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
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
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
NASA Announces X-70 Experimental Aircraft to Advance Flight Research
NASA has unveiled the X-70 Fractal, a new crewed experimental aircraft “designed to accelerate the development and testing of advanced aviation technologies.” From a press release: The crewed X-70 features advanced, rapidly reconfigurable flight-control technology that will allow NASA to explore aircraft maneuverability in ways never b … ⌘ Read more
Omarchy 4.5 Released With Apple Silicon Support, More Desktop Customizations
Omarchy 4.5 is out today as a big feature update to this Arch Linux based operating system… ⌘ Read more
MPV 0.42 Media Player Brings Wayland Improvements, Improved HDR
MPV as the open-source, cross-platform media player originally based on MPlayer/mplayer2 is finally out with a new release… ⌘ Read more
LXQt 2.5 Released With Enhanced QTerminal, Removing The Final LXDE Dependency
LXQt 2.5 released today as the newest feature update to this lightweight, Qt6-based desktop environment… ⌘ Read more
LZ4 1.11 Introduces Multi-Threaded Compression For liblz4, Other Performance Gains
For those making use of the LZ4 extremely fast compression algorithm, LZ4 1.11 released today and brings multi-threaded compression support to its library (liblz4)… ⌘ Read more
NVIDIA CUDA 13.5 Released With Production Support For Vera Rubin
Along with today’s release of the NVIDIA 620.70.06 Linux driver, NVIDIA also released CUDA 13.5 that brings general availability (GA) support for Vera Rubin… ⌘ Read more
NVIDIA stable driver 620.70.06 released for Linux
NVIDIA today released Linux drivers version 620.70.06, this is their latest stable recommended driver for everyone.
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NVIDIA 620.70.06 Linux Driver Released With Wayland Fixes & Performance Work
Out today is the first NVIDIA Linux driver release in the R620 release branch. This NVIDIA 620.70.06 Linux driver release isn’t too feature heavy but comes with some bug fixes, improved performance of explicit sync on Wayland, and some other refinements… ⌘ Read more
Linux 7.3 Will More Than Likely Be This Year’s LTS Kernel
While the Linux 7.4 kernel will be released in the 2026 calendar year in the last week or two of December if the schedule holds, it turns out Linux 7.3 is likely to be this year’s Long Term Support kernel version… ⌘ Read more
AMD Releases ZenDNN 6.1 With New Kernels & Optimizations
Last month Intel and AMD jointly announced they would be collaborating on software optimizations with PyTorch/oneDNN. That already led to the UXL Foundation’s release of oneDNN 3.14 with initial AMD Zen optimizations. It looks though like for now at least AMD will also continue to concurrently push new work into their ZenDNN library and not exclusively tied to oneDNN. Out today is ZenDNN 6.1… ⌘ Read more
Bazzite 45 arrives powered by Fedora Linux 45 for gamers
Bazzite Linux is one of the best ways to get Linux on various handhelds, with Bazzite 45 out now powered by the newly released Fedora Linux 45.
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SteamOS 0.5.7 Beta for Steam Frame brings WebXR, improved settings and more
Valve just released SteamOS 0.5.7 Beta for Steam Frame bringing with it some settings changes, along with support for WebXR with Chromium.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/11/steamos-0-5-7-beta-for-steam-frame-brings-webxr-improved-settings … ⌘ Read more
GIMP 3.2.8 Released With Many Refinements, Numerous Security Fixes Due To AI Reports
GIMP 3.2.8 is out today as the newest stable release of this open-source image editing application that’s most popular on the Linux desktop… ⌘ Read more
NetBSD 11.1 Released With Security Fixes & Other Improvements
Following the release of NetBSD 11.0 in August, NetBSD 11.1 is out today with a collection of security fixes and other improvements… ⌘ Read more
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
Fedora 45 Released With Many Leading-Edge Linux Innovations
After challenged by two release delays, Fedora 45 is officially out as the latest six-month update to this leading Linux distribution… ⌘ Read more
openSUSE Leap 16.1 Released With Immutable Sever Integration
The openSUSE Leap 16.1 Linux distribution is out today and built from the same sources as SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16.1… ⌘ Read more
The Linux Kernel Preparing To Remove The Last Of Its MMX Optimized Code
For what will likely be merged to the Linux 7.5 kernel, the mainline kernel is preparing to drop its last optimization its been carrying for far outdated MMX processors. This affects the likes of Intel Pentium MMX and Pentium II processors running modern software with up-to-date kernels when Linux 7.5 is released in 2027… ⌘ Read more
Intel Compute Runtime Continues Prepping For GPU D Series, OpenCL LEO for Nova Lake P
Released today was the Intel Compute Runtime 26.40.40196.8 as the newest version of their open-source GPU compute stack for both Windows and Linux systems… ⌘ Read more
Claymation slapstick comedy brawler Knuckle Creek is out now and looks awesome
With a banging release trailer, Knuckle Creek is one you absolutely have to check out if you love the idea of a slapstick comedy brawler made with clay.
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3dSen emulator that transforms NES games into 3D voxel dioramas v2.0 brings huge changes
3dSen is just magic. An emulator that turns retro NES games into 3D voxel dioramas across flat PC gaming and VR has a huge new release out with 2.0.
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Thief: The Dark Project Remastered launches December 3 with pre-orders up
Thief: The Dark Project Remastered from Atari / Nightdive is now set for release on December 3rd, with pricing and pre-orders now live.
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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.
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GE-Proton 11-12 is another big release with lots of game fixes for Linux / SteamOS
GE-Proton is one of the most popular community-made Proton layers to run more Windows games on Linux / SteamOS, and GE-Proton 11-12 is now available.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/11/ge-proton-11-12-is-another-big-release-with-lots-of-game-fix … ⌘ Read more
AerynOS 2026.11 Released With New Installer Option, Other Improvements
AerynOS 2026.11 was released today along with a lengthy blog post highlighting the recent development work on this original Linux distribution… ⌘ Read more
Check out some of the highest-rated Steam Deck Verified games released in October 2026
Here’s some of the highest-rated Steam Deck Verified games released on Steam during October 2026. Helping you find something great to play on the go!
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Here’s the most popular Native Linux releases for October 2026
Here’s some of the highest-rated Native Linux games released on Steam during October 2026. Helping you to find something interesting!
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Crunchy retro shooter Selaco Chapter 2 arrives November 13
The crunchy retro-shooter Selaco is about to get a massive content update with Selaco Chapter 2: The Machines of War releasing November 13th.
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FreeRDP 3.33 Released With WebAssembly Support, Huge Influx Of Activity Due To AI
The FreeRDP 3.33 software released today as the newest version of this open-source Microsoft Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) implementation… ⌘ Read more
OpenMW 0.52.0 for Morrowind gets a fresh release candidate to test new features
The amazing open source game engine OpenMW for the classic RPG Morrowind has released a release candidate for the upcoming 0.52.0 release.
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DXVK-NVAPI 0.9.3 adds initial ARM64 support, DirectX Raytracing (DXR) upgrades
DXVK-NVAPI is the implementation of NVIDIA’s NVAPI/NVOFAPI library for usage with DXVK and VKD3D-Proton - with a new release out now.
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DWProton 11.0-16 brings fixes for NIKKE and Arknights: Endfield
The popular community-made DWProton for running various Anime games has a new release out with DWProton 11.0-16 now available to download.
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Stack Overflow: ‘Reports of Our Death are Greatly Exaggerated’
Stack Overflow’s senior VP of community says predictions of their demise “make for compelling headlines, but they confuse a change in how people access knowledge with the disappearance of the knowledge — and the company — behind it.
AI has changed developer behavior. In our recently released 2026 Developer Survey, 64% of respondents said they vis … ⌘ Read more
Linux 7.4-rc1 Released With Nice Performance Improvements, AMD Ryzen Zen 6 Preparations & AMDGPU HDMI 2.1 Default
Even with Linus Torvalds having been on holiday, Linux 7.4-rc1 is out today on-schedule for capping off the Linux 7.4 merge window… ⌘ Read more
The Linux 7.4 Merge Window Is Easily The Largest In Kernel History
After writing this morning with some stats about the size of the Linux 7.4 merge window and the kernel’s source tree approaching 42 million lines, I was curious to run some numbers for putting the size of the merge window into perspective against the major kernel releases of the past 15 years. This shows the definite recent uptick due to AI/LLM activity… ⌘ 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
OpenShot 4.1 Released With Auto-Optimize, CLI Automation & ARM64 Linux Builds
OpenShot is closing out the month of October by releasing OpenShot 4.1 as the latest major feature release for this useful open-source video editing solution… ⌘ Read more
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
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
Enlightenment 0.28 Released With Many Improvements
Enlightenment 0.27 released at the beginning of 2025 and since then there’s been no major feature update, falling off their roughly 12 month release cadence. But out this Halloween is Enlightenment 0.28 now with the better part of two years worth of changes… ⌘ Read more
Linux Mint Developing New Apps For Terminal & System Monitoring
Linux Mint is out with their October 2026 status report to outline various initiatives they have underway in their lead-up to the Linux Mint 27 stable release happening on/around Christmas… ⌘ Read more
CUDA Oxide 0.3 Vastly Improves Rust Support For NVIDIA CUDA Programming
NVIDIA software engineers released CUDA Oxide 0.3 for closing out October. CUDA Oxide as a reminder is their experimental Rust to CUDA compiler that has been seeing a lot of activity in recent months… ⌘ 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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Wine 11.21 Released With Better WoW64 OpenGL Performance
Wine 11.21 is out as the newest bi-weekly development release of Wine and as we near Wine 12.0 stable release happenings getting underway in about one month with the official v12.0 release expected early in the new year… ⌘ 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