Qualcomm Posts Patches For Enabling GPU Support In Their Snapdragon X2 Mahua SoC
Yesterday Qualcomm posted open-source GPU driver patches for their Adreno 850 GPU one day after being announced with the Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6. Yesterday Qualcomm also announced their Snapdragon X2 Linux support plans. Today they have posted the GPU enablement patches for what’s found in the Mahua SoC for lower-tier Snapdragon X2 SoCs… ⌘ Read more
People Training OpenAI’s AI Fired For Using AI To Train the AI
404 Media reports “multiple contractors hired to improve OpenAI’s models have been fired for using AI to train the AI:
That’s not great for the models themselves, but there is also obviously a great irony in AI training companies working for OpenAI firing people for using AI when OpenAI’s whole thing is to make people use AI at work… OpenAI declined to … ⌘ Read more
ReactOS Lands Significant DirectX Stack Update From Wine For Enabling More Games
The open-source ReactOS project striving to provide binary compatibility with Microsoft Windows applications/games as well as drivers took a huge step forward today with landing a significant update to its DirectX stack from code leveraged from the Wine project… ⌘ Read more
Five Police Officers Criminally Charged for Misusing Flock Cameras in Indianapolis
“Nationwide, at least 100 police department employees have been charged with or accused of misusing license-plate readers for unauthorized purposes,” reports the Washington Post. They cite their past investigations “based on thousands of pages of police and court records,” which found that “In many of these case … ⌘ Read more
Ubuntu 26.10 Delivers Some Nice Gains For Intel Panther Lake / Framework Laptop 13 Pro
For those with a Framework Laptop 13 Pro or another Intel Core Ultra Series 3 “Panther Lake” laptop, the upcoming Ubuntu 26.10 release is delivering some nice out-of-the-box improvements over Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. ⌘ Read more
COSMIC Epoch 1.9 Brings New Image Viewer & On-Screen Keyboard
COSMIC Epoch 1.9 was released last night as the newest version of the System76-sponsored, Rust-based desktop environment. COSMIC Epoch 1.9 release notes only became available today and it’s a big one with new apps and improvements to existing offerings… ⌘ Read more
AMD Posts GCC Compiler Patches For AVX10V1AUX ISA Support
Following their recent AVX10_V2_AUX support for GCC as part of the bring-up for the AI Compute Extensions “ACE” in GCC 17, AMD compiler engineers this week posted the initial patches for enabling the AVX10V1AUX ISA support… ⌘ Read more
CONTROL Resonant launches - works on SteamOS but Unsupported on Steam Deck
Despite what Remedy Entertainment said before releasing CONTROL Resonant, it does not run well at all on Steam Deck but will work on other SteamOS systems.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/control-resonant-launches-works-on-steamos-but-unsupporte … ⌘ Read more
OpenAI, Anthropic CEOs Urge UN Countries to Cooperate on AI Safety Standards
“The heads of major AI firms pleaded with the United Nations on Wednesday to save the world or at least its people — by somehow regulating the fast-expanding technology that they have been designing,” writes the Associated Press.
“If managed poorly, I even believe AI could be a risk to humanity as a whole,” said Dario Amodei, c … ⌘ Read more
KDE Plasma 6.8 Beta 2 Released With Union Theming Engine Maturing
Following the KDE Plasma 6.8 Beta from earlier this month, the second and last beta of the upcoming Plasma 6.8 desktop is now available for testing… ⌘ Read more
Faugus Launcher 2.4.0 adds a backup system, new game overviews and more customization
Faugus Launcher is easily becoming one of the absolute coolest looking ways to manage games from different launchers on SteamOS / Linux.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/faugus-launcher-2-4-0-adds-a-backup-system-new-game-o … ⌘ Read more
AlmaLinux Rolls Out New Software/Hardware Certification Portal, Self-Certify App
Two years ago RHEL-derived AlmaLinux announced a hardware certification program as part of their Certification Special Interest Group (SIG). They have now expanded their hardware certification program to include third-party software certification on AlmaLinux too plus a new app that users can install for self-certifying their system… ⌘ Read more
Linux Kernel Introducing New Taint Due To Fuzzing Bots Yielding Impractical Bug Reports
The Linux kernel is having to introduce a new taint flag “TAINT_FORCED_BIND” to deal with fuzzing bots like Syzbot abusing Linux’s bind/unbind sysfs functionality and generating bug reports for impractical and not at all relevant hardware/driver combinations… ⌘ Read more
Mir 2.30 Released Now With Rust Required, Mir Roadmap Published
Canonical today released Mir 2.30 as the newest release of this Wayland compositor library for building out different shells and other functionality from smart mirrors to other consumer devices… ⌘ Read more
VAXEE NP-01 Ergo Wireless (8K) mouse thoughts
VAXEE sent over another mouse to take a look at with the VAXEE NP-01 Ergo Wireless (8K), so I’ve been using it for a few weeks to see what I think.
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“slab_tiny” Boot Option Proposed For Tiny Linux Systems With Very Limited RAM
In 2022 the SLOB allocator was deprecated and removed with Linux 6.4 a year later. SLOB was popular with embedded systems with minimal amounts of RAM, so as a result the CONFIG_SLUB_TINY Kconfig option was then added for configuring the slab allocator for a minimal memory footprint for systems with 16MB of RAM or less. The CONFIG_SLUB_TINY is now on the chopping block with a proposed rework to the allocator code for making the “ … ⌘ Read more
Qualcomm Announces Snapdragon X2 Series Processors Will Support Linux
Snapdragon X2 Series processors feature a neural processing unit (NPU) delivering 80 trillion operations per second and allowing advanced AI features to run locally. And Snapdragon X2 Series “is expanding to Linux,” Qualcomm announced today, calling it one of their most-requested capabilities:
Qualcomm Technologies is a top contributo … ⌘ Read more
Ubuntu to get quicker Linux kernel security updates due to so many AI reports
Ubuntu maker Canonical announced they’re going to be pushing out Linux kernel upgrades more rapidly, due to the increasing amount of security issues.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/ubuntu-to-get-quicker-linux-kernel-security-updates-due-to-so-many-ai-reports … ⌘ Read more
Linux 7.4 DRM Infrastructure Better Supporting HDMI 2.0 With New Helpers
Sent out today was the latest weekly pull of drm-misc-next changes of feature material to queue in DRM-Next for Linux 7.4. Most notable in this week’s pull request are a number of patches for enhancing the HDMI 2.0 handling in the DRM core infrastructure and display helpers… ⌘ Read more
Quake Champions goes from free to paid, with no more content updates planned
Seems like Bethesda Softworks are ready to say goodbye to Quake Champions as this is seemingly the final major update, and it’s now a paid game.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/quake-champions-goes-from-free-to-paid-with-no-more-content-upd … ⌘ Read more
Some overlooked Native Linux games may be potential gems - September 2026 edition
Want to find something a little weird and wonderful? A potential little gem that’s overlooked? GamingOnLinux has you covered here.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/some-overlooked-native-linux-games-may-be-potential-gems-september- … ⌘ Read more
Guide: How to find where Steam stores Proton game files
Trying to find the files of a Windows game when you’re running it through Proton can be a little confusing - here’s how to get there on SteamOS / Linux.
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Beat Saber set for a massive upgrade with hand tracking, a new game mode and more
Arriving sometime in Spring 2027, the awesome VR rhythm game Beat Saber is set for one of the biggest updates it’s ever had.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/beat-saber-set-for-a-massive-upgrade-with-hand-tracking-a-new-game-mode- … ⌘ Read more
Qualcomm announce Snapdragon X2 Series will support Linux
Arm support is expanding on Linux, with Qualcomm announcing Linux support for the Snapdragon X2 Series.
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SteamVR Beta v2.18.1 brings more Linux fixes and general improvements
You’ll most likely want SteamVR Beta if you have the new Steam Frame, especially on Linux - with SteamVR Beta v2.18.1 bringing numerous improvements.
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Rogue OpenAI Agent Tried to Breach Government Site in May When Prompted for Simple Data-Retrieving Tasks
OpenAI’s artificial intelligence “went rogue this year in at least four additional incidents,” the New York Times reported Wednesday, “hacking and trying to break into government and university websites without being instructed to do so, according to researchers and govern … ⌘ Read more
Cities Across US Oppose Trump FCC Plan to Preempt Local Broadband Rules
Ars Technica reports:
Cities and counties around the U.S. are angry at the Trump administration over a proposal to override local rules that govern the deployment of wired broadband networks… The Federal Communications Commission [FCC] argues that too many local governments “excessively delay approvals and seek to extract exorb … ⌘ Read more
Debian Inference Portal Launches To Provide Free AI/LLM Inferencing To Debian Developers
With Debian voting to allow the responsible use of generative AI, there is now a new initiative funded by Scaleway to make it easier for Debian contributors to leverage AI: the Debian Inference Portal… ⌘ Read more
Qualcomm Talks Up Linux On Snapdragon X2 Laptops
Qualcomm at their Snapdragon Summit taking place in Hawaii are talking up the forthcoming Linux support for Snapdragon X2 series laptops… ⌘ Read more
Whatever Happened to the 150,000 Tons of Radioactive Waste Stored Under the Atlantic Ocean?
More than 200,000 barrels of low-level radioactive waste were stored on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean between 1949 and 1982, reports ScienceAlert.
Whatever happened to those barrels?
Scientists have descended to the wreckage in a crewed submersible to investigate — and found many of the … ⌘ Read more
Lemonade Fixes AMD APU Model Streaming, Drops OpenMOSS ROCm As ~40x Slower Than Vulkan
The AMD-aligned Lemonade open-source project for serving as a local AI server released 2026.39.1 today as well as issuing a release candidate of 2026.40 as their next release. Besides adapting to a new versioning scheme, the Lemonade SDK updates today bring a few notable changes… ⌘ Read more
Andreessen Horowitz Launches AI/Company-Building School As a College Alternative
TechCrunch quipped it was like if startup school Y Combinator and Peter Thiel’s build-a-company-instead of-college Fellowship Program had a baby. Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz is investing $35 million to launch a private school in San Francisco “aimed at turning high school graduates into f … ⌘ Read more
Intel Developing Their DXVK-IGDEXT For Improved Linux Gaming On Arc Graphics
Intel engineers have been quietly developing dxvk-igdext as their own component for DXVK Direct3D 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 atop the Vulkan API for leveraging Intel Direct3D 11 Graphics Extensions… ⌘ Read more
Benchmarking Java Performance Of JDK 8 Through OpenJDK 27
With the recent release of Java/OpenJDK 27 I began some fresh benchmarks in not having looked at the OpenJDK Java performance in a few years. Carried away, I ended up re-testing all the major OpenJDK versions going back to the venerable JDK 8. ⌘ Read more
NTFS-3G Update Brings Many Security Fixes
NTFS-3G 2026.9.18 was released this morning as the newest update to this FUSE-based open-source driver for NTFS file-system support… ⌘ Read more
Qualcomm Posts Open-Source GPU Driver Patches For Adreno 850 One Day After Announcement
Yesterday Qualcomm announced the Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 as quite an interesting mobile SoC. The Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 features Adreno 850 graphics and already one-day later their engineers are out with initial Linux kernel patches for bringing up the A850 with the MSM kernel driver… ⌘ Read more
O.B.O.L is a horror game where you bet your life on a coin flip
Like your smaller and more unusual horror experiences? O.B.O.L is a new release that sees you coin flip for your life against a mysterious old man.
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Bitcoin Surges to $86,455, an 8-Month High, After America’s SEC Announces Tokenized Stock Experiment
August 15: $62,991
September 23: $86,456
Bitcoin shot up 37% over the last 39 days, reaching an eight-month high on Monday. “Bitcoin is back,” declares Yahoo Finance:
The token held near $86,000 on Tuesday after a stunning multisession rally… [Fundstrat head of digital assets Sea … ⌘ Read more
Funny physics platformer Barely Breathing adds a little Linux Easter Egg
Barely Breathing is an upcoming fishy physics platformer that looks really funny, with a demo available - and they just added a little Linux Easter Egg.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/funny-physics-platformer-barely-breathing-adds-a-little-linux … ⌘ Read more
AMD Upstreams AVX10_V2_AUX Support Into LLVM Clang 24
In addition to AMD working on AVX10_V2_AUX support for the GCC compiler, this summer they also posted AVX10_V2_AUX support for the LLVM/Clang compiler. As of yesterday that enablement was merged for LLVM 24 for that important step toward AI Compute Extensions (ACE)… ⌘ Read more
Counter-Strike 2 adds an intense fast-paced 3v3 ‘Rush’ game mode
This new Rush mode might be my favourite way to play Counter-Strike 2, giving you a faster-paced experience with shorter matches.
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Linux 7.3 Reverting Logitech Bolt Receiver HID++ After Too Many Bugs Encountered
Merged at the start of the Linux 7.3 kernel cycle was adding Logitech Bolt USB receiver support for Logitech HID++ devices to the hid-logitech-dj driver code. That has resulted in too many bug reports of early Linux 7.3 users encountering varying issues with their Logitech mice that the functionality is now being reverted until it can be better developed… ⌘ Read more
Guide: Steam Deck / Steam Machine / SteamOS game won’t launch: how to fix games that won’t start
Having trouble with games not launching on a SteamOS device like the Steam Deck, Steam Machine or Steam Frame? Here’s some steps you can take.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/guides/view/steam-deck-steam-machine-steamo … ⌘ Read more
Respect The Horde playtest adds Native Linux and controller support
Respect The Horde mixes together survival, tower defense and horde games to interesting effect - and now it has a Native Linux playtest.
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Beat Saber gets a first discount on Steam - ready up for the Steam Frame
When I eventually get my hands on the Steam Frame, it will most likely end up as a Beat Saber machine. You can join me too, with a first discount on it.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/beat-saber-gets-a-first-discount-on-steam-ready-up-for-the-steam … ⌘ Read more
NVIDIA recommended stable driver 595.104.02 released for Linux
NVIDIA just released another small update to their recommended stable driver series with version 595.104.02 now available.
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Microsoft Helps Take Down Massive Automated, AI-Powered Phishing-as-a-Service Platform
Microsoft’s security blog describes the fight against a new “AI-powered cybercrime platform” offering phishing-as-a-service, with AI-tailored lures and analyses of compromised inboxes (to identify high-value targets). The site compromised more than 12,000 inboxes in over 10,000 organizations around the wo … ⌘ Read more
SteamOS 3.8.28 Beta released, plus another Steam Client Beta with Remote Play: Pyrowave fixes
Valve just released SteamOS 3.8.28 Beta, along with a Steam Client Beta for all platforms with more fixes.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/steamos-3-8-28-beta-released-plus-another-steam-client-beta-with-remote-play-pyrowav … ⌘ Read more
Trump Denounces Attempts to Control AI, Wants It Renamed ‘Super Intelligence’ in US Documents
U.S. President Trump addressed the United Nations on Tuesday. And a half hour in, after decrying immigration, Trump pivoted to add that “The United States also totally rejects any attempt to construct a globalist scheme to control for the artificial intelligence being spoken of so much no … ⌘ Read more
Open-Source NVIDIA “Nouveau” Driver Sees Patches For HDMI Deep Color Support
The Nouveau Linux kernel graphics driver for open-source NVIDIA driver support has new patches posted for enabling HDMI Deep Color support… ⌘ Read more