Rust Leaves Top 10 in TIOBE Index, Making Room for Go
“In November’s edition of the TIOBE Index, Rust has dropped out of Top 10,” writes I-Programmer, noting that Rust ceded the #10 position to Go. “At the same time, another Google-originated language, Dart, has entered the top 20 ousting Julia after only one month.”

TIOBE explains Dart’s popularity is mainly being driven by Flutter, Google’s framework for building … ⌘ Read more

SteamOS 3.10.0 Preview brings HDMI 2.1 VRR, FRL, and ALLM for AMD and improvements for NVIDIA
Valve released SteamOS 3.10.0 Preview which brings a pretty big set of features, especially if you’re on an AMD GPU and now improved NVIDIA support too.

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FAA Orders Nationwide Ground Stop for All Aircraft
Longtime Slashdot readers cold fjord and sinij share news that the FAA grounded flights nationwide after a communications failure disrupted air traffic control centers across the country. By Friday evening, the outage had resulted in nearly 5,000 flight cancellations and roughly 10,000 delays, with no timeline for restoring normal operations. Rumors are swirling that this c … ⌘ Read more

FAA Expands AI Advice to Manage Air Traffic Congestion Across Entire US Airspace
The FAA is expanding its $875 million AI-powered SMART system to all 22 U.S. air traffic control centers across the country. Since being implemented over Washington, DC, on September 21, the system has helped reroute 180 flights, saving an average of 10 minutes and nearly 80 gallons of fuel per flight. Ars Technica repor … ⌘ Read more

Iconic First Image of Black Hole Holds Up To Scrutiny
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Conversation: On April 10 2019, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration revealed the first picture of a black hole. The object is at the centre of a galaxy known as M87, about 55 million light-years away. The iconic ring structure instantly became one of the most recognized scientific images of the modern era. It … ⌘ Read more

GTA VI Is Now Available For Preloading
Ancient Slashdot reader Lank writes: GTA VI is now available for preloading. The download weighs in at a whopping 210+ gigabytes on the PS5! Start downloading now and remember to take Nov. 19th off from work. “On Xbox, preloads for digital versions went live at 12 a.m. GMT on November 10 for Series X and Series S, which translates to 7 p.m. EST / 6 p.m. CST / 5 p.m. MST / 4 p.m. PT on Monday, Nov … ⌘ Read more

M John Harrison Becomes First Sci-Fi Author To Win Booker Prize
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Eighty-one-year-old M John Harrison has won the Booker prize for The End of Everything, a postapocalyptic novel set on a near-future Kent coast, becoming the oldest winner in the award’s history. Gaby Wood, chief executive of the Booker Prize Foundation, said that while plenty of previous winne … ⌘ Read more

Ubuntu 26.10 Begins Rolling Out upki Support For Certificate Revocation
With Ubuntu 26.10 that shipped in October there is a little talked about feature with upki revocation support beginning to roll out. Due to the late change, upki for certificate revocation was only enabled for Ubuntu 26.10’s curl package but with more plans ahead… ⌘ Read more

Google Fi Brings Back Network Switching With ‘Secondary’ Partner
Google Fi is bringing back network switching through an unnamed “secondary” 5G carrier. “Most users will be on the ‘Primary network,’ but Google Fi will automatically switch users to the ‘Secondary network’ if it meaningfully improves performance with so-called ‘smart thresholds’ for doing so,” reports 9to5Google. “At launch, there is no manual s … ⌘ Read more

Fireworks AI Confirms Wider Breach Affecting Notion AI Chats
Fireworks AI says its October breach was broader than initially disclosed, with attackers gaining access to customer account and billing information as well as some datasets, incomplete model weights and secrets. Notion, the popular productivity and note-taking app, disclosed that it was impacted in the breach but “fewer than 1% of Notion workspaces” were … ⌘ Read more

New York Launches Nation’s First State AI Testing Program
New York is launching a state-backed AI safety research center at Binghamton University that will independently study and test AI systems, develop safety and security techniques, and train researchers in responsible AI. “While the federal government fails to act, New York is leading the way on AI safety and holding big tech accountable,” New York Gov. Kathy Hoch … ⌘ Read more

Anthropic Launches New Workplace Features To Take On Microsoft and Google
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Anthropic announced new workplace features on Tuesday, including Claude Meetings, which brings Claude into video calls to begin working on tasks while participants are still talking. The company also unveiled Claude Whiteboards and Claude Sheets. The launch of Anthropic’s new … ⌘ Read more

Starlink Mini 2 Adds a Swappable Battery, Wi-Fi 6
SpaceX has unveiled the Starlink Mini 2, equipping the company’s smallest satellite internet terminal with a removable 71Wh battery and Wi-Fi 6. Preorders are opening to select U.S. customers for $999, which includes a year of Roam Unlimited service. Shipments are expected to begin in mid-December. InterestingEngineering reports: The removable battery represents the biggest fun … ⌘ Read more

Nintendo Is Officially Investing In Game Preservation
Nintendo is hiring a digital archivist to help ensure the company’s historical records are “preserved for future generations.” The 12-month position is tasked with designing and implementing a “structured framework for organizing technical records, engineering documentation, source materials, and institutional knowledge related to legacy systems and platforms.” Polyg … ⌘ Read more

Blender 5.3 Released With Nvidia DLSS 4.5 Ray Reconstruction, Vulkan Default
Blender 5.3 has been released with support for 3D Gaussian Splats, Nvidia DLSS 4.5 Ray Reconstruction and Vulkan as the default graphics backend on Linux. Phoronix reports: Blender now allows importing Gaussian Splats from PLY, SPZ, and glTF files. Also new to Blender 5.3 is NVIDIA DLSS 4.5 Ray Reconstruction support as a new … ⌘ Read more

Reddit Is Turning User Conversations Into AI-Powered Product Reviews
Reddit is rolling out an AI-powered shopping feature called “Reddit Reviews” that summarizes user conversations about products and turns them into dedicated reviews. TechCrunch reports: Reddit’s announcement points to its rules and its latest measures to combat automated abuse and spam, as well as its practice involving community moderato … ⌘ Read more

Huawei Says It’s Made a 100% Chinese PC
Huawei has unveiled the Qingyun HM650, a desktop PC it claims is made entirely from Chinese-manufactured components, including its own 10-core Kirin X90 processor and an enterprise version of HarmonyOS. “While Huawei has reportedly claimed local companies manufactured 100 percent of the components in the machine, it is unclear if all those components use Chinese designs,” notes The Register. Fr … ⌘ Read more

OpenIndiana 2026.10 Released With Updated Tools & Compilers, New Apps
OpenIndiana Hipster 2026.10 is out today as the newest six-month update to this operating system based on Illumos and with the lineage tracing back to the fruitful Sun OpenSolaris days… ⌘ Read more

Developer Pulls Roku’s Popular Fish Tank Screensaver Following Fox Sale
Roku is removing its popular Aquatic Life fish tank screensaver on December 1 and automatically switching affected users to Roku City. According to Cord Cutters News, the creator pulled the license after Roku’s sale to FOX was announced. Ars Technica reports: The screensaver has been an option for Roku OS users for 10 years. Roku has … ⌘ Read more

OpenAI’s New Cyber Model Found Ways to Attack Nearly 1,000 Linux Flaws
OpenAI says its new GPT-6 Cyber model helped an automated system identify 1,724 security flaws in the Linux kernel and exploit 948 of them to gain administrator-level access during testing, including at least 10 previously unknown techniques. Axios reports: During testing, the system identified 1,724 security flaws and found ways to use 9 … ⌘ Read more

@itsericwoodward@itsericwoodward.com Not much honestly 😅 During the storms Picket sat at ~0.2 of a CPU core (peaks ~0.4), up from ~0.02 at idle, so ~10× but still tiny. Memory didn’t budge: ~650 MiB working set before, during and after. Picket’s doing its job; it’s the git forge behind it that would’ve fallen over.

Regarding https://movq.de/blog/postings/2026-10-31/0/POSTING-en.html, @movq@www.uninformativ.de: Despite having watched meillo’s talk on troff and friends¹ over one and a half decades ago (and thus forgotten everything), it feels soooo alien, I’m surprised. I should really look into this myself. I frequently use gq} and gqG. They’re real lifesavers.

¹: https://www.ulm.ccc.de/ccc/chaosseminar/2009_11_troff-and-friends/

Fujifilm To Bost Tape Production 5x As AI Fuels Archiving Demand
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: In an announcement released Thursday, Fujifilm said it will invest roughly 10 billion yen (about $63 million) to increase its production capacity fivefold for an unlikely beneficiary of the AI era: magnetic tape. Fujifilm attributes the surge in archiving demand to the spread of generative … ⌘ Read more

SUSE To Cut One In Ten Employees Because of AI
SUSE plans to cut roughly 10% of its 1,900-person workforce, with CEO Dirk-Peter van Leeuwen saying “automation and AI” are reducing the need for some roles and allowing the open source software company to operate with less overhead and flatter management structures. “We are announcing a reduction of SUSE’s global workforce of approximately 10 percent,” said Van Leeuwen in an emai … ⌘ Read more

SUSE Laying Off 10% Of Its Workforce Due To AI & Automation
Bavarian-based enterprise Linux distribution vendor SUSE is laying off 10% of its global workforce as a result of AI and automation… ⌘ Read more

In more frustrating news, I did something to my primary laptop, and now it crawls along like a 2005 Celeron trying to run Windows Vista.

My laptop is nothing too special (a Lenovo powered by an i7-1255U (4+8) @ 4.70 GHz with integrated “Iris Xe” graphics), but I’ve been running Manjaro Linux (with KDE Plasma) on it for the past couple of years, and apart from the odd pamac / pacman / “Add Remove Software” inconsistency (or Plasma widget issue), it’s been running pretty well.

Then, a few days ago, it started bugging about updates, and yesterday it added complaints about an unsupported kernel, so I finally pulled the trigger on it, and boy do I regret it.

I initially kept having issues downloading all of the updates (it was trying to download some kind of non-existent Quake-related library, which I had to remove), and I also had issues getting rid of the unsupported 7.1 kernel (due to some “meta” packages that had been installed), but in the end, I resolved both issues, got the kernel removed and the updates installed, and everything seemed fine after the post-update reboot… for about 10 minutes.

And that’s when the machine just decided to start moving at 1/3 speed: typing, moving the cursor, changing windows - everything started acting like it was 2008.

When I first tried to diagnose it, top showed kwin_wayland eating 50% of the CPU, and plasmashell another 10%, but it wasn’t consistent (they both came and went). I disabled all of the desktop effects, which helped some, as did blanking my plasma config (setting my desktop back to default), but things are still noticeably laggier than they were a few days ago.

Someone online suggested freeing up 25% space total on my root drive (which typically runs 90-95% full), so I’ve been cleaning up (and offloading) as much as I can. If that doesn’t work and I don’t find a solution by the end of the week, I’ll probably have to backup my data, wipe the machine clean, and start fresh. 🙃

SystemD’s Creator Opens Signups for Private Preview of Amutable’s Cryptographically Verified Linux Systems
SystemD creator Lennart Poettering left Red Hat for Microsoft in 2022, but 10 months ago left to co-found Amutable a company that aims to build cryptographically verified Linux systems that stay trusted over time.

It’s FOSS calls it “a read-only, image-based system … ⌘ Read more

We went on a hike in super beautiful autumn sun. We had a northeastern wind blowing strong, so the 10°C felt a hell lot colder. My fingers were frozen and I had to stop taking photos every now and then to let them warm up in my jacket pockets again. My mate was smarter and wore a beanie and gloves.

https://lyse.isobeef.org/2026-11-01-waldspaziergang/

Which Tech Companies Started Using Trump’s Phrase ‘Super Intelligence’?
CNBC reports:

A month after President Donald Trump ordered that “super intelligence” replace the term artificial intelligence within executive branch departments and agencies, his leading tech allies, Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg, followed suit on earnings calls. Their fellow tech CEOs were less eager to do the same… SpaceX and Tesl … ⌘ Read more

College Students are Pushing Colleges to ‘De-Flock’
Inside Higher Ed reports:

In September, Emory University removed a dozen license plate-reading cameras from its campus in Atlanta and declined to renew its contract with Flock Safety, the company that sells and operates the automatic license plate readers and other mass-surveillance technology. For the coalition of Emory students and employees who had spent months pushing t … ⌘ Read more

Meta Discussed ‘Whisper Strategy’ to Discredit Social Media Critic Jonathan Haidt, Files Show
The Guardian reports:
Meta staff discussed deploying a “whisper strategy” to undermine the influential US academic whose work has inspired a global social media crackdown, according to court documents. Employees at the parent group of Facebook and Instagram sought to discredit Jonathan Haidt, … ⌘ Read more

AI Use In The Linux Kernel, Microsoft Defender On Linux & Other October Highlights
October brought the releases of Linux 7.3, Ubuntu 26.10, the KDE Plasma 6.8 desktop, and a wealth of other open-source software releases. The expanding use of AI/LLMs within Linux kernel development also made for interesting discussions in October. Microsoft bringing their Defender software to the Linux desktop was perhaps the biggest surprise out of October. Here is a look back at the past month… ⌘ Read more

America’s Clocks Are Still Falling Back Tonight Despite Trump’s Daylight Saving Push
Clocks “fall back” one hour tonight to end Daylight Saving Time — though many Americans want to end the twice-yearly clock change, reports Axios.

But the U.S. Congress “remains deadlocked about how to make that happen.”

The clocks are falling back despite a bipartisan House vote in July to make daylight savi … ⌘ Read more

Binance Replenishes 90% of Stolen $6.3B, Pledges They’ll Cover It All, Reopen Sunday
“We’ve now replenished 90% of the stolen assets, and we’re committed to covering the remaining 10%,” Binance co-CEO Richard Teng posted on X, adding that “Our users will not bear the financial impact of this incident.”

“Binance said it was able to replace the funds taken in the record hack by using company money … ⌘ Read more

Computer Simulations Suggest Building Blocks of Life Didn’t Arrive on Prehistoric Comets
CNN reports:

The popular theory that comets were crucial in kick-starting life on Earth billions of years ago may not hold up, according to new computer simulations that counter decades of scientific thinking. The finding suggests the fragile organic molecules supposedly carried by the icy object … ⌘ Read more

Recycling ANSI Art: Tracing the Origins of BBS Logon Screens
BBS-era “door” games are preserved by the site Break Into Chat, along with their history. Now the site’s actually traced the origins of several ANSI art screens in the 1980s and “how different people later transformed the original images,” starting from one of the most popular bulletin board systems in St. Louis, Missouri.

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French Lawmakers Back Per-Gigabyte Internet Traffic Tax
Companies like Google, Netflix, TikTok, and Meta may soon owe the French government, reports Tom’s Hardware:

France has approved a proposed tax that aims to tax the amount of internet data per gigabyte sent to French users in the country… According to minutes released by the National Assembly, members voted 11-10 in support of the motion on October 30 — which n … ⌘ Read more

NASA Seeks Proposals for Reboosting the Hubble Space Telescope
The Hubble Space Telescope “will plunge back into the atmosphere in the early-to-mid-2030s,” reports Ars Technica.

So now NASA has released a Request For Information (RFI) “asking commercial companies for ideas on how to reboost, service, or a controlled disposal of Hubble.”

Specifically, NASA is looking for information about companies’ current … ⌘ Read more

Dozens of Unexplained Drones Have Buzzed America’s Nuclear Plants Since 2024
Slashdot reader ElectricVs shares this report from American Buildout, a new site covering “the intersection of data centers, energy and power, finance, and Main Street.”

Dozens of unexplained drones flew over and near U.S. nuclear facilities between February 2024 and March 2026, according to records the Nuclear Regulatory … ⌘ Read more

Flock Reinstalled Its Cameras After Another City Canceled Its Contract
Earlier The Drive reported a police chief “had to direct his staff to disconnect the power cords from Flock cameras in Plymouth, Minnesota after Flock Safety ignored and failed to respond to the department’s notice the city was canceling its service.
“But in other instances Flock’s gone and reinstalled cameras without permission,” The … ⌘ Read more

Google’s AI Overviews Lowered Reddit’s Traffic. Its Stock Dropped 29%
Reddit’s stock plunged 29.22% on Friday, reports CNBC, its worst drop since becoming a public company in 2024.

Thursday Reddit reported a sales growth that was weaker than previous quarters, and also forecast weak sales for the quarter to come (below analysts expectations):

The report comes as the company has seen a shift in its search re … ⌘ Read more

Two US Senators Raise Privacy Concerns About Meta’s ‘Pervert Glasses’
Meta’s smart glasses face new questions from two U.S. Senators, reports Gizmodo.
Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden and Massachusetts Sen. Edward Markey “are requesting that Meta provide more information before Thanksgiving on whether it conducted detailed human rights due diligence and safety testing on the product before releasing it,” reports Gizmod … ⌘ Read more

Supersonic Airliner In Doubt As Company Shifts to Powering AI Data Centers
Boom Supersonic’s plans to launch its Overture passenger jet by 2029 are facing growing doubts as the company pivots toward manufacturing natural gas turbines for AI data centers. Ars Technica reports: One of the company’s first customers, United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby, has expressed doubts about Boom’s original plan to … ⌘ Read more

Sculpt OS 26.10 Released - Now Powered By Genode’s Custom Microkernel
Sculpt OS as the general purpose operating system project born out of the Genode initiative is now using the project’s own microkernel rather than a third-party microkernel… ⌘ Read more

Wine 11.21 released with improved WoW64 OpenGL performance
Another biweekly development release is here with Wine 11.21 out now bringing various improvements for running Windows apps and games on Linux.

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Google’s First Data Center Satellite Is Online and Writing Poetry
Google’s first experimental space-based data center is operational after launching earlier this month, successfully running its Gemma 4 AI model aboard a satellite and generating a haiku about being in orbit. TechCrunch reports: The satellite, which carries four Google Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) and generates up to 1 kW of electricity, is … ⌘ Read more

Cisco Gives Engineer Unlimited AI Tokens To Rewrite Legacy Code
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Fortune: Gen Z can’t catch a break. Entry-level jobs are vanishing; some 40% of bosses say they plan to hire fewer grads because AI can do the job cheaper, and young workers are routinely slammed for showing up late and refusing to put in overtime for free. Cisco’s president and chief product officer J … ⌘ Read more

Apple Is Entering Its Slop Era
In an opinion piece for 404 Media, Matthew Gault argues that Apple has entered its “slop era,” abandoning its reputation for innovative hardware in favor of recycled ideas and questionable design choices. Here’s an excerpt: My ears perked up when I heard Apple’s new foldable phones were cracking. I licked my lips when the company announced it’s releasing a touch-screen laptop. This was a company that once charged … ⌘ Read more

Meta Settles Another Social Media Addiction Case Just Before Trial
Meta has reached an undisclosed settlement in another social media addiction lawsuit, avoiding a trial scheduled for next month and leaving Snap as the sole remaining defendant. Engadget reports: The lawsuit was brought by an 18-year-old woman from Mississippi known as K.D.B who, according to Reuters, has “described staying awake for hours scro … ⌘ Read more

Sam Altman Thinks Your PC Is Wasting Precious RAM
“Looks like OpenAI CEO Sam Altman wants to own all the computing resources and rent out terminals to the world as a way of propping up his business plan, now that debt-ridden AI companies are teetering on the edge,” writes ancient Slashdot reader Gilmoure. Tom’s Hardware reports: In an interview over beers with the YouTube channel Cheeky Pint, Altman said that local infer … ⌘ Read more