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Texas Grid Flags Risks As Data Centers, Crypto Sites Fail Voltage Tests
Reuters reports:
Several large data centers and crypto facilities planning to connect to the Texas power grid ahead of peak summer demand have failed key reliability tests, raising the risk of power outages just as electricity use hits its seasonal high, according to the state grid operator… Unlike traditional industrial custom … ⌘ Read more

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“Flatten The Pick” Linux Patches Progress For Better cgroup Scheduling While Linux Gaming
A month ago I wrote about Linux scheduler work to help boost gaming performance on old “potato” hardware with Intel engineer Peter Zijlstra noting that Linux cgroup scheduling has continued to be “a pain in the arse.” This work continues advancing with a third iteration of these “flatten the pick” patches being posted… ⌘ Read more

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Some Broadcom V3D Graphics Support On Path For Removed Over Lack Of Testing
Broadcom V3D 3.3 and V3D 4.1 graphics IP is set to be deprecated and removed from the V3D kernel graphics/display driver after the Mesa driver support was removed two years ago already. The situation in both cases amount to lack of hardware by developers for testing and with that likely no other known users of these particular Broadcom graphics in selects SoCs… ⌘ Read more

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New Power Banks Released By BMX With Safer Semi-Solid-State Batteries
From Android Authority:

Singapore-based BMX has announced that its SolidSafe magnetic power bank lineup, first showcased at CES 2026, is now available for purchase through its website and Amazon US, with prices starting at $59. What sets these power banks apart is their use of semi-solid-state batteries. Traditional lithium-ion and … ⌘ Read more

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Small Modular Nuclear Reactor Reaches Criticality In First Test
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Just over a year ago, the Trump Administration issued an executive order meant to accelerate the development of nuclear power in the US. While an entire startup ecosystem has developed around the use of different – and typically smaller – reactor designs, only one of them has been fully li … ⌘ Read more

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Google Will Pay SpaceX $920 Million Per Month For Compute
Ahead of its upcoming IPO, SpaceX announced that Google will pay the company $920 million per month for access to roughly 110,000 Nvidia GPUs and related compute infrastructure. Google says the agreement is short-term “bridge capacity” to meet stronger-than-expected demand for Gemini Enterprise, while SpaceX is using deals like this and its Anthropic contra … ⌘ Read more

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Launch HN: General Instinct (YC P26) – Frontier models on edge devices
Hey HN, Guanming and Bill here from General Instinct ( https://general-instinct.com/).

After years of working in robotics, we kept running into the same problem: the best models never fit the hardware we actually had available.

The models that performed best were usually designed around datacenter assumptions: large GPUs, lots of memory bandwidth, and reliable network access. But most physical systems have the opposit … ⌘ Read more

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Valve Says Steam Machine ‘Shipping This Summer’
Valve says its long-awaited Steam Machine and Steam Frame are both “shipping this summer.” The company is also expanding its Verified program beyond Steam Deck to cover the new hardware. “Steam Verified is a developer-focused program where game makers ensure that their titles are capable of running on the Deck (meaning they’ll run fine under Linux), that the UI elements and tex … ⌘ Read more

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ARM Linux Server Performance Up More Than 7x Geo Mean In 8 Years, As Much As 15x With NVIDIA Vera CPU
NVIDIA’s Vera CPU is delivering the fastest ARM performance I have ever seen. For putting it into perspective how far the ARM server CPU hardware has come in just the last decade and for some “fun” benchmarks as part of Phoronix marking 22 years of Linux hardware reviews and benchmarking, here are some benchmarks showing the Ampere eMAG from September 2018 to the performance now with NVIDIA Vera. Not even factori … ⌘ Read more

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Used Waymo Robotaxi Batteries Become Backup Storage For Power Grids
Waymo and B2U Storage Solutions have struck a “strategic supply agreement” to repurpose used batteries from Waymo’s electric robotaxi fleet into stationary storage for California and Texas power grids. The arrangement could give robotaxi batteries a second life storing renewable energy after they’re no longer suitable for vehicle use. I … ⌘ Read more

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Today Marks 22 Years Of Phoronix For Linux Hardware Testing & Benchmarking
Today marks 22 years since I started Phoronix.com to focus on Linux hardware reviews. It’s been quite a journey from the early state of Linux hardware support….. ⌘ Read more

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Crown Engine 0.63 Restores Its OpenGL Renderer For Legacy Hardware Support
While not as well known as the likes of the Godot or O3DE open-source game engines, Crown Engine continues advancing as an open-source, C++-based game engine… ⌘ Read more

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MacBook Neo is So Popular That Apple Reportedly Doubled Production
According to supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, Apple has reportedly doubled 2026 MacBook Neo production from 5 million to 10 million units after stronger-than-expected demand for its $599 budget laptop. MacRumors reports: On an earnings call in late April, Apple’s CEO Tim Cook said that customer response to the MacBook Neo was “off the c … ⌘ Read more

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Google Launches ‘Gemma 4 12B’ AI Model That Can Run On Your Laptop
Google has launched Gemma 4 12B, a 12-billion-parameter open AI model designed to run locally on your laptop without depending entirely on cloud infrastructure. WION reports: According to Google, the new model delivers performance close to much larger AI systems while requiring significantly less memory. The company says Gemma 4 12B can run … ⌘ Read more

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Google Shares Fitbit Air Blueprints So Anyone Can 3D-Print Accessories
Google has released (PDF) technical specs and 2D CAD drawings for the Fitbit Air to encourage users to make their own accessories. “These CAD drawings include crucial mating dimensions, tolerances, and mating force specifications – including attach and detach force – to help you build a high-quality accessory band,” Google says … ⌘ Read more

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Microsoft Plans Linux Tools, RTX Spark Desktop For Windows Devs
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Microsoft’s Build developer conference kicked off today, and as with almost everything the company has done in the last few years, Microsoft’s opening keynote focused overwhelmingly on AI and other closely related technologies. […] On the hardware front, we didn’t get any updates for existi … ⌘ Read more

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Microsoft Claims New Quantum Chip 1,000 Times Better Than Before
Microsoft says its new Majorana 2 quantum chip is 1,000 times more reliable than its predecessor, with qubits lasting about 20 seconds instead of milliseconds, and claims it could have a commercially useful quantum machine by 2029. The BBC reports: “We will have a quantum machine in 2029 that can solve commercially viable, reasonable problems,” … ⌘ Read more

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Microsoft’s Project Solara Is an OS For Devices That Run AI Agents Instead of Apps
An anonymous reader quotes a report from GeekWire: A team inside Microsoft has been quietly building a platform for devices that run AI agents instead of apps, based on Android instead of Windows, with two working hardware designs so far, and an initial set of big-name companies lined up to run pilots. The p … ⌘ Read more

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User-Replaceable Batteries Are Coming Back In a Big Way
New EU battery rules taking effect early next year are pushing tech makers toward user-replaceable batteries in products like headphones, e-readers, handheld consoles, laptops, and possibly earbuds. But carve-outs for smartphones and tablets may mean replaceable batteries won’t necessarily return to phones in the way many users remember. The Verge’s Dominic Pr … ⌘ Read more

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Texas Adds Another Huge Solar Farm As ERCOT Grid Demand Soars
Texas is adding another large solar project as ERCOT electricity demand rises. According to Electrek, Vesper Energy has secured $236 million in financing for its 201 MW Nazareth Solar farm in Swisher County, which will be capable of generating enough electricity for about 53,000 homes. The project is expected to begin construction in June 2026 and … ⌘ Read more

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Nvidia macht Intel und Apple Konkurrenz
Nvidia will seine marktbeherrschende Stellung beim Thema künstliche Intelligenz (KI) weiter ausbauen: In der Nacht auf Montag präsentierte der Hersteller eigene Chips für herkömmliche Laptops und PCs – und positioniert sich damit als Konkurrenz zu Intel, AMD und Apple. Nvidia-Chef Jensen Huang sprach bei der Präsentation von einem „Superchip“, angesichts aktuell enormer Preise für Hardware ist unklar, ob der „RTX Spark“ den Markt umkrempeln wird. ⌘ Read more

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Dell Rivals Apple’s MacBook Neo With $699 Touchscreen XPS 13 Laptop
Dell has introduced a redesigned $699 XPS 13 aimed squarely at Apple’s budget MacBook Neo, offering a premium aluminum design, touch display, backlit keyboard, Wi-Fi 7, 512GB of base storage, and various other configuration options. Dell’s machine costs more than Apple’s entry model but tries to justify the difference with lighter weight, … ⌘ Read more

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Launch HN: Expanse (YC P26) – Unlock Wasted GPU Capacity
Hey HN, we’re Ismaeel, Eren, Yafet and Nikodem. We built Expanse ( https://expanse.sh/) to increase the effective capacity of your HPC/GPU clusters running schedulers/orchestrators like Kubernetes and SLURM. We read the source code, job submission script, and the hardware a workload is about to run on to predict what the job actually needs before the cluster sees it. We also flag failures we think are about to happen and surface line-level opt … ⌘ Read more

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NVIDIA Unveils New ARM-Based AI/Graphics Superchip Coming to Windows PCs and Laptops
“The company best known for powering the AI boom is coming for the PC,” reports Axios.

Nvidia’s CEO unveiled a new ARM-based “N1X processor made alongside Microsoft,” reports CNBC, that “will be incorporated into a new RTX Spark superchip, debuting in the fall on a fresh line of Windows PCs from Microso … ⌘ Read more

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AI-Driven Security Disclosures, NVIDIA Vera & Linux 7.1 Features That Made An Exciting May
May 2026 is now in the books after writing 275 original Linux/open-source minded news articles and another 20 featured-length benchmark articles / Linux hardware reviews. There was a lot of exciting topics in May to keep the month interesting and as we approach the Phoronix 22nd birthday this week… ⌘ Read more

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Renewable Energy is Surging in Africa
Almost a fifth of the earth’s population lives in Africa. And Africa’s next generation of power projects “is increasingly being built around solar and wind power and battery storage,” reports the Associated Press, “as governments and investors shift away from coal and large hydropower dams in search of cheaper, faster and more reliable electricity.”

The shift is visible in a $1.5 billion energy … ⌘ Read more

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US Aims to Give Cold War Plutonium to Startups For Nuclear Fuel
The Trump administration is planning to provide Cold War-era plutonium from dismantled nuclear warheads to nuclear startups that want to convert it into reactor fuel, arguing it could help address a looming fuel shortage for advanced reactors. Critics warn the idea raises serious nonproliferation, security, cost, and technical concerns. The New … ⌘ Read more

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Oppo Find N6: The foldable that finally rattles Samsung
Oppo’s Find N6 is the first book-style foldable that genuinely feels like a rival – and in some respects, a threat – to Samsung’s dominant Galaxy Z Fold line.

It has a near-invisible crease on its screen when unfolded, a larger battery, faster charging and respectable camera hardware, setting new benchmarks for what’s available in a foldable – at least among those available in the New Zealand market. ⌘ Read more

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Europe Told To Cool Its Datacenter Boom Before Water, Power Run Short
A new Grundfos report warns that Europe’s datacenter boom could strain water supplies and power grids unless regulators bake water and energy efficiency into planning, reporting, and incentives for new facilities. The Register reports: According to the report, the EU-wide server farm IT load is about 10 GW today, and is expected to r … ⌘ Read more

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Websites Have a New Way To Spy On Visitors: Analyzing Their SSD Activity
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Now sites have a new way to spy on their visitors: measuring subtle interactions with their solid-state drives. The technique, named FROST (fingerprinting remotely using OPFS-based SSD timing), allows sites to monitor other sites a visitor is viewing and what apps are open … ⌘ Read more

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Dropbox CEO Drew Houston To Step Down After 19 Years
Dropbox founder Drew Houston is stepping down as CEO after 19 years and will become executive chairman, with product chief Ashraf Alkarmi set to take over after a co-CEO transition period. CNBC reports: Drew Houston founded Dropbox
nearly two decades ago at age 24, eventually becoming a household name in Silicon Valley and the first tech entrepreneur to take a comp … ⌘ Read more

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Linux Driver To Expose Voltage Inputs For Raspberry Pi SBCs
The Raspberry Pi hardware monitoring driver “RASPBERRYPI-HWMON” is being extended to allow exposing voltage measurements on these ARM single board computers… ⌘ Read more

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Linux To Drop ARCnet Support For Old ISA & PCMCIA Hardware
With Linux 7.1 ISDN, ham radio, and other old network code was removed in lightening the kernel source tree by around 138 thousand lines of code. Some additional Linux networking code cleaning is expected for Linux 7.2 with the ISA and PCMCIA hardware around ARCnet set to be removed… ⌘ Read more

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Wind and Solar Generated More Power Than Gas Globally in April
Last month saw a world first, reports Electrek. Wind and solar generated more power globally than gas:

According to new analysis from independent energy think tank Ember, wind and solar produced 22% of the world’s electricity in April 2026, compared to 20% from gas. Together, the two renewable sources generated a record 531 terawatt-hours (TWh) … ⌘ Read more

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Lenovo, Dell, and HP Financially Support Linux Vendor Firmware Service
The It’s FOSS blog has news about the Linux Vendor Firmware Service, which gives hardware vendors a secure portal to upload firmware updates “which can then be downloaded and installed by users through clients such as GNOME Software or fwupdmgr.” (Originally developed in 2015 by GNOME maintainer Richard Hughes…)
The issue, however, o … ⌘ Read more

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Linux To Remove ISA Speech Synthesizer Driver That Likely Hasn’t Been Used In Decades
Following the process of phasing out Intel 486 CPU support and other old hardware drivers that were dropped in the Linux 7.1 kernel cycle for reducing the kernel maintenance burden, the upcoming Linux 7.2 cycle is continuing the trend of phasing out some of the old hardware support that is very obsolete, likely having no users on the latest upstream kernels, and no one formally maintaining the obsolete drivers… ⌘ Read more

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AMD (Xilinx) is Excluding Linux From the Free Tier For Its FPGA Dev Tool
Long-time Slashdot reader Sun writes:

AMD has announced a change to the way they are licensing Vivado, their FPGA development tool… Hidden between the lines of the announcement [of a new model starting with the 2026.1 release] is the change to the free of charge tier. AMD is adding more devices to be supported in this tier, … ⌘ Read more

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