@zyak@twtxt.z85b.xyz Ooo…
Thanks for the link!
Testing photo upload and linking… 
AMDGPU Driver Seeing HDMI 2.2 FRL Fixes For Linux 7.4
With Linux 7.4 the AMDGPU driver enables HDMI 2.1 FRL functionality by default for driving higher refresh rate and higher resolution displays. That default enabling comes as HDMI FreeSync/VRR and ALLM features are also in place for Linux 7.4. Now coming by way of fixes for Linux 7.4 is also improving the Fixed Rate Link support with the newer HDMI 2.2 specification… ⌘ Read more
SteamVR Beta 2.19.1 is a big upgrade for streaming / Steam Link and Linux
Valve released SteamVR Beta 2.19.1 and especially when it comes to streaming / Steam Link, it seems like a really nice upgrade for picture clarity.
Read the full article on GamingOnLinux. ⌘ Read more
Linux 7.4 Preps CXL For Very Neat Dynamic Capacity Devices “DCD”
The Compute Express Link (CXL) subsystem changes were merged today for the Linux 7.4 kernel. The fun work this cycle is preparing to support Dynamic Capacity Devices… ⌘ Read more
Knicks Sent Employees Fake Offer of Championship Rings In Phishing Test
The New York Knicks reportedly sent employees a fake offer of complimentary NBA championship rings as part of an internal phishing test, requiring anyone who clicked the link to attend mandatory cybersecurity training. “Congratulations, your Employee Championship Ring is here,” the email said. According to The New York Times, Madison S … ⌘ Read more
Ich weiß, es ist alles nicht zum Lachen und im zweiten Link gibt es auch Aufklärung, aber ich möchte an dieser Stelle trotzdem lieber weder Journalist noch Diplomat sein.
https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/israel-wahlkampf-eisenkot-100.html
TP-Link Moves to Assemble Routers In the US Following Import Ban
TP-Link plans to begin assembling routers in Mississippi as early as 2027 after the FCC banned imports of new foreign-made consumer routers over security concerns. Engadget reports: The company has signed a letter of intent with manufacturer Key Tronic and, pending approval from regulators, TP-Link says stateside assembly of its routers could st … ⌘ Read more
Florida DMV Hacked After Police Dept Insecurely Stored Login Info
Florida’s DMV says a September 4 breach exposed driver’s license and motor vehicle records after attackers obtained credentials that a local law-enforcement employee had “improperly stored on an electronic device.” The ShinyHunters group has been linked to the intrusion. Ars Technica reports: In a notice posted Friday, [Florida Department of Hi … ⌘ Read more
Scientists Discover Why Microplastics Trigger Inflammation
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Scientific American: Microplastics are a source of extreme concern for health: the presence of these tiny pieces of plastic has been linked to heart attacks, stroke, dementia and brain tumors. But what drives these associations is unclear. Now a study published in Nature offers a tantalizing clue: microplastics int … ⌘ Read more
Meta May Use Sweeping New Commercial TOS to Avoid Millions In AI Licensing Fees
Meta is facing criticism over updated commercial terms taking effect October 30 that could give the company broad permission to scrape content from websites linked to business accounts and use it to train AI. Legal experts warn the changes could undermine lucrative AI licensing deals for news publishers, with no dire … ⌘ Read more
Hackers Hijack D-Link, Ubiquiti Devices To Resell Your Stolen Bandwidth
An anonymous reader quotes a report from BleepingComputer: A proxyjacking campaign has impacted devices in 34 countries, monetizing victims’ internet connections through a commercial residential proxy network. The operator installed Pawns.app, a legitimate bandwidth-sharing application that lets users earn money by sharing their intern … ⌘ Read more
Google Is Silently Linking Your Phone Number Across All Signed-In Accounts
Google has made Android’s phone-number verification opt-out, automatically verifying and associating a device’s phone number with every Google account signed in on that phone, including secondary and work accounts. Android Authority reports: As spotted in a recent Reddit thread, users report receiving confirmation emails out o … ⌘ Read more
Original RFC1149 Packet Up For Auction At Christies
Long-time Slashdot reader badger.foo writes: As some of you may remember, in 2001 RFC1149 (TCP/IP over carrier pigeon) was implemented.
Now one of the packets preserved from that event is up for auction at Christies. Direct link to the auction (current bid: USD 2600) is here.
This is a unique chance to own a piece of Internet history!
[: Wiki editing: We’ve identi … ⌘ Read more
Flock Blamed for Wrongful 13-Day Imprisonment and a Police Stalking Incident in Florida
From the transportation news site MotorBiscuit:
In late September 2026, 23-year-old Liz Lindseay Isaacs testified before a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee about her harrowing experience after a Flock camera misidentified her Dodge Durango, linking her to a fatal hit-and-run miles away from where she ac … ⌘ Read more
FBI Detains Teenager Linked to Group That Stole Data on 5,000 FBI Employees
PC Magazine reports:
In September, the infamous ShinyHunters hacking group claimed it had infiltrated the FBI job recruitment portal, stealing confidential data belonging to 5,000 employees and even changing the FBI logo to its own. The group has been implicated in the hacking of numerous large and high-profile organizations … ⌘ Read more
Rogue OpenAI Agents Posted 53 User-Uploaded Images Onto the Internet, Accessed US Government Websites
53 images that users uploaded into OpenAI models were included in training data — and then AI agents in an OpenAI research environment posted those 53 images on public image hosting sites.
While posted as links that weren’t publicly listed, “the images could still be discovered e … ⌘ Read more
@prologic@twtxt.net Currently, yarnd links @david@daiwei.me’s mention to /external?uri=… that results in an HTTP 404 “Cannot find external feed”. I reckon no user on this yarnd is subscribed to @mlot@tilde.club’s feed, hence there’s nothing to show. Just fetching the feed on demand of course isn’t an option for privacy and security reasons, at least not for anonymous users. However, in my opinion it would be better if the link pointed to the raw feed URL instead.
220 Million Traveler Records Exposed In Vietnam-Linked APIS Leak
A misconfigured Advance Passenger Information System (APIS) database linked to Vietnam exposed more than 220 million passenger and crew travel records spanning 2017 to 2026, including names, passport numbers, nationalities, flight details, seat assignments, and baggage references. Researchers said the database was reachable through a chain of secu … ⌘ Read more
Malicious OpenAI Agents Linked to RubyGems Campaign That Gained RCE on RubyDoc Servers in May
A swarm of OpenAI agents launched a “major malicious attack” against RubyGems last May, according to a new report. That coordinated attack hit Ruby’s package manager “with hundreds of junk gems, prompting the maintainers to suspend new user sign-ups for about four days,” writes The Hacker News, … ⌘ Read more
Automattic’s Matt Mullenweg Claims He’s Back ‘In Control’
Less than 48 hours after Automattic’s board placed Matt Mullenweg on leave, Mullenweg told employees he was back “in control” of the company and that the board was again in agreement. 404 Media cited Slack screenshots late Thursday evening where Mullenweg posted “Don’t call it a comeback” and linked to LL Cool J’s music video for “Mama Said Knock You Out.” “Mullenweg’s … ⌘ Read more
Teen Reading Slumps to Worst This Century Due to Surge in Screen Time
Teen reading, math, and science scores have fallen to their lowest levels since international PISA testing began in 2000, with 15-year-olds now reading at roughly the level previously expected of students a year younger. The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) linked weaker results to more screen time, less rea … ⌘ Read more
⚠️ For anyone that signs up on Yarn.social’s multi-user twtd multi-tenant platform I’m runnign on twtpub.com – Be warned. I will delete your account if you create it for the soles purposes of link squatting, spam, link harvesting, seo marketing, or any other useless fucktarrd crap.
To the spammers and would-be assholes of the world: You have been wanred. Don’t abuse my generosity.
it’s all I ask
Amazon Linux 2027 Shows Off Nice Performance Gains On AMD EPYC In The AWS Cloud
Yesterday AWS announced the public preview of Amazon Linux 2027 as their successor to the current Amazon Linux 2023 in-house distribution. With all the software upgrades and improvements like building packages now with link-time optimizations (LTO), enforcing x86-64-v3 builds, and other changes, I was eager to run some performance benchmarks of Amazon Linux 2023 vs. Amazon Linux 2027 in the EC2 cloud. ⌘ Read more
Fedora 47 Considering Use Of Thin LTO Compiler Optimizations
A change proposal filed for what would be part of Fedora Linux 47 is on making use of Thin LTO rather than Fat LTO for link-time optimizations. With Thin LTO being more memory efficient and faster build speeds, the hope is that more Fedora packages could also use Thin LTO for packages where no link-time optimizations are currently leveraged… ⌘ Read more
Nvidia Launches Free Tool That Links Idle Computers Into a Personal AI Data Center
Nvidia has launched PAIR, a free open-source tool that links compatible computers on a home network so they can pool idle processing power for local AI inference and agentic workloads. “While the compatible devices are mostly Nvidia GeForce GPUs (PAIR works with RTX 20-series cards and newer, as well as RTX Pro … ⌘ Read more
itch.io upgraded their app to support Steam shortcuts, a headless mode and linking existing downloads
The itch.io app has been upgraded with some very useful additions, that make using it actually a whole lot nicer.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/itch-io-upgraded-their-app-to-support-steam- … ⌘ Read more
@movq@www.uninformativ.de Ahh, no you can. Much like what we’ve built here with Twtxt / Yarn. I’m building a spec, clients can implement the spec, or you can ya know, just curl and git your way through. I’ll link the spec soon™, just need to keep refining and testing and make sure this actually works properly 😅
I am finally building a Twtxt / Yarn.social inspired Git forge. I’m actually quite confident that y’all will quite like it, but I won’t post links yet until I’m quietly confident in its design, functionality and behaviour(s).
Stay tuned 🤞 It’ll be like no other Git forge you’ve ever seen! 🤣 Actually, it’s already more like cgit than anything with plain text feeds that power it’s “pure decentralization” as you can no doubt imagine 😅 #twtxt #git #forge
AMD Updates UALink Patches To Get The Linux Kernel Ready For UALoE On Helios
Earlier this month AMD posted a massive set of patches for bringing up UALink support for the mainline Linux kernel and wiring it up into the AMDGPU kernel driver. In closing out the month of August, they have updated this big set of Ultra Accelerator Link patches… ⌘ Read more
@Sumomo@sumomo.neocities.org I haven’t heard of that client before? 🤔 Got a link to it? screenshtos? Should I add it to the Listed Clients? 🤔
Xylitol Linked To Strokes and Heart Attacks, Study Finds
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: A common sweetener used in products such as chewing gum, toothpaste, jam, yoghurts and ice-cream has been linked to an increased risk of strokes, heart attacks and death. Xylitol is a sugar alcohol present in some natural foods in very low amounts. It is also added – often in amounts 1,000 times higher – … ⌘ Read more
@arne@uplegger.eu @movq@www.uninformativ.de Achtung, der Uplegger ist im Anmarsch! Dreht die Karten auf links! Entspannte Reise und gute Erholung! :-)
More Than 100 Water Systems Were Hit In July Cyberattacks
CISA says more than 100 internet-exposed U.S. water and wastewater systems were targeted in July, often through programmable logic controllers connected directly to cellular modems. “That’s the first time the feds have put a number on the digital intrusions, but they have yet to attribute the campaign, widely suspected to be linked to Iran, to a particular group … ⌘ Read more
Radiation Link In Flight Attendant’s Breast Cancer, French Court Finds
A French court has for the first time recognized cosmic radiation as a contributing occupational factor in a flight attendant’s breast cancer, alongside passive smoking and years of night work. The landmark ruling could open the door to similar claims from other aircrew, as research continues to link long-term high-altitude flying wi … ⌘ Read more
AMD Proposes New LLVM iTHP Option For Squeezing More Performance
AMD’s compiler team is proposing a new LLVM Clang compiler option, -fenable-readonly-thp for implementing instruction Transparent Huge Pages “iTHP” at compile and link-time. With -fenable-readonly-thp, they are finding more performance out of SPEC CPU, Geekbench, and other workloads from the arranging of 2MB segment alignment at link time and allowing the executable text range can be promoted to huge pages… ⌘ Read more
Nvidia Senior Manager Linked To Supermicro Scheme Smuggling AI Servers To China
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Taiwan has indicted nine people – reportedly including an Nvidia senior manager and two Supermicro employees based in the country – who allegedly helped forge documents to cover up illegal exports of high-end AI servers to China in violation of US export controls. O … ⌘ Read more
Iran-linked Cyberattackers Shut Down a UK Power Plant for Four Days
“Iran shut down a British power plant for four days in an unprecedented cyber attack,” reports the Telegraph.
More details from the BBC:
The government said that at no point was there a risk to the UK’s energy system, but the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) has contacted power companies to advise them about the risk of … ⌘ Read more
Rush Rescue Mission for NASA’s $500M Space Telescope Fails
Remember that rush rescue mission for NASA’s $500M space telescope? It failed, reports CNN, and the LINK satellite won’t be able to boost the telescope’s orbit. NASA says its decades-old Swift telescope will now continue losing altitude, until it reaches Earth’s atmosphere later this year and burns up.
CNN reports:
Just weeks after LINK lifted off on July … ⌘ Read more
Google Gives Publishers a ‘Preferred Sources’ Button to Fight AI-Driven Traffic Losses
Google is giving publishers a new way to fight declining referral traffic from AI-powered search by letting them embed a “Preferred Sources” button that readers can use to favor their sites across Search, Discover, and Google News. “The idea is to make it easier for readers to find links from the sites th … ⌘ Read more
Rescue Mission Is Called Off For NASA’s Aging Swift Space Telescope
NASA has called off a $30 million mission to rescue its aging Swift space telescope after Katalyst Space’s Link spacecraft developed persistent control and positioning problems. The Associated Press reports: Katalyst said Link will not attempt to capture Swift and boost it to a higher orbit because of problems with controlling the spacecr … ⌘ Read more
@klaxzy@klaxzy.net Turns out, it’s not a cool project. :-D
Can you build from source? Perhaps not if there is just a download link.
It’s been a hot minute since I last used alien to convert a Debian package into an RPM packge. Or was it the other way around? No clue.
Top Album Releases Linked To Rise In Fatal Crashes
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: The release of a new album by Taylor Swift might be a cause for celebration among her fans, but such events have also been linked to a more sombre phenomenon: an increase in fatal car crashes. The team behind a new study say it sheds light on the impact of distracted driving. Writing in the journal Jama Network … ⌘ Read more
@murad@twtxt.net Welcome to Yarn.social / Twtxt 🥳 You might want to fiddle a bit with your settings, maybe a nice avatar, description, maybe a few links, etc 😃
Apple Wants to Charge Developers Up to 15 Percent for Linking Outside the App Store
Apple is proposing to charge U.S. developers up to 15% when users leave an app through an external purchase link, with lower rates of 10% or 5% for certain programs and smaller developers. The proposal follows years of litigation with Epic Games and a contempt ruling that temporarily barred Apple from collect … ⌘ Read more
@brytboi@twtpub.com I mean you can, technically. But most clients won’t render Javascript or HTML fragments at all. Only Markdown, Text, Images and Links.
China-Linked Hackers Used AI To Run First-Ever ‘Autonomous’ Cyberattack On Taiwan
Researchers at Israeli cybersecurity firm Dream say suspected China-linked hackers used an open-source AI-agent system to conduct what may be the first observed end-to-end autonomous cyberattack against a government. According to the Financial Times (paywalled), the attack compromised at least 85 accounts and resulte … ⌘ Read more
Taxi Drivers Rarely Die of Alzheimer’s
An anonymous reader shares a report from The Conversation, written by Hatim Sharif, a civil and environmental engineer who has “spent more than two decades staring at maps” and spatial data. Sharif finds one connection especially fascinating: the link between spatial reasoning and why taxi drivers seem to have lower rates of Alzheimer’s. From the report: Taxi and ambulance drivers are less likel … ⌘ Read more