Nvidia Agrees to Acquire Hugging Face For $13 Billion
The Information reported on Wednesday that Nvidia has agreed to buy open-source platform Hugging Face for $12.9 billion. “Deal talks began after Hugging Face, an open-source AI platform developers use to collaborate, test and share tools, received acquisition interest from another suitor,” reports CNBC, citing the (paywalled) report. Business Insider separately reporte … ⌘ Read more
Operation Bluebird Launches New Twitter
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Operation Bluebird, the Virginia-based startup trying to revive the allegedly abandoned “Twitter” name and logo, announced Monday that it has launched its new social media network: Twitter.now. “We are a small company, we have investors, and we have a product,” Stephen Coates, one of Operation Bluebird’s cofounders, told Ars. “And we have wa … ⌘ 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
How Meta’s Plan To Replace Workers With AI Agents Fell Apart
Reuters reports that Meta explored shrinking some teams by as much as 60% as part of an “AI native” restructuring plan that would shift much of employees’ day-to-day work to AI agents and smaller teams of human “builders.” But the effort quickly ran into employee revolt and disappointing productivity gains, leading Zuckerberg to scrap a planned second wav … ⌘ Read more
Linux 7.3 Adds RWF_DONTCACHE Support For Block Devices
With the never-ending quest for greater I/O performance in the HPC space and the demands all the more relentless in the AI era, the Linux kernel block subsystem activity continues to be as vibrant as ever along with the ongoing innovations in the IO_uring space… ⌘ Read more
Lemonade 11.8 Makes It Easy To Run DeepSeek V4 Flash On AMD Strix Halo
For those interested in making use of the recently released DeepSeek V4 Flash model, AMD developers have released Lemonade 11.8 that now makes it rather trivial to get DeepSeek V4 Flash up and running on AMD Ryzen AI+ Max “Strix Halo” systems… ⌘ Read more
Ride a sentient motorcycle-plane to make deliveries in Into the Wind
Into the Wind was not even remotely on my radar until now, but after seeing it during the Future Games Show I am convinced it’s going to be great.
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The new 18 minute Fable gameplay has sold me - I want it
Fable is still a little while away but we’ve been given our best look at it yet with a new 18 minute video.
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Libgcrypt 1.12.3 Brings Intel SM3 / SM4 / SHA512 Optimizations
Werner Koch announced today the release of Libgcrypt 1.12.3 with various bug fixes and more exciting are the performance improvements… ⌘ Read more
Gun Fu action game SPINE looks super-slick in the new trailer, releasing in 2027
Gun Fu action game SPINE wasn’t on my radar at all until now, but it’s gone right into my wishlist for the insanely slick looking action.
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More Than 100 Water Systems Were Hit In July Cyberattacks
CISA says more than 100 internet-exposed U.S. water and wastewater systems were targeted in July, often through programmable logic controllers connected directly to cellular modems. “That’s the first time the feds have put a number on the digital intrusions, but they have yet to attribute the campaign, widely suspected to be linked to Iran, to a particular group … ⌘ Read more
Slayblade review - spinning top battles
Remember Beyblades? Imagine that in a chill roguelite. Slayblade is a spinning battle-top game about trying to become king of the streets.
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Intel ANV Driver Improves Vulkan Video H.265 Decoding
Merged back in 2023 was Intel ANV Vulkan Video support for H.265 decoding. But it’s been slightly out of compliant with the Vulkan spec, which is now fixed with the newest code for Mesa 26.3 by engaging the HuC firmware… ⌘ Read more
AppArmor In Linux 7.3 Adds Support For User-Space Compressed Policies
The AppArmor improvements have been merged for Linux 7.3 for this kernel security module providing per-program Linux application security controls around system resources. Most notable this cycle is being able to load user-space compressed policies… ⌘ 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
NFS Improvements Arrive For Linux 7.3
The Network File-System (NFS) improvements for both the client and server code have been merged for the nearly-over Linux 7.3 merge window… ⌘ 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.
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Kingdom III: Rising Realms, Bye Bye Bonnie and more fun stuff revealed by Raw Fury
Game publisher Raw Fury recently revealed multiple great looking games including Kingdom III: Rising Realms and Bye Bye Bonnie.
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PvPvE extraction-style raid shooter Active Matter arrives September 15
Matter Team / Gaijin Network Ltd have revealed that Active Matter, their PvPvE extraction-style raid shooter, will be releasing September 15th.
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Grab some more hits in the Beyond the Metroidverse Humble Bundle
Grab some highly rated games in the Beyond the Metroidverse Humble Bundle while also saving on their usual price and support charity.
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Radiation Link In Flight Attendant’s Breast Cancer, French Court Finds
A French court has for the first time recognized cosmic radiation as a contributing occupational factor in a flight attendant’s breast cancer, alongside passive smoking and years of night work. The landmark ruling could open the door to similar claims from other aircrew, as research continues to link long-term high-altitude flying wi … ⌘ Read more
Bill Gates Proposes Major Limits On AI Development
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNN: Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates argued on Wednesday that artificial intelligence needs significant limits or else the harm to humans will outweigh any potential good. “AI will either be the greatest equalizer ever invented, or the worst source of injustice,” he said in a 6,000-word essay, entitled “The turbulent AI era is he … ⌘ Read more
Asahi Linux Hopes To Ship A Release Soon With Apple M3 Device Support
The Asahi Linux crew working to bring Linux support to Apple Silicon hardware is out today with a new status update on their initiatives, largely around Apple M3 bring-up as well as some M4/M5 achievements… ⌘ Read more
OpenAI Releases Its Official Report On the Hugging Face Breach
TechCrunch reports that OpenAI released its official report Wednesday on the Hugging Face breach, “offering the clearest picture yet of how an unusual chain of events allowed an AI model to escape its testing environment and triggered a sprawling cybersecurity incident.” The AI company says the breach began when an unreleased cyber model, tested withou … ⌘ Read more
China’s Moonshot In Talks With Microsoft, Amazon, Google Over K3 Revenue Sharing
Longtime Slashdot reader schwit1 shares a report from Reuters: China’s Moonshot AI is negotiating revenue-sharing agreements with Microsoft, Amazon, and Alphabet’s Google, that would allow the U.S. cloud giants to host its blockbuster Kimi K3 model, three people familiar with the talks said. Any deal could mark the fi … ⌘ Read more
Apple Maps Now Has Ads
Apple has begun rolling out ads in Apple Maps, with sponsored businesses appearing at the top of search results and in the “suggested places” section for users in the U.S. and Canada. Apple says the ads can be based on approximate location, search terms, or the area of the map being viewed, but are not tied to users’ Apple Accounts and personal data remains on-device. 9to5Mac reports: Ads appear just like every other business l … ⌘ Read more
Inside the Warehouse Where Amazon Scans and Destroys Books For AI Training
Last week, 404 Media published a story that revealed an Amazon warehouse where the company scans and destroys thousands of books for AI training data. Today, the publication has released an interview with one of the Amazon employees at the warehouse. “The employee worked at Amazon’s VGT3 warehouse, which is housed in the same … ⌘ Read more
Patches Provide For Much Faster In-Kernel Zstd Due To Embarrassingly Bad Inefficiency
Patches sent out to the Linux kernel mailing list today can provide much more efficient Zstd compression and decompression by addressing a very unfortunate oversight in the existing code… ⌘ Read more
Linux 7.3 KSMBD Adds Interoperability For Apple Time Machine Backups
KSMBD as the in-kernel SMB3/CIFS server for higher performance and lower resource usage than user-space SMB/CIFS protocol implementations is becoming even more useful with the in-development Linux 7.3 kernel… ⌘ Read more
Xbox’s New Disc-to-Digital Program Gives Physical Games a Digital Future
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: For decades, console owners have faced a choice between the convenience of digital downloads and the permanence of physical game discs. Soon, Xbox owners will be able to get the best of both worlds for thousands of supported titles as part of a newly announced disc-to-digital … ⌘ Read more
Amazon to Acquire DuckLabs, Adding the Team Behind DuckDB
Amazon has agreed to acquire DuckLabs, bringing the team behind the popular open-source DuckDB database into AWS. “The deal fits Amazon’s broader push to turn S3, its flagship cloud storage service, into a place where customers analyze data rather than just store it,” reports GeekWire. “It gives Amazon a team experienced in building fast, lightweight anal … ⌘ Read more
1047 Games stop development on EMPULSE and SPLITGATE: Arena Reloaded
One fumble after another for 1047 Games. They’ve announced today that they’re ending development on both EMPULSE and SPLITGATE: Arena Reloaded.
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Dead by Daylight will be testing out Denuvo Anti-Cheat and other systems soon
Dead by Daylight, my current online co-op fixation to play with the partner, is set for some changes with the anti-cheat systems.
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Meta Reaches $18 Billion of Settlements Over Children’s Social Media Addiction
Meta has agreed to pay up to $18 billion and make major changes to Facebook and Instagram to settle claims from most U.S. states that the platforms were designed to addict children and misled users about their safety. For the next decade, teens will be limited to two hours a day and blocked from using the apps between mid … ⌘ Read more
Alien Deathstorm from Rebellion has a new trailer and release set for Spring 2027
Alien Deathstorm from Rebellion is an upcoming action-adventure from the developers of Sniper Elite, Aliens versus Predator and much more.
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Intel Granite Rapids WS Core Scaling Performance With The Xeon 678X
Last week I provided a look at the Intel Xeon 600 series Hyper Threading performance with the Xeon 678X “Granite Rapids WS” processor for HT/SMT on and off. That was interesting while another reader request was to look at the CPU core scaling performance for this high-end workstation processor. Here are those benchmarks for showing the performance, power, and frequency/thermal impact of the Xeon 678X when limited to 6 cores, 12 cores, 24 cores, … ⌘ Read more
Firefox 157 Will Include JPEG XL By Default On All Platforms
Mozilla plans to enable JPEG XL decoding by default in Firefox 157, which is due at the end of September. Phoronix reports: Firefox Nightly has JPEG-XL support enabled by default right now to help in vetting this support while Mozilla believes the support is in good enough shape for a stable debut with Firefox 157. This follows Chrome shipping JPEG-XL an … ⌘ Read more
VR co-op heist game PAYDAY: Aces High is being ‘developed for Steam Frame’
PAYDAY: Aces High is a full standalone VR spin-off from the PAYDAY franchise, and the developers have confirmed it’s being readied for the Steam Frame.
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Haiku R1 Beta 6 Released After Two Years, BeOS-Inspired Project Turns 25 Next Week
Haiku R1 Beta 5 came out in September 2026 while out today is the long-awaited sixth beta for this open-source operating system inspired by BeOS. This beta release also comes one week ahead of the project’s 25th anniversary… ⌘ Read more
Chinese Government Fears AI Might Replace Human Intimacy
China has imposed new restrictions on AI companion services over concerns they can foster “emotional dependence or addiction” and replace real-world social interaction. Officials are also worried that increasingly satisfying AI relationships could deepen loneliness and further discourage marriage and parenthood. The Guardian reports: No country has rolled out AI … ⌘ Read more
AMD Proposes New LLVM iTHP Option For Squeezing More Performance
AMD’s compiler team is proposing a new LLVM Clang compiler option, -fenable-readonly-thp for implementing instruction Transparent Huge Pages “iTHP” at compile and link-time. With -fenable-readonly-thp, they are finding more performance out of SPEC CPU, Geekbench, and other workloads from the arranging of 2MB segment alignment at link time and allowing the executable text range can be promoted to huge pages… ⌘ Read more
Hollywood Hustle: A Prop Collector Simulator has a fun idea for a scavenging clean-up sim
There’s masses of these tidy-up games appearing but Hollywood Hustle: A Prop Collector Simulator looks like one actually worth playing.
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Fedora + Tuned-PPD Performance Regression Should Be Fixed With New Linux Kernel
Earlier this month when benchmarking six Linux distributions on the new Framework Laptop 13 Pro powered by Intel Core Ultra Series 3 “Panther Lake”, the performance was strangely slow on Fedora Workstation 44. When digging further into it, the performance loss was with Fedora 44 using Tuned-PPD by default where as other Linux distributions default to Power Profiles Daemon. Ultimately, after Red Hat engineers got involved, was found t … ⌘ Read more
Blood Dungeon review
Blood Dungeon brings the worlds of challenging platformers and bullet-heaven survivor-likes together in a fresh and fun package with silly artwork.
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Intel Introduces New “BFF” Linux Driver To Deal With Aging Silicon & Stuck Bits
Intel is preparing to introduce a new Linux driver named “BFF” for dealing with aging processor silicon where bits may become stuck over time… ⌘ Read more
Yet Another Zombie Survivors review
Yet Another Zombie Survivors might not have the fanciest name around - but is this pretty much bullet heaven perfection?
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Linux 7.3 FUSE Delivering Nice Performance Improvements
The Linux kernel’s FUSE code for enabling file-systems in user-space is enjoying some nice speed boosts with the in-development Linux 7.3 kernel… ⌘ Read more
LibreOffice 26.8 Released With Many Nice Improvements
LibreOffice 26.8 is now available as the latest half-year feature update to this leading open-source alternative to Microsoft Office… ⌘ Read more
Scientists May Have Figured Out Why Dead Brains Don’t Always Rot
fahrbot-bot shares a report from Smithsonian Magazine: The brain is one of the first organs to begin decomposing after death. Yet archaeologists have discovered more than 4,400 preserved human brains around the world, some of which have remained intact for the last 12,000 years. In hundreds of cases, the brain was the only soft tissue left amon … ⌘ Read more