Nvidia Launches Free Tool That Links Idle Computers Into a Personal AI Data Center
Nvidia has launched PAIR, a free open-source tool that links compatible computers on a home network so they can pool idle processing power for local AI inference and agentic workloads. “While the compatible devices are mostly Nvidia GeForce GPUs (PAIR works with RTX 20-series cards and newer, as well as RTX Pro … ⌘ Read more

OpenAI’s New Reasoning Technique Alarms AI Safety Experts
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: OpenAI’s new Astra model will use a reasoning technique called “recurrent depth” that allows it to operate outside of the sequential thinking that characterizes most reasoning models, The Information reported on Tuesday. This technique, also called “opaque recurrence,” will likely make the model’s chain of thoug … ⌘ Read more

Intel Improving Its Content Match Refresh Rate “CMRR” Feature With Linux 7.4
Introduced with the Xe2 Lunar Lake graphics hardware was support for Content Match Refresh Rate (CMRR) as an improvement over typical Variable Refresh Rate (VRR) / Adaptive-Sync to more precisely match the video or content frame rates. Particularly for video playback it aims for no stuttering or frame drops. With the upcoming Linux 7.4 kernel will be better support for CMRR with the Intel graphics driver… ⌘ Read more

Mir 2.29 Released With Additional Wayland Protocols
For those using Canonical’s Mir compositor for building Wayland-based shells, Mir 2.29 is now available with various improvements and new Wayland protocol coverage… ⌘ Read more

Audacity 4 Rebuilds the Open Source Audio Editor But Leaves Some Features Behind
BrianFagioli writes: Audacity 4.0 has been released with a rebuilt Qt interface, a new clip-editing model, customizable workspaces, native high-DPI rendering, and a new AUP4 project format. The open source audio editor also adds ASIO playback and recording support to official Windows builds, while bringing major cha … ⌘ Read more

Google Releases Gemini 3.8 Flash, Its Third Flash Model In Six Weeks
Google released Gemini 3.8 Flash, its third Flash model in six weeks, claiming it’s their best reasoning and coding model yet (topping the DeepSWE leaderboard). Ars Technica reports: Gemini 3.8 Flash comes in two variations. There’s the standard Flash, which Google describes as a “workhorse” model that’s good for anything from agentic tasks … ⌘ Read more

LLVM Developers Begin Debate Over AGENTS.md For Helping AI Agents
LLVM developers have begun a discussion on whether the project should host an AGENTS.md file (and CLAUDE.md) in their Git repository for helping to guide AI agents… ⌘ Read more

Google Engineer Accused of Polymarket Insider Trading Says He Was Just Gambling
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Michele Spagnuolo, the Google engineer arrested in May by U.S. authorities for alleged insider trading on Polymarket, is making a new bold bet. On Wednesday, his legal team filed a motion to dismiss the charges against him. Spagnuolo isn’t outright denying that he made mo … ⌘ Read more

itch.io upgraded their app to support Steam shortcuts, a headless mode and linking existing downloads
The itch.io app has been upgraded with some very useful additions, that make using it actually a whole lot nicer.

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METRO 2039 arrives February 4, 2027 and there’s a new trailer
METRO 2039 from 4A Games now has a firm release date of February 4th, 2027. On top of that we have some fresh footage of it.

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21st Revision Of Patches For Getting Linux To Shutdown Devices Asynchronously
Being worked on for over two years has been the latest attempt for async device shutdown support for Linux for getting Linux systems – especially servers with lots of hardware like many NVMe drives – to shutdown faster. That work is now up to its 21st version as it works toward hopefully making it to the mainline kernel in the not too distant future… ⌘ Read more

NVIDIA Acquiring Hugging Face For $12.93 Billion
Following rumors in recent days of NVIDIA courting Hugging Face, it’s now been officially announced that NVIDIA is acquiring Hugging Face… ⌘ Read more

Linux 7.3 Now Disabling RandStruct Security Feature By Default If Rust Support Present
While Rust programming language use may help with memory safety and other security advantages, the default Linux kernel configuration is now losing randomization of sensitive kernel structures if Rust support is present… ⌘ Read more

Rebounder is an ultra stylish precision-platformer comic-book world of ink, paper, and print
Just announced by Aggro Crab (PEAK, Another Crab’s Treasure) is the insanely cool looking Rebounder.

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Exploration-first JRPG with creature collecting - Stories of Somnia gets a first demo
Stories of Somnia has a really fun style and an interesting mixture of game mechanics that blurs the line between different genres and now you can try it.

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Perplexity Will Open Source Its Faster Lily AI Engine For Apple Silicon
BrianFagioli writes: Perplexity has built a local artificial intelligence engine designed specifically for Apple silicon and the Qwen3.6-35B-A3B model. Called Lily, the engine uses a Rust runtime and custom Metal kernels, with neither PyTorch nor MLX in its execution path. Perplexity says Lily averaged 23 percent faster pro … ⌘ Read more

Infinity Bounce is a chaotic physics-based pinball-like incremental game
Infinity Bounce is a fresh reveal from Stray Fawn Studio (The Wandering Village, Dungeon Clawler) that has you turn a galaxy into a chaotic pinball machine.

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ASCII-based traditional roguelike ‘Rangedrifter’ has such a damn cool style
I love discovering new games, especially they they look as fascinating as the roguelike Rangedrifter.

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Audacity 4.0 Audio Editor Released With Qt6 Based UI
The longtime Audacity open-source audio editor had been using wxWidgets for years but with today’s Audacity 4.0 release they have transitioned to using the Qt6 toolkit… ⌘ Read more

GCC 17 Now Supports Using -mtune=native -mcpu=native On RISC-V
As a follow up to last month’s article about patches being posted for enabling “-mcpu=native -mtune=native” support for RISC-V with the GCC compiler, that code is now merged for what will become the GCC 17.1 release in the early months of 2027… ⌘ Read more

Classic JRPG ‘Blue Dragon’ gets an unofficial open source native PC release
Originally released back in 2006 for the Xbox 360, the classic JRPG ‘Blue Dragon’ can now be played on PC thanks to the re:Blue project.

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InputPlumber 0.79 Adds Support For More Handhelds
InputPlumber is the open-source router and remapping daemon for Linux that is particularly popular among Linux gaming handhelds for combining multiple input devices and translating actions into various virtual device formats. InputPlumber supports emulating mouse, keyboard, ad gamepad inputs. With the new InputPlumber 0.79 release there is expanded hardware support and bug fixes… ⌘ Read more

Wadjet Eye Games reveal vampire RPG ‘Nighthawks’ to release September 22
Nighthawks from developer The Curiosity Engine and publisher Wadjet Eye Games looks really interesting and it’s now set for release on September 22nd.

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Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace preservation project OpenPhantom adds Linux support via Wine / Proton
Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, the video game from 1999 is a bit of a blast from the past and now kept alive by OpenPhantom.

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Instrument Clusters Are Now Paid Extras In Two Hyundai Models
“Enshittification of car controls [is] rapidly accelerating,” writes longtime Slashdot reader sinij, pointing to a new report from Car and Driver. From the report: Remember when iPhones used to come with free headphones and a phone charger (including the wall plug)? It didn’t feel so much like Apple giving you free goodies as it did that the company … ⌘ Read more

Global Heating Will Hit At Least 1.8C, UN Warns, and There Are ‘No Good Outcomes’
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Global heating will reach at least 1.8C under even the most optimistic future, well beyond the Paris agreement goal of 1.5C, according to a UN report that warns every fraction of temperature rise intensifies destructive extreme weather, glacier melt, ecosystem los … ⌘ Read more

Lemonade 11.9 Local AI Server Released With Super Exciting AMD ROCm HRX Backend
Lemonade 11.9 is out today as the newest feature release to this AMD-backed, open-source local AI server solution across Linux, Windows, and macOS. Lemonade has long been focused on offering “100% free and private” AI use with local hardware whether it be GPUs, CPUs, or NPUs. With Lemonade 11.9’s release today it’s very interesting for having experimental ROCm HRX back-end support with Llama.cpp. HRX is the new exciting thing to watch o … ⌘ Read more

FCC Plans Robocall Scorecard to Grade Phone Companies On Spam Call Blocking
The FCC is proposing (PDF) a public “robocall mitigation scorecard” that would grade phone companies on how well they block illegal spam calls while avoiding false positives on the legitimate ones. “The Scorecard will empower consumers and encourage providers to continue to combat illegal robocalls by providing the public w … ⌘ Read more

1Password Wades Into a Right-Wing Mess After Funding a Linux Project
1Password is facing customer and internal employee backlash after pledging $300,000 to support a Linux distro created by David Heinemeier Hansson, who has regularly published racist and anti-immigrant rhetoric. “The popular password manager is now a ‘distinguished corporate patron’ of Omacom, the nonprofit foundation that oversees a popul … ⌘ Read more

CERN Transitioning From RHEL To Debian
Longtime Slashdot reader Microsplat: CERN plans to have all 2,200+ industrial computers and embedded systems in its accelerator-control infrastructure running Debian 13 by the end of 2026. These are systems used for accelerator control, laboratory equipment and other operational functions … They also generate and interact with a hefty amount of data, although this Linux.com article refers more … ⌘ Read more

Fedora 46 Proposal Wants To Provide Official Support For Crystal Programming Language
A new change proposal that’s been filed for evaluation with next year’s Fedora 46 release is to provide official, native support for the Crystal programming language… ⌘ Read more

OpenAI’s Altman Says the Use of AI is ‘Non-Negotiable’
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said AI adoption is “non-negotiable” for countries, comparing rejecting it to refusing electricity a century ago and predicting it will unleash an unprecedented boom in entrepreneurship. “The economic growth and benefit to people that can come from this, the value to a country, is too high to ignore,” he said. His comments were made during a fireside c … ⌘ Read more

NYC Public Schools Ban AI Use Through Middle School
New York City Public Schools is banning generative AI for students from pre-K through eighth grade for the 2026-27 school year, affecting more than half a million students in the nation’s largest school district. ABC News reports: In a statement to ABC News, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said that the city is implementing a moratorium on generative AI for students in … ⌘ Read more

NVIDIA-Started Open Secure AI Alliance Moves To The Linux Foundation
Earlier this year NVIDIA led an effort with more than two dozen other companies to launch the Open Secure AI Alliance with a focus on keeping open-source AI models secure. The Open Secure AI Alliance today is transitioning from being stewarded by NVIDIA to becoming a Linux Foundation project… ⌘ Read more

Google Escapes Ad Tech Breakup In Third Big Tech Antitrust Loss For US
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Alphabet’s Google escaped a breakup of its advertising technology business on Wednesday, when a judge in Virginia rejected U.S. antitrust enforcers’ bid to force a sale of Google’s online advertising exchange. While the ad exchange is a small part of Google’s business, the ruling is the … ⌘ Read more

KDE Plasma 6.8 Lands Dwell Clicker Support To Improve Accessibility On Wayland
In preparations for Plasma 6.8 going Wayland-exclusive in abandoning the X11 session, another feature gap compared to X11 has been addressed… ⌘ Read more

Mesa 26.2.2 Enables Intel Nova Lake Graphics By Default
Mesa 26.2.2 is out today as the newest bi-weekly stable point release for these open-source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers… ⌘ Read more

Uber Is Laying Off 10% of Its Workforce
Uber is laying off about 3,300 employees, or roughly 10% of its workforce, as part of a restructuring aimed at cutting management layers and redirecting investment toward ridesharing, delivery, and robotaxis. CEO Dara Khosrowshahi announced the changes in an internal email that was also published online.TechCrunch reports: According to the email, the layoffs are part of a restructuring exercise th … ⌘ Read more

FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses
A dark-web identity theft service called Nexus claims to be selling scans of more than 153 million U.S. and Canadian driver’s licenses, along with millions of other identity documents. “Based on interviews with individuals whose licenses are available for purchase through the service, it appears to be siphoning images collected by a widely used Louisiana-based identity verifica … ⌘ Read more

Early Benchmarks Of AMD EPYC On Linux 7.3 Show Some Performance Gains On The Horizon
With Linux 7.3-rc1 out this week and marking the end of the merge window, it’s onto a lot of Linux 7.3 performance testing at Phoronix and looking at all the new features of Linux 7.3. In today’s article is a first look at the AMD EPYC Turin server performance on Linux 7.3-rc1 compared to Linux 7.2 stable with a few nice performance improvements to show. ⌘ Read more

CERN Transitioning To Debian After Being A Longtime RHEL Institution
CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, besides being well known for its Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is known among longtime Linux users as a RHEL/CentOS shop. CERN formally even co-maintained the Scientific Linux RHEL derivative with other educational/research institutions in the past. So to much surprise now, CERN is transitioning to Debian Linux… ⌘ Read more

Dell Stock Surges On Record Orders For AI Servers
Dell reported record fiscal Q2 results as AI server demand surged, booking $60.9 billion in AI server orders and ending the quarter with a $95 billion backlog. From a report: The company posted record revenue of $47 billion, up 58% year over year. Earnings per share came in at $6.34, up 273% from a year ago. Adjusted earnings rose 203% to $7.04 per share.

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JSAUX Steam Machine E-Ink and Pixel Matrix panels get store pages, plus VOIDJOY SkyLark S1 Pro Portable Controller revealed
JSAUX had a few announcements lately including pretty cool looking Steam Machine E-Ink and Pixel Matrix faceplates, along with controllers.

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AVX-512 xor_gen For Linux Updated & Looking Real Good For RAID Arrays
Being worked on the past few months for the Linux kernel has been an AVX-512 optimized version of xor_gen() that is used for generating and validating parity blocks such as with Linux’s software RAID 5 and RAID 6 arrays. The latest iteration of AVX-512 xor_gen() was posted today and shows some impressive results on AMD Zen 5 hardware… ⌘ Read more

GNOME Mutter 51.rc Adds Cross-GPU Buffer Scan-Out Support, Other Last Minute Work
The release candidates are out today for the GNOME Shell and Mutter in preparing for the formal “GNOME 51.rc” release in the coming days… ⌘ Read more

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Humble Choice for September 26 includes Frostpunk 2, SONIC X SHADOW GENERATIONS
Another interesting game bundle for you to grab - Humble Choice for September 2026 has some highly rated games included like SONIC X SHADOW GENERATIONS.

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ONTOS, the next horror from Frictional Games has a new extended look
ONTOS is the next horror game coming from Amnesia and SOMA developer Frictional Games and we’ve just got a real good look at it.

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Sonos Has New Devices, a New OS, and Yes, a New App
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Sonos has a new app. Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. The smart speaker company, long a darling of the audio industry, undid much of the goodwill it earned with its multiroom speakers through a bevy of software updates that broke its app in 2024. Almost all app users hated it, citing the loss of features like v … ⌘ Read more

Nexus Mods acquires the popular community site SteamDB
Something quite unexpected here - the newer owners of Nexus Mods have now acquired the popular community website SteamDB, that many rely on.

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