Ubuntu 26.10 Released
prisoninmate shares a report from 9to5Linux: Ubuntu 26.10 (Stonking Stingray) has been released today, and it is now available for download for those eager to update their Ubuntu systems to a newer release. Powered by the upcoming Linux 7.3 kernel series, Ubuntu 26.10 ships with the latest GNOME 51 desktop environment, TPM-backed full disk encryption (FDE) support on computers without a hardware root of trust, updated Settings to s … ⌘ Read more
Meta and Apple Bring Muse Spark Open AI Model to Mac Studio
Meta has released Muse Spark Open, an 816-billion-parameter open-weight model optimized to run locally across two 512GB M5 Ultra Mac Studios using Apple’s MLX framework. Meta says it’s the “most capable U.S. open-weight model to date.” MacRumors reports: Muse Spark Open has 816 billion total parameters with 42 billion active parameters and a 1 million-toke … ⌘ Read more
Memtest86+ v9.00 Released With Support For ARM64 Memory Testing
The open-source Memtest86+ program that is popular for RAM testing has expanded beyond the x86/x86_64 (and LoongArch64) world to now support memory testing on ARM64/AArch64 hardware… ⌘ Read more
3mdeb Releases Updated Dasharo/Coreboot Firmware For ASRock Rack SPC741D8-2L2T
3mdeb firmware engineers have been quite busy this year working on porting Coreboot and openSIL to an AMD Ryzen AM5 MSI motherboard and similarly getting openSIL and Coreboot up and running on a Gigabyte server motherboard for AMD EPYC 9005 CPUs. They haven’t forgotten about their past projects though and today released an updated version of their Dasharo downstream firmware for the ASRock Rack SPC741D8-2L2T motherboard supporting 4 … ⌘ Read more
Ubuntu 26.10 (Stonking Stingray) released
Ubuntu 26.10 (Stonking Stingray) released, as the latest upgrade to the popular Linux distribution.
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Ubuntu 26.10 Released With Linux 7.3 + GNOME 51, Rust Coreutils Migration Complete
Ubuntu 26.10 “Stonking Stingray” is now officially available as the newest six-month non-LTS update to Ubuntu Linux… ⌘ Read more
Microsoft Releases Microsoft Defender For The Linux Desktop
Microsoft’s newest software release for Linux is… Microsoft Defender for the Linux desktop. Microsoft Defender has been ported to Linux to “secure Linux desktops” with Microsoft acknowledging that “more developers begin to use Linux desktops” and thus bringing their security application and threat-protection product to Linux desktops to complement their prior ill-used Linux server support… ⌘ Read more
Ashes of the Singularity II gets a November release date
Set to arrive on November 10th, Ashes of the Singularity II will bring a fresh next-generation grand-scale RTS to your systems.
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GE-Proton 11-9 arrives with improvements for Video Playback, Wayland, Controllers and more
GE-Proton 11-9 (and GE-Proton 11-8 just before it) have been released to bring more improvements for Windows games on SteamOS / Linux.
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Dutch Tax Authorities Cancel Microsoft 365 Cloud Rollout, Turn Toward Open Source
An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: The Netherlands’ Tax and Customs Administration has abandoned its planned Microsoft 365 public-cloud rollout. Why? The reasons were clear at the Open Source Summit Europe conference, where the Linux Foundation (LF) released the 2026 State of Open Source in Europe. In … ⌘ Read more
BeOS-Inspired Haiku Landed More Hardware Improvements & Other Changes In September
Released at the end of August was Haiku R1 Beta 6 and over the course of September, further improvements continued to land for this BeOS-inspired project now in its 25th year of development… ⌘ Read more
Cloud Hypervisor 54 Released With Live Migration Improvements
Cloud Hypervisor, the Rust-based Virtual Machine Monitor that began as an Intel open-source project and evolved into a multi-vendor Linux Foundation project, is out today with a sizable feature update… ⌘ Read more
Rustls 0.23.46 Released With Four Security Fixes
Rustls as the modern TLS library written in the Rust programming language with an emphasis on memory safety is out today with its v0.23.46 release in order to ship four new security fixes… ⌘ Read more
KDE Plasma 6.8 Released, Marks 30 Years Of The KDE Project
The feature-packed and polished Plasma 6.8 KDE desktop is now available. Making this release all the more special is that it coincides with the 30th anniversary of the KDE project… ⌘ Read more
GTA 6 Is Reportedly Coming to PC In Early 2027
GamesBeat reports that Rockstar plans to release Grand Theft Auto VI on PC in the first quarter of 2027, just a few months after its November 19, 2026 launch on consoles. The report follows Microsoft’s announcement last week that it had secured exclusive cloud-streaming rights to the game. Since Rockstar has yet to officially announce a PC version, “this deal will allow Xbox to mar … ⌘ Read more
Intel ISPC 1.32 Released With AVX10.2 & APX Support, Even AMD Zen 6 Too
Intel ISPC 1.32 released today as the newest version of this Intel Implicit SPMD Program Compiler built atop LLVM/Clang. ISPC is a variant of the C programming language with extensiosn catering to Single Program Multiple Data programming for both Intel CPUs and GPUs… ⌘ Read more
Google Launches Flagship AI Model Gemini 4 Argon
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Alphabet’s Google on Wednesday released its flagship AI model Gemini 4 Argon to developers and businesses worldwide, seeking to regain ground against rivals OpenAI and Anthropic after months of delays and a leadership shakeup at its DeepMind lab. The model excels at “deep work” on complex, multi-step tasks in coding, finance, la … ⌘ Read more
Firefox 159 Beta Released With Fix For Tabs On Wayland
With Firefox 158 released, Firefox 159 is now in beta ahead of its official release in two weeks… ⌘ Read more
Squadron 42 now has a Steam page and new trailer ahead of “Q2 2027” release
Cloud Imperium Games have put up a Steam page for Squadron 42, their cinematic single-player sci-fi adventure game set in the expansive Star Citizen universe.
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Linux Mint 27 Continues Working Toward Christmas Release With Many Features
Linux Mint developers continue enjoying their relaxed release schedule in moving from a six to twelve month release cycle. Linux Mint 27 “Adrien” continues tracking for a Christmas release… ⌘ Read more
ONLYOFFICE !0.0 Released With AI Features, 1,000+ Bug Fixes
ONLYOFFICE 10.0 is now available for this open-source office suite alternative to the likes of LibreOffice… ⌘ Read more
Asterinas 0.19.0 Brings Up X.Org & Other Improvements To This Rust-Written OS
Asterinas is the open-source project developing a Rust-based, memory-safe Linux alternative OS while striving for Linux software compatibility. Out now is Asterinas 0.19 as the project continues advancing on its goals… ⌘ Read more
IREE 3.12 Introduces Rolls Out Rewritten Vulkan Driver, Experimental AMD HSA HAL
Rolling out last week was a new version of IREE as the Intermediate Representation Execution Environment for MLIR-based end-to-end compiler and run-time for lowering machine learning models into a unified IR and working across different hardware/driver stacks. Making IREE 3.12 notable is a rewrite to its Vulkan code… ⌘ Read more
Bazzite Linux update for October 12 brings many more bug fixes
The next smaller release of Bazzite Linux is out now, bringing with it bug fixes for various handhelds and more improvements.
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FreeType 2.15 Released With Apple HVF Driver, ISO Open Font Format Edition 5
FreeType 2.15 is now available for this widely-used font rendering library used across many different operating systems and software applications… ⌘ Read more
Firefox 158 Now Available With JPEG-XL Support By Default
Firefox 158 is now available with JPEG XL image support enabled by default, making .jxl images a standard part of the browser rather than an experimental feature. The release also adds JPEG XL to Firefox’s default image Accept header, improves Smart Window form filling, and brings new CSS typed-arithmetic support for developers. Phoronix reports: At long last, … ⌘ Read more
Epic Games Delays Disney Project, Asks Developers To Use More AI
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: Epic Games delayed the release of an upcoming video-game collaboration with Walt Disney and told its developers to use more artificial intelligence tools to finish the game, according to people familiar with the project. The title had been slated for release in March, but is now delayed with no … ⌘ Read more
Ubuntu’s Myna Speech-To-Text Now Available In Tech Preview
A few months ago Canonical announced Myna as a speech-to-text solution for Ubuntu 26.10 as part of their effort for building a context-aware desktop. Myna as of today is available in “tech preview” form not only for Ubuntu 26.10 but also the LTS releases… ⌘ Read more
Firefox 158 Now Available With JPEG-XL Support By Default
With Mozilla’s bi-weekly release cycle for Firefox, the Firefox 158 release binaries are now available. Making Firefox 158 particularly notable is finally having JPEG-XL support enabled by default… ⌘ Read more
Linux 7.3-rc7 Released With Linux 7.3 Hopefully Out Next Weekend
Linus Torvalds has made available what is hopefully the final release candidate before Linux 7.3 is ideally minted next Sunday… ⌘ Read more
ScummVM 2026.4 brings nearly 200 newly supported retro games
ScummVM 2026.4.0 has released, bringing with it support for nearly 200 more retro games across 12 different game engines.
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NASA Releases Data from Artemis II Moon Mission, Calls It ‘Sights and Sounds of Science’
“What did four astronauts see, notice, and document as they traveled around the Moon during NASA’s Artemis II mission?” asks a new NASA web page, offering some fascinating pictures and video:
Through photographs, spoken observations, drawings, and annotations, the Artemis II crew created a unique s … ⌘ Read more
Rolling Release Distros Superior To LTS Distros In The Patch-Heavy GenAI Era?
As some interesting food for thought and weekend forum discussions, this week at the Linux Plumbers Conference in Prague, Qualcomm engineer Khem Raj questioned the relevance of Linux Long Term Support (LTS) distributions in the era of generative AI with the constantly heavy patch flow and bug reports. Khem Raj argued the benefits of rolling release distributions in the GenAI era and the benefits it provides staying up-to-date with mai … ⌘ Read more
Linux Networking Diverts 50+ Fixes To Next Kernel, Still Bombarded With AI Fueled Churn
Ahead of the Linux 7.3-rc7 kernel due for release on Sunday, this week’s batch of networking fixes were submitted and merged. The vast networking subsystem of wired and wireless drivers plus the various other networking features continues to see a lot of activity due to AI-driven bug reports and patches… ⌘ Read more
KDE Plasma 6.8 Ready For Release Next Week, Sees Last Minute NVIDIA Fix
KDE Plasma 6.8 is gearing up for its official debut next week in coinciding with the 30th anniversary since the KDE project began… ⌘ Read more
Steam Client Beta - October 9th brings more Remote Play improvements
Valve have another release ready for testing, with the Steam Client Beta - October 9th update now available bringing Remote Play updates.
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Steam Frame CAD files released, plus an update on reservation waiting times
Valve have released an update that should give you just a little bit more clarity on when you can expect to get a Steam Frame, plus the CAD files are out now.
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SQLite 3.54 Released With Faster Performance, Drops Windows XP Support
SQLite 3.54 released today for this wildly popular embedded SQL database engine used by countless applications and other software. With SQLite 3.54, support for Microsoft Windows XP and older is finally removed… ⌘ Read more
Valve’s Proton 11.0-2e Released To Fix EA App Issues
CodeWeavers working with Valve today released Proton 11.0-2e as their downstream of Wine that powers Steam Play for enjoying Windows games on Linux… ⌘ Read more
Ubuntu 26.10 To Include Desktop Images For RISC-V
Ubuntu Linux ISOs for RISC-V 64-bit to date have just been the server/CLI version without any desktop environment pre-seeded. But with next week’s Ubuntu 26.10 release, there will now be Ubuntu 26.10 RISC-V desktop ISOs for both Ubuntu proper and a Xubuntu minimal ISO… ⌘ Read more
Python 3.15 Released With Experimental JIT Compiler Running Faster
Python 3.15 is out today as the newest annual feature release for the Python programming language… ⌘ Read more
Ubuntu 26.10 Sticks To Using GCC 15 By Default
From a performance and enthusiast perspective, what I personally find most disappointing and puzzling with the imminent release of Ubuntu 26.10 comes down to its default compiler version… ⌘ Read more
DXVK-Sarek 1.14.0 released for gaming on older GPUs
DXVK-Sarek version 1.14.0 has arrived, keeping Wine / Proton gaming alive for those of you with older GPUs that don’t have modern Vulkan support.
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The awesome Deadly Days: Roadtrip has set an October 29 release date
The brilliant bullet heaven inventory management zombie shooter Deadly Days: Roadtrip hits the big 1.0 on October 29th.
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SteamOS 0.4 for Steam Frame is out now with better power efficiency and battery lifetime
Valve just released a major stable update for all Steam Frame owners, bringing some great sounding improvements.
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Valve Lands VK_AMD_anti_lag Support For AMD RADV Driver In Mesa 26.3
There is yet another feature to get excited about for this quarter’s Mesa 26.3 release. Months in the making, the Valve-contributed VK_AMD_anti_lag support for the Radeon RADV driver was merged today for benefiting AMD Linux gamers as a nice improvement over the former implementation… ⌘ Read more
Emmy Awards Leave Broadcast TV For Prime Video
Amazon Prime Video will become the exclusive global home of the Emmy Awards under a six-year deal beginning in 2027, the Television Academy announced on Tuesday. The Emmys will stream live for free to viewers in more than 240 countries and territories without requiring a Prime subscription. From the report: In the release, Prime Video was named as the “permanent home” for the Emmys, in c … ⌘ Read more
COSMIC Epoch 1.10 Released With Launcher Now Using GPU Accelerated Rendering
System76 today released COSMIC Epoch 1.10 as the newest incremental update to this Rust-based desktop developed in-step with their Pop!_OS Linux distribution… ⌘ Read more
Ubuntu 26.10 Delivers Nice I/O Performance Wins Over Ubuntu 26.04 On AMD EPYC
While Ubuntu 26.10 is not a Long-Term Support (LTS) release and thus will see limited enterprise deployments compared to Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, for those not after that long-term deployment support and preferring to live more on the leading-edge, Ubuntu 26.10 is delivering some nice performance gains on current 5th Gen AMD EPYC “Turin” hardware. ⌘ Read more
Chrome 155 Ships Decoding Support For JPEG XL
Google has released Chrome 155 with support for decoding JPEG XL images, a format that offers 30-50% better compression than JPEG along with lossless compression, JPEG transcoding, HDR, animation, and progressive decoding. From a blog post: We expect that JPEG XL is most helpful for high-fidelity or lossless compression, especially of photographic images or in cases in which fine-grained p … ⌘ Read more