SteamVR 2.18 brings Linux fixes, Steam Frame improvements, new Aurora environment
Valve just released the latest stable SteamVR 2.18 update, bringing with it an assortment of fixes for all supported platforms including Steam Frame.
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Stellaris: Willpower expansion set for launch on November 23
Launching alongside another free update version 4.6 ‘Corona Borealis’, the Stellaris: Willpower expansion arrives November 23rd.
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PHP Updates Released For Two Critical Code Execution Vulnerabilities
PHP 8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36 and 8.2.35 were just released to fix two critical vulnerabilities that can allow for unauthenticated remote code execution. Server administrators are advised to update immediately… ⌘ Read more
THE FINALS gets a huge update with enhanced destruction and a free for all mode
One of the few competitive online first-person shooters that works on SteamOS / Linux, THE FINALS just had a massive upgrade.
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XFS Sees Small Performance Optimizations & Bug Fixes For Linux 7.4
The XFS file-system updates have landed for the in-development Linux 7.4 kernel… ⌘ Read more
Sony Updates the Walkman As a $5,900 Gold-Plated MP3 Player
Sony has revived its Walkman lineup with three Android 16-powered high-end music players ranging from $1,900 to $5,900, topped by the gold-plated NW-WM1ZM3 with 256GB of storage. The Register reports: The Japanese giant named the new models the NW-WM1ZM3, NW-WM1AM3 and NW-ZX900. All can store and play many codecs, including MP3s, WMA, and FLAC files, plu … ⌘ Read more
AMD Is Bringing FSR 4.1 to Xbox Consoles and Handhelds
AMD is expanding its FSR 4.1 upscaling technology beyond Radeon RX 9000-series GPUs to Xbox Series X/S consoles, Xbox Ally handhelds, laptops, and Radeon RX 6000-series graphics cards. The Verge reports: AMD launched its FSR 4.1 update for Radeon RX 9000-series graphics cards in March, and promised to bring the technology to older GPUs and handhelds this year. FSR 4 … ⌘ Read more
17k Lines Of New Rust Kernel Code Heading Into Linux 7.4
Miguel Ojeda sent out his pull request of the new Rust kernel code slated for introduction in Linux 7.4. It’s a big one this round due to updating the Zerocopy vendored library plus updating other Rust crates for the kernel… ⌘ Read more
TAINT_FORCED_BIND Sent In For Linux 7.4 To Deal With Major Fuzzing Attack
Among the early pull requests sent out in advance of the Linux 7.4 kernel merge window opening were the driver core updates. Standing out here is the new TAINT_FORCED_BIND for dealing with the recent major fuzzing “attack” by AI agents/bots testing impractical driver/hardware combinations… ⌘ Read more
#Magic Update: This week, our Magic time was up against the local team’s Sportsball game, so we only had 4 players to start. I decided to try out a brand new deck, a lightly modified version of the new Jace, Multiverse Architect preconstructed deck that I picked up from my FLGS a few days ago, and let me tell you, that deck dominated, with everyone else quitting around the 90 minute mark. I know much of it was luck (especially in the early game), but it was so much fun to play, I look forward to breaking it out again… in a few weeks. 😁
By the time the second game started, the local team had won their Sportsball game (yay, sports team!), so it was one of our usual 5-player affairs. This time, I played my old-school Defenders of the Mirth deck, and it held up long enough for all but one other player to quit, and then I killed on my next turn with a truckload of unblockable commander damage at about the 2 hour mark. That put me at a rare 2/2 overall for the day. Good times! 🤘
Omarchy Gets The Web Browser Launching Faster By Avoiding XDG Overhead
Omarchy 4.0.5 released this weeekend as the newest version of this Arch Linux based distribution built around the Hyprland desktop. Omarchy 4.0.5 pulls in the latest Linux 7.2 stable kernel with BORE scheduler, updates against the Qt 6.12 toolkit, and a variety of smaller improvements… ⌘ Read more
Google Updates Android Earthquake Alerts With 200+ Regions
Google is expanding its Android Earthquake Alerts System from 98 to more than 200 regions worldwide, using smartphone sensors to detect early earthquake activity and warn users before potentially dangerous shaking begins. The update also enhances the system’s “Be Ready” alerts with estimated earthquake magnitudes, epicenter information, maps showing affected … ⌘ Read more
Ubuntu Touch 24.04-2.1 Brings New Hardware Support & Important Security Fix
Ubuntu Touch 24.04-2.1 was released on Friday as the latest update to this community-maintained tablet/smartphone Ubuntu Linux platform. Ubuntu Touch 24.04-1.5 was also released as a maintenance update for the prior series… ⌘ Read more
Valve fix Zero Company crashing on Steam Machine with the latest major game update
Zero Company recently had a major upgrade, with it crashing on Steam Machine and probably other SteamOS / Linux systems - which Valve have solved.
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Steam For Linux Finally Goes 64-Bit
Valve has released a new Steam Client beta that finally moves the Linux client to 64-bit architecture, while also placing it inside a containerized Steam Runtime environment. However, Linux users still need 32-bit libraries and graphics drivers for compatibility, meaning fully 64-bit-only systems remain unsupported. VideoCardz.com reports: Valve’s updated requirements explicitly state that 64-bit-only … ⌘ Read more
Meta May Use Sweeping New Commercial TOS to Avoid Millions In AI Licensing Fees
Meta is facing criticism over updated commercial terms taking effect October 30 that could give the company broad permission to scrape content from websites linked to business accounts and use it to train AI. Legal experts warn the changes could undermine lucrative AI licensing deals for news publishers, with no dire … ⌘ Read more
ChatGPT Can Peek At Your Chrome Tabs Now
OpenAI has updated its ChatGPT Chrome extension to let users access information from their open browser tabs. A demo video shows the new functionality in action. The Verge reports: It’s also updated ChatGPT in the sidebar, with the full power of ChatGPT and your entire conversation history in Chat or Work to use without leaving the page you’re viewing. It also enables ChatGPT Work to “control” … ⌘ Read more
The Fallout inspired ATOM RPG returns with a Plague Island DLC and major update
Released back in 2018, ATOM RPG: Post-apocalyptic indie game is a classic Fallout-like and the developers just gave it a nice upgrade and DLC.
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Proton Experimental for October 15 has fixes for ARC Raiders, C&C Red Alert, Counterstike and The Aftermath
Valve launched the latest update for Proton Experimental to fix up more issues found with Windows games running on SteamOS / Linux.
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Ubuntu 26.10 Released
prisoninmate shares a report from 9to5Linux: Ubuntu 26.10 (Stonking Stingray) has been released today, and it is now available for download for those eager to update their Ubuntu systems to a newer release. Powered by the upcoming Linux 7.3 kernel series, Ubuntu 26.10 ships with the latest GNOME 51 desktop environment, TPM-backed full disk encryption (FDE) support on computers without a hardware root of trust, updated Settings to s … ⌘ Read more
Microsoft Says Windows 11 Is Now ‘More Responsive’, Runs Better On 8GB of RAM
Microsoft says recent Windows 11 updates have made the operating system up to 20% more responsive by improving memory management and reducing background resource use. “A big part of that work is making smarter use of memory and system resources,” says Navjot Virk, corporate vice president of Windows experiences at Microsoft … ⌘ Read more
3mdeb Releases Updated Dasharo/Coreboot Firmware For ASRock Rack SPC741D8-2L2T
3mdeb firmware engineers have been quite busy this year working on porting Coreboot and openSIL to an AMD Ryzen AM5 MSI motherboard and similarly getting openSIL and Coreboot up and running on a Gigabyte server motherboard for AMD EPYC 9005 CPUs. They haven’t forgotten about their past projects though and today released an updated version of their Dasharo downstream firmware for the ASRock Rack SPC741D8-2L2T motherboard supporting 4 … ⌘ Read more
Ubuntu 26.10 Released With Linux 7.3 + GNOME 51, Rust Coreutils Migration Complete
Ubuntu 26.10 “Stonking Stingray” is now officially available as the newest six-month non-LTS update to Ubuntu Linux… ⌘ Read more
Cloud Hypervisor 54 Released With Live Migration Improvements
Cloud Hypervisor, the Rust-based Virtual Machine Monitor that began as an Intel open-source project and evolved into a multi-vendor Linux Foundation project, is out today with a sizable feature update… ⌘ Read more
A big Steam update brings the Big Art Mode, Screensaver, Steam Controller upgrades, Linux upgrades and more
A fresh stable Steam Client Update landed October 13th bringing with it some big new features, along with lots of bug fixes everywhere.
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Anthropic Bans Cruelty Toward Claude
New submitter CubicleZombie writes: Anthropic has updated its Usage Policy to prohibit “sustained and needless abusive or cruel behavior” toward its Claude AI models. While ordinary frustration, criticism, and adversarial testing remain acceptable, repeated cruelty could result in account restrictions. Anthropic acknowledges there’s no evidence Claude can suffer but argues that uncertainty about AI conscio … ⌘ Read more
Hytale Chapter I: Out of the Breach has arrived as a massive update
Hytale Chapter I: Out of the Breach is out now bringing with it a lot of new content, along with a whole new ability system.
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Proton Experimental gets updated to fix a prefix corruption bug and more
A smaller update to Proton Experimental landed for October 12th, but one of the fixes is quite a major one (although a rare issue).
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Bazzite Linux update for October 12 brings many more bug fixes
The next smaller release of Bazzite Linux is out now, bringing with it bug fixes for various handhelds and more improvements.
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I follow @aelaraji@aelaraji.com’s feed, but it never updates. 🤔 Manually fetching individual twts works, though. Do you do any aggressive filtering or something like that? 🤔
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
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
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
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
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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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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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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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
Patches Updated To Begin Removing The Linux x32 ABI
Linux developers are once again considering the removal of the Linux x32 ABI… ⌘ 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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Windows apps and games added to Steam on SteamOS / Linux now use Proton by default
Valve updated the Steam Client Beta with a useful change to external Windows apps / games getting added to Steam on SteamOS / Linux.
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Star Labs StarFighter Ultra: A Modern High-End Linux Laptop With Coreboot
When it comes to Linux pre-loaded laptops, I have looked at hardware from most of these vendors over the past 22+ years of Phoronix. One vendor I haven’t had the chance to personally test until now is the UK-based Star Labs. That changed recently and over the past few weeks I have been testing out their new StarFighter laptop that offers great Linux support and comes pre-loaded with Coreboot and streamlined firmware updates via LVFS. For tho … ⌘ Read more
Microsoft Updates Its WSL2 Linux Kernel With DXGKRNL Improvement, More Features Enabled
Following the Windows Subsystem for Linux 3.0.2 release with support for running WSL2 now on very large servers and also experimental sparse VHD storage support, Microsoft has now released a new version of the WSL2 Linux kernel as their downstream kernel configuration tailored for WSL2 usage… ⌘ Read more
Bazzite Linux has a fresh stable update for October
Bazzite Linux has the first stable release out for October, bringing lots of improvements for everyone from handhelds to desktops.
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SteamOS 0.4.5 Beta for Steam Frame and Steam Client Update For Frame released
Valve released another bug fix with SteamOS 0.4.5 Beta for Steam Frame, along with a bigger stable Steam Client Update For Frame.
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Windows Subsystem For Linux Can Now Run On Very Large Servers, Experimental Sparse VHD
Microsoft yesterday released WSL 3.0.2 as their latest WSL update since last week’s WSL3 release with “WSLC” for promoting Linux containers on Windows to general availability. Some notable changes in WSL 3.0.2 include automatic virtual NUMA support and experimental support for sparse VHD storage… ⌘ Read more
Today, I released a new update to my TTRPG project, The Planar Vagabond’s Guide to the Multiverse, adding a handful of new spells, monsters, magic items, and races.
Plus, after nearly a year away from playing, I’m super-excited to run an all-new Halloween survival-horror one-shot this year called Escape the O.V.T.!
“Who will survive, and what will be left of them?”
METRO 2033 Redux and METRO Last Light Redux are getting next-gen updates
METRO 2033 Redux and METRO Last Light Redux from 4A Games are getting some great sounding free upgrades later this month.
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Proton-CachyOS version 11.0-20261005 released
The popular Proton-CachyOS for running Windows games on SteamOS / Linux has a fresh release out now to update various parts of it.
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US Judge Rules Flock Search Was Mass Surveillance. Bernie Sanders Proposes ‘Ban Flock Act’
Flock’s cameras offer “indiscriminate mass surveillance,” a U.S. federal judge wrote in a ruling Thursday, as does any system with “continuously updated” location histories for all the vehicles filmed by automated license plate-reading cameras.
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