spec update for this high performance graphics and compute API… ⌘ Read more

How come no one ever talks about Mambos 1-4? Is there some big secret about them? Did they contain some forbidden dance steps or something?

FreeBSD 15.2 Beta 1 Allows Experimental Cross-Building Of Base Packages On Linux/macOS
FreeBSD 15.2 Beta 1 is out today as the release dance kicks off in working toward the next installment of FreeBSD 15… ⌘ Read more

Developer Pulls Roku’s Popular Fish Tank Screensaver Following Fox Sale
Roku is removing its popular Aquatic Life fish tank screensaver on December 1 and automatically switching affected users to Roku City. According to Cord Cutters News, the creator pulled the license after Roku’s sale to FOX was announced. Ars Technica reports: The screensaver has been an option for Roku OS users for 10 years. Roku has … ⌘ Read more

OpenAI’s New Cyber Model Found Ways to Attack Nearly 1,000 Linux Flaws
OpenAI says its new GPT-6 Cyber model helped an automated system identify 1,724 security flaws in the Linux kernel and exploit 948 of them to gain administrator-level access during testing, including at least 10 previously unknown techniques. Axios reports: During testing, the system identified 1,724 security flaws and found ways to use 9 … ⌘ Read more

OpenCV 5.1 Brings More AVX-512 Optimizations, Other Improvements
OpenCV 5.0 debuted back in June with a rewritten DNN engine and many other exciting improvements for this widely-used computer vision (CV) library. Out today is OpenCV 5.1 with tons of fixes and other incremental improvements to this important code… ⌘ Read more

Knives Out-inspired mystery thriller from the Duck Detective devs, ‘Apple Crumble’ arrives December 2
Ready for a new mystery thriller adventure? Duck Detective devs next game is a Knives Out-inspired mystery thriller, ‘Apple Crumble’ set to arrive December 2nd.

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AMDGPU Driver Seeing HDMI 2.2 FRL Fixes For Linux 7.4
With Linux 7.4 the AMDGPU driver enables HDMI 2.1 FRL functionality by default for driving higher refresh rate and higher resolution displays. That default enabling comes as HDMI FreeSync/VRR and ALLM features are also in place for Linux 7.4. Now coming by way of fixes for Linux 7.4 is also improving the Fixed Rate Link support with the newer HDMI 2.2 specification… ⌘ Read more

Motorola’s Ultra Premium Smartphone Is Its First With GrapheneOS Support
Motorola’s $1,600 Signature 27 will become the company’s first smartphone to support the security- and privacy-focused GrapheneOS that completely strips out native Google services and telemetry at the OS level. To help justify the price, Motorola equipped the Signature 27 with top-of-the-line specs, including a tandem OLED disp … ⌘ Read more

Zlib 1.4 Released With More Than One Dozen Security Fixes
Zlib 1.4 is now available for this widely-used compression library. In these AI times, Zlib 1.4 ships with more than a dozen security fixes… ⌘ Read more

LZ4 1.11 Introduces Multi-Threaded Compression For liblz4, Other Performance Gains
For those making use of the LZ4 extremely fast compression algorithm, LZ4 1.11 released today and brings multi-threaded compression support to its library (liblz4)… ⌘ Read more

Intel One Mono Font Family Updated With Various Enhancements
Back in 2023 Intel introduced One Mono as a new font for developers. Intel in September had discontinued the One Mono project but then days later revived it. Now the project is out with its first update since that mishap… ⌘ Read more

Deadly Days: Roadtrip 1.0 review
Now Deadly Days: Roadtrip has left Early Access as a full and complete game, here’s my thoughts on this zombie-slaying bullet heaven inventory management game.

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Canva To Cut Or Relocate 22% of Global Workforce
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Canva is cutting or relocating more than 1,200 jobs, representing 22% of its global workforce, as part of a major restructure that includes laying off staff who helped build the Australian-founded design platform. The changes mirror a trend across the technology sector, where software companies are fighting to stay competitive ag … ⌘ Read more

AMD Releases ZenDNN 6.1 With New Kernels & Optimizations
Last month Intel and AMD jointly announced they would be collaborating on software optimizations with PyTorch/oneDNN. That already led to the UXL Foundation’s release of oneDNN 3.14 with initial AMD Zen optimizations. It looks though like for now at least AMD will also continue to concurrently push new work into their ZenDNN library and not exclusively tied to oneDNN. Out today is ZenDNN 6.1… ⌘ Read more

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Yeah! It was precisely that talk that got me into groff/troff in the first place. 😊 Haven’t seen it in a while. Maybe I should have rewatched it before making that blog post. 😅

The groff syntax is quite alien indeed. Because it’s so terse. I mean, have fun decyphering stuff like that:

\l'\w@\\$1@u\N@45@'

NetBSD 11.1 Released With Security Fixes & Other Improvements
Following the release of NetBSD 11.0 in August, NetBSD 11.1 is out today with a collection of security fixes and other improvements… ⌘ Read more

SUSE To Cut One In Ten Employees Because of AI
SUSE plans to cut roughly 10% of its 1,900-person workforce, with CEO Dirk-Peter van Leeuwen saying “automation and AI” are reducing the need for some roles and allowing the open source software company to operate with less overhead and flatter management structures. “We are announcing a reduction of SUSE’s global workforce of approximately 10 percent,” said Van Leeuwen in an emai … ⌘ Read more

openSUSE Leap 16.1 Released With Immutable Sever Integration
The openSUSE Leap 16.1 Linux distribution is out today and built from the same sources as SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16.1… ⌘ Read more

Cops Bust Botnet of 1.3 Million Android TV Boxes
A coalition of security firms working with Japan’s National Police Agency has disrupted a botnet of more than 1.3 million Android devices across 200+ countries. “We assess with high confidence that the backdoor and botnet were intentionally developed, deployed, and operated for financial gain by Videostrong Technology,” the Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) said in a blog po … ⌘ Read more

GCC 17 Compiler Merges Support For AVX10V1AUX
Landing today into the GCC 17 compiler codebase is initial support for AVX10V1AUX as the auxillary updates to AVX10.1 that are out of the cross-vendor AI Compute Extensions “ACE” initiative between AMD and Intel… ⌘ Read more

SteamVR Beta 2.19.1 is a big upgrade for streaming / Steam Link and Linux
Valve released SteamVR Beta 2.19.1 and especially when it comes to streaming / Steam Link, it seems like a really nice upgrade for picture clarity.

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Apple HomeView Ultra, Drone and Laundry-Folding Robot Reportedly In Development
According to The Information, Apple is developing a $1,000 HomeView Ultra smart home hub with a 9-inch touchscreen mounted on a motorized arm that can follow users around a room and autonomously respond to its surroundings. It’s also said to be experimenting with more ambitious home robots, including a wheeled rob … ⌘ Read more

Microsoft’s Canada Timezone Troubles Leave Admins Fixing Calendars, Pretending They’re In Bogota
Microsoft is scrambling to fix time-zone problems across Outlook, Power Automate, Fabric, SharePoint and other products after parts of Canada stopped observing seasonal clock changes on November 1. “The company has confirmed problems across a chunk of its software estate, leaving some c … ⌘ Read more

In more frustrating news, I did something to my primary laptop, and now it crawls along like a 2005 Celeron trying to run Windows Vista.

My laptop is nothing too special (a Lenovo powered by an i7-1255U (4+8) @ 4.70 GHz with integrated “Iris Xe” graphics), but I’ve been running Manjaro Linux (with KDE Plasma) on it for the past couple of years, and apart from the odd pamac / pacman / “Add Remove Software” inconsistency (or Plasma widget issue), it’s been running pretty well.

Then, a few days ago, it started bugging about updates, and yesterday it added complaints about an unsupported kernel, so I finally pulled the trigger on it, and boy do I regret it.

I initially kept having issues downloading all of the updates (it was trying to download some kind of non-existent Quake-related library, which I had to remove), and I also had issues getting rid of the unsupported 7.1 kernel (due to some “meta” packages that had been installed), but in the end, I resolved both issues, got the kernel removed and the updates installed, and everything seemed fine after the post-update reboot… for about 10 minutes.

And that’s when the machine just decided to start moving at 1/3 speed: typing, moving the cursor, changing windows - everything started acting like it was 2008.

When I first tried to diagnose it, top showed kwin_wayland eating 50% of the CPU, and plasmashell another 10%, but it wasn’t consistent (they both came and went). I disabled all of the desktop effects, which helped some, as did blanking my plasma config (setting my desktop back to default), but things are still noticeably laggier than they were a few days ago.

Someone online suggested freeing up 25% space total on my root drive (which typically runs 90-95% full), so I’ve been cleaning up (and offloading) as much as I can. If that doesn’t work and I don’t find a solution by the end of the week, I’ll probably have to backup my data, wipe the machine clean, and start fresh. 🙃