It was on August 25th, 1991, when the 21-year-old Finnish student Linus Benedict Torvalds made his now-famous announcement on the comp.os.minix newsgroup that he was working on a free operating system for 386(486) AT clones, just as a “hobby”.
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After a price hike from Microsoft, Amazon has brought the Xbox Series S back down for a limited time.
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Catch up on the latest Linux news: CachyOS, LibreOffice 25.8, Firefox 142, PowerDNS 5.0, FFmpeg 8.0, Arch confirms ongoing DoS attack, Plasma 6.5 brings initial system setup, and more.
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OK, not that Mark Zuckerberg, but he’s still the source of all the problems
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Discover the newly revamped openSUSE website, featuring enhanced navigation, updated resources, and a fresh design to improve your user experience.
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After a successful Kickstarter campaign, Valerion is formally announcing its new premium projector, the VisionMaster Max, at IFA 2025. The boxy little projector offers improved contrast and brightness, but the feature that should be most interesting to home theater aficionados is how it tries to address the “rainbow effect” common in some cheaper projectors.
Cheaper DLP projectors sometimes display stuttery strobes of color when the projector’s color wheel is forced to quickly shift between colors during fast-paced scenes. While these doesn’t necessarily impede watching a movie or TV show, the rainbow effect can bother sensitive projector owners. The VisionMaster Max attempts to address the problem with what Valerion calls “Anti-RBE Technology” that “reduces rainbow effects by 99.9 percent.” The company pulls this off by using software to blend the individual color sequences of whatever you’re watching faster than the human eye can perceive, creating what looks like a seamless image.
Valerion says the VisionMaster Max also has an upgraded native contrast ratio of 5,000:1 and an AI-assisted “Enhanced Black Level (EBL)” contrast of 50,000:1 for improved depth and details in shadows. Valerion’s dramatically named “NoirScene Dark Field Engine System” mixes stable luminance from a fixed iris aperture and an EBL algorithm to offer deeper blacks with less need for calibration. Combined with the VisionMaster Max’s up to 3,500 lumens of brightness, it makes the projector even more usable during day or night.
The VisionMaster Max also carries over the adjustable lens system from some of Valerion’s other projectors, offers support for Gigabit ethernet and Wi-Fi 6E and runs Google TV. Despite favoring Google’s home theater OS, Valerion guarantees you can fully integrate the VisionMaster Max with Google Home, Apple HomeKit, Amazon Alexa, Control4 and Crestron smart home systems.
If that all sounds good, just make sure you’re comfortable paying for a premium experience. Valerion says the VisionMaster Max will be available in October 2025, starting at $4,999.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/home/home-theater/valerion-launches-new-premium-projector-with-anti-rainbow-effect-technology-120058357.html?src=rss
In so many ways, privacy is dead—or at least a lot more challenging to maintain than it used to be. In public, you’re probably seen by dozens of cameras every day just as you go about your business. At home, almost everything we do online—from social media posts to the shows we watch on our screens—is tracked, packaged, and sold. The apps we use are some of the worst offenders—especially if they’re free to use, which just means you’re paying either with your eyeballs (on advertisements) or with the data the app is hoovering up and selling off.
The problem is simple: We don’t own or control the apps we use. But you can change that, to an extent. There’s a growing list of “self-hosted” alternatives to commonly used apps. A self-hosted app is just what it sounds like: Instead of relying on a third party’s servers for an app’s functionality, you host your own server. That means you control all your data, and your privacy score shoots up exponentially. It’s understandable that “running your own server” might sound intimidating, but it’s often a lot easier than it sounds. Here’s how self-hosted apps work, and which ones you can start using today to give your online privacy a boost.
The standard apps we use every day—provided by companies like Google or X—are extremely convenient. You can get them up and running in minutes, and they usually work pretty seamlessly. The downside is the mountain of your private data that they absorb and use in mysterious ways. Even if it’s anonymized, it’s still disconcerting—and since those companies can change their terms of service (ToS) any time they want, there’s no guarantee how your data will be used in the future. A self-hosted app makes everything local. You provide your own storage and your own functionality, and only you can decide how your data is used.
The benefits are obvious. Control over your data and privacy is number one. There’s also potentially lower cost (since you’re not paying a subscription), and you won’t be subject to the whims of a corporation that might decide to discontinue an app you love or force you to upgrade. Plus, you can decide the features and add-ons you want to use instead of having unwanted features forced on you.
There are some potential downsides, too, of course. Self-hosting means you’re responsible for security and keeping your software updated. Hardware can fail, and if you don’t have a recent backup of your data there’s no one to turn to. You’re also your own customer service, and your tech support is essentially a Google search.
And going self-hosted can sometimes be a bit of a lift; some self-hosted apps require containerization environments like Docker or Homebrew, which makes it easy for software to run on any computer without having to worry about software dependencies or conflicting libraries (if that sentence meant nothing to you, keep reading, it’s not that bad).
Another barrier is hardware: Depending on what you want to self-host, you might need a lot of storage. Movies and TV shows can be enormous media files requiring gigabytes (or even terabytes) of storage, and one of the things you have to handle yourself when you self-host is backing everything up. That means a robust self-hosted setup might require a few extra hard drives (or a Virtual Personal Server—a VPS—which costs money) and possibly a cloud backup solution.
But we can keep it simple: Many self-hosted apps also offer pre-packaged applications that can be easily installed on your computer like any other piece of software. And you can self-host on your everyday desktop computer, or turn an old desktop or laptop into your personal server. If you want to see if self-hosting apps works for you, you can start by just installing one of the following self-hosted alternatives to popular apps on your current computer.
Plex. Plex is one of the best-known and most robust self-hosted solution out there. Plex is essentially your own private media server for streaming photos, audio, and video files to devices—like a self-hosted Netflix using films, TV shows, and music that you own. You can install the Plex App on a Roku device and direct it to your personal media server to stream anything you want, and give friends and family access to your server as well if you want. Plex also offers a paid service to access your media remotely—i.e., when you’re not home.
Kodi. Similar to Plex, Kodi turns your PC’s hard drive into a media server. Unlike Plex, Kodi is open source software and not controlled by a single company, which makes a better choice for privacy. After installing it, you point it to the folders where you store videos and audio, and then Kodi streams those files over your wifi network to other devices. For example, I use Kodi at home to stream all my music files to devices using VLC. It’s a lightweight and simple way to self-host your media. If you want to just stream for yourself, Kodi is a lot simpler than Plex to set up and run.
Jellyfin. Another media server alternative, Jellyfin is a little more complicated to set up, but it offers a free and open source alternative to Plex with a richer feature set than Kodi. If you really want total mastery of your streaming libraries without any third parties involved, Jellyfin might be your best choice.
Grocy. If you’re using apps like Plan to Eat to organize your pantry and meal plan, Grocy offers the same functionality without the subscription fee or the third-party data vacuum. A full Grocy installation involves setting up your own server using Docker, but Grocy Desktop is an easier solution that installs like any other piece of software on your PC. Grocy lets you track purchases, track supplies in the house, automate shopping lists, track expiration dates, and incorporate recipes so you can see at a glance what you need to make dinner.
Mastodon. If you’re leery of social media’s privacy implications—since you typically don’t own or control your own posts or audience data—there’s a self-hosted alternative: Mastodon. Mastodon received a lot of attention a few years ago, and it’s still chugging along. You can set up a Mastodon account just like any of the “Twitter-like” platforms out there, but Mastodon can also be self-hosted, meaning you can run your own social media platform with your own rules. Users on different servers can follow each other, too, so you’re not limited to just your friends or colleagues—Threads has been making an effort to integrate into the network as well.
Setting up a Mastodon server can get a little complicated—you’ll need your own domain, a VPS, and an email provider specific to the server. But if you want true social media privacy, this is the way.
Owncast. If you want to stream video out to the world like the folks on Twitch and YouTube do, Owncast is a self-hosted video streaming platform that keeps all your data and media under your control. That means you can never be de-platformed if YouTube decides you’ve violated some mysterious policy or someone else’s dubious copyright claim, for example.
Owncast can be installed easily on cloud hosts like DigitalOcean if you’re willing to pay for that service, but you can run it locally as well (keeping in mind that video streaming requires a lot of storage and bandwidth). It can be installed locally pretty easily on Linux systems, but requires Docker for Windows or Homebrew for macOS.
Immich. Google Photos is a great tool, but it does mean that your private, personal photos are stored on a corporation’s servers under their terms of service, and if you’re not careful you’ll quickly eat up the free storage and have to start paying for extra room. Enter Immich, a self-hosted alternative. It requires Docker to install, but is pretty easy to set up and uses web- or mobile-based interfaces to administer. Its feature set is very robust, including automated backups, facial recognition, and easy sharing with other folks.
Home Assistant. If you’ve got smart devices in your home, Home Assistant offers a centralized control hub that avoids the poor security and privacy nightmares of third-party Internet of Things (IoT) platforms. It works with most open-source and proprietary smart home devices, and offers a level of customization that rivals any paid offering.
While you can set up Home Assistant on a computer to run yourself, by far the easiest way to use it is to purchase the Home Assistant Green, a pre-built device that makes it a “plug and play” experience. The Home Assistant Green just plugs into your network and is ready to go. Otherwise it’s most commonly installed on a single-board computer like the Raspberry Pi or on a traditional PC using Docker or a virtual machine.
Ollama. Do you use AI large language models (LLMs) like the ones powering ChatGPT, but you don’t like the fact that your chats are exposed? Ollama let’s you install lightweight versions of LLMs like gpt-oss locally on your computer and run them. The experience is very similar to using the web-based LLM tools, though they can be slower and less powerful than the full versions depending on your hardware. But if privacy is your goal, it’s an option, and Ollama offers easy installation of several different AI models to play around with.
This week’s event picks are a nice mix, starting with a popular charity ride, hitting two (very different) races, and including two banded group rides to help you tackle especially tough routes. See details below!
Sir Chris Hoy’s Tour de 4
Good Cause Popular Kit Unlock
The training rides for the Tour de 4 ride with Sir Chris Hoy are done, and this Sunday the big in-person event happens at the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome. Zwift is holding a series of rides so you can participate virtually! Each is open-paced and 45 minutes long, on Watopia’s Tempus Fugit.
Get started early with the Galaxy team, who is holding a ride to promote the event. It’s up to 4 hours long, on Scotland’s Rolling Highlands route. Sign up at zwift.com/events/view/5078986.
Saturday, September 7 starting @ 9am-2pm UTC/5-10am ET/2-7am PT
Sign up at https://www.zwift.com/events/tag/tourde4
La Roja Tour (TNP): Stages 3 and 4
Stage Race Multiple Classifications
TNP (Team Not Pogi) has organized a 6-stage race series held on Saturdays and Sundays, and this weekend it continues with stages 1 and 2. In this series, riders compete across each stage for GC, Sprint, and Climbing overall podiums.
Stage 2 is on 2 laps of Richmond’s 2015 Worlds Reverse route, while stage 2 is on 1 lap of Scotland’s The Muckle Yin.
Saturday and Sunday, September 6 and 7 @ 5:15pm UTC/1:15pm ET/10:15am PT
Sign up at zwift.com/events/tag/tnp
PACK Banded Buddies: Road to Sky
Banded Ride Alpe Summit Kit Unlock
This ride is returning after a summer break, just in time for anyone looking to summit Alpe du Zwift for the first time! Join this banded ride as they take on the Road to Sky route, which takes you up the mighty Alpe du Zwift. Since it’s banded, you just need to keep pedaling in order to stay in the group.
Sunday, September 7 @ 2:25pm UTC/10:25am ET/7:25am PT
Sign up at zwift.com/events/view/4951233
A Sunday in Hell with DZR
Unique Event Endurance Challenge
The event title certainly sells it, eh? This unique event comprises four back-to-back races designed to test every type of rider. The iTT – for the time trialists, The Sprint – for the sprinters, The After Party – for the puncheurs and The Climb – for the climbers. All told, you’ll race around 60km and 1000 vertical meters. “Brutal but fun,” DZR tells me.
Get details at dzrracingseries.com/asundayinhell >
Sunday, September 7 @ 7:45am UTC/3:45am ET/12:45am PT
Sign up at zwift.com/events/tag/dzr
LA MARCHA HISPANA (Enable Rubberbanding)
Banded Ride Tough Route Route Badge
If you’re looking to complete Watopia’s challenging Four Horsemen route (89.9km, 2111m), but find the prospect too daunting, why not try it in a banded ride? As long as you keep pedaling you’ll stay in the peloton, and when you finish the route you’ll earn the achievement badge and a 1780 XP bonus.
Saturday, September 6 @ 7:30am UTC/3:30am ET/12:30am PT
Sign up at zwift.com/events/view/5096391
We choose each weekend’s Notable Events based on a variety of factors including:
In the end, we want to call attention to events that are extra-special and therefore extra-appealing to Zwifters. If you think your event qualifies, comment below with a link/details and we may just include it in an upcoming post!
Today’s “Slopwatch” deals with 5 unique domains
OpenAI is gearing up to start the mass production of its own AI chips next year to be able to provide the massive computing power its users need and to lessen its reliance on NVIDIA, according to the Financial Times. The company reportedly designed the custom AI chip with US semiconductor maker Broadcom, whose CEO recently announced that it has a new client that put in a whopping $10 billion in orders. It didn’t name the client, but the Times‘ sources confirmed that it was OpenAI, which apparently doesn’t have plans to sell the chips and will only be using them internally.
Reuters reported way back in 2023 that OpenAI was already exploring the possibility of making its own AI chips after Sam Altman blamed GPU shortages for the company API’s speed and reliability. The news organization also previously reported that OpenAI was working with both Broadcom and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) to create its own product. The Times didn’t say whether OpenAI still has an ongoing partnership with TSMC.
After GPT-5 came out, Altman announced the changes OpenAI is implementing in order to keep up with “increased demand.” In addition to prioritizing paid ChatGPT users, he said that OpenAI was going to double its compute fleet “over the next 5 months.” Making its own chips will address any potential GPU shortages the company may encounter in doubling its fleet, and it could also save the company money. The Times says custom AI chips called “XPUs” like the one OpenAI is reportedly developing will eventually take a big share of the AI market. At the moment, NVIDIA is still the leading name in the industry. It recently revealed that its revenue for the second quarter ending on July 27 rose 56 percent compared to the same period last year, and it didn’t even have to ship any H20 chips to China.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/ai/openai-is-reportedly-producing-its-own-ai-chips-starting-next-year-113924707.html?src=rss
Cervélo has officially launched the fifth generation of its R5 range, a super-lightweight climber’s bike. It’s a stunning example of a genre that still has plenty of allure, and is a bike I would love to ride. It’s just a shame it costs a mind-bending amount of money, at £5,000 for the frameset alone.
BikeRadar’s ever-diligent tech sleuth, Simon von Bromley, first spotted the new bike at the 2025 Tour de France Grand Départ in Lille, where Matteo Jorgenson and his Visma–Lease a Bike teammates were already racing on unreleased versions.
Even then, it was clear Cervélo had doubled down on trimming every possible gram.
BikeRadar weighed Jorgenson’s size-58cm bike at 7.03kg, including empty bottles. With those removed – as they would be for UCI checks – the bike would sit close to the 6.8kg UCI weight limit. That’s very impressive for a larger bike in close-to-race-ready spec.
With official details now to hand, Cervélo claims the new frame and fork come in at 657g and 302g, respectively. There are lighter frames from mainstream manufacturers – an S-Works Aethos frameset is claimed to weigh 585g, for example – but that’s still impressively feathery for a disc bike by any measure.
Complete builds dip as low as 5.97kg – well under the UCI’s limit.
And this is where the heart of this gently nostalgic man in his early 30s still leaps a little.
Nobody questions the importance of aero gains, but like many riders, I still romanticise a little about days when the weight figure was the headline spec. And not just because the (often pointless) pursuit of chasing low weight is entertaining.
Although everything has been slimmed down – the pencil-thin seatstays now measure the bare minimum 10mm, and junctions have been pared back – the R5 retains its classic silhouette, and it looks absolutely banging.
The bike and others of its ilk, such as the Orbea Orca, have an elegant air in a way most modern aero bikes don’t, and I’m totally here for it.
It would be unkind to describe this as a throwback to the heyday of the lightweight bike in the rim-brake era – this is a thoroughly modern bike with all of the tech trappings to match.
But it shares a common thread with the classic double-diamond frames of old, and I simply love the way it looks.
And for someone whose road riding amounts to little beyond chewing up the local lanes with pals, with the odd effort on choice climbs or long days thrown in, a good-looking bike that gets me excited to ride is more important than outright performance.
Of course, for the World Tour pros reading this, there is still a performance benefit to climbing bikes – particularly for lighter riders.
As outlined in his excellent piece comparing the bikes ridden at the Tour de France and Tour de France Femmes, BikeRadar’s road and gravel presenter Ollie Smith highlights that the typically lighter riders in the women’s peloton have more to gain by opting for lighter bikes.
However, as appealing and high-performance as the bike might be, there is the unfortunate question of cost.
Cervélo will offer five complete builds at launch, priced from £8,500 to £11,500. Framesets are £5,000. That’s a breathtaking amount of money, no matter how deep your pockets are.
In fairness (if you can call it that) to Cervélo, an S-Works level Aethos frameset is also £5,000.
Difficult as it might be, putting the wild price aside, I’ve still got time for brands that haven’t abandoned the traditional climbing bike – even if few of us can ever afford them.
For all the rightly deserved aero hype, there remains a place – and a powerful emotional pull – for beautifully light, simple, classic-looking race bikes. And for riders like me, that’s reason enough to get excited.
reMarkable is making a move away from its giant e-ink slate. The new Paper Pro Move is a smaller iteration with a 7.3-inch display the same size as a reporter’s notepad. The idea is an eink device you can write and edit on while on the move. Hence the name.
There are some drawbacks, however. With the Move, the only way to write and edit typed text is with the on-screen keyboard. Bigger reMarkable devices can connect to a companion keyboard. Engadget’s Daniel Cooper spent some time with the new slate. There’s a lot to like, but it’s a different proposition to past reMarkable Papers.
The Paper Pro Move is available to order today, priced at $449 with a stylus included. Meanwhile, paper notepads cost a buck fifty. They’re not compatible with keyboards either.
— Mat Smith
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The Apple iPhone 17 Awe dropping event: Here’s what to expect on September 9
The first new Bond game in over a decade is Hitman meets action blockbuster
Just when most of us figured out that our TVs and most new smartphones support high dynamic resolution (brighter whites, darker blacks, you get the gist), Dolby is here to make it look like crap. It just introduced Dolby Vision 2, with an array of new features.
Content Intelligence uses AI to automatically adapt your TV to what you’re watching.
For example, Precision Black helps keep darker scenes visible, and Light Sense detects ambient light to create the best picture — great if you keep a lamp or two on for movie night. Authentic Motion. This tool is what Dolby calls “the world’s first creative-driven motion control tool to make scenes feel more authentically cinematic.” I have no idea what that means.
Eufy’s MarsWalker carries the robovac between floors and drops it off at the base station when needed. It uses four control arms along with a track-drive system that “grips each step securely.”
There are a few caveats. There’s no price yet, and it will only work with a few Eufy models — and no other company’s robovacs. Don’t worry, though, Eufy has a new model that packs its own aromatherapy module and costs a punchy $1,600.
What a week for long delays! Hollow Knight: Silksong is out (still looking for the third Mossberry here…) and Instagram developers, for some reason, decided September 2025 is the time to finally launch a dedicated iPad app. Thanks to the bigger screen, comments on Reels will appear right next to the videos, and the DMs page will include the inbox alongside the actual chat. What makes it extra baffling is that Instagram head Adam Mosseri said the iPad platform wasn’t big enough to warrant fast-tracking an app. He said that in 2023.
LEGO just revealed the Star Wars Ultimate Death Star set, the largest LEGO Star Wars set ever made. It’s also the most expensive LEGO set ever. Bricks aside, it comes with 38 minifigures, including characters like Luke Skywalker, Darth Vader and Emperor Palpatine. It also comes with a stormtrooper figure in a hot tub — a nod to the video games.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/general/the-morning-after-engadget-newsletter-111553035.html?src=rss
Welcome to Edition 8.09 of the Rocket Report! The biggest news of the week happened inside the Beltway rather than on a launch pad somewhere. In Washington, DC, Congress has pushed back on the Trump administration’s plan to stop flying the Space Launch System rocket after Artemis III. Congress made it clear that it wants to keep the booster in business for a long time. The big question now is whether the Trump White House will blink.
As always, we welcome reader submissions, and if you don’t want to miss an issue, please subscribe using the box below (the form will not appear on AMP-enabled versions of the site). Each report will include information on small-, medium-, and heavy-lift rockets as well as a quick look ahead at the next three launches on the calendar.
Israel launches SAR satellite. The Israel Ministry of Defense, Israel Defense Forces, and Israel Aerospace Industries successfully launched the Ofek 19 satellite on Tuesday from the Palmachim Airbase. The launch was carried out by the country’s solid-propellant Shavit 2 rocket. Ofek 19 is a synthetic aperture radar observation satellite with enhanced capabilities, 7 Israel National News reports.
Back in May was the surprise but welcoming decision out of AMD that they would begin officially supporting the Mesa Vulkan driver (RADV) and that their proprietary OpenGL and Vulkan drivers would no longer be included in their Radeon Software for Linux releases. This indeed appears to have effectively spelled the end to their AMDVLK driver with Mesa’s RADV taking the cake…
Korea-based studio Pixelity officially revealed the name of its XR game based on popular ’90s anime Neon Genesis Evangelion (1995): “EVANGELION: Δ CROSS REFLECTIONS”
Previously teased earlier this year, Evangelion: Cross Reflections is said to be set in the locations from the anime, serving up battles between Evangelions and Angels, various interactive elements, and “engaging, captivating storylines with original characters,” Pixelity says.
As a new story set within the timeline of all 26 episodes of the anime, Cross Reflections will only be the first of a trilogy, which will center on events from Episode 1 – 11.
“Its standout feature is the intricate weaving of key episodes from the existing storyline with completely new, game-original narrative content,” Pixelity says.
Evangelion: Cross Reflections is slated for release in 2026. The studio hasn’t announced specific platforms yet, however they say the game will use both VR and MR, which points to release on Quest. A demo of the game is planned to release is scheduled for the first half of 2026, so we should know more then.
Founded in 2017, Pixelity has created a number of VR games, including Puttzzle (2023), Crazyworld VR (2022), and Rise of the Fallen (2018). The studio is also currently working on two other VR games, The Patcher and Teahouse of Souls.
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An Ubisoft developer says the game simply cannot run well enough from a game card
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Linux Kernel Runtime Guard 1.0 has been released. LKRG is a project providing runtime integrity checking of the Linux kernel and is able to detect security vulnerability exploits against the running kernel…
As of today in Mesa 25.3-devel Git, the Intel “ANV” open-source Vulkan driver for Linux systems is finally exposing the VK_EXT_shader_object extension…
This article explores how modern DevOps teams are redefining stability and reproducibility in production environments by embracing truly unchangeable operating systems. It delves into how NixOS’s declarative configuration model and OSTree’s atomic update mechanisms open the door to systems that are both resilient and transparent. We’ll explain the advantages, technologies, comparisons, and real-world use cases fueling this shift.