CERN Transitioning To Debian After Being A Longtime RHEL Institution
CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, besides being well known for its Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is known among longtime Linux users as a RHEL/CentOS shop. CERN formally even co-maintained the Scientific Linux RHEL derivative with other educational/research institutions in the past. So to much surprise now, CERN is transitioning to Debian Linux… ⌘ Read more
Dell Stock Surges On Record Orders For AI Servers
Dell reported record fiscal Q2 results as AI server demand surged, booking $60.9 billion in AI server orders and ending the quarter with a $95 billion backlog. From a report: The company posted record revenue of $47 billion, up 58% year over year. Earnings per share came in at $6.34, up 273% from a year ago. Adjusted earnings rose 203% to $7.04 per share.
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JSAUX Steam Machine E-Ink and Pixel Matrix panels get store pages, plus VOIDJOY SkyLark S1 Pro Portable Controller revealed
JSAUX had a few announcements lately including pretty cool looking Steam Machine E-Ink and Pixel Matrix faceplates, along with controllers.
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AVX-512 xor_gen For Linux Updated & Looking Real Good For RAID Arrays
Being worked on the past few months for the Linux kernel has been an AVX-512 optimized version of xor_gen() that is used for generating and validating parity blocks such as with Linux’s software RAID 5 and RAID 6 arrays. The latest iteration of AVX-512 xor_gen() was posted today and shows some impressive results on AMD Zen 5 hardware… ⌘ Read more
GNOME Mutter 51.rc Adds Cross-GPU Buffer Scan-Out Support, Other Last Minute Work
The release candidates are out today for the GNOME Shell and Mutter in preparing for the formal “GNOME 51.rc” release in the coming days… ⌘ Read more
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I am finally building a Twtxt / Yarn.social inspired Git forge. I'm actually quite confident that y'all will quite like it, but I won't post links yet until I'm quietly confident in its design, functionality and behaviour(s).
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gitxt is a purely decentralised git forge. There is no federation protocol, no instance-to-instance API, no accounts on other people’s servers. Each forge instance is fully independent; collaboration is an act of publishing and reading plain text files over HTTP
Humble Choice for September 26 includes Frostpunk 2, SONIC X SHADOW GENERATIONS
Another interesting game bundle for you to grab - Humble Choice for September 2026 has some highly rated games included like SONIC X SHADOW GENERATIONS.
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ONTOS, the next horror from Frictional Games has a new extended look
ONTOS is the next horror game coming from Amnesia and SOMA developer Frictional Games and we’ve just got a real good look at it.
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Sonos Has New Devices, a New OS, and Yes, a New App
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Sonos has a new app. Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. The smart speaker company, long a darling of the audio industry, undid much of the goodwill it earned with its multiroom speakers through a bevy of software updates that broke its app in 2024. Almost all app users hated it, citing the loss of features like v … ⌘ Read more
Nexus Mods acquires the popular community site SteamDB
Something quite unexpected here - the newer owners of Nexus Mods have now acquired the popular community website SteamDB, that many rely on.
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Greg KH Forewarns Of “Rough” Linux 7.3 Kernel Cycle Due To Continued AI Churn
While Linux 7.3-rc1 only released this week and there are another roughly seven weeks to go until the official kernel release, Linux’s second-in-command Greg Kroah-Hartman is already warning that it’s likely to be another “rough” kernel cycle given the ongoing noise caused by AI/LLM with the increase in bug reports and kernel patches… ⌘ Read more
GCC 17 Compiler Merges Initial Support For Intel/AMD AI Compute Extensions “ACE”
Landing today in the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) codebase is initial support for the AI Compute Extensions (ACEv1) as the initial work out of the x86 Ecosystem Advisory Group between Intel and AMD for a common matrix acceleration architecture for helping AI/ML workloads with future CPUs… ⌘ Read more
Dragon’s Dogma 2 gets a big upgrade and Denuvo DRM removed
Capcom released the latest major update for Dragon’s Dogma 2 ahead of the Dragon’s Dogma 2: Dark Arisen Expansion releasing in October.
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FreeDesktop SDK 26.08 Released With Snap Support Dropped, Bootstrap Changes
The newest FreeDesktop SDK is now available for this collection of components used for Flatpak runtimes as well as for building out of containers and other software stacks… ⌘ Read more
s&box from Facepunch now has Native Linux support on Steam
After a short Beta release, Facepunch have now updated s&box on Steam to provide Native Linux support.
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Intel Updates LLM-Scaler-vLLM Build For vLLM 0.26 & Other Improvements
For those looking for the smoothest experience to get vLLM up and running on Intel Arc (Pro) graphics hardware, out today is the newest beta of Intel’s LLM-Scaler-vLLM project for a Docker-based setup of vLLM ready to go on Intel GPUs… ⌘ Read more
Steam Linux user share dips below 4% for August 2026
The Steam Hardware & Software Survey for August 2026 is now live, and with it we can see the latest system details for gamers on Steam.
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SteamVR Beta 2.17.8 released to ready up for the Steam Frame - added support for USB streaming
Valve are clearly making preparations for the Steam Frame to finally get a proper release this month - with a new Release Candidate Beta build of SteamVR.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/steamvr-beta-2-17-8-released-to-read … ⌘ Read more
A big Steam stable update is out with improvements for Remote Play, Steam Input and bug fixes
Valve just released the latest main stable Steam update for Desktop, Steam Deck, Steam Machine and SteamOS. Here’s everything that’s changed.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/a-big-steam-stable-update-is-out-with-improv … ⌘ Read more
NASA Selects Blue Origin As Mars Telecommunications Network Provider
NASA has awarded Blue Origin a contract worth up to $700 million to build and operate a dedicated Mars telecommunications network for current and future missions to the Red Planet. Blue Origin is expected to deliver the spacecraft by the end of 2028, with the network targeted to become operational by 2030. From a press release: Blue Or … ⌘ Read more
LZ Experiment Sees Surprising Result In Search For Dark Matter
New submitter greytree shares a report from Brown University: LUX-ZEPLIN, an experiment co-led by Brown University faculty and students, observed a particle interaction that could be interpreted as a signal from WIMPs, a dark matter candidate – but researchers need more data to confirm. […] The result does not yet meet the statistical thresho … ⌘ Read more
Steam On Linux Dips Below 4% For August
Valve just published the Steam Survey results for August 2026. After jumping above 4% in July, in August it fell back below that threshold. Meanwhile CachyOS continues gaining ground among Linux gamers… ⌘ Read more
GoPro Says It’s Moving Into Data Centers As Part of a $285 Million Merger
GoPro plans to expand into AI infrastructure through a $285 million merger with optical-photonics company Starman Optical, whose transceivers will give the action-camera maker a foothold in the fast-growing data center market. GoPro also plans to push into defense, robotics, aerospace, and government markets while continuing its existi … ⌘ Read more
Who Is John Ternus, the New Apple CEO?
John Ternus has officially taken over as Apple CEO after 15 years under Tim Cook, stepping up from his role as senior vice president of hardware engineering. A 25-year Apple veteran who helped oversee products including AirPods, Apple Watch, Vision Pro, Apple silicon, and the new MacBook Neo, Ternus now inherits the challenge of pushing Apple forward in AI while Cook stays on as executive chairm … ⌘ Read more
WinBtrfs 1.10 Released With Two Years Worth Of Improvements For Btrfs On Windows
WinBtrfs is a driver for Microsoft Windows to support reading and writing to Btrfs file-systems. WinBtrfs works with Windows XP and newer. It hadn’t seen a new release in over two years but a big feature release is now available with a combination of new features and bug fixes… ⌘ Read more
Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1 Arrive With a 75% Cost Reduction For Fable Cache Reads
Anthropic has released Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1, two versions of the same underlying model aimed at longer-running agentic work. “For enterprise buyers, however, the release is about more than another round of benchmark gains,” reports VentureBeat. “Anthropic is simultaneously c … ⌘ Read more
AMDGPU Linux Driver’s Latest Patches For HDMI Passive VRR Support
As part of AMD’s ongoing effort for getting HDMI 2.1 support squared away in their upstream AMDGPU kernel graphics driver, sent out today were the latest patches around passive variable refresh rate “Passive VRR” for HDMI connections… ⌘ Read more
Dyson Made a Camera-Equipped Toothbrush That Flosses For You
Dyson is entering oral care with the $499 CameraJet, a smart toothbrush that uses a tiny camera and on-device AI to detect gaps between teeth and automatically blast them with mouthwash while you brush. Regular toothpaste and mouthwash will work with the CameraJet, but Dyson plans to sell its own non- or low-foaming formulas designed to give the toothbru … ⌘ Read more
BT’s Old Copper Landline Network Could Be Worth Over $2 Billion
BT could make more than $2.7 billion by recycling copper from its aging UK landline network as BT subsidiary Openreach replaces legacy wiring with full-fiber broadband. Engadget reports: BT’s recovered copper was previously valued at around $2 billion. But prices have surged, thanks to rising global demand tied to AI data centers, renewable energy an … ⌘ Read more
OpenClaw 2.0 Is Here, Ushering In the Era of ‘Multiplayer’ AI Coding
An anonymous reader quotes a report from VentureBeat: The viral fervor we saw earlier this year around OpenClaw, the open source AI harness that turns powerful language models into autonomous workers the user can message via their favorite channels (Telegram, iMessage, WhatsApp, Discord etc), has cooled off substantially from its peak i … ⌘ Read more
Anthropic Signs $35 Billion Cloud Deal With Nvidia-Backed Lambda
Anthropic has reportedly signed a $35 billion cloud-computing deal with Nvidia-backed Lambda for a roughly 350-megawatt Texas data center being developed by Hut 8. “Lambda will install Nvidia chips at the Hut 8 facility, with the arrangement designed to expand the pool of Nvidia computing resources available to power Anthropic’s Claude AI products,” rep … ⌘ Read more
Linux Gets A Reverse-Engineered Driver For ASUS ROG NVMe Enclosure RGB Lighting
If you are into RGB lighting, you can even find NVMe external enclosures these days with RGB LEDs like the ASUS ROG Strix Arion. Now thanks to reverse engineering there is a Linux driver for allowing the RGB lighting controls for the ASUS ROG Strix Arion NVMe enclosure… ⌘ Read more
Jensen Huang and Lisa Su Snubbed By TIME’s 2026 List of Top 100 AI Leaders
TIME’s 2026 list of the 100 most influential people in AI omits Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and AMD CEO Lisa Su, despite both having appeared on previous editions and playing central roles in the hardware powering the AI boom. Nvidia’s only representative this year is sustainability chief Josh Parker, while the list includes figures suc … ⌘ Read more
EVERSPACE 2 gets a final tech update making it Steam Deck and Steam Machine Verified
ROCKFISH Games just announced and released the final technical update for EVERSPACE 2, which makes it Steam Deck and Steam Machine Verified.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/everspace-2-gets-a-final-tech-update-making-it-ste … ⌘ Read more
Florida Bans Flock Cameras From State Highways
schwit1 shares a report from WCTV: Florida Governor Ron DeSantis said he’s removing Flock camera from state roadways. The announcement comes amid a growing concern over the misuse of automated license plate readers. On Monday, DeSantis ordered all Flock cameras removed from what he calls the ‘state highway system’ within the next 30 days, which would include interstates like I-10 an … ⌘ Read more
Lekuo SouthBridge Max Puts An AMD B650 Chipset Onto A PCIe Card For More I/O
For those looking at expanding the SATA, NVMe, and/or the USB/USB-C capabilities of your system, the Lekuo SouthBridge Max PB65MX3 is an interesting creation that I have been trying out. The Lekuo SouthBridge Max puts an AMD B650 chipset onto a low-profile PCIe add-in card to provide all of the above without any bifurcation required. Given that it’s an AMD B650 chipset, it also “just works” nicely under Linux. ⌘ Read more
systemd 262-rc1 Released With Live Update Orchestrator Integration & More
Debuting today is systemd 262-rc1 as the first test release of this next major update to this Linux init system and service manager… ⌘ Read more
California Lawmakers Greenlight Solar Panels You Can Plug Into the Wall
California lawmakers have passed a bill that would legalize plug-in “balcony” solar systems, allowing residents to connect small solar panels directly to a standard wall outlet after completing a simple online registration. The systems would be capped at 1,200 watts and must meet safety requirements designed to prevent power fro … ⌘ Read more
Linux Changes For CPPC On Zen 6 Clients - Hard-Coded Default Puts Low-Power Core At 0.47x
Following yesterday’s Linux kernel patches for tuning ACPI EPP for Ryzen Zen 6 client processors, another patch series made it out on the mailing list with adjustments for ACPI Collaborative Processor Performance Control (CPPC) with upcoming Zen 6 client processors… ⌘ Read more
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 update is causing issues for SteamOS / Linux players
Something in the latest update to Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 has been causing crashing issues for SteamOS / Linux players - but you may be able to fix it.
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Intel Graphics Driver Introducing Cold Reset Recovery For Linux 7.4, Panther Lake IBC v3
While the Linux 7.3 merge window just wrapped up this weekend, on Monday Intel already sent out their first feature pull request of new Xe kernel graphics driver material that is destined for Linux 7.4… ⌘ Read more
The Linux Kernel AI Flood, Linux 7.2 Release & Other August Highlights
It was a very busy month of August with the Linux kernel developers continue to be flooded with AI/LLM-generated patches and bug reports. Plus there was the general resolution on AI usage within the Debian project and other open-source projects now evolving in the AI era. With the Linux 7.2 stable release and Linux 7.3 merge window, the past month was all the more eventful… ⌘ Read more
Epic looking pixel-art hack-and-slash ‘Divinum’ adds Linux / Steam Deck support
Divinum is a wonderful looking pixel-art hack-and-slash action-adventure with some fun exploration, and now officially supported on Linux / Steam Deck.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/epic-looking-pixel-art-hack-and-slash-divinum-adds-li … ⌘ Read more
EDAC Changes Merged For Linux 7.3 After Being Forgotten About During The Merge Window
While the Linux 7.3 merge window officially closed on Sunday with the Linux 7.3-rc1 release, the Error Detection And Correction “EDAC” subsystem changes were mistakenly forgotten about during the two week window. The pull request ended up being sent out on Monday evening and the late feature changes were already merged to Git… ⌘ Read more
The excellent inventory management bullet heaven Deadly Days: Roadtrip added local co-op
Deadly Days: Roadtrip is a truly great entry in the survivor-like bullet heaven genre and now even better with local co-op added.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/the-excellent-inventory-management-bullet-heaven-deadl … ⌘ Read more
Ubisoft’s FOR HONOR will block SteamOS / Linux on September 10
Ubisoft have announced that their third-person hero-based melee fighting game FOR HONOR will be blocking all SteamOS / Linux players on September 10th.
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Bazzite Linux has another big set of fixes available
With the recent release of Bazzite Linux 44 for handhelds, they’re working quick to address various issues that have appeared.
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Steam Beta for August 31st brings fixes for Remote Play
Valve released a small update to the Steam Client Beta, bringing in some fixes - good news for fans of Remote Play.
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Electrically Charged Raindrops Can Corrode Cars and Buildings
Researchers have found that tiny electrical charges picked up by moving water droplets may be damaging cars and buildings like the Eiffel Tower. In experiments, thousands of charged droplets degraded Teflon and corroded the copper beneath it, while uncharged droplets caused no comparable damage. C&EN reports: For years, researchers at the Max Planck … ⌘ Read more
Trump Tells FCC To Punish Journalist For Calling His Election Results ‘Mixed’
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: President Trump yesterday demanded that the Federal Communications Commission punish or rebuke an NBC journalist for saying he has “mixed results” in his election endorsements. In the latest example of how Trump is using the FCC to harass reporters and news organization … ⌘ Read more