Hell Let Loose: Vietnam arrives on Steam and works on SteamOS / Linux
The tactical online shooter Hell Let Loose: Vietnam from Expression Games / Team17 has now officially launched and it does thankfully work on SteamOS / Linux.
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Slackware-Based Zenwalk Linux Aims For “True Low Latency Desktop Experience”
It’s been a long time since hearing much out of the Zenwalk project, the Linux distribution built off Slackware. It’s still around though and with their latest kernel work are hoping for a “true low latency desktop experience” by employing the BORE scheduler… ⌘ Read more
System Shock VR, High On Life VR and more from the VR Games Showcase
We’re getting some fun VR treats that were announced during the recent VR Games Showcase - now I just need Valve to release the damn Steam Frame.
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The “bullet-proof KDE Software initiative” announced, bringing a proper long-term support to KDE Plasma
Kubuntu Focus, Techpaladin Software, and KDE e.V. together announced the “bullet-proof KDE Software initiative” with funding for a true KDE Plasma LTS release.
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Epic Games Store will get a Linux version sometime “soon”
Epic Games recently did an AMA (Ask me anything) in the community Discord server, confirming that a Linux / SteamOS version of the Epic Games Store is coming.
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Scientists Turn Starlink Into a Giant Scanner For Earth’s Upper Atmosphere
alternative_right shares a report from ScienceDaily: Researchers have found a clever new way to map a part of Earth’s upper atmosphere that is notoriously difficult to observe. Using orbital data from roughly 1,200 Starlink satellites, they reconstructed changes in atmospheric density about 500 kilometers above Earth. [… … ⌘ Read more
UK Scientists To Grow Miniature Human Organs For Drug Testing
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Miniature human organs and other tissues are to be grown from NHS patients’ cells in a drive to improve medicine testing and reduce the number of animals used in drug development. Scientists will use the clumps of tissue to learn how diseases vary between patients, helping them identify which tr … ⌘ Read more
AMD GAIA 0.23 Delivers Ability To Install/Run AI Agents From The Terminal
AMD’s GAIA open-source AI software built atop Lemonade for serving as an AI companion for emails, a Bash coding agent, and other AI agent skills is out with a new version today with more features while also improving security and making other improvements… ⌘ Read more
Microsoft Retreats In China
Microsoft has been steadily scaling back its China presence, closing at least 15 branch offices and joint ventures over the past five years as Beijing favors domestic software. U.S. export controls also make it harder to grow its cloud and AI businesses, leaving the market with relatively little economic upside. Reuters reports: Microsoft took a major hit from the erosion of trust between Washington and Beijing, the fi … ⌘ Read more
Google’s Gemini 3.7 Flash Targets Coding and Agents With a 50% Price Cut
Google has released Gemini 3.7 Flash just three weeks after 3.6 Flash, focusing on better coding, agentic workflows, and enterprise automation while temporarily cutting API prices in half through the end of 2026. VentureBeat reports: For enterprise developers, the more consequential story may be the combination of those intellig … ⌘ Read more
Microsoft Is Combining Its Copilot Apps Ahead of a ‘Super App’
Microsoft is merging its consumer Copilot and Microsoft 365 Copilot apps ahead of a broader “super app” launch later this year. “Both personal and work accounts will be moved to the new unified app, which recycles the ‘Microsoft Copilot’ name but features an updated app icon,” reports The Verge. “The single app also means there won’t be two annoying Copilot … ⌘ Read more
KDE, Techpaladin & Kubuntu Focus Announce The Bullet-Proof KDE Software Initiative
KDE e.V. along with Linux PC vendor Kubuntu Focus and KDE-aligned consulting firm Techpaladin Software have announced a collaboration of the “bullet-proof KDE Software initiative” for providing at least three years of bug fixes and security updates to KDE Plasma 6.6 LTS and related software… ⌘ Read more
Amazon Will Train On Twitch Streamers’ Content By Default, Unless They Opt Out
Twitch will begin allowing Amazon to use streamers’ content to train generative AI models by default, requiring creators to manually opt out if they don’t want their videos and audio included. The decision has drawn backlash from creators, with Twitch’s own product chief acknowledging that an opt-in system would likely … ⌘ Read more
The Best Linux 7.2 Features: Cache Aware Scheduling, AMD Zen 6, AMDGPU HDMI 2.1 FRL
With the Linux 7.2 kernel expected to be released on Sunday, 16 August, here is a look at some of the most interesting new features and changes to find with this next kernel version to be used by Ubuntu 26.10 and other upcoming Linux distribution releases… ⌘ Read more
Updated Coreboot/Dasharo For MSI PRO Z690-A / Z790-P Motherboards, Adds Overclocking
In addition to 3mdeb providing their Coreboot-based Dasharo built atop AMD openSIL on a Gigabyte EPYC server motherboard and recently making their first Dasharo release for an AMD Ryzen AM5 platform with the MSI PRO B850-P WIFI, the firmware consulting firm today released updated versions of their MSI PRO Z690-A and MSI PRO Z790-P Dasharo ports to those Intel Core motherboards… ⌘ Read more
Anthropic Could Be Worth $2 Trillion When It Goes Public
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Financial Times: Anthropic investors expect the AI startup to float at a valuation of $2 trillion or more in October, a dizzying figure that would eclipse SpaceX and make the AI lab’s debut the largest-ever initial public offering. Half a dozen of the company’s backers told the FT that Anthropic’s rapidly rising revenue wou … ⌘ Read more
Out in Early Access - Sandustry has you explore, mine and automate in fully destructible pixel worlds
Hooded Horse picked another good one to publish here from developer Lantto Games. Sandustry is a factory automation game where every pixel is a resource.
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World’s Largest 106-Foot Electric Plane Takes Maiden Flight In New York
Heart Aerospace’s X1, billed as the world’s largest battery-electric aircraft, completed a 27-minute maiden flight in New York using more than 1 MW of power and only about $5 worth of electricity. The 106-foot-wingspan demonstrator is a precursor to the company’s 30-seat hybrid-electric ES-30 regional airliner, targeted for service i … ⌘ Read more
PAYDAY 2 dropped the Native Linux version so you’ll need to use Proton
OVERKILL / Starbreeze Entertainment announced that PAYDAY 2 has dropped support for their Native Linux version with a big update to the game with 64bit support.
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Apple Turns to Publishers For Help With Siri AI
Apple is reportedly negotiating multi-year deals with news publishers to give its redesigned Siri access to current news and other information, with payments potentially tied to how often publishers’ content is used. The talks come as Apple prepares to launch its long-delayed Siri AI later this year, after partnering with Google to use distilled Gemini models. Engadget reports: … ⌘ Read more
University of Michigan Drops First-Semester Grades to ‘Curb Mental Health Crisis’
“In order to salve the mental health of freshman students, the University of Michigan has implemented a Pass/No Credit system for new students to improve their mental health,” writes Slashdot reader Ol Olsoc. “The process, called ‘Grade Covering,’ is aimed at helping with the mental health crisis that students face … ⌘ Read more
Typomagical is a typing spell-building bullet heaven that will make you panic
Blending the very different worlds of typing games with survivor-like bullet heavens, Typomagical will make you sweat as you frantically type spells.
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The Beneficial Performance Gains Running The Framework Laptop Pro 13 / Core Ultra X9 388H With Linux 7.1+
The recently launched Framework Laptop 13 Pro powered by Intel Core Ultra Series 3 “Panther Lake” runs well on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS and other modern Linux distributions. In the case of Ubuntu 26.04 with Linux 7.0, while everything works, if upgrading to Linux 7.1 or the upcoming Linux 7.2 kernel is even better performance. Here are benchmarks of the Framework Laptop 13 Pro with Core Ultra X9 388H across the … ⌘ Read more
GeForce NOW On Linux Native App Exits Beta
At the beginning of the year NVIDIA released a native build of GeForce NOW for Linux using Flatpaks. Today their native Linux build has exited beta to reach official production status for this cloud gaming solution from NVIDIA… ⌘ Read more
MSI Claw Gamepad Driver Set To Be Merged For Linux 7.3
The MSI Claw Gamepad driver is set to be merged for the upcoming Linux 7.3 kernel for enabling RGB lighting and controller configuration support with the mainline kernel… ⌘ Read more
NVIDIA GeForce NOW cloud gaming for Linux levels up and leaves Beta
Cloud gaming on Linux levels up officially today with the full release of the NVIDIA GeForce NOW app for Linux after being in Beta since January.
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Grand-scale FPS ‘WARDOGS’ should work on Linux / SteamOS, devs confirm working on Proton support
The developers behind the upcoming grand-scale FPS WARDOGS have confirmed they’re working to support Proton so it’s playable on Linux / SteamOS.
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Linux Patches Enable Apple M4 NVMe Support
While the Apple M4 SoCs aren’t yet supported by the mainline Linux kernel and the Apple M3 series hardware isn’t yet ready for end-users, there are some early elements of the Apple M4 support beginning to come together by open-source developers working on the Apple Silicon support. Sent out to the Linux kernel mailing list were patches for enabling NVMe solid state drive support with the M4… ⌘ Read more
Make sure your Flatpak is up to date due to security issues
Version 1.18.1 and 1.19.0 pre-release rolled out for Flatpak, due to some security issues that were found so it’s an essential update for all Linux systems.
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VA Launches Psilocybin Trial For Veterans With Treatment-Resistant Depression
Longtime Slashdot reader sbinning shares a press release: The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs announced the launch of a new clinical trial to evaluate the effectiveness and safety of psilocybin to treat major depression in Veterans, including those with concurrent PTSD. The new trial comes after a recent executive … ⌘ Read more
Cellular roguelike shooter ‘Pathogenic’ is a body-infecting good time
Pathogenic is a top-down roguelike shooter where you control a customizable lone pathogen infecting a human host.
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Microsoft’s Azure Linux 3.0.20260809 Ships With 233+ CVE Fixes
While Microsoft continues working on Azure Linux 4.0 as its overhauled Linux distribution built atop Fedora, Azure Linux 3.0 remains the current stable production series. Released overnight was Azure Linux 3.0.20260809 and it comes with more than 233 security patches for recent CVEs in the AI era… ⌘ Read more
Intel XPU Manager 2.1 Released For Monitoring Arc Pro Graphics On Windows/Linux
Intel XPU Manager 2.1 is now available as the latest version of this open-source tool for Linux and Windows systems for the monitoring and management of Arc Pro graphics cards. The Intel XPU Manager helps in keeping an eye on device utilization and other metrics via the xpu-smi command and other components… ⌘ Read more
Open-source re-implementation of The Elder Scrolls: Arena adds major new features like enemy combat AI
OpenTESArena 0.18.0 the open-source re-implementation of The Elder Scrolls: Arena is out now, bringing many gameplay enhancements.
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Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War IV delayed until December
One game we have to wait a bit longer on is Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War IV, which has moved from September to December 3rd.
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Scientists Create Largest 2D Map of the Universe
After 13 years of observations and data processing, astronomers have released the largest two-dimensional map of the universe ever assembled, “offering a sweeping new view of nearly 4 billion celestial objects across roughly three-quarters of the sky,” reports Space.com. From the report: The new map, created by the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Legacy Imaging Su … ⌘ Read more
How Social Media Spurred a Refugee Crisis Between Spain and Morocco
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The New York Times: Two days before tens of thousands of migrants surged into Ceuta, one of Spain’s enclaves on Morocco’s northern coast, a newspaper there posted a video on TikTok and Instagram showing two young women walking in the city in wet suits, their hair still damp. The posts didn’t say so e … ⌘ Read more
Rsync 3.5 Released As “Extraordinary” Update To Fix 33 Security Issues
Rsync as the widely-used, open-source remote sync software for synchronizing files and directories across networks is out today with a very important update… ⌘ Read more
Trump Administration Enlists Private Companies To Hack Foreign Cybercrime Groups
The Trump administration today unveiled a new program that will allow vetted U.S. companies to conduct cyber surveillance and offensive cyber operations against foreign transnational criminal organizations. A presidential memorandum signed August 12 directs the National Coordination Center to establish and manage t … ⌘ Read more
Comma.ai Launches A PCIe Gen4 x4 To USB4 Dock With Open-Source Firmware
George Hotz of Comma.ai and Tinygrad today announced the Tiny Chestnut eGPU Dock and the “Chestnut” Dock complete with an AMD Radeon RX 9060 8GB GPU too. Making this Chestnut / Tiny Chestnut Dock interesting is that it runs on open-source firmware… ⌘ Read more
Big Tech Wants to Harvest Your Thoughts
Wired reports that consumer neurotechnology is rapidly moving from the lab into workplaces and homes, with companies including Apple, Meta, and Snap developing products that can monitor or interpret brain activity. Researchers warn that as these systems improve, neural data could become the next major privacy battleground. Some neuroscientists are already calling for a series of core rights, coi … ⌘ Read more
‘Godmother of AI’ Says Biggest AI Risk In Schools Is Students Losing the Desire to Learn
Fei-Fei Li, aka The Godmother of AI, says the biggest AI risk in education may be students losing the motivation and agency to learn, rather than simply using the technology to cheat. She argues against banning AI outright, saying it can be valuable when used to support engaged students instead of rep … ⌘ Read more
US Tries to Override New York Gambling Laws, Orders Kalshi to Keep Operating
The CFTC has ordered Kalshi to keep operating in New York, claiming the state’s lawsuit against the prediction market created a “market emergency.” They said it acted “to ensure market stability” and “ordered the exchange to continue to operate in accordance with the Commodity Exchange Act’s Core Principles.” Ars Technica re … ⌘ Read more
Tenstrorrent Posts GCC Compiler Patches For Ascalon XG Core
While the Tenstorrent Ascalon X is known as their high performance out-of-order RISC-V RVA23 CPU core for extreme performance over the H and S models, a new GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) patch today from Tenstorrent makes known a new Ascalon XG core… ⌘ Read more
China-Linked Hackers Used AI To Run First-Ever ‘Autonomous’ Cyberattack On Taiwan
Researchers at Israeli cybersecurity firm Dream say suspected China-linked hackers used an open-source AI-agent system to conduct what may be the first observed end-to-end autonomous cyberattack against a government. According to the Financial Times (paywalled), the attack compromised at least 85 accounts and resulte … ⌘ Read more
DEF CON Crowd Suspected In Fake-Hotspot Attack On Delta Flight
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: On Monday, passengers aboard Delta flight 591 going from Las Vegas to Atlanta allegedly spoofed the onboard Wi-Fi, raising the attention of federal law enforcement. The incident came one day after the DEF CON security conference concluded in Las Vegas, and was first described on social media acc … ⌘ Read more
GCC 17 Compiler Adding “-m128bit-atomic” For 128-bit Atomic Memory Operations
Merged today to the GNU Compiler Collection Git code is the new -m128bit-atomic option for next year’s GCC 17 feature release… ⌘ Read more
Manjaro Linux 26.1 Released With GNOME 50 & KDE Plasma 6.7 Desktops
Manjaro 26.1 Bian-May is now available as the newest feature release to this desktop Linux distribution built atop an Arch Linux base… ⌘ Read more
The Pixel Tag Is Google’s Answer To the AirTag
Google has unveiled the $29 Pixel Tag, its long-awaited AirTag rival that combines UWB with Bluetooth 6.0 Channel Sounding for two forms of precision tracking. It launches November 11. The Verge reports: The Pixel Tag is a slim oblong device available in one grayish color – Fog – that weighs about 12g, or 0.4oz. Like the AirTag, it has no built-in hooks or clips for attaching to o … ⌘ Read more
Intel AMX Performance With The Xeon 678X Workstation CPU
One of the most compelling features for Intel Xeon 6 Granite Rapids alongside MRDIMMs is Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX) for helping accelerate AI workloads and more. AMX is also found with the new Granite Rapids WS processors and in currently having my hands on an Intel Xeon 678X in the HP Z4 G6i workstation, I ran some benchmarks looking at the AMX performance and power impact for this high-end workstation. ⌘ Read more