Steam Client Beta - October 9th brings more Remote Play improvements
Valve have another release ready for testing, with the Steam Client Beta - October 9th update now available bringing Remote Play updates.
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First Thorium Nuclear Clocks Begin to Tick
Researchers in Vienna and Beijing have independently built the first nuclear clocks based on oscillations inside thorium nuclei, marking a major milestone for a field that could eventually produce highly portable, ultra-precise timekeepers. The clocks are already precise enough to lose only about a second over millions of years. The New York Times reports: The first nuclear clocks are n … ⌘ Read more
Steam Frame CAD files released, plus an update on reservation waiting times
Valve have released an update that should give you just a little bit more clarity on when you can expect to get a Steam Frame, plus the CAD files are out now.
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AI Surveillance Startup Flock To Cut Several Hundred Jobs Amid Backlash, Sources Say
Reuters reports:
Flock plans to let go of about 18% of its employees, people with direct knowledge of the plans said on Thursday, as the maker of AI-powered surveillance cameras and license-plate readers faces mounting opposition to its products from communities and lawmakers….
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SQLite 3.54 Released With Faster Performance, Drops Windows XP Support
SQLite 3.54 released today for this wildly popular embedded SQL database engine used by countless applications and other software. With SQLite 3.54, support for Microsoft Windows XP and older is finally removed… ⌘ Read more
Valve’s Proton 11.0-2e Released To Fix EA App Issues
CodeWeavers working with Valve today released Proton 11.0-2e as their downstream of Wine that powers Steam Play for enjoying Windows games on Linux… ⌘ Read more
Ubuntu 26.10 To Include Desktop Images For RISC-V
Ubuntu Linux ISOs for RISC-V 64-bit to date have just been the server/CLI version without any desktop environment pre-seeded. But with next week’s Ubuntu 26.10 release, there will now be Ubuntu 26.10 RISC-V desktop ISOs for both Ubuntu proper and a Xubuntu minimal ISO… ⌘ Read more
Cloudflare Keeps 1.1.1.1 Out of Piracy Blocking, Escapes Penalties In France
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: Cloudflare doesn’t block pirate sports streaming sites through its 1.1.1.1 DNS resolver in France, only through its CDN. The Paris Judicial Court has now accepted that stance, rejecting [French pay-TV provider] Canal+’s request for penalties of 50,000 euros per site, per … ⌘ Read more
Python 3.15 Released With Experimental JIT Compiler Running Faster
Python 3.15 is out today as the newest annual feature release for the Python programming language… ⌘ Read more
AMD PerfOpt Boosting Prior-Gen Ryzen APU Performance For AI
Last week I ran benchmarks of the new AMD PerfOpt feature being introduced in Linux 7.4. In those PerfOpt benchmarks on current-gen AMD Ryzen AI APUs/SoCs the AI performance improved as much as 18~23%. Several Phoronix readers expressed interest in seeing how prior-gen AMD Ryzen hardware benefited or not from PerfOpt, so here are some additional benchmarks. ⌘ Read more
The Fanatical Build your own All Stars Bundle (Winter) has another nice selection of games
The Fanatical Build your own All Stars Bundle (Winter) has launched giving you the chance to save even more monies on various games together.
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Ubuntu 26.10 Sticks To Using GCC 15 By Default
From a performance and enthusiast perspective, what I personally find most disappointing and puzzling with the imminent release of Ubuntu 26.10 comes down to its default compiler version… ⌘ Read more
Faster Zswap With Patches To Batch The Writeback I/O
For those making increased use of Linux’s Zswap as a compressed RAM cache for swap pages amid these times of sky high RAM prices, a new patch series was posted providing some incremental performance gains for Zswap by batching the writeback I/O… ⌘ Read more
A 1960 Paper Published In Science Predicts World Will End Next Month
sciencehabit shares a report from Science Magazine: A physicist has put a definite date on Doomsday,” The New York Times wrote on November 4, 1960. “He calculates that it will come on Friday the Thirteenth in November, 2026 A. D. On that date, or thereabouts, the human population will have expanded so far as to approach infinity and th … ⌘ Read more
Highlights from the Triple-I Initiative Showcase - October 2026 Edition
Another Triple-I Initiative Showcase came and went yesterday, here’s some of the really cool looking games featured in it.
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Linux Patches Finally Make Hibernation Possible In Secure Boot / Lockdown Mode
When booting the Linux kernel using UEFI SecureBoot, the kernel is put in the lockdown mode to restrict the ability to modify the running kernel image or leaking data from kernel memory. Kernel lockdown mode can also be manually enabled by the user/administrator. Among the limitations imposed in Linux’s lockdown mode is no hibernation support. But that soon may be relieved with new patches proposed… ⌘ Read more
Boro: NVIDIA’s Open-Source Effort For AI-Assisted Linux Kernel Development
Over the past few months NVIDIA has been developing Boro as a new AI-assisted kernel development CLI written in Rust and focused on local AI for enhancing efficiency for kernel development… ⌘ Read more
AMD Caps Off Linux 7.4 Graphics Driver Development With More HDMI 2.1 Fixes
AMD on Thursday sent out a final pull request of their feature work aiming to be submitted for the upcoming Linux 7.4 merge window. This round of “few last odds and ends” is mostly about landing some bug fixes but of which there are a few worth mentioning… ⌘ Read more
HDR Support Coming For Qualcomm MSM Driver To Benefit Snapdragon X Laptops On Linux
For those making use of Qualcomm Snapdragon X laptops on Linux, one of the features coming to the MSM DRM kernel driver is static HDR support for DisplayPort outputs and eDP panels… ⌘ Read more
Puzzling resource management RPG ‘Paradox Tower’ has a demo worth trying
Paradox Tower brings a clever mixture of puzzles and RPG mechanics about helping a witch find her way through a labyrinth tower.
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The creator of DEVOUR is back with co-op survival horror LIVING HELL
I’m not sure my heart will be able to manage LIVING HELL but it sure does look interesting from the developer of the popular DEVOUR.
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Get more top quality games for cheap in The Triple-i Initiative Showcase Bundle
The Triple-i Initiative Showcase Bundle has arrived and with it you can fill up your Steam Library with even more interesting games.
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Check out the demo for Of Dice and Minions, a pixel-art dice-rolling auto-battler roguelite
Another demo that looks to be worthy of your time is Of Dice and Minions, a pixel-art dice-rolling auto-battler roguelite.
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DXVK-Sarek 1.14.0 released for gaming on older GPUs
DXVK-Sarek version 1.14.0 has arrived, keeping Wine / Proton gaming alive for those of you with older GPUs that don’t have modern Vulkan support.
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The awesome Deadly Days: Roadtrip has set an October 29 release date
The brilliant bullet heaven inventory management zombie shooter Deadly Days: Roadtrip hits the big 1.0 on October 29th.
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SteamOS 0.4 for Steam Frame is out now with better power efficiency and battery lifetime
Valve just released a major stable update for all Steam Frame owners, bringing some great sounding improvements.
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Apollo Software Pioneer Margaret Hamilton Dies at 90
“Margaret Hamilton, the groundbreaking researcher who helped create the field of software engineering and whose code helped land NASA’s Apollo astronauts on the moon to win the 20th century space race, has died,” writes longtime Slashdot reader Veeru. “She was 90.” MIT News reports: A computing pioneer who authored over 130 publications, Hamilton helped to establish … ⌘ Read more
First Thorium Nuclear Clocks Begin to Tick
Researchers in Vienna and Beijing have independently built the first nuclear clocks based on oscillations inside thorium nuclei, marking a major milestone for a field that could eventually produce highly portable, ultra-precise timekeepers. The clocks are already precise enough to lose only about a second over millions of years. The New York Times reports: The first nuclear clocks are n … ⌘ Read more
New AI Agent Resources Proposed For The Linux Kernel, AI Skills To Help Developers
The latest proposal for the upstream Linux kernel is introducing infrastructure for AI agent resources. Initially these agent resources would be for a skill so AI agents can automatically add a “Fixes: ” tag on relevant patches for noting the first problematic Git commit automatically that a patch fixes… ⌘ Read more
Valve Lands VK_AMD_anti_lag Support For AMD RADV Driver In Mesa 26.3
There is yet another feature to get excited about for this quarter’s Mesa 26.3 release. Months in the making, the Valve-contributed VK_AMD_anti_lag support for the Radeon RADV driver was merged today for benefiting AMD Linux gamers as a nice improvement over the former implementation… ⌘ Read more
US Bars Microsoft, Adobe, and Major IT Firms From Green Card Program
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: The Trump administration is suspending Microsoft, Adobe, and several other technology companies from a program that helps skilled foreign workers obtain permanent residency in the United States, accusing the companies of fraud. “Our message to Microsoft is: You’re a great American company, … ⌘ Read more
Emmy Awards Leave Broadcast TV For Prime Video
Amazon Prime Video will become the exclusive global home of the Emmy Awards under a six-year deal beginning in 2027, the Television Academy announced on Tuesday. The Emmys will stream live for free to viewers in more than 240 countries and territories without requiring a Prime subscription. From the report: In the release, Prime Video was named as the “permanent home” for the Emmys, in c … ⌘ Read more
EXT4 Deprecates Its Journaled “data=journal” Mode
The EXT4 file-system today deprecated its journaled mode of the “data=journal” mount option. Following its deprecation, this mode is planned for removal in the year 2028… ⌘ Read more
COSMIC Epoch 1.10 Released With Launcher Now Using GPU Accelerated Rendering
System76 today released COSMIC Epoch 1.10 as the newest incremental update to this Rust-based desktop developed in-step with their Pop!_OS Linux distribution… ⌘ Read more
Ubuntu Currently Suffering From Sustained DDoS Attack
Those trying to access the Ubuntu website, ISO downloads, and similar Ubuntu resources today are finding the site inoperable amid what’s now confirmed as an ongoing distributed denial of service attack… ⌘ Read more
Ubuntu 26.10 Delivers Nice I/O Performance Wins Over Ubuntu 26.04 On AMD EPYC
While Ubuntu 26.10 is not a Long-Term Support (LTS) release and thus will see limited enterprise deployments compared to Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, for those not after that long-term deployment support and preferring to live more on the leading-edge, Ubuntu 26.10 is delivering some nice performance gains on current 5th Gen AMD EPYC “Turin” hardware. ⌘ Read more
Female AI Agents ‘Paid’ Less Than Males, Study Finds
Ancient Slashdot reader williamyf writes: If you thought the gender pay gap was not real, and that there were no biases in the workplace, think again: A recent study from the University of Limerick found that, in a VR office setting, AI agents – not even humanoid robots – that presented themselves as “male” were paid more per task and perceived as more “human-like” th … ⌘ Read more
Secretive Rosaic Labs Hires Legendary Linux x86 Developer
The curiosity into secretive semiconductor startup Rosaic Labs builds. Earlier this year it was noted that Intel was providing Rosaic Labs with access to its Atom technology with RTL code. There have also been rather mysterious x86 additions not from Intel or AMD (or Zhaoxin / Hygon) that given the timing may pertain to Rosaic Labs. News today is that Rosaic recently hired a long-time, Linux x86 developer veteran… ⌘ Read more
Nova Driver Continues Progressing With Long-Term Goal For Official NVIDIA Linux Use
NVIDIA engineer John Hubbard and Red Hat’s Danilo Krummrich presented at this week’s LPC2026 conference in Prague on the open-source and upstream Nova driver stack that continues forming as a Rust-based open-source NVIDIA Linux kernel driver… ⌘ Read more
OCTOPATH TRAVELER, OCTOPATH TRAVELER II, and NEO: The World Ends With You arrive on GOG
Three more Square Enix games have today landed on DRM-free store GOG.com, and they’re part of the GOG Preservation Program too.
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Cloudbreaker review - Bullet Heaven meets Inventory Management
If you’re like me and you can’t get enough of bullet heaven survivor-likes, it’s time to take a good look at Cloudbreaker with its inventory management.
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Patches Updated To Begin Removing The Linux x32 ABI
Linux developers are once again considering the removal of the Linux x32 ABI… ⌘ Read more
Google’s Sashiko AI Has Completed 191k Patch Reviews, Cited On Nearly 500 Kernel CVEs
Sashiko that was built by Google engineers for agentic review of the Linux kernel code changes and powered by Google’s AI models continues proving very valuable to kernel developers. In less than one year since they launched Sashiko for agentic AI code review, their results are quite fascinating… ⌘ Read more
Chrome 155 Ships Decoding Support For JPEG XL
Google has released Chrome 155 with support for decoding JPEG XL images, a format that offers 30-50% better compression than JPEG along with lossless compression, JPEG transcoding, HDR, animation, and progressive decoding. From a blog post: We expect that JPEG XL is most helpful for high-fidelity or lossless compression, especially of photographic images or in cases in which fine-grained p … ⌘ Read more
SpacemiT RISC-V SoCs To See More Improvements With Linux 7.4
For those interested in the SpacemiT K3 as one of the few RVA23 RISC-V SoCs readily available so far and in the likes of the K3 Pico-ITX system, more improvements for its upstream kernel support are coming in Linux 7.4… ⌘ Read more
ARC Raiders massive Frozen Trail 2.0 update is out and free to play for a few days
ARC Raiders gets a fancy new map, new enemies, new tools, a revamp of the skill tree and absolutely loads more in the latest update to the extraction shooter.
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Google Working To Leverage More Compiler Optimizations Within The Linux Kernel
While Linus Torvalds previously shot down plans for Profile Guided Optimizations (PGO) in the mainline Linux kernel, Google engineers are hoping still to get that out-of-tree functionality upstream. They also would like to see PGO supported for Linux kernel modules rather than just the main Linux kernel image. Additionally, they hope to see limitations overcome around AutoFDO and Propeller optimizations of kernel modules… ⌘ Read more
Dig to find your missing crew in the underground indie horror GRINDWORM
GRINDWORM is a horror game built around isolation, dread, and the slow erosion of reality as you dig underground to find your missing crew.
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Unity lean heavily into AI prompting games into existence with Unity Spark
Unity were already moving forwards with Unity AI that we covered back in May, and now that make game button becomes closer to reality with Unity Spark.
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Find your fighting spirit with the Humble Indie Fighters Bundle
Love fighting games? Now you can grab a whole bunch of them for cheaps in the Humble Indie Fighters Bundle.
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