California Governor Signs Laws Protecting Kids From Risks of Social Media, AI Chatbots
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Associated Press: California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a sweeping package of laws Thursday aimed at protecting children from the risks of technology, including social media and AI chatbots. The laws will penalize large social media companies up to $1 million per … ⌘ Read more
Mold High Speed Linker Being Rewritten In Rust, Hopes To Be The Default Linker On Linux
The Mold high performance linker that typically outperforms the likes of LLVM lld, GNU LD, Wild, and others is being rewritten in the Rust programming language and also has an ambitious goal of being adopted as the default linker on Linux systems… ⌘ Read more
Prominent Mesa Developer Now Working For Arm On PanVK & Panfrost Code
Erik Faye-Lund who has contributed to the Mesa 3D graphics driver stack working on areas like Zink and most notably the PanVK Vulkan and Panfrost Gallium3D drivers forr Arm Mali hardware is now working directly for Arm… ⌘ Read more
Linux Mint Debuts Xepub As New EPUB Reader, Clockenstein Calendar App
The Linux Mint project today published their August 2026 development report, including some new applications added to their XApp collection… ⌘ Read more
The XApp Project from Linux Mint gets a fancy new website - plus a new Calendar and EPUB reader
I do have to hand it to the Linux Mint team - they do a lot of good work overall and now they’re expanding the XApp project.
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KDE Plasma 6.8 Beta released for testing
The next main release of the KDE Plasma desktop is coming soon, and a first Beta is available for you to check it out and go hunting for bugs.
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Boy Developed ‘Toasted Skin’ Condition From Using a Laptop Every Day
A medical report published earlier this week says a boy in the U.K. developed erythema ab igne, or “toasted skin syndrome,” after resting a laptop on his abdomen for up to eight hours a day, often while it was charging. “The marks were described as being in a patch about 15 centimeters (six inches) wide, made of flat, reddish-brown ‘inter … ⌘ Read more
Patches Ready For AMDGPU HDMI 2.1 Enabled By Default With Linux 7.4 With FreeSync, VRR & ALLM
Linux 7.4 is now set to reach the elusive milestone of HDMI 2.1 support for the AMDGPU kernel graphics driver. After the HDMI Forum previously rejected HDMI 2.1 for the AMDGPU open-source driver implementation going back years, earlier this year something changed – widely speculated to be with Valve’s involvement – that HDMI 2.1 patches began appearing for the AMDGPU driver. With the upcoming Linux 7.4 cycle, the b … ⌘ Read more
Git 2.56-rc0 Released With Updated Contribution Guidelines, Improvements For Swift
While still ultimately working toward Git 3.0 with SHA-256 hashes by default and the “main” branch name by default, among other breaking changes (and potentially coming around the end of 2026), Git 2.56-rc0 is now available for testing… ⌘ Read more
Story-driven third-person sci-fi shooter - The Wandering Earth: The Last Full Moon announced
Adapted from Liu Cixin’s The Wandering Earth, Studio Surgical Scalpels and publisher Starry Dome revealed The Wandering Earth: The Last Full Moon.
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Intel Thermald 2.5.13 Restores Accidentally Deleted Wildcat Lake Support
Intel’s Thermald released on Thursday as the newest update to this daemon for thermal monitoring on Intel hardware that was also recently extended for beginning to support Qualcomm/ARM hardware too. The main change with Thermald 2.5.13 is adding back Intel Wildcat Lake platform support after it was accidentally removed in the prior release… ⌘ Read more
GCC 13.5 Released With 265+ Bug Fixes
For those continuing to rely on the GCC 13 compiler in production that debuted more than three years ago, GCC 13.5 released today with more than 265 bug fixes. GCC 13.5 also caps off the GCC 13 series as the last planned point release… ⌘ Read more
The classic Westwood / EA game Nox joins the GOG Preservation Program with new fixes
After their special Patron supporters voted, GOG have placed the classic Nox into their Preservation Program with a fresh set of fixes.
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Orc Incremental review - an incremental auto battler inspired by classic Warcraft
Orc Incremental is a fresh release from developer Nice Ride and publisher Playsaurus that sets you on a path of orcs versus humans with auto-battling.
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Lunar colony-building automation sim The Crust 1.0 arrives with Linux and macOS support
The Crust is an automation-driven city builder and colony simulation set on the Moon. It just hit the big 1.0 release and now has Linux and macOS support too.
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Core Keeper - Riders of the Underground brings rideable mounts on September 21
I’m really going to need to set aside some time to play through lots more of Core Keeper - because they keep rolling out some excellent updates to it.
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Active Matter developers put up an incredibly distasteful AI notice on Steam
Active Matter from Gaijin Network Ltd looks like a lot of fun for fans of first-person shooters, but they soured it with a truly distasteful AI notice.
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SteamVR 2.17 arrives - ready to go for the Steam Frame
With a whole lot of new features, improvements and fixes - Valve rolled out SteamVR 2.17 and it’s looking ready for the Steam Frame release.
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August Was World’s Joint-Hottest Month On Record, Scientists Say
Longtime Slashdot reader AmiMoJo shares a report from the BBC: August was the joint-hottest month ever recorded, tying with July 2023, according to the EU’s climate service. The record was driven by a combination of climate change and the rising influence of El Nino, pushing heat into the atmosphere across the Pacific. Temperatures for the month wer … ⌘ Read more
Climate ‘Feedback Loops’ Could Worsen Global Warming By 30%, Study Finds
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Rising global temperatures caused by the burning of fossil fuels are transforming the world’s forests, wetlands and tundra to the point they are releasing emissions that could further worsen global heating by as much as 30%, a new study has found. As the world heats up, permafrost … ⌘ Read more
BeOS-Inspired Haiku Now Supports Changing Audio Outputs Live, Other Improvements
In addition to August bringing the long-awaited Haiku R1 Beta 6 release, there was also a lot of development progress on this BeOS-inspired operating system too during the course of the past month… ⌘ Read more
Latest Apple Watch Can Grab Snippets of Conversation Without Both Speakers’ Consent
Apple’s new Audio Intelligence features for the Apple Watch Series 12 are drawing privacy concerns because they can process nearby conversations without explicit consent from everyone involved. “Live Rewind lets you instantly see the last 15 seconds of a conversation as text,” Apple explains in its technical … ⌘ Read more
GIMP 3.2.6 Released With Some Early Preparations Toward Eventual GTK4 Port
The long-awaited GIMP 3.0 release for transitioning from GTK2 to GTK3 only saw its stable release last year. But with GTK4 already being out for years, GIMP developers have begun making some very early preparations toward an inevitable GTK4 port… ⌘ Read more
Anthropic Says It Blocked Possible Efforts to Build Biological Weapons
Anthropic says it has disrupted several cases this year in which scientists used Claude for biological research that could potentially aid bioweapons development. “In a report describing misuses of its A.I. models, Anthropic said it could not determine whether the research served a legitimate or nefarious purpose because valid biological i … ⌘ Read more
Mesa 26.3 RADV + RadeonSI Ready With DRM Format Modifiers For Older AMD GPUs
Coming with Linux 7.3 is DRM format modifiers for GFX6 through GFX8 era GPUs covering the original Raddeon HD 7000 (GCN 1.0) graphics cards up through the Polaris and Fiji series. This work by Valve’s Timur Kristóf is necessary for these older GPUs to support Vulkan-based Wayland compositors, better interoperability between OpenGL and Vulkan or other APis, compositors running on the Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver implementation, and o … ⌘ Read more
Android Rolling Out Passkey Transfers Between Password Managers
Android is rolling out a system-level way to securely transfer passwords and passkeys between credential managers, eliminating the need to export passwords as unencrypted text files or manually recreate passkeys. The feature initially supports Google Password Manager, 1Password, Bitwarden, and Dashlane, with other providers able to integrate through … ⌘ Read more
ABC Show Won’t Air Interview With Democrat Because of FCC Threats
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel said he will be interviewing a Democratic candidate for Senate tonight, but the interview will be on YouTube only and not broadcast on TV because of threats made by the Federal Communications Commission. Kimmel has been a prime target in the Trump FCC’s attacks on ABC and i … ⌘ Read more
OpenAI Targets Work of Wall Street Junior Bankers
OpenAI has launched ChatGPT for Financial Services, a Wall Street-focused version of ChatGPT Work developed with Morgan Stanley and Evercore that can research companies, analyze financial data, and build presentations using the company’s latest and most advanced model, GPT-6 Astra. “We’re effectively teaching ChatGPT to research like an analyst and back up its conclusions like … ⌘ Read more
IMDb Adds ‘Digital Creator’ Profiles For the First Time
IMDb is introducing “Digital Creator” as a new professional category on IMDb and IMDbPro, giving streamers, vloggers, influencers, video essayists, and other online creators a “dedicated way to represent [their] work and connect with audiences, industry peers, and potential employers,” according to IMDb. Variety reports: The category includes sub-professions to fu … ⌘ Read more
Ubisoft begin removing Ubisoft Connect from Steam with the new Ubisoft Connect Services
Finally, another publisher has realised extra launchers on Steam are a pain in the ass, surprisingly this time it’s Ubisoft doing something good.
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Ubuntu 24.04.5 LTS Released With Linux 7.0 HWE Stack
For those continuing to make use of the Ubuntu 24.04 Long Term Support “LTS” series, Ubuntu 24.04.5 LTS is out today as the newest point release… ⌘ Read more
Automattic’s Board Forces CEO Matt Mullenweg Into Leave of Absence
Automattic’s board has placed founder and CEO Matt Mullenweg on a paid leave of absence against his will, with CFO Mark Davies taking over as interim CEO. The reason for the move remains unclear, but it follows years of legal fights, layoffs, employee departures, and controversy surrounding Mullenweg’s leadership. TechCrunch reports: Earlier Wednes … ⌘ Read more
Intel Xeon 600 Workstation Performance vs. AMD Threadripper 9000 In Nearly 400 Benchmarks
Last month I had the chance to test the Xeon 678X workstation processor as my first hands-on opportunity with the Xeon 600 “Granite Rapids WS” series. The Intel Xeon 678X was within the HP Z4 G6i workstation and used it for a number of different benchmarks. In that HP workstation review were also some comparison points to the likes of AMD Ryzen Threadripper while in this article are some much more concentrated … ⌘ Read more
KDE Plasma 6.8 Beta Released With Many Great Improvements, Kup Backup Scheduler
Ahead of the stable release of Plasma 6.8 due out on 14 October that also marks the 30th anniversary of the KDE project, out today is the much anticipated beta release… ⌘ Read more
The Apple Watch Gets Its Siri AI Upgrade
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Apple has unveiled the Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4 today during itsSeptember hardware event. The new models retain the signature designs of their predecessors but add a faster S11 chip, new health and fitness features, and the watchOS 27 software update announced atWWDC last June. Both the Series 12 and Ultra 4 run on the upgraded S11 c … ⌘ Read more
The deeply mysterious delivery adventure Truckful arrives in October
MythicOwl and Pocketpair Publishing have announced that Truckful, their peaceful looking delivery sim with plenty of mystery releases October 9th.
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No Man’s Sky Cosmos preps for Steam Frame plus - orbital construction, alliances, colossal shipwrecks and tons more
Hello Games are truly expanding No Man’s Sky into a forever space sandbox aren’t they? The new Cosmos update is out and it’s another massive one.
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Intel BFF Driver Slated For Linux 7.4 Introduction
Last month I covered Intel posting a new driver named “BFF” for the Linux kernel. This BFF driver is for a new hardware feature debuting with next-gen Diamond Rapids processors for better dealing with aging CPU silicon where some bits may become stuck over time… ⌘ Read more
NVIDIA NVK Driver Lands Improvement To Help With Valve’s Gamescope
Merged today for next quarter’s Mesa 26.3 release is an improvement for the open-source NVIDIA “NVK” Vulkan driver paired with the Nouveau kernel driver. This latest NVK improvement benefits usage of Valve’s Gamescope micro-compositor and should help with performance during game recording and remote play… ⌘ Read more
Europe May Finally Have Found a Space Entrepreneur Who Is Meeting the Moment
French entrepreneur Helene Huby is emerging as one of Europe’s most ambitious space leaders, with The Exploration Company raising a record $450 million Series C as it develops the Nyx cargo capsule, a crewed spacecraft, and a reusable heavy-lift rocket. Huby argues Europe risks falling irrelevance without a much larger … ⌘ Read more
X.Org Server 26.1 Moves Closer To Release As Half-Decade Update
We’re getting closer to the X.Org Server 26.1 stable release as the first new tagged feature release since X.Org Server 21.1 debuted back in October 2021. There have been some new features, many code reverts, and many bug fixes merged over the past five years that will culminate with the X.Org Server 26.1 stable release… ⌘ Read more
GNOME 51 Adds Support For Custom Pointer Acceleration Profiles
As a last minute change ahead of next week’s GNOME 51 desktop release, changes to Mutter and gsettings-desktop-schemas have now landed for supporting custom pointer acceleration profiles… ⌘ Read more
METAL SLUG ULTIMATE COLLECTION announced for Steam
SNK recently announced the METAL SLUG ULTIMATE COLLECTION which will come to Steam sometime in 2027.
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COSMIC Epoch 1.8 Provides Latest Fixes & Minor Improvements For This Rust Desktop
Released overnight was the newest version of the Rust-based COSMIC desktop environment developed by System76 as part of the effort on their Pop!_OS Linux distribution… ⌘ 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
Watch - Valve’s GDC 2026 talk on how they’re helping developers succeed on PC
Valve went along to GDC Festival of Gaming 2026 to give a talk titled “Steam Platform 2026: How Valve is Helping Game Developers Succeed on PC Gaming”.
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Try the new demo for If Red Then Stop - a traffic coding automation puzzler
If you love puzzle games that teach a little programming and automation - If Red Then Stop looks like your next visit.
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Denshattack! review
Denshattack! is about becoming the greatest acrobatic train driver in Japan by competing in over-the-top battles by flipping trains like they’re skateboards.
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Spy Drops Gaiden looks like a fun retro stealth-action throwback
Spy Drops Gaiden is channelling some retro Metal Gear here with their upcoming old school 2D stealth action game that arrives in October.
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PHYSINT from Hideo Kojima moves from PlayStation to XBOX
PHYSINT, a new action-stealth game coming from Hideo Kojima has split from PlayStation and jumped over to XBOX.
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