Lemonade Fixes AMD APU Model Streaming, Drops OpenMOSS ROCm As ~40x Slower Than Vulkan
The AMD-aligned Lemonade open-source project for serving as a local AI server released 2026.39.1 today as well as issuing a release candidate of 2026.40 as their next release. Besides adapting to a new versioning scheme, the Lemonade SDK updates today bring a few notable changes… ⌘ Read more
Andreessen Horowitz Launches AI/Company-Building School As a College Alternative
TechCrunch quipped it was like if startup school Y Combinator and Peter Thiel’s build-a-company-instead of-college Fellowship Program had a baby. Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz is investing $35 million to launch a private school in San Francisco “aimed at turning high school graduates into f … ⌘ Read more
Intel Developing Their DXVK-IGDEXT For Improved Linux Gaming On Arc Graphics
Intel engineers have been quietly developing dxvk-igdext as their own component for DXVK Direct3D 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 atop the Vulkan API for leveraging Intel Direct3D 11 Graphics Extensions… ⌘ Read more
Benchmarking Java Performance Of JDK 8 Through OpenJDK 27
With the recent release of Java/OpenJDK 27 I began some fresh benchmarks in not having looked at the OpenJDK Java performance in a few years. Carried away, I ended up re-testing all the major OpenJDK versions going back to the venerable JDK 8. ⌘ Read more
NTFS-3G Update Brings Many Security Fixes
NTFS-3G 2026.9.18 was released this morning as the newest update to this FUSE-based open-source driver for NTFS file-system support… ⌘ 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
O.B.O.L is a horror game where you bet your life on a coin flip
Like your smaller and more unusual horror experiences? O.B.O.L is a new release that sees you coin flip for your life against a mysterious old man.
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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
Funny physics platformer Barely Breathing adds a little Linux Easter Egg
Barely Breathing is an upcoming fishy physics platformer that looks really funny, with a demo available - and they just added a little Linux Easter Egg.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/funny-physics-platformer-barely-breathing-adds-a-little-linux … ⌘ Read more
AMD Upstreams AVX10_V2_AUX Support Into LLVM Clang 24
In addition to AMD working on AVX10_V2_AUX support for the GCC compiler, this summer they also posted AVX10_V2_AUX support for the LLVM/Clang compiler. As of yesterday that enablement was merged for LLVM 24 for that important step toward AI Compute Extensions (ACE)… ⌘ Read more
Counter-Strike 2 adds an intense fast-paced 3v3 ‘Rush’ game mode
This new Rush mode might be my favourite way to play Counter-Strike 2, giving you a faster-paced experience with shorter matches.
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Linux 7.3 Reverting Logitech Bolt Receiver HID++ After Too Many Bugs Encountered
Merged at the start of the Linux 7.3 kernel cycle was adding Logitech Bolt USB receiver support for Logitech HID++ devices to the hid-logitech-dj driver code. That has resulted in too many bug reports of early Linux 7.3 users encountering varying issues with their Logitech mice that the functionality is now being reverted until it can be better developed… ⌘ Read more
Guide: Steam Deck / Steam Machine / SteamOS game won’t launch: how to fix games that won’t start
Having trouble with games not launching on a SteamOS device like the Steam Deck, Steam Machine or Steam Frame? Here’s some steps you can take.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/guides/view/steam-deck-steam-machine-steamo … ⌘ Read more
Respect The Horde playtest adds Native Linux and controller support
Respect The Horde mixes together survival, tower defense and horde games to interesting effect - and now it has a Native Linux playtest.
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Beat Saber gets a first discount on Steam - ready up for the Steam Frame
When I eventually get my hands on the Steam Frame, it will most likely end up as a Beat Saber machine. You can join me too, with a first discount on it.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/beat-saber-gets-a-first-discount-on-steam-ready-up-for-the-steam … ⌘ Read more
NVIDIA recommended stable driver 595.104.02 released for Linux
NVIDIA just released another small update to their recommended stable driver series with version 595.104.02 now available.
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Microsoft Helps Take Down Massive Automated, AI-Powered Phishing-as-a-Service Platform
Microsoft’s security blog describes the fight against a new “AI-powered cybercrime platform” offering phishing-as-a-service, with AI-tailored lures and analyses of compromised inboxes (to identify high-value targets). The site compromised more than 12,000 inboxes in over 10,000 organizations around the wo … ⌘ Read more
SteamOS 3.8.28 Beta released, plus another Steam Client Beta with Remote Play: Pyrowave fixes
Valve just released SteamOS 3.8.28 Beta, along with a Steam Client Beta for all platforms with more fixes.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/steamos-3-8-28-beta-released-plus-another-steam-client-beta-with-remote-play-pyrowav … ⌘ Read more
Trump Denounces Attempts to Control AI, Wants It Renamed ‘Super Intelligence’ in US Documents
U.S. President Trump addressed the United Nations on Tuesday. And a half hour in, after decrying immigration, Trump pivoted to add that “The United States also totally rejects any attempt to construct a globalist scheme to control for the artificial intelligence being spoken of so much no … ⌘ Read more
Open-Source NVIDIA “Nouveau” Driver Sees Patches For HDMI Deep Color Support
The Nouveau Linux kernel graphics driver for open-source NVIDIA driver support has new patches posted for enabling HDMI Deep Color support… ⌘ Read more
Are Students Suddenly Losing Interest in Computer Science as AI Coding Takes Off?
On academic mentoring platform Nova Learning, Computer Science and AI, “once the dominant choice among students… is losing ground fast, while Engineering has nearly doubled its share.” It’s a small survey, but “The steepest proportional decline is in Software & Data Science, the most traditional ‘learn to code’ … ⌘ Read more
Linux 7.2 vs. Linux 7.3 Shows A Few Improvements With AMD Strix Halo
Last week I ran some benchmarks showing performance gains for AMD Ryzen AI Max+ “Strix Halo” on Ubuntu 26.10. Then shortly after that testing on its daily state, which used the Linux 7.2 kernel, Canonical switched to Linux 7.3 as the Ubuntu 26.10 kernel. Here are some Linux 7.2 vs. Linux 7.3 benchmarks for the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 “Strix Halo” with the Framework Desktop… ⌘ Read more
Ubuntu Linux Maker Canonical Achieved $345M USD In Revenue For 2025
In 2024 Canonical generated nearly $300M USD in revenue for this company behind Ubuntu Linux and other services and software solutions. For 2025, they not only broke $300M but well exceeded it with $345M in revenue… ⌘ Read more
‘Coyote vs. Acme’ Outgrosses All But 3 WB Movies This Year, Heads To Profit
The movie Coyote vs. Acme earned more than Warner Bros.’ $30 million tax write-off in just two weeks. And last week the movie officially earned more than its production budget of $70 million. But today the movie passed the $100 million mark. “You asked for it, we delivered, and you showed up!” distributor Ketchum Entert … ⌘ Read more
JSAUX launch the E-Ink and Pixel Matrix Faceplates for Steam Machine
More Steam Machine modding customization is here, with the launch of the JSAUX E-Ink and Pixel Matrix Faceplates.
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XBOX lays off hundreds more, Activision takes over Halo and more changes
More big news coming out of Microsoft / XBOX today, with their big reset continuing with hundreds more staff being let go along with studio shuffles.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/xbox-lays-off-hundreds-more-activision-takes-over-halo-and-more-c … ⌘ Read more
Variable Refresh Rate “VRR” Target Limiter Proposed For Linux Graphics Drivers
A new proposal being discussed is introducing a Linux user-space API to be able to specify frame rate targets for Variable Refresh Rate (VRR) handling on the Linux desktop… ⌘ Read more
SPEC Releases SPECviewperf 15.0.1 For Linux
SPEC back in May 2025 introduced SPECViewPerf 15 as the newest major release of this industry-standard workstation graphics benchmark. Sadly, the Linux support once again fell behind with SPECViewPerf 15 only debuting on Microsoft Windows. Today though Linux has caught up with SPEC releasing a Linux-native build of SPECViewPerf 15.0.1… ⌘ Read more
systemd 262 Released With AI/LLM Canary For Unreviewed Code, LUO Integration
Systemd 262 made it out today as the newest feature update to this Linux init system and service manager. As with most systemd releases, it’s heavy on new features and functionality… ⌘ Read more
Vibe Coded YSERVER Adds XDMCP Support For Multi-User Shared Desktops
The open-source YSERVER project as a modern X11 sever written in the Rust programming language with the help of Claude Code is out today with a new feature release. Most notable for this AI Rust X11 server is X Display Manager Control Protocol (XDMCP) support for multi-user shared desktops… ⌘ Read more
Pentagon Investigators Say Overreliance on Palantir AI Contributed to US Strike That Killed 123 Iranian Children
Two U.S. missiles hit an elementary school in Iran, killing over 150 people including 123 children on the first day of the Iran War. But Gizmodo notes that a new Bloomberg investigation cites U.S. officials involved in an unreleased internal Pentagon r … ⌘ 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
Linux 7.3 Adding Logitech G502 X Lightspeed USB Support, ELECOM M-XT4DRBK
Sent out today was a new HID subsystem pull request of fixes for the week to the Linux 7.3 kernel. Besides some conventional bug fixes are also supporting some additional devices via quirks and new IDs… ⌘ Read more
Promotion Reminder For Ad-Free Viewing, Multi-Page Articles On A Single Page
As a friendly reminder in case you missed it from over the weekend, the Phoronix autumn “Oktoberfest” premium sale is taking place through the rest of this week for those wishing to help support the site while enjoying ad-free viewing, multi-page articles rendered on a single page, and other benefits while helping for the site to survive and continue producing daily original content… ⌘ Read more
First-person horror flight sim ‘The Hollowing’ revealed by the Lorn’s Lure developer
The Hollowing is an atmospheric first-person horror flight sim where you fly alone across a mist-shrouded Megastructure, from the Lorn’s Lure developer.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/first-person-horror-flight-sim-the-hollo … ⌘ Read more
Classic physics-based browser game Happy Wheels gets revived on Steam
Happy Wheels is a game all about getting from A to B, and failing constantly while creating a rather amusing bloody mess.
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Cache Aware Scheduling Fixes Queued For Submission To Linux 7.3, Backporting To 7.2
Later this week it looks like the latest round of Cache Aware Scheduling fixes will be merged for enhancing this kernel scheduler functionality for grouping related tasks together on CPU cores that share the same last level cache (LLC). Cache Aware Scheduling can lead to better cache locality and lower latency by avoiding the costs of potential cache bouncing – that is when bugs don’t get in the way… ⌘ Read more
Linux Adding New Interface For Reporting AMD SEV Status
A convenient addition that surprisingly hasn’t been added to the Linux kernel until now is /sys/devices/system/cpu/sev/sev_status as a new sysfs interface for reporting the AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) status… ⌘ Read more
ZLUDA Now Implements Some NVIDIA cuFFT APIs With hipFFT
ZLUDA as the open-source project working on CUDA for non-NVIDIA GPUs like AMD Radeon graphics cards now has implemented support for some of NVIDIA’s core cuFFT APIs… ⌘ Read more
KDE developers’ attempts at creating LLM guidelines are not going well
It seems the KDE developers want to allow some use of generative AI / LLMs, as they’re working on a policy of guidelines for it.
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You absolutely have to play Mechabellum as it now has a free edition
Mechabellum is an auto-battler that’s a bit like future space chess in a way, it has some truly epic battles and just had a massive upgrade with a free edition.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/you-absolutely-have-to-play-mechabellum-as-it-now-has-a-free-ed … ⌘ Read more
Google Opens Preorders for Its $899 Gemini-Enhanced ‘Googlebook’ Laptops
Monday Google opened preorders for its “Googlebook” laptops, pricing them at $899. A Google’s blog post added that “At launch, you can choose between Intel Core Ultra Series 3 and Snapdragon X Elite processors” (paired with NPUs to power AI features).
“Devices will hit shelves on October 4 in the U.S. and on October 5 in Canada, the … ⌘ Read more
Here’s some of the best VR games released on Steam in 2026 so far
Here’s some of the highest-rated VR games released on Steam in 2026. Helping you get ready for the SteamOS Linux powered Steam Frame.
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Steam Beta adds experimental new Pyrowave video codec for Remote Play
Valve released a fresh Steam Beta for all platforms which now includes their own experimental new Pyrowave video codec for Remote Play.
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Meta’s New ‘Personal AI Agent’ Muse Beats ChatGPT in Downloads - and Get Blocked by Amazon
Meta’s AI “personal agent” Muse overtook ChatGPT as the #1 iOS free app in the U.S. on Friday, reports CNBC — and it’s still showing more downloads as of Monday night.
Muse now has over 2.5 million downloads since its debut less than two weeks ago, according to analytics firm Sensor Tower…
[Mu … ⌘ Read more
Valve Introduces Pyrowave Video Codec In Beta For Low Latency Streaming
Valve’s Steam client beta today introduced Pyrowave as an experimental video codec for high bandwidth, low-latency video streaming… ⌘ Read more
Paramount Skydance ‘Emerges Victorious’, Finally Wins Settlement for Warner Bros Takeover
Paramount Skydance just “emerged victorious” reports Reuters, “from a legal battle over its $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery” that will “dramatically concentrate power across Hollywood’s film, TV, streaming and news businesses.”
The victory comes “after settling with a Calif … ⌘ Read more
AMD Begins Preparing Open-Source Linux Driver For Graphics Cards With GDDR7
AMD sent out their latest Linux kernel graphics driver patches today for enabling some new hardware IP blocks. And as part of that, preparing for GDDR7 video memory with the AMDGPU driver… ⌘ Read more
Gravity Linux Aims To Provide A Nice Experience For Apple M4 & Newer
There’s a new Linux distribution focused on supporting Linux on Apple Silicon Macs. Gravity Linux is this new distribution that is a spin of Fedora Remix and is catering to the still-experimentally-supported Apple M4 Macs and newer. In addition to leveraging Asahi Linux code and reverse engineering, Gravity Linux also leverages OpenAI Codex and Claude Code… ⌘ Read more
As KDE Turns 30, Contributors and Commits are Going Strong
“In a few weeks, KDE will turn 30 years old,” writes core contributor Kevin Ottens, celebrating with some special KDE community data analytics (including a 30-year graph of the number of contributors):
It peaks around 180 on average (and sometimes reaches towards around 200 people) then shrinks again hitting bottom around 110 persons on average in 2017… Si … ⌘ Read more