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…
Linux creator Linus Torvalds reaffirmed that the Linux kernel is not "anti-AI" and that AI/LLMs should be viewed as a tool for developers, pushing back against kernel developers who oppose AI usage. T…
Vocalinux 0.14 beta has been released for offline voice dictation on Linux, adding configurable keyboard shortcuts, FunASR/SenseVoice remote API support, Wayland fixes, and improved CPU-based Whisper.…
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…
The Linux Foundation announced the operational launch of the x402 Foundation to standardize Internet-native payments for AI agents and applications, with Coinbase contributing the x402 protocol. Backe…
AMD engineers have submitted the eighth revision of the Ryzen AI Halo Box RGB LED driver for Linux kernel review, bringing it closer to mainline inclusion. The driver, which controls the RGB light str…
Intel has archived its Quantum Intrinsics open-source project, a C++ front-end for the Intel Quantum Compiler, along with other AI-related projects like OAP-MLLIB, as part of ongoing restructuring. Th…
AMD released ZenDNN 6.0, an open-source deep neural network library for accelerating inference on Ryzen and EPYC CPUs. The update arrives before the official Zen 6 debut and includes improvements to t…
XWayland 24.1.13 has been released to fix two security issues in the X.Org codebase, including a buffer overflow (CVE-2026-55999) and a use-after-free (CVE-2026-56000) discovered by Trend Micro Zero D…
NVIDIA confirmed details of its next-generation Rosa CPU with Rigel core, which will feature higher per-core performance, larger L2 cache, and more efficient memory handling while maintaining Vera's s…
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…
AMD has launched its own Linux distribution, the Ryzen AI Developer Platform 1 'Rex', built atop Debian, for its Ryzen AI Halo mini PC. The OS, which includes ROCm preloaded, surprised reviewers expec…
Intel is preparing Linux kernel patches for IPU8 web camera support in upcoming Nova Lake laptops, succeeding Panther Lake's IPU7.5. The patches suggest IPU8 may incorporate more AI features for image…
The FEX Emulator, a Valve-backed project for running x86/x86_64 software on ARM64 systems, released its FEX 2607 update with optimizations for yet-to-be-released 256-bit SVE2 ARM processors, improveme…
Vulkan 1.4.356 introduces the VK_EXT_shader_ocp_microscaling_types extension, adding support for Open Compute Project Microscaling MX data types (MXFP4, MXFP6, MXFP8, MXINT8) to improve machine learni…
Linux kernel developers are debating whether to simplify or eliminate the requirement for AI/LLM agent attribution in patches, with prominent developer Christian Brauner arguing the current policy cre…
Intel engineers posted initial GCC compiler patches for the AI Compute Extensions (ACE), a cross-vendor x86 specification for optimizing AI and machine learning workloads. The ACE specification, devel…
YSERVER, a modern X11 server written in Rust with AI assistance from Claude Code, has released version 1.3 with new features including FreeBSD support, Xinerama extension, direct mode VT switching, an…
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…
Intel has removed AMX-TF32 support from its ISA programming reference manual and is stripping the feature from the GNU Compiler Collection, killing the planned extension before its debut in Xeon Diamo…