Linus Torvalds used AI to help fix a one-line bug in the Intel Xe graphics driver for Battlemage G21 cards, which caused the GDM display manager to restart endlessly. The debugging process required 24…
Linux 7.2-rc7, announced by Linus Torvalds, contains an unusually large number of bug fixes, which he attributes to the 'new normal' of AI/LLM coding and review agents. The release candidate includes …
Cloudflare on August 5 open-sourced Cloudflare OS, a browser-based workspace for AI agents, applications, and enterprise work, under the Apache 2.0 license. The platform, built on Cloudflare Workers, …
Arch Linux faced two waves of malicious package attacks in the Arch User Repository (AUR) in 2026, affecting more than 1,500 packages in the first wave and dozens more in the second, prompting the dis…
Phoronix reported that July 2026 saw the expiration of the last MPEG-4 Part 2 patent, Valve sponsoring a RADV port to Windows, and Linus Torvalds reaffirming that Linux is not anti-AI. The site publis…
A new open-source Linux desktop called Starling, written largely via the Claude AI assistant and using the Swift programming language with its own Wayland compositor in C, has been announced after six…
A TechPowerUp forum user who goes by Fouquin posted an in-depth review of the upcoming Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra featuring the NVIDIA RTX Spark Arm-based SoC, after finding the laptop on the road…
AMD extended its EPYC server-CPU roadmap through 2030 at Advancing AI 2026 on July 23, confirming Zen 7-based Florence for 2028 and Zen 8-based Ravenna for 2030. The Zen 7 generation will include Flor…
AMD announced the EPYC 9006 "Venice" server processors at Advancing AI 2026, promising up to 256 cores per socket, support for DDR5-8000 and MRDIMM-12800 memory, PCIe Gen 6, and roughly 20% more perfo…
Phoronix benchmarked Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, Windows 11, and CachyOS on the $5399 Razer Blade 18 with Intel Core Ultra 9 290HX Plus and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090, finding Ubuntu competitive but CachyOS with n…
BOSGAME launched the VTA-439 mini PC powered by the AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 470 with Radeon 890M graphics, retailing at $1,049 USD with 32GB of RAM and a 1TB NVMe SSD. The device features dual 2.5G Ethernet…
AMD's Ryzen AI Halo mini PC, built on the Ryzen AI Max+ "Strix Halo" platform, began shipping this week after pre-orders last month. Phoronix tested the device, which features fully open-source softwa…
Phoronix reported that Q2 2025 featured 872 news articles and 54 hardware reviews, with top stories including Linux kernel optimizations, NVIDIA Vera CPU, Intel Arc Pro B70, and AI/LLM impacts. Popula…
The Linux kernel in Q2 2026 removed old hardware drivers including i486 CPU support and eliminated the strncpy API after six years of work, while AI/LLM-detected security vulnerabilities drove some ch…
Code enabling experimental DLSS support for the open-source NVK Vulkan driver was merged into Mesa 26.2-devel on June 19, 2026. The feature, gated behind the NVK_EXPERIMENTAL=dlss environment variable…
A years-old bug in the AMDGPU Linux kernel graphics driver causing laptop display freezes may finally be fixed with the help of Anthropic's Claude AI. The issue, tracked back to 2017, affected numerou…
AMD opened preorders for the Ryzen AI Halo developer mini PC at $3,999, featuring a Ryzen AI MAX+ 395 SoC with 128 GB unified memory, 2 TB storage, and a 50 TOPS NPU. The platform targets local AI dev…
Open-source developer Jos Dehaes announced YSERVER, a modern X11 server written from scratch in Rust with assistance from Claude Code AI. The server supports full MATE, Xfce, and Cinnamon desktops alo…
Phoronix.com, the Linux hardware testing and benchmarking site, marks 22 years since its founding today. Founder Michael Larabel launched the site in 2004 to focus on Linux hardware reviews, a space t…
Phoronix published 275 original Linux and open-source news articles and 20 featured hardware reviews in May 2026, highlighting the NVIDIA Vera CPU benchmarks, AI-driven security disclosures, and Linux…