Linux’x New Core MM Tree Ready With Numerous Fixes For “Nasty Long-Standing Bugs”
New to the Linux 7.4 kernel cycle is the Core MM tree as the route for herding some of the core memory management Linux kernel patches to the mainline kernel rather than it all going through Andrew Morton’s “MM” tree. As the second pull request from this new kernel tree, a number of fixes were sent out today to address “nasty long-standing bugs” within the kernel… ⌘ Read more
NASA Announces X-70 Experimental Aircraft to Advance Flight Research
NASA has unveiled the X-70 Fractal, a new crewed experimental aircraft “designed to accelerate the development and testing of advanced aviation technologies.” From a press release: The crewed X-70 features advanced, rapidly reconfigurable flight-control technology that will allow NASA to explore aircraft maneuverability in ways never b … ⌘ Read more
Mesa Merges A Common Vulkan Layer For Working Around Cross-Driver Game Bugs
Merged to Mesa 27.0-devel is a new common Vulkan layer within Mesa’s Vulkan Runtime for being able to carry common game/engine/app workarounds that affect multiple drivers… ⌘ Read more
AMD-Backed Lemonade Local AI Server Ships Redesigned Desktop App & Web UI
The AMD-backed Lemonade local AI server shipped its version 2026.45.3 update on Wednesday that introduces a completely redesigned desktop app and web UI… ⌘ Read more
Omarchy 4.5 Released With Apple Silicon Support, More Desktop Customizations
Omarchy 4.5 is out today as a big feature update to this Arch Linux based operating system… ⌘ Read more
OpenAI Finds 948 Local Privilege Escalation Bugs In The Linux Kernel
OpenAI published a blog post outlining their work on autonomous vulnerability discovery. To showcase their AI potential, they found 948 valid local privilege escalation vulnerabilities within the Linux kernel… ⌘ Read more
Pillars of Eternity and Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire get major updates with controller support in Beta
Obsidian Entertainment are again revamping some older games with both Pillars of Eternity and Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire getting controller support.
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Build a safari park, clone animals, then watch it go wrong in Captain Contraption’s Safari Park
From Pill Bug Interactive (Captain Contraption’s Chocolate Factory) is a new chaotic roguelite building management sim with Captain Contraption’s Safari Park.
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I Wanna Be a Supernova is a sweet upcoming casual incremental about devouring celestial bodies
Build your own sky and swallow every star you can find it I Wanna Be a Supernova, an upcoming casual incremental game that looks really sweet.
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The LEGO-like co-op pirate roguelite Sink My Bricks! looks like chaotic fun
Everything looks like it’s made out of LEGO-styled bricks in the co-op pirate roguelite Sink My Bricks!
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UK moving towards banning chat in games for under 16s
The UK Online Safety Act expands next year to ban social media for under 16s, but the government plan to expand it even further to target video game chat too.
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3M To Pay Over $7 Billion To Settle ‘Forever Chemical’ Groundwater Claims
3M has agreed to pay up to $7.35 billion over nine years to settle claims from as many as 120,000 people who say they were sickened by PFAS-contaminated groundwater near military bases, airports and other locations where firefighting foam was used. The Associated Press reports that 3M “did not admit liability,” noting that the settle … ⌘ Read more
Vietnam Jails Pirate Football Streamers For Up To a Year
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: A Vietnamese court has sentenced 14 people who worked on the pirate football streaming site Bun Cha TV, handing out the first prison terms we’ve seen since the country’s piracy crackdown began earlier this year. […] Four defendants, including the heads of the content, programming and operations teams, wer … ⌘ Read more
MPV 0.42 Media Player Brings Wayland Improvements, Improved HDR
MPV as the open-source, cross-platform media player originally based on MPlayer/mplayer2 is finally out with a new release… ⌘ Read more
LXQt 2.5 Released With Enhanced QTerminal, Removing The Final LXDE Dependency
LXQt 2.5 released today as the newest feature update to this lightweight, Qt6-based desktop environment… ⌘ Read more
Axon Sued Over AI-Powered License Plate Reader Network
Axon has been sued in a proposed class action accusing the Taser and police body-camera maker of illegally collecting and storing license plate data on millions of California drivers through its AI-powered surveillance network. Reuters reports the details: - The lawsuit (PDF), filed on Tuesday in federal court in San Francisco by law firms Hausfeld and Gibbs Mura, al … ⌘ Read more
OpenAI Says ChatGPT Is Catching Up to Google In Search
Adam Fry, OpenAI’s consumer product lead for ChatGPT, says the number of searches performed through ChatGPT has grown to roughly 20% of Google’s search volume. The company defines a search as a ChatGPT query that triggers a web search, suggesting the chatbot is becoming an increasingly significant competitor to traditional search engines. The Verge reports: Having on … ⌘ Read more
Netflix Launches First AI-Branded Content Recommendations Feature on TVs
Netflix is testing its first consumer-facing feature explicitly branded as AI-powered. Called “AI Discover,” the feature generates personalized TV and movie recommendations in real time based on viewing history, preferences, trending content and selectable themes like “Something Light” or “Quick Watches.” Variety reports: … ⌘ Read more
LZ4 1.11 Introduces Multi-Threaded Compression For liblz4, Other Performance Gains
For those making use of the LZ4 extremely fast compression algorithm, LZ4 1.11 released today and brings multi-threaded compression support to its library (liblz4)… ⌘ Read more
NVIDIA CUDA 13.5 Released With Production Support For Vera Rubin
Along with today’s release of the NVIDIA 620.70.06 Linux driver, NVIDIA also released CUDA 13.5 that brings general availability (GA) support for Vera Rubin… ⌘ Read more
Waymo Cuts Ties With Uber, Will Serve Riders Directly
Waymo plans to end its exclusive Uber robotaxi partnership in Austin and Atlanta in January 2028 and let customers hail its vehicles directly through the Waymo app. In an interview on The Circuit, Waymo co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana called the current Uber experience a “crapshoot” because riders aren’t guaranteed a Waymo. Bloomberg reports: “In the early days, we would partn … ⌘ Read more
Netflix Launches First AI-Branded Content Recommendations Feature on TVs
Netflix is testing its first consumer-facing feature explicitly branded as AI-powered. Called “AI Discover,” the feature generates personalized TV and movie recommendations in real time based on viewing history, preferences, trending content and selectable themes like âoeSomething Lightâ or âoeQuick Watches.â Variety repo … ⌘ Read more
OpenAI Acquires Pierre Computer to Supercharge Codex
OpenAI has acquired developer tools startup Pierre Computer Company to strengthen Codex. “The deal, announced today, signals OpenAI’s aggressive push into the developer tools market as the AI arms race intensifies,” reports The Tech Buzz. Financial terms weren’t disclosed. From the report:
Pierre Computer Company had been building specialized tools for code analys … ⌘ Read more
Intel One Mono Font Family Updated With Various Enhancements
Back in 2023 Intel introduced One Mono as a new font for developers. Intel in September had discontinued the One Mono project but then days later revived it. Now the project is out with its first update since that mishap… ⌘ Read more
French Blood Banks Hit Alongside Cyberattack On European Supermarkets
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: The refrigerators at three regional blood banks in France were hit by a cyberattack overnight between Sunday and Monday, at the same time hackers struck supermarkets from Sweden to Belgium. “Several regional facilities of the French Blood Establishment (EFS) were affected by a cybersecurit … ⌘ Read more
AMD Expects To Outsell Intel For the First Time
AMD expects its fourth-quarter revenue to reach roughly $17 billion, potentially surpassing Intel’s projected $15 billion to $16 billion and putting AMD ahead of its longtime rival in quarterly sales for the first time. The milestone is being driven largely by booming demand for Epyc server processors and Instinct AI accelerators, with AMD’s data center business already accountin … ⌘ Read more
Japanese Bank to Stop Allowing ATM Cards, PCs For Account Access
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group plans to launch Emut Bank in early 2027 as the first digital bank affiliated with a major Japanese financial institution to eliminate ATM cards, “instead having customers confirm identities using the bank’s smartphone app for additional security amid a rising tide of cyberattacks,” reports Nikkei Asia Review. The sma … ⌘ Read more
Deadly Days: Roadtrip 1.0 review
Now Deadly Days: Roadtrip has left Early Access as a full and complete game, here’s my thoughts on this zombie-slaying bullet heaven inventory management game.
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Linux 7.4 Showing Few Performance Gains With Initial Benchmarks On AMD Ryzen Threadripper
In the first round of benchmarking the in-development Linux 7.4 kernel there are some performance improvements – and some small regressions – worth noting over the current Linux 7.3 stable kernel. This first round of Linux 7.4 kernel benchmarking was on a System76 Thelio Major workstation with AMD Ryzen Threadripper 9980X. ⌘ Read more
Canva To Cut Or Relocate 22% of Global Workforce
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Canva is cutting or relocating more than 1,200 jobs, representing 22% of its global workforce, as part of a major restructure that includes laying off staff who helped build the Australian-founded design platform. The changes mirror a trend across the technology sector, where software companies are fighting to stay competitive ag … ⌘ Read more
NVIDIA stable driver 620.70.06 released for Linux
NVIDIA today released Linux drivers version 620.70.06, this is their latest stable recommended driver for everyone.
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NVIDIA 620.70.06 Linux Driver Released With Wayland Fixes & Performance Work
Out today is the first NVIDIA Linux driver release in the R620 release branch. This NVIDIA 620.70.06 Linux driver release isn’t too feature heavy but comes with some bug fixes, improved performance of explicit sync on Wayland, and some other refinements… ⌘ Read more
Debian’s APT Affected By Man-In-The-Middle Attack For Arbitrary Code Execution As Root
A new vulnerability was disclosed today affecting Debian’s APT package manager where a man-in-the-middle attacker could carry out arbitrary code execution as root… ⌘ Read more
NASA’s Swift Observatory Is Falling to Earth
joshuark shares a report from Wired: After 22 years in orbit and a failed rescue mission this summer, it is highly likely that the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory will crash into Earth sometime next week. It is not known where on the planet the spacecraft – which is roughly as big as a large elevator – will fall. Despite its size, experts say the risk to the public is relatively low … ⌘ Read more
Linux 7.3 Will More Than Likely Be This Year’s LTS Kernel
While the Linux 7.4 kernel will be released in the 2026 calendar year in the last week or two of December if the schedule holds, it turns out Linux 7.3 is likely to be this year’s Long Term Support kernel version… ⌘ Read more
systemd With Its Initial Support For Rust
Systemd recently merged support for Rust programs. This initial systemd Rust support is limited to leaf components / individual binaries while eventually they hope to be able to support Rust within root components of systemd. More details on this initiative were shared this week… ⌘ Read more
Megaquarium dev reveals Plantlife, a botanical farming management sim
Megaquarium developer Twice Circled just revealed Plantlife, a really sweet looking botanical farming management building sim.
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Synaptics Appears To Use Legal Threats To Block Open-Source DisplayLink Driver
From earlier in the year you may recall a new experimental open-source Linux driver for modern DisplayLink hardware. That “Vino” driver for DisplayLink driver was a clean-room reverse-engineered DisplayLink driver that was developed in part by AI and written in Rust. Unfortunately, that open-source driver has disappeared following legal threats by Synaptics… ⌘ Read more
“AMD Loves Omarchy” Linux With More Collaboration Coming
In addition to organizations like Alibaba, SpaceXSI, DigitalOcean, Meta SuperIntelligence Labs, and others contributing millions of dollars toward the development of the Omarchy Linux distribution, it turns out AMD also has a thing for this Linux distribution built around the Hyprland compositor… ⌘ Read more
Experimental Project Gets Intel XeSS On XMX Working With Valve’s Steam Play (Proton)
Last month I wrote about Intel working on adding proper XeSS support to Steam Play (Proton). While those efforts haven’t yet been completed for benefiting Linux gamers running Intel Arc Graphics, in the meantime an independent open-source developer has managed to get XMX-accelerated XeSS working under Proton… ⌘ Read more
AMD Releases ZenDNN 6.1 With New Kernels & Optimizations
Last month Intel and AMD jointly announced they would be collaborating on software optimizations with PyTorch/oneDNN. That already led to the UXL Foundation’s release of oneDNN 3.14 with initial AMD Zen optimizations. It looks though like for now at least AMD will also continue to concurrently push new work into their ZenDNN library and not exclusively tied to oneDNN. Out today is ZenDNN 6.1… ⌘ Read more
UPSHOT brings some online co-op ball-shooting comedy on November 12
Shoot balls to make smaller balls in UPSHOT, an upcoming FPS that sounds like quite a funny idea for some casual fun with friends.
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Dinosaur Blood Found In Fossils For the First Time
Researchers have confirmed the presence of intact biomolecules and mineralized red blood cells inside the 115-million-year-old fossilized bones of a juvenile Aratasaurus museunacionali from Brazil. The discovery challenges assumptions about how long blood-related biomolecules can survive and could help scientists study dinosaur metabolism, blood evolution and even how tra … ⌘ Read more
Classic ARPG Torchlight II returns with lots of improvements using AI assistance
The newer owners of the Torchlight IP (XD INC) have started reviving the classic action-RPG Torchlight II, with multiple Beta upgrades to test out.
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Humble Choice for November 2026 has a stacked cast of games
Humble Choice for November 2026 has a stacked cast of games, looks like it’s one that’s well worth picking up.
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Nexus Mods gets stricter on AI for mods but no outright ban
Like everywhere else - Nexus Mods are being hit by a lot of AI generation, so they’ve changed some rules to get a bit stricter on it but they’re not banning it.
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Bazzite 45 arrives powered by Fedora Linux 45 for gamers
Bazzite Linux is one of the best ways to get Linux on various handhelds, with Bazzite 45 out now powered by the newly released Fedora Linux 45.
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Fedora 45 arrives to continue advancing the Linux desktop
After some delays to ensure a stable experience, Fedora 45 has landed! And with it, a more advanced Linux desktop experience is here.
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SteamOS 0.5.7 Beta for Steam Frame brings WebXR, improved settings and more
Valve just released SteamOS 0.5.7 Beta for Steam Frame bringing with it some settings changes, along with support for WebXR with Chromium.
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Democrats Take Control of US Congress As Voters Reject Trump’s Republicans
Tuesday, November 3, was Election Day in the United States, and the results are (mostly) in: Democrats are projected to win control of both the House and Senate in the 2026 midterms. The blue wave turned out to be more of a blue tsunami (which is an actual term), ending Republican control of Congress for the final two years … ⌘ Read more