Jagex are now publishing Melvor Idle 2 as an official RuneScape game
Melvor Idle 2 (now Melvor Idle 2: A RuneScape Adventure) massively expands on the very popular original game and now has publishing help.
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System76 tease the new mini Thelio Prime Desktop coming in November
System76 have been busy cooking, with a teaser of their new mini Thelio Prime Desktop that will be launching November 18th.
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GOG and Retrovibe team up for indie game publishing
Indie game publisher Retrovibe and GOG are formally teaming up to offer more ways for indie game developers to get published.
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NVIDIA Vera Single vs. Dual Socket CPU Performance
For those curious how NVIDIA Vera is scaling between single and dual socket deployments, here are some benchmarks I carried out a while back exploring the power and performance from one to two Vera CPUs. ⌘ Read more
Linux 7.4 Networking Brings Hardware Pacing Offload, New Drivers & More Performance
The many Linux wired and wireless networking driver improvements were merged this week for the ongoing Linux 7.4 merge window…. ⌘ Read more
No Man’s Sky Forsaken update brings Seamless Warping, New Cockpits, Forsaken Traders and more
Somehow, Hello Games keep on adding impressive new bits into their ageing space survival game, with the No Man’s Sky Forsaken update out now.
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Build up your spooky game collection with the Horror Trifectas Humble Bundle
A great game bundle has arrived for fans of spooky games, just in time for Halloween in the Horror Trifectas Humble Bundle.
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CachyOS Linux working on a dedicated kernel for supporting Easy Anti-Cheat v2
With the new Epic Games Launcher supported on Linux, along with a remade Easy Anti-Cheat coming, the CachyOS team are working on kernel support for EAC v2.
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Google Struggling to Make AI Mode Searches Pay
Alphabet shares fell nearly 10% after Google disclosed that searches through its AI Mode generate less revenue than traditional search, even as overall search revenue grew 12% year over year to $63.25 billion. The Register reports: Alphabet on Wednesday reported its Q3 results, which included news that its year-over-year search query growth rate is the highest it’s been in the last … ⌘ Read more
Ubuntu Core Desktop has been restarted with a dedicated team with plans to improve Linux gaming
Ubuntu Core Desktop is Canonical’s immutable version of Ubuntu Linux, and they’re back to working on it for desktop users.
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Discord servers are set to become more public for web searches
One long-standing issue with platforms like Discord is how they’re like a walled-garden, but part of that is going to be changing soon.
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Mesa 26.2.6 brings fixes for The Witcher 3 Remastered and various other Linux driver issues
Mesa 26.2.6 is out now as the latest upgrade for Linux open source graphics drivers, focused on fixing up some bugs reported.
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AMD’s ROCm HRX Loom v0.1 Released For Targeting AMD CPUs, GPUs & NPUs
At this year’s AMD Advancing AI event Hyperloom was announced among the ROCm improvements to expect. Hyperloom aims for agentic workload optimizations and more with quote powerful abilities if everything works out right. As part of the latest round of ROCm advancements, the Loom SDK v0.1 release was released today… ⌘ Read more
DLSS Updater 5.2 released with AMD FSR 4.1.2 support
DLSS Updater enables you to scan your system for games, and then replace their upscaling and frame-generation with updated versions or something else entirely.
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D7VK 2.4 released along with GXVK for Vulkan-based 3Dfx Glide
A nice surprise for more retro gaming! Along with the release of D7VK 2.4 for older Direct3D, we also now have GXVK for Vulkan-based 3Dfx Glide.
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FAT32 File-System Seeing As Much As 265x Improvement With Linux 7.4
A change merged for Linux 7.4 is showing some mighty big speed-ups for the FAT32 file-system… ⌘ Read more
Graphics/NPU Driver Changes Already Begin Queuing Up For What Will Be Linux 7.5
Since last week drm-misc-next pull requests have already been sent out to DRM-Next to begin staging new feature code for what’s intended for the Linux 7.5 kernel cycle kicking off at the end of the year… ⌘ Read more
KSMBD Adds New Options With Linux 7.4
A number of improvements to KSMBD, the in-kernel SMB3 file server, were merged for the Linux 7.4 kernel… ⌘ Read more
Ink Droplets In Motion Snag Top Prize In Nikon Small World Contest
A 25-year-old German photographer won the 2026 Nikon Small World competition with a microscopic image freezing ink droplets in midair as an inkjet printer deposits them onto paper. Ars Technica reports that Ole Bielfeldt “beat out 1,802 other entries hailing from 69 different countries.” From the report: Bielfeldt became interested in photomicrogr … ⌘ Read more
Bank of America Kindly Asks That You Don’t Share Your Password With Your AI Assistant
Longtime Slashdot reader schwit1 shares a report from TechCrunch: In an email blast to customers titled “Protecting your finances in the Al World,” Bank of America urged customers to never share their username and password with another person or an outside service, “including an Al-enabled tool or agent tha … ⌘ Read more
GXVK: 3Dfx Glide API Implemented Atop Vulkan For Modern Usage
The open-source D7VK project that implements the Direct3D 7 / 6 / 5 / 3 APIs atop the Vulkan API for faster, modern performance is out with a new release. This new D7VK 2.4 release came as a bit of a surprise since it was just last month D7VK announced its maturity status and more or less in maintenance mode. But brought up in today’s D7VK 2.4 announcement is an even bigger surprise: there’s now an implementation of the 3Dfx Glide API atop Vulkan… ⌘ Read more
Anthropic Engineer Declares the Coding Interview Dead
An Anthropic engineering manager says he has stopped using traditional coding interviews because AI can now outperform candidates on the kinds of programming challenges they typically contain. “There’s no more point in giving you a little React challenge than there is in quizzing people about assembly; Claude is now better at both,” said Felix Rieseberg in a blog post. “Ou … ⌘ Read more
Massive Leak Exposes 41,000 Homeland Security Workers
A massive leak has exposed records tied to more than 41,000 DHS employees and contractors, including roughly 10,000 ICE personnel. The data, reportedly taken from DHS’s Okta login system, reveals phone numbers, email and office addresses, reporting relationships, and permission groups associated with undercover operations, wiretapping and surveillance tools. Wired repor … ⌘ Read more
Amazon Puts a Camera In Its Echo Studio So Alexa Can See
Amazon has added a camera to its Echo Studio speaker, allowing Alexa to visually identify objects, help with tasks and remotely monitor a room. For those concerned about privacy, Amazon is keeping a camera-free version available. The Next Web reports: The camera speaker ships today for $249.99. Hold up a board game box and Alexa can explain the rules, or show it a … ⌘ Read more
Are AI Execs Too Out of Touch To Build For the General Public?
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Former Yahoo CEO and early Google engineer Marissa Mayer is catching a lot of flak for how she uses AI. In an interview about her new app Dazzle, an AI assistant that learns from your camera roll, Mayer poses what she believes is an impressive flex for the product: It helped her come up with three bullet … ⌘ Read more
Linux Kernel Developers Considering Removal Of KGDB Debugging Functionality
Merged to the kernel all the way back in Linux 2.6.26 in 2008 was KGDB for improving the kernel debugging experience. KGDB works in conjunction with the GNU Debugger (GDB) to debug the kernel in a similar fashion to user-space debugging. KGDB requires the use of a second computer connected via serial or network cable. KGDB isn’t widely used in recent years and a patch was floated today to remove it from the Linux kernel… ⌘ Read more
Amazon Finds ‘Tokenmaxxing’ Lacks Productivity Gains
Ancient Slashdot reader Gilmoure shares a report from Tom’s Hardware, adding: “Huh. Looks like consuming one’s own slop does not turn the wheels of industry.” From the report: Amazon wants its engineers to quit chasing token counts, warning that heavy AI usage does not automatically mean better work. In updated engineering guidelines published on October 27, the company l … ⌘ Read more
Apple Announces Its First Touchscreen MacBook Pro
Apple has unveiled its first touchscreen MacBook Pro, reversing a position the company held for more than 15 years that touchscreens were poorly suited for laptops. 9to5Mac reports: The new machine features a light-up Apple logo, tandem OLED, and touch input on the display. It runs on the M5 Pro and M5 Max chips, like the existing MacBook Pro models without OLED touch dis … ⌘ Read more
System76 Introducing AMD-Powered Linux Small PC
System76 began teasing today the new Thelio Prime Desktop as an AMD-powered Linux mini PC that will begin shipping in November… ⌘ Read more
EMACS Turns 50
“EMACS, the mother of all editors, turns 50!” writes Slashdot reader dr_jerry, sharing a report from MIT Technology Review: Programming used to be a very different experience from the one we know today. In fact, the first programmers didn’t write code at all; the six women who worked on the ENIAC, one of the world’s first computers, at the University of Pennsylvania in 1946 did it by physically configuring switches, cables, and plugboards.
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FCC Approves Amazon Leo’s $11.5 Billion Acquisition of Globalstar
The FCC has approved (PDF) Amazon Leo’s $11.5 billion acquisition of satellite operator Globalstar, giving the Starlink rival additional infrastructure and spectrum to expand into direct-to-device satellite connectivity. Engadget reports: You may not know Globalstar but have possibly used its services, as the company provides Apple’s emergency … ⌘ Read more
AMD FSR SDK 2.4 is out with FSR Upscaling 4.1.2 for older hardware and Vulkan support
AMD FSR SDK 2.4 is now officially out bringing the newer FSR Upscaling 4.1.2 for older Radeon GPUs and Ryzen APUs, along with Vulkan support for newer FSR.
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CONTROL Resonant gets a DRM-free release on GOG
Good news for fans of DRM-free gaming as the popular recent release of CONTROL Resonant is now available on GOG.com.
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Canonical Reviving Their Immutable Ubuntu Core Desktop
Canonical engineers back in 2023 outlined plans for Ubuntu Core Desktop as their immutable Linux desktop. They made some good initial progress but since 2024 it went rather silent. Now they are reviving Ubuntu Core Desktop as their immutable desktop OS offering and with grand plans for the future… ⌘ Read more
Google Begins Certifying Registered App Stores For Android
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Running an app ecosystem has gotten a lot more complex for Google after its loss in the Epic Games antitrust case. While U.S. users can access app stores in Google Play by court order, international users will use Google’s voluntary Registered App Stores program. Google has announced that stores wishing … ⌘ Read more
CachyOS vs. Fedora 45 vs. Ubuntu 26.10 Performance On AMD Ryzen 9
With the recently released Ubuntu 26.10 and the nearly-released Fedora Workstation 45, Phoronix readers have begun inquiring about fresh benchmarks looking at how they stack up against the performance-optimized, Arch Linux based CachyOS. Up today are our first CachyOS vs. Fedora 45 vs. Ubuntu 26.10 benchmarks on an AMD Ryzen 9 9900X3D2 desktop system. ⌘ Read more
NetBSD Adds Alternative Text Editor To vi & xedit For Easing New Users
NetBSD-current has added a new command line text editor to its base set of packages for helping out new users as an alternative to their vi and xedit editors currently included… ⌘ Read more
X.Org XCB Co-Creator Praises Wayland’s Protocol Design
Open-source developer Jamey Sharp who is a longtime X.Org developer and co-creator of the X protocol C-language Binding (XCB) finally had the need to write a Wayland client and ended up praising its design… ⌘ Read more
Arriving this Winter, the frog town-building game Croakwood from the Parkitect devs looks lovely
Croakwood, the relaxed frog town-building and management game from the Parkitect devs has a newish trailer out now and it arrives sometime this Winter.
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Provenance Time Proposed As A New Timestamp For Linux
While the Linux kernel and various file-system drivers already support the notion of the birth time for tracking a file/directory’s birth/creation time, a slightly different provenance time “ptime” is now being proposed for the Linux kernel… ⌘ Read more
Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor - Knockout Expansion arrives November 17
The popular bullet heaven survivor-like Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor is set for the Knockout Expansion to arrive on November 17th.
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DayZ creators RocketWerkz reveal Gruntz, a multiplayer survival game inspired by Space Station 13
DayZ creator Dean Hall of RocketWerkz just announced Gruntz, a top-down multiplayer horde survival game inspired by Space Station 13.
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Hyprland 0.57 Released With Compiz Inspired Wobbly Windows
For those that want to reminisce over the days long ago of Compiz and Beryl on the Linux desktop, the Hyprland 0.57 Wayland compositor released today and has added Compiz-inspired wobbly windows support… ⌘ Read more
Alternate history 1950s Soviet Kyiv shooter You Are Empty: Absolute Edition released
ZOOM Platform have revived another retro game here, with You Are Empty: Absolute Edition getting released with its alternate history 1950s Soviet Kyiv.
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Dark Messiah of Might & Magic: Community Edition is coming to Steam with major upgrades for the classic
The Arkane Studios and Ubisoft classic Dark Messiah of Might & Magic was originally released 20 years ago, and now a new overhaul mod is on the way.
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Astronomers May Have Just Discovered Our Solar System’s Sixth Dwarf Planet
Astronomers using the Vera C. Rubin Observatory have discovered 2026 ED138, a large object beyond Neptune that could become the solar system’s sixth recognized dwarf planet if further observations confirm it is massive enough to be round. Located about 46 times farther from the Sun than Earth, the object is estimated to be 60 … ⌘ Read more
VKD3D-Proton 3.1 brings a new stable release, ahead of more important changes to come
VKD3D-Proton is one of the major parts of Valve’s Proton, that enables tons of Direct3D 12 games to run well on SteamOS / Linux. Version 3.1 is out now!
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VKD3D-Proton 3.1 Released With New Features Ahead Of Big v3.2 Release
Hans-Kristian Arntzen of Valve’s Linux team just tagged the VKD3D-Proton 3.1 release. This version comes with a number of new features and performance optimizations while being the stable point ahead of VKD3D-Proton beginning to see a lot of new feature code for what will then become VKD3D-Proton 3.2… ⌘ Read more
GhostBSD 26.2 Released As FreeBSD 15.1 Powered OS With New Installer
GhostBSD 26.2 is out as the latest feature release of this FreeBSD-powered desktop operating system… ⌘ Read more
Retiring BSD-Compress Proposed For Linux PPP Network Code
A patch has been proposed to remove the BSD-Compress support from the Linux kernel for the Linux networking point-to-point protocol (PPP) due to being unmaintained and having fundamental issues with the code that can lead to a fatal error… ⌘ Read more