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Frank Raven, a teenager from the High Peak area of Derbyshire, has made it through to the final of The Voice UK. First-look photographs of his final performance were published by local outlet the Buxton Advertiser, and search interest in the young singer has grown. People are reacting to his run in the ITV singing competition and cheering on a local contestant reaching the show's finale.

Content creators and live-streamers are running special Halloween broadcasts, with themed gaming sessions, costume shows and holiday events drawing viewers on streaming platforms. The seasonal programming has become an annual tradition for many streaming communities, and audiences are sharing clips and reactions as the celebrations unfold.

parkrun events across Britain drew attention this weekend. Newent's parkrun welcomed 70 runners on Saturday morning, while Lews Castle parkrun in Stornoway celebrated its 250th event, marking years of regular 5k running in the community. In Surbiton, families turned out for the junior parkrun, aimed at children. The free, weekly timed runs continue to grow as a grassroots fixture in towns across the country, with organisers and participants sharing their milestones.

LinuxGSM Dashboard, an open-source web interface for managing Linux game servers, has reached version 2.0.0. The release is being discussed among Linux gaming and self-hosting communities, where the tool is popular with admins who run multiplayer servers and want a browser-based dashboard instead of command-line management. Version 2.0.0 is framed as a significant milestone for the project.

A French-speaking user shared their Sunday training session, pairing it with homemade apple tart to tempt fellow members of the fitness community. The post tagged friends and used hashtags covering weightlifting, running, trail running and baking, and drew a warm reception with dozens of likes.

Trinity Desktop Environment, the lightweight Linux desktop descended from KDE 3, has released version R14.1.7. The update brings new features, improvements to bundled applications and greater compatibility with modern systems. It keeps alive a classic KDE 3-style desktop for users who prefer something older, lighter and more traditional than current mainstream Linux desktops.

A developer has released bootGPT, an experimental language model small enough to run from a computer's boot sector, the tiny region of disk normally reserved for startup code. The project, shared on GitHub, is drawing attention for its extreme minimalism and for the novelty of running a language model with no operating system at all, appealing to programmers fascinated by low-level computing tricks.

Music hardware maker Akai is embracing an open-source approach to its iconic MPC sampler, allowing users to build and run community-made modifications, including informally coded 'vibe-coded' mods. The move, reported by tech outlets, signals a shift toward letting musicians tinker with and extend the sampler's software themselves rather than locking down the platform.

In Blekinge, Sweden, local paper Blekinge Läns Tidning reports that Annmarie, who runs things in the station house, is being celebrated by her whole village as a woman full of surprises. The story highlights her role in local community life and the warm recognition she has earned from neighbours.

A record fair is being held at the Swindon Hub community centre this Sunday, running from 10am to 4pm. Organisers are inviting the public along, with vinyl records and traders on hand for collectors and music fans. The event is being promoted to residents in Swindon and the wider Wiltshire area as an open community gathering.

An information security community member is encouraging people to celebrate Halloween by listening to spooky chiptune music, sharing a themed track with a call to 'blast the spookiest of boops'. The message, tagged with Halloween and chiptune hashtags, frames the holiday as a 'hallowed eve of the ritual', drawing playful engagement from others in the run-up to October 31.

The Enlightenment desktop environment has released version 0.28, adding PipeWire audio and video support, a NetworkManager module, and a new clipboard history module, alongside other improvements. The release is being circulated among Linux and open-source communities, with coverage highlighting the window manager's continued modernization and expanded connectivity and usability features for desktop users.

Former cycling star Tom Dumoulin ran a personal record at the New York City Marathon, according to Dutch coverage. The Dutchman, who retired from professional road cycling, has taken up long-distance running since leaving the peloton. Dutch media are highlighting his athletic transition and continued competitive spirit.

A commentary argues that the cult film studio Troma deserves more credit for its environmentalism, noting that many of its movies center on greedy capitalists willing to poison their communities with hazards like nuclear waste for profit. The observation has sparked conversation about the studio's long-running critique of corporate pollution beneath its low-budget horror and comedy surface.

A port of Wine, the compatibility layer that lets Unix-like systems run Windows applications, has landed for OpenBSD, announced on the project's ports mailing list. The news is drawing attention in open-source communities, since OpenBSD has long lacked Wine support and the port could open the door to running Windows software on the security-focused operating system.

A hobbyist developer has produced a port of Wolfenstein 3D for the Atari 2600, playable via the PlusCart and UnoCart devices. The feat is notable because the 2600's hardware from 1977 was never designed for raycasting first-person shooters, so the port represents an extreme programming achievement within the retro-coding community, where such unlikely platform ports draw attention and discussion.

The space simulation project Teskooano has released its Blue Marble update, giving planets atmospheres for the first time. Worlds now show glowing skies at the limb of the globe, clouds drifting on planet-specific winds, and storms spiralling around low-pressure systems. Speeding up time makes the weather run like a satellite loop, and planets follow real axial tilts and seasons. The early reaction is small but positive among space and game development enthusiasts.

Project Gutenberg is promoting its catalogue of free ebooks with a Halloween-themed post, pointing readers to spooky classics available to download at no cost. The public-domain library, run by volunteers, regularly shares seasonal reading lists, and the message is being reshared by users in book-loving circles online.

Developer pagel-s has released version 0.2.0 of Termcraft, a 2D survival game that runs entirely in the terminal and supports multiplayer. The project is open source on GitHub, and early reactions on Hacker News are positive, with users intrigued by the combination of a retro text-based interface and modern multiplayer survival gameplay.

A developer has released an unofficial web edition of Glider 4.0, the classic Mac gliding game, making it playable in modern browsers. The project ports the beloved 1990s title so users can run it without installing the original software. Reactions on Hacker News focus on nostalgia for early Mac gaming and interest in how the port was technically achieved.