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Experimental Code Enables Per-Monitor Backgrounds For GNOME Shell
One of the limitations of GNOME’s current multi-monitor handling is that the same background is used across the displays. For those that want to enjoy per-monitor background selection, some experimental / proof-of-concept code is now working to allow such per-monitor backgrounds to work with the modern GNOME desktop… ⌘ Read more

Intel ANV Vulkan Driver Now Enables Descriptor Heaps By Default
Back in early May was the experimental enabling of Vulkan descriptor heaps for the Intel ANV open-source driver. After nearly two months of continued testing and improvements, the VK_EXT_descriptor_heap support for Intel graphics on Linux is now enabled by default… ⌘ Read more

Linux 7.2 Fixes Where PCIe Devices Could Be Inadvertently Restricted To 2.5 GT/s
The PCI/PCIe subsystem changes have been merged this week as we approach the end of the Linux 7.2 merge window… ⌘ Read more

Notion Mail Is Shutting Down
Notion announced that it will shut down its email client on September 22. The company says more than half of users already manage email through Notion’s AI agents without opening their inbox, so it is shifting its focus from a traditional email client to agent-run workflows. Engadget reports: It has published an FAQ for users to make sure that they don’t lose any messages or data in the transition. Most emails will still … ⌘ Read more

Intel ISPC 1.31 Brings New Targets For Nova Lake, Experimental PowerPC 64-bit
Intel engineers on Thursday released the newest version of the Intel Implicit SPMD Program Compiler, ISPC. The ISPC 1.31 supports their variant of the C programming language with extensions for Single Program, Multiple Data programming for leveraging their range of CPU and GPU hardware… ⌘ Read more

Linux 7.2 Adds New Driver For Wacom W9000 Pen-Enabled Touchscreens
The input subsystem changes were merged this week for Linux 7.2, which is seeing its merge window wrap up on Sunday. Most notable with the input updates is the introduction of the “wacom_w9000” for supporting newer, pen-enabled touchscreens… ⌘ Read more

‘Fingerprints’ of Black Hole’s Event Horizon Detected For First Time
Researchers say they detected the first gravitational-wave “fingerprints” of a black hole’s event horizon by analyzing the final moments of the powerful GW250114 merger. The findings support Einstein’s general relativity and may eventually help probe frame dragging and quantum fluctuations near black holes. Phys.org reports: For the new r … ⌘ Read more

Spain To Require Carriers To Keep Mobile Networks Live During Power Outages
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Spain will require mobile networks to have backup systems that maintain connectivity when power outages occur. Per a royal decree that will be approved by the end of 2026, mobile network operators (MNOs) and infrastructure companies will need to install batteries or other … ⌘ Read more

Coreboot 26.06 Brings Support For Intel Nova Lake, AMD Strix Halo & 31 New Boards
Coreboot 26.06 is out today as the latest quarterly feature release for this software project providing open-source system firmware support for a growing number of platforms… ⌘ Read more

Ubuntu 26.10 Snapshot 2 Released For Monthly Testing
Daily ISOs of Ubuntu 26.10 “Stonking Stingray” continue to be published, but for those preferring something a bit more regulated, out today is Ubuntu 26.10 Snapshot 2 as the second monthly ISO image… ⌘ Read more

Polestar Banned From Selling Cars In US From Model Year 2027
Longtime Slashdot reader schwit1 shares a report from autoevolution: The U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security denied Polestar an authorization under the Connected Vehicle Rule. Polestar will continue to sell its existing inventory of Polestar 3 and 4 crossovers in the United States and will continue to offer support to customers … ⌘ Read more

Trump Administration Asks OpenAI To Stagger Release of New Model
The Trump administration has reportedly asked OpenAI to stagger the release of GPT-5.6 over security concerns. The model will initially be offered to a small group of partners, with the government “approving access customer by customer during this preview period,” reports The Information. The request came from conversations with the Office of the N … ⌘ Read more

Linux Foundation & Others Launch “Akrites” To Defend Open-Source Software From AI-Enabled Exploits
The Linux Foundation along with others like Amazon, Anthropic, OpenAI, NVIDIA, Microsoft, Red Hat, and others have joined forces to launch Akrites. The Akrites project is aiming to help defend critical open-source software from the brisk pace of new AI/LLM-discovered software bugs and vulnerabilities in ensuring that said issues are effectively addressed before they can be exploited by bad actors… ⌘ Read more

Linux Foundation Launches Akrites To Coordinate AI-Driven Open Source Security
BrianFagioli writes: The Linux Foundation has announced Akrites, a new initiative to coordinate vulnerability disclosure and remediation for critical open source software as AI dramatically speeds up vulnerability discovery. Founding members include AWS, Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, Red Hat, NVIDIA, IBM, Cisco, JPMorgan … ⌘ Read more

DXVK 3.0 Released With DXBC-SPIRV For Shader Compilation, Descriptor Heaps By Default
Philip Rebohle announced the release today of DXVK 3.0 as the latest major feature release for this Direct3D 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 implementation atop the Vulkan API for use by Wine and Valve’s Steam Play (Proton)… ⌘ Read more

Apple Raises Prices On Macs, iPads, and More By Hundreds of Dollars
Apple has sharply raised prices across its Mac, iPad, HomePod, and Apple TV lineups as surging AI-driven demand creates a global memory and storage shortage. Increases range from $30 for the HomePod mini to $1,300 for the M3 Ultra Mac Studio, with Apple CEO Tim Cook saying efforts to shield customers from higher costs had become “unsustainabl … ⌘ Read more

LastPass Says Hackers Stole Customer Support Case Data During Klue Breach
LastPass says hackers stole customers’ personal information, support case records, and sales data by breaching market research partner Klue. The password manager told TechCrunch that its own systems and password vaults were unaffected. However, the hackers used their access to obtain “reams of data about LastPass customers,” the … ⌘ Read more

Academy Software Foundation Announces The “Wayland For Artists Working Group”
The Academy Software Foundation that advances open-source efforts for the VFX/cinema industry and more with the likes of OpenVDB, OpenMoonRay, Open Shading Language, and other projects, has announced the formation of a new working group to help with Wayland adoption for artists… ⌘ Read more

Anthropic Says Alibaba Must Be Punished For Largest Claude Cloning Attack
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Anthropic has accused the Chinese firm Alibaba of launching the largest attack yet attempting to clone Claude, as China races to match the capabilities of Anthropic’s leading model following Mythos’ release and subsequent restriction from foreign markets. Ars obtained a June … ⌘ Read more

Ford Rehires 350 Engineers After AI Fails To Preserve Expertise or Train Juniors
After Ford’s automated quality-control systems and AI tools fell short, the automaker hired 350 veteran engineers over the past three years to mentor younger staff and reprogram the underperforming technology. “Artificial intelligence is a fantastic tool, but it’s only as good as the information you use to train it,” Ch … ⌘ Read more

Updated Raspberry Pi OS With Linux 6.18 LTS Delivers Some Performance Benefits
Last week marked the release of an updated Raspberry Pi OS that moved to Linux 6.18 LTS from its former Linux 6.12 kernel base along with making a number of other package updates. Given the jump to the newer Long Term Support kernel and other improvements, I ran some fresh benchmarks on the Raspberry Pi 5 (Raspberry Pi 500+) to see the performance difference out of the updated operating system. ⌘ Read more

Micron Locks In Historically High Memory Prices For Five Years
Micron has signed 16 “strategic customer agreements” (SCAs) that include a floor price the company says comes with “a very robust gross margin for Micron, well above our peak quarterly margins in any past cycle.” Most of the deals run through 2030 and cover about 40% of Micron’s revenue. The Register reports: Micron CEO, president and chairman Sa … ⌘ Read more

Servo 0.3 Released With The Demo Browser Becoming More Useful
Servo 0.3 released today as the latest version of this modern browser engine developed in Rust. With Servo 0.3 the demo servoshell browser is becoming more useful and supporting additional modern web features while Servo also continues to possess much potential moving forward on the embedded front as an alternative to the likes of the Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF)… ⌘ Read more

Google Starts Lowering Play Store Fees, Making Good On Epic Games Settlement
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Google spent the last few years locked in a legal grudge match with Epic Games, which claimed that Google’s stewardship of the Play Store was anticompetitive. Now, the companies are thick as thieves, and Google is beginning to implement app store changes as agreed in it … ⌘ Read more

Linux 7.2 Drops Ancient PROFIBUS Driver: Ported From SCO Unix In 1998, Unused For Years
Linux 7.2 is continuing the trend of removing obsolete hardware drivers for which the code hasn’t seen any maintenance in years and there are no believed users left of said drivers, especially those that would be running modern mainline versions of the Linux kernel. The char/misc changes merged dropped two more obsolete drivers from the Linux source tree… ⌘ Read more

Linux Cache Aware Scheduling Extended For Even Better Performance: Up To 360% In MySQL
Cache Aware Scheduling is one of the most exciting kernel innovations to land in Linux this year. While it was finally merged last week to Linux 7.2, a new patch series today is already working to extend Cache Aware Scheduling and is showing some exciting performance improvements… ⌘ Read more

New Study Shows That Tall Vehicle Hoods Cause Hundreds More Deaths Per Year
joshuark shares a report from Car and Driver: A new study conducted by the New York Times shows that the increase in vehicle hood height seen over the last two and a half decades, mainly due to the rise in popularity of large SUVs and trucks, has resulted in several thousand deaths that otherwise may not have happened. The s … ⌘ Read more

AMD Contributes ONNX Runtime Backend To FFmpeg DNN Filter
An AMD engineer has contributed to the upstream FFmpeg library an ONNX Runtime back-end for its DNN filter. The FFmpeg Deep Neural Network (DNN) filters allow for running AI models natively inside the video processing pipeline for upscaling, object detection, background segmentation, and more. This ONNX Runntime back-end support is notable in that it expands the GPU and NPU capabilities with FFmpeg… ⌘ Read more

Linux 7.2 Staging Still Working To Tame The Realtek RTL8723BS “Beast Of A Driver”
Way back in 2017 for the Linux 4.12 kernel the Realtek rtl8723bs WiFi driver was added to the kernel’s staging area. Nearly a decade later, it’s still being cleaned-up to suit the more rigorous non-staging area of the kernel in the formal networking subsystem. For Linux 7.2, the staging pull request is once again dominated by clean-ups to this Realtek WiFi driver… ⌘ Read more

KSMBD Adds SMB2 Compression Support In Linux 7.2
Merged back in Linux 5.15 in 2021 was KSMBD as an in-kernel SMB3 file server. There hasn’t been much KSMBD news to report on recently but for Linux 7.2 there is now SMB2 compression support… ⌘ Read more

NASA Rover Detects Potential Signatures of Ancient Microbial Life On Mars
NASA’s Perseverance rover has detected complex organic carbon in ancient Martian mudstones. The measurements were taken by the rover’s Sherloc instrument and the organic carbon that was identified was from the Bright Angel outcrop, “a dried-up river that carried water into the planet’s Jezero crater billions of years ago,” no … ⌘ Read more

Stripe, Anthropic, and OpenAI Are Backing Effort To Stop Respiratory Infections
An anonymous reader quotes a report from MIT Technology Review: [T]he payment company Stripe, founded by brothers Patrick and John Collison, says it will fund a new $500 million nonprofit whose goal is preventing both the common cold and the flu. Its eventual aim is to get rid of respiratory viruses altogether. Th … ⌘ Read more

Slate Auto’s Radically Simple Electric Truck Starts At $24,950
Slate Auto says its stripped-down electric pickup will start at $24,950 before fees, with the base model’s estimated range increased from 150 to about 205 miles. The company has started taking preorders on Wednesday. “The aggressive pricing – half the average cost of a new car in the United States – puts Slate in position to capture a share of the low … ⌘ Read more

Meta Pauses Employee-Tracking Program Following Internal Data Leak
Meta has paused its Model Compatibility Initiative that tracked employee mouse movements, clicks, keystrokes, and screen content to train AI agents, after some of its collected data became accessible to more employees than intended. Meta says it has no evidence the information was improperly accessed and will not restart the program until it is … ⌘ Read more

MGLRU Improvement Yielding Nice Gains On Linux 7.2: MongoDB 30~100% Higher Throughput
The many memory management “MM” related improvements were recently merged to Git for the Linux 7.2 kernel. As typical most kernel cycles, some of the low-level improvements can yield nice efficiency wins and better performance in different areas… ⌘ Read more

GTA VI Is a Worrying Sign For the Future of Physical Games
Rockstar Games has revealed the price of Grand Theft Auto VI to be $79.99, and confirmed that the physical versions of the game won’t include a disc. Instead, they’ll contain a one-time download code when it launches November 19. “Not only is that a disappointing decision for people who like to own physical games, but given the scale of the next GTA, it als … ⌘ Read more

OpenAI Unveils First Chip As Part of Broadcom Deal
OpenAI and Broadcom have unveiled Jalapeno, OpenAI’s first custom AI chip, designed primarily to handle inference for ChatGPT and other services. It’s a major step in OpenAI’s plan to “build the full stack behind its models and products,” says OpenAI. “By designing more of the stack ourselves, we can serve more intelligence with greater efficiency and keep pushing advan … ⌘ Read more

Walmart’s First Nuclear Deal Shows Demand Beyond AI Data Centers
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Barron’s: Walmart is signing a long-term contract to buy nuclear power for the first time ever, a promising sign that the industry’s future is supported by more than just the AI data center boom. The retail giant agreed on Tuesday to buy power from a nuclear plant in Illinois owned by Constellation Energ … ⌘ Read more

NTFS3 Driver Sees Bug Fixes & Minor Improvements With Linux 7.2
While the new NTFS file-system driver merged for Linux 7.1 and has seen more improvements for Linux 7.2, for now at least the NTFS3 kernel driver continues to be maintained with new fixes and improvements. NTFS3 is the driver that was upstreamed to the Linux kernel a few years ago back during the pandemic by Paragon Software… ⌘ Read more

Bob Iger’s Disney Wanted Apple, Twitter, and 007
In an exit interview with The Financial Times (paywalled), former Disney CEO Bob Iger says the company seriously considered buying Twitter, explored a potential merger with Apple, and pursued the James Bond franchise during his tenure. The Verge reports: According to Iger, Disney came close to buying Twitter from co-founder Jack Dorsey “at a very attractive price,” sometime prior … ⌘ Read more

Boffin Claims Microsoft’s ‘Quantum Leap’ Is Invalid Due To ‘Basic Python Errors’
A peer-reviewed Nature critique argues that Microsoft’s 2025 Majorana quantum-computing breakthrough – and its claim that it could enable “a truly meaningful quantum computer not in decades, as some have predicted, but in years” – is fundamentally flawed. According to Dr Henry Legg, a lecturer at the University … ⌘ Read more

F2FS Integrates FSERROR Reporting, Reduces Memory Footprint In Linux 7.2
The Flash-Friendly File-System (F2FS) have landed for Linux 7.2… ⌘ Read more

Trump Admin Announces $17.5 Billion In Loans For 10 New Large Nuclear Reactors
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Associated Press: The Trump administration is providing $17.5 billion to speed the development of 10 new large nuclear reactors to meet the skyrocketing power demand from massive data centers. Energy Secretary Chris Wright cited “tremendous interest” among developers of da … ⌘ Read more

SilverStone RM32 3U Server Chassis + 1000W Extreme 1000Rz Platinum PSU
For those with limited rack space and wanting to assemble a high-end server/workstation, the SilverStone RM32 provides a lot of opportunities in being a 3U rackmount chassis that can accommodate an E-ATX or SSI-EEB motherboard, up to a 360mm liquid cooling radiator, and up to four full-size expansion cards all within 3U height requirements. Paired with the SilverStone Extreme 1000Rz Platinum 1000W PSU, you can patch a lot into 5.25 inches. ⌘ Read more

A 25-Year-Old Blog Looks Back At 40 Years of Computing
Ancient Slashdot reader Mark Round writes: Longtime reader here (since mid-1999 – Hot Grits! Oog the Caveman! Beowulf clusters!), and I can still remember posting back on Slashdot’s own 5th anniversary. Time’s rolled on: my own blog just turned 25, and it’s now roughly 40 years since I first sat down at a computer. So I went digging through archive.org, old bac … ⌘ Read more

New AMD Linux Patches Expose Gamma 2.4 + Gamma 2.6 Curves
In addition to AMD engineers being busy rolling out HDMI 2.1 for their open-source Linux driver at long last, another notable display-related improvement on the way to their AMDGPU kernel graphics driver is exposing the Gamma 2.4 and Gamma 2.6 curves support… ⌘ Read more

“So Many AI-Fueled Fixes” Means No New ARM64 KVM Features For Linux 7.2
The KVM virtualization-related changes were merged a few days ago for the ongoing Linux 7.2 kernel merge window. While there are a number of features/improvements for AMD and Intel virtualization as well as the likes of s390 and RISC-V, there aren’t any new features on ARM64. The lack of ARM64 feature work this cycle is being attributed to “so many AI-fueled fixes” swamping the ARM Linux developers… ⌘ Read more

Mushroom Behind ‘Tiny Human’ Visions Lacks Genes For Known Psychedelics
alternative_right shares a report from ScienceAlert: If you consumed a wild mushroom and suddenly started seeing tiny people around you, you might reasonably assume it contained a familiar psychedelic. But that does not appear to be the case with Lanmaoa asiatica, known locally as jian shou qing, a mushroom species sold in markets … ⌘ Read more

One Line x86 Change To GCC Compiler Nets +12% Benchmark Win For Modern Intel/AMD CPUs
A one line code change to the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) for its generic x86 tuning is benefiting modern Intel and AMD processors… ⌘ Read more