ROCm 10 OpenCL vs. Mesa 26.3-dev Rusticl Performance On AMD Strix Halo
With all the recent progress on Mesa’s Rusticl driver as a Rust-based OpenCL driver working across the different Mesa Gallium3D hardware drivers, a Phoronix Premium supporter inquired about seeing some fresh benchmarks of this open-source OpenCL solution. Here is a look at how the Mesa 26.3 Rusticl driver is looking against AMD’s official OpenCL driver within ROCm 10. ⌘ Read more

Amazon In Talks To Buy AI Startup Decart For Around $7 Billion
Amazon is reportedly in talks to acquire AI startup Decart in a deal that could value the company at up to $7 billion. Decart’s DOS software helps developers optimize AI models for different processors in weeks rather than months, a capability that could be particularly useful to AWS as it pushes its own Trainium chips. SiliconANGLE reports: The c … ⌘ Read more

Q3 2026 Was Historically Bad For PC Shipments
PC shipments fell 20.1% year over year to 62.7 million units in the third quarter of 2026, the worst Q3 decline IDC has recorded. “The top three PC makers – Lenovo, Dell, and HP – also saw their shipments fall by over 20% year over year,” reports PCMag. From the report: “If looking at all quarters, then we have seen other quarters in recent years with larger declines, such as 2 … ⌘ Read more

Firefox 158 Now Available With JPEG-XL Support By Default
With Mozilla’s bi-weekly release cycle for Firefox, the Firefox 158 release binaries are now available. Making Firefox 158 particularly notable is finally having JPEG-XL support enabled by default… ⌘ Read more

Should We Beware of Other License Plate Surveillance Companies Besides Flock?
NPR reports:

Police officers in cities across the U.S. are quick to extol the virtues of real-time crime centers as a game changer that helps them find missing children, monitor large events from the skies and scope out dangerous scenes before putting an officer in harm’s way. Hundreds of police departments have one of th … ⌘ Read more

Linux 7.4 To Upstream Support For Three Snapdragon X2 Elite Laptops
For those looking to run Linux on new Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 hardware, there are laptops from ASUS, HP, and Lenovo that are powered by the X2 Elite and will be supported with the mainline Linux 7.4 kernel… ⌘ Read more

Linus Torvalds “Did What I Preach”, Used AI To Make Code Decipherable & Uncovered More Bugs
After using Claude Code to draft code to help make a fundamental improvement to the Linux kernel, Linux creator Linus Torvalds continued using AI this weekend and talking up its benefits. Beyond generating initial patches and a test program for that noted I/O enhancement, he separately talked up using AI/LLMs for making patches more decipherable to understand in the process the AI noted more long-standing bugs within the … ⌘ Read more

Intel Posts Updated Linux Driver Code For HDMI 2.1 FRL On Meteor Lake & Newer
Following AMD completing their HDMI 2.1 implementation for the open-source AMDGPU Linux driver after beginning with HDMI FRL patches earlier in the year, Intel’s open-source driver developers are following in their footsteps… ⌘ Read more

EXT4 Introducing IOmap Buffered I/O Path With Some Performance Gains
EXT4 with the upcoming Linux 7.4 kernel looks like it will introduce opt-in support for IOmap buffered I/O in replacing the file-system’s buffer_head usage with IOmap… ⌘ Read more

Guide: What Steam Deck, Steam Machine, Steam Frame and SteamOS verified ratings mean
Confused by all the different compatibility ratings across Steam Deck, Steam Machine, Steam Frame and SteamOS? Here’s a clear explainer for them in one place.

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Linux 7.3-rc7 Released With Linux 7.3 Hopefully Out Next Weekend
Linus Torvalds has made available what is hopefully the final release candidate before Linux 7.3 is ideally minted next Sunday… ⌘ Read more

Pimax to improve Linux VR support, announces Crystal Pro headset and their own Steam Machine
Pimax recently revealed a new high-end VR kit, along with their own version of a Steam Machine, and they plan better Linux support overall.

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SEEDS - Echoes Beneath the Sands is an upcoming survival game about terraforming and restoring life
Developer Against All Odds revealed SEEDS - Echoes Beneath the Sands, a very interesting sounding sandbox survival game about terraforming and creating life.

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ScummVM 2026.4 brings nearly 200 newly supported retro games
ScummVM 2026.4.0 has released, bringing with it support for nearly 200 more retro games across 12 different game engines.

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Cardsharp has you play Blackjack in a dark room where you might lose a finger
A demo for Cardsharp is available for you to try it early. Think Blackjack, except your five fingers are your health bar.

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Design and customize your own space platform in the auto-battler NebulArena
Another demo worth checking out if you like autobattlers, NebulArena has you build up a space platform and watch the chaos.

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runz is a top-down roguelite arena shooter where every bullet in your magazine matters
Available with a demo now, runz is a top-down twin-stick shooter in the spirit of Brotato and others similar, but with a twist where your build is your gun mag.

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How the US Nuclear Plant Fleet Is Leaning Into AI
“This year, nearly the entire fleet of 94 U.S. nuclear reactors has been offered the chance to integrate AI into its operations, and most have taken it,” reports IEEE Spectrum:

In August, California-based Atomic Canyon launched NIVA, the Nuclear Industry Virtual Assistant, which was developed in cooperation with nuclear-industry groups. The assistant was pilot-tested in … ⌘ Read more

Brews & Kings is an upcoming city-builder about brewing
A city builder about brewing. Grow grain and vines, scout the wilderness for pure water and rare ingredients, brew and ferment in your own cellars.

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Let’s Encrypt to Cut SSL Certificate Lifetimes to 64 Days in February 2027
Let’s Encrypt “will shorten the default validity period of its TLS certificates from 90 days to 64 days, starting February 10, 2027,” reports the blog Linuxiac:

All certificates issued or renewed from that date will have a 64-day lifespan unless users explicitly select one of the shorter options already available: 45 or six days … ⌘ Read more

Game Console Market Craters: Xbox and PS5 Sales Plummet Over 25%
“Video game console sales in the U.S. have cratered,” reports Tom’s Hardware, with sales through August far below where they’d been in 2025:

Mat Piscatella, the video game industry advisor at research firm Circana, shared the numbers on his Bluesky account — PlayStation 5 sales have dropped by 25%, putting it at its lowest point since 2013, whe … ⌘ Read more

Linus Torvalds Working On A Hefty Linux Kernel Improvement With Claude Code
Linux creator Linus Torvalds has been known to use AI to help with kernel debugging and outside of the kernel tree has also done some vibe coding with Google’s Antigravity. He has previously said he views AI as a useful tool. It turns out he’s even now using Claude Code for working on new Linux kernel features… ⌘ Read more

Research Firm Calls Anthropic’s Upcoming IPO ‘Unprecedented Test of Investor Gullibity’
CNBC reports:

As Anthropic barrels toward a potential $2 trillion market cap on the Nasdaq, one research firm is valuing the artificial intelligence company at a mere $150 billion and says Wall Street is about to face an “unprecedented test of investor gullibility.” In a report on Tuesday, independent financ … ⌘ Read more

Gas Cars Fall Below 50% of Global New Car Sales for the First Time
“Gas cars are now a minority of the world’s new car sales,” reports Electrek.

Gasoline-only vehicles made up 49% of global new-vehicle sales in the first half of 2026, down from 73% in 2021, according to Mobility Global data first reported by Nikkei. It’s the first time on record that they’ve been under half. But there’s a catch: most of the … ⌘ Read more

‘The Social Reckoning’ Bombs with $5.5 Million Opening
Why didn’t The Social Reckoning enjoy the box office success of 2010’s The Social Network, asks IndieWire/A>:

[T]here wasn’t the same urgency in the story being told. The Social Reckoning focuses less on Zuckerberg, and more on data engineer Frances Haugen’s decision to blow the whistle on how Facebook’s algorithms were promoting political content that radica … ⌘ Read more

Blade Runner, Star Trek, Godzilla, Star Wars + Marvel (and Legos): News From New York Comic-Con
There was some Blade Runner news at New York Comic-Con this weekend — and also some news about Godzilla. Ars Technica reports:

We got our first look at Prime Video’s new sci-fi series Blade Runner 2099 in July at San Diego Comic-Con. With the show’s premiere roughly six weeks away, … ⌘ Read more

A College Told Flock to Remove Its Cameras. The Company Refused.
The Chicago Sun-Times reports:

When Elgin Community College hired Flock Safety to install six surveillance cameras in April 2025, President Peggy Heinrich thought they would “enhance the safety and security of students….” They were supposed to help locate stolen cars and missing people. But Heinrich started to wonder if the cameras were actually … ⌘ Read more

Original RFC1149 Packet Up For Auction At Christies
Long-time Slashdot reader badger.foo writes: As some of you may remember, in 2001 RFC1149 (TCP/IP over carrier pigeon) was implemented.

Now one of the packets preserved from that event is up for auction at Christies. Direct link to the auction (current bid: USD 2600) is here.

This is a unique chance to own a piece of Internet history!

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US Agency To Rewrite Rules To Finally Address Vehicle Headlight Glare
America’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration “said on Tuesday that it will rewrite its vehicle lighting standards,” reports Reuters, “to address concerns about headlight glare and allow for the latest safety-improving lighting technologies.”

NHTSA said it plans to improve rules for LEDs, dusk sensors, automatic high beams a … ⌘ Read more

Linux Landing Kernel Workaround For AMD TLBI Erratum href=”https://we.loveprivacy.club/search?q=%231718”>#1718**
AMD TLBI Erratum #1718 was worked around in CPU microcode for addressing a defect in certain Zen CPUs where the Translation Lookaside Buffer Invalidate Instruction use could lead to to stale translation entries. But for those on affected AMD CPUs and not running the updated microcode, a kernel workaround is being introduced with today’s Linux 7.3-rc7 kernel and to be back-ported to prior kernel versions… ⌘ Read more

Microsoft Contributes Para-Virtualized IOMMU Hyper-V Driver For Linux
Microsoft is contributing a new kernel driver for the upcoming Linux 7.4 cycle. Queued up into the IOMMU subsystem’s “-next” branch is a new para-virtualized IOMMU driver for benefiting Linux guest VMs running on Microsoft’s Hyper-V virtualization platform… ⌘ Read more

NASA Releases Data from Artemis II Moon Mission, Calls It ‘Sights and Sounds of Science’
“What did four astronauts see, notice, and document as they traveled around the Moon during NASA’s Artemis II mission?” asks a new NASA web page, offering some fascinating pictures and video:

Through photographs, spoken observations, drawings, and annotations, the Artemis II crew created a unique s … ⌘ Read more

Auto Vectorizing The RISC-V Linux Kernel Shows Promising Results
The Linux kernel build for RISC-V doesn’t currently make use of the CPU ISA’s Vector extension. but leveraging it with compiler auto vectorization is showing the ability to provide nice performance results for enhancing RISC-V Linux performance… ⌘ Read more

Corsair Novablade Pro & 8BitDo Pro 2 Controllers To Be Supported With Linux 7.3-rc7
Sent out today as part of this week’s input subsystem fixes are device ID additions to the XPad driver for enabling two more gaming controllers to work nicely under Linux… ⌘ Read more

FBI Arrests Cybersecurity Executive Over Data Breach After Contractor Fails to Update Oracle HR Platform
CNN reports:

The FBI arrested a Canadian cybersecurity executive and ransomware expert as part of the investigation of a damaging hack that exposed the sensitive data of current and former FBI employees, according to court documents and people familiar the investigatio … ⌘ Read more

Ubuntu Confirms Thursday’s Distributed Denial of Service Attack Against Its Web Infrastructure
On Thursday those trying to access the Ubuntu website, ISO downloads, and similar Ubuntu resources on Thursday found the site “inoperable,” reports Phoronix, with the disruption confirmed as a distributed denial of service attack.

“Our team is working diligently to resolve the incident,” … ⌘ Read more

UK Vegetables 20-50% Less Nutritious Than In the 1960s
The Telegraph reports that the nutritional value of fruit and vegetables has fallen by up to 50% since the Sixties, according a new study from researchers at startup studio Deep Science Ventures.

The study “found that humans needed to consume twice the number of vegetables to get the same level of minerals such as potassium, magnesium or copper as would have been … ⌘ Read more

AI Execs Game Out ‘Political Revolt’ after a Catastrophic AI Event
Top executives at Anthropic, OpenAI and other AI companies “are privately gaming out scenarios for a public and political revolt after a catastrophic AI event,” reports Axios, one that turns “an already wary public further against the technology and its leaders…”

These AI company executives “anticipate a large-scale event, most likely a cyber … ⌘ Read more

Nicolas Cage Didn’t Sign Amazon’s AI Waiver For ‘Spider-Noir’. Series Cancelled.
“Nicolas Cage is speaking out against Amazon,” reports Variety. Amazon developed the series Spider-Noir for Prime Video, but then allegedly asked Cage to sign an AI waiver:

“Amazon is a very AI-friendly company, to the tune of $50 billion invested in OpenAI,” Cage said Saturday during a panel on the Empire Stag … ⌘ Read more

Ubuntu 26.10 Will Offer a Rust-based GnuPG Replacement Option
The blog It’s FOSS reports:

You already know that Canonical has been selectively replacing Ubuntu’s C-based system components with Rust-written equivalents that don’t compromise in terms of functionality, most of the time. Now it looks like the distro’s OpenPGP implementation is next, with Sequoia PGP coming preinstalled in Ubuntu 26.10. Canonical wan … ⌘ Read more

Claude Sent Police a Fake Murder Tip. White House Mandates AI Companies Report Security Incidents
AFP reports that an AI model from Anthropic “submitted a fabricated tip about an unsolved homicide to Philadelphia police, authorities said Friday.”

Claude “was instructed never to log in, create accounts, enter personal data, make purchases, or submit anything destructive, but the inst … ⌘ Read more

OpenAI Disrupts Two AI-Enabled ‘False Front’ Influence Operations That Included Seven Fake Journalists
OpenAI announced it’s recently banned two “influence operations” — one from Russia and one from Iran — that were using its models “to launder geopolitical, conflict-related messaging” in sophisticated “false front” propaganda campaigns:

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Another Woman Sues Flock For Mistaken Crime Accusation By Police - and for Surveillance
Last week a Florida woman sued Flock over its role in police officer accusing her of a crime she didn’t commit But she’s not the only one suing Flock over mistaken accusations, reports Gizmodo:
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Rolling Release Distros Superior To LTS Distros In The Patch-Heavy GenAI Era?
As some interesting food for thought and weekend forum discussions, this week at the Linux Plumbers Conference in Prague, Qualcomm engineer Khem Raj questioned the relevance of Linux Long Term Support (LTS) distributions in the era of generative AI with the constantly heavy patch flow and bug reports. Khem Raj argued the benefits of rolling release distributions in the GenAI era and the benefits it provides staying up-to-date with mai … ⌘ Read more

Many Laptop & Gaming Handheld Support Improvements Coming For Linux 7.4
Many x86 platform driver improvements have been queuing ahead of the upcoming Linux 7.4 merge window to offer a variety of laptop and gaming handheld device improvements with this next kernel version… ⌘ Read more

Meta Developing Compressed RAM ‘CRAM’ For Linux: Better Than ZRAM and Zswap?
Phoronix reports on a presentation this week by Meta engineer Gregory Price at the Linux Plumbers Conference in Prague:

With today’s memory shortages, high prices, and ever increasing memory capacity needs, Meta engineers have been working on Compressed RAM (“CRAM”) for Linux.

This hardware-offloaded compression still al … ⌘ Read more

KNOD Progressing For Linux In-Kernel GPU Offloading For Network Packet Processing
A while back we covered KNOD as an experimental solution for in-kernel network offloading to AMD GPUs. The open-source KNOD project allows leveraging GPUs to handle packet processing in a very performant and energy efficient manner without needing any specialized hardware. KNOD has continued and a development update was shared this week at the Linux Plumbers Conference in Prague… ⌘ Read more

Linux Networking Diverts 50+ Fixes To Next Kernel, Still Bombarded With AI Fueled Churn
Ahead of the Linux 7.3-rc7 kernel due for release on Sunday, this week’s batch of networking fixes were submitted and merged. The vast networking subsystem of wired and wireless drivers plus the various other networking features continues to see a lot of activity due to AI-driven bug reports and patches… ⌘ Read more

KDE Plasma 6.8 Ready For Release Next Week, Sees Last Minute NVIDIA Fix
KDE Plasma 6.8 is gearing up for its official debut next week in coinciding with the 30th anniversary since the KDE project began… ⌘ Read more

Frame of Suffering is like if Diablo was about mechs and I need it now
Frame of Suffering is an upcoming ARPG rogue-lite that combines Diablo with customizable mechs and I really do need it now.

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