SteamVR 2.19.3 Beta and SteamOS 0.5.9 Beta for Steam Frame released
Valve released both SteamVR 2.19.3 Beta for all VR gamers, and SteamOS 0.5.9 Beta for Steam Frame as well. Here’s all that’s new and improved.
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PostgreSQL Sees New Releases For 52 Security Vulnerabilities, 140+ Bug Fixes
PostgreSQL 18.7, 17.12, 16.16, 15.20, 14.25, and 19 RC2 all released today due to 52 new security issues being disclosed… ⌘ Read more
Logitech Giving All 7,000 Employees the Day Off to Play GTA 6
Under a new “Logi Game Day” initiative, Logitech is giving all 7,000 of its employees an extra paid day off to play GTA 6 when it launches on November 19. Employees and interns can use the day off anytime over the next year. Tom’s Hardware reports: As for Logitech, the company believes that it’s time for people to move away from the belief that playing … ⌘ 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
SteamOS 0.5.8 Beta for Steam Frame and SteamVR Beta 2.19.2 released
Valve just released SteamOS 0.5.8 Beta for Steam Frame and SteamVR Beta 2.19.2 for all users, bringing numerous improvements to smoothen some rough edges.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/11/steamos-0-5-8-beta-for-steam-frame-and-steamvr-beta-2-19-2-released/ … ⌘ Read more
The specialists were at work here once again. 
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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AI Makes Linux 7.4 Merge Window the Largest in Kernel History
“On a Git commit basis, the Linux 7.4 merge window has been the busiest on record,” writes Phoronix,” with 19,671 commits since Linux 7.3:
As of this morning in Linux Git ahead of v7.4-rc1, the kernel source tree is up to 41,605,120 lines. That’s from 5,193,578 blank lines, 4,993,604 lines of comments, and 31,417,938 lines of detected code. Or nearly … ⌘ Read more
PostgreSQL 19 Running Behind Schedule Due To AI/LLM Burden
The PostgreSQL database server typically sees its annual feature release every September~October, but it’s not coming until at least November if not longer this year. Due to the increased developer burden due to increased bug reporting and patches via AI/LLM activity, the PostgreSQL developers have been overwhelmed… ⌘ Read more
CDC Warns of Rising Threat of Drug-Resistant Germs
The CDC estimates that 19 drug-resistant pathogens cause 9.7 million infections and more than 50,000 deaths annually in the U.S., with resistance continuing to outpace development of new treatments. “The agency considers this problem to be one of our most urgent public health threats,” reports NBC News. From the report: The report is the CDC’s first comprehensive assessm … ⌘ 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.
— A discussio … ⌘ Read more
Amazon To Fund 12 Small Nuclear Reactors At Former Indiana Coal Plant
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Amazon is funding development of a proposed 960-megawatt nuclear plant in Indiana and would be the first customer to buy its power, the companies announced Monday. Utility company American Electric Power (AEP) would operate the plant. X-energy, which designs small modular nuclear … ⌘ Read more
Professor Calls To Abolish Business Schools For Failing Society
joshuark writes: Professor Christopher Marquis makes a provocative argument about business schools: “We need to abolish them.” A 20-year business educator at Harvard, Cornell and Cambridge, Marquis argues in The New York Times and on LinkedIn that MBA programs sanctify profit-driven dealmaking at the expense of public life. “That’s not the institut … ⌘ Read more
TP-Link Moves to Assemble Routers In the US Following Import Ban
TP-Link plans to begin assembling routers in Mississippi as early as 2027 after the FCC banned imports of new foreign-made consumer routers over security concerns. Engadget reports: The company has signed a letter of intent with manufacturer Key Tronic and, pending approval from regulators, TP-Link says stateside assembly of its routers could st … ⌘ Read more
Trump DHS Officials Asked CISA To Secretly Aquire and Hack a Voting Machine
Longtime Slashdot reader fahrbot-bot shares a report from ProPublica: A few months into President Donald Trump’s second term, political appointees at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) wanted Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to secretly acquire a voting machine and hack it. The appointees wa … ⌘ Read more
A Hacker Broke Into John Deere, SharkNinja With an Army of AI Agents
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: A hacker broke into more than 100 websites using an army of AI agents that mostly operated on their own, according to findings from the AI security firm Norforge. Though Norforge doesn’t name the targets, Reuters reports that the victims included companies like John Deere, SharkNinja, and C … ⌘ Read more
Apple Announces October 28 ‘Pro and Tell’ Event
Following its October 13 HomeView launch, Apple is gearing up for its second hardware event of the month. The event is scheduled for October 28 in Los Angeles and carries the tagline “Pro and tell.” 9to5Mac reports: Rumors say Apple has a slew of new products to announce at its next event, headlining by its first MacBook Pro with a touchscreen and OLED. According to Bloomberg’s … ⌘ Read more
Florida DMV Hacked After Police Dept Insecurely Stored Login Info
Florida’s DMV says a September 4 breach exposed driver’s license and motor vehicle records after attackers obtained credentials that a local law-enforcement employee had “improperly stored on an electronic device.” The ShinyHunters group has been linked to the intrusion. Ars Technica reports: In a notice posted Friday, [Florida Department of Hi … ⌘ Read more
Elon Musk Vows To Give a SpaceX Share To ‘Every Kid In America’
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNN: Elon Musk has said he will give every child in America a stake in SpaceX, his $2 trillion aerospace and artificial intelligence company, as tech firms face intensifying scrutiny over their impact on society. “Next year, I will give one of my SpaceX shares to every kid in America,” he wrote on X on Monday. … ⌘ Read more
Wine Ported to OpenBSD
Wine has been successfully ported to OpenBSD, with developers reporting that dozens of 64-bit Windows applications now run on the operating system. “Even the Remaster of The Witcher 3 which released just last month runs, and runs well,” writes Thomas Frohwein, OpenBSD developer and ports maintainer. OSnews reports: The biggest limitation seems to be the lack of support for WoW64, so 32bit Windows software won’t work. Still, this … ⌘ Read more
Elizabeth Holmes Doc ‘You Can See Everything’ Shocks With Massive Opening
Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s Elizabeth Holmes documentary “You Can See Everything” earned more than $15 million in its limited opening weekend, making it one of the biggest documentary launches in decades and the strongest opening for a film on fewer than 1,000 screens since Borat in 2006. It was also “the biggest … ⌘ Read more
Crusader Kings III: Silk & Silver expansion arrives November 19
Paradox Interactive just announced a major expansion with Crusader Kings III: Silk & Silver now set to arrive on November 19th.
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America Tries Reviving Shuttered Nuclear Plants - Partly to Help Power Data Centers
America is “making an unprecedented attempt to revive three shuttered nuclear plants to meet rising energy demand,” reports the Los Angeles Times,
“Two of the plants have contracts with Big Tech companies that will pay a premium to get large amounts of carbon-free energy for data centers…”
No commercia … ⌘ Read more
Mozilla is Calling Out Microsoft for Forcing Edge on Users
“Mozilla reps tell me they’ve met with Microsoft about their concerns,” reports PC Magazine, “but that the company wasn’t responsive.”
“They’ll do the minimum the law requires to respect user choice,” explains Kush Amlani, Mozilla’s counsel overseeing global competition and regulatory work… Mozilla recently marked 100 days since it released an 87-page rep … ⌘ Read more
Anthropic Announces ‘Public Benefit Fund’, Committing 5% of Its Shares
“Anthropic says it’s committing 5% of its shares to a ‘public benefit fund’,” reports TechCrunch, “structured as a wholly-owned entity within the company — with the option to contribute an additional 2% for every 50% increase in Anthropic’s value.”
Important context from CNBC:
The timing of Anthropic’s public fund announcement is both man … ⌘ Read more
‘Human Vs. Robot’ Cage Match Was Illegal, Says California
“A human defeated two of the three robots he faced in a cage fight recently held in San Francisco,” reports the Los Angeles Times, noting that videos of the event drew more than 10 million views on YouTube.
But “the humans behind that fight could face a battle of their own — the legal type — if they want to hold another event like ‘Human Vs. Robot,’ the Sept. … ⌘ Read more
GTA 6 Is Reportedly Coming to PC In Early 2027
GamesBeat reports that Rockstar plans to release Grand Theft Auto VI on PC in the first quarter of 2027, just a few months after its November 19, 2026 launch on consoles. The report follows Microsoft’s announcement last week that it had secured exclusive cloud-streaming rights to the game. Since Rockstar has yet to officially announce a PC version, “this deal will allow Xbox to mar … ⌘ Read more
After a 10-Year Redemption Arc, No Man’s Sky Is Coming to the iPhone and iPad
No Man’s Sky is coming to iPhone and iPad on October 28, more than a decade after its rocky launch and long-running redemption arc. The title will cost $19.99, but a free trial will let users try it out before purchasing. Ars Technica reports: It will run on devices as far back as the iPhone 11 and the third-generation iP … ⌘ Read more
Asterinas 0.19.0 Brings Up X.Org & Other Improvements To This Rust-Written OS
Asterinas is the open-source project developing a Rust-based, memory-safe Linux alternative OS while striving for Linux software compatibility. Out now is Asterinas 0.19 as the project continues advancing on its goals… ⌘ Read more
Wine 11.19 released with Wayland Colour Management, Unicode upgrades, DNS query cache
The Wine 11.19 release is now available for this open source Windows compatibility layer, bringing an assortment of new features and fixes.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/wine-11-19-released-with-wayland-colour-management-unicode-upgrades … ⌘ Read more
Wine 11.19 Released With Wayland Color Management For Vulkan, DNS Query Caching
We are nearing the point of the Wine 12.0 stable release coming up in early 2027 while for now the Wine 11.xx bi-weekly development releases continue. Out today is Wine 11.19 with a few new features and plenty of fixes… ⌘ Read more
20% of Swiss Glaciers Lost In Five Years
Swiss glaciers lost 5.5% of their ice volume in the first eight months of 2026, bringing total losses since 2021 to 19.4%. Researchers say some glaciers are now collapsing from within as meltwater carves out large cavities. The Guardian reports: Matthias Huss, a glaciologist at ETH Zurich and lead author of the report, said many people do not realize how fast glaciers are retreating, or that ju … ⌘ Read more
Nearing A 10 Second Kernel Build, Xeon 600 & Other September Excitement On Phoronix
During the past month on Phoronix were 284 original news articles and another 19 featured Linux hardware reviews/multi-page benchmark articles. A lot of exciting happenings both on the hardware and software fronts while October is sure to be another interesting month with the releases of Ubuntu 26.10, Fedora 45, and some more hardware fun… ⌘ Read more
Tech Industry Scratches Its Head Over Trump’s ‘AI Force’ Proposal
Saturday morning President Trump announced he’s creating an AI task force and appointing an AI czar, reports Politico.
“I am forming the AI Force, much like I did Space Force, which has been a tremendous SUCCESS,” Trump wrote Saturday in what Politico earlier described as “a lengthy Truth Social post on Saturday morning.”
TRUMP: Over the ye … ⌘ Read more
Customer-Losing Flock Now Offers Buyouts to Avoid Laying Off Employees
Mashable writes:
Flock Safety offered employees voluntary buyouts on Friday, WIRED reported… Without the buyouts, those familiar with the situation suspect the company would have to lay off some of its 1,500 employees.
WIRED writes that people familiar with the program “say they believe that a significant number of the startup’s ro … ⌘ Read more
Developer Abandons ‘PS5 Linux’ Project After Sony Patches AI-Discovered Exploit
“In April this year, we saw Andy Nguyen turning the PS5 into a Linux-powered gaming PC,”
writes the blog It’s FOSS.
It ran Steam games and emulators using the PS5’s on-board hardware. But this week Andy announced he’s “stopping all my work on PS5 Linux” and “stepping away from the PS5 scene.”
stopping work on porting … ⌘ Read more
Fake AI Intelligence Almost Made the US Military Start a War With China
U.S. military intelligence received an inaccurate report this spring that a Chinese ship in the Middle East was transporting components of a nuclear weapons program, reports CNN.
“The US military swung into action with plans to intercept the vessel, according to four sources familiar with the episode.”
Armed members of the US milit … ⌘ Read more
US Air Force F-16 Crashes in Michigan After Pentagon Orders More Flyovers
The F-16 “experienced an incident,” the Texas Military Department said in a statement, adding that “The pilot successfully ejected the aircraft and is receiving care at a nearby hospital.”
ABC News reports:
A Texas Air National Guard F-16 crashed in Michigan during a training mission on Thursday afternoon, sparking an hourslon … ⌘ Read more
Gemini Breached Three Outside Systems, and Claude-Using Researchers Breached OpenAI
“Software security researchers used Anthropic’s Claude AI platform to hack OpenAI’s ChatGPT tool,” reports CBS News.
Using Claude, “On July 25, 2026, we chained two critical vulnerabilities to compromise multiple OpenAI employees’ ChatGPT accounts,” write researchers at security platform Hacktron AI. “With these ac … ⌘ Read more
Has the James Web Space Telescope Discovered a New ‘Black Hole Star’?
The James Webb Space Telescope has been picking up little red dots in almost every image,
writes Quanta magazine. And now two teams of astronomers propose they’re looking at a new astronomical object: a black hole star. It shines with the light of billions of suns — and hides a black hole in its core.
But Quanta adds that “not everyone … ⌘ Read more
Cops Searched Thousands of Flock Cameras for Reasons of ‘LMAO,’ ‘IDK,’ ‘Hehe,’ And ‘Asdfg’
404 Media reports:
Last summer, a cop with the Lake County, Indiana Sheriff’s Department used Flock’s surveillance search engine to look for a license plate across more than 19,000 cameras in 1,558 cities and towns. The cop’s stated reason for the search, according to a record of Flock’s system, was “LMAO. … ⌘ 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
Google’s Revived Nuclear Power Plant Gets $1.9 Billion Loan From US Government
The U.S. Department of Energy has approved a $1.9 billion loan to NextEra Energy to restart Iowa’s shuttered Duane Arnold nuclear plant, which Google has backed as a power source for its growing AI infrastructure. “The sizable loan is the second of its kind, suggesting that the Trump administration views revived nucle … ⌘ Read more
The World Now Has More Seniors Than Young People - for the First Time In History
“There are now more seniors in the world than young children,” reports the International Business Times, citing a new report from the U.S. Census Bureau report. And it warns that “The share of the population aged 65 and over is projected to nearly double, from 10.5 percent (about 1 in 10 people) in 2025 to 19.6 percent … ⌘ Read more
Linux Kernel Patches Out For Review To Enable USB4/Thunderbolt For Apple M1 / M2 / M3
There is a set of 19 patches out for review on the Linux kernel mailing list that would finally allow the mainline kernel running on Apple Silicon M1 / M2 / M3 SoCs to enjoy USB4/Thunderbolt support… ⌘ Read more
Apple TV and Apple One Subscription Prices Increase By Up To 20%
Apple is raising Apple TV’s U.S. price to $14.99 per month, up from $12.99, while the annual plan jumps from $99 to $119. It’s the service’s fourth price hike in four years and means the monthly cost has now tripled from its $4.99 launch price in 2019. Apple One’s Individual plan is also rising from $19.95 to $21.95 per month.
[ and two nut sticky buns for provisions. This is where the small bird (19-23) was giving us a show.
It’s so dry, the landscape looks already like autumn for several weeks. Sooo many orange and brown leaves on the ground, it’s crazy. I hope we still get a real autumn and head not straight from summer into winter. Last weekend was still an awful 37°C.
This time, we paid the small entrence fee to walk around inside the ruin of Hohenrechberg Castle. The red sandstone looks super sick. I really dig it. It’s actually purplish at parts, no kidding. Absolutely unreal! At least for me, I normally only see the beige sandstone around here.
Right when we went down the castle ditch, both camera batteries were completely drained after just 880 photos in total. What a bummer. I saw a guy with a leather glove coming out of a door and immediately followed him to the aviary in the hopes of a show or something. That flight cage wasn’t there last time I visited the ruin. And we were lucky, the falconer fed his harris’ hawk and explained us along the way. Other families came and went, but we talked to him for at least 20 minutes. Super interesting. I think that was easily the best part.
At exactly 19 o’clock I unlocked the front door. Our feet were done. It was an amazing nine hours hike. :-)
The gallery is a tiny bit larger than usual, enjoy: https://lyse.isobeef.org/wanderung-auf-die-burgruine-hohenrechberg-2026-08-22/
FCC Abolishes Gigabit Speed Goal, Suggesting It Is Unfair To Slower Technologies
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The Federal Communications Commission last week eliminated the gigabit speed goal established during the Biden administration and declared that current levels of broadband deployment in the US are acceptable. Though fiber networks have routinely offered such s … ⌘ Read more