Steam snap using core26 is now available for testing
Ubuntu gamers can help test a new version of Canonical’s Steam snap that uses a core26 base and an updated Mesa graphics driver stack. A new...
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Ski Lift Removes Mice from Chicken Coop
Getting rid of rodents like squirrels, mice, or groundhogs is a lot like digging a hole on the beach. No matter how much you remove, it’ll...
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Bun Rewrites 535K Lines of Zig into Rust in Four Months, Eliminates Numerous Memory Leaks
Bun creator Jarred Sumner recently announced that Bun, the JavaScript/TypeScript runtime, bundler and package manager has been rewritten from Zig to Rust. The rewrite seeks to...
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Vincent Bernat: Bot-free self-hosted analytics with GoatCounter on NixOS
In 2016, I removed Google Analytics from this blog to avoid being complicit in feeding the biggest machine for harvesting personal data. Instead, I relied on GoAccess...
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First 5-day Tokyo Game Show in 30 years cuts back to 4 in face of Typhoon Dujuan
The gamer's traditional enemy, the typhoon.
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No one is surprised that Nvidia’s Jensen Huang thinks AI fears are overblown.
The man who may stand to make the most money from the AI boom seems to think he knows better than anyone else, including researchers who...
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Important x86 Fixes Merged Ahead Of Linux 7.3-rc4
Ahead of the Linux 7.3-rc4 kernel release due out in the coming hours, an important batch of x86/x86_64 fixes have been merged to address a few...
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Kojima Productions disputes reports the studio is in trouble
After it was announced that Sony was dropping Hideo Kojima's Physint, and that instead the Metal Gear Solid creator's latest title would be coming to Xbox,...
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Ubuntu 26.10 stops low memory from killing your desktop session
Ubuntu 26.10 changes how the system choose which processes are killed when memory runs low, making a rogue browser tab is less likely to punt you...
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World War I Coded Message Appears Cracked, Finally
When you think of wartime cryptography, you probably think of World War II and Enigma, although there were other famous codes used during that war. But...
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Everything announced at the PC Gaming Show Tokyo Direct 2026
Every single game and announcement, in the order they were shown.
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