Vietnam Jails Pirate Football Streamers For Up To a Year
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: A Vietnamese court has sentenced 14 people who worked on the pirate football streaming site Bun Cha TV, handing out the first prison terms we’ve seen since the country’s piracy crackdown began earlier this year. […] Four defendants, including the heads of the content, programming and operations teams, wer … ⌘ Read more
systemd With Its Initial Support For Rust
Systemd recently merged support for Rust programs. This initial systemd Rust support is limited to leaf components / individual binaries while eventually they hope to be able to support Rust within root components of systemd. More details on this initiative were shared this week… ⌘ Read more
CUDA Oxide 0.3 Vastly Improves Rust Support For NVIDIA CUDA Programming
NVIDIA software engineers released CUDA Oxide 0.3 for closing out October. CUDA Oxide as a reminder is their experimental Rust to CUDA compiler that has been seeing a lot of activity in recent months… ⌘ Read more
Five more classics join the GOG Preservation Program
In addition to publishing more games, the GOG Preservation Program has expanded again with another five classic games added.
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I’m happy to report that there is going to be an Advent of Code event this year:
To be honest, I really wasn’t sure if it was going to happen. “Programming” has changed so much this year …
Anthropic Engineer Declares the Coding Interview Dead
An Anthropic engineering manager says he has stopped using traditional coding interviews because AI can now outperform candidates on the kinds of programming challenges they typically contain. “There’s no more point in giving you a little React challenge than there is in quizzing people about assembly; Claude is now better at both,” said Felix Rieseberg in a blog post. “Ou … ⌘ Read more
EMACS Turns 50
“EMACS, the mother of all editors, turns 50!” writes Slashdot reader dr_jerry, sharing a report from MIT Technology Review: Programming used to be a very different experience from the one we know today. In fact, the first programmers didn’t write code at all; the six women who worked on the ENIAC, one of the world’s first computers, at the University of Pennsylvania in 1946 did it by physically configuring switches, cables, and plugboards.
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Google Begins Certifying Registered App Stores For Android
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Running an app ecosystem has gotten a lot more complex for Google after its loss in the Epic Games antitrust case. While U.S. users can access app stores in Google Play by court order, international users will use Google’s voluntary Registered App Stores program. Google has announced that stores wishing … ⌘ Read more
Skydance Offers Buyouts, Gives 5-Day RTO Order
Skydance, as it begins integrating Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery, is offering voluntary buyouts to some employees and imposing a five-day-a-week office requirement. Layoffs are also expected as the company targets more than $6 billion in annualized cost savings within three years. Variety reports: The new program was outlined by chairman and CEO David Ellison and co-CEO Ynon Kreiz … ⌘ Read more
KWin-Type Introduced To Address KDE Wayland Usability Gap For Auto-Typing Text
Open-source developer Jason Donenfeld known for his work on WireGuard announced today the release of kwin-type. KWin-type is a new Wayland-compatible program for auto-typing text from the standard input under the KWin Wayland compositor… ⌘ Read more
Systemd Merges Support for Rust Programs
“As of today in systemd Git it’s now possible for the systemd programs to be written in the Rust programming language as an alternative to C,” reports Phoronix:
Core systemd code like the systemd library doesn’t yet support Rust code, but for the various systemd programs / leaf components there is now support for using Rust… The new systemd-keyring-setup utility in Rust is used for provisi … ⌘ Read more
America’s Defense Department Is Building an ‘Elite New Tech Sabotage Agency’
America’s Defense Department “has spent months quietly building an elite new tech agency,” reports Politico, “to help covertly disrupt and sabotage foreign technology programs considered threats to American military superiority.”
Information on the Technology Support Office, or TSO as it is called internally, is nearly impos … ⌘ Read more
systemd Merges Support For Rust Programs
As of today in systemd Git it’s now possible for the systemd programs to be written in the Rust programming language as an alternative to C… ⌘ Read more
UN Says Breaching 1.5C Warming Limit Is ‘Imminent and Unavoidable’
For the first time, the UN has declared that exceeding the Paris Agreement’s 1.5C warming limit is “imminent and unavoidable.” “We are now saying this window has closed, but we can open it again by making the overshoot as brief as possible,” UN Environment Program Executive Director Inger Andersen said on a call with reporters. “This is about ho … ⌘ Read more
To Make Way For Data Centers, Google Will Pay Others to Use Less Power
Google is funding one of the nation’s largest “virtual power plants,” paying homes and businesses indirectly to reduce electricity consumption during periods of peak demand so more grid capacity can be available for data centers. Under its expanded deal with Voltus, the program could provide up to 1,070 megawatts in the Mid-Atlantic … ⌘ Read more
x86 Kernel Shadow Stacks Being Worked On For Linux As Powerful Control Flow Protection
Linux user-space for several years had shadow stack support for hardware-enforced control-flow enforcement in defending against return oriented programming (ROP) attacks. Intel Tigerlake and newer CPUs or AMD Zen 3 and newer have the necessary hardware shadow stacks support. Shadow stacks have been effective for helping user-space software fend ROP attacks while now there is new work toward bringing shadow stack support for k … ⌘ Read more
Government Websites Go Dark After Severe PHP Vulnerabilities Disclosed
“PHP disclosed two critical vulnerabilities in their programming language and urged web site operators to immediately apply the fix,” writes longtime Slashdot reader smooth wombat. “As a result, government web sites in Europe and elsewhere temporarily went dark on Wednesday as operators worked to protect their systems.” The Inde … ⌘ Read more
PHP Warns It Plans To Release 2 Emergency Patches Imminently
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Website admins, brace yourselves. Fixes for what are believed to be uncommonly severe vulnerabilities are scheduled to drop in a little more than 12 hours for PHP, a programming language that powers websites and Web applications everywhere. PHP maintainers said Monday that they planned to release patc … ⌘ 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
Programming Language Popularity Increases for R, Julia, and Rust (but Not Go)
TechRepublic reports:
The TIOBE Index is a monthly indicator of programming-language popularity based on factors including skilled engineers, courses, and third-party vendors. The October 2026 rankings show a largely stable top 10, with R overtaking SQL and Julia returning to the top 20 for the first time in three yea … ⌘ Read more
Does a Universal Basic Income Bring Long-Term Changes?
For more than a year, The New York Times followed recipients of a universal basic income program who received $1,330 a month for an entire year.
There were benefits, but also the everyday challenges of being poor, and turning their life around “did not turn out to be quite that simple.”
Across Silicon Valley, experimental guaranteed income programs have quietly take … ⌘ Read more
Memtest86+ v9.00 Released With Support For ARM64 Memory Testing
The open-source Memtest86+ program that is popular for RAM testing has expanded beyond the x86/x86_64 (and LoongArch64) world to now support memory testing on ARM64/AArch64 hardware… ⌘ Read more
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion and Ghostwire: Tokyo enter the GOG Preservation Program
The GOG Preservation Program has expanded to include another two fun games with The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion and Ghostwire: Tokyo.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/the-elder-scrolls-iv-oblivion-and-ghostwire-tokyo-enter- … ⌘ Read more
Schools Across US Protest FCC Plan That Could Disconnect Kids From Internet
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Schools and libraries from around the U.S. pleaded with the Federal Communications Commission to drop the idea of ending E-Rate, a $2 billion-a-year program that connects students and library visitors to the Internet. FCC Chairman Brendan Carr has criticized school distr … ⌘ Read more
Apple Contributes SSAF Driver To LLVM Clang For Source Code Transformations
Apple compiler engineers have contributed to upstream LLVM/Clang today a Scalable Static Analysis Framework (SSAF) driver for whole-program based analysis and source-to-source code transformations… ⌘ Read more
Rustls 0.23.46 Released With Four Security Fixes
Rustls as the modern TLS library written in the Rust programming language with an emphasis on memory safety is out today with its v0.23.46 release in order to ship four new security fixes… ⌘ Read more
Intel ISPC 1.32 Released With AVX10.2 & APX Support, Even AMD Zen 6 Too
Intel ISPC 1.32 released today as the newest version of this Intel Implicit SPMD Program Compiler built atop LLVM/Clang. ISPC is a variant of the C programming language with extensiosn catering to Single Program Multiple Data programming for both Intel CPUs and GPUs… ⌘ Read more
Linus Torvalds “Did What I Preach”, Used AI To Make Code Decipherable & Uncovered More Bugs
After using Claude Code to draft code to help make a fundamental improvement to the Linux kernel, Linux creator Linus Torvalds continued using AI this weekend and talking up its benefits. Beyond generating initial patches and a test program for that noted I/O enhancement, he separately talked up using AI/LLMs for making patches more decipherable to understand in the process the AI noted more long-standing bugs within the … ⌘ Read more
I should give river a try:
https://isaacfreund.com/software/river/
It brings back the old model from X11 where the window manager is a separate program/process.
Python 3.15 Released With Experimental JIT Compiler Running Faster
Python 3.15 is out today as the newest annual feature release for the Python programming language… ⌘ Read more
US Bars Microsoft, Adobe, and Major IT Firms From Green Card Program
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: The Trump administration is suspending Microsoft, Adobe, and several other technology companies from a program that helps skilled foreign workers obtain permanent residency in the United States, accusing the companies of fraud. “Our message to Microsoft is: You’re a great American company, … ⌘ Read more
OCTOPATH TRAVELER, OCTOPATH TRAVELER II, and NEO: The World Ends With You arrive on GOG
Three more Square Enix games have today landed on DRM-free store GOG.com, and they’re part of the GOG Preservation Program too.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/octopath-traveler-octopath-traveler-ii-and-neo-the-world-ends … ⌘ Read more
Microsoft Issues First Release Of Their LiteBox Sandboxing Library OS
Back in February we featured LiteBox as a new Microsoft open-source project building out a Rust-based sandboxing Library OS. LiteBox leverages Linux virtualization security features and Rust language inherent benefits to provide the ability for sandboxing Linux apps on Linux, Linux programs on Windows, and other security-oriented deployments. Out today is the first tagged release of LiteBox for this open-source library operating system… ⌘ Read more
AI Makes “Open-Source, Clean Room” Implementations Of Adobe Photoshop & Premier In Rust
As an interesting demonstrator for the power of AI and potentially pressing legal challenges, Claude Code and AI agents have created “open-source, clean-room reimplementation” versions of Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premier, and Adobe Lightroom. These new creations from the ArtCraft project are implemented in the Rust programming language… ⌘ Read more
YSERVER 1.7 Rust X11 Server Narrows Memory Usage Difference With X.Org Server
YSERVER continues seeing a lot of activity for this vibe coded X11 server written in the Rust programming language. YSERVER has been seeing many apps and desktops working fine on this creation crafted in large part by Claude Code and continues chipping away at more X11 features. YSERVER 1.7 is out today with the latest fixes and improvements… ⌘ Read more
The University of Washington Is Moving a Graduate Program to Microsoft’s Campus
Longtime Slashdot submitter theodp writes: GeekWire reports that the University of Washington has moved its Global Innovation Exchange {GIX) program to Microsoft’s campus in a rent-free deal (UW News release). GIX, an institute supporting tech leaders that offers an MS in Technology Innovation, is the first UW program … ⌘ Read more
Ubuntu’s Next Rust Effort May See OpenPGP Replaced By Sequoia PGP
Canonical engineer Richard Scott McNew published a status update surrounding the Rust programming language efforts in the upcoming Ubuntu 26.10 release. Sequoia PGP is being rolled out to Ubuntu Linux and in a future release may end up replacing OpenPGP… ⌘ Read more
OCTOPATH TRAVELER and OCTOPATH TRAVELER II are coming to GOG in the Preservation Program
The GOG Preservation Program is expanding once again, on October 8th both OCTOPATH TRAVELER and OCTOPATH TRAVELER II will arrive on GOG.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/octopath-traveler-and-octopath-traveler-ii-are … ⌘ Read more
Qt Creator 21 IDE Beta Enables More AI Functionality By Default
Following yesterday’s release of the Qt 6.12 LTS toolkit, The Qt Group today released Qt Creator 21 in beta form as the latest version of their integrated development environment focused on C/C++ as well as Python, JavaScript, and other programming languages… ⌘ Read more
Google Reportedly Tests Paying Publishers For AI Search Results
Google is reportedly testing a program that pays around 100 publishers based on how much their content contributes to its AI-powered search features. According to The Information, one publisher earned more than $1 million over a year, while another has received roughly $50,000 to $60,000.” Digiday reports: Once a publisher joins the “AI contributio … ⌘ Read more
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Made a little program to print the system’s uptime on DOS, OS/2, and Windows NT:
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Crazy, who comes up with things like that?
I didn’t come up with it, but I was close, I guess. DOS is so small, you don’t have much of a choice but to search for “anything related to time”. There aren’t that many syscalls/functions. You’ll quickly notice that there’s no global tick counter. So what else is there? Hmm, “get the mtime of a file” is pretty much the only other time-related thing. And which file is “stable”, probably allocated just once at boot? Mark Aitchison tried to use NUL, which is a pretty good idea. Thinking about it in retrospect, stdin does indeed make more sense, though, because that object really does get allocated just once at “boot” and then it stays the same. That’s not guaranteed for NUL (although just as likely).
But, it is possible in DOS to move “the console” to a serial port:
I wonder what that does to my little uptime program. :-)
Today, I also learned that
-Ris an alias for-rinrm.
Ah, I remember that. Dug it up and saved it in the blog: -R is more portable/consistent: http://movq.de/blog/postings/2026-09-30/0/POSTING-en.html
Made a little program to print the system’s uptime on DOS, OS/2, and Windows NT:
https://movq.de/git/retrouptime/
(Release pending.)
This was pretty easy to do on Windows, a bit harder on OS/2 (because documentation is scarce), and quite the mess on DOS. DOS doesn’t explicitly keep track of the system’s uptime, so you have to resort to tricks like “give me the mtime of stdin”, which probably works … Yeah.
BPF-Based Display Panel Drivers Being Explored For Linux
BPF-based HID drivers have helped to deliver quirks/fixes for different HID devices more quickly than being bound by the conventional kernel cycle. Loading these eBPF programs from user-space have shown a lot of potential for innovating and iterating more quickly with BPF drivers for different subsystems. The latest area now seeing the BPF treatment are display panel drivers… ⌘ Read more
Test your brain with the Programming Puzzles Humble Bundle
Ready to test your brain and make something cool? The Programming Puzzles Humble Bundle is live with 7 highly rated games included.
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AlmaLinux Rolls Out New Software/Hardware Certification Portal, Self-Certify App
Two years ago RHEL-derived AlmaLinux announced a hardware certification program as part of their Certification Special Interest Group (SIG). They have now expanded their hardware certification program to include third-party software certification on AlmaLinux too plus a new app that users can install for self-certifying their system… ⌘ Read more
Andreessen Horowitz Launches AI/Company-Building School As a College Alternative
TechCrunch quipped it was like if startup school Y Combinator and Peter Thiel’s build-a-company-instead of-college Fellowship Program had a baby. Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz is investing $35 million to launch a private school in San Francisco “aimed at turning high school graduates into f … ⌘ Read more
Vibe Coded YSERVER Adds XDMCP Support For Multi-User Shared Desktops
The open-source YSERVER project as a modern X11 sever written in the Rust programming language with the help of Claude Code is out today with a new feature release. Most notable for this AI Rust X11 server is X Display Manager Control Protocol (XDMCP) support for multi-user shared desktops… ⌘ Read more
AI-Assisted Starling Desktop Introduces 3D View With “Walkable 3D Waterfront City”
From a few months ago you may recall Starling as the new Linux desktop written with its own Wayland compositor, using the Swift programming language, and written in large part via AI with Claude Code. Out today is Starling 0.5 with this desktop now gaining an optional 3D desktop mode… ⌘ Read more
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Which side of a duck has the most feathers?
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What’s a duck’s other favorite TV program?
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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