China’s YouTube Rival Bilibili Is Going Global
Bilibili, often described as China’s answer to YouTube, is relaunching its international app and preparing an English-language site as part of a broader push into the U.S., Europe, Japan, and other markets. The company is courting Western creators like MrBest, hiring community and moderation staff globally, and building tools for brand partnerships. Semafor reports: The revamped inte … ⌘ Read more
Watching TikTok Videos and Instagram Reels Deactivates the Brain’s Cognitive Control Network
An anonymous reader quotes a report from RathBiotaClan: Millions of people finish short video after short video every day; a new brain-scan study shows that the very act of finishing a clip they like temporarily quiets the brain regions that normally help them stay focused and weigh longer-te … ⌘ Read more
Ukrainian Publishers Call For Support After Russian Attacks Destroy 10 Million Books
Russian attacks on Ukrainian publishing infrastructure in July and August destroyed roughly 10 million books, which equates to about 30% of Ukraine’s annual book output. The Ukrainian Book Institute is warning of a potential “collapse of the entire book ecosystem” and is calling for international financial a … ⌘ Read more
Linux 7.3 Network Changes Merged But Developers “Completely Overwhelmed” Due To AI/LLMs
All of the networking subsystem feature updates were merged today for the Linux 7.3 kernel’s merge window. There are a lot of wired and wireless networking improvements this cycle but also a ton of bug fixes – including many not so important fixes spun up by AI/LLM agents. The networking subsystem maintainers admit now they are “completely overwhelmed” due to this code churn from the output of AI large language models… ⌘ Read more
Voters Aren’t Waiting For November to Try Ousting Officials Over Data Centers
A growing backlash against AI data centers is spilling into local politics, with residents in more than a dozen communities pushing recall elections against officials who approved projects. “People are standing up and saying, ‘Sorry, we don’t want these data centers in our communities for a number of reasons,’” Senato … ⌘ Read more
Agent 64: Spies Never Die is pure retro FPS nostalgia bait
Designed to be very much like a slightly more modern version of the Nintendo 64’s classic GoldenEye - this is well and truly nostalgia bait.
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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
YouTube Offers Creators Millions of Dollars to Stay Off Netflix
Bloomberg reports that YouTube is offering major creators millions of dollars to keep some content exclusive to its platform as Netflix increasingly signs YouTube-native talent to non-exclusive deals. YouTube has also warned that creators who simultaneously publish on Netflix could lose marketing support, event opportunities, and access to revenue … ⌘ Read more
Rust 1.98 Adds Algebraic Floating-Point Methods Akin To “-ffast-math”
Rust 1.98 released today and is headlined the debut of new algebraic floating-point methods… ⌘ 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
Reverse-Lookup Service Exposed Millions of Photos of People’s Faces
Security researcher Jeremiah Fowler found that people-search service ClarityCheck left more than 9 million image files accessible in an unsecured Amazon S3 bucket, despite advertising its reverse-image search as “private and secure.” A separate misconfiguration also exposed email addresses, phone numbers, and other personal information. Wired … ⌘ Read more
Bethesda finally fix the Skyrim Special Edition on-screen keyboard crashing SteamOS / Steam Deck
A new update from Bethesda has rolled out for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition, and much like with Fallout 4, they finally fixed an annoying bug.
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KDE Software Now Has Stable Btrfs Snapshot Integration With KIO-Snapshot 1.0
With today’s release of KIO-Snapshot, KDE software now has stable integration of Btrfs file-system snapshots… ⌘ Read more
FCC Abolishes Gigabit Speed Goal, Suggesting It Is Unfair To Slower Technologies
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The Federal Communications Commission last week eliminated the gigabit speed goal established during the Biden administration and declared that current levels of broadband deployment in the US are acceptable. Though fiber networks have routinely offered such s … ⌘ Read more
Japan to Require AI Firms to Disclose Training Data
Japan is preparing a nonbinding “comply or explain” code that would urge generative AI companies, including foreign firms operating in Japan, to disclose what models they use, what training data they rely on, and how that data was collected. The proposal would also let rights holders ask whether specific webpages were included in training datasets. The Japan Times reports: … ⌘ Read more
Intel Hyper Threading Performance On The Xeon 678X “Granite Rapids-WS”
With the Intel Xeon 678X “Granite Rapids WS” processor that I have been recently testing within the HP Z4 G6i workstation, there are 48 cores plus with Hyper Threading is a total of 96 threads for this high-end workstation processor with a 300 Watt TDP. For those curious about the performance impact of HT/SMT on this Intel Xeon 600 series workstation processor, here are some comparison benchmarks. ⌘ 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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SKINFACE is a gruesome stealth game where you steal faces
SKINFACE is a gruesome upcoming horror-thriller where you become a faceless hitman with a special skill: stealing people’s faces.
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FSCRYPT Sees Cleanup With Linux 7.3 To Open Door For More Features Like Btrfs Encryption
FSCRYPT is the Linux file-system encryption framework for supporting per-directory, transparent encryption. FSCRYPT so far is used by the likes of EXT4, F2FS, and CephFS. For Linux 7.3 there is an important clean-up to the FSCRYPT code to simplify it while also opening the door for new features moving forward into future kernel versions… ⌘ Read more
Linux Driver Posted For The PreSonus Quantum 2626: A ~$700 Thunderbolt Audio Interface
The PreSonus Quantum 2626 is a high-end, Thunderbolt 3 based audio interface. PreSonus just maintains Windows and macOS drivers for this high-end audio interface while now an open-source Linux driver has been posted after being independently developed via reverse engineering… ⌘ Read more
RPM 6.1 Released With Clang Build Fixes, New Release Model
RPM 6.1 is out today as the newest feature release for this package management system. With RPM 6.1 comes a number of features and improvements as well as a new release model… ⌘ Read more
New Study Challenges Common Assumptions About Screen Time For Kids
bryanandaimee shares a report from ScienceDaily: A Finnish study has found an unexpected association between screen use and cognitive performance. Children who accumulated more screen time as they grew up tended to show better cognitive processing during adolescence. One of the researchers cautions against viewing screen time as entirely … ⌘ Read more
Linux 7.3 Cleans Up The Code For Disabling Of Legacy 32-bit Time Support
The Linux kernel has supported the CONFIG_COMPAT_32BIT_TIME Kconfig build time option for optionally disabling of legacy 32-bit time system call support. This is intended to disable the code that uses a 32-bit integer for time that is thus not Year 2038 safe, but at the cost of breaking compatibility for legacy 32-bit applications. Even if building without Linux 32-bit time support, it turns out some 32-bit time code persisted but that … ⌘ Read more
Monke bullet heaven survivor-like chaos will come in 2027 with Gorilla Tag Contagion
The very popular VR game Gorilla Tag is getting a spin-off for PC and consoles named Gorilla Tag Contagion, a co-op survival roguelite.
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KDE Gear 26.08 Delivers The Latest KDE App Experience
KDE Gear 26.08 was released today to deliver the latest collection of KDE application updates… ⌘ Read more
The impressive Sandustry already hit 100K sales with an early multiplayer mod out now
Released only a week ago, publisher Hooded Horse sent word that Sandustry has managed to hit over 100K sales already which is mighty impressive.
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Live-action sci-fi horror game PRECOGNITION sounds rad from Sam Barlow
PRECOGNITION is the latest from Immortality and Her Story creator, Sam Barlow. a cinematic sci-fi horror game featuring live-action sequences.
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The Loopler is a roguelite deckbuilder about a slot car driving in mesmerizing loops
You love a good numbers-go-up dopamine hit right? How about with a slot car driving in loops while you power it up with game-changing cards.
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Space bullet heaven roguelike Sublight arrives September 15
With a demo I really liked and played a lot of, the space bullet heaven roguelike Sublight is set to warp into Early Access on September 15th.
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Dominocalypse brings some clever ideas to puzzle roguelikes with dominoes
Dominocalypse clearly takes some inspiration from Balatro and many other score-chasing roguelikes, but the dominoes spin is pretty darn clever.
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Dumb Ways to Build brings some funny co-op from Dumb Ways to Die on September 10
From the Dumb Ways to Die team, they revealed Dumb Ways to Build - a chaotic physics-based co-op game filled with deadly construction jobs.
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Rescue Mission Is Called Off For NASA’s Aging Swift Space Telescope
NASA has called off a $30 million mission to rescue its aging Swift space telescope after Katalyst Space’s Link spacecraft developed persistent control and positioning problems. The Associated Press reports: Katalyst said Link will not attempt to capture Swift and boost it to a higher orbit because of problems with controlling the spacecr … ⌘ Read more
Whistleblower Arturo Bejar Leads Testimony In Landmark Trial Against Meta
An anonymous reader quotes a report from NPR: Meta was infused with a culture in which employees obsessed over user numbers and consistently pushed safety to the side, according to Arturo Bejar, a former employee turned whistleblower, who testified today in the landmark child safety trial against the social media company. Only o … ⌘ Read more
X.Org Server 26.1 RC1 Prepares For First Feature Release In Five Years
Following today’s release of XWayland 26.1 RC1, X.Org Server 26.1 RC1 was tagged. This xorg-server 26.1 release is aiming to become the first major feature release in five years, succeeding the xorg-server 21.1 series… ⌘ Read more
EXT4 Preps More Performance Improvements For Linux 7.3
In addition to the IOmap improvements helping EXT4 performance in Linux 7.3, the main EXT4 feature pull request has now been submitted for this next kernel version. That pull is set to land yet more performance optimizations for EXT4… ⌘ Read more
PINE64 Halts Linux Device Production Amid DRAM and EMMC Shortages
BrianFagioli writes: PINE64 has some very bad news for Linux hardware fans. PINE64 says it has no plans to produce additional Linux devices in the near future because of the ongoing DRAM and eMMC shortage. Future production will depend on component pricing after mid 2027, while existing PineNote and PineTab2 inventory could run out in rough … ⌘ Read more
Stripe Buys AI Startup OpenRouter For $7.5 Billion
Stripe is acquiring AI model marketplace OpenRouter as it pushes beyond payments into the infrastructure behind AI applications. According to The New York Times, the deal is reportedly valued at about $7.5 billion, with $1.5 billion allocated to OpenRouter’s founders. Less than three months ago the company was valued at about $1.3 billion. CNBC reports: OpenRouter has become … ⌘ Read more
Amazon’s Drones Will Soon Deliver to Nearly 500 US Cities and Towns
Amazon says its Prime Air drone delivery service will expand sixfold to nearly 500 U.S. cities and towns by the end of 2026, including metro areas around Chicago, Syracuse, Cleveland, Atlanta, and Boise. According to Amazon Prime Air vice president David Carbon, the service has already delivered “hundreds of thousands of packages to customer … ⌘ Read more
Two Very Exciting Memory Management Optimizations Going Into Linux 7.3
Andrew Morton on Tuesday sent out all of the memory management “MM” updates for the Linux 7.3 merge window. The MM pull was particularly heavy as he noted 1,250 “added-to-MM” emails were sent out this cycle compared to 920 the prior cycle. With a lot of patch churn, he also turned to Google’s Gemini AI for writing his patch summaries. In going through the very verbose AI-generated summary, there are two patch series that get me excited on the performance … ⌘ Read more
Music Publisher Round Hill Files $1 Billion Copyright Infringement Suits Against Suno, Anthropic
Independent music publisher Round Hill is suing Suno and Anthropic for allegedly using hundreds of copyrighted songs without permission to train their AI systems. The company says potential damages could exceed $1 billion, arguing there is “nothing fair” about building multibillion-doll … ⌘ Read more
CISA: Medusa Ransomware Hit Over 500 Critical Infrastructure Orgs
CISA says the Medusa ransomware operation has breached more than 500 U.S. critical infrastructure organizations since 2021, up from more than 300 reported last year. The group has targeted healthcare, government, defense, manufacturing, IT and financial organizations, evolving into a ransomware-as-a-service operation that recruits initial-access b … ⌘ Read more
Cinematic puzzle-platforming comedy LIFTED is a delightful short adventure
LIFTED is a family-friendly and quite funny cinematic platforming adventure that recently released with Native Linux support.
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Go Language 1.27 Adds Generic Methods, Struct Improvement & More SIMD
Go 1.27 was released today as the newest version of this programming language from Google’s Go team… ⌘ Read more
Moderna, Merck Say mRNA Vaccine Prevents Melanoma From Returning
Moderna and Merck say their personalized mRNA melanoma vaccine significantly reduced both cancer recurrence and spread in a late-stage trial. The treatment could reach patients as soon as next year if regulators approve it. Reuters reports: Moderna developed the vaccine with Merck and tested it together with immunotherapy drug Keytruda, a widel … ⌘ Read more
Btrfs Ready With More Performance Improvements For Linux 7.3: Some ~3x To ~5x Wins
David Sterba of SUSE sent in the Btrfs file-system feature updates today that target the Linux 7.3 merge window. Among other changes are more performance improvements for this next version of the Linux kernel… ⌘ Read more
X’s Algorithm Feeds Off Ragebait and Impacts Democrats More, Study Finds
An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: X’s algorithm learns what you hate and shows you more of it, according to a new study just published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). The paper, titled Value misalignment of X’s feed algorithm is a reflection of value tensions in engagement, found … ⌘ Read more
Army Unit Offers 4-Day Pass to Play GTA VI As Reenlistment Incentive
A U.S. Army battalion at Fort Stewart is offering soldiers a four-day pass timed to the release of Grand Theft Auto VI if they reenlist for at least two years. The program is limited to one unit for now, but it fits the Army’s broader effort to appeal to gamers as a recruiting and retention pool. CBS News reports: Twenty soldiers at Fort … ⌘ Read more
Roguelike assassination game ‘Gone Feral’ sounds hilarious
Playable solo or in co-op, you will improvise and use anything you can find to assassinate your targets of revenge in this roguelike game.
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Chinese Robotics Giant Unitree Soars In Stock Market Debut
Chinese robotics giant Unitree surged more than 600% in its Shanghai stock market debut, marking the first mainland Chinese listing by a humanoid robot maker and a major milestone for Beijing’s robotics ambitions. The BBC reports: Unitree, officially known as Yushu Technology Co Ltd, was founded in 2016 and now plays a key role in Beijing’s ambitions to … ⌘ Read more
XWayland 26.1 RC1 Released With Many New Features
Olivier Fourdan of Red Hat announced today the first release candidate of XWayland 26.1. This is the first new tagged feature release since XWayland 24.1 back in 2024! As such there are many new features in tow… ⌘ Read more