Scifi Magazine ‘Starlog’ Relaunches, and Back Issues Return to Internet Archive
Slashdot reader sandbagger brings news about the classic science ficdtion magazine Starlog. It’s 33-year run from 1976 to 2009 is now available on the Internet Archive.
And 17 years after publishing its final issue, Starlog is relaunching, publishing one issue a year starting November 13, according to The Holly … ⌘ Read more
A Third Major US Offshore Wind Farm Is Now Fully Operational
Despite the Trump administration’s efforts to halt development on a $6.2 billion wind farm, it’s now “completely up and running,” reports the nonprofit energy news site Canary Media, delivering enough electricity to power the equivalent over 350,000 homes:
On Thursday, the Danish energy giant Ørsted said its 704-megawatt wind farm near Connecticut and R … ⌘ 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
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.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/11/debian-ubuntu-and-derivatives-hit-by-apt-flaw-that-could-gi … ⌘ Read more
Experimental Project Gets Intel XeSS On XMX Working With Valve’s Steam Play (Proton)
Last month I wrote about Intel working on adding proper XeSS support to Steam Play (Proton). While those efforts haven’t yet been completed for benefiting Linux gamers running Intel Arc Graphics, in the meantime an independent open-source developer has managed to get XMX-accelerated XeSS working under Proton… ⌘ 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to the Linux 7.5 kernel, the mainline kernel is preparing to drop its last optimization its been carrying for far outdated MMX processors.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
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
The New York Times Sues Brave Web Browser For AI Scraping, Bypassing Paywalls
The New York Times and several other publishers have sued (PDF) Brave Software, accusing the browser maker of scraping their websites without permission and helping users bypass paywalls. The Verge reports: According to a complaint (PDF) filed by the companies that run New York Daily News, the Chicago Tribune, and the Orla … ⌘ Read more
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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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. 🙃
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
DXVK-NVAPI 0.9.3 Brings Nice Improvements For Linux Gamers On Latest NVIDIA Drivers
DXVK-NVAPI 0.9.3 is out this weekend as a new feature update to this NVIDIA NVAPI implementation used by Valve as part of Steam Play with Proton for nicely integrating NVIDIA technologies into various Windows games running on Linux… ⌘ 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
PostgreSQL 19 Running Behind Schedule Due To AI/LLM Burden
The PostgreSQL database server typically sees its annual feature release every September~October, but it’s not coming until at least November if not longer this year. Due to the increased developer burden due to increased bug reporting and patches via AI/LLM activity, the PostgreSQL developers have been overwhelmed… ⌘ Read more
Canada to Join EU Network of Supercomputers
Canada is joining the European Union’s supercomputing network to give Canadian companies, startups, and researchers access to European computing resources for AI development. The partnership aims to strengthen AI cooperation and reduce dependence on US technology. Politico reports: The EU’s supercomputing network is run by the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking, an EU public-private vehicle with … ⌘ Read more
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@zyak@twtxt.z85b.xyz Yeah, that was an additional bonus. But I still think that I added more than I lost in total. Better than nothing for sure.
I’ve been on that tour on foot three times before. But it’s really not something to recommend. If I run into the same situation again, I’ll take the forest detour. It is actually pretty towards the end.
I had dinner with some mates in the city. After 20 o’clock there are basically no trains running anymore due to construction work today and tomorrow. You can take the rail replacement service, but that more than doubles the travel time (over two hours instead of three quarters). Also, replacement buses always call for trouble. You just wanna avoid it at all costs.
I was kinda lucky and took a still running (probably last one) medium-distance train. But I had to exit one station early because it didn’t stop at my destination. Instead of waiting three quarters of an hour in 6°C for a quarter hour bus ride, I decided to just quickly walk the 5 kilometers at a smart pace. It took me 50 minutes. I opted for the direct and way uglier route, the nicer one through the forest would have added another 20 minutes to half an hour. Also, I didn’t wear my hiking boots.
Despite the horrible smell of the gelatine factory and walking right next to a four-lane road, it could have been worse. I saw an oversize load (a new rock crusher was sent from the factory to its new home), that was quite cool. It was also surprising how many cars had a broken tail light or illegally overtook on the right. Crazy! Luckily, there wasn’t a whole lot of traffic anymore.
The moon and the clouds looked really nice. Same with the foggy patches here and there. I got some much-needed exercise. The cold air felt good. I call that a success.
Apple Announces Its First Touchscreen MacBook Pro
Apple has unveiled its first touchscreen MacBook Pro, reversing a position the company held for more than 15 years that touchscreens were poorly suited for laptops. 9to5Mac reports: The new machine features a light-up Apple logo, tandem OLED, and touch input on the display. It runs on the M5 Pro and M5 Max chips, like the existing MacBook Pro models without OLED touch dis … ⌘ Read more
Google Begins Certifying Registered App Stores For Android
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Running an app ecosystem has gotten a lot more complex for Google after its loss in the Epic Games antitrust case. While U.S. users can access app stores in Google Play by court order, international users will use Google’s voluntary Registered App Stores program. Google has announced that stores wishing … ⌘ Read more
VKD3D-Proton 3.1 brings a new stable release, ahead of more important changes to come
VKD3D-Proton is one of the major parts of Valve’s Proton, that enables tons of Direct3D 12 games to run well on SteamOS / Linux. Version 3.1 is out now!
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/vkd3d-proton-3-1-brings-a-new-stable-rele … ⌘ Read more
Steam Frame VR Headset Sees Mainline Support With Linux 7.4
The mainline Linux 7.4 kernel will be capable of running on the Steam Frame VR headset… ⌘ Read more
Moxnox: NT-Like, POSIX-Compatible Hobby OS Running Atop Btrfs
Open-source developer Mark Harmstone who is known for his work on developing a Btrfs file-system driver for Windows has spent the past few years working on a new hobby operating system. Moxnox is an HT-like, POSIX-compatible operating system… ⌘ Read more
👋 Just a friendly reminder that if I don’t actually see any “use in anger” of this little container service I call cas.run – Then I can’t actually see how it will behave, perform and whether or not something like this will even remotely work and is worth continuing ot build out 😅 Please 🙏 and thank you 🙇♂️
Free Software Foundation Hosts Free ‘Encryptfest’ Event on Sunday
The Free Software Foundation’s “EncryptFest” today covers both encryption and privacy. The free two-hour event runs from 13:00-15:00 Eastern Daylight Time (17:00-19:00 UTC), and includes:
— A discussion on “bulk surveillance, and how encryption protects personal privacy”
— A short video from renowned cryptographer Bruce Schneier.
— A discussio … ⌘ Read more
My first Halloween one-shot of 2026 is in-the-bag (as of about 90 minutes ago).
Mind you, it didn’t start until way later than anticipated (due to a scheduling conflict with one of the players), and then it ran for a marathon 6 hours before the 3 players “won” by rescuing the surviving vanished villagers and escaping with their lives. There were flying heads, vampire mercenaries, even a werewolf butler, all of whom met a sticky end at the “hands” of our heroes. Good times were had by all!
I’ll be running it again for 3 different players in about 10 hours. Hopefully their session goes as well for them (although I wouldn’t mind if it went a bit quicker, too 😁).
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TL;DR: $1/month hosting or whatever you want to run 🏃
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I’m tied up for most of the day today, but I’ll see what I can get running here later tonight. Very cool! 🤩🤘
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👋 Introducing (after a 3yr hiatic where the project actually begin in ~2023+); cas.run: give it a container image and it runs it on the web at its own hostname. This is an alpha service at the moment, so; every account gets one service, 64 MB of memory and a gigabyte of disk space. You can purchase more units at a $1/month (AUD), so it's like $0.70 USD I think. Don't use this for anything big please (not yet_), the infra behind it runs on a single host in Sydney right now. https://cas.run
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TL;DR: $1/month hosting or whatever you want to run 🏃
👋 Introducing (_after a 3yr hiatic where the project actually begin in ~2023+); cas.run: give it a container image and it runs it on the web at its own hostname. This is an alpha service at the moment, so; every account gets one service, 64 MB of memory and a gigabyte of disk space. You can purchase more units at a $1/month (AUD), so it’s like $0.70 USD I think. Don’t use this for anything big please (not yet), the infra behind it runs on a single host in Sydney right now. https://cas.run
Left Alone With Nothing To Do, AI Agents Started Playing
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: AI agents left to explore a virtual island without a specific task began inventing challenges of their own. MIT researchers say the behavior bears the hallmarks of play. The researchers put 13 AI agents called Eko, each running on Claude Opus 4.7, alone on a simulated desert island for 30 hours. They describe the ex … ⌘ Read more
Factorio 2.1 is out now with the native ARM64 Linux build to run on Steam Frame, Raspberry Pi and more
That day is here! Factorio 2.1 stable has arrived as a big clean-up release along with new platform support with their Native Linux version.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/factorio-2-1-i … ⌘ Read more
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@itsericwoodward Good context and info thank you 🙏 Obviously I'm into self hosting too, d'uh, but it's just an interesting experiment and price point. It isn't about whether you can get xyz VM/VPS for $abc but more about all the times you don't have to maintain or build yourself.
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@itsericwoodward@itsericwoodward.com So I can think of a number of services that can run in this memory “pool”. It’s not a limit, just a default “unit size”. yarnd, saltyd, any static web hosting, etc. There’a a non-zero no. of things that will consume very little memory.
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@itsericwoodward Good context and info thank you 🙏 Obviously I'm into self hosting too, d'uh, but it's just an interesting experiment and price point. It isn't about whether you can get xyz VM/VPS for $abc but more about all the times you don't have to maintain or build yourself.
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@prologic@twtxt.net Understood, and I apologize if it sounded like I was trying to do a price comparison (I really wasn’t). Instead, let me ask this way: as I am still unlearned in the art of small VMs, what does one do with a 64MB container? I’m old enough to remember when apps were really small, but even most “simple” apps are too big for a 64MB machine, right? Or am I missing something?
I guess that’s why I made the comparison with the 512MB droplet at DO - that’s the smallest machine I’ve run in a VPS so far (and even my home servers have 8-32 GB of RAM).
Maybe a better question is: What would you run on a service like what you’re talking about? Or what do you envision people using it for?
Microsoft Says October Updates Didn’t Actually Fix VPN Issues
joshuark shares a report from BleepingComputer: Microsoft says it mistakenly flagged a bug causing Always On VPN connection issues as fixed in the October 2026 Windows 11 cumulative updates. Always On VPN replaced the legacy DirectAccess technology and supports domain-joined, non-domain-joined, and Microsoft Entra ID-joined devices running Windows 10, Win … ⌘ Read more
Mesa RADV Change Satisfies More Steam Play Games On Aging AMD GFX8 GPUs
Valve landed a patch in Mesa 27.0 and to be back-ported to current Mesa stable series to satisfy more games running under Steam Play with VKD3D-Proton for working on AMD GFX8 GPUs like Polaris… ⌘ Read more
Steam Client update fixes Vulkan games hanging after alt-tab, and a security update
An annoying bug I’ve run into a few times recently has been solved - Vulkan games hanging after alt-tab should be fixed with this new Steam Client update.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/steam-client-update-fixes-vulkan-games-hanging-afte … ⌘ Read more
You know what I run on my servers? Not PHP.
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@aelaraji@aelaraji.com Are/were you trying to run it on your desktop system? Or on a server?
Intel Core Ultra 9 Arrow Lake On Star Labs StarFighter Shows Nice Gains On Ubuntu 26.10
For those running a Star Labs StarFighter Ultra or other Intel Core Ultra Arrow Lake laptop, the recent Ubuntu 26.10 release is providing some nice performance gains over the Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release. Here is a look at how Ubuntu 26.04 LTS vs. Ubuntu 26.10 performs with the Intel Core Ultra 9 285H over dozens of different benchmarks. ⌘ Read more
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Q: Would you pay $2 AUD / $1.40 USD per month for a micro container service that let you run up to 3 containers with up to 64MB of memory per container, shared CPU and nVME backed Disk? 🤔 Then $1 SUD $0.70 USD / month per additional 64MB slot/slice? 🤔 -- Assuming you can also run smaller containers where cost per container linearly scales, so $0.50 / $0.35 for 32MB containers.
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@prologic@twtxt.net Potentially, but 64 MB is kinda small. I haven’t run a host with < 512 MB in quite some time, and it would take 8 @ 64MB to match that, although that would only be $1.40 (for the first 3) + $3.50 (for the last 5), so still under $5 a month…. Yeah, most likely, even if just for a couple of off-site services and secure backups.
I’ll be honest - I’ve had a VPS at DigitalOcean for years, but I barely use it anymore because I got big into “owning my own servers” (hence my interest in Self Hosted, which I just signed up for), so now I run a few repurposed old desktops throughout my house. But I trust you way more than I do some other random VPS provider, so again…. Yeah, most likely. 🙂
Wine Ported to OpenBSD
Wine has been successfully ported to OpenBSD, with developers reporting that dozens of 64-bit Windows applications now run on the operating system. “Even the Remaster of The Witcher 3 which released just last month runs, and runs well,” writes Thomas Frohwein, OpenBSD developer and ports maintainer. OSnews reports: The biggest limitation seems to be the lack of support for WoW64, so 32bit Windows software won’t work. Still, this … ⌘ Read more
Q: Would you pay $2 AUD / $1.40 USD per month for a micro container service that let you run up to 3 containers with up to 64MB of memory per container, shared CPU and nVME backed Disk? 🤔 Then $1 SUD $0.70 USD / month per additional 64MB slot/slice? 🤔 – Assuming you can also run smaller containers where cost per container linearly scales, so $0.50 / $0.35 for 32MB containers.
Wine 11.20 brings more improvements for ARM64EC, XML validation and CDROMs
The Wine 11.20 development release is out now bringing another set of improvements for running Windows apps / games on SteamOS / Linux.
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Linux 7.3 Squeezes Even More Performance Out Of The AMD Threadripper PRO 9995WX
With the Linux 7.3 kernel due out for release on Sunday, I’ve continued running more benchmarks recently of this forthcoming kernel version and it looks great. In my Linux 7.3 testing of the Git state it’s been looking great in testing on a variety of hardware shown across multiple systems. Recently I decided to try out this new kernel code on the 96-core AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 9995WX workstation… ⌘ Read more
Proton Experimental for October 15 has fixes for ARC Raiders, C&C Red Alert, Counterstike and The Aftermath
Valve launched the latest update for Proton Experimental to fix up more issues found with Windows games running on SteamOS / Linux.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/proton-experime … ⌘ Read more
Fedora 45 Will Not Be Released Next Week
For those eager to run the pristine Fedora 45 media, you will need to wait at least one more week… ⌘ Read more
LPDDR5 5467 vs. 6400 vs. 7467 MT/s Memory Performance Benchmarks For Laptops
With the recently reviewed Star Labs StarFighter Ultra Linux laptop its BIOS allows for configurable memory speeds unlike many other laptop vendor BIOS implementations these days. Star Labs also made the default design decision to run the LPDDR5-7467 rated memory at LPDDR5-6400 speeds in the name of a balanced user experience for power/performance. So I was curious to run some benchmarks quantifying that power and performance impact of LP … ⌘ Read more
Meta and Apple Bring Muse Spark Open AI Model to Mac Studio
Meta has released Muse Spark Open, an 816-billion-parameter open-weight model optimized to run locally across two 512GB M5 Ultra Mac Studios using Apple’s MLX framework. Meta says it’s the “most capable U.S. open-weight model to date.” MacRumors reports: Muse Spark Open has 816 billion total parameters with 42 billion active parameters and a 1 million-toke … ⌘ Read more
Microsoft Says Windows 11 Is Now ‘More Responsive’, Runs Better On 8GB of RAM
Microsoft says recent Windows 11 updates have made the operating system up to 20% more responsive by improving memory management and reducing background resource use. “A big part of that work is making smarter use of memory and system resources,” says Navjot Virk, corporate vice president of Windows experiences at Microsoft … ⌘ Read more
3mdeb Releases Updated Dasharo/Coreboot Firmware For ASRock Rack SPC741D8-2L2T
3mdeb firmware engineers have been quite busy this year working on porting Coreboot and openSIL to an AMD Ryzen AM5 MSI motherboard and similarly getting openSIL and Coreboot up and running on a Gigabyte server motherboard for AMD EPYC 9005 CPUs. They haven’t forgotten about their past projects though and today released an updated version of their Dasharo downstream firmware for the ASRock Rack SPC741D8-2L2T motherboard supporting 4 … ⌘ Read more