DOSBOX Staging 0.83 brings authentic CRT colour emulation, FMV deinterlacer, disc automounting and much more
Whew! Quite a big release for DOSBOX Staging, the popular modern continuation of DOSBox with release 0.83.0 officially out now with many advancements.
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The Linux Kernel Is Approaching 2,000 CVEs Per Release
Phoronix reports on Greg Kroah-Hartman’s recent slide from his upcoming talk in Paris at Kernel Recipes 2026 (September 21 to 23):
With the proliferation of AI/LLM models analyzing the Linux kernel’s vast codebase, there has been a surge in the number of CVEs per kernel release. After typically being around 500 CVEs fixed per release, we are now approaching 2,000 C … ⌘ Read more
D7VK v2.2 for playing retro Windows games on Linux improves Direct3D 3 support
D7VK v2.2 is out now continuing to improve retro Windows games on Linux with improvements to Direct3D 3 and various bug fixes.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/d7vk-v2-2-for-playing-retro-windows-games-on-linux-improves-direct3d-3-supp … ⌘ Read more
The Linux Kernel Is Approaching 2,000 CVEs Per Release
With the proliferation of AI/LLM models analyzing the Linux kernel’s vast codebase, there has been a surge in the number of CVEs per kernel release. After typically being around 500 CVEs fixed per release, we are now approaching 2,000 CVEs fixed per release and perhaps will break that threshold for Linux 7.3… ⌘ Read more
Proton Experimental brings fixes for Dragon Age: Inquisition, Far Cry, Warhammer: Vermintide 2
Valve just launched a brand new update for the compatibility layer Proton Experimental - bringing more Windows game compatibility to SteamOS / Linux systems.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/proton-experimental-b … ⌘ Read more
s&box, the game creation platform from Facepunch now has a Linux Beta
Facepunch have announced they plan official Linux support for their Source 2 powered game creation platform, s&box, with an initial Beta out now.
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AMD Preparing To Enable HDMI 2.1 FRL Support By Default For Linux
It was back in May that the surprising event happened of AMD posting HDMI 2.1 FRL patches for their open-source AMDGPU Linux driver as part of their broader HDMI 2.1 bring-up. For years the open-source HDMI 2.1 support in AMDGPU was blocked by the HDMI Forum but whether it was due to Valve or some other event, the code was finally unblocked. While it’s been part of the kernel since Linux 7.2, it’s been disabled by default – except that is now c … ⌘ Read more
AMD Jumps From ROCm 7.14 To ROCm 10.0 With ROCm.AI
Back in July ROCm 7.14 was announced as their new production release built atop TheRock build system and introducing Ryzen AI 400 series support. The versioning choice was a bit odd since ROCm 7.2 was the stable release at the time while ROCm 7.9+ turned into “tech preview” releases. With ROCm 7.14, it was declared stable. In clearing up that versioning mess, they have done a major version bump… to ROCm 10.0… ⌘ Read more
Btrfs, EXT4, F2FS & XFS On Linux 7.2 vs. Linux 7.3 Performance
Earlier this week I showed off some of the very nice Btrfs performance gains on Linux 7.3. For those wondering what kernel optimizations may have carried over to other file-systems or other file-system specific enhancements, here are Linux 7.2 vs. 7.3 Git performance benchmarks across Btrfs, EXT4, F2FS, and XFS on the same system. ⌘ Read more
LLVM Improves Zen 1 / Zen 2 Support To Deal With “Notoriously Bad” PDEP/PEXT
The LLVM/Clang compiler toolchain merged overnight better support for the nearly decade-old AMD Zen 1 processors and also helps with Zen+ and Zen 2 processors too. This latest work thanks to the open-source community is for providing more informed instruction scheduling around PDEP and PEXT that end up being quite costly for these original Zen processors… ⌘ Read more
Outpost building strategy game Star Trek: Outposts Unknown launches October 20
Star Trek: Outposts Unknown from Magic Fuel Games and Playstack has a new trailer and release date confirmed for October 20th.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/outpost-building-strategy-game-star-trek-outposts-unknown-launches-october-2 … ⌘ Read more
Apple Announces New Mac Mini With M6 and M5 Pro Chips
Apple has unveiled a new Mac mini with either its new M6 chip or the M5 Pro chip released earlier this year. It adds faster CPU, GPU, storage, and AI performance along with Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 6, and 2.5Gb Ethernet as standard. There’s also a new higher starting price of $899, which is up from the previous $799 base price and far above the $599 starting price of th … ⌘ Read more
Benchmarking Some Incredible Performance Gains With Btrfs On Linux 7.3
With the Btrfs pull request for Linux 7.3 having delivered more performance optimizations with some ~3x and ~5x gains mentioned in specific areas, I was eager to test out the new Btrfs performance on the in-development kernel. In today’s article are some benchmarks of Btrfs on Linux 7.2 stable compared to Linux 7.3 Git with some very enticing performance gains confirmed in various workloads. ⌘ Read more
DisplayPort 2.1 ALPM Still Being Worked On For Intel Xe3P / Nova Lake
The in-development Linux 7.3 kernel is marking Nova Lake Xe3P graphics as stable in being enabled by default and no longer hidden behind the “force probe” flag. While on-by-default, there still are some features that have yet to land like the DisplayPort 2.1 ALPM functionality… ⌘ Read more
Linux ath11k Driver Improvements For Qualcomm WiFi 6 Hardware Yields 7x Lower Latency
A patch series being worked on for the ath11k mainline wireless networking driver for Qualcomm WiFi 6 / 802.11ax chipsets is yielding 7x lower latency or 2.2x throughput at identical latency… ⌘ Read more
New AF_ALG Restrictions With Linux 7.3 Due To The Security & Maintenance Nightmare
The past few Linux kernel cycles have chipped away at AF_ALG functionality for that interface for user-space programs to access the kernel’s internal cryptography API. Linux has been dropping AF_ALG features like zero-copy support and offloading. AF_ALG was quickly deprecated in Linux 7.2 while now for Linux 7.3 it’s being further restricted… ⌘ Read more
Tails of Iron 2: Whiskers of Winter brings game crossovers in a free expansion
Tails of Iron 2: Whiskers of Winter has a brand new free expansion out new with a whole bunch of new content along with a few fun game crossovers.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/tails-of-iron-2-whiskers-of-winter-brings-game-crossovers … ⌘ Read more
Redox OS Switches To EEVDF-Based Scheduler For 2.6x Throughput
The Rust-written, from-scratch Redox OS operating system has switched to using an EEVDF based scheduler design. In doing so they are promoting a 2.6x increase in throughput and a 782x improvement in fairness… ⌘ Read more
Red Hat’s Tuned 2.28 To Improve Out-Of-The-Box WiFi Power Savings On Fedora
Tuned 2.28 released this Saturday as the newest version of Red Hat’s tuning profile delivery mechanism for Linux. Tuned is used notably out-of-the-box on Fedora Linux for monitoring and adaptively tuning systems… ⌘ Read more
OpenZFS 2.4.4 Released With Linux 7.2 Support, Dozens Of Fixes
OpenZFS 2.4.4 is out today as the newest stable point release for this ZFS file-system implementation for Linux and FreeBSD systems… ⌘ Read more
Township Fights Nuclear Weapons Data Center By Passing a Moratorium on Electrical Infrastructure
Ypsilanti Township, Michigan, has imposed a six-month moratorium on “major electric utility infrastructure” in its latest attempt to delay a proposed $1.2 billion University of Michigan-Los Alamos data center that would support nuclear-weapons research. Township leaders, who have … ⌘ Read more
Proton 11.0-2 Enables More Titles With Steam Play / Linux Gaming
Just in time for those that enjoy their Linux / Steam Play gaming on weekends, Valve and CodeWeavers today released Proton 11.0-2 as the newest stable release of this Wine 11.0 downstream that powers Steam Play for running Windows games gracefully on Linux… ⌘ Read more
Proton 11.0-2 is out with lots of gaming fixes for Linux / SteamOS, Steam Deck, Steam Machine
Valve just rolled out the red carpet for the latest mainline stable update to their compatibility layer with Proton 11.0-2 now available.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/proton-11-0-2-is-out-with-lots-of-gaming-fi … ⌘ Read more
AMD Posts Massive Patch Series For Enabling UALink In The Linux Kernel
Whether coincidental or intentional, AMD engineers tend to drop interesting, feature patches for the open-source/Linux space on Friday afternoons. Hitting the kernel mailing list minutes ago were two patch series sent out by AMDGPU maintainer Alex Deucher for introducing UALink infrastructure… ⌘ Read more
Linux 7.3 Ready With CXL Type-2 Driver Support For AMD Solarflare NICs
With the mainline Linux 7.2 kernel there is now the basic support in place for CXL Type-2 accelerator drivers within the CXL core subsystem code. The first in-tree Type-2 driver with the Linux kernel is for the new AMD Solarflare NIC hardware… ⌘ Read more
Does Using AI to Edit an Op-Ed on Students’ Math Skills Undermine the Argument?
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: A math professor at the University of California, Berkeley, criticizing a “severe” math deficiency among students in an op-ed for the San Francisco Standard, admitted to using artificial intelligence to help edit the piece. The Standard published a 2,000-word piece … ⌘ Read more
KMSCON 10.0.2 Brings asciicast Playback Support, Bug Fixes
KMSCON 10.0.2 debuted today as the latest update to this leading user-space terminal emulator for Linux systems. KMSCON is built around Linux’s KMS/DRM interfaces and the most viable alternative to date for in-kernel VTs… ⌘ Read more
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Cost of Hope is out now with a big free upgrade
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Cost of Hope is the first major expansion for the open-world shooter, bringing with it a huge free upgrade for all owners.
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TFC2: The Fertile Crescent 2 - Collapse of The Bronze Age is one to check out for RTS fans
TFC2: The Fertile Crescent 2 - Collapse of The Bronze Age just entered Early Access with Linux support, and if you love RTS games you need to check it out.
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Framework Laptop 12 Updated For Intel Wildcat Lake, Shipping Starts In October
Last year Framework Computer launched the Framework Laptop 12 as an upgrade-friendly and Linux-compatible 2-in-1 laptop. The Framework Laptop 12 was originally powered by Intel Core 13th Gen “Raptor Lake” low-end processor while now Framework is adding Core Series 3 “Wildcat Lake” as an upgrade or for new Laptop 12 orders… ⌘ Read more
Warcraft 2-inspired incremental auto-battler ‘Orc Incremental’ arrives September 8
I foresee a great many hours being lost to this one - inspired in part by Warcraft 2, Orc Incremental is an incremental auto-battler with RPG elements.
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ARM64 BBML3 Feature Ready With Linux 7.3, NVIDIA Olympus Workarounds
AI/LLM patch craziness hurt ARM64 development for the Linux 7.2 cycle that no real features landed for that kernel version on AArch64. Fortunately, the ARM Linux developers are more prepared now and for Linux 7.3 are introducing some new ARM64 features… ⌘ Read more
GNU Linux-libre 7.2-gnu Released Following More Driver Cleaning
Following yesterday’s release of the Linux 7.2 kernel, GNU Linux-libre 7.2-gnu is now available for this kernel downstream that strips out support for drivers depending upon non-free-software microcode/firmware, the ability to load closed-source kernel modules, and other restrictions in the name of software freedom… ⌘ Read more
Supernatural, post-apocalypse adventure ‘Sally Face 2’ revealed
The much loved unsettling supernatural adventure Sally Face is getting a sequel, with the post-apocalypse Sally Face 2 formally announced.
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Linux kernel 7.2 is officially out now
The Linux kernel version 7.2 has now been officially released with optimizations, new hardware support and lots of bug fixes.
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In #Magic last night, I debuted my new #Dune deck with an underwhelming performance - perhaps unsurprisingly for a desert-focused deck, I faced a real drought, starting the game with only 1 land in hand (even after a mulligan) and not pulling another land until turn 4(!). Because of our house starting mana, I wasn’t totally sunk, but everything I got out was just luck. I did die last thanks to my big wurms (so I guess I was 2nd place?), but still… underwhelming.
For game 2, I wanted to bring the thunder (especially after my pitiful performance last week), so I dusted off my Night of 1000 Squirrels deck (headed by the infamous Chatterfang, Squirrel General). By turn 3, the #squirrel army was forming, and thanks to well-timed casts of Fog and Make a Stand, the squirrels managed to overrun everyone just a few turns later.
Another fun night overall. I won’t be able to play for the next few weeks, so I’m glad this one ended with a win. 😁 #mtg
Linux Kernel 7.2 Has Been Officially Released with Many New Features
Linux Kernel 7.2 has just been officially released with a slew of new features, reports the blog 9to5Linux.
Highlights of Linux 7.2 “include cache-aware load-balancing support, initial HDMI 2.1 FRL support to the AMDGPU driver, support for devres-based management of ACPI notify handlers, initial CRI platform support for the Intel Xe driv … ⌘ Read more
Linux 7.2 Released With Faster I/O, New AMD & Intel Driver Improvements
Linus Torvalds just released Linux 7.2 as stable! After a very busy kernel cycle due to the increased patch and reporting churn due to AI/LLM ages, Linux 7.2 managed to make it out today on-schedule for this feature-packed kernel. Linux 7.2 is going on to power Ubuntu 26.10 and other upcoming Linux distribution releases… ⌘ Read more
tlbi= Boot Option Submitted Ahead Of Linux 7.2 Kernel Release
Ahead of the Linux 7.2 kernel stable release expected to occur in the coming hours, a last minute “x86/urgent” pull request was submitted with one patch for adding the new tlbi= boot option… ⌘ Read more
Bluesky’s Active User Base Shrinks 52% Over 18 Months, But Its Protocol is Spreading
An anonymous reader shared this report from TechCrunch:
According to data from digital intelligence provider Similarweb, Bluesky’s mobile app had 10.4 million monthly active users worldwide in June 2026, down 27.2% year-over-year. In addition, mobile daily active users continued to decline, falling 25.6% year … ⌘ Read more
How Swarming Jellyfish Overran Three French Nuclear Power Reactors
A “massive influx” of jellyfish forced Electricite de France SA to shut three units at its Gravelines nuclear power plant this week and reduce output at a fourth, reports Bloomberg. Just as summer temperatures surged, 3.2 gigawatts went offline — and the power utility was already facing cuts other nuclear sites as high temperatures reduce … ⌘ Read more
How Larry Ellison Dropped From World’s 2nd-Richest To No. 8 In Just 2 Months
Less than a year ago he was the #1 richest man in the world. 10 weeks ago he was #2. But yesterday Larry Ellison dropped to #8, Forbes reports, falling behind Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang.
Ellison’s net worth is now estimated at just $192.6 billion — after a $104 billion decline:
Shares of Oracle plunged roughly 54% betwe … ⌘ Read more
D7VK version 2.1 brings improvements to retro game loading time
D7VK continues to mature its Direct3D 7, 6, 5 and 3 to Vulkan translation, to bring improvements for retro Windows games with Wine / Proton on Linux.
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And just like that Problem 10 is done and correct whoohoo 🥳 It was easy because in Problem 7 I’d already written an iterator to produce infinite primes. So the solution for finding the sum of primes under 2,000,000 is basically (shortened):
primes := iter.take_while(iter.filter(prime_candidates(), is_prime), fn(p) { p < n })
print(iter.sum(primes))
And of course the answer is: 142913828922 which took ~21.ss for the Go Vm to compuete.
Oh man wow 😮 Problem 9 was quite hard 😱 I had to build two new functions in the Mu stdlib for computing combinations and permutations, but then the combinations of range(1000) for triples such as a + b == c is enormous! So i had to write iterator versions of these to do lazy evaluation. Anyway solution follows:
#!/usr/bin/env mu
// Special Pythagorean Triplet
import "iter"
fn usage() {
print("Usage:", args()[0], "<n>")
}
fn sqr(x) { x * x }
fn main() {
if len(args()) < 2 {
usage()
exit(1)
}
n := must(int(args()[1]))
print("n:", n)
// For a < b < c and a + b + c == n, both a and b are strictly less
// than n/2. Generate only (a,b) combinations and derive c directly. This
// keeps the search lazy and reduces n=1000 from C(999,3) = 165,668,499
// candidate triples to C(499,2) = 124,251 candidate pairs.
pairs := iter.combinations(iter.range(1, n / 2), 2)
triples := iter.map(pairs, fn(xs) {
a := xs[0]
b := xs[1]
return [a, b, n - a - b]
})
// Enforce b < c; a < b is already guaranteed by combinations over an
// increasing range, and a + b + c == n holds by construction.
triples = iter.filter(triples, fn(xs) {
return xs[1] < xs[2]
})
// Euler 9 has one answer for n=1000. find() stops the entire upstream
// iterator chain as soon as the first Pythagorean triple is found.
answer := iter.find(triples, fn(xs) {
return sqr(xs[0]) + sqr(xs[1]) == sqr(xs[2])
})
print(answer)
if answer != nil {
print(answer[0] * answer[1] * answer[2])
}
}
main()
It is such a nice feeling that Mu is such a capable little language 😅 And I decided to write code code in Mu by hand 🤚 haha 🤣 and start solving Project Euler problems, like Problem 8 which works out to be a nice elegant solution in Mu:
#!/usr/bin/env mu
// Largest Product in a Series
import "fp"
import "sys"
fn usage() {
print("Usage: cat |", args()[0], "<n>")
}
fn products(xs) {
return fp.reduce(xs, 1, fn(x, y) {
if y == nil {
return x
}
return x * y
})
}
fn main() {
if len(args()) < 2 {
usage()
exit(1)
}
s := must(sys.read_all(0))
if len(s) == 0 {
usage()
exit(1)
}
n := must(int(args()[1]))
r := fp.max(fp.map(fp.sliding(fp.map(s, int), n), products))
print(r)
}
main()
D7VK 2.1 Brings Faster Load Times, More Performance Tweaks
D7VK as the open-source implementation of the Direct3D 7 / 6 / 5/ 3 APIs atop the Vulkan API for Linux/Wine usage is out with another feature update. D7VK continues to mature quite well for further enhancing these older Direct3D API versions that cover the span prior to DXVK’s focus of Direct3D 8 to Direct3D 11 or VKD3D-Proton’s Direct3D 12… ⌘ Read more
Linux 7.1, Linux 7.2 Performance On The Intel Xeon 600 Series
With Linux 7.2 expected for its stable release this weekend, today’s testing has some additional testing of the Linux 7.2 Git kernel as well as Linux 7.1 stable compared to Linux 7.0 as used by default on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. Phoronix testing previously conducted of Linux 7.2 have shown benefits for Intel Arc B390 Xe3 in some configurations, faster poll performance on AMD Ryzen Threadripper and other hardware, and some nice I/O performance gains on AMD EPY … ⌘ Read more
Features Coming For Linux 7.3 From Optimizing Intel Hybrid CPUs To Old AMD Athlon XPs
With Linux 7.2 expected to see its stable debut Sunday, here is a look at what I have been monitoring as changes expected to be submitted during the Linux 7.3 merge window that will open on Monday… ⌘ Read more
Three Supermassive Black Holes Discovered In a Single Galaxy For the First Time
Astronomers using JWST have found three actively feeding supermassive black holes in the distant galaxy J0148-4214, seen as it existed about 1.2 billion years after the Big Bang. Two sit just 620 light-years apart near the galaxy’s center and are expected to merge within a few hundred million years. Phys.org repor … ⌘ Read more