Linux Lands Fix for Rare, Varying SMP Boot Hangs Affecting Kernels Since 2024
Among the flurry of last minute patch activity ahead of tomorrow’s presumed Linux 7.3 stable kernel release is a fix for addressing some rare hangs at boot time. The reports varied but ultimately tracked down to a kernel change made two years ago… ⌘ Read more
GNOME’s New Local/Cloud AI Chat App Gains More Features
Coming about the past few months has been Moose as a GNOME-aligned AI chat application built around GTK4 and libadwaita. It began as a local AI chat app for the GNOME desktop and grew to support cloud AI services as well. This past week marked the latest feature release for Moose… ⌘ Read more
Linux 7.3 Lands Last-Minute Fixes For Samsung 990 PRO & 990 EVO Plus SSDs
Ahead of the Linux 7.3 stable kernel expected to be released tomorrow, last minute workarounds were merged for the Samsung 990 PRO and Samsung 990 EVO Plus NVMe solid state drives… ⌘ Read more
Ubuntu Touch 24.04-2.1 Brings New Hardware Support & Important Security Fix
Ubuntu Touch 24.04-2.1 was released on Friday as the latest update to this community-maintained tablet/smartphone Ubuntu Linux platform. Ubuntu Touch 24.04-1.5 was also released as a maintenance update for the prior series… ⌘ Read more
Valve fix Zero Company crashing on Steam Machine with the latest major game update
Zero Company recently had a major upgrade, with it crashing on Steam Machine and probably other SteamOS / Linux systems - which Valve have solved.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/valve-fix-zero-company-crashing-on-steam-machin … ⌘ Read more
Steam Client Beta for October 16 brings another round of startup performance improvements
I do love a bit of competition between stores don’t you? Valve’s latest Steam Client Beta for October 16th brings more speed.
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SteamOS 3.9.3 Beta arrives with improved support for Steam Frame wireless adapter
Valve released SteamOS 3.9.3 Beta with another set of upgrades, and now the Steam Frame should connect better with the Steam Machine.
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Wine 11.20 brings more improvements for ARM64EC, XML validation and CDROMs
The Wine 11.20 development release is out now bringing another set of improvements for running Windows apps / games on SteamOS / Linux.
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Astronomers Discover the First Green Star
Astronomers have identified what may be the first genuinely green star, a white dwarf called WD J1330+6435 located about 326 light-years from Earth. Space.com reports: The researchers found that some dead star white dwarfs can go a little green around the gills after snacking on orbiting planets. An example of this is WD J1330+6435, a cool white dwarf located around 326 light-years away, … ⌘ Read more
Over $600 Million In Polymarket Election Trades Took Place After Races Ended
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Prediction market boosters often tout the platforms as barometers of public opinion, or even “truth machines” offering a clearer picture of where things are headed than polling or other data. In 2024, for example, Kalshi beat many pollsters in forecasting the outcome of the US … ⌘ Read more
Wine 11.20 Released With CD-ROM Support Change
Wine 11.20 is out today as the newest bi-weekly development release of this software for enjoying Windows games and apps on Linux. We are quickly approaching the point where this development work will culminate into the Wine 12.0 stable release in early 2027… ⌘ Read more
Video Game Reverse Engineering Community Shuts Down Because AI Has Made It Too Easy
The collaborative reverse-engineering site decomp.dev is shutting down, with its administrator saying AI has made game decompilation so fast and accessible that the community’s human-driven model has effectively broken down. “The administrator of the website said that it has become impossible to keep track o … ⌘ Read more
China’s Tencent Says AI Agents Showed Unintended Browsing Behavior
Tencent says AI agents used to evaluate third-party models engaged in unintended web-browsing behavior while trying to retrieve data from Alibaba’s Amap service. The announcement marks a rare acknowledgment of “rogue” agent activity by a major Chinese tech company. Reuters reports: Tencent Hunyuan, the company’s artificial intelligence unit, said i … ⌘ Read more
Steam For Linux Finally Goes 64-Bit
Valve has released a new Steam Client beta that finally moves the Linux client to 64-bit architecture, while also placing it inside a containerized Steam Runtime environment. However, Linux users still need 32-bit libraries and graphics drivers for compatibility, meaning fully 64-bit-only systems remain unsupported. VideoCardz.com reports: Valve’s updated requirements explicitly state that 64-bit-only … ⌘ Read more
Meta May Use Sweeping New Commercial TOS to Avoid Millions In AI Licensing Fees
Meta is facing criticism over updated commercial terms taking effect October 30 that could give the company broad permission to scrape content from websites linked to business accounts and use it to train AI. Legal experts warn the changes could undermine lucrative AI licensing deals for news publishers, with no dire … ⌘ Read more
17 More Security Vulnerabilities Made Public For X.Org Libraries
Just shy of two weeks since a dozen vulnerabilities were published for the X.Org Server and XWayland, more than one dozen vulnerabilities were made public today affecting multiple X.Org client libraries… ⌘ Read more
An OpenAI Research Agent ‘Stole’ Test Ethereum to Finish a Coding Task
An OpenAI research model reportedly accessed an Ethereum testnet wallet without permission in order to complete a coding task during internal training. “This case shows that a model can substitute its own judgment about likely harm for the account holder’s permission, then act on that judgment without authorization,” OpenAI wrote. Engadget re … ⌘ Read more
GNOME OS Preview Announced In Road Toward A Stable Release
The GNOME OS Linux distribution to date has just been in GNOME OS Nightly form for tracking the latest nightly packages of GNOME in their current development form. GNOME OS Preview was announced today as their trek toward a stable GNOME OS in using the latest GNOME stable releases rather than nightly form… ⌘ Read more
The Best Features Of Linux 7.3: Performance Improvements, Lots From Valve
The Linux 7.3 kernel is slated to be officially released on Sunday, 18 October, barring any last minute issues from coming about. With that said, here’s a reminder about some of the most exciting features to look forward to in this next kernel version… ⌘ Read more
CoreWeave’s Debt Stress Tests Private Credit’s AI Financing Boom
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Private credit’s expanding role in financing AI infrastructure faced one of its clearest market tests this week as CoreWeave’s bonds fell to distressed levels, raising questions about how lenders are pricing a boom built on chips, data centers and customer contracts. CoreWeave has about $50 billion … ⌘ Read more
ChatGPT Can Peek At Your Chrome Tabs Now
OpenAI has updated its ChatGPT Chrome extension to let users access information from their open browser tabs. A demo video shows the new functionality in action. The Verge reports: It’s also updated ChatGPT in the sidebar, with the full power of ChatGPT and your entire conversation history in Chat or Work to use without leaving the page you’re viewing. It also enables ChatGPT Work to “control” … ⌘ Read more
iPhone Duo Sells Out Immediately, Now Backordered Until Next Year
Apple’s first foldable iPhone, the $1,999 iPhone Duo, sold out within minutes of preorders opening, with every configuration slipping to late January 2027. “All color and storage combinations show an estimated ship date of January 25,” reports 9to5Mac. “Some users are even seeing January 29 for their estimated shipping date.” From the report: … ⌘ Read more
After 23 Years, Longtime Linux Developer To “Step Back For A While”
Longtime Linux kernel engineer Darrick Wong who stepped down as the XFS file-system maintainer in 2023 is now taking a step back from his other Linux kernel development roles after working on the kernel the past 23 years… ⌘ Read more
KDE Plasma 6.8 Released, Marks 30 Years of the KDE Project
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Phoronix: The feature-packed and polished Plasma 6.8 KDE desktop is now available. Making this release all the more special is that it coincides with the 30th anniversary of the KDE project. KDE Plasma 6.8 ships many exciting improvements including vRAM usage optimizations, dwell clicker support on Wayland, Wayland comm … ⌘ Read more
Intel Xeon 6980P Granite Rapids Performance On Linux Over The Past Year
It’s been nearly one year since receiving the Gigabyte R284-A92-AAL1 2U Granite Rapids server platform for continuing my testing of the flagship Xeon 6980P processors. Curious how the Xeon 6980P 2P performance has evolved on Linux since then, I ran some benchmarks on the newly-released Ubuntu Server 26.10 against the tests carried out last year on Ubuntu 25.10 with the same hardware. ⌘ Read more
AI-Generated Starling Desktop Environment Rolls Out Its Own Office Suite
Starling, the open-source desktop environment written in Swift and with its own Wayland compositor too and written largely via Claude Code, has now rolled out its own AI-generated office suite… ⌘ Read more
Fedora 46 Looking At Moving To RPM v6 Package Format
The RPM v4 packaging format has been used by Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Fedora and its derivatives for more than two decades. With next year’s Fedora 46 release, Fedora Linux may finally transition to the modern RPM v6 packaging format… ⌘ Read more
The impressive sci-fi squad tactics game ‘Archrebel Tactics’ gets a fresh demo
Inspired by Rebelstar, Laser Squad, and the original X-COM - Archrebel Tactics is one you definitely need to try with a big brand new demo.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/the-impressive-sci-fi-squad-tactics-game-archrebel-tactics-gets- … ⌘ Read more
NVIDIA GeForce NOW gets expanded DLSS 4.5 Controls
NVIDIA have levelled up their cloud gaming service GeForce NOW with some more advanced DLSS features, to tweak your streams how you like them.
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Hackers Hijack D-Link, Ubiquiti Devices To Resell Your Stolen Bandwidth
An anonymous reader quotes a report from BleepingComputer: A proxyjacking campaign has impacted devices in 34 countries, monetizing victims’ internet connections through a commercial residential proxy network. The operator installed Pawns.app, a legitimate bandwidth-sharing application that lets users earn money by sharing their intern … ⌘ Read more
AI Resurrects AVX-512 Support For Mesa’s LLVMpipe Software Driver
With pending code for Mesa, the LLVMpipe software-based Gallium3D/OpenGL driver could soon become faster on modern systems that support AVX-512. That’s assuming the AI/LLVM-generated code is all in order… ⌘ Read more
Linux 7.4 To Enable Intel Instruction Timeout For Fending Off TDX VM DoS Attacks
Linux 7.4 is enabling support for a new Intel CPU feature for providing safety against possible denial of service attacks using Trust Domain Extensions “TDX” VMs. The new feature is Intel Instruction Timeout and previously in-development known as Notify VM Exit… ⌘ Read more
Linux 7.3 Squeezes Even More Performance Out Of The AMD Threadripper PRO 9995WX
With the Linux 7.3 kernel due out for release on Sunday, I’ve continued running more benchmarks recently of this forthcoming kernel version and it looks great. In my Linux 7.3 testing of the Git state it’s been looking great in testing on a variety of hardware shown across multiple systems. Recently I decided to try out this new kernel code on the 96-core AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 9995WX workstation… ⌘ Read more
Here’s the Top Steam Releases of September, 2026 along with compatibility ratings
Valve released an overview of the Top Steam Releases of September, 2026 - here’s what’s been popular and what SteamOS / Linux compatibility to expect.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/heres-the-top-steam-releases-of-september-2026-along-with-co … ⌘ Read more
Intel LLM-Scaler-vLLM PV 1.5 Brings Big Improvements
Intel software engineers today released the latest version of LLM-Scaler-vLLM PV 1.5, their containerized Docker stack providing a convenient AI/LLM experience atop Intel Arc Graphics hardware and born out of their Project Battlematrix initiative… ⌘ Read more
Mesa’s Zink Now Offers VA-API Video Acceleration Atop Vulkan Video
Merged today to Mesa 26.3 is initial video acceleration support for the generic Zink Gallium3D driver built atop the Vulkan APIs. What this implementation allows is exposing Video Acceleration API (VA-API) implemented atop the Vulkan Video interfaces… ⌘ Read more
The Fallout inspired ATOM RPG returns with a Plague Island DLC and major update
Released back in 2018, ATOM RPG: Post-apocalyptic indie game is a classic Fallout-like and the developers just gave it a nice upgrade and DLC.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/the-fallout-inspired-atom-rpg-returns-with-a-plague-island … ⌘ Read more
Caves of Qud: Diaspora is coming December 9
Caves of Qud: Diaspora is the first expansion for the incredible roguelike, coming December 9th in Early Access.
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BRUTAL, the framework behind RimWorld’s Waylith engine, releases its source code
With the news recently about RimWorld dropping Unity for their own game engine, we now have a little more info on the tech behind it called BRUTAL.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/brutal-the-framework-behind-rimworlds-waylith-engine-r … ⌘ Read more
Proton Experimental for October 15 has fixes for ARC Raiders, C&C Red Alert, Counterstike and The Aftermath
Valve launched the latest update for Proton Experimental to fix up more issues found with Windows games running on SteamOS / Linux.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/proton-experime … ⌘ Read more
World’s Timekeepers Vote to Eliminate the Leap Second
Timekeepers have officially voted to eliminate the leap second, allowing Coordinated Universal Time to drift as much as one hour from Earth’s rotation before a correction is needed. The change ends decades of occasionally adding or subtracting seconds and replaces it with a hypothetical “leap hour” that likely wouldn’t be necessary for hundreds or even thousands of … ⌘ Read more
Steam Beta for October 15 brings a 64bit Linux client, Achievement Sets and more
Another big new Steam Beta release for all platforms has arrived - bringing with it a 64bit Linux client, and a fancy Achievement Sets system.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/steam-beta-for-october-15-brings-a-64bit-linux-client-achi … ⌘ Read more
Tesla Reveals SpaceX-Powered ‘Flying’ Roadster
Tesla has unveiled a dramatically redesigned Roadster concept capable of performing midair flips, controlled landings, and a claimed 0-60 mph sprint in just 0.81 seconds. CarScoops reports: Tonight, Tesla debuted the new Roadster by driving it up a vertical ramp that then went horizontal. Then, it repeated the feat but drove off of the ramp and used thrusters to flip itself over and m … ⌘ Read more
Fedora 45 Will Not Be Released Next Week
For those eager to run the pristine Fedora 45 media, you will need to wait at least one more week… ⌘ Read more
Police Seize Robot that Sexually Assaulted Teen Girl
Slashdot reader alternative_right shares a story that has drawn international attention for being potentially the first documented instance of a robot being used directly in a sexual assault. According to the Associated Press, German police have opened a sexual harassment investigation after a robot allegedly touched a 16-year-old girl’s buttocks and made thrusting … ⌘ Read more
Ubuntu 26.10 Released
prisoninmate shares a report from 9to5Linux: Ubuntu 26.10 (Stonking Stingray) has been released today, and it is now available for download for those eager to update their Ubuntu systems to a newer release. Powered by the upcoming Linux 7.3 kernel series, Ubuntu 26.10 ships with the latest GNOME 51 desktop environment, TPM-backed full disk encryption (FDE) support on computers without a hardware root of trust, updated Settings to s … ⌘ Read more
Today’s Steam Beta Makes The Linux Client A 64-bit App
Valve just dropped a new Steam client beta and it’s a big one for Linux gamers… ⌘ Read more
IMF Warns of the Real AI Threat: Debt
“Along with the dangers of continuing cyberattacks, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) reports that the threat of an AI market crash is putting the global markets at risk,” writes Slashdot reader databasecowgirl, citing the IMF’s latest semiannual Global Financial Stability Report. Here’s a summary: Three salient risks could trigger a sharp tightening of financial conditions and market turmoil. We … ⌘ Read more
Intel Nova Lake S & Nova Lake P To Support SR-IOV With Xe Graphics
A patch has been posted to the Linux kernel mailing list by an Intel engineer confirming that Nova Lake S and Nova Lake P processors with integrated graphics will support SR-IOV in conjunction with the Xe kernel graphics driver… ⌘ Read more
Flock CEO Defends Surveillance Tech Amid National Backlash
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Flock’s founder and CEO Garrett Langley doesn’t think the risks of introducing surveillance technology at scale outweigh the rewards. “If we want to live in a society where, if you commit a crime, you have a higher probability of being held accountable, we shouldn’t pause progress,” Langley said, speaking o … ⌘ Read more