Was America’s Nationwide Grounding of Aircraft Caused By Its New AI System?
America’s nationwide grounding of flights on Friday happened “amid growing scrutiny… of a new AI-powered air traffic management system” deployed by America’s Federal Aviation Administration, reports Texas news station KXAN.
Ironically, the system is called SMART — but the outage happened “following warnings” from members of th … ⌘ Read more
Linus Torvalds Wonders If Linux’s AI-Prompted Patch Flood Has Peaked
The Register writes that “The worst of the patchpocalypse may be behind us, according to Linus Torvalds.” In his weekly kernel update post, Torvalds said Linux 7.4 rc2 was a big release partly because it contained code he’d left out of rc1 because he’d been busy and it was already the largest such release in kernel history.
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Australian STEM Videogame Challenge Canceled Due To AI
PC Gamer reports:
The Australian STEM Videogame Challenge, a “free national videogame development competition for students,” has confirmed that the rise of generative AI means this year’s event will be the last…
Speculation as to the cause of the program’s cancellation focused primarily on the presence of AI in entries: Another self-proclaimed judge said the prob … ⌘ Read more
Ex-Nvidia CEO Misled Company Leaders On Affair With Chinese Businesswoman
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Former Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang misled several of the company’s leaders, including general counsel Tim Teter and chief marketing officer Alison Wagonfeld, about the nature of his relationship with Chinese businesswoman Alice Huang, with whom he had an affair, according to two peopl … ⌘ Read more
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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Proton Experimental fixes ArcheAge Chronicles, Warhammer 40,000: Darktide, Deep Rock Galactic
Valve pushed out a small update for Proton Experimental, fixing issues in a few specific games.
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Wine 11.22 brings improved support for ARM64, MSXML and address space randomisation
The Wine 11.22 development release is out now for this compatibility layer, continuing to bring more improvements to run Windows software on Linux.
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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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Amazon’s Plan to Index the World’s Online Shopping Data
Amazon is considering a “World Product Graph” that would index information about products sold across the internet in an effort to keep shoppers and AI agents from turning to Google, Reddit or other sources for product research. The proposed database could also improve Amazon’s AI shopping assistant by addressing inaccurate or incomplete answers and allowing it to u … ⌘ Read more
Windows 0-Day Dropped By Disgruntled Researcher Hands Hackers System Rights
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Nightmare Eclipse, the pseudonym of a researcher with an ongoing, very public beef with Microsoft, has dropped yet another Windows zero-day. On Tuesday, Nightmare Eclipse disclosed SignDrop, a vulnerability that gives local users full System rights on some versions of Windo … ⌘ Read more
Wine 11.22 Introduces x86 AVX Emulation On ARM64
Wine 11.22 is out today as the latest bi-weekly development release and inching quite closely toward the Wine 12.0 stable release preparations… ⌘ Read more
FAA Orders Nationwide Ground Stop for All Aircraft
Longtime Slashdot readers cold fjord and sinij share news that the FAA grounded flights nationwide after a communications failure disrupted air traffic control centers across the country. By Friday evening, the outage had resulted in nearly 5,000 flight cancellations and roughly 10,000 delays, with no timeline for restoring normal operations. Rumors are swirling that this c … ⌘ Read more
SpaceX Falls Short of Historic Double Starship Catch
SpaceX’s 15th Starship test flight successfully reached orbit Friday, but its historic attempt to catch both stages at the launch tower was derailed when the Super Heavy booster malfunctioned, forcing controllers to abort its return before it exploded after splashing down in the Gulf of Mexico. The upper-stage Starship did, however, successfully deploy 26 Starlink sa … ⌘ Read more
Lego’s BrickLink Marketplace Back Online After Week-Long Outage Caused By ‘Cyber Incident’
LEGO’s BrickLink marketplace is back online after a week-long outage caused by what the company described as a “cyber incident,” during which an unauthorized third party accessed some user data. Details about exactly what data was accessed remain unclear. The site went offline on November 5 and rem … ⌘ Read more
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
Mozilla to Shut Down Solo, Deleting Users’ Websites and Data
Mozilla is shutting down Solo, its AI-powered website builder and hosting service, on November 30. A notice on the Soloist.ai homepage reads: “We’ve made the difficult decision to close Solo. We have appreciated all of your support building and growing this product, and the feedback we’ve received from all of you. Solo will cease operations on Nov 30, 2026 … ⌘ Read more
Microsoft’s Global Outage May Be Worse Than Amazon’s Or Crowdstrike’s, Expert Says
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: A global outage taking down a wide range of Microsoft 365 services remains ongoing Friday morning. The outage started midday Thursday, impacting users of Microsoft email, cloud, and AI services. Microsoft has documented the full list of services impacted by the … ⌘ Read more
ChatGPT’s New Wallet Lets AI Agents Shop For You
OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Wallet, a feature that lets its Dots AI agents help users choose products and complete purchases on their behalf. TechCrunch reports: The option will initially be available to a limited number of U.S. ChatGPT Pro subscribers, ages 18 and up, with a U.S.-issued Visa, Mastercard, or American Express. OpenAI says that users are fully in control of the pu … ⌘ Read more
Advocacy Groups Sue AI Giants to Freeze New Models, Warning of ‘Catastrophic’ Risks
A coalition of online safety and consumer advocacy groups has sued five of the world’s leading artificial intelligence companies, asking a California judge to halt the development and deployment of new AI models until the companies can address what the plaintiffs describe as potentially “catastrophic” risks. The … ⌘ Read more
Nvidia Employees Petition For Jensen Huang’s Return
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Some Nvidia employees are calling for Jensen Huang’s return even after his multiple reported extramarital affairs and abrupt resignation, according to internal correspondence reviewed by WIRED. An internal “suggestion box” post submitted before Huang’s resignation by a longtime engineer at Nvidia urged the company’s board to take … ⌘ Read more
GDC November 2026 survey shows 40% of developers using generative AI
The GDC 2026 survey has been released, and it’s another interesting look behind the scenes of the gaming industry as a whole.
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Parents and Teachers Decry Google Pledge To Yank Search If Schools Block AI
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Parents and teachers across the US are criticizing Google’s announcement that schools choosing to block AI tools could also lose access to Google Search. Google announced last week a range of new AI tools for schools and classrooms, alongside options allowing teachers an … ⌘ Read more
Fanatical’s new Play on the Go Bundle is here for November 2026
Pick up some quality cheap games to play on your Steam Deck, ROG Ally, Legion Go - or whatever else you’re gaming on.
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Discord go into more detail on their Linux upgrades, with more to come
Discord seem like they really are taking Linux more seriously now, with various upgrades made for it over the last year with more to come.
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Splatchinko is a chaotic space roguelike pachinko out now - reviewed
I do love watching numbers go up, and I do love building up ridiculous combinations - Splatchinko is a chaotic space roguelike pachinko out now.
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FAA Expands AI Advice to Manage Air Traffic Congestion Across Entire US Airspace
The FAA is expanding its $875 million AI-powered SMART system to all 22 U.S. air traffic control centers across the country. Since being implemented over Washington, DC, on September 21, the system has helped reroute 180 flights, saving an average of 10 minutes and nearly 80 gallons of fuel per flight. Ars Technica repor … ⌘ Read more
Massive-scale god sim The Universim gets a big surprise update
Quite a nice surprise, Crytivo actually returned to their original massive-scale god sim The Universim to give it some much needed upgrades.
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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.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/11/survival-horror-confronted-gets-a-big-performance-boost-ahead-of-the-1-0-relea … ⌘ Read more
Unlimited Maid Works is an unusual roguelike about being a maid
Unlimited Maid Works brings the most unusual roguelike where you’re a maid, and it actually looks really quite interesting and unique.
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Professor Layton and the New World of Steam arrives December 9 with Steam Deck support
For fans of puzzle mystery adventures, Professor Layton and the New World of Steam is set to arrive on December 9th.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/11/professor-layton-and-the-new-world-of-steam-arrives-december-9-with-st … ⌘ Read more
Fenris Creations (EVE Online / EVE Frontier) reveal the open source CORTAO
After already open sourcing their Carbon engine framework, Fenris Creations (EVE Online / EVE Frontier) revealed a new rendering technique with CORTAO.
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SteamOS 3.9.6 Beta brings an improved framerate limiter, various bug fixes
SteamOS 3.9.6 Beta is now available for testing bringing improvements to the framerate limiter for VRR and non-VRR and multiple bug fixes.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/11/steamos-3-9-6-beta-brings-an-improved-framerate-limiter-various-bug-fixes/ … ⌘ Read more
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
SpaceX To Invest $74 Billion Into Data Center Construction Projects In Texas, Arizona
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Hill: Elon Musk’s SpaceX plans to invest more than $74 billion into building two data centers in Texas and Arizona, the company announced Thursday, marketing them as projects that will boost local communities amid backlash surrounding such facilities. “These investmen … ⌘ Read more
Whoop Launches a Social Network Where Every User Has a ‘Verified Heartbeat’
Whoop has launched Humans, a social network built into its fitness app where every account is a real person with a “verified heartbeat.” The wearable company claims its platform is “entirely human,” unlike other social media platforms that are “saturated with artificial intelligence, automated accounts and bots, and manufactur … ⌘ Read more
Nintendo Takes Down Switch Emulators, Mod Chip Firmware in Massive GitHub DMCA Sweep
Nintendo has issued four DMCA takedown notices targeting two Nintendo Switch emulators, Yuzu and Citron Neo, along with mod chip firmware such as Picofly, SX Core and HWFLY. As a result, 144 repositories containing firmware used to circumvent the console’s copy protections have been removed by GitHub and rep … ⌘ Read more
Former Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Had a Relationship With a Second Employee
Reuters reports that former Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang had an intimate relationship with a third woman (source paywalled; alternative source ), an unnamed Nvidia employee. The revelation follows reports of two other extramarital affairs: one with Nvidia VP Kimberly Powell and another with Alice Huang, whom U.S. intelligence reportedly sus … ⌘ Read more
Singapore Says US Not Helpful On Investigation Into Suspected Spy’s Company
Singapore says U.S. authorities provided limited assistance in its investigation of Megaspeed, the company run by Alice Huang, the Chinese businesswoman whom U.S. intelligence suspects is a Chinese spy and whose relationship with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has drawn scrutiny. According to Singapore, authorities held Alice Huang’ … ⌘ Read more
Microsoft Outlook Goes Down Nationwide [UPDATE]
Microsoft is suffering a major Microsoft 365 outage that’s disrupting Outlook, Teams, Copilot and SharePoint for users across the Americas, with more than 129,000 problem reports logged on Downdetector shortly after the disruption began. Microsoft blames the connectivity problems on an unexpectedly large number of unavailable servers that overloaded the remaining infrastructure. … ⌘ Read more
Google Pushes Privacy Angle As Gemini-Powered Smartglasses Debut
Google is launching its first Gemini-powered smart glasses, with Samsung supplying the computing hardware. Given their built-in 12-megapixel camera, Google is emphasizing privacy protections, including a tamper-resistant recording light, automatic face redaction, and restrictions on real-time facial recognition and livestreaming. The company also … ⌘ Read more
Iconic First Image of Black Hole Holds Up To Scrutiny
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Conversation: On April 10 2019, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration revealed the first picture of a black hole. The object is at the centre of a galaxy known as M87, about 55 million light-years away. The iconic ring structure instantly became one of the most recognized scientific images of the modern era. It … ⌘ Read more
Critical Apache HTTP/2 Flaw Could Let Unauthenticated Attackers Execute Code Remotely
A critical flaw in Apache HTTP Server’s HTTP/2 module could allow unauthenticated attackers to remotely execute code and potentially take control of affected server processes. Tracked as CVE-2026-119618, the vulnerability affects Apache HTTP Server 2.4.55 through 2.4.70 when HTTP/2 is enabled and is fixed … ⌘ Read more
Chill in some idle games with the new Fanatical Idler Bundle
Idle and clicker games have exploded in popularity over the last year - so here’s your chance to experience some for cheaps.
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Jensen Huang Resigns As Nvidia CEO
Jensen Huang has stepped down as CEO of Nvidia after 33 years leading the company, with CFO Colette Kress taking over as interim CEO while the board searches for a permanent replacement.
“The Board has full confidence in Colette and the leadership team, and we expect the company’s operations, customer commitments and product roadmap to continue without interruption,” said board chair Harvey Jones in a release … ⌘ Read more
NVIDIA announce Jensen Huang has resigned as CEO following scandal
Oh my, Jensen Huang you very naughty boy. NVIDIA just announced that Huang has resigned as CEO following a recent scandal.
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With formidable female protagonists, check out the Green Man Gaming’s Girls Just Wanna Have Guns! Bundle
Another good chance for you here to pick up a bundle of games at a good price - this time featuring some awesome formidable female protagonists.
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Humble Bundle goes through a re-design that’s being accused of messy vibe-coding
Fixing what isn’t broken huh? Humble Bundle just completely remade their website and store, and lots of people are unhappy with it.
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Tim Peters, Python User #2 and Prolific Contributor, Dies At 74
Tim Peters, one of Python’s earliest and most influential contributors, died on July 15 at age 74. Known as Python’s second real user, Peters created the Zen of Python and Timsort sorting algorithm while contributing to numerous core components. He also served as a Python Software Foundation director from 2001 to 2014. Adafruit remembers Peters … ⌘ Read more
Apex Compute revealed Apex Neural Rendering (ANR), their cross-platform answer to NVIDIA DLSS
Apex Compute recently announced Apex Neural Rendering (ANR) - a cross-platform Super Resolution, Ray Reconstruction, and Frame Generation technology.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/11/apex-compute-revealed-ape … ⌘ Read more
Nexus Mods hiring for a Linux gaming specialist to work on their Vortex app
While their plans for a newer Nexus Mods app were shelved, they continue working on revamping Vortex and they want to get this popular mod manager on Linux.
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