Dark Energy Debunked? Cosmic Acceleration May Be an Illusion
alternative_right shares a report from ScienceDaily: A new analysis of more than 1,700 supernovae is questioning whether the universe is really accelerating at all. After accounting for the ages of the stars that produce these explosions, researchers found signs that cosmic expansion may actually be slowing. They also argue that the apparent accelerat … ⌘ Read more
Steam Beta for Sept 9th has huge changes - Big Art Mode, Screensaver, Proton option changes, Desktop Mode toggle for SteamOS
Valve have been cooking on this one! A new Steam Beta update for September 9th brings some big additions for Desktop gamers and SteamOS systems.
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Anthropic Reveals Fourth Likely Crime Committed By Its AI
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Register: Amid industry soul-searching about the possibility of AI improving itself to the point that it kills everyone, Anthropic has revealed yet another incident that would qualify as a crime if perpetrated by a person. The AI biz published “an alignment assessment” detailing four times Claude models accessed thir … ⌘ Read more
Steam Client Beta Improves Big Picture Mode, Several Linux Enhancements
Tonight Valve released a big Steam client beta update with a number of new features and fixes… ⌘ Read more
Google to Invest Record $15 Billion In AI Infrastructure In Finland
Google plans to invest at least $15 billion in AI infrastructure in Finland through 2028, its largest single investment in Europe. The company also signed a 22-year power agreement with Finnish utility Fortum and said it will explore business models that could support new nuclear reactors at Fortum’s Loviisa site.
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Apple’s New iPhone Camera Mode Promises to Prove Your Photo Isn’t AI
Apple is introducing a new “Reference Image” mode on the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max that uses the camera sensor to digitally sign captured data and create an “unalterable” version of a photo, giving users a way to verify what the camera actually saw before any edits were made. The Verge reports: As AI-generated images and videos become mor … ⌘ Read more
Anthropic Researcher Believes More Than 10% Chance AI ‘Could Kill All Humans’
Longtime Slashdot reader fahrbot-bot shares a report from the BBC: A top safety researcher at Anthropic has warned AI is advancing so quickly he believes there is a greater than 10% chance it “could kill all humans” within the next decade. Evan Hubinger said in a post on X the risk from the models which currently exist was “low” … ⌘ Read more
ReactOS Dev Gets FEX Running For x86_64 Games On This “Open-Source Windows” OS Under ARM
A ReactOS developer for this open-source operating system project striving for binary compatibility with Windows drivers and applications has achieved an intriguing software stack. With the experimental ReactOS ARM64 build for running on 64-bit ARM hardware like Raspberry Pi SBCs, he’s paired that “open-source Windows” OS with the open-source FEX emulator for in turn being able to run Windows x64 games/apps on ReactOS atop … ⌘ Read more
OpenAI’s Rogue Agents Used At Least 10 More Sites For Unauthorized Communications
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: AI agents unleashed by OpenAI used more than 10 previously undisclosed websites for unsanctioned communications earlier this year, according to six sets of independent investigators and data reviewed by Reuters, showing that the agents’ rogue activity was wider ranging … ⌘ Read more
Apple Launches iPhone 18 Pro With Variable-Aperture Camera System
Apple’s iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max were announced today and keep last year’s overall design but put the emphasis on camera upgrades, including a 48-megapixel variable-aperture system, new manual controls, and 4K Dolby Vision recording. Prices for the devices start at $1,199 and $1,299, respectively. TechCrunch reports: The new Pro series cam … ⌘ Read more
Apple Unveils the iPhone Duo, Its First Foldable iPhone
At its September event today, Apple unveiled the iPhone Duo, its first foldable iPhone and one of the biggest changes to the device’s form factor since its debut. Starting at $1,999 and available for preorder beginning October 16th, the device is roughly the size of a passport when closed and pairs a 5.4-inch outer screen with a 7.6-inch Super Retina XDR inner di … ⌘ Read more
Running AMD openSIL + Coreboot On The First Available Ryzen AM5 Motherboard
Earlier this year the 3mdeb firmware consulting firm ported AMD openSIL CPU open-source silicon initialization library and Coreboot to an EPYC motherboard, the Gigabyte MZ33-AR1. Their next feat now achieved is bringing AMD openSIL and Coreboot to a desktop AMD Ryzen motherboard with their downstream Dasharo firmware solution. I have been running this alternative firmware on the MSI PRO B850P WiFi motherboard and it’s been working out … ⌘ Read more
Microsoft Breaks Another Patch Tuesday Record
Microsoft’s September 2026 Patch Tuesday is its largest ever, fixing a record 966 vulnerabilities, including 105 rated critical and two zero-days already being exploited in attacks. BleepingComputer reports: This Patch Tuesday addresses 105 “Critical” vulnerabilities, 81 of which are remote code execution, 20 are elevation of privileges, 2 are information disclosure, and 1 security fea … ⌘ Read more
XWayland 26.1 RC2 Released For Testing With More Fixes
Following last month’s initial release candidate of XWayland 26.1 with its many new features, a second release candidate is now available with a number of fixes… ⌘ Read more
NVIDIA driver 615.71.09 released for Linux with Vulkan / Proton improvements with NVIDIA Reflex
Released as part of their slightly less tested New Feature Branch, NVIDIA driver 615.71.09 is out now for Linux.
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GOG Brings Back ‘Big Box’ PC Games, One Printable Template At a Time
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Those who remember PC gaming in the days before Steam may have fond memories of the “big box” packaging that made those games stand out as shelf eye candy and sought-after in-home collectibles. Today, PC gaming platform GOG is hoping to reignite some of the nostalgia for those days b … ⌘ Read more
System76 Launches The Thelio Mira AI With AMD Ryzen + NVIDIA Or AMD Graphics
System76 today unveiled their newest desktop computer as the Thelio Mira AI. The System76 Thelio Mira AI is designed for multi-GPU AI training, model fine-tuning, AI inferencing, computer vision and image generation tasks on tthe AI side. Or with its AMD Ryzen 9000 series CPU and NVIDIA/AMD GPU options is also a good candidate for simulations and other HPC-type workloads… ⌘ Read more
OpenSSL 4.1 Alpha 1 Released With DTLS 1.3, GREASE & More AVX-512 Optimizations
The first alpha release of the upcoming OpenSSL 4.1 release is now available for testing with some GREASE and DTLS 1.3 support along with more AVX-512 performance optimizations… ⌘ Read more
NVIDIA 615.71.09 Linux Driver Released With Vulkan Improvements
NVIDIA today debuted the 615.71.09 Linux driver that comes with a number of improvements, especially from the Vulkan API perspective… ⌘ Read more
Viking afterlife open-world survival game Valheim 1.0 is finally here
After ~5 years in Early Access, the viking inspired open-world survival game Valheim has now officially launched with the new Deep North biome to finish it up.
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A Nice Improvement Coming For Faster Btrfs Zstd Decompression
In addition to the still-pending kernel work for improving the in-kernel Zstd code, sepaarately the Btrfs file-system driver has an improvement on the way in its decompression code path for the Zstd transparent file-system compression… ⌘ Read more
I love the chunky control panels in the spaceflight simulator In Control: Rocketry
In Control: Rocketry was revealed by Maximum Entertainment where you have to build and wire up control panels to control space rockets.
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Bad House fuses together auto-battling and dungeon-crawling beneath your new house
Developer Andrew Morrish (Kingsway) and publisher The Arcade Crew (Drop Duchy, Abyssus) announced Bad House, a genre-blending, auto-battling adventure.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/bad-house-fuses-together-auto-battling-and … ⌘ Read more
Google’s Revived Nuclear Power Plant Gets $1.9 Billion Loan From US Government
The U.S. Department of Energy has approved a $1.9 billion loan to NextEra Energy to restart Iowa’s shuttered Duane Arnold nuclear plant, which Google has backed as a power source for its growing AI infrastructure. “The sizable loan is the second of its kind, suggesting that the Trump administration views revived nucle … ⌘ Read more
Check out ‘I.T. Never Ends’, a dark-comedy workplace horror game
Some jobs feel quite hellish right? But I.T. Never Ends makes it literal in a darkly comedic blend of office grind and indie horror.
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In the horror roguelite 500 FINGER FILLET you have to save your fingers
Giving me flashbacks to the scene in Aliens where the Android Bishop does a knife trick inbetween the fingers of Hudson - check out 500 FINGER FILLET.
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AMD Posts New GCC Compiler Patch For Extended Load Optimization
It’s nice seeing a new GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) patch out of AMD today that is a general optimization for the x86_64 compiler code and not exclusively tied to their Zen processors. It’s an Extended Load Optimization to benefit code where there is a narrower type and then an arithmetic type with a wider type… ⌘ Read more
YSERVER 1.5 Released With Reverse PRIME Support & Other New Features
Announced a few months back was YSERVER as a modern X11 server written in the Rust programming language. In getting the project off the ground quickly and given the size of X11, it was largely vibe coded with Claude Code. The project continues and is attracting contributions from more users with today marking the YSERVER 1.5 release… ⌘ Read more
Civilization VII charts a course to the future with the free Arc of Tomorrow update and Earthrise DLC
Some big upgrades are coming in future to Civilization VII, with Firaxis Games outlining their upcoming content plans including free and paid expansions.
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The classic free No More Room in Hell gets a massive update with 64-bit, Vulkan, Steam Networking and more
Time to give No More Room in Hell another spin? This classic free first person survival horror just levelled up with a major upgrade.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/the-classic-fre … ⌘ Read more
Age Verification for Steam rolls out in Australia requiring a Credit Card
Valve have rolled out Age Verification requirements on Steam in Australia, requiring users to keep a Credit Card on their account.
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OpenAI Says It Has Cracked One of Math’s ‘Millennium Problems’
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The New York Times: OpenAIsaid on Tuesday that its newest artificial intelligence technology had solved one of the “Millennium Problems,” a collection of important unanswered math questions meant to push the world’s leading mathematicians to new heights. The announcement is an another clear sign that A.I. is f … ⌘ Read more
Star Trek Turns 60
“Star Trek” marks its 60th anniversary today, September 8, six decades after the original series premiered in 1966 and went on to become one of the most successful science-fiction franchises in television history. Outlets across the web are commemorating the milestone with full health reports, hot takes, behind-the-scenes retrospectives, and reflections on the franchise’s influence and what may lie ahead. The New York Times rep … ⌘ Read more
AI Made A Lot Of “Hideous” Code But Found Major Bottlenecks For Faster Linux Compilation
An ARM Linux engineer leveraged AI/LLMs to help uncover some improvements to “significant speed up” the Linux kernel build times. In the process the LLM used generated “a lot of code, much of it hideous” but in the end was used to find some very significant time savings for faster kernel builds via more task parallelization in different areas of the kernel build process… ⌘ Read more
Google Will ‘Degrade’ Search In Europe to Avoid EU Fines
Google says it will overhaul Search in Europe to comply with the EU’s Digital Markets Act, giving more prominence to comparison services like Expedia and Hotels.com while stripping some real-time features from hotel, airline, and restaurant results. “These changes degrade the user experience for Europeans – boosting online intermediaries at the expense of local … ⌘ Read more
systemd 262-rc2 Adds An AI Canary For Detecting Unreviewed AI/LLM Code Contributions
One week after releasing systemd 262-rc1, systemd 262-rc2 is now available with further fixes and refinements for this init system and service manager. Systemd is also the latest open-source project introducing an AI canary for aiming to detect AI/LLM-based code contributors that weren’t reviewed by an actual person in advance of the pull request… ⌘ Read more
Feds Accuse China of ‘Systematic’ Distillation of US AI Models
The NSA, CISA, and FBI are accusing (PDF) several Chinese AI companies of carrying out “industrial-scale” distillation campaigns against leading U.S. models such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok. Since at least 2024, the companies have allegedly routed millions of requests across accounts, APIs, proxies, cloud providers, and third-party aggregators to ex … ⌘ Read more
Meta Debuts Muse, Its Long-Planned Personal AI Agent
Meta has launched Muse, a personal AI agent developed under chief AI officer Alexandr Wang. “The product, long in development, was touted as a key next step by CEO Mark Zuckerberg in his recent 6,500-word manifesto,” reports Axios. From the report: Muse, as the agent is known, exists in a chat interface, similar to a text thread. It’s designed to be more proactive and lo … ⌘ Read more
Australia To Let Social Media Users ‘Opt Out’ of Algorithm-Based Feeds
Australia is proposing the “My Feed, My Way” initiative that would force social media platforms to let users over 16 turn off algorithmic recommendations and instead see only posts from people and creators they follow. Platforms that fail to comply could face fines of up to $79 million. CNBC reports: The legislation, which is being draf … ⌘ Read more
DLSS5VKLayer Wires Up NVIDIA DLSS 5 For Native Linux Games & Steam Play
An interesting new open-source project for those looking to make use of NVIDIA DLSS 5 on Linux is DLSS5VKLayer. The DLSS5VKLayer is a Linux Vulkan layer that works for both native Linux games as well as Steam Play (Proton) Windows games for experimental DLSS 5 support… ⌘ Read more
A Secret New Elizabeth Holmes Documentary Stuns Telluride
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Telluride just managed one of its best-kept secrets in years, per The Hollywood Reporter. On Sunday night, festival-goers filed into a 650-seat theater with their phones locked away, having no idea what they were about to see, told only that it ran nearly three hours, hadn’t been shown anywhere, and … ⌘ Read more
LG TVs Caught Spying Even When Offline or On Standby
A Gamers Nexus investigation found that LG smart TVs are almost constantly logging and uploading data about owners and their homes, even while they are offline or in standby mode. “The company’s TV sets scan Wi-Fi networks for nearby devices, record audio logs through their microphones, and use audio and video sampling to recognize exactly what you’re watching from acros … ⌘ Read more
Google DeepMind Publishes AI-Powered Predictions For Effect of All 9 Billion Mutations to Human DNA
Google DeepMind has released AlphaGenome Atlas, a free research database containing AI-generated predictions for the effects of all 9 billion possible single-letter mutations in the human genome. Built from its AlphaGenome model, the atlas is designed to help scientists interpr … ⌘ Read more
KDE’s KWin Merges Wayland Commit-Timing Protocol Support
Merged today to the latest KDE KWin compositor development code is support for Wayland’s important commit-timing protocol that is useful for video playback as well as for gamers relying on Adaptive-Sync/FreeSync support… ⌘ Read more
The Linux Kernel Planning To Remove Around ~55k Lines Of Old ARM Platform Code
For the current Linux 7.3 kernel many older 32-bit ARM platforms are deprecated and in turn orphaning hundreds of drivers only relevant to those out-of-date ARM platforms. The removal of that now deprecated code is planned for the next kernel cycle or two… ⌘ Read more
Teen Reading Slumps to Worst This Century Due to Surge in Screen Time
Teen reading, math, and science scores have fallen to their lowest levels since international PISA testing began in 2000, with 15-year-olds now reading at roughly the level previously expected of students a year younger. The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) linked weaker results to more screen time, less rea … ⌘ Read more
GOG expand their Preservation Program with more games and now 3D scans of box art too
Making it easier than ever to backup your DRM-free downloads and make them look cool - the GOG Preservation Program has expanded with some fun stuff.
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Secretive DHS ‘Predictive Policing’ Unit Is Analyzing Americans’ Financial Habits, Pulling Them Over
An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: Border Patrol is running secretive predictive policing units that analyze Americans’ financial activity and other data, then feed that intelligence to local police who pull people over who are not suspected of any specific crime … ⌘ Read more
Castles on wheels (and legs) built for destruction - Wanderburg is explosive fun
Wanderburg released into Early Access today and it’s one I think you’re going to love - with castles on wheels, legs and all sorts.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/castles-on-wheels-and-legs-built-for-destruction-wanderburg-is-explosiv … ⌘ Read more
CHUWI UniBook With Intel Wildcat Lake For A $449 Linux-Friendly Laptop
CHUWI recently launched the UniBook laptop powered by the Intel Core 3 304 “Wildcat Lake” SOC and priced at just $449 USD. Especially with today’s high component pricing, a brand new sub-$500 laptop is extremely rare. Rather than using some dated SoC, it uses Wildcat Lake as Intel’s new value option alternative to the Core 3 Series Ultra “Panther Lake” SoCs. This was our first time testing out Intel Wildcat Lake and that SoC plus the overa … ⌘ Read more