The Legion Y700 Gen4 is an Android tablet that debuted last year and powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset. This 8.8-inch tablet is now seeing patches for enabling Linux support outside the confines of Android and will hopefully end up in the mainline kernel...

The latest hand-tuned code in the FFmpeg multimedia library for allowing better performance on today's modern Intel/AMD AVX-512-capable processors is showing 1.372x faster performance for RGB24 to RGBA pixel format conversions...

The Tom Ford jacket worn by Jensen Huang at a 2023 Foxconn event attracted 65 bids. The $960,000 sale will fund Edge Institute fellowships, grants and residencies.

An early Surface Laptop Ultra sample scored 5,771 points in Cinebench 2026 using a hidden High Performance profile. The N1X processor reportedly drew nearly 50W.

Newegg is offering the newly released Ryzen 7 7700X3D for $279.99 with a promotional code. The processor normally costs $328.99.

Kitty 0.48 introduces vertical tabs on the left or right side, plus Wayland fixes, macOS enhancements, and performance improvements.

The open-source Vocalinux app lets Linux users dictate text into almost any application while processing their speech locally.

The GNU Hurd project recently issued their Q2'2026 status report to outline recently development efforts. The Hurd is still happening!..

The performance of the Nouveau kernel driver with the Mesa NVK Vulkan driver continues to improve each feature release in its quest toward better competing with NVIDIA's official Linux graphics driver with its proprietary Vulkan driver...

Love your classic retro games? D7VK 2.0 is out now to bring more performance improvements for running retro Direct3D games on Linux.

The Steam Machine is potentially selling between 10k-15k units per week currently.

Following the release of AMD's ZenDNN 6.0 earlier this month, there is a new feature release of the oneDNN neural network library that used to be developed by Intel as part of oneAPI and is now under the UXL Foundation umbrella. Even so, oneDNN feature releases continue to be heavy on new Intel optimizations and future hardware support...

Nate Graham and John Veness are out with the latest issue of This Week in Plasma to highlight all of the interesting developments taking place in the KDE Plasma desktop space...

In addition to Friday night's release of DXVK 3.0.2, debuting separately a short time later was D7VK 2.0 as the latest major feature release for this implementation of Direct3D 7 and earlier built off the Vulkan API...

This week's batch of AMDGPU Display Core "DC" updates arrived heavy with 70 new patches for improving that open-source display support for Radeon graphics on the Linux desktop...

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Valve and Collabora announce Holo Core as the official Arch Linux ARM64 port for the Steam Frame gaming VR headset.

Changes in version 151.0.7922.29.0: update to Chromium 151.0.7922.29 enable using Android 17 native isolated processes for browser renderer processes to greatly reduce memory usage and improve sec...

DXVK 3.0.2 corrects rendering and swapchain problems in Halo CE and Overwatch while improving stability in other supported games.

With reviewing hardware for more than 22 years, when it comes to cooling products there are few brands that can still get me intrigued like Noctua. With their recent launch of the NL-LC1 all-in-one liquid coolers, I decided to try out the Noctua NL-LC1-36 360mm AIO cooler that is working out well for cooling high-end desktop CPUs like the recently launched Ryzen 9 9950X3D2.

The new SteamVR beta adds some crucial improvements to the Steam Overlay and adds a Quick Access Menu for VR devices.

Bethesda has detailed its development plans across three RPG franchises. The update includes remasters, studio partnerships and new Creation Engine 3 projects.

As part of Valve's upcoming Qualcomm-powered Steam Frame headset, Valve has been collaborating with Collabora on the Arch Linux AArch64 base for their platform. Published today are the initial sources and binaries of this "Holo Core" base of Arch Linux AArch64 to be used by the Steam Frame...

The upcoming KDE Plasma release improves the visual consistency of applications that do not draw their own window shadows.

Since earlier this month AMD has begun staging graphics driver changes for Linux 7.3 ahead of the merge window opening in late July. That's brought some interesting changes so far while there still are a few weeks to land any additional features in DRM-Next. This week another batch of AMDGPU graphics driver and AMDKFD compute driver feature code was sent out for this next kernel version...

A small SteamOS update was pushed out yesterday to fix some games showing a blank screen on the Steam Deck after the previous update.

Linux developer Armin Wolf sent out a set of patches today for enabling AArch64 support for the ACPI Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) driver to work on AArch64 in no longer being bound to x86/x86_64. This is a step toward the long goal of being able to support modern Windows on ARM laptops via ACPI on Linux...

Disgaea Mayhem is another example of how Valve's Steam Deck Verified system can have some very inaccurate results.

A new open-source Linux driver announced today by Arm is the Arm Core Local Accelerator "CLA" driver as a CPU-local interface for programming attached accelerators. This is an agnostic interface for attached accelerators with the initial target focusing on an attached compute engine...

AMD’s 8-core Zen 4 X3D processor is currently available only from Newegg in the US. A discounted AM5 bundle adds a B650E board and 16GB DDR5 for $480.98.

Since earlier this month AMD has begun staging graphics driver changes for Linux 7.3 ahead of the merge window opening in late July. That's brought some interesting changes so far while there still are a few weeks to land any additional features in DRM-Next. This week another batch of AMDGPU graphics driver and AMDKFD compute driver feature code was sent out for this next kernel version...

Valve released SteamVR Beta version 2.17.4 which brings more Steam features into the VR environment, as they continue preparing for the Steam Frame release.

Previously we covered YSERVER as an X11 server written in the Rust programming language with the help of Claude Code. A Phoronix reader wrote in today to share an even more esoteric X11 server implementation that has come about and again written in large part by AI/LLM usage: Frame is an X11 server written in pure x86_64 Assembly...

After the usual silence we've come to expect from Valve on everything, they gave a short blog post on the upcoming MvM update for Team Fortress 2.

TCL CSOT’s printed OLED panel combines a 240 Hz refresh rate with a Real RGB Stripe layout. Lenovo has not confirmed pricing or availability.

Minecraft is set for another big update with a fresh Minecraft 26.3 Snapshot 4 ready for testing, and overall it's quite a big technical upgrade.

Official releases of GrapheneOS, a security and privacy focused mobile OS with Android app compatibility.

The KDE Plasma 6.8 will be introducing support for server-side drop shadows with the feature recently having been merged to KWin...

Simon Ser just announced the stable release of the Wayland 1.26 release...

A new Proton Experimental update was released yesterday that makes Marvel Rivals and Diablo 4 playable again on Steam Deck.

Valve launched the latest update to Proton Experimental to bring more fixes for running Windows games on SteamOS / Linux including Steam Deck and Steam Machine.

The Ubuntu Kernel Team issued a statement this morning to proactively warn Ubuntu Linux users on Ubuntu 26.04 and Ubuntu 24.04 LTS HWE users that the next kernel point release will contain a performance regression for AMD GPUs in compute-heavy workloads with up to a 42x performance hit. The positive news is that due to this being an upstream regression in a Linux 7.0 point release, upstream stakeholders and other Linux distributions that more quickly shipped the problematic code already have a fix coming down the pipe...

There was a new SteamOS stable and beta update that fixes HDR in Black Flag Resynced and a possible FSR performance issue.

Today the AMD Ryzen 7 7700X3D goes on sale as the lowest-price AMD 3D V-Cache processor being marketed for gamers. This 8-core / 16-thread processor features a 4.5GHz boost clock and a total of 104MB of cache while being based on the older Zen 4 architecture and coming in at about $329 USD. Here is a look at how the AMD Ryzen 7 7700X3D is performing on Linux.

Jagex today announced the official released of the Jagex Launcher Linux Beta, making it hopefully simpler and easier to get into Old School Runescape.

Samsung claims that the red stain issue found on some Galaxy S26 Ultra displays is a software issue, not hardware. It will be fixed soon.

This is quite unexpected and was not on my bingo card for this year or even decade... The Linux driver for the floppy disk controller in Apple's legacy Super Woz Integrated Machine (SWIM) saw a large set of patches today for improving its performance and delivering various fixes...

AMD Ryzen 7000, Review Roundup AMD has lifted the review embargo for the Ryzen 7 7700X3D, and the first independent tests are now available.

Valve released two new versions of SteamOS Linux - SteamOS 3.8.23 Beta and SteamOS 3.8.15. Here's all that's changed for Steam Deck, Steam Machine and others.

As a follow-up to the article over ROCm 7.14 being tagged, AMD has formally announced the availability of ROCm 7.14 and it's their new production release rather than being a tech preview...