Humans Can Learn To Echolocate In Just 10 Weeks, and It Rewires the Brain
alternative_right shares a report from ScienceAlert: A study published in PLOS One in 2021 by researchers from Durham University in the UK showed that with 10 weeks of training, both blind and sighted people could learn to echolocate using verbal clicks. While the technique is already used by a number of people with impaired v … ⌘ Read more
Snapdragon X Elite Laptop Experience Still Lackluster On Ubuntu 26.04 LTS
At the end of last year when checking out the latest Linux experience on the Snapdragon X Elite it was a disappointing affair. The performance had regressed and overall a more headache-inducing experience than just running a modern AMD Ryzen AI or Intel Core Ultra laptop on Linux. Given the recent release of Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, I’ve been re-testing the Acer Swift 14 AI laptop with Snapdragon X Elite SoC to see how its performing under … ⌘ Read more
Beam Eye Tracker app adds Linux and macOS support in Beta
The highly rated Steam app Beam Eye Tracker just recently released a public Beta for their impressive looking eye-tracking app for gaming.
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MARVEL Tōkon: Fighting Souls appears to block SteamOS / Linux
MARVEL Tōkon: Fighting Souls has an Open Beta available and sadly they seem to have blocked SteamOS / Linux from playing due to anti-cheat.
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Valve’s Steamworks SDK v1.65 brings changes for Steam Machine, Steam Frame and Steam Deck
Valve have updated the Steamworks SDK for games to integrate Steam features - overhauling checks for Steam Machine, Steam Frame and Steam Deck and more.
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World’s First Wave Power Generator Receives Certification For Regular Use
“The Norwegian certification agency DNV has certified the commercial wave-driven power generator Corpower C4 for regular use,” writes Longtime Slashdot reader Qbertino. “German news site heise.de has a detailed write-up. See a CGI video of the power station and its internals, as well as the company’s website [at their respec … ⌘ Read more
Google Adds Selfie Video As a Log-In Option
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Engadget: You’ll now be able to use selfie videos to log into your Google account. It has long been possible to log into Google using your face, via your phone’s face unlock or if your passkey login uses biometrics for verification. This is yet another option to get into your account using your face to authenticate your identity, which could be esp … ⌘ Read more
Oracle Signs 10-Year Software Contract With Pentagon Worth Up To $7 Billion
Oracle has signed a 10-year Pentagon contract worth up to $7 billion to provide on-premises software, licenses, maintenance, and consulting for branches of the military. CNBC reports: The contract covers the use of Oracle software in on-premises data centers for branches of the military, the U.S. intelligence community … ⌘ Read more
Microsoft Responds to LG Monitors Installing McAfee Ads On Windows
LG is removing a McAfee pop-up ad from its LG Monitor App Installer after criticism that some LG monitors were silently installing the app through Windows Update and showing ads on every boot. Microsoft says LG agreed to disable the McAfee pop-up, but the broader issue remains: Windows allows certain peripheral companion apps to install autom … ⌘ Read more
AMD EPYC Zen 7 “Florence” Confirmed With ACE, Next-Gen Memory
After announcing the AMD EPYC 9006 “Venice” processors today at AMD Advancing AI 2026, Lisa Su ended her keynote by confirming EPYC Zen 7 “Florence” details as well as EPYC Zen 8 “Ravenna” being in development… ⌘ Read more
Valve puts up a Proton 11.0-2 Release Candidate for testing
Valve have put up a Release Candidate to test the upcoming Proton 11.0-2 update, to fix up more issues found with Windows games on SteamOS / Linux.
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AMD Announces ROCm.AI As AI-Driven Platform For Developers
In addition to Instinct MI455X and Helios launching along with the new AMD EPYC 9006 “Venice” processors, AMD used their annual Advancing AI day to announce ROCm.AI as an AI-driven platform for developers… ⌘ Read more
AMD EPYC 9006 Venice Announced & Looks Poised To Be A Grand Slam
While AMD EPYC 9005 “Turin” launched just under two years ago, it has aged remarkably well. It is one of the few CPU generations in my past 22 years of Linux hardware reviews/benchmarking that has still captivated me two years on in finding still typically industry-leading performance across varying workloads, exceptional reliability, and all around a very robust platform. Today though at AMD Advancing AI 2026, Lisa Su formally announced EPYC 9006 “Ve … ⌘ Read more
AMD Launches Instinct MI455X, Helios AI Rack
Lisa Su at AMD Advancing AI 2026 just launched the new Instinct MI455X GPUs and the Helios rack… ⌘ Read more
FreeBSD Ports Currently Frozen Due To A Very Large Commit
The FreeBSD project issued a statement today over the FreeBSD Ports repository having been frozen for the past two days. The freeze is not due to a malicious compromise but rather a very large commit breaking things… ⌘ Read more
Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2 set to arrive August 25
Some explosive co-op action is coming our way, with Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2 getting an August 25th release date announced today.
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Fedora 45 Atomic Desktops Look To Allow For Web-Based Remote Installations
One of the latest change proposals filed for Fedora Linux 45 is for supporting web-based remote installations of Fedora Atomic Desktop images… ⌘ Read more
Steam Machine with SteamOS Linux - initial thoughts
Good news everyone, I now have a Steam Machine in the GamingOnLinux house and I have some initial thoughts.
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Ryzen AI Software 1.8 Released With New Model Support, More Optimizations
Ahead of Lisa Su’s keynote this morning at the AMD Advancing AI event, tagged on GitHub just now was the Ryzen AI Software 1.8 release for helping to deploy AI models on Ryzen AI PCs… ⌘ Read more
LLVM 23.1-rc1 Released With AMD Zen 6 & AVX-512 BMM Support, Other Compiler Enhancements
Following the recent code branching for the LLVM 23 series, LLVM 23.1-rc1 was released today in working toward the next stable release of this open-source compiler stack… ⌘ Read more
dav1d 1.5.4 Brings AV1 Decoding To OS/2
While the VideoLAN developers are busy these days working on dav2d for AV2 video decoding, they haven’t let up work on dav1d and recently released dav1d 1.5.4 for continuing to enhance this leading open-source, CPU-based AV1 decoder… ⌘ Read more
Get some great point and click adventures, and digital board games in two new Humble Bundles
If you need some more games as we come close to the weekend, and perhaps for the Summer holidays - two fresh Humble Bundles are live with plenty of choices.
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Yet Another Zombie Survivors 1.0 release announced for August
On August 20th, the excellent Yet Another Zombie Survivors 1.0 finally launches - we have a new trailer and new details of what to expect from it.
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KONAMI detail more platform specifications for METAL GEAR SOLID: MASTER COLLECTION Vol.2
METAL GEAR SOLID: MASTER COLLECTION Vol.2 from KONAMI arrives on August 27th, and they’ve now given a bit more detail on what you’ll need for it.
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Valve give Steam Wishlist and Steam Gifts a major needed upgrade
Valve just upgraded the Steam Wishlist and Steam Gifts system - to bring new features and they sound like truly major upgrades.
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Lemonade 11.5 Local AI Server Released With Completed Lemonade Router
Just one week after releasing Lemonade 11.0, the Lemonade 11.5 local AI server was released today for this open-source AMD backed project during their AMD Advancing AI event… ⌘ Read more
SDL Lands HDR10 Rendering Support
Sam Lantinga of Valve and SDL fame has landed HDR10 rendering support into the Simple DirectMedia Library… ⌘ Read more
COSMIC Epoch 1.4 Released With More Fixes, Force Quit For COSMIC Monitor
System76 developers today released COSMIC Epoch 1.4 as the newest stable release to their Rust-based desktop environment… ⌘ Read more
AMD EPYC Turin With PCIe 5.0 Storage Shows Off Nice Gains On Linux 7.2
Earlier this week was an exciting look at Intel Xe3 graphics performance gains on Linux 7.2 with Intel Core Ultra Series 3 “Panther Lake” hardware. On the other side of the table, with AMD hardware on this forthcoming kernel an area to be excited about are some I/O improvements at least for 5th Gen EPYC with speedy PCIe Gen5 NVMe SSD storage. ⌘ Read more
libx11-compat Is Working To Implement Xlib Atop SDL For Wayland, macOS, Android
For helping to keep X11 clients running in a modern Linux desktop world with Wayland or even for running on macOS or Android, there is now yet-another option being developed with libx11-compat. The libx11-compat project is working to re-implement the Xlib client library atop SDL2/SDL3 interfaces for allow broad underlying platform coverage… ⌘ Read more
Intel Directed Package-Level Thermal Interrupts Slated For Linux 7.3
Back in March Intel software engineers began sending out Linux patches for Directed Package-Level Thermal Interrupts as a new capability with recent Intel processors. This notable efficiency improvement is now queued for introduction in the Linux 7.3 cycle once its merge window opens in a month… ⌘ Read more
The “New Normal” Of Audio Quirks Submitted For Linux 7.2-rc5
Linux sound subsystem maintainer Takashi Iwai of SUSE sent out this week’s batch of sound fixes that he describes as “A collection of fixes that have been accumulated recently. The amount is still “new normal”, but all small fixes. Mostly hardware-specific quirks, but including a few core fixes, too.” The “new normal” has been a common phrase recently to reflect the increased tempo of patches as well as security/bug disclosures all due to the increased … ⌘ Read more
Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2 10-Inch Model Launches
Following the launch of the 7-inch Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2 and the 5-inch display variant, Raspberry Pi announced today the addition of a 10-inch model… ⌘ Read more
Keep an eye on IVOR if you love retro-FPS action with a Norse-inspired world
IVOR is a recent discovery as a fan of retro-styled first-person shooters, and it looks like it could be a good one, especially if you like a Norse setting.
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Proton-CachyOS adds support for vkd3d-low-latency, upgrades d7vk and more
The Proton-CachyOS compatibility tool for running Windows games on SteamOS / Linux has a new release out adding support for vkd3d-low-latency.
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Sanctuary: Shattered Sun could be an interesting Supreme Commander spiritual successor
Sanctuary: Shattered Sun is an upcoming massive-scale real-time strategy game, made in the spirit of classics like Supreme Commander.
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The original Darkest Dungeon is set for a new DLC over 10 years after release
Not many developers will go back to their classics, but Red Hook Studios are giving the original Darkest Dungeon a brand new DLC soon.
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dbrand reveal their Steam Machine skins including a few Valve inspired looks
While the dbrand Steam Machine Portal case is officially dead, they’ve just announced a bunch of Steam Machine skins with some Valve inspired designs.
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Fresh stable Steam update out with updates for Steam Machine, Steam Controller, Remote Play and more
Valve just launched the latest main Steam Client stable update for all supported platforms bringing fixes for Steam Machine, Steam Controller, Remote Play.
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Cryptsetup 2.8.7 Released To Deal With Fallout Of Linux’s Rushed AF_ALG Deprecation
Linux’s cryptsetup for configuring and managing encrypted storage devices is ready with a new version as the developers work to deal with the recent deprecation of the Linux AF_ALG interface… ⌘ Read more
Three New Ubuntu Snap Vulnerabilities Made Public - One Dates Back To Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
Canonical today disclosed three new Snap security vulnerabilities affecting snapd. Two are rated high impact vulnerabilities while the third is considered medium but covers all Ubuntu releases of the past decade going back to Ubuntu 16.04 LTS… ⌘ Read more
Qualcomm Posts Linux Patches For X2 Elite Extreme Powered ASUS Zenbook A16
Following recent Linux kernel patches enabling the Snapdragon X2 Elite powered Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x Gen11 and HP EliteBook X G2q X2 Elite laptops to boot outside of Windows 11 on ARM, Qualcomm engineers have now posted a new patch series for getting the X2 Elite Extreme powered ASUS Zenbook A16 working on Linux… ⌘ Read more
KDE Plasma 6.7 vs. GNOME Shell 50.3 vs. Xfce 4.20 On CachyOS With NVIDIA Graphics
Earlier this month I provided a look at the KDE Plasma 6.7 Wayland vs. X11 session performance for graphics/gaming on CachyOS using NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50 graphics. Since then Phoronix readers – including some premium supporters – requested seeing some additional desktops tested with the latest CachyOS packages. So here we are now with seeing how KDE Plasma 6.7 compared to the Wayland-only GNOME Shell 50.3 desktop as well as th … ⌘ Read more
Harebrained Schemes’ new survival horror RPG ‘GRAFT’ gets a story trailer
Harebrained Schemes are working towards release on their next game following their split from Paradox Interactive, with the survival horror RPG ‘GRAFT’.
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Canonical Makes The “Enterprise Store” Official For Offline/Air-Gapped Ubuntu Usage
For months the Enterprise Store “enterprise-store” has been mentioned in some Ubuntu documentation and other elements while today it was formally announced by Canonical. The Enterprise Store is for helping to manage Ubuntu Linux deployments particularly within enterprise organizations that may have their computers air-gapped or otherwise strict Internet controls… ⌘ Read more
MXGP 26 revealed with a new gameplay trailer
A fresh start for the motorcycle racing series, MXGP 26 has been revealed and there’s a trailer to go along with it.
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Mount & Blade meets Total War in the upcoming pixel-art Sword & Banner
Sword & Banner captured my eye recently as a pixel-art game that’s Mount & Blade meets Total War and the gameplay looks like a lot of fun.
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Guide: How to get SteamOS to always boot into Desktop Mode
If you want your SteamOS Linux machine like the Steam Deck or Steam Machine to automatically boot into Desktop Mode - that is actually possible.
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Stratis Storage Anaconda Integration Approved For Fedora 45
The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) has approved the latest batch of features for the upcoming Fedora 45 release… ⌘ Read more
Acer Predator Atlas 8 Handheld with Intel Arc G3 gets UK pricing and launch month
The Acer Predator Atlas 8 Handheld now has a price and expected launch month, for the UK at least.
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