Texas City Demands $2 Million For Public Records On Flock Usage
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: As bipartisan backlash against Flock grows, some cities are asking anti-surveillance advocates and media outlets to pay eye-popping fees – including charging tens of thousands or even millions – to get information about how police departments are using and potentially abusing AI-enabled camera … ⌘ Read more
TrueNAS 27 RC.1 Released: LInux 6.18 LTS + OpenZFS 2.4
TrueNAS 27 RC.1 released today in working toward the next major release of this Linux-based storage/NAS operating system from iXsystems… ⌘ Read more
Rural Data Centers Are in for a Big Federal Tax Break
Wired reports that rural data center projects could become eligible for expanded federal Opportunity Zone tax benefits starting in 2027, with more than 100 planned or developing facilities potentially qualifying. “Right now, the only requirement to get the benefits is capital investment,” says Emily Kraschel, a tax policy analyst at the Searchlight Institute, a public … ⌘ Read more
Hackers Steal 8 Million Citizens’ Records From Danish Government Database
Hackers stole records belonging to roughly 8 million Danish citizens and residents from Denmark’s Central Person Register (CPR), including names, addresses, social security numbers and other personal information. The breach is believed to be the largest in Denmark’s history. TechCrunch reports: The CPR is a government database of … ⌘ Read more
AMD ROCm 10.1 Released With Many Improvements
Following the ROCm 10.0 release from late August, ROCm 10.1 is now available in continuing with the ROCm six week release cycle… ⌘ Read more
Wikipedia Operator Says OpenAI’s ‘Rogue’ Bots May Be Linked to a May Outage
The Wikimedia Foundation says it found evidence that “rogue” OpenAI agents edited Wikimedia wikis without approval, unsuccessfully tried to exploit its Etherpad service, and generated millions of automated requests across Wikimedia projects. Here’s a summary of what Wikimedia observed (via The Verge): Wiki editing: We’ve identi … ⌘ Read more
Meta Rushed To Fix Muse ‘VM Escape’ Vulnerability Soon Before Launch
An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: In the immediate weeks before Muse’s launch, Meta engineers found several security vulnerabilities in the company’s viral AI agent product, at least one of which could have allowed malicious users to break outside of Muse’s intended environment and access Meta’s own sensitive databases and … ⌘ Read more
Norway Plans Temporary Ban on Smart Glasses
Norway is preparing legislation that would temporarily ban camera-equipped smart glasses in a range of public places, including parks, beaches, museums, shopping centers, schools, daycare centers, healthcare facilities, gyms and public events. Private use would still be allowed. The Guardian reports: Torgeir Micaelsen, Norway’s minister of digital affairs, said he was worried that new, po … ⌘ Read more
Linux 7.4 To Land New BTB CTX Isolation Feature Of AMD Zen 6
The Linux 7.4 kernel is set to introduce support for a new AMD Zen 6 security feature… ⌘ Read more
Mac Users Reclaim 12GB+ of Storage With Apple Intelligence Removal Tool
A new open-source command-line tool called RemoveMacAI lets macOS 27 users disable Apple Intelligence and reclaim around 12GB or more of storage. MacRumors reports: In macOS 27, Apple removed the toggle to disable Apple Intelligence wholesale, and simply disabling individual features doesn’t remove the models from your Mac’s driv … ⌘ Read more
Anthropic Reports Florida Woman’s Claude ‘Diary’ Threat to Law Enforcement
A Florida woman was arrested on a felony charge after Anthropic’s human review team flagged and reported a Claude conversation in which she allegedly threatened to “shoot up” the Lee County Sheriff’s Office and later mentioned acquiring a new gun. Tom’s Hardware reports: Anthropic monitors chats for key phrases and content that co … ⌘ Read more
Victorian era point and click comedy Heir of the Dog launches October 29
UK indie developer and publisher Tall Story Games’ pixel art point-and-click adventure Heir of the Dog is landing on October 29th.
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Sam Altman: ‘The World Should Accept Some Bad Things Happening’ For the Benefits of AI
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says society should accept some negative consequences from AI in exchange for the technology’s broader benefits and widespread public access. “I think there’s a lot of daylight,” Altman told Decoded co-author and Politico senior tech reporter Brendan Bordelon. Asked about where he differs … ⌘ Read more
Auto-CPUFreq 3.2 Adds Configurable HWP Dynamic Boost, Platform Profile Reporting
The open-source Auto-CPUFreq tool for active system monitoring and power optimizations is out with a new release for continuing to enhance battery life on Linux laptops… ⌘ Read more
Huawei and Qualcomm Struck a Broad Multi-Year Patent Licensing Deal
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Quartz: Huawei and Qualcomm on Monday announced a multi-year, broad patent license agreement covering 5G, artificial intelligence, compute, and networking technologies, along with Qualcomm’s purchase of certain Huawei U.S. patents in those same fields. The deal is the first patent licensing agreement … ⌘ Read more
AMD ROCm vs. Vulkan Performance For Lemonade Local AI Server With Llama.cpp
A Phoronix Premium reader recently inquired about seeing some new benchmarks of AI performance between Vulkan and AMD ROCm back-ends to see how the situation plays out today. Here are some fresh benchmarks on two separate systems with AMD Radeon graphics and using the Lemonade local AI server while exploring the difference between the ROCm and Vulkan Llama.cpp back-ends. ⌘ Read more
Mesa Developers Looking At A Formal Governance Model
The Mesa 3D driver stack has functioned well over the years without a formal governance model and just relying on an informal consensus approach for big changes. But on some occasions this informal handling has been less than ideal so upstream Mesa developers are now looking at establishing a formal governance model… ⌘ Read more
Try the demo for Geometry Rift: Apocalypse, a seriously cool merging of Geometry Wars and Vampire Survivors
Geometry Rift: Apocalypse has a demo out now, showcasing the excellent merging of the classic Geometry Wars and Vampire Survivors.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/try-the-demo-for … ⌘ Read more
Linux’s ZRAM Reworked For Greater Memory Savings, Better Performance
With today’s very high memory prices, the Linux ZRAM code for compressed block devices in RAM has seen a rework to provide greater memory savings… ⌘ Read more
Flock Blamed for Wrongful 13-Day Imprisonment and a Police Stalking Incident in Florida
From the transportation news site MotorBiscuit:
In late September 2026, 23-year-old Liz Lindseay Isaacs testified before a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee about her harrowing experience after a Flock camera misidentified her Dodge Durango, linking her to a fatal hit-and-run miles away from where she ac … ⌘ Read more
Linux 7.4 To Mainline Support For The Google Tensor G5, Pixel 10 Devices
Going back to last year have been patches for booting the mainline Linux kernel on Pixel 10 devices while finally those Google Pixel 10 Device Trees and Tensor G5 SoC support is set to be mainlined for Linux 7.4… ⌘ Read more
Some of the best spooky Linux games to get in the Steam Autumn Sale 2026
The Steam Autumn Sale 2026 is here, and we’re getting in the spooky-season spirit going over some of the best rated horror-like Native Linux games.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/some-of-the-best-spooky-linux-games-to-get-in-the-steam-autumn-sal … ⌘ Read more
Valve give game developers more Steam Deck Framerate data
Valve have expanded their feedback for developers whose games are Steam Deck Verified to provide more performance data.
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Linux 7.4 Continues Preparing For Intel’s Rugged Panther Lake
Back in May we spotted a Linux patch adding “Panther Lake R” as a rugged version of Panther Lake intended for “use in harsh environments”. Since Linux 7.2 we have seen some bits of Panther Lake R driver support added while for the upcoming Linux 7.4 cycle there is additional enablement happening for this Panther Lake derivative… ⌘ Read more
Raspberry Pi 4 and Raspberry Pi 5 2GB get price increases due to RAM demand
The RAM crisis continues to deepen thanks to the mass hardware buying from data centres, with Raspberry Pi yet again raising some prices.
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Qualcomm Patching Linux For Hardware Thermal Binning To Benefit Snapdragon X Laptops
A new patch series sent out from Qualcomm that aims to help at least the Snapdragon X series laptops is hardware-binned trip point support. Some Qualcomm SoCs are available in different multiple thermal/package bins with different junction temperature limits but otherwise being the same silicon. The new Linux patches are working to properly convey that information around the thermal limits for a given piece of silicon… ⌘ Read more
Linux 7.4 AMD P-State Driver Will Be Ready For Ryzen Zen 6 CPUs
With the upcoming Linux 7.4 kernel the necessary changes to the AMD P-State driver are set to land for properly supporting the upcoming AMD Ryzen client processors based on the Zen 6 cores… ⌘ Read more
A chat with Awesome Games Studio about Yet Another Zombie Survivors
Awesome Games Studio recently did the big 1.0 release for Yet Another Zombie Survivors and it seems like quite an indie success - so here’s a little chat.
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Check out some of the most highly rated Steam Deck Verified games from September 2026
Here’s some of the highest-rated Steam Deck Verified games released on Steam during September 2026. Helping you find something great to play on the go!
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/check-out-some-of-the-most-highly-ra … ⌘ Read more
System76 COSMIC projects will no longer accept LLM-generated content in code submissions
The AI machine continues to cause problems for some developers - with System76 now banning LLM-generated content in code Pull Requests for COSMIC.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/system76-cosmic-projects-will-no-longer-a … ⌘ Read more
After Siemens Re-Licenses OpenRadioss, Rocky Linux Announces Open-Source Fork
- In 2022 Altair Engineering open sourced “OpenRadioss”, an industry-leading finite element solver under the GNU AGPL License, reports Phoronix.
- Siemens acquired Altair Engineering last year
- Siemens closes access to OpenRadioss.
“Siemens didn’t just end the project but they shutdown the GitHub repository that ho … ⌘ Read more
METRO 2033 Redux and METRO Last Light Redux are getting next-gen updates
METRO 2033 Redux and METRO Last Light Redux from 4A Games are getting some great sounding free upgrades later this month.
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Proton-CachyOS version 11.0-20261005 released
The popular Proton-CachyOS for running Windows games on SteamOS / Linux has a fresh release out now to update various parts of it.
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FBI Detains Teenager Linked to Group That Stole Data on 5,000 FBI Employees
PC Magazine reports:
In September, the infamous ShinyHunters hacking group claimed it had infiltrated the FBI job recruitment portal, stealing confidential data belonging to 5,000 employees and even changing the FBI logo to its own. The group has been implicated in the hacking of numerous large and high-profile organizations … ⌘ Read more
Researcher At Russian Plague Laboratory Dies of ‘Unknown’ Infection
“Russian health authorities have taken precautionary measures in response to the death of a woman who worked at an anti-plague research facility,” reports Axios, “but have not confirmed that she contracted plague.”
On Sept. 25, 28-year-old Daria Shipilova, who worked at an anti-plague research institute in Russia’s Irkutsk region, broke a … ⌘ Read more
OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra Gets Frustrated Losing At StarCraft And Decides To Cheat Instead
What happened when AI-created bots competed in the classic Blizzard videogame StarCraft? “Struggling to stay apace with its competitors, OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra apparently changed strategy mid-tournament and opted to cheat,” Kotaku reports:
StarSkirmish is an ongoing clash of AI developed bots in StarCraft … ⌘ Read more
How Python Will Test Adding Rust Into CPython
Python’s security developer-in-residence Seth Larson reports from this year’s official core developer Python Language Summit:
“No one said ‘don’t do this’ last year”. After testing the waters at PyCon US 2025, [software engineer] David Hewitt returned to the Python Language Summit asking what Python core developers want from Rust, along with proposed timelines, phases, and s … ⌘ Read more
Linux 7.3-rc6 Released: Normal For The New “AI Normal”
Linus Torvalds just released Linux 7.3-rc7 as we work toward the stable Linux 7.3 kernel release in two weeks… ⌘ Read more
Radio Broadcasters Support America’s ‘AM Radio for Every Vehicle Act’
Last month, the U.S. House passed the AM Radio for Every Vehicle Act, reports the Chicago Sun-Times. They call it “a bipartisan effort to require AM radio in new vehicles,” adding that the bill now “awaits action in the Senate, where a companion measure has already garnered support, according to public records.”
Broadcasters said AM radio … ⌘ Read more
Disney/Marvel’s ‘Avengers: Endgame’ Beats ‘Avatar’ as Top-Grossing Film, ‘Coyote vs Acme’ #1 on Apple TV
James Cameron’s Avatar is no longer the highest-grossing movie in box office history. That honor now goes to the Disney/Marvel Studios film Avengers: Endgame. Variety explains:
“Avatar” spent a decade as the biggest release ever until “Avengers: Endgame” overtook the r … ⌘ Read more
Particle Collider Experiment Recreates the Big Bang’s Primordial Soup - and Find Unexpected Pattern
“Physicists smashed gold nuclei together at nearly the speed of light and found an unexpected pattern in the particles…” writes Live Science.
“If confirmed, that pattern could help reveal how the hot soup of quarks and gluons that filled the universe in the first few micro … ⌘ Read more
OpenCourant: Rocky Linux Developers Create Community Fork Of OpenRadioss
This week was the surprising and unfortunate decision of Siemens shutting down the OpenRadioss project as the four year old open-source project started by Altair Engineering with their prominent Radioss finite element solver. Siemens didn’t just end the project but they shutdown the GitHub repository that hosted the open-source code and removed other resources that had built around it. Fortunately, there’s a new community fork of OpenRadioss … ⌘ Read more
San Francisco’s Car Crime Has Plunged. How Much Credit Does Flock Deserve?
Car thefts in San Francisco are down almost 59% for the first eight months of 2026 compared with the same months in 2022, according to analysis of police department statistics by NPR’s Planet Money — and car break-ins are down more than 82%.
“San Francisco’s law enforcement leaders tell us that greater use of surveillance technol … ⌘ Read more
FSF Sponsors ‘GNU Boot’, a Libre, Ethical Replacement for Nonfree BIOS Or UEFI
“Free your BIOS today!” urges the web page for GNU Boot, calling it “a 100% free software project aimed at replacing the nonfree boot software (like BIOS or UEFI) of computers with free boot software.
GNU Boot is only a distribution: it reuses existing software projects like Coreboot, GRUB, SeaBIOS, etc. So it’s not very … ⌘ Read more
MGLRU-FG Delivering Up To 10~40% Higher Performance For Linux In Some Tests
Linux’s Multi-Gen LRU “MGLRU” has already achieved nice performance gains for Linux in recent years by optimizing page reclaims and improves performance under memory pressure. The new MGLRU-FG patches aim to take things further… ⌘ Read more
US Bank Regulator Sued Over Crypto Firm Charters by Community Bank Advocates
A U.S. banking group just sued the government agency that issues America’s federal bank charters, reports CoinDesk, “accusing it of exceeding its legal powers in granting national trust-bank status to crypto firms.”
The agency’s move “creates a gaping hole in financial regulation,” according to the lawsuit by The Independ … ⌘ Read more
Long-Time Slashdot Reader Announces New Open Source Web Browser ‘Northstar’
Long-time Slashdot reader Andreas® announces Northstar, a “minimalist” web browser written entirely from scratch in C — now available in version 1.0.11:
One window, one page, one process — about 160,000 lines of original C, small enough for one person to read and audit end-to-end. It carries no upstream browser engine: no … ⌘ Read more
NVIDIA’s Results Of Conducting Wayland vs. X.Org Latency Testing
In addition to NVIDIA announcing their Display Config Server project at XDC 2026 in Toronto, at this annual developer’s conference they also presented their findings on scientific testing of X.Org vs. Wayland latency… ⌘ Read more
Linux Begins Seeing Workarounds For Fujitsu MONAKA CPU Bugs
Last month Fujitsu formally announced their MONAKA CPU as a 144 core Arm-based server processor geared for AI infrastructure. This comes after two years of seeing various Monaka patches to the GCC compiler and other open-source components. Now that MONAKA is announced, we are seeing more patches surface for the Linux kernel with this week seeing several workarounds for MONAKA CPU bugs… ⌘ Read more
openSUSE Turns To ZUPT For Post-Quantum Backups
OpenSUSE developers have announced they are making ZUPT available on their Linux distribution as a solution for providing post-quantum backups. ZUPT combines backup creation, compression, integrity verification, and encryption all via this single open-source utility… ⌘ Read more