The Linux Kernel Is Approaching 2,000 CVEs Per Release
With the proliferation of AI/LLM models analyzing the Linux kernel’s vast codebase, there has been a surge in the number of CVEs per kernel release. After typically being around 500 CVEs fixed per release, we are now approaching 2,000 CVEs fixed per release and perhaps will break that threshold for Linux 7.3… ⌘ Read more
GPU Reset Recovery Merge Request For GNOME Mutter Submitted
Google Summer of Code 2026 featured a project working on GPU reset recovery for GNOME’s Mutter compositor. GSoC has now wrapped up and the project overall was largely successful although some outstanding work remains. In this last week the merge request has been opened to conduct code review on this GPU reset recovery implementation for GNOME… ⌘ Read more
Vulkan 1.4.361 Released With New NVIDIA Vendor Extension
The Khronos Group is closing out the month of August with the Vulkan 1.4.361 specification update… ⌘ Read more
Chris Mason Steps Down As Btrfs Co-Maintainer, Departing Meta
Longtime Linux kernel developer Chris Mason is departing Meta. In the process of doing so, he is also stepping down from his co-maintainership role of the Btrfs file-system… ⌘ Read more
Gemini Notebook Now Lets You Reference Books, Turn Them Into Different Formats
Google is adding an “Expert Intelligence” feature to Gemini Notebook (formerly known as NotebookLM) that lets users cite and work directly from more than 100,000 books they own through Google Play Books. Those books can be used as sources for things like quizzes, infographics, and Audio Overviews. Digital Trends reports … ⌘ Read more
If I say companies should at least consider the 3 line CC license before scraping my sites, I’m seen as the unreasonable one.
But when I use an alternative forontend, to read feeds on their sites, without having to make yet another free account, now the same companies and their users scream about some unspecified part of their license being violated, threaten legal action and expect me to care about it.
GitHub thread: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/1442#issuecomment-5413651441
Beat Saber is now Steam Frame Verified
One game I was worried about missing from being playable on the Steam Frame was Beat Saber, but that worry is now gone - exciting!
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Linux 7.3 Will Begin Checking USB-C Cables For Alt-Mode Support
The USB and Thunderbolt changes have been merged for Linux 7.3. Two changes stand out for me in the USB subsystem code with Linux 7.3. First, the kernel arguably being long overdue for checking USB-C cables capabilities whether they support alt-modes. Second, a new low-latency USB4STREAM option for lower latency data transfers between USB4-connected systems… ⌘ Read more
Old IBM Driver Joins Insecure SGI Drivers In Being Removed For Linux 7.3
The char/misc changes were merged this week for the Linux 7.3 cycle. While there is a lot of IIO driver churn as usual and updates to the likes of the Google Binder drivers, there continues to be the 2026 trend of removing old hardware drivers that are rarely updated these days and likely have no active users left on the mainline Linux kernel. This trend is further pushed along by the surplus of AI/LLM-generated bug reports and patches … ⌘ Read more
8BitDo announce ‘Ultimate Software Online’ to update controllers in your browser to help Linux gamers
8BitDo say Ultimate Software Online is their attempt to make things easier for Linux gamers, no need to download a standalone firmware updater app now.
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Lossless Scaling Frame Generation on Linux lsfg-vk moves away from GitHub, changes license due to AI slop forks
The developer behind the Lossless Scaling Frame Generation on Linux (lsfg-vk) project has made an announcement about a bunch of major changes.
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Proton Experimental brings fixes for Dragon Age: Inquisition, Far Cry, Warhammer: Vermintide 2
Valve just launched a brand new update for the compatibility layer Proton Experimental - bringing more Windows game compatibility to SteamOS / Linux systems.
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s&box, the game creation platform from Facepunch now has a Linux Beta
Facepunch have announced they plan official Linux support for their Source 2 powered game creation platform, s&box, with an initial Beta out now.
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Sovereign Tech Agency makes a big investment into Flatpak
This is great to see! The Sovereign Tech Agency have made a big investment into the future of Flatpak, the modern Linux packaging format.
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NVIDIA Recommended Driver version 595.99.02 out now for Linux
NVIDIA GPU owners on Linux have a brand new Recommended Driver version 595.99.02 out now with some bug fixes.
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SteamOS 3.8.26 Beta brings a performance fix and various other improvements
Valve released SteamOS 3.8.26 Beta that finally fixes a performance issue that has been present in the Beta builds for a while, along with other bug fixes.
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Canada Hires 48 Scholars Away From Top US Universities
Canada is recruiting 64 researchers to universities across the country (source paywalled; alternative source), including 48 from U.S. institutions such as Harvard, Yale, and MIT. The hires are backed by more than $364 million in government funding and are part of a broader effort to attract researchers in fields such as AI, climate science, and medicine. The New Yor … ⌘ Read more
Is ChatGPT Changing How You’re Writing?
An anonymous reader quotes a report fro SFGATE: From “rizz” to “meat proxy,” words and phrases have fallen in and out of favor for centuries. Culture, politics and technological development have long influenced these trends, and now, new research shows that ChatGPT is beginning to influence how humans communicate. The findings from a team at the Pew Research Center show how, in a short time since OpenA … ⌘ Read more
Sovereign Tech Agency Providing Massive Investment Into Flatpak
The latest beneficiary of Germany’s Sovereign Tech Agency is Flatpak where more than half a million Euros will be invested over the next two years to help with app sandboxing and other functionality… ⌘ Read more
Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS Released With Initial Collection Of Fixes
Canonical today published Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS as their first point release in the long-term support series for the “Resolute Raccoon”… ⌘ Read more
AI’s Memory Crunch Is Coming For Android Apps
Google is imposing new memory-use limits on Android apps as the AI data center boom contributes to a broader memory chip shortage that could leave lower-cost phones with less RAM. Developers will have until February 2027 to meet new thresholds for memory and bitmap usage. To aid developers, Google is adding tools to flag apps that exceed the limits and help prevent slowdowns and … ⌘ Read more
OpenAI Is Developing a ‘Persistent’ AI Agent
Wired reports that OpenAI is testing a new “Persistent mode” for Codex that would let the agent keep working until explicitly “put to sleep,” proactively creating follow-up tasks for itself across sessions and using prior interactions and knowledge of the user to decide what to do next. Code alluding to the feature was spotted in the product’s code base, though it has not been rolled … ⌘ Read more
Intel Linux Driver Orphaned For Limiting RF Exposure To Humans
Over the past year and a half a number of open-source drivers in the Linux kernel have been orphaned as a result of departures from the company. The impact has ranged from the Intel CPU “coretemp” temperature driver being orphaned without a maintainer to other lesser known Intel drivers. Another lesser known Intel driver is now being orphaned with no longer having a maintainer at the company: the Intel Specific Absorption Rate Driver… ⌘ Read more
Ring Says New Encryption Limits What It Can Give Police
Ring is rolling out a new default encryption system called TAKE, or “Throw Away the Key Encryption,” that rotates video keys every five minutes and permanently deletes Ring’s copy after 24 hours. The system is designed to preserve cloud features such as smart alerts and AI video search while limiting what Ring can provide under legal process to non-video account inf … ⌘ Read more
Claude, Codex, and Hermes Installed Unowned Code Inside Corporate Networks
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Documentation files on more than 100 websites are referencing potentially dangerous executable content that gets installed automatically when visited by many AI agents [including Claude, OpenAI’s Codex, and Nous Research’s Hermes]. A few dozen companies, some of them Fortune … ⌘ Read more
AMD Preparing To Enable HDMI 2.1 FRL Support By Default For Linux
It was back in May that the surprising event happened of AMD posting HDMI 2.1 FRL patches for their open-source AMDGPU Linux driver as part of their broader HDMI 2.1 bring-up. For years the open-source HDMI 2.1 support in AMDGPU was blocked by the HDMI Forum but whether it was due to Valve or some other event, the code was finally unblocked. While it’s been part of the kernel since Linux 7.2, it’s been disabled by default – except that is now c … ⌘ Read more
Trump Declares National Emergency to Ban Some Foreign Grid Equipment
Longtime Slashdot reader dhartshorn writes: Foreign-produced “bulk power” equipment is now effectively banned, and the list of what constitutes such equipment is essentially everything used to make up the grid… much of which we are heavily dependent on foreign sources to supply. In a Wednesday executive order, President Trump said forei … ⌘ Read more
Linux 7.3 MGLRU Change Helps Executable Code Stays In Memory, Improving Performance
Following last week’s main set of memory management “MM” related updates for Linux 7.3, another batch of MM code updates were submitted and merged today as we prepare to close out the Linux 7.3 merge window. There are a few optimization patches that stand out along with other mostly small fixes/changes… ⌘ Read more
Panic Passes Trump Tariff Refunds Back to Playdate Customers
Panic is refunding Playdate customers the 19% tariff charges it passed along while the Trump administration’s import duties were in effect, after the Supreme Court ruled the tariffs illegal and the company began receiving refunds from the government. Panic says the money “just [wasn’t] ours to keep.” Ars Technica reports: In an update posted on the Pla … ⌘ Read more
STAR WARS Zero Company is out now
STAR WARS Zero Company has been released today from Bit Reactor / Electronic Arts, and it’s very much Star Wars XCOM with a little extra sauce.
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Nvidia Agrees to Acquire Hugging Face For $13 Billion
The Information reported on Wednesday that Nvidia has agreed to buy open-source platform Hugging Face for $12.9 billion. “Deal talks began after Hugging Face, an open-source AI platform developers use to collaborate, test and share tools, received acquisition interest from another suitor,” reports CNBC, citing the (paywalled) report. Business Insider separately reporte … ⌘ Read more
Operation Bluebird Launches New Twitter
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Operation Bluebird, the Virginia-based startup trying to revive the allegedly abandoned “Twitter” name and logo, announced Monday that it has launched its new social media network: Twitter.now. “We are a small company, we have investors, and we have a product,” Stephen Coates, one of Operation Bluebird’s cofounders, told Ars. “And we have wa … ⌘ Read more
AMD Jumps From ROCm 7.14 To ROCm 10.0 With ROCm.AI
Back in July ROCm 7.14 was announced as their new production release built atop TheRock build system and introducing Ryzen AI 400 series support. The versioning choice was a bit odd since ROCm 7.2 was the stable release at the time while ROCm 7.9+ turned into “tech preview” releases. With ROCm 7.14, it was declared stable. In clearing up that versioning mess, they have done a major version bump… to ROCm 10.0… ⌘ Read more
Btrfs, EXT4, F2FS & XFS On Linux 7.2 vs. Linux 7.3 Performance
Earlier this week I showed off some of the very nice Btrfs performance gains on Linux 7.3. For those wondering what kernel optimizations may have carried over to other file-systems or other file-system specific enhancements, here are Linux 7.2 vs. 7.3 Git performance benchmarks across Btrfs, EXT4, F2FS, and XFS on the same system. ⌘ Read more
How Meta’s Plan To Replace Workers With AI Agents Fell Apart
Reuters reports that Meta explored shrinking some teams by as much as 60% as part of an “AI native” restructuring plan that would shift much of employees’ day-to-day work to AI agents and smaller teams of human “builders.” But the effort quickly ran into employee revolt and disappointing productivity gains, leading Zuckerberg to scrap a planned second wav … ⌘ Read more
Linux 7.3 Adds RWF_DONTCACHE Support For Block Devices
With the never-ending quest for greater I/O performance in the HPC space and the demands all the more relentless in the AI era, the Linux kernel block subsystem activity continues to be as vibrant as ever along with the ongoing innovations in the IO_uring space… ⌘ Read more
Lemonade 11.8 Makes It Easy To Run DeepSeek V4 Flash On AMD Strix Halo
For those interested in making use of the recently released DeepSeek V4 Flash model, AMD developers have released Lemonade 11.8 that now makes it rather trivial to get DeepSeek V4 Flash up and running on AMD Ryzen AI+ Max “Strix Halo” systems… ⌘ Read more
Ride a sentient motorcycle-plane to make deliveries in Into the Wind
Into the Wind was not even remotely on my radar until now, but after seeing it during the Future Games Show I am convinced it’s going to be great.
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The new 18 minute Fable gameplay has sold me - I want it
Fable is still a little while away but we’ve been given our best look at it yet with a new 18 minute video.
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Libgcrypt 1.12.3 Brings Intel SM3 / SM4 / SHA512 Optimizations
Werner Koch announced today the release of Libgcrypt 1.12.3 with various bug fixes and more exciting are the performance improvements… ⌘ Read more
Gun Fu action game SPINE looks super-slick in the new trailer, releasing in 2027
Gun Fu action game SPINE wasn’t on my radar at all until now, but it’s gone right into my wishlist for the insanely slick looking action.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/gun-fu-action-game-spine-looks-super-slick-in-the-new-trailer- … ⌘ Read more
More Than 100 Water Systems Were Hit In July Cyberattacks
CISA says more than 100 internet-exposed U.S. water and wastewater systems were targeted in July, often through programmable logic controllers connected directly to cellular modems. “That’s the first time the feds have put a number on the digital intrusions, but they have yet to attribute the campaign, widely suspected to be linked to Iran, to a particular group … ⌘ Read more
Slayblade review - spinning top battles
Remember Beyblades? Imagine that in a chill roguelite. Slayblade is a spinning battle-top game about trying to become king of the streets.
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Intel ANV Driver Improves Vulkan Video H.265 Decoding
Merged back in 2023 was Intel ANV Vulkan Video support for H.265 decoding. But it’s been slightly out of compliant with the Vulkan spec, which is now fixed with the newest code for Mesa 26.3 by engaging the HuC firmware… ⌘ Read more
AppArmor In Linux 7.3 Adds Support For User-Space Compressed Policies
The AppArmor improvements have been merged for Linux 7.3 for this kernel security module providing per-program Linux application security controls around system resources. Most notable this cycle is being able to load user-space compressed policies… ⌘ Read more
LLVM Improves Zen 1 / Zen 2 Support To Deal With “Notoriously Bad” PDEP/PEXT
The LLVM/Clang compiler toolchain merged overnight better support for the nearly decade-old AMD Zen 1 processors and also helps with Zen+ and Zen 2 processors too. This latest work thanks to the open-source community is for providing more informed instruction scheduling around PDEP and PEXT that end up being quite costly for these original Zen processors… ⌘ Read more
NFS Improvements Arrive For Linux 7.3
The Network File-System (NFS) improvements for both the client and server code have been merged for the nearly-over Linux 7.3 merge window… ⌘ Read more
Outpost building strategy game Star Trek: Outposts Unknown launches October 20
Star Trek: Outposts Unknown from Magic Fuel Games and Playstack has a new trailer and release date confirmed for October 20th.
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Kingdom III: Rising Realms, Bye Bye Bonnie and more fun stuff revealed by Raw Fury
Game publisher Raw Fury recently revealed multiple great looking games including Kingdom III: Rising Realms and Bye Bye Bonnie.
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PvPvE extraction-style raid shooter Active Matter arrives September 15
Matter Team / Gaijin Network Ltd have revealed that Active Matter, their PvPvE extraction-style raid shooter, will be releasing September 15th.
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