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• Going Whole-Hog on a First Satellite Ground Station
• NASA’s Lunar Grounding Challenge is a Real Buzz
• Spreading Life to Bleached Coral
• Super Mario Galaxy Now Runs on the GBA
• Visualize Regular Expressions with Marbles
• Birduino Plays Bird Calls on Demand with NFC-enabled Cards
• Making Photovoltaic Solar Cells with a Microwave

hackaday.com

• Pluralistic: The death of history's most successful publisher (20 Oct 2026)

pluralistic.net

• AMD FSR Upscaling 4.1 expands support to older Desktops, Laptops, Handhelds, Consoles and Vulkan
• Here's the highlights from the recent 2026 Out of Bounds Showcase
• HEAT: Pedal to the Metal by Days of Wonder is getting an official video game adaptation
• Unforgiving cave-exploration survival simulator Casualties: Unknown arrives November 9
• Score touchdowns and win it all in the retro-inspired, side-scrolling Classic American Football
• Helldivers 2 switches over from GameGuard to Easy Anti-Cheat
• Here's some interesting Native Linux demos in Steam Next Fest Oct 26
• Time-looping claymation puzzle-platformer UvsU: You vs You launches in January 2027
• Dark first-person fishing adventure DREADMOOR looks awesome, arrives November 9
• GE-Proton 11-11 released to fix more issues with Windows games on SteamOS / Linux
• Intel submits code to Proton to improve XeSS to use the fast upscaler XMX
• Steam Next Fest Oct 2026 is live with thousands of demos

www.gamingonlinux.com

• External Hard Drive Not Showing Files? Causes and Solutions

ostechnix.com

• Steel Ranger 2 - An epic game for your Commodore 64 by Protovision

www.indieretronews.com

• Microsoft’s AI Coding Agent Testing Tool Has Been Open-Sourced

itsfoss.com

• Procession of Fools

analognowhere.com

• HPR4752: Static Addict Episode 2: Metal Machine Music

hackerpublicradio.org

• BRIGHTMOOR - An AI Ultima-style C64 game from GloomKeep II creator J5
• Tomb Lady, Orion and more! - An AI assisted games pack for the Amiga by Peppe74
• Pool of Radiance - SSI's legendary RPG comes to the Atari ST (AI) and expanded Sega Mega Drive
• Rastan - Another teased [UPDATE] to a fabulous WIP Amiga 500 and above Arcade game!
• Eldemar - A new first-person RPG / Action game for the Amiga with music Allister "Demon" Brimble ( KICKSTARTER )

www.indieretronews.com

• Ravenloft: Strahd's Confession

crpgaddict.blogspot.com

• Trailblazers: Into the March shows off its unique blend of walking colony sim in a new demo
• Crusader Kings III: Silk & Silver expansion arrives November 19
• Try the demo for The Mystery of Oak Island, a point and click mystery thriller from Visionaire Studio
• Dungeonbound is a unique dungeon crawler blending in auto-battlers, incrementals and inventory management
• Take on big oil and pirates as a lonely wind turbine in Spin Tide
• Get some great Double Fine and Serenity Forge games across two new bundles
• Enshrouded 1.0 rolls out and now it's Steam Deck Verified
• Hot Wax is an inventive new take on classic falling block puzzlers
• Proton-CachyOS 11.0-20261014, DWProton 11.0-15 and GE-Proton 11-10 released
• Linux kernel 7.3 is out with some nice improvements for gaming

www.gamingonlinux.com

• Linux Kernel 7.3 Is Officially Released: 5 Key Features You Must Know

ostechnix.com

• CutefishOS is Back With a Vibe-Coded Desktop That Doesn't Use Qt or GTK
• People Are Using AI to Get Rid of Smart TV Ads and Make Their TVs Faster
• Linux Kernel 7.3 Release is Good News For Gamers Short on VRAM

itsfoss.com

• The Good Thing About Hard Things

calnewport.com

• Pluralistic: The technopolitics of ad-tech (19 Oct 2026)

pluralistic.net

• Monopoly Round-Up: Goodbye AI Bubble, Hello Real Economy

www.thebignewsletter.com

• HPR4751: Real Live AI Use Case

hackerpublicradio.org

• Istanbul Tűrkiye - 12 days in 10 neighborhoods, meeting up with 30 local people for 60 hours of conversation

sive.rs

• Black Tiger - Capcom's brilliant 1987 platformer ported to the Sega Mega Drive and Amiga!

www.indieretronews.com

• Filtered for ears and memory

interconnected.org

• Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge & Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis - Classic Adventure games by LucasArts gets an AI PC-Amiga AGA port
• The Eggcellent Dizzy Collection - Three Dizzy classics are coming to the Sega Mega Drive as a collective edition
• Tutankham - Konami's 1982 arcade game arrives on the Amiga via LC-Games
• Ghost Sweeper - A spooky puzzle platformer is coming to the Game Boy Advance with successful funding on Kickstarter!
• The Greatest American Hero - A new shooter for the C64 by Commodore Spain
• Conan : Hall of Volta - 1984 Datasoft classic, now on the Amstrad CPC 6128 via AI and Oldschool Is Beautiful
• Lost in the Middle Ages - Another fantastic game is in the works for the Amiga 500 by HooGames2017 [UPDATE]
• Smokin' Colts - An AI wild west FPS for the Amiga by Fliegeralarm Games

www.indieretronews.com

• How the Fed Is Quietly Inflating the AI Bubble While Hiking Your Electric Bill

www.thebignewsletter.com

• Not Every Open Source OS Needs to Be Based on Linux, and These Nine Aren’t

itsfoss.com

• Anthropic Employment

ma.tt

• Pluralistic: Israeli ad-tech company was a delivery system for "mercenary spyware" (17 Oct 2026)

pluralistic.net

• Linux Kernel 7.3 RC7 Released: A Quick Look at the Final Test Candidate

ostechnix.com

• Valve fix Zero Company crashing on Steam Machine with the latest major game update
• Steam Client Beta for October 16 brings another round of startup performance improvements
• SteamOS 3.9.3 Beta arrives with improved support for Steam Frame wireless adapter

www.gamingonlinux.com

• Pagan: Super Green

crpgaddict.blogspot.com

• Bruce Lee II - Bruno R. Marcos unofficial PC sequel comes to the Amstrad CPC via RetroReal Games
• Vespertino - This upcoming Racing Simulator for the Amstrad CPC looks incredible
• Arlasoft Soccer - A Sensible Soccer game has arrived on the C64 and it's GOOD!
• Starforce - A fantastic 1980s Arcade shooter for the Amiga AGA via Acidbottle

www.indieretronews.com

• FEDS Note: Government Bonds’ Safe-Haven Property and Inflationary Pressures
• FEDS Note: Ripples in the Reserve Pool: Unveiling Liquidity Signals from the Federal Funds Market
• FEDS Note: Introducing Private Credit into the Financial Accounts of the United States

www.federalreserve.gov

• Florence Sunset
• Pushing Standards

ma.tt

• This Week on The Analog Antiquarian

www.filfre.net

• Valve’s Steam Client for Linux Goes 64-bit in Beta and Moves Into a Container

itsfoss.com

• Pluralistic: Load-bearing (16 Oct 2026)

pluralistic.net

• Reminder: Don’t Forget to File Your Objections to the Ventus Restructuring Plan

www.karsten.me

• HPR4750: Playing Civilization VI Part 2

hackerpublicradio.org

• KDE Plasma 6.8 Marks 30 Years With a Major Shift to Wayland and a More Powerful Linux Desktop

www.linuxjournal.com

• Ubuntu 26.10 Has Come Out as a Rust-Packed Interim Release
• Big Tech Funded a €115 Billion Warning Against Europe’s Digital Independence
• FOSS Weekly #26.42: AI in Kernel, Ubuntu 26.10 Firefox Business, Mint Release Changes and More Linux Stuff
• Epic Games Wants Linux Gamers. It's Rebuilding EAC For Fortnite

itsfoss.com

• 7 LLM Security Tools to Consider for Production Applications

ostechnix.com

• Pluralistic: Expedia amazoned hotel rooms (15 Oct 2026)

pluralistic.net

• How Expedia Rigs Travel Markets and Raises Your Hotel Prices

www.thebignewsletter.com

• HPR4749: murph gives a presentation talk about Hacker Public Radio at the OLF conference

hackerpublicradio.org

• Addams Family Amiga: The Backgrounds Edition - OCS and AGA Amigas, now with restored backgrounds!
• Dig Dug & Mario Bros - Two Arcade classics ported over to the Amiga/Atari ST via AI by TjLaZer

www.indieretronews.com

• A Joint Venture of Open Source Proportions! Open Productivity is Here
• This Dev Built an Office Suite Because His Wife Kept Going Back to Microsoft Office
• Local AI Weekly #5: AI Gets a Desk Job
• Linux Mint 23 is No More. A New Release Takes its Place
• This Rust File Manager Was Designed for Omarchy, but Arch Users Can Run it Too

itsfoss.com

• Ravenloft: Strahd's Condition

crpgaddict.blogspot.com

• FEDS Note: The Rise of Semiliquid Funds for Retail Investors

www.federalreserve.gov

• How to Recover Data From Linux EXT4 Partitions on Windows

ostechnix.com

• RIP Eric Binnion

ma.tt

• HPR4748: Programmable Logic Controls - Episode 5

hackerpublicradio.org

• Gun Smoke - 1980's Arcade Western has arrived on the Amiga (AGA) via Modern Vintage Gamer [UPDATE]
• Alien 3 - Probe Software's Alien platformer arrives on the Amstrad CPC Plus!
• PANG - An arcade classic could be coming to the Sega Mega Drive
• Cho Ren Sha - A X68000 Shoot 'em up arrives on the Amiga and it's impressive!

www.indieretronews.com

• "I did literally nothing"

analognowhere.com

• Building a Reliable Event-Driven Payment Service With XRP Ledger

www.linuxjournal.com

• Neal Stephenson Live!
• Board Agent

ma.tt

• Google SynthID Detector: How to Identify AI Content

ostechnix.com

• Pluralistic: Bundestrojaner (13 Oct 2026)

pluralistic.net

• Monthly News – September 2026

blog.linuxmint.com

• HPR4747: UNIX Curio #13 - Replacements for cat

hackerpublicradio.org

• Pluralistic: How labor rights rescued Ultima from a monopolist (12 Oct 2026)

pluralistic.net

• Monopoly Round-Up: AI Cockroaches Scurry Out from Under Nvidia, the Most Valuable Company in the World

www.thebignewsletter.com

• HPR4746: Monotone

hackerpublicradio.org

• How Trump Enforcers are Sabotaging Efforts to Bring Down Drug Prices

www.thebignewsletter.com

• Mathematics as a new Age of Discovery (and what they might find)

interconnected.org

• Pluralistic: Thwarted (09 Oct 2026)

pluralistic.net

• FEDS Note: Convenience Yields, Risk Premiums, and the Interpretation of Oil Futures Prices During Times of Geopolitical Conflict
• FEDS Note: Beyond the Current Account: U.S. Financial Flows and Global Imbalances
• FEDS Note: Assessing Monetary Policy Globally: Evidence from LLMs and Semi-structural Models
• FEDS Note: Measuring Spending in the Survey of Consumer Finances
• FEDS Note: Heterogeneity in the Marginal Propensity to Consume among U.S. Households
• FEDS Note: Informal Support Networks in the Survey of Consumer Finances

www.federalreserve.gov

• An Ion Storm!, Part 1: The Ascent to Gamer Paradise

www.filfre.net

• You Can Now Run Googlebook OS on Your Apple Silicon Mac For FREE!
• How to Verify an Ubuntu ISO Integrity and Authenticity

ostechnix.com

• Ventus Restructuring Plan Is Asking Investors to Shoot Themselves in the Foot
• How to File an Objection to the Ventus Restructuring Plan

www.karsten.me

• HPR4745: BruCON interview 1: The BruCON organization

hackerpublicradio.org

• Linux Moves Closer to Retiring the x32 ABI After Years of Limited Adoption

www.linuxjournal.com

• Paramount Stock CRUSHED After Merger with Warner Discovery Closes

www.thebignewsletter.com

• HPR4744: HPR Beer Garden 21 - Mild

hackerpublicradio.org

• Pluralistic: Disloyalty (07 Oct 2026)

pluralistic.net

• Cloudflare Offers $25K to Developers Building Git for AI Agents

ostechnix.com

• Redundancy is the engine of progress

world.hey.com

• HPR4743: wl-copy

hackerpublicradio.org

• Brazil’s Electronic Voting Machines Run Linux: How the System Works and How Secure It Is

ostechnix.com

• Google's Kage Project Rethinks Linux Kernel Security With Isolated Device Drivers

www.linuxjournal.com

• Pluralistic: Swapping money for expertise (06 Oct 2026)

pluralistic.net

• Over my dead pencil

world.hey.com

• Beeper MCP

ma.tt

• Pluralistic: Scrutinized (05 Oct 2026)

pluralistic.net

• What on earth are you dooming about?

world.hey.com

• Monopoly Round-Up: How Seed and Pesticide Makers Act Like the Mafia

www.thebignewsletter.com

• Millea: A Morally Bankrupt Pitch for a Figuratively Bankrupt Business

www.karsten.me

• If you don't ship an API, your customers will build one

• Pluralistic: Economic probabilities for our grandchildren (03 Oct 2026)

pluralistic.net

• standing with theo
• fossangel

analognowhere.com

• What we’re building at Inanimate and how to follow along

interconnected.org

• FEDS Note: Beyond the factory gate: The continued importance of goods production

www.federalreserve.gov

• McDonald's Caught Cheating Consumers for Profit as Rage Over Cost of Living Burns

www.thebignewsletter.com

• Pluralistic: Voting is to politics as shopping is to boycotts (01 Oct 2026)

pluralistic.net

• FEDS Note: Pricing Sentiment: Measuring Input Cost Pressure from ISM Survey Responses
• FEDS Note: Beyond Aggregates: Measuring Manufacturing Subsector Heterogeneity with the Business Trends and Outlook Survey

www.federalreserve.gov

• Speech Synthesis on Linux: Adding a Voice to Scripts and Systems

www.linuxjournal.com

• FEDS Note: AI on the Factory Floor: Evidence from Manufacturing Job Postings

www.federalreserve.gov

• 243. Government(s) Controlling AI Sounds Safer, But…

hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com

• Archinstall 4.5 Released with AArch64 Support, Real-Time Kernels, and Major Installer Fixes

www.linuxjournal.com

• Pluralistic: Lindsay Owens's "Gouged" (29 Sep 2026)

pluralistic.net

• Olaine’s Gas Plants: 74% Off, Still No Takers

www.karsten.me

• Pluralistic: Priceful (28 Sep 2026)

pluralistic.net

• What’s the Future for Pure Math Research in the Age of AI?

writings.stephenwolfram.com

• FEDS Note: When the Chips Went Down: Motor Vehicle Production and the 2021-2022 Semiconductor Shortages

www.federalreserve.gov

• It’s Time to Investigate the AI Labs

calnewport.com

• Monopoly Round-Up: Paramount-WB Isn't Just a Loss, It's a Prelude

www.thebignewsletter.com

• Almost nobody gets XML sitemaps right

• A new prayer for the fruit fly connectome

interconnected.org

• Pluralistic: Itch scratching (25 Sep 2026)

pluralistic.net

• 9 feet deep

analognowhere.com

• Bruce Schneier on Systems

ma.tt

• systemd 262 Released with Static PID 1, Intel TDX, TPM Improvements, and New Container Features

www.linuxjournal.com

• To understand Türkiye and Turkish worldviews a bit, this book is a good quick start

sive.rs

• When walking a city, what do different experts notice that you don’t? Fun book on this
• Very good China book, following four real women in current China

sive.rs

• Ubuntu Container Escape Vulnerability Gets Public Exploit Before Kernel Patch Arrives

www.linuxjournal.com

• Pluralistic: Bonta sold us out to Trump's oligarchs (22 Sep 2026)

pluralistic.net

• Happy Oligarch Day as Trump-Aligned Billionaires Take Over Hollywood

www.thebignewsletter.com

• Pluralistic: The Claude Delusion (21 Sep 2026)

pluralistic.net

• Monopoly Round-Up: Why the Senate Is Weirdly Obsessed with College Sports Instead of Real Problems

www.thebignewsletter.com

• Running my second marathon as a hollow man

interconnected.org

• The Lamentable Later Life of Lemmings

www.filfre.net

• AI Is an Elite Crime Spree

www.thebignewsletter.com

• Pluralistic: Textured (18 Sep 2026)

pluralistic.net

• Fedora Linux 45 Beta Released with Python 3.15, GCC 16.2, and Major Security Changes

www.linuxjournal.com

• Pluralistic: On the sincerity of AI bosses (17 Sep 2026)

pluralistic.net

• OmFest: A Celebration of Curiosity, Connection, and the Future
• Mirene

ma.tt

• FATES

analognowhere.com

• Pluralistic: How an AI moratorium can save AI bosses (16 Sep 2026)

pluralistic.net

• Thunderbird 156 Released with OAuth Improvements, OpenPGP Updates, and Major Linux Fixes

www.linuxjournal.com

• Pluralistic: Everybody pees (15 Sep 2026)

pluralistic.net

• Pluralistic: But do you use keyboard shortcuts? (14 Sep 2026)

pluralistic.net

• Monopoly Round-Up: Just Stop the Anthropic IPO Already

www.thebignewsletter.com

• Best food I’ve ever eaten

sive.rs