Linux Networking Continues Being Bombarded With AI Patches
While the Linux WiFi/wireless maintainer just announced taking a stand against AI/LLM generated slop patches with a new “three second review” rule, the broader Linux networking subsystem continues to be bombarded with AI-generated patches… ⌘ Read more

Popular Steam Deck accessory brand JSAUX announced controller-focused brand Voidjoy
Voidjoy is a new spin-off brand from JSAUX, that plan to bring various types of controllers and addons for existing controllers.

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Cloudflare Announces Open-Source Cloudflare OS As AI ‘Operating System’
Cloudflare has open-sourced Cloudflare OS, an Apache 2.0-licensed platform that lets organizations build AI agents, apps, and workflows using curated company data and tools within isolated, governed environments. Despite the name, it is not a traditional operating system but a framework for securely managing organizational AI workloads … ⌘ Read more

Prison Architect devs Introversion Software announce Arise Dark Lord
Arise Dark Lord is an action-strategy hybrid RTS that blends tower defence, base building and direct control of your Dark Lord avatar.

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Cloudflare Announces Open-Source Cloudflare OS As AI “Operating System”
Cloudflare today announced the open-sourcing of Cloudflare OS as an “open platform for agents, apps, and work.” Cloudflare OS is an AI “operating system” but not in the traditional OS sense… ⌘ Read more

NVMe Polishes Its Specs, Brings Virtualization to Locally Attached SSDs
The latest NVMe specifications add SSD-level virtualization that can simplify live VM migration by preserving storage identities across servers. The updates also introduce support for post-quantum cryptography, controller-based rate limiting, voltage monitoring, and factory-reset capabilities. The Register reports: Announced by t … ⌘ Read more

Feed rubber ducks to a bottomless corporate void in Project P.I.T.T. on August 19
Throw ducks down a void, unlock helpful contraptions and keep on optimizing in the quirky Project P.I.T.T. with the release date announced for August 19th.

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Electronic Arts (EA) officially sold off to Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, Jared Kushner and others
Electronic Arts (EA) announced the big deal has been completed, and the company has now been sold off privately to a group of investors including Saudi Arabia.

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Linux Foundation Announces Tokenomics Foundation For “Economics & ROI Of AI Value”
Last month the Linux Foundation launched the x402 Foundation to standardize Internet-native payments for AI agents as their latest AI play. That followed other “AI” initiatives from dealing with AI exploits to AI asset and data exchange. Today they have another AI foray being announced with the creation of the Tokenomics Foundation… ⌘ Read more

Keychron announced “ZGM”, open-source firmware for gaming mice
Coming sometime in Q1 2027, hardware vendor Keychron recently announced a new project to bring open-source firmwire to mice named ZGM — Zephyr Gaming Mouse.

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KGamma2 Makes For Easy Gamma Adjustments On KDE Plasma With Wayland
KDE developer David Edmundson announced today his KGamma2 tool in aiming to address a pain point for KDE Plasma desktop users on Wayland… ⌘ Read more

Adventure game Thimbleweed Park 2 announced
While details on it are quite light as we’ve only got the first announcement of it coming, Thimbleweed Park 2 is real and coming sometime in 2028.

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GOG Officially Expands Linux Support With Native Galaxy Client In Development
Long-time Slashdot reader pyroclast shared this report from Linux Journal:

After years of requests from the Linux gaming community, GOG has officially confirmed that it is developing native Linux support for the GOG Galaxy launcher. The announcement marks one of the biggest shifts in the company’s history and signals a … ⌘ Read more

New Spinning Drone Hides In Plain Sight
To design invisible drones, researchers have tried camouflage, transparent materials and light-bending optical systems. But engineers at Northwestern University used “motion blur,” which an announcement from the school notes is the effect that makes fast-spinning fans seem to disappear.

“The drone spins up to 25 times per second, which is too fast for the human eye to see clearly. While it isn’t … ⌘ Read more

Linux 7.3 To Begin Laying The Groundwork For Intel Starfire
Intel recently announced Starfire as their new Panther Lake derived, space-grade SoC designed for extreme environments… like survivability in space. With the Linux 7.3, we are going to begin seeing the first Intel Starfire specific patches land in the kernel… ⌘ Read more

Prominent Arch Linux Developer Resigns After 10 Year Run
Arch Linux developer, security team member, AUR maintainer, and package maintainer Morten Linderud “Foxboron” announced today he is resigning from the project… ⌘ Read more

Hackers Targeted Municipal Water Systems In 7 States This Week, FBI Says
An anonymous reader quotes a report from NBC News: Cyberattacks targeting municipal water systems have been reported in at least seven states this week, prompting the FBI and the Environmental Protection Agency to warn utilities nationwide that hackers are trying to disrupt critical water infrastructure. In a public service announce … ⌘ Read more

New York Sues Kalshi For Running ‘Illegal Gambling Operation’
New York has sued prediction-market platform Kalshi, alleging it operates an “illegal gambling operation” without state authorization. “No matter what they call themselves, prediction markets like Kalshi are gambling platforms, plain and simple,” said New York Attorney General Letitia James in a press release announcing the lawsuit. “By ignoring our laws, … ⌘ Read more

Microsoft’s $450 Billion Jump Is Biggest In Stock Market History
Microsoft shares surged as much as 17% after reporting 43% growth in Azure revenue, putting the company on track to add a record $490 billion in market value in a single day. Bloomberg notes that it “would eclipse Nvidia’s $440 billion addition, following President Donald Trump’s announcement of a 90-day tariff pause last year, as the biggest ever. … ⌘ Read more

OPI Abstraction v0.1 Published With Aiming To Standardize DPU/IPU Ecosystems
The Linux Foundation hosted Open Programmable Infrastructure “OPI” announced its first coordinated release with OPI Abstraction v0.1. The work of the Open Programmable Infrastructure is hoping to standardize the data processing unit (DPU) and infrastructure processing unit (IPU) ecosystems… ⌘ Read more

Dreamsend: Wintersong is a 2.5D cyberpunk fantasy strategy RPG worth keeping an eye on
Recently announced by developer Anthony Nguyen, Dreamsend: Wintersong is an indie 2.5D cyberpunk fantasy strategy RPG that looks real interesting.

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GCC To Decline Any Significant Contributions Made Via AI/LLMs - Except For Test Cases
The GCC Steering Committee announced today that they have accepted the recommended policy of the GCC AI Policy Working Group, which means no “legally significant” code contributions made via AI/LLM agents will be accepted into this open-source compiler… ⌘ Read more

Double Fine get layoffs after split from Microsoft
Double Fine have announced that 23 members of their team have been let go, as they need to cut down on expenses to keep the studio alive.

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Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency and LLM-Generated Code Projects
Longtime Slashdot reader AmiMoJo shares a report from Hackaday: Community-led open source project hosting site Codeberg has formally announced that projects whose code is largely or fully machine-generated through LLMs and other ‘AI’ tools will no longer be welcome. This follows on the heels of a similar ban on cryptocurrency-related projects. The … ⌘ Read more

Framework Laptop 13 Pro: Aiming To Be One Of The Best Upgradeable Linux Laptops
Back in April, Framework Computer announced the Framework Laptop 13 Pro as a ground-up re-design of their modular/upgradeable laptop. This new Framework Laptop 13 Pro features a much larger battery (74Wh), LPCAMM2 memory support, a full CNC aluminum chassis, haptic touchpad, and a new power-optimized touch display. Paired with the very efficient Intel Core Ultra Series 3 “Panther Lake” SoCs, the Framework Laptop 13 Pro ends up being … ⌘ Read more

EmuDeck announce they are now ready for the Steam Machine
For those of you who want to do some emulation on the Steam Machine, EmuDeck is likely a good option and it should work better now.

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Qualcomm announce a big price rise - bad news for Valve’s Steam Frame
Valve don’t seem to be able to catch a break with their hardware releases - as Qualcomm reportedly plan to raise prices a lot.

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Facebook Offers a Verification System Certifying to Other Users That You’re a Real Human
Facebook announced Friday they’re launching a badge “that verifies there’s a real person behind a profile”.

“You record a short video selfie, which we check against your existing profile photos to confirm a match. The process is free and typically takes just a few minutes. Accounts must meet our trus … ⌘ Read more

AMD EPYC Zen 7 “Florence” Confirmed With ACE, Next-Gen Memory
After announcing the AMD EPYC 9006 “Venice” processors today at AMD Advancing AI 2026, Lisa Su ended her keynote by confirming EPYC Zen 7 “Florence” details as well as EPYC Zen 8 “Ravenna” being in development… ⌘ Read more

AMD Announces ROCm.AI As AI-Driven Platform For Developers
In addition to Instinct MI455X and Helios launching along with the new AMD EPYC 9006 “Venice” processors, AMD used their annual Advancing AI day to announce ROCm.AI as an AI-driven platform for developers… ⌘ Read more

AMD EPYC 9006 Venice Announced & Looks Poised To Be A Grand Slam
While AMD EPYC 9005 “Turin” launched just under two years ago, it has aged remarkably well. It is one of the few CPU generations in my past 22 years of Linux hardware reviews/benchmarking that has still captivated me two years on in finding still typically industry-leading performance across varying workloads, exceptional reliability, and all around a very robust platform. Today though at AMD Advancing AI 2026, Lisa Su formally announced EPYC 9006 “Ve … ⌘ Read more

Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2 set to arrive August 25
Some explosive co-op action is coming our way, with Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2 getting an August 25th release date announced today.

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Yet Another Zombie Survivors 1.0 release announced for August
On August 20th, the excellent Yet Another Zombie Survivors 1.0 finally launches - we have a new trailer and new details of what to expect from it.

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Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2 10-Inch Model Launches
Following the launch of the 7-inch Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2 and the 5-inch display variant, Raspberry Pi announced today the addition of a 10-inch model… ⌘ Read more

dbrand reveal their Steam Machine skins including a few Valve inspired looks
While the dbrand Steam Machine Portal case is officially dead, they’ve just announced a bunch of Steam Machine skins with some Valve inspired designs.

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Canonical Makes The “Enterprise Store” Official For Offline/Air-Gapped Ubuntu Usage
For months the Enterprise Store “enterprise-store” has been mentioned in some Ubuntu documentation and other elements while today it was formally announced by Canonical. The Enterprise Store is for helping to manage Ubuntu Linux deployments particularly within enterprise organizations that may have their computers air-gapped or otherwise strict Internet controls… ⌘ Read more

Collabora announce a preview of Holo Core, an AArch64 port of Arch Linux for Steam Frame
Open source firm Collabora who work with Valve (Steam), just announced a preview of Holo Core - the aarch64 port of Arch Linux for Steam Frame.

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Jagex Launcher Linux Beta released for Old School Runescape
Jagex today announced the official release of the Jagex Launcher Linux Beta, making it hopefully simpler and easier to get into Old School Runescape.

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Canonical First Gold Sponsor Of Trifecta Tech For Building More Infrastructure In Rust
Ubuntu Linux maker Canonical continues making more inroads in the Rust infrastructure space. Canonical announced today they have become the first gold sponsor of the Trifecta Tech Foundation that works on projects like sudo-rs for building more open infrastructure in the Rust programming language… ⌘ Read more

Microsoft Announces Public Preview For Linux Containers On WSL
Microsoft today shipped the first public preview of WSL Containers “WSLC” as their latest extension of the Windows Subsystem for Linux on Windows 11… ⌘ Read more

Notion Mail Is Shutting Down
Notion announced that it will shut down its email client on September 22. The company says more than half of users already manage email through Notion’s AI agents without opening their inbox, so it is shifting its focus from a traditional email client to agent-run workflows. Engadget reports: It has published an FAQ for users to make sure that they don’t lose any messages or data in the transition. Most emails will still … ⌘ Read more

Linux Foundation Launches Akrites To Coordinate AI-Driven Open Source Security
BrianFagioli writes: The Linux Foundation has announced Akrites, a new initiative to coordinate vulnerability disclosure and remediation for critical open source software as AI dramatically speeds up vulnerability discovery. Founding members include AWS, Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, Red Hat, NVIDIA, IBM, Cisco, JPMorgan … ⌘ Read more

DXVK 3.0 Released With DXBC-SPIRV For Shader Compilation, Descriptor Heaps By Default
Philip Rebohle announced the release today of DXVK 3.0 as the latest major feature release for this Direct3D 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 implementation atop the Vulkan API for use by Wine and Valve’s Steam Play (Proton)… ⌘ Read more

Academy Software Foundation Announces The “Wayland For Artists Working Group”
The Academy Software Foundation that advances open-source efforts for the VFX/cinema industry and more with the likes of OpenVDB, OpenMoonRay, Open Shading Language, and other projects, has announced the formation of a new working group to help with Wayland adoption for artists… ⌘ Read more

Trump Admin Announces $17.5 Billion In Loans For 10 New Large Nuclear Reactors
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Associated Press: The Trump administration is providing $17.5 billion to speed the development of 10 new large nuclear reactors to meet the skyrocketing power demand from massive data centers. Energy Secretary Chris Wright cited “tremendous interest” among developers of da … ⌘ Read more

China Reclaims Fastest Supercomputer At 2 Exaflops
Longtime Slashdot reader hackingbear shares a report from TOP500: The 67th edition of the TOP500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers was announced today at the ISC 2026 conference in Hamburg, Germany. LineShine, a previously unlisted system installed in China, debuts at No. 1, displacing El Capitan as the world’s most powerful supercomputer as measured by the H … ⌘ Read more