Phoronix article: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-Machines-Frame-2026

Rep. Adelita Grijalva, D-Ariz., signed a petition Wednesday to force a House vote on releasing files related to Jeffrey Epstein, giving it the needed 218 signatures.

Following on from the success of the Steam Deck, Valve is creating its very own ecosystem of products. The Steam Frame, Steam Machine, and Steam Controller are all set to launch in the new year. We’ve tried each of them and here’s what you need to know about each one.

Sarah, a 44-year-old single mother in Maryland, was down to the last $20 on her EBT card as of Monday, wondering how she would feed herself and her two preteen boys as the government shutdown dragged on. She’d been out of work since May, after the Trump administration made sweeping cuts to federal contracts and eliminated her job in public health.

A petition in the House of Representatives to force a vote to release the so-called Jeffrey Epstein files secured the last signature required to trigger that action.

Despite a last minute push from Donald Trump, GOP Rep. Lauren Boebert kept her name on a discharge petition that would demand the full release of investigative files around convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Newly released documents provide more details about ICE’s plan to use bounty hunters and private investigators to find the location of undocumented immigrants.

The cyclists arrive at sunrise, rolling through Chicago’s Latino neighborhoods and stopping at tamale carts, elote stands and candy stalls. They buy out every last item — every tamale, every corn cob, every bundle of sweets. Then they load up the food and deliver it to shelters and families in need

Walgreens will no longer give many of its retail workers paid vacation time for Thanksgiving, Christmas and other major holidays, as the company looks to cut costs under new owners.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/55059124

xkcd #3167: Car Size

Just saying

I usually don’t grow in the summer due to the heat and I’m struggling to get my ass in gear for this winter. I usually have about 4 varieties I grow, blue oysters, pinks, lion’s mane and pioppinos.

Source: Cornell University

CaptainObviously(NYT)

The Nazi dictator had Kallmann syndrome, which hinders normal puberty and the development of sexual organs, according to groundbreaking research

Source: https://bsky.app/profile/moboolyedits.bsky.social/post/3m5hf5a2vts22

Shame on you, Homebrew, for effectively killing FOSS apps from casks.

36-year-old of no fixed address let passengers on and off at bus stops

Just hours ago Valve announced the new Steam Controller along with the Steam Frame VR headset and new Steam Machine. While these new Steam hardware products won’t be available until early 2026, Valve has just-now upstreamed support for the new Steam Controller to the SDL3 library.

Venezuela announced Tuesday that it was launching a massive military exercise across the country, reportedly involving some 200,000 forces, in response to the increasing presence of U.S. military assets in the region.

As covered recently on Phoronix there has been several exciting improvements for aging AMD Radeon GCN 1.0 and GCN 1.1 era graphics cards for the open-source AMD Linux graphics driver stack. This work has been led by Timur Kristóf of Valve’s Linux Open-Source Graphics Driver Group with an ultimate goal of shifting the GCN 1.0/1.1 open-source Linux driver hardware support from the aging “Radeon” kernel graphics driver over to the “AMDGPU” kernel driver already used by default for all AMD GPUs/accelerators from GCN 1.2 and newer.

https://bsky.app/profile/dennisgoris.bsky.social/post/3m5h3uakl4k26

Oh how Randy Andy, the Prince of the Nonces has fallen.

Epstein harmed more than a thousand victims, according to the FBI, many from poor and working-class families. Perhaps these girls hoped to enter the worlds of powerful elites; maybe they imagined they were important or cared for and would have access to better lives. Instead, rich, powerful men used them for sex when they were children. At least three deaths have been reported publicly, but many more live with debilitating psychological damage.

This resource combines information from a variety of sources (check the Sources tab). It’s intent is to be comprehensive, yet user friendly. It’s not perfect but its the best I can do and IMO is better than the alternatives.

Despite this not being FOSS like GIMP, I think it’s great that there is at least some very viable alternative that can run on Linux even with some workaround, for free (besides Photopea).

https://www.reddit.com/r/playrust/comments/1ouvpv1/comment/nofbyxo/