KDE Plasma 6.7.2 Brings Fix For Most Common KWin Crash, Better Chromium Video Playback
KDE Plasma 6.7.2 is out today as the latest point release to deliver bug fixes for the Plasma 6.7 desktop that debuted earlier this month… ⌘ Read more
AMDGPU HDMI 2.1 FRL, Improvements For Old GPUs & Other AMD Linux Highlights In Q2
With Q2’2026 drawing to a close, as part of the different quarterly recaps of popular areas on Phoronix, here is a look back at the most popular AMD Linux/open-source news of the quarter… ⌘ Read more
Canonical First Gold Sponsor Of Trifecta Tech For Building More Infrastructure In Rust
Ubuntu Linux maker Canonical continues making more inroads in the Rust infrastructure space. Canonical announced today they have become the first gold sponsor of the Trifecta Tech Foundation that works on projects like sudo-rs for building more open infrastructure in the Rust programming language… ⌘ Read more
Remembering How Microsoft’s Fake Windows Error Ended In a $280 Million Secret Settlement
Slashdot reader joshuark summarizes this walk down memory lane from the tech site MakeUseOf:
Facing real competition from Digital Research’s DR DOS, Microsoft secretly embedded a sabotaging mechanism known as “AARD code” into beta versions of Windows 3.1 to prevent it from running on Digital Research’s com … ⌘ Read more
Intel Kills Off AMX-TF32 Support Before It Even Shipped In Diamond Rapids
Intel has dropped AMX-TF32 before its debut in Xeon Diamond Rapids. The latest Intel programming reference manual has dropped AMX-TF32 and Intel engineers are already moving ahead to strip out the AMX-TF32 support that existed in the GNU Compiler Collection… ⌘ Read more
Servo Browser Engine Continues Making Much Progress On Less Than $8k Monthly
Released last week was the Servo 0.3 browser engine release along with their latest Servoshell demo browser. Today the project has published their monthly development recap to highlight all of the interesting changes made. Here’s a look at what they accomplished over the past month while doing so on less than $8k in monthly donations… ⌘ Read more
GCC 17 Compiler Lands SpacemiT X100 Core Targeting
The newest GCC 17 compiler code has landed support for -mcpu=spacemit-x100 and -mtune=spacemit-x100 targeting for the SpacemiT X100 RISC-V core… ⌘ Read more
Ford Rehires ‘Gray Beard’ Engineers After AI Falls Short
Ford executives said they’ve hired 350 veteran engineers — some of them former employees — after AI and automated systems failed to deliver the desired quality, reports TechCrunch:
Bloomberg reports the company’s chief operating officer Kumar Galhotra told journalists that Ford had been “relying more and more on automated quality systems” with disappointing resul … ⌘ Read more
South Korea Plans To Train Entire Military As ‘Drone Warriors’
“South Korea plans to train every single member of its nearly half-million-strong military to operate drones as easily as they handle personal firearms,” reports Ars Technica:
The goal is to make drones a “universal combat tool” for all troops by training them to use drones like a “second personal weapon,” said Ahn Gyu-back, South Korea’s Minister of … ⌘ Read more
Wine 11.12 Released With Wayland Fractional Scaling & Other Wayland Enhancements
Wine 11.12 fell off the bi-weekly release rhythm with not making it out last Friday, but it managed to ship today. Wine 11.12 brings fractional scaling support to its Wayland driver and various other enhancements… ⌘ Read more
Ex-Governors, Big Tech Launch Coalition To Help Workers ‘Navigate the AI Economy’
“Amid growing public anger over A.I. and a debate over how to regulate it, a group of employers, state governors and foundations has raised $500 million to try to answer some of those questions themselves,” reports the New York Times.
“Just how many jobs will AI upend?” asks the Wall Street Journal, reporting that t … ⌘ Read more
Next Bcachefs Release Aims To Include Rust Code In The Kernel Module
The Bcachefs file-system already makes use of the Rust programming language in the user-space tools for this CoW file-system and they have been planning to make use of Rust within the kernel module too. Beginning in the next Bcachefs release, v1.38.7, they are looking at beginning to include Rust code now in their kernel driver… ⌘ Read more
Git 2.55 Released With Rust Support Enabled By Default, git history fixup
Git 2.55 is out today as the latest stable update to this distributed version control system… ⌘ Read more
Linux 7.2 On Threadripper Shows Some Nice I/O Improvements & Faster Poll, Some Regressions
I have begun testing out Linux 7.2 on more hardware following the winding down of the merge window and culminating with yesterday’s Linux 7.2-rc1 release. Today’s tests are looking at how Linux 7.2 in its early development state is comparing to Linux 7.1 stable on AMD Ryzen Threadripper. ⌘ Read more
Microsoft Announces Public Preview For Linux Containers On WSL
Microsoft today shipped the first public preview of WSL Containers “WSLC” as their latest extension of the Windows Subsystem for Linux on Windows 11… ⌘ Read more
Red Hat ARM Engineer Abandons ARM64 Linux Personal Desktop, Goes Back To AMD Ryzen System
Red Hat senior software engineer Marcin Juszkiewicz of Red Hat’s ARM Team had been dogfeeding with an AArch64 Linux desktop being used as his primary, personal system for nearly the past year. But now he shared he has gone back to using his AMD Ryzen desktop instead over AArch64 Linux issues encountered with his Ampere Altra desktop… ⌘ Read more
IBM Says It Can Fit Nearly 100 Billion Transistors On a Chip
IBM has unveiled “what it says is the world’s first sub-1-nanometer chip technology,” reports ZDNet, “designed to pack nearly 100 billion transistors on a fingernail-size die, roughly doubling the density of IBM’s earlier 2-nm test chip, first shown in 2021… Today, the smallest, most powerful chips top out at about 80 billion transistors.”
At the … ⌘ Read more
Red Hat ARM Engineer Abandons ARM64 Linux Personal Desktop, Goes Back To AMD Ryzen System
Red Hat senior software engineer Marcin Juszkiewicz of Red Hat’s ARM Team had been dogfeeding with an AArch64 Linux desktop being used as his primary, personal system for nearly the past year. But now he shared he has gone back to using his AMD Ryzen desktop instead over AArch64 Linux issues encountered with his Ampere Altra desktop… ⌘ Read more
Infinity Scheduler Aims To Be A Better Linux Scheduler
The Infinity Scheduler is another attempt at improving the CPU scheduling behavior under Linux and created by the developer behind the existing “scx_flow” sched_ext scheduler. But Infinity Scheduler isn’t taking the approach of using sched_ext and is rather patched into the Linux kernel in modifying CFS and RT behavior… ⌘ Read more
ZLUDA v6 Gets PhysX Running Well On AMD GPUs But Loses Commercial Funding
ZLUDA as a reminder is the open-source project that began as drop-in CUDA support for Intel graphics hardware and then was quietly funded by AMD for years as a drop-in CUDA replacement on AMD GPUs that went open-source after losing funding. That was then taken down and since late 2024 ZLUDA then began focusing on multi-GPU CUDA focused on AI after beginning to receive funding from an unspecified party. Now, unfortunately, funding has once again bee … ⌘ Read more
TLAC Aims To Be An Open-Source Alternative To Kernel-Level Anti-Cheat Systems
It’s not clear that any games have yet to deploy this open-source anti-cheat system but TLAC is a new open-source project that aims to provide a privacy-respecting alternative to kernel-level anti-cheat systems like Denuvo, Easy Anti-Cheat, and BattlEye… ⌘ Read more
RADV Enables Vulkan Descriptor Heap Support By Default
In time for the Mesa 26.2 stable release expected out in August, the Radeon RADV Vulkan driver is now exposing the VK_EXT_descriptor_heap descriptor heap support by default… ⌘ Read more
Scientists Think Neptune and Uranus May Not Be the Ice Giants We Imagined
The planets Neptune and Uranus may be better described as “magma-ocean giants” rather than “ice giants,” according to a team of researchers from the University of California. Gizmodo reports:
While the Voyager flyby confirmed the planets’ classification as ice giants… [a]s the least explored planets in the solar system, … ⌘ Read more
Trump-Shuttered Climate Change Site Now Back Online In Nonprofit Hands
Donald Trump shuttered the web site Climate.gov in 2025, cutting off public access to climate information from America’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
But “former members of the site’s team have brought much of it back at a new domain,” reports The Register:
“Trusted climate information should not disappear … ⌘ Read more
Mageia 10 Released For This Linux Distribution Carrying On The Mandrake Legacy
Mageia 10 ISOs are now available for this Linux distribution long ago derived from Mandriva Linux and in turn the legendary Mandrake Linux… ⌘ Read more
Arch Linux’s Archinstall 4.4 Adds Dank Material Shell + Niri Desktop Option
Ahead of the July 2026 ISO refresh for Arch Linux, a new Archinstall 4.4 release has been tagged for this text-based and very convenient installer for Arch Linux… ⌘ Read more
Microsoft Slammed for Building Copyright-Infringing Supercomputer for OpenAI in New Court Filing
The New York Times alleges Microsoft actively encouraged OpenAI to steal its copyrighted work, reports Ars Technica, citing a new (and heavily redacted) court filing Thursday:
NYT’s motion comes after the [U.S.] Supreme Court sided with Cox Communications in a case where Sony tried … ⌘ Read more
Spain-Backed Fund Joins FOSSA’s Sovereign Satellite Communications Push
Spanish startup FOSSA Systems “has raised about $10.5 million to expand its connectivity constellation,” reports Space News, noting some funding is backed by Spain’s government:
The support from the Spanish Society for Technological Transformation (SETT) comes a year after the fund injected 14 million euros into Spain’s Sateliot , … ⌘ Read more
China’s AI Matches Anthropic in Cybersecurity, Causing Worry Over US Restrictions
Chinese AI systems “have matched the performance of Anthropic’s powerful model Mythos in some cybersecurity scenarios,” reports the Wall Street Journal.
They call it “a development poised to reset the global tech race and pressure the White House in its overhaul of U.S. AI policy.”
Security researchers said that a new … ⌘ Read more
Linux 7.2-rc1 Released: “Things Look Reasonably Normal” While Landing AMDGPU HDMI 2.1 FRL, AMD ISP4 & CAS
As expected, Linux 7.2-rc1 was released a brief time ago to cap off the Linux 7.2 merge window. Now it’s off for eight weeks or so of testing before Linux 7.2 stable is released that will in turn go on to power the likes of Fedora 45 and Ubuntu 26.10… ⌘ Read more
Are Checks Sent Through the Mail Vulnerable to Theft?
The New York Times tells the story of a 63-year-old retiree who wrote a check for several thousand dollaras to pay her taxes. But she discovered much later that her taxes were never paid because that check had been intercepted and then altered to be payable to someone else:
In some cases, thieves may pilfer one or more checks from local mailboxes. Adam Rust, director … ⌘ Read more
USB4STREAM, Optimizations, Jay & Other Popular Intel Linux News From This Quarter
With Q2’2026 working toward a close, here is a look back at the most popular Intel Linux and open-source news for the quarter… ⌘ Read more
US Agency Cancels Contract For Warrantless Tracking of Mobile Devices
America’s Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has “canceled its contract for a surveillance tool that enables warrantless tracking of mobile devices,” reports the Associated Press.
They note the move comes “after lawmakers, a prosecutor and a judge raised concerns about the legality of the tool in criminal investigation … ⌘ Read more
Students Around the World are Using AI-Powered Smart Glasses to Cheat on Tests
Students are using AI-powered smart glasses to cheat on tests, reports CNN. “And in East Asia’s test-obsessed societies, where a single exam could impact the trajectory of a student’s future career and social status, educators are scrambling to get ahead of the problem.”
Already, countries are stepping up inspections … ⌘ Read more
‘Supergirl’ Movie Criticized for Script, Poor Visual Effects
The Onion joked the new movie Supergirl is about a hero who must single-handedly save the world “after the catastrophic collapse of interest in the genre.”
Unfortunately, The Hollywood Reporter says the film’s reviews “range from negative to tepid praise (averaging a 58 percent Rotten Tomatoes score).”
Many point fingers at the film’s script, wi … ⌘ Read more
CachyOS June 2026 OS Released With More Performance Optimizations
CachyOS is out today with a new feature release for this Arch Linux powered distribution that delivers stellar out-of-the-box performance… ⌘ Read more
Linux 7.3 To Introduce DRM “Color Format” Property With AMD GPU Driver Support
While the Linux 7.2 kernel merge window is only ending later today to cap off the feature work on this next version of the Linux kernel, already for the Linux 7.3 kernel cycle later in the year there is one notable feature on the way: the DRM color format property is being introduced and being first supported by the AMDGPU kernel graphics driver… ⌘ Read more
Developer AI Token Costs Could Exceed Their Salaries in Two Years
“Enterprises may soon be paying as much for their developers’ AI token usage as they do for their salaries,” writes InfoWorld:
According to Gartner, these costs will meet, or even exceed, the typical software engineer’s monthly salary within the next two years. This is not only because developers are increasingly adopting generative AI and agent … ⌘ Read more
Linux Dropping Old Drivers, AI Detected Vulnerabilities & Other Kernel Highlights Of Q2
With Q2’2026 quickly coming to an end, here’s a recap of the most popular Linux kernel news over the past three months on Phoronix… ⌘ Read more
Linux 7.2 Surpasses More Than 43 Million Lines In The Kernel Tree
Today marks the last day of the Linux 7.2 merge window with Linux 7.2-rc1 due out later today. With the many new features and improvements merged over the past week since the Linux 7.1 stable debut, the Linux kernel source tree now exceeds 43 million lines… ⌘ Read more
Vim Patches Yielding Faster GTK3 Wayland Performance: “Major Milestone”
For those using Vim with its GTK3 toolkit interface on Wayland, it soon should be delivering much better performance with pending patches… ⌘ Read more
An Amazon Seller Says They Were Offered a Way to Bribe an Amazon Employee
Jack Nekhala had a business selling on Amazon — and in December he received an unusual offer, reports Bloomberg. A woman said she could bribe an Amazon employee “to help him retrieve $90,000 in funds that the e-commerce giant had frozen after suspending him over an alleged violation of review policy.”
Hoping to ingratiate himsel … ⌘ Read more
IBM is Getting Ready to Scale Quantum Computing
IBM spent a decade “building, testing and improving” quantum computing, reports the Wall Street Journal.
“This year, the company is laying the groundwork to turn that technology into a fully-fledged, scalable business from an expensive science project.”
IBM said last month it plans to form a new independent subsidiary called Anderon, a foundry to produce the silicon wafers n … ⌘ Read more
Renewable Energy Just Hit 30% of America’s Electricity Generation
America generated 10.06% more energy with renewables in the first four months of 2026 than it did in the same period the year before. That’s according to new figures from America’s Energy Information Administration, cited in this report from Electrek:
The growth was led by utility-scale solar (+21.3%), hydropower (+15.7%), small-scale solar
… ⌘ Read more
Nourish: A New Wayland Compositor Powered By Vulkan With Infinite Scrolling/Panning
The newest Wayland compositor on the block is Nourish, it’s a Vulkan-powered and its unique selling point is offering “infinite” zooming and panning to in effect provide an infinite workspace… ⌘ Read more
How a Seemingly Harmless Image Can Jailbreak Vision-Language AI Models
Slashdot reader BrianFagioli writes: Florida International University researchers have developed a technique called JaiLIP (Jailbreaking with Loss-guided Image Perturbation) that uses subtle image modifications to bypass AI safety guardrails. Unlike traditional jailbreaks that rely on carefully crafted prompts, the attack works through ima … ⌘ Read more
France’s Heat This Week Was Worse Than a Dire Scenario Imagined For 2050
There’s a deadly, record-breaking heat wave spreading east across Europe, reports the Washington Post — and it’s even worse than a dire earlier forecast:
The forecast was recorded in 2014 as part of a campaign coordinated by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) that invited about 60 presenters worldwide to imagine a weather … ⌘ Read more
Max Planck Slapped With Two Paper Retractions By Suspected Rogue Algorithm
Max Planck won 1918’s Nobel Prize for physics. Yet two of his papers were retracted — a move now being criticized by Yves Gingras, a historian of physics at the University of Quebec and Mahdi Khelfaoui, a fellow historian of science at UQ Trois-Rivières. Science reports:
The papers, both quietly retracted in 2011, original … ⌘ Read more
Scroll Burned in 79 AD Volcanic Eruption Finally Deciphered Using AI
When Mt. Vesuvius erupted in 79 A.D., it buried hundreds of papyrus
scrolls. They were rediscovered in the mid-1700s, remembers Smithsonian magazine, “the only
surviving collection of its kind from the Greco-Roman
world…”
“But when scholars tried to unroll them, the carbonized manuscripts
crumbled to dust.”
Every generation that fo … ⌘ Read more
California Sheriff Says Their Drone Disarmed a Suspect, Shares Video on Instagram
The Los Angeles Police Department says about 1,500 police agencies across America have drone programs, reports SFGate, and 58 of those drone-using police agencies are in California.
The Sacramento County sheriff’s office recently posted drone footage on Instagram set to theme from “Mission: Impossible,” claiming “ … ⌘ Read more