OpenMW 0.52.0 for Morrowind gets a fresh release candidate to test new features
The amazing open source game engine OpenMW for the classic RPG Morrowind has released a release candidate for the upcoming 0.52.0 release.
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DXVK-NVAPI 0.9.3 adds initial ARM64 support, DirectX Raytracing (DXR) upgrades
DXVK-NVAPI is the implementation of NVIDIA’s NVAPI/NVOFAPI library for usage with DXVK and VKD3D-Proton - with a new release out now.
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KDE Linux Nearing Its Beta Milestone, Now Ships With NTSYNC By Default
KDE developer Nate Graham published his monthly blog post on Sunday to outline the current state of KDE Linux and some of the changes made to this in-house Linux distribution over the course of October. Additionally, KDE Linux is nearing its beta milestone after beinbg in development for over one year as a reference Linux distribution for KDE… ⌘ Read more
SK Hynix expect the hardware crisis to continue through 2030
Thought the hardware crisis would be over next year, or the year after? We’re seemingly going to be stuck for quite a while longer.
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Raspberry Pi 5 16GB Price Rises To $385 USD
Raspberry Pi announced their latest round of price hikes as a result of the RAM shortages and increased pricing continuing to affect the industry… ⌘ Read more
Raspberry Pi has another price increase thanks to AI data centres
The dream of cheap single-board computers seems a little far from reality nowadays, with the Raspberry Pi announcing another price increase.
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Another good deal live in the Fanatical Resident Evil Bundle: Demonic Edition (FrightFest)
The Fanatical Build your own Resident Evil Bundle: Demonic Edition (FrightFest) is live and with it, your next chance to grab a good deal.
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Bad Flock Info Leads Police To Tow Wrong Car, Then Towing Company Totals It
“Police continue to blindly trust Flock cameras above and beyond the evidence in front of their own eyes,” reports Jalopnik.com.
“After incorrectly connecting Rosalyn Crump’s car to a shooting that had occurred the previous day, police had her car towed and impounded as evidence, reports Moneywise…”
According to WWBT 12 On … ⌘ Read more
DWProton 11.0-16 brings fixes for NIKKE and Arknights: Endfield
The popular community-made DWProton for running various Anime games has a new release out with DWProton 11.0-16 now available to download.
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Here’s the most played Steam Deck games from October 2026
October is finished and done with, so here’s the most up to date look at what has been popular on the Steam Deck for another month.
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Steam Survey - October 2026 shows an uptick for the Linux user share
Valve just published the Steam Hardware & Software Survey for October 2026, showing an uptick in the Linux user share putting it back to nearly 4%.
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Rocky Linux Creator Built a New ‘Not Linux’ Kernel in 11 Days Using AI
From the blog It’s FOSS
Gregory Kurtzer is no stranger to the Linux world. He created CentOS, and when Red Hat messed it up, he started Rocky Linux as the community replacement. He also co-founded CIQ, the company offering enterprise support around Rocky. His latest project has nothing to do with rebuilding another Linux distro, though … ⌘ Read more
Experts Expect ‘Security Reckoning’ As AI Tools Find And Exploit Software Bugs
The Washington Post reports:
Tens of thousands of South Koreans had their financial data exposed online in recent weeks after at least nine major banks there suffered cyberattacks that suggested a dark future for online security. One man, a 26-year-old living in southern China, was allegedly behind the attacks, according t … ⌘ Read more
Binance Reopens to $3.64 in Net Outflows. ‘98% Choose to Stay’, Says Its Founder
Binance now says it’s replenished 90% of assets stolen last week in a $6.3 billion security breach, its customers still “rushed to move funds off the platform” when it reopened Sunday, CNBC reports, and Binance “said it recorded $3.64 billion in net outflows after reopening withdrawals on Sunday.”
The exchange processed … ⌘ Read more
Steam On Linux Just Under 4% For October 2026
Valve just published their Steam Survey results for October and point to a small uptick in Linux gaming use on a relative basis… ⌘ Read more
Stack Overflow: ‘Reports of Our Death are Greatly Exaggerated’
Stack Overflow’s senior VP of community says predictions of their demise “make for compelling headlines, but they confuse a change in how people access knowledge with the disappearance of the knowledge — and the company — behind it.
AI has changed developer behavior. In our recently released 2026 Developer Survey, 64% of respondents said they vis … ⌘ Read more
Toyota’s EV Sales More Than Doubled In a Year, While Its Gas Car Sales Drop 20% In China
Toyota’s EV sales have jumped 127% through September, reports Electrek:
Including Lexus, Toyota sold 309,766 battery electric vehicles (BEVs) globally through the first nine months of 2026, up 127.4% from the same period last year. Except for January (+87.5%), Toyota’s EV sales have more than doubled … ⌘ Read more
SystemD’s Creator Opens Signups for Private Preview of Amutable’s Cryptographically Verified Linux Systems
SystemD creator Lennart Poettering left Red Hat for Microsoft in 2022, but 10 months ago left to co-found Amutable a company that aims to build cryptographically verified Linux systems that stay trusted over time.
It’s FOSS calls it “a read-only, image-based system … ⌘ Read more
Linux 7.4-rc1 Released With Nice Performance Improvements, AMD Ryzen Zen 6 Preparations & AMDGPU HDMI 2.1 Default
Even with Linus Torvalds having been on holiday, Linux 7.4-rc1 is out today on-schedule for capping off the Linux 7.4 merge window… ⌘ Read more
Religious Exemption from Using AI in Workplace Granted to Humanist
“David Durman, a nontheistic humanist, recently secured a religious exemption from using AI in the workplace,” reports TechCrunch.
Durman, a University of Kentucky administrator, told TechCrunch that humanism centers on “human well-being and flourishing, both individually and collectively … and implores a person to try to improve both their wel … ⌘ Read more
AI Makes Linux 7.4 Merge Window the Largest in Kernel History
“On a Git commit basis, the Linux 7.4 merge window has been the busiest on record,” writes Phoronix,” with 19,671 commits since Linux 7.3:
As of this morning in Linux Git ahead of v7.4-rc1, the kernel source tree is up to 41,605,120 lines. That’s from 5,193,578 blank lines, 4,993,604 lines of comments, and 31,417,938 lines of detected code. Or nearly … ⌘ Read more
Which Tech Companies Started Using Trump’s Phrase ‘Super Intelligence’?
CNBC reports:
A month after President Donald Trump ordered that “super intelligence” replace the term artificial intelligence within executive branch departments and agencies, his leading tech allies, Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg, followed suit on earnings calls. Their fellow tech CEOs were less eager to do the same… SpaceX and Tesl … ⌘ Read more
College Students are Pushing Colleges to ‘De-Flock’
Inside Higher Ed reports:
In September, Emory University removed a dozen license plate-reading cameras from its campus in Atlanta and declined to renew its contract with Flock Safety, the company that sells and operates the automatic license plate readers and other mass-surveillance technology. For the coalition of Emory students and employees who had spent months pushing t … ⌘ Read more
Amid AI Bans, Microsoft and OpenAI Plan a ‘Joyful’ Hour of AI for Kids
Generative AI was recently banned in America’s two largest school districts, just weeks after OpenAI launched ChatGPT for Teens.
But forging ahead, tech-backed nonprofit Code.org — now renamed CodeAI — has named OpenAI the “Lead Partner” for its 2026 Hour of AI (which last year replaced its signature event, “the Hour of Code”). Long-tim … ⌘ Read more
Kwi Being Developed As New KDE Terminal Emulator With 3x To 35x Performance
A new KDE terminal emulator is in development as a modern alternative to Konsole. Kwi is this new terminal app being built atop the Ghostty library… ⌘ Read more
The Linux 7.4 Merge Window Is Easily The Largest In Kernel History
After writing this morning with some stats about the size of the Linux 7.4 merge window and the kernel’s source tree approaching 42 million lines, I was curious to run some numbers for putting the size of the merge window into perspective against the major kernel releases of the past 15 years. This shows the definite recent uptick due to AI/LLM activity… ⌘ Read more
OverlayFS Sees Many Fixes Thanks To AI Code Review
Merged this weekend for Linux 7.4 and also marked for back-porting to current stable kernel versions are a number of fixes to the OverlayFS union mount file-system… ⌘ Read more
Meta Discussed ‘Whisper Strategy’ to Discredit Social Media Critic Jonathan Haidt, Files Show
The Guardian reports:
Meta staff discussed deploying a “whisper strategy” to undermine the influential US academic whose work has inspired a global social media crackdown, according to court documents. Employees at the parent group of Facebook and Instagram sought to discredit Jonathan Haidt, … ⌘ Read more
AI Use In The Linux Kernel, Microsoft Defender On Linux & Other October Highlights
October brought the releases of Linux 7.3, Ubuntu 26.10, the KDE Plasma 6.8 desktop, and a wealth of other open-source software releases. The expanding use of AI/LLMs within Linux kernel development also made for interesting discussions in October. Microsoft bringing their Defender software to the Linux desktop was perhaps the biggest surprise out of October. Here is a look back at the past month… ⌘ Read more
Linux’s Perf Python Scripts More Robust & Faster With Linux 7.4
Merged this weekend to Linux 7.4 Git were all of the perf subsystem tooling updates. Most notable to these tooling updates for dealing with performance counters and more on Linux is an overhaul to the Python code… ⌘ Read more
Linux 7.4 Merge Window Saw Nearly 20k Commits, Source Tree Approaching 42 Million Lines
Linux 7.3 started out just under 41 million lines in total in the kernel source tree. In the end the Linux v7.3 tag came in at 41,019,555 lines as measured by cloc while now with Linux 7.4 we are inching ever closer to 42 million lines. On a Git commit basis, the Linux 7.4 merge window has been the busiest on record… ⌘ Read more
America’s Clocks Are Still Falling Back Tonight Despite Trump’s Daylight Saving Push
Clocks “fall back” one hour tonight to end Daylight Saving Time — though many Americans want to end the twice-yearly clock change, reports Axios.
But the U.S. Congress “remains deadlocked about how to make that happen.”
The clocks are falling back despite a bipartisan House vote in July to make daylight savi … ⌘ Read more
Xbox Manager: AI Already Being Used In Xbox Game Development - And Throughout the Game Industry
Should generative AI be used for videogame development? Brandon Stirrup, a strategy manager at Xbox, claims Xbox is already using AI, reports Engadget. And he also says that those who say they aren’t are merely “pretending.”
Stirrup deactivated his social media account shortly after … ⌘ Read more
Binance Replenishes 90% of Stolen $6.3B, Pledges They’ll Cover It All, Reopen Sunday
“We’ve now replenished 90% of the stolen assets, and we’re committed to covering the remaining 10%,” Binance co-CEO Richard Teng posted on X, adding that “Our users will not bear the financial impact of this incident.”
“Binance said it was able to replace the funds taken in the record hack by using company money … ⌘ Read more
Brief Server Downtime Expected Tonight
Just a friendly heads up that Phoronix.com and associated sites will be down briefly at around midnight PST / 3AM EST on 1 November for a failed drive in the NVMe SSD RAID array… ⌘ Read more
OpenShot 4.1 Released With Auto-Optimize, CLI Automation & ARM64 Linux Builds
OpenShot is closing out the month of October by releasing OpenShot 4.1 as the latest major feature release for this useful open-source video editing solution… ⌘ Read more
Computer Simulations Suggest Building Blocks of Life Didn’t Arrive on Prehistoric Comets
CNN reports:
The popular theory that comets were crucial in kick-starting life on Earth billions of years ago may not hold up, according to new computer simulations that counter decades of scientific thinking. The finding suggests the fragile organic molecules supposedly carried by the icy object … ⌘ Read more
Recycling ANSI Art: Tracing the Origins of BBS Logon Screens
BBS-era “door” games are preserved by the site Break Into Chat, along with their history. Now the site’s actually traced the origins of several ANSI art screens in the 1980s and “how different people later transformed the original images,” starting from one of the most popular bulletin board systems in St. Louis, Missouri.
Slashdot reader Kirkman14 writ … ⌘ Read more
French Lawmakers Back Per-Gigabyte Internet Traffic Tax
Companies like Google, Netflix, TikTok, and Meta may soon owe the French government, reports Tom’s Hardware:
France has approved a proposed tax that aims to tax the amount of internet data per gigabyte sent to French users in the country… According to minutes released by the National Assembly, members voted 11-10 in support of the motion on October 30 — which n … ⌘ Read more
NASA Seeks Proposals for Reboosting the Hubble Space Telescope
The Hubble Space Telescope “will plunge back into the atmosphere in the early-to-mid-2030s,” reports Ars Technica.
So now NASA has released a Request For Information (RFI) “asking commercial companies for ideas on how to reboost, service, or a controlled disposal of Hubble.”
Specifically, NASA is looking for information about companies’ current … ⌘ Read more
Dozens of Unexplained Drones Have Buzzed America’s Nuclear Plants Since 2024
Slashdot reader ElectricVs shares this report from American Buildout, a new site covering “the intersection of data centers, energy and power, finance, and Main Street.”
Dozens of unexplained drones flew over and near U.S. nuclear facilities between February 2024 and March 2026, according to records the Nuclear Regulatory … ⌘ Read more
Flock Reinstalled Its Cameras After Another City Canceled Its Contract
Earlier The Drive reported a police chief “had to direct his staff to disconnect the power cords from Flock cameras in Plymouth, Minnesota after Flock Safety ignored and failed to respond to the department’s notice the city was canceling its service.
“But in other instances Flock’s gone and reinstalled cameras without permission,” The … ⌘ Read more
Google’s AI Overviews Lowered Reddit’s Traffic. Its Stock Dropped 29%
Reddit’s stock plunged 29.22% on Friday, reports CNBC, its worst drop since becoming a public company in 2024.
Thursday Reddit reported a sales growth that was weaker than previous quarters, and also forecast weak sales for the quarter to come (below analysts expectations):
The report comes as the company has seen a shift in its search re … ⌘ Read more
Two US Senators Raise Privacy Concerns About Meta’s ‘Pervert Glasses’
Meta’s smart glasses face new questions from two U.S. Senators, reports Gizmodo.
Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden and Massachusetts Sen. Edward Markey “are requesting that Meta provide more information before Thanksgiving on whether it conducted detailed human rights due diligence and safety testing on the product before releasing it,” reports Gizmod … ⌘ Read more
Enlightenment 0.28 Released With Many Improvements
Enlightenment 0.27 released at the beginning of 2025 and since then there’s been no major feature update, falling off their roughly 12 month release cadence. But out this Halloween is Enlightenment 0.28 now with the better part of two years worth of changes… ⌘ Read more
Linux Mint Developing New Apps For Terminal & System Monitoring
Linux Mint is out with their October 2026 status report to outline various initiatives they have underway in their lead-up to the Linux Mint 27 stable release happening on/around Christmas… ⌘ Read more
New Linux 7.4 Feature For Reducing AI Noise Already Reverted Due To A “Crazy Beast”
A new feature merged last week for Linux 7.4 to help reduce AI/LLM generated noise from invalid/irrelevant testing configurations is now reverted due to a “crazy beast” in the VFIO subsystem… ⌘ Read more
Supersonic Airliner In Doubt As Company Shifts to Powering AI Data Centers
Boom Supersonic’s plans to launch its Overture passenger jet by 2029 are facing growing doubts as the company pivots toward manufacturing natural gas turbines for AI data centers. Ars Technica reports: One of the company’s first customers, United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby, has expressed doubts about Boom’s original plan to … ⌘ Read more
KDE Plasma 6.9 Lands Some New Performance Optimizations
I love a good performance optimization and there are several this week in the KDE space with Plasma 6.9 development heating up… ⌘ Read more
Ceph In Linux 7.4 Adds Global Mount Option For Lazy I/O
The Ceph kernel client changes have been submitted for Linux 7.4 ahead of its merge window expected to wrap up on Sunday… ⌘ Read more