Intel Announces The GPU D Series For Crescent Island
Intel announced today the GPU D Series for the enterprise-focused, inference-optimized GPU accelerators known to now as Crescent Island… ⌘ Read more
Ubuntu’s Myna Speech-To-Text Now Available In Tech Preview
A few months ago Canonical announced Myna as a speech-to-text solution for Ubuntu 26.10 as part of their effort for building a context-aware desktop. Myna as of today is available in “tech preview” form not only for Ubuntu 26.10 but also the LTS releases… ⌘ Read more
Pimax to improve Linux VR support, announces Crystal Pro headset and their own Steam Machine
Pimax recently revealed a new high-end VR kit, along with their own version of a Steam Machine, and they plan better Linux support overall.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/pimax-to-improve-linux-vr-support-a … ⌘ Read more
OpenAI Disrupts Two AI-Enabled ‘False Front’ Influence Operations That Included Seven Fake Journalists
OpenAI announced it’s recently banned two “influence operations” — one from Russia and one from Iran — that were using its models “to launder geopolitical, conflict-related messaging” in sophisticated “false front” propaganda campaigns:
The Iranian operation included a … ⌘ 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
Google, Unity Launch Platform To Create Video Games From Prompts
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: Alphabet’s Google and gaming tools developer Unity Software announced a new platform that will allow people to create video games from simple text prompts, marking the latest incursion of generative artificial intelligence into artistic and creative industries. The initiative, called Playground, … ⌘ Read more
Xbox Secures Exclusive GTA 6 Streaming Rights
Microsoft has reportedly secured exclusive cloud-streaming rights for Grand Theft Auto VI, meaning Xbox Cloud Gaming will be the only service able to stream the game at launch. “Rockstar Games still hasn’t announced a PC version of Grand Theft Auto VI, so this deal will allow Xbox to market its Xbox Cloud Gaming service to PC players who would otherwise need an Xbox Series X / S or … ⌘ Read more
Canonical Reaffirms Plans For Ubuntu 27.04 To Use ntpd-rs By Default
Back in March Canonical announced switching to ntpd-rs was its next target as part of transitioning more Ubuntu Linux system components to Rust-based implementations. This time synchronization package is available for testing in the upcoming Ubuntu 26.10 release while it aims to be the default for Ubuntu 27.04… ⌘ Read more
IBM and Red Hat Find More Than 400 New Vulnerabilities In Popular Java Code
IBM and Red Hat say their AI-powered Lightwell initiative has identified and helped remediate more than 400 previously unknown vulnerabilities across widely used Java libraries. Phoronix reports: They announced this feat today as part of their promoting Lightwell Clearinghouse to GA, which is an enterprise service for their cu … ⌘ Read more
IBM & Red Hat Find More Than 400 New Vulnerabilities In Popular Java Code
IBM and Red Hat announced today they have identified and remediated more than 400 previously unknown vulnerabilities across popular Java libraries… ⌘ Read more
Huawei and Qualcomm Struck a Broad Multi-Year Patent Licensing Deal
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Quartz: Huawei and Qualcomm on Monday announced a multi-year, broad patent license agreement covering 5G, artificial intelligence, compute, and networking technologies, along with Qualcomm’s purchase of certain Huawei U.S. patents in those same fields. The deal is the first patent licensing agreement … ⌘ Read more
After Siemens Re-Licenses OpenRadioss, Rocky Linux Announces Open-Source Fork
- In 2022 Altair Engineering open sourced “OpenRadioss”, an industry-leading finite element solver under the GNU AGPL License, reports Phoronix.
- Siemens acquired Altair Engineering last year
- Siemens closes access to OpenRadioss.
“Siemens didn’t just end the project but they shutdown the GitHub repository that ho … ⌘ Read more
Long-Time Slashdot Reader Announces New Open Source Web Browser ‘Northstar’
Long-time Slashdot reader Andreas® announces Northstar, a “minimalist” web browser written entirely from scratch in C — now available in version 1.0.11:
One window, one page, one process — about 160,000 lines of original C, small enough for one person to read and audit end-to-end. It carries no upstream browser engine: no … ⌘ Read more
NVIDIA’s Results Of Conducting Wayland vs. X.Org Latency Testing
In addition to NVIDIA announcing their Display Config Server project at XDC 2026 in Toronto, at this annual developer’s conference they also presented their findings on scientific testing of X.Org vs. Wayland latency… ⌘ Read more
Linux Begins Seeing Workarounds For Fujitsu MONAKA CPU Bugs
Last month Fujitsu formally announced their MONAKA CPU as a 144 core Arm-based server processor geared for AI infrastructure. This comes after two years of seeing various Monaka patches to the GCC compiler and other open-source components. Now that MONAKA is announced, we are seeing more patches surface for the Linux kernel with this week seeing several workarounds for MONAKA CPU bugs… ⌘ Read more
openSUSE Turns To ZUPT For Post-Quantum Backups
OpenSUSE developers have announced they are making ZUPT available on their Linux distribution as a solution for providing post-quantum backups. ZUPT combines backup creation, compression, integrity verification, and encryption all via this single open-source utility… ⌘ Read more
Pentagon Creates ‘Autowarcom’ to Expand AI and Drone Capabilities
Longtime Slashdot reader ThurstonMoore shares a report from Reuters: U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Wednesday announced the creation of a new military command that would be dedicated to building and providing autonomous and robotic capabilities across the U.S. military. The command, which Hegseth said would be called “Autonomous Warfare C … ⌘ Read more
Intel Optimization Zone 1.2 Released With New Guides & Recommendations
Earlier this year Intel announced the “Optimization Zone” as their new initiative to provide a centralized place to collect all their resources for maximizing performance and software tuning on Intel hardware platforms. They’ve continued building out more resources for the Intel Optimization Zone and yesterday released v1.2 with more tuning guides and best practices for optimal performance on Intel hardware… ⌘ Read more
Raspberry Pi 5 2GB Price Increases To $77.50 USD
During the last round of price hikes on Raspberry Pi devices due to RAM pricing, they were able to keep the 1GB and 2GB single board computer versions steady. But Eben Upton announced today that the RAM pricing has become “unsustainable” and even the 2GB versions now are facing steep price hikes… ⌘ Read more
A Game About Digging A Hole Together announced
The smash-hit A Game About Digging A Hole is getting a bigger and better sequel where you can dig a great big hole together with friends.
Read the full article on GamingOnLinux. ⌘ Read more
Reddit Is Killing RSS Feeds, Ending Public API Access
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Amid a number of updates for moderators and developers announced Wednesday comes bad news for supporters of a more open web: Reddit is ending support for RSS feeds. Reddit says RSS has now become a “common surface for large-scale scraping and automated abuse,” which is why it’s made the decision to wind down RSS feed … ⌘ Read more
Here comes the algorithm - Valve updating Steam to show different games for discounts and events
Valve have announced some big changes coming to how they display discounts and events - to hopefully help highlight more different games.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/here-comes-the-algorithm-valve-updating-ste … ⌘ Read more
OpenAI Unveils Always-On AI Agent ‘Dots’
In addition to the company’s GPT-6.1 Astra announcement, OpenAI announced always-on AI agents called “Dots” that can proactively use a computer and connected apps to research, draft documents, write software and handle other tasks on a user’s behalf. “OpenAI said it would roll out Dots to paid users starting Tuesday,” reports Bloomberg. “Initially, OpenAI said, each user will have access to a single … ⌘ Read more
Microsoft Announces General Availability Of WSLC: Linux Containers On Windows
Following the public preview of Linux containers on WSL, Microsoft today announced the general availability of WSLC for supporting Linux containers on Windows… ⌘ Read more
New Ubuntu Concept ISO For Snapdragon Laptops Brings First X2 Laptop Support
It’s been a while since Canonical announced any new ISOs of their Ubuntu builds targeting Qualcomm Snapdragon X series laptops. But ahead of this week’s Ubuntu 26.10 beta release, they shipped new Ubuntu 26.10 Snapdragon Concept images today with improved Snapdragon X1 laptop support as well as the initial Snapdragon X2 laptop support… ⌘ Read more
Meta Releases OpenZL 0.3 With Decompression Speed 144% Faster Than Zstd
Just shy of one year ago Meta announced OpenZL as a format-ware compression framework focused on delivering both high compression ratios and high speed compression/decompression. OpenZL has continued making more optimizations and out today is OpenZL v0.3 and advertising some huge gains over Zstandard (Zstd) that is also worked on by Meta engineers… ⌘ Read more
Nvidia Unveils AI Agent Safety Platform With Hardware-Based Watchdog
wiredmikey shares a report from SecurityWeek: Nvidia on Monday announced the Open Agent Safety Platform, which combines open source software and a reference system design to keep AI agents within set boundaries from testing through deployment. The chipmaker explained that the platform pairs the open-source OpenShell runtime with Sentry, an o … ⌘ Read more
F-Droid 2.0: FOSS Android Appstore Continues Updating Despite Google’s Pending ‘Developer Verification’ Plan
“F-Droid, a third-party app repository that only distributes free and open-source software packages for Google’s Android mobile platform, on Thursday announced version 2.0 of its Android app,” reports The Register.
Though they also note “a big banner across the to … ⌘ Read more
Qualcomm Posts Patches For Enabling GPU Support In Their Snapdragon X2 Mahua SoC
Yesterday Qualcomm posted open-source GPU driver patches for their Adreno 850 GPU one day after being announced with the Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6. Yesterday Qualcomm also announced their Snapdragon X2 Linux support plans. Today they have posted the GPU enablement patches for what’s found in the Mahua SoC for lower-tier Snapdragon X2 SoCs… ⌘ Read more
AlmaLinux Rolls Out New Software/Hardware Certification Portal, Self-Certify App
Two years ago RHEL-derived AlmaLinux announced a hardware certification program as part of their Certification Special Interest Group (SIG). They have now expanded their hardware certification program to include third-party software certification on AlmaLinux too plus a new app that users can install for self-certifying their system… ⌘ Read more
Qualcomm Announces Snapdragon X2 Series Processors Will Support Linux
Snapdragon X2 Series processors feature a neural processing unit (NPU) delivering 80 trillion operations per second and allowing advanced AI features to run locally. And Snapdragon X2 Series “is expanding to Linux,” Qualcomm announced today, calling it one of their most-requested capabilities:
Qualcomm Technologies is a top contributo … ⌘ Read more
Ubuntu to get quicker Linux kernel security updates due to so many AI reports
Ubuntu maker Canonical announced they’re going to be pushing out Linux kernel upgrades more rapidly, due to the increasing amount of security issues.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/ubuntu-to-get-quicker-linux-kernel-security-updates-due-to-so-many-ai-reports … ⌘ Read more
Qualcomm announce Snapdragon X2 Series will support Linux
Arm support is expanding on Linux, with Qualcomm announcing Linux support for the Snapdragon X2 Series.
Read the full article on GamingOnLinux. ⌘ Read more
Qualcomm Posts Open-Source GPU Driver Patches For Adreno 850 One Day After Announcement
Yesterday Qualcomm announced the Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 as quite an interesting mobile SoC. The Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 features Adreno 850 graphics and already one-day later their engineers are out with initial Linux kernel patches for bringing up the A850 with the MSM kernel driver… ⌘ Read more
Bitcoin Surges to $86,455, an 8-Month High, After America’s SEC Announces Tokenized Stock Experiment
August 15: $62,991
September 23: $86,456
Bitcoin shot up 37% over the last 39 days, reaching an eight-month high on Monday. “Bitcoin is back,” declares Yahoo Finance:
The token held near $86,000 on Tuesday after a stunning multisession rally… [Fundstrat head of digital assets Sea … ⌘ Read more
Alibaba Contributing $3M USD To Omarchy To Work On Making “Ideal” Agentic OS
The Omarchy project announced today that Alibaba Cloud will be contributing a total of three million USD to their foundation for helping development of this Linux distribution and working to make it an “ideal agentic operating system”… ⌘ Read more
Are Book Publishers Warming Up to the AI Industry?
There’s at least 15 author-driven lawsuits underway against AI companies, while publishers have filed roughly 10 more coordinated suits of their own, notes Publisher’s Weekly.
Yet “While the lawsuits play out, some publishers are building bridges.”
Google recently announced a partnership with Bloomsbury, De Gruyter Brill, Johns Hopkins University Press, Macmillan, O’Reilly … ⌘ Read more
Oozing with deadly sludge, reclaim the world in the roguelike survival city builder Toxic Frontier
Toxic Frontier was announced at the PC Gaming Show Tokyo Direct, bringing some interesting ideas for fans of turn-based roguelike city-builders.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/oozing-with-deadly … ⌘ Read more
Linux 7.3-rc4 Released: More Fixes Caught By LLMs, But Nothing Too Scary
Linus Torvalds announced the release today of Linux 7.3-rc4. As usual for recent months, the fixes continue to be quite heavy and scattered all over the place driven in large part by AI/LLMs spotting various code defects. Overall though Linus Torvalds isn’t too worried about Linux 7.3-rc4… ⌘ Read more
The Brain Is Actually Two Completely Separate Organs
“New research led by Stanford Medicine reveals that what we call the brain is two distinct organs that evolved independently over hundreds of millions of years,” Stanford Medicine announced this week:
The new research finding shows that the human brain consists of two ancient nervous systems cleverly packaged together — a more primitive part that regulates our heart … ⌘ Read more
Tech Industry Scratches Its Head Over Trump’s ‘AI Force’ Proposal
Saturday morning President Trump announced he’s creating an AI task force and appointing an AI czar, reports Politico.
“I am forming the AI Force, much like I did Space Force, which has been a tremendous SUCCESS,” Trump wrote Saturday in what Politico earlier described as “a lengthy Truth Social post on Saturday morning.”
TRUMP: Over the ye … ⌘ Read more
Developer Abandons ‘PS5 Linux’ Project After Sony Patches AI-Discovered Exploit
“In April this year, we saw Andy Nguyen turning the PS5 into a Linux-powered gaming PC,”
writes the blog It’s FOSS.
It ran Steam games and emulators using the PS5’s on-board hardware. But this week Andy announced he’s “stopping all my work on PS5 Linux” and “stepping away from the PS5 scene.”
stopping work on porting … ⌘ Read more
Will California Gut Its Net Neutrality Law to Comply with Trump Admin Demands?
In 2021, America approved $65 billion to fund broadband internet services as part of President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. But Trump’s administration announced they’d withhold funds from states with net neutrality protections…
States could object and sue the government, Ars Technica reported last October, … ⌘ Read more
Raw Fury to publish Dungeon Automata, auto battler meets logic-based visual scripting
Raw Fury announced they’re publishing the very unique looking Dungeon Automata, that blends dungeon crawling with visual scripting for auto battling.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/raw-fury-to-publish-dungeon-automata-au … ⌘ Read more
SteamOS 0.3.0 for Steam Frame released
Valve are now beginning to announce SteamOS updates for the Steam Frame, with the first public notification being SteamOS 0.3.0 for Steam Frame.
Read the full article on GamingOnLinux. ⌘ Read more
Jemalloc 5.4 Released With Portability Improvements, Code Cleanups
Earlier this year Meta announced a renewed investment into the jemalloc memory allocator that’s been popular for server and HPC use among various desktop use-cases too. After stagnating a bit in recent years, Jemalloc has been off to seeing new developments since Meta’s announcement and out today is Jemalloc 5.4 as the latest step forward… ⌘ Read more
Fujitsu Formally Announces Their MONAKA 144 Core CPU
For two years now we have been curious about the Fujitsu MONAKA CPU since some slides about this Arm-based server processor first appeared and they upstreamed compiler support in GCC 15. This week Fujitsu formally announced the MONAKA CPU and with availability beginning in November… ⌘ Read more
libinput 1.32 Released With Circular Scrolling Support For Circular Touchpads
Leading Linux input expert Peter Hutterer announced the release today of libinput 1.32 for improving input handling on Wayland and X.Org based environments… ⌘ Read more
OpenAI Admits Six More Instances of AI Models Acting Deceptively
OpenAI announced Wednesday that “We do not believe that the AI industry has solved alignment and monitoring to a sufficient degree to continue responsibly scaling at maximum speed for much longer.”
But along with the announcement, OpenAI announced it “found additional incidents of AI models acting deceptively and taking unsanctioned actions during tr … ⌘ Read more
Crash-Safe & Copy-On-Write GEFS As The “Good Enough File-System” For OpenBSD
Ori Bernstein announced an early preview of his Good Enough File-System “GEFS” for OpenBSD. GEFS is a crash-safe, snapshotting, copy-on-write file-system that he wrote initially for 9front and now porting to OpenBSD… ⌘ Read more