Activists Breach Microsoft Data Center Construction Site As Protests Spread In Europe
More than 100 activists breached a Microsoft AI data center construction site in Amsterdam as part of coordinated protests against the rapid expansion of AI infrastructure. “These data centres are destroying our world. It’s becoming uninhabitable because of all the resources they consume. That’s why we’re … ⌘ Read more
ReactOS Lands Initial USB3 Driver Support
After years of work, ReactOS as the “open-source Windows” operating system striving for Windows program and driver compatibility now has an initial USB 3.0 driver stack in place… ⌘ 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
A RISC-V Based TEE With AMD Zen 6 CPUs
An interesting technical detail I noticed today from the latest AMD Linux activity is that Zen 6 processors apparently are featuring a RISC-V based Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) where in the past it was an ARM-based core… ⌘ Read more
Epic Games comments on planned Linux distribution support
With the new Epic Games Launcher Preview out with Linux support, you might be wondering what distros exactly they plan to support - we have an answer for you.
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Summoned By Congress Over Chinese Espionage Concerns
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Top Republican lawmakers have asked Jensen Huang to appear before Congress to answer questions after it was reported that US intelligence officials believe Nvidia’s chief executive has been targeted by a Chinese spying operation. The chairs of the House committees on Ch … ⌘ Read more
Tesla to Wind Down Cybertruck Production
Elon Musk says Tesla will be “winding down” Cybertruck production at its Texas Gigafactory around mid-2027 to free up capacity for increased production of its Cybercab robotaxi. CNBC reports: The Cybertruck is exclusively produced at the company’s plant in Texas alongside the Tesla Model Y and two-seat Cybercab, which Musk has touted as a crucial product for the automaker moving forward. Musk … ⌘ Read more
Britain to Make Salary Disclosure In Job Ads Mandatory
Britain plans to require employers to disclose salaries in job advertisements. “Whether you’re a young person starting out or a parent trying to support your family, you should know what a job pays before spending your time and effort applying for it,” Prime Minister Andy Burnham said in a statement. Reuters reports: The government said requiring companies to disclo … ⌘ Read more
Linux 7.4-rc2 Change Yields As Much As 162x Improvement For FAT32
In addition to a FAT32 optimization yielding as much as a 265x improvement that was merged for the Linux 7.4 cycle and separately another big FAT32 improvement expected for Linux 7.5, merged this week as part of the non-MM fixes for Linux 7.4-rc2 was another big FAT32 performance optimization… ⌘ Read more
Sony Revives the Original Walkman Headphones, Adds USB-C
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Sony has brought back the MDR-3-series headphones that debuted in 1979 alongside the Walkman TPS-L2 cassette player. […] The new MDR-3R (originally called the “MDR-3L2”) headphones look just like the originals and come with orange and blue ear cushions. New headphones are often wireless these day … ⌘ Read more
Arch Linux vs. CachyOS vs. Omarchy 4.5 Performance Benchmarks
With CachyOS recently having rolled out its Linux 7.3 based kernel and various other improvements plus with Omarchy 4.5 having been released this week, this article provides a look at how CachyOS and Omarchy are competing on the performance front relative to upstream Arch Linux. ⌘ Read more
Linux x86 32-bit Patches Clean Old Kernel Code After Recently Removing Vintage CPUs
With the Linux kernek having phased out i486 CPU support and dropping old AMD Elan SoC code along with removing other obsolete and stagnate 32-bit x86 hardware support, some x86 32-bit clean-ups are proceeding along with being able to make the kernel depend unconditionally now on some features… ⌘ Read more
FEX Awaits The Linux Kernel To Align With Windows & macOS On ARM Register Usage
FEX 2611 is out for running Linux (and Wine) x86/x86_64 games/applications on AArch64 Linux. FEX 2611 brings JIT improvements while also waiting for the Linux kernel to align with the AArch64 specification and Windows on ARM and macOS Apple Silicon behavior around a particular register’s usage… ⌘ Read more
Roguefort is an open-world roguelike RPG where magic comes from cheesemaking
Want some cheese? You’re going to need plenty in Roguefort, a new open-world traditional roguelike RPG that has some peculiar ideas.
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EXD - Extra Dimensional adds Steam Frame support with a big update
Action-adventure VR game EXD - Extra Dimensional recently had a huge upgrade, and with it support for the Steam Frame was added.
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Star Trek: Infection gets official Steam Frame standalone support
Star Trek: Infection gets official Steam Frame standalone support, with the developer bringing over their Meta Quest 3 build with enhancements.
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Linux Developers Look To Drop RT_GROUP_SCHED As It’s “Broken Beyond Repair”
Linux kernel developers are looking at dropping the RT_GROUP_SCHED feature that is used for group scheduling of real-time tasks using cgroups… ⌘ Read more
Blue Origin Announces New Glenn Third Stage, New Booster Engine
Blue Origin has unveiled a third stage called GS3 for its New Glenn rocket, designed to deliver satellite constellations directly to geostationary orbit and support heavy-lift missions to the Moon and deep space. The company also announced Northstar, a new methalox booster engine that it says produces 715,000 pounds of thrust while cutting mass b … ⌘ Read more
Sound Subsystem Seeing Lots Of Fixes & Laptop/Device Quirks For Linux 7.4-rc2
The sound subsystem is seeing a “unsurprisingly high amount” fixes and device workarounds/quirks for this weekend’s Linux 7.4-rc2 kernel release… ⌘ Read more
OpenCV 5.1 Brings More AVX-512 Optimizations, Other Improvements
OpenCV 5.0 debuted back in June with a rewritten DNN engine and many other exciting improvements for this widely-used computer vision (CV) library. Out today is OpenCV 5.1 with tons of fixes and other incremental improvements to this important code… ⌘ Read more
Fate of the Galaxy is a big new free Star Wars space combat sim based on FreeSpace Open
Fate of the Galaxy is a free total conversion for FreeSpace Open developed by a team of fan volunteers, and it looks really impressive.
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Alchi, a deck-builder built around a unique card-mixing system adds Linux and macOS versions
With some fun looking scribbly artwork, Alchi is a deck-builder for those of you that want something a bit different with the mixing system.
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Knives Out-inspired mystery thriller from the Duck Detective devs, ‘Apple Crumble’ arrives December 2
Ready for a new mystery thriller adventure? Duck Detective devs next game is a Knives Out-inspired mystery thriller, ‘Apple Crumble’ set to arrive December 2nd.
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A slot machine is your weapon in the new release of Slots & Skulls
A slot machine as a weapon? Well, they can be pretty dangerous to your wallet but in Slots & Skulls you spin to fight.
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itch.io founder announces the ‘return of Flash games’ thanks to open source
After dealing with all the AI slop, the founder of itch.io has announced that Flash games are set to make a fun return thanks to open source.
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EA bring back many classic games to Steam including Road Rash, Wing Commander, Ultima and more
Along with the GOG Showcase that mentioned some revamped classics - EA also restored many classic games and put them on Steam for the first time.
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Get some great casual games in Hamble’s Farming Games Collection Humble Bundle
Love your more sweet and casual games? Check out the brand new Hamble’s Farming Games Collection Humble Bundle.
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FAA Phases Out Floppy Disks From Air Traffic Control
The FAA announced today that it is finally phasing out floppy disks from air traffic control systems at more than 400 facilities. Engadget reports: They’ll be replaced by a more modern system called Enterprise – Information Display System (E-IDS), which is comprised of a digital display for relaying status information, updates and other alerts to air traffic teams. … ⌘ Read more
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Is Changing the Color of the Ocean
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Scientific American: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, an area in the Pacific Ocean where debris naturally accumulates, is full of tiny bits of plastic – so full, in fact, that it seems to be changing the color of the ocean. […] To better understand how microplastics may have influenced the ocean’s … ⌘ Read more
Applebee’s Exposed Customers’ Personal Data After Leaving Database Password In App
Joe_Dragon shares a report from TechCrunch: Applebee’s has fixed a security flaw that allowed anyone to access the personal information of its registered customers, after a researcher found a password for an internal database inside Applebee’s mobile app, TechCrunch has learned. The popular restaurant chain confi … ⌘ Read more
OpenAI Responds to US Midterm Elections With New Commitment to Communities
“OpenAI has published a new National Community Compact and Compute Campus Policy Blueprint, apparently in response to the Blue Wave Midterm Elections,” writes ancient Slashdot reader Gilmoure. “Instead of moving into communities like a juggernaut, they say they will be dangling friendly carrots going forward.” Here’s an ex … ⌘ Read more
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
OpenSSH Flaw Lets Attackers Log Into Password-Disabled Linux Accounts
A newly disclosed OpenSSH flaw dubbed “*sshole” can allow attackers to log in to password-disabled accounts on certain musl-based Linux systems simply by submitting a password longer than 256 bytes. “Apparently certain varieties of musl Linux (Alpine, OpenWrt, Buildroot, Yocto, etc.) have had this OpenSSH vulnerability for about a decade … ⌘ Read more
Linux 7.4’s Build Time Performance From Optimizations But Also Larger Codebase
With Linux 7.4 the patches to speed-up the kernel build process began to land. This is the work that’s yielded extremely fast incremental builds and noop builds. The patch series in full is also allowing kernel build times approaching just ten seconds with enough CPU cores. In today’s article is a look at the Linux 7.3 vs. 7.4-rc1 build time performance on the Framework Laptop 13 Pro powered by Intel Panther Lake… ⌘ Read more
Apple Is Putting Employees On an AI Budget
According to Bloomberg, Apple is cutting employee AI spending limits to reduce costs, lowering some engineers from $300 to $200 per day and considering limits as low as $100, with some teams capped at $25. Employees are also being encouraged to use cheaper models or on-device AI. MacRumors reports: Engineers at Apple have the largest budgets because using AI for coding can consume a large … ⌘ Read more
Want to Rent an Internet Address at the White House?
Longtime Slashdot reader bbsguru shares a report from KrebsOnSecurity: Several staffers at the White House are using computers or mobile devices equipped with residential proxy services that render their internet address available for others to rent, security experts warned today. One of the proxy services is a Russian company whose founder’s web hosting business was groun … ⌘ Read more
Discord Is Ditching Electron For Rust
Discord is replacing Electron with a desktop client built fully in Rust, which the company says should significantly reduce the app’s notoriously high resource usage while improving performance and memory safety. “We’ve been early adopters of Rust since 2018 and a lot of our infra, voice tech, and even some of the current client is already Rust, the holy grail was getting the whole client there,” exp … ⌘ Read more
A new GOG Galaxy is coming in 2027 with full Linux support
GOG just held their first GOG Showcase, and in it they confirmed that in 2027 we’ll see GOG Galaxy fully supported on Linux.
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Motorola’s Ultra Premium Smartphone Is Its First With GrapheneOS Support
Motorola’s $1,600 Signature 27 will become the company’s first smartphone to support the security- and privacy-focused GrapheneOS that completely strips out native Google services and telemetry at the OS level. To help justify the price, Motorola equipped the Signature 27 with top-of-the-line specs, including a tandem OLED disp … ⌘ Read more
Linux’s RAID6 Check Tool Sees 3x Performance Via Batching
For those that use Linux’s raid6check command for checking/repairing an MD RAID6 software RAID array’s device for errors, newly-merged code is showing up to a 3x performance improvement… ⌘ Read more
Major Digital Bank In Paraguay Collapses With Half of Population’s Savings
Paraguayan President Santiago Pena resigned Thursday amid mass protests and impeachment threats following the collapse of Ueno Bank, a major digital lender with close ties to his administration and more than 60% of the country’s adults as customers. Regulators seized the bank after uncovering risky insider lending and accountin … ⌘ Read more
Microsoft’s Imagine Cup ‘Evolves’ From Student Competition To AI Startup Contest
theodp writes: That Was Then: The Imagine Cup competition, Microsoft explained in a 2003 press release, “seeks to provide students [aged 16-and-up] around the world with resources to use technology and Web services to solve everyday problems […] Imagine Cup is about empowering students to apply their creativity a … ⌘ Read more
Fanatical Platinum Collection (November 2026) game bundle is live with some treats
Fanatical just launched their Platinum Collection - Build your own Bundle (November 2026) and it has a number of good games in it for cheaps.
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Servo Browser Engine Continues Broadening Web Compatibility, New Features
The Servo open-source browser engine project is finally out with their status report highlighting the improvements made back in September. There is expanded web compatibility, new HTML and JavaScript features, WebGL2 improvements, and continued work on expanding the embed capabilities of this engine… ⌘ Read more
Zlib 1.4 Released With More Than One Dozen Security Fixes
Zlib 1.4 is now available for this widely-used compression library. In these AI times, Zlib 1.4 ships with more than a dozen security fixes… ⌘ Read more
Debian, Ubuntu and derivatives hit by APT flaw that could give attackers root access
Got root? Someone else might have on your system - if you’re running Debian, Ubuntu and derivatives you’ll want to get updating soon.
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Linux Kernel Patches Posted For Review In Enabling Apple AirDrop Support
A set of Linux kernel patches have been posted for review with a hope of reaching the mainline kernel to provide Apple AirDrop support for Macs equipped with the T2 chip… ⌘ Read more
Mir 2.31 Released With Expanded Wayland Protocol Support
Mir 2.31 is now available as the latest feature release for this Canonical/Ubuntu solution for providing C++ libraries to build Wayland-based shells… ⌘ Read more
Tripwire Presents expands publishing to focus on support of smaller indie teams
Tripwire Presents, the publishing division of Tripwire Interactive, announced a new initiative to expand support for smaller indie developers and games.
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