AMD Ryzen Zen 6 CPU Power Values Being Further Tuned For Linux
AMD engineers continue to prepare for upcoming Zen 6 powered Ryzen client processors on Linux… ⌘ Read more
PS1-inspired retro horror Bleach & Blood has you try to survive a night shift in a laundromat
Bleach & Blood is another interesting retro horror slayer for fans of the PS1 era style, with a demo available to play it right now.
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Devil May Cry HD Collection will now work properly on SteamOS / Linux
Capcom recently gave Devil May Cry HD Collection a small update, and as a result it will now work properly on SteamOS / Linux systems.
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The deeper you go the darker it gets in the roguelike shoot ‘em up Earth Atlantis Abyss
Earth Atlantis Abyss is a shoot ‘em up roguelike about going deeper than is sensible, the dark depths look a bit spooky.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/the-deeper-you-go-the-darker-it-gets-in-the-roguelike-shoot-em-u … ⌘ Read more
Test your brain with the Programming Puzzles Humble Bundle
Ready to test your brain and make something cool? The Programming Puzzles Humble Bundle is live with 7 highly rated games included.
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The truly hilarious co-op game How to Fish gets a first content update
How to Fish is a co-op game about fishing in the most ridiculous way with explosive weapons, it’s hilarious and now bigger and better.
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Minecraft Dungeons II doesn’t seem to run on SteamOS / Linux
Minecraft Dungeons II is about to release today and while the first game works, it currently appears that there’s issues running the sequel on SteamOS / Linux.
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ACE COMBAT 8: WINGS OF THEVE shows online play not working on SteamOS / Linux
ACE COMBAT 8: WINGS OF THEVE is now in Advanced Access, and while the single-player works the online play appears blocked on SteamOS / Linux.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/ace-combat-8-wings-of-theve-shows-online-play-not-working-on-stea … ⌘ Read more
Microbes Could Survive On Saturn’s Moon Enceladus
New research suggests Enceladus may be an especially promising place to search for extraterrestrial life: microbes similar to those found near Earth’s hydrothermal vents survived in lab conditions designed to mimic the Saturnian moon’s subsurface ocean. A separate study also found that material blasted from Enceladus’ plumes may naturally separate and concentrate salts, org … ⌘ Read more
Bananas That Don’t Go Brown To Hit Supermarkets Thanks to DNA Editing
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: It is the bane of every fruit bowl: sliced banana that turns brown before it has reached the table. But such woes could soon be a thing of the past, with gene-edited bananas that keep their freshly peeled color now one step closer to reaching British shoppers. According to Tropic, … ⌘ Read more
“Shiva” Being Developed For Mesa Vulkan Drivers, Akin To Gallium3D
Shiva is entering development for Mesa Vulkan drivers as a new framework akin to Gallium3D but for Vulkan drivers rather than OpenGL. It’s going to be some time before the work will come to fruition but should hopefully lead to more code sharing and a better Mesa Vulkan driver development experience in the future… ⌘ Read more
China Broadens Travel Curbs To Encompass Family of Top AI Talent
Longtime Slashdot reader schwit1 shares a report from Business Standard: China has expanded overseas travel restrictions for top AI professionals in private firms to include the families of key personnel, further tightening measures designed to prevent the outflow of critical know-how and information to the US. Government agencies have recently begun … ⌘ Read more
AMD Acquires Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs For $8.2 Billion
AMD has agreed to acquire Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs for about $8.2 billion in stock, making it the chipmaker’s second-largest acquisition and giving it a major foothold in “world models” that simulate 3D environments for robotics and other physically grounded AI. CNBC reports: AI researchers expect world models will be able to help develop robots and other physically-grounded a … ⌘ Read more
TikTok to Pay Alabama $100 Million, Limit Teen Use In First State Settlement
TikTok has agreed to pay Alabama at least $100 million and adopt new restrictions for teenage users, including a two-hour daily limit, overnight access restrictions, stronger age verification, a ban on beauty filters, and an option for a non-personalized feed. The settlement could grow to as much as $300 million if enough oth … ⌘ Read more
Data Center Developer Offers $10,000 Checks To Nearby Households
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Tom’s Hardware: NorthPoint Development wants to build a data center on 1,300 acres in the Pocono foothills, near Hazle Township, Pennsylvania. As well as seeking to charm the local government with various funding packages, it has proposed paying checks of $10,000 per household. Despite the Pennsylvania town’s … ⌘ Read more
NVIDIA Developing “Display Config Server” To Improve Linux/Wayland On Display Walls
As an initiative from NVIDIA for improving the Linux ecosystem outside the world of AI, they have been developing Display-Config-Server as a new solution to help enhance the Linux capabilities for complex display walls… ⌘ Read more
SIMDjson 5.0 Released: Still Making JSON Parsing Even Faster
SIMDjson is the open-source, high performance JSON parser that surprisingly began making use of AVX-512 to deliver big performance gains years ago. SIMDjson has continued further refining itself to deliver even greater speeds and out today is SIMDjson 5.0… ⌘ Read more
Meta Taps MongoDB CEO Desai to Drive Enterprise AI Push
Meta has hired MongoDB CEO Chirantan “CJ” Desai to lead a new enterprise AI business aimed at turning Meta’s models, agents and tools into products companies can deploy themselves. Reuters reports: Desai, a veteran technology executive, took over the role from Dev Ittycheria. MongoDB has appointed Ittycheria as interim CEO as it searches for a permanent repl … ⌘ Read more
Nvidia Unveils AI Agent Safety Platform With Hardware-Based Watchdog
wiredmikey shares a report from SecurityWeek: Nvidia on Monday announced the Open Agent Safety Platform, which combines open source software and a reference system design to keep AI agents within set boundaries from testing through deployment. The chipmaker explained that the platform pairs the open-source OpenShell runtime with Sentry, an o … ⌘ Read more
Amazon Evaluating Drone Deliveries In Australia, Asia
Amazon is preparing to expand Prime Air drone deliveries into Australia and potentially other Asia-Pacific markets, with a new regulatory role tasked with securing the approvals needed to launch service there. The Register reports: “As Prime Air evaluates Australia and other countries, we are hiring a Head of Regulatory Approvals, Australia – the person responsible fo … ⌘ Read more
Fedora 45 To Feature Smoother Experience For Snapdragon X1 Laptops
Qualcomm hiring one of Red Hat’s top x86_64 Linux laptop experts last year, Hans de Goede, is indeed having a positive benefit on enhancing the Fedora Linux support for Qualcomm Snapdragon X powered hardware… ⌘ Read more
Bill Gates Says an AI ‘Kill Switch’ Isn’t Enough
Bill Gates said an AI “kill switch” alone would be insufficient to address the technology’s risks. “The kill switch is, that’s kind of a weird thing. It’s not enough to have a kill switch,” the Microsoft co-founder said in an interview that aired Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” He said the more immediate concern is people using AI for cyberattacks or bioterrorism rather than systems … ⌘ Read more
SpaceX Launches Starship Into Orbit
SpaceX’s Starship reached orbit for the first time, successfully deploying 26 operational Starlink V3 satellites after overcoming an early Raptor 3 engine shutdown during ascent. “SpaceX plans to eventually deploy 100,000 upgraded Starlink V3s to expand the company’s wireless satellite internet services,” notes Space.com. Here’s the latest update from the report:
SpaceX has decided to return Starship … ⌘ Read more
Walmart Says It’s Not Using Personal Info To Set Prices As It Expands Digital Shelf Labels
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Associated Press: Walmart is aiming to assuage customers’ fears about its new pricing technology as it rolls out digital price labels at its stores. In a statement posted on the company’s website, Walmart’s CEO John Furner vowed that the Bentonville, Ar … ⌘ Read more
Firefox 157 Now Available With Visual Refresh, WebRTC Hardware AV1 Decode
As part of the Mozilla Firefox bi-weekly release regiment, the Firefox 157 binaries are now available for this open-source web browser… ⌘ Read more
Space bullet heaven roguelike Sublight is full of chaotic battles
Sublight is a new Early Access release from CODEBREW SOFTWARE LTD, bringing survivor-likes into the space age. I took a look to see what I thought.
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Flatpak 1.18.4 Released With Important Security Fixes
Flatpak 1.18.4 is out today with a number of high profile security fixes for this app sandboxing and distribution tech… ⌘ Read more
NVIDIA Vera SMT Performance Benchmarks
Recently I was provided remote access to a NVIDIA Vera server with the dual socket Vera CPU Superchip providing 176 Olympus cores plus with NVIDIA’s Spatial Multithreading “SMT” implementation providing 352 total threads. With this benchmarking was free rein for testing, including CPU power and frequency monitoring. Over the next few weeks will be a number of articles looking at different areas of NVIDIA Vera performance. One of the areas I was most eager to test was looking at Ver … ⌘ Read more
AMD PerfOpt To Deliver New Performance Optimization For AMD iGPUs With Linux 7.4
Those using AMD integrated graphics on Linux such as the beefy Ryzen AI Max+ Strix Halo and Gorgon Halo hardware will be able to enjoy even better performance with the upcoming Linux 7.4 kernel… ⌘ Read more
Linux 7.4 To Introduce The Steal Governor For Helping Virtualized Workloads
Now queued up for introduction in the Linux 7.4 merge window later in October is the steal governor driver for preferred CPUs and steal-driven vCPU backoff for today’s virtualized world… ⌘ Read more
Legacy Code is a bizarre looking mechanical creature action-physics sim
Legacy Code is one of the more quirky games to enter the GamingOnLinux inbox recently, where you build up a mechanical creature in a action-physics sim.
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Minecraft LIVE Fall 2026 reveals a new dimension for Minecraft called The Sift
The first new Minecraft dimension in over 14 years – joining the Overworld, the Nether and the End is The Sift.
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Shotcut 26.9 Video Editor Brings UI Improvements, Automatic Audio Ducking
Following the earlier Shotcut 26.9 beta at the beginning of September, the open-source developers behind the open-source non-linear video editor are out with the Shotcut 26.9 stable release… ⌘ Read more
King in the Mountain is like if Dwarf Fortress was a mini casual incremental
Time for you to check out King in the Mountain if you like casual incremental games, with a demo available that works great on Linux systems.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/king-in-the-mountain-is-like-if-dwarf-fortress-was-a-mini-casual … ⌘ Read more
Are AI Chatbots Spreading Misinformation to US Voters?
Are AI chatbots quietly shaping the perceptions of U.S. voters? Voters trying to educate themselves about candidates “are unknowingly being served partisan talking points in the guise of neutral news summaries,” write two news researchers in Politico magazine:
Leading AI chatbots cite partisan websites masquerading as independent local news outlets nearly half o … ⌘ Read more
PlayStation 3 emulator RPCS3 gets a new showcase of big improvements
RPCS3 is a multi-platform open-source Sony PlayStation 3 emulator that keeps pulling in some massive improvements - check out their new showcase.
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Hytale Chapter 1 arrives October 12 with lots of new content
Hytale is set for a huge content expansion with Chapter 1 arriving October 12th, bringing the first hand-crafted dungeon and a multi-phase boss fight.
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FEX code cache enabled for Proton Experimental (ARM) to improve frame timings
Valve have upgraded Proton Experimental (ARM) with a feature that should hopefully improve some frame timings for devices like the Steam Frame.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/fex-code-cache-enabled-for-proton-experimental-arm-to-improve-frame- … ⌘ Read more
Steam Beta fixes non-Steam games to failing to launch
Now and then a fresh Steam Beta comes with issues - and for Linux, Valve recently broke non-Steam games.
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Apple Faces $5.7 Billion Patent Infringement Verdict Over iPhone And Apple Watch Haptics
“A federal jury in San Diego awarded Taction Technology more than $5.7 billion in damages Friday after finding that Apple infringed claims from two haptics patents,”
reports CNBC:
Taction sued Apple in 2021 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California. The company alleged that … ⌘ Read more
Just How Big is the AI Buildout - and How Risky?
A new Brookings Institution study notes the “strikingly physical” economic footprint of AI’s buildout, from specialized chips and electricity to purpose-built data centers. (Two-thirds of a data center’s costs are IT equipment, with one-third going to real estate and its associated power infrastructure.) “At an average of 3.63 percent of GDP per year, the projected buildout would be l … ⌘ Read more
Linux 7.3-rc5 Released: “Another Week, Another Large RC”
In working toward the stable Linux 7.3 kernel release hopefully on 18 October, out today is Linux 7.3-rc5 as the newest weekly test candidate… ⌘ Read more
Waymo Says Its Self-Driving Cars Reduced Injury-Causing Accidents by 82%
Waymo’s self-driving car technology “continues to outperform human benchmarks,” the company claimed this week. “It was involved in 841 fewer injury-causing crashes — an 82% reduction compared to human drivers.”
Electrek reports:
We’ve seen various Waymo crash data before, with Waymo claiming crash reductions. That’s all well and … ⌘ Read more
Budgie 10.10.3 Released With Favorites In Budgie Menu, Labwc Bridge Improvements
Budgie 10.10.3 is out today as the newest point release to this open-source desktop… ⌘ Read more
After Dozens of Incidents at OpenAI and Anthropic, OpenAI Pauses Model Training to Build More Safeguards
“OpenAI said it has paused training of its latest AI models,” reports the Associated Press, “as reports of AI agents going rogue mount.”
The decision to halt development came just hours after the company disclosed Friday that it was reviewing several incidents from the summ … ⌘ Read more
Linux Kernel’s LZ4 Compression Code Being Resynced For Better Performance & Cleanliness
In addition to the Linux kernel’s Zstd compression code being improved, the LZ4 compression code within the kernel tree is also seeing a separate set of enhancements… ⌘ Read more
Intel Delivers A Significant Memory Hotplugging Performance Optimization For Linux
Adding to the features expected to land for Linux 7.4 is a significant performance optimization for the memory hotplugging speed for adding additional RAM. In particular, the memory hotplugging being most applicable for cases like expanding the amount of memory for VMs or in today’s CXL world for adding additional system memory… ⌘ Read more
New Linux Patches For Supporting Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon G14’s Second Webcam
For those considering Lenovo’s recently launched and beautifully crafted ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 14 laptop powered by Intel Core Ultra Series 3 “Panther Lake”, one of the lingering missing features under Linux will hopefully soon be addressed: its second web camera… ⌘ Read more
New Patch Series Working Toward DRBD 9 Support In The Linux Kernel
Earlier this year developers at LINBIT began working toward a goal of upstreaming ~15 years worth of their Distributed Replicated Block Device changes into the mainline Linux kernel. That major update has yet to land but sent out this week was a new patch series in preparing the trek toward introducing DRBD 9 support in the mainline kernel… ⌘ Read more
New Tin-based Solar Cells Trap Heat 1,000 Times Longer, Could Beat 33% Limit
Could this push solar cell efficiency beyond the theoretical 33% limit? Interesting Engineering reports:
Researchers at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands found that tin-based perovskite solar cells can slow heat loss from high-energy “hot electrons…”
When sunlight strikes a panel, photons jump-start elect … ⌘ Read more