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Pragmata gets a release date change once again, albeit in a good way this time - Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed

2026-03-05T22:56:50.000Z

Somehow, Pragmata was announced almost six whole years ago. Where did those years go? I certainly didn't allow them to go anywhere! Originally slated for release in 2022, it was eventually delayed into 2023, then indefinitely, before Capcom finally locked in a 2026 release date. Which it will not be making, technically, as while it was originally slated to launch on April 24th, it'll no longer be doing so… because it's coming out earlier. Teehee, I fooled you, what a little trickster I am!

Almost 10 years on from the first one, Ruiner is getting a sequel, and this time with co-op - Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed

2026-03-05T21:32:42.000Z

Not all that long off the heels of releasing parkour boomer shooter Metal Eden, developer Reikon Games have now announced that they'll be returning to their cyberpunk world Ruiner in the form of… well, it's just called Ruiner 2. And it's a sequel that sure, looks like more of the same, but the immediately noticeable difference in this one will be that you can play it with a couple of your buddies.

Prepare your decks once more, Slay the Spire 2 is now out in early access - Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed

2026-03-05T20:03:46.000Z

Hear ye, hear ye! It is time to play your hand, for the day of prophecy has come: Slay the Spire 2 has, finally, launched into early access. I know, I know, there's some game about running a marathon or something by a team of folks that run a bungee jumping business out today too. Forget that! Running is difficult, deckbuilding is… also difficult, but, I don't like running, so there.

Rust 1.94.0 released - LWN.net

2026-03-05T19:43:09.000Z

Version 1.94.0 of the Rust language has been released. Changes include array windows (an iterator for slices), some Cargo enhancements, and a number of newly stabilized APIs.

A GitHub Issue Title Compromised 4,000 Developer Machines (grith.ai) - LWN.net

2026-03-05T19:21:21.000Z

The grith.ai blog reports on an LLM prompt-injection vulnerability that led to 4,000 installations of a compromised version of the Cline utility.

For the next eight hours, every developer who installed or updated Cline got OpenClaw - a separate AI agent with full system access - installed globally on their machine without consent. Approximately 4,000 downloads occurred before the package was pulled.
The interesting part is not the payload. It is how the attacker got the npm token in the first place: by injecting a prompt into a GitHub issue title, which an AI triage bot read, interpreted as an instruction, and executed.

[$] The relicensing of chardet - LWN.net

2026-03-05T19:13:29.000Z

Chardet is a Python module that attempts to determine which character set was used to encode a text string. It was originally written by Mark Pilgrim, who is also the author of a number of Python books; the 1.0 release happened in 2006. For many years, this module has been under the maintainership of Dan Blanchard. Chardet has always been licensed under the LGPL, but, with the 7.0.0 release, Blanchard changed the terms to the permissive MIT license. That has led to an extensive (and ongoing) discussion on when code can be relicensed against the wishes of its original author, and whether using a large language model to rewrite code is a legitimate way to strip copyleft requirements from code.

Theme park building game Parkitect gets its first ever Steam Free Weekend - GamingOnLinux Latest Articles

2026-03-05T18:40:00.000Z

Parkitect is an absolute gem and if you've not played this theme park builder before - well, now is your best chance because it's free for a while.

Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

Buildroot 2026.02 released - LWN.net

2026-03-05T18:33:12.000Z

Peter Korsgaard has announced version 2026.02 of Buildroot, a tool for generating embedded Linux systems through cross-compilation. Notable changes include added support for HPPA, use of the 6.19.x kernel headers by default, better SBOM generation, and more.

Again a very active cycle with more than 1500 changes from 97 unique contributors. I'm once again very happy to see so many "new" people next to the "oldtimers".

See the changelog for full details. Thanks to Julien Olivain for pointing us to the announcement.

Hard drive space for all! Helldivers 2's slimmer install size is rolling out to everyone later this month - Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed

2026-03-05T18:00:27.000Z

There is no greater source of tepid rage than when I see a game, I buy it, I proceed to download it, and it tells me it needs to take up one billion gigabytes of my hard drive space (NB: one billion is an exaggeration). It fills every corner of my being with a potent darkness, and I would like it to stop. This is a feeling many had with Helldivers and its ludicrously large 154GB install size, leading to a test build of the game to be released by Arrowhead last year knocking it way down to only 23GB in size. And now, after some testing, this build will be available to everyone!

Social Media Post Template for Influencers Stranded by the War - McSweeney’s

2026-03-05T17:40:00.000Z

“Dubai influencers’ lives of luxury interrupted by Iran strikes: ‘The image of safety has been shattered.’” — The Guardian

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Thanks to everyone who has reached out to me. Never did I imagine that my [HOLIDAY / EXOTIC FOOD CRAWL / COMPED STAY IN THIS SIX-STAR HOTEL & SPA] would be interrupted by a war whose geopolitical consequences would be so unfathomable, and whose timing would be so inconvenient to me personally.

When I first planned this trip, I had no idea that war was even on the horizon. I guess that’s what happens when you get your news from [MEMES / GROK / COTTAGECORE TOK / THE CBS SUBSTACK]. My spidey sense did tell me that something bad was coming, but I thought that was just the effects of the seafood-themed buffet. By the time I put two and two together, all the plane tickets were sold out, while I was still a little drunk from the bottomless ouzo fountain.

I can’t believe how many people around the world are suffering so needlessly. Last night, for example, I was with about thirty other stranded [EXPATS / CULINARY TOURISTS / VLOGGERS / MLM FINANCIERS]. In the middle of an arak pong tournament, we heard sirens and then a boom. Everyone quickly rushed to pour their drinks into pitchers so we could continue playing in the basement shelter. We posted everything live, but there’s still a reel you can like and comment on, if you want to support me during this difficult time. Don’t forget to subscribe!

It’s wild that the skies have been closed for so many days in a row. I admit that I’m beginning to feel restricted and constrained. Ordinarily, I’m accustomed to the complete freedom to [TRAVEL / SPEND MY INHERITED FORTUNE / TAKE CAMEL JOY RIDES TO LUXURY TENT PIAZZAS SET UP JUST FOR ME AND MY ENTOURAGE]. Everything is truly a learning experience.

Like many of you back home, I’m afraid that this war will escalate further. And if there is indeed a conflagration, I know you’re probably asking yourselves the same question: What will it mean for people like me? I’m supposed to travel to at least fifty-eight countries in the next fiscal quarter, and I don’t see how I’m going to hit that target under these circumstances. Why can’t world leaders ever think of the [LITTLE GUY / DIGITAL NOMADS / ME AND MY COTERIE OF STYLISTS, ALGORITHM ANALYSTS, AND PORTABLE-RING-LIGHT HOLDERS]?

It’s really nice when people check up on me, given how worried I am about the situation. I appreciate it when they ask how I’m holding up. It’s especially gratifying when they tell me how brave I am to be enduring this war with my forward-looking attitude and my [GORILLA MINDSET / SIGMA LOOKSMAXXING APPROACH / TOXIC POSITIVITY]. Rest assured, as of this writing, I still have access to [FOOD / WATER / CAVIAR / TANGHULU SKEWERS /THE ACROBATIC GYMNASTIC WORKSHOP IN THE MAIN POOL].

I guess I must learn the deep lesson that nothing, in fact, is under my control. Try as we might to write our destinies, in the end, the [GODS / FATES / LEADERS WHO MEASURE THEIR DICKS] have the final say. That’s a bitter pill to swallow, along with [GLOBAL UNCERTAINTY / REDUCED CONNECTIVITY / MY MITOCHONDRIA-LONGEVITY TABLET].

I’ll say one thing this experience has taught me: The war has made me feel connected to other people. Even though the vast majority of people impacted by the missile and drone barrages don’t have the means to [TRAVEL / MONETIZE PHOTOGRAPHS OF THEIR MATCHA DRINKS / SELL PREMIUM REAL ESTATE TO OIL TYCOONS], this conflict just shows how we’re all in this together. And that’s the beautiful and spiritual message I’ll take with me when I leave on the first [JET / YACHT / HOVERCRAFT] out of here.

Two genres and seven years on, Remedy attempt to define what a Control game even is in the lead-up to Resonant - Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed

2026-03-05T17:01:29.000Z

What is a Control game? It's a fairly reasonable question to ask, as the only follow-up there's been to the original 2019 game in the intervening years (apart from some DLC) was FBC: Firebreak, a live service FPS spin-off that… well, you know. And then last year Remedy revealed what was long dubbed to be Control 2 is actually Control Resonant, and that we won't be playing as Jesse this time around, oh and also, it's a Devil May Cry-esque action game. So with all these shifts, in a new interview some of the leads behind the sequel have shared their perspective on what a Control game actually is.

One of Marathon's more controversial mechanics brings back a neat idea from Anthem - Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed

2026-03-05T17:01:21.000Z

Bungie's Marathon reboot is out on PC today. Based on last weekend's playtest, it has already been deemed the most difficult, aka "sweatiest" extraction shooter in a while. For as the old Victorian saying goes, women glow, men perspire, and gamers sweat.

Activision pressured Call of Duty studio Infinity Ward to make a game about Iran invading Israel, claims former developer - Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed

2026-03-05T16:31:16.000Z

Chance Glasco, an ex-lead animator on the Call of Duty series, has claimed that Activision once pressured Infinity Ward to make an entry in which Iran attacked Israel. He did so in response to a video montage posted on the official White House Xitter account, which combines the USA's real life military strikes against Iran with killstreak animations and Call of Duty interface elements.

Oh dear - ARC Raiders was logging your private Discord chats - GamingOnLinux Latest Articles

2026-03-05T16:29:50.000Z

Here's a reminder that when you connect up various accounts - you may end up just increasing the risk of your private data going somewhere else.

Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

Resident Evil Requiem's mystifying Final Puzzle is case-closed after its solution was discovered by accident - Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed

2026-03-05T16:24:28.000Z

The chillingly named 'Final Puzzle' in Resident Evil Requiem filled much of the action-horror game’s launch week with cheevo-hunting intrigue. What began as a simple search, a box-checking exercise to complete the last of Requiem’s optional challenges, has since shredded nerves (and driven at least two RPS guides writers into frazzled despair) as the puzzle revealed itself an almost sadistically opaque game of Simon Says, where Simon doesn’t actually say anything. He wants you to do something with that severed arm, though.

Earlier this week, however, the code was cracked, seemingly after a Pokemon card YouTuber stumbled into the solution by accident. Gengar Collects, whose videos typically involve showing off colourful paper rectangles rather than borrowing creepy dolls from flesh monsters, is now widely credited with 'discovering' the requisite steps through sheer luck, with the precise details confirmed hours later by dataminers. Here’s Jeremy and Callum’s Final Puzzle guide, if you want to see them for yourself.

New stable kernels to address build failures - LWN.net

2026-03-05T16:01:07.000Z

Sasha Levin has announced the release of the 6.12.76, 6.6.129, and 6.1.166 stable kernels. These releases address a regression reported by Peter Schneider; Levin said that an upgrade is only necessary for those who have observed a build failure with the 6.12.75, 6.6.128, or 6.1.165 kernels.

[$] Reconsidering the multi-generational LRU - LWN.net

2026-03-05T15:47:23.000Z

The multi-generational LRU (MGLRU) is an alternative memory-management algorithm that was merged for the 6.1 kernel in late 2022. It brought a promise of much-improved performance and simplified code. Since then, though, progress on MGLRU has stalled, and it still is not enabled on many systems. As the 2026 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-Management and BPF Summit (LSFMM+BPF) approaches, several memory-management developers have indicated a desire to talk about the future of MGLRU. While some developers are looking for ways to improve the subsystem, another has called for it to be removed entirely.

NVIDIA Beta driver 595.45.04 released for Linux - looks to be an exciting one - GamingOnLinux Latest Articles

2026-03-05T15:40:36.000Z

NVIDIA released Beta driver 595.45.04 for Linux and it includes support for some new Vulkan extensions that could help improve gaming performance.

Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

Choi’s Casual Suite Is Now Available on NonGnu ELPA - Irreal

2026-03-05T15:17:51.000Z

After a considerable amount of back and forth on the Emacs Devel Mailing List, Charles Choi’s Casual Suite has been accepted for inclusion on the NonGnu ELPA repository. If you’re already a Casual user, this makes no substantive difference. You can still get the suite from MELPA as you always have but it will also be available on the NonGnu repository.

Evidently Choi decided to seek NonGnu placement because some folks object to MELPA on philosophical grounds. I’m not sure I understand what the issue is other than MELPA is not officially canonized by the FSF.

To me, that’s just like insisting on a small init.el on religiously grounds. It merely means that you can’t take advantage of all Emacs has to offer. Whatever the FSF’s feeling on the issue, MELPA is, in fact, the premier ELPA repository and almost every package worth having is represented there, and many of them only there.

Still, choices are good and now we have more of them. If, for whatever reason, you have an objection to MELPA, you can still take advantage of the Casual Suite.

Upcoming co-op driving and looting horror game The Road looks like a good laugh - GamingOnLinux Latest Articles

2026-03-05T14:47:01.000Z

I hesitate to use the term "friendslop" but The Road seems to fit in nicely with the recent rise of online co-op games and actually looks good fun.

Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.