Are You Sure You Want a Car With a Giant Touch Screen?
RAMageddon could soon push car prices higher as modern vehicles rely on ever more RAM and powerful centralized computers to run everything from infotainment to driver-assistance systems. Analysts cited by The Atlantic estimate the shortage could add a few percentage points to vehicle prices, which might not sound like much, but could potentially translate to around $ … ⌘ Read more

PINE64 Halts Linux Device Production Amid DRAM and EMMC Shortages
BrianFagioli writes: PINE64 has some very bad news for Linux hardware fans. PINE64 says it has no plans to produce additional Linux devices in the near future because of the ongoing DRAM and eMMC shortage. Future production will depend on component pricing after mid 2027, while existing PineNote and PineTab2 inventory could run out in rough … ⌘ Read more

The CachyOS Performance vs. Other Linux Operating Systems On A $46k USD Workstation
Recently I looked at the performance of Ubuntu 26.04 LTS vs. Windows 11 on the Intel Xeon 678X running within the HP Z4 G6i workstation. Linux performed admirably as one would expect. With this Intel Xeon Granite Rapids WS workstation from HP though commanding a retail price more than $46,000 USD, you likely want nothing but the utmost performance out of it. So for those looking to maximize the OS performance, here are some numbers from … ⌘ Read more

Disneyland Announces Star Wars/Fortnite Collaboration, ‘Avatar’ Attraction, and a Newer Tomorrowland
Saturday Disneyland announced a special Star Wars-themed collaboration with third-person shooter game Fortnite — including a slick new trailer for its Star Wars: Smuggler’s Gambit quest.
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Linux 7.3 binfmt_misc To Allow BPF Programs To Dynamically Choose Execution Environments
The Linux kernel’s binfmt_misc functionality allows non-native/custom files to ne run directly such as for Windows EXE files to be handled by Wine or JAR files to be handled by the Java runtime. For the upcoming Linux 7.3 merge window, the miscellaneous binary formats support is being extended so a binary type can be matched programmatically and the interpreter determined on a per-exec basis. BPF programs can also then be atta … ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net Potentially, depending on the features supported / hardware used.

I’ve long wished for an appliance (like a video game console) that hosts my essential services - email, shared files, social media, etc. - but which “just runs” in a box behind the TV.

So what do you have in mind? 🤔

Lemonade 11.6 Integrates Muse-Glimmer 30B, Experimental TheNoise ROCm Image Generation
For those dabbling with generative AI on the weekends, the AMD-led Lemonade SDK 11.6 is out today with its newest feature release of this open-source software for running local AI apps with optimized LLMs across CPUs, GPUs, and NPUs… ⌘ Read more

AMD GAIA 0.23 Delivers Ability To Install/Run AI Agents From The Terminal
AMD’s GAIA open-source AI software built atop Lemonade for serving as an AI companion for emails, a Bash coding agent, and other AI agent skills is out with a new version today with more features while also improving security and making other improvements… ⌘ Read more

The Beneficial Performance Gains Running The Framework Laptop Pro 13 / Core Ultra X9 388H With Linux 7.1+
The recently launched Framework Laptop 13 Pro powered by Intel Core Ultra Series 3 “Panther Lake” runs well on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS and other modern Linux distributions. In the case of Ubuntu 26.04 with Linux 7.0, while everything works, if upgrading to Linux 7.1 or the upcoming Linux 7.2 kernel is even better performance. Here are benchmarks of the Framework Laptop 13 Pro with Core Ultra X9 388H across the … ⌘ Read more

but yes, however you cannot currently add it or delete post via the app as I haven’t really built that feature at the moment you technically can do it, but you do run into some challenges with breaking threads if you’ve already published something and then go back and edit it so we generally advise not to do that too much if you can help it

@brytboi@twtpub.com I hope you’re seeing my replies because you absolutely can scroll up in the app. Let me know if you’ve run into a bug though and report it to me so I can fix it immediately!

Comma.ai Launches A PCIe Gen4 x4 To USB4 Dock With Open-Source Firmware
George Hotz of Comma.ai and Tinygrad today announced the Tiny Chestnut eGPU Dock and the “Chestnut” Dock complete with an AMD Radeon RX 9060 8GB GPU too. Making this Chestnut / Tiny Chestnut Dock interesting is that it runs on open-source firmware… ⌘ Read more

China-Linked Hackers Used AI To Run First-Ever ‘Autonomous’ Cyberattack On Taiwan
Researchers at Israeli cybersecurity firm Dream say suspected China-linked hackers used an open-source AI-agent system to conduct what may be the first observed end-to-end autonomous cyberattack against a government. According to the Financial Times (paywalled), the attack compromised at least 85 accounts and resulte … ⌘ Read more

Intel LLM-Scaler Ready With Muse Glimmer Support, Other LLMs & Features
Intel’s LLM-Scaler project that was born out of their Project Battlematrix initiative aims to make it easier to run generative AI on Arc (Pro) B-Series graphics cards with the likes of vLLM, ComfyUI, SGLang, and other popular AI software in this Docker-based pre-configured AI stack. This week new LLM-Scaler releases brought same-day support for new models and other enhancements… ⌘ Read more

Bottles game manager v66 brings UMU from Open Wine Components to help run games
Bottles v66 has some major changes for this game manager to make the experience a lot nicer, with UMU from Open Wine Components to help run games.

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Analyzing Fedora’s Slow Performance On The Framework Laptop 13 Pro With Intel Panther Lake
As part of my recent Linux testing of the Framework Laptop 13 Pro I had recently benchmarked six Linux distributions on the Framework Laptop 13 Pro. CachyOS was the fastest to not much surprise but arguably the most surprising aspect was finding Fedora Workstation 44 typically running slower than the five other modern Linux distributions benchmarked. Here’s a follow-up to that with more Fedora Linux benchmarks an … ⌘ Read more

FastFlowLM 1.0 Released Now As Part Of The AMD ROCm Umbrella
FastFlowLM is the open-source software for getting vision, audio, embedding, and MoE large language models up and running on AMD Ryzen AI NPUs. FastFlowLM 1.0 released today and is also now part of the AMD ROCm software umbrella… ⌘ Read more

Meta’s ‘Open’ Muse Glimmer Model Can Run On a Single Computer
Meta has released Muse Glimmer, a slimmed-down open-weight AI model designed to run locally on a single GPU for agent tasks such as scheduling, file management, coding, and tool use. The release is based on Meta’s closed Muse Spark 1.2 model and appears to be aimed at attracting developers who want capable AI agents without relying entirely on cloud-hosted … ⌘ Read more

Intel Xeon 678X Windows 11 vs. Ubuntu 26.04 Performance With The HP Z4 G6i
HP recently launched their Z4 G6i workstation that I have been testing out the past few weeks. The HP Z4 G6i is powered by Granite Rapids WS with the review unit specifically being powered by the Intel Xeon 678X. As the unit shipped with Microsoft Windows 11 Pro and this being the first time I’ve had my hands on Granite Rapids WS, I took the opportunity to run some Windows 11 vs. Ubuntu 26.04 LTS performance benchmarks to see how th … ⌘ Read more

Minor Optimization Coming For AMD Athlon XP Era Systems Running Linux
A minor performance optimization is on the way to the Linux kernel for roughly two decade old CPUs that have SSE but lack SSE2. Among those CPUs to benefit are the AMD Athlon XP series, some early Sempron models, and some Intel Celeron and Pentium III models… ⌘ Read more

Ask Slashdot: Whare the Costs of Switching Between Windows, MacOS, and Chrome?
UI changes, lost productivity, untransferrable knowledge… Long-time Slashdot reader theodp notes the folly of switching to an unfamiliar new environment to be “more productive”…

Champions of the switch often insist workers will be able to hit the ground running and get the same or even more work done from the get-go in … ⌘ Read more

Proton Experimental gets fixes for Far Cry 5, Nightingale, Lords of The Fallen, various Command & Conquer games
Valve just updated Proton Experimental again bringing more fixes for running Windows games on SteamOS / Linux to get as many working as possible.

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Wine 11.15 brings improvements for Wayland, more format conversions in WindowsCodecs
The Wine 11.15 development release is out for the Windows to Linux compatibility layer to help run more applications and games.

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Wine 11.15 Released With Wayland Fixes, Fix For A 20 Year Old MSXML3 Bug
Making its debut this Saturday rather than the usual bi-weekly Friday release regiment, Wine 11.15 is out today as the newest development release for this open-source software enabling Windows games and applications to run on Linux… ⌘ Read more

NASA Figured Out How To Keep Its 48-Year-Old Voyager 2 Probe Running For Yet Another Year
NASA has squeezed at least another year of science out of Voyager 2 by cutting power to nonessential systems and switching to lower-power alternatives. Voyager 1 is expected to receive the same power-saving changes in the coming months. Space.com reports: Voyager 2 and its twin launched in 1977 … ⌘ Read more

AI Helped Create A DirectX 11 Driver For QEMU VMs
Thanks in part to the power of Claude Opus 5 and Claude Fable 5, a new Windows DirectX 11 driver for QEMU has been created to help improve graphics acceleration for Microsoft Windows guests running under QEMU virtual machines… ⌘ Read more

Azure CTO Pastes Doom Into Paint One Frame At a Time
Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich used Claude to build a gloriously impractical setup that runs Doom in the background and pastes each rendered frame into Microsoft Paint through the Windows clipboard. The project is referred to as “DoomPaint” or “MS Paint Doom” on GitHub. The Register reports: To be clear, Microsoft Paint isn’t doing anything other than serving as a … ⌘ Read more

Apple NVMe Linux Driver Sees Fixes After Being Bitten By New Firmware
A set of patches providing fixes for the Apple Silicon NVMe driver for the Linux kernel were sent out today due to new issues cropping up when running newer Apple firmware. Firmware shipped by macOS 15+ is causing issues with the current Apple NVMe open-source Linux driver developed by the Asahi Linux crew… ⌘ Read more

Linux Accidentally Left Legacy I/O & Memory Handlers Open In Kernel Lockdown Mode
For nearly the past decade has been the kernel lockdown mode for tightening up kernel access from user-space such as when UEFI Secure Boot is enabled. The kernel lockdown mode restricts PCI BAR access, no writing to /dev/mem, and other restrictions so user-space can’t can’t modify the running kernel or access sensitive kernel memory. An oversight has allowed legacy I/O and memory interfaces via sysfs to remain open in lockdown m … ⌘ Read more

FEX 2608 Released With More Fixes For Running x86_64 Binaries On ARM64
FEX 2608 is now available as the newest monthly feature update to this open-source emulator sponsored by Valve for running x86_64 binaries on ARM64, including Steam and Windows games with Steam Play (Proton)… ⌘ Read more

Benchmarking Six Linux Distributions On The Framework Laptop 13 Pro
With the new Framework Laptop 13 Pro now shipping powered by Intel Core Ultra Series 3 (Panther Lake) and a brand new hardware design, I have spent the past week testing out various Linux distributions on this very nice high-end laptop. All of the modern Linux distributions tested have been playing nicely with this new Panther Lake laptop. Of course, beyond testing for compatibility I also took the opportunity to run some Linux distributio … ⌘ Read more

Box64 v0.4.4 Released With New Box64-Configurator App
Box64 0.4.4 released today as the newest version of this open-source user-space Linux x86_64 emulator for running binaries on 64-bit ARM, RISC-V, and LoongArch systems… ⌘ Read more

Prominent Arch Linux Developer Resigns After 10 Year Run
Arch Linux developer, security team member, AUR maintainer, and package maintainer Morten Linderud “Foxboron” announced today he is resigning from the project… ⌘ Read more

New York Sues Kalshi For Running ‘Illegal Gambling Operation’
New York has sued prediction-market platform Kalshi, alleging it operates an “illegal gambling operation” without state authorization. “No matter what they call themselves, prediction markets like Kalshi are gambling platforms, plain and simple,” said New York Attorney General Letitia James in a press release announcing the lawsuit. “By ignoring our laws, … ⌘ Read more

Nouveau vs. NVIDIA R610 On CachyOS With The GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop GPU
With the Razer Blade 18 as the first laptop Razer’s certifying for (Ubuntu) Linux use while testing it out I was predominantly using the NVIDIA R610 official driver stack. Some users were interested though in how well this laptop is working with the open-source, upstream Nouveau+NVK driver stack given Razer is marketing this high-end laptop for Linux use too. Before sending the review unit back I had run some graphics benchmarks to see … ⌘ Read more

Valve Sponsors Work Bringing Open-Source RADV Driver To Windows
Valve is funding Collabora’s experimental effort to port the open-source RADV Vulkan driver from Linux to Windows. The team has already demonstrated Counter-Strike 2 running with RADV, but a stable interface or compatibility shim will be needed to handle undocumented driver changes. Phoronix reports: Louis-Francis Ratte-Boulianne put out a blog pos … ⌘ Read more

Claude Opus 5 Became Downright Ruthless When Tasked With Running a Vending Machine
For a year now, the AI safety testing firm Andon Labs has been evaluating how frontier AI models behave as long-running autonomous agents by assigning them simulated real-world tasks, such as operating a vending machine business for a year without human supervision. In the latest installment, the research startup fo … ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net I only have one potential machine for this: My old netbook. I don’t want to accidentally brick it, though … 😅 It was scary enough to run my own OS on this.

Proton Experimental brings fixes for Far Cry New Dawn, Binding of Isaac: Rebirth, controller hotplugging and more
Valve pushed out a brand new update for Proton Experimental on July 28th - making more Windows games run well on SteamOS / Linux systems.

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ASUS Laptop Whisper Mode Support Being Worked On For Linux
ASUS laptops support a feature called “Whisper Mode” that intentionally slows down the fan speed and lowers the CPU clock speed in order to keep the device running cool and quiet. The open-source ASUS Armoury Linux kernel driver is now seeing patches to properly support this Whisper Mode on Linux… ⌘ Read more

A Promising Process For Nuclear Fuel Re-use and Disposal?
A Canadian lab has run a chemical process on real spent nuclear fuel “and pulled out 90% of the long-lived danger in 24 hours, the part that forces a burial site to last 100,000 years,” notes the blog Autonocio, “with the leftovers meant to fuel a reactor.”

The standard plan for spent nuclear fuel is to wait it out. You pull the used bundles from a reactor, si … ⌘ Read more

@GabesArcade@gabesarcade.com I think it would have to be specific to the App itself. So say you somehow didn’t save a recovery key or some shit™ You could still get back up and running with ease if you had exported a config? 🤔

Dunno if anyone will find this interesting… But some ~6 months or so ago I experimented briefly with creating a whole bootloader + kernel + userland – Basically an entire OS in the Mu programming language (which as you know I also designed and created) – 6 months later I’ve worked on it some more after spending the last week working on improvements to Mu itself, which is now able to compile itself with its own Mu implemented compiler and now have an os/arch backend called muos/amd64 that boots into a running shell, with a tiny little vfs, UNIX-like semantics, syscalls, read/write, etc. It works pretty nicely, and aside from a small Assembly “nucleus”, most of the Kernel and Userspace is written in Mu.

https://git.mills.io/prologic/muos

Wine 11.14 Released
Wine 11.14 is out with initial WoW64 mode support on FreeBSD, allowing 32-bit Windows applications to run on a 64-bit system without relying on 32-bit multilib support. The release also adds Start Menu icon support in Wine Explorer, 7.1 format conversions in DirectSound, AES-GMAC support in BCrypt, and 21 bug fixes affecting apps and games including Adobe Reader, Heroes of the Storm, and Age of Empires I and II. Additional details can b … ⌘ Read more

Wine 11.14 Brings WoW64 Mode To FreeBSD, Icon Support In Start Menu
Wine 11.14 was tagged today as the newest bi-weekly development release of this open-source software for running Windows games and applications on Linux, macOS, and other platforms… ⌘ Read more

Snapdragon X Elite Laptop Experience Still Lackluster On Ubuntu 26.04 LTS
At the end of last year when checking out the latest Linux experience on the Snapdragon X Elite it was a disappointing affair. The performance had regressed and overall a more headache-inducing experience than just running a modern AMD Ryzen AI or Intel Core Ultra laptop on Linux. Given the recent release of Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, I’ve been re-testing the Acer Swift 14 AI laptop with Snapdragon X Elite SoC to see how its performing under … ⌘ Read more

libx11-compat Is Working To Implement Xlib Atop SDL For Wayland, macOS, Android
For helping to keep X11 clients running in a modern Linux desktop world with Wayland or even for running on macOS or Android, there is now yet-another option being developed with libx11-compat. The libx11-compat project is working to re-implement the Xlib client library atop SDL2/SDL3 interfaces for allow broad underlying platform coverage… ⌘ Read more

Proton-CachyOS adds support for vkd3d-low-latency, upgrades d7vk and more
The Proton-CachyOS compatibility tool for running Windows games on SteamOS / Linux has a new release out adding support for vkd3d-low-latency.

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

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I should really fix this damn bug where new replies to read replies to unknown conversation roots are not showing up in tt. I run into this bug almost daily for weeks now.