AMD P-State Linux Driver Patches Can Boost 1%-Low FPS Gaming Performance By 31%
A set of patches posted today to the Linux kernel mailing list implement per-core Energy Performance Preference (EPP) boosting for recently-busy CPUs. This feature is designed to have a dramatic impact for Linux gaming and helping especially with the 1% low frame-rates improving by 31.8% on the Valve Steam Deck… ⌘ Read more
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.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/ … ⌘ Read more
KDE Developer Fixing Long-Standing Bug Over Very Long Small-File Copy Times
Since 2014 there has been a KDE bug report titled Ridiculously slow file copy (multiple small files). With the Dolphin file manager or other KIO-based KDE programs, copying many small files can be much slower than using the cp command directly or other copying programs like rsync, Finally that issue is in the process of being resolved for addressing very slow copy times when dealing with many small files on the KDE Plasma desktop… ⌘ Read more
Linux’s crypto_rng Abstraction Layer Next On The Chopping Block
In addition to the deprecation and stripping down of AF_ALG, another piece of the Linux kernel crypto code steaming ahead toward removal is the crypto_rng abstraction layer… ⌘ Read more
Mission Center is a slick app to monitor CPU, Memory, Disk, Network, GPU and more on Linux
An app I haven’t covered he before is Mission Center - giving you a tidy interface to monitor CPU, Memory, Disk, Network and GPU and more.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/mission-center-is-a-slick-app-to-monitor-cp … ⌘ Read more
KDE Developer Fixing Long-Standing Bug Over Very Long Small-File Copy Times
Since 2014 there has been a KDE bug report titled Ridiculously slow file copy (multiple small files). With the Dolphin file manager or other KIO-based KDE programs, copying many small files can be much slower than using the cp command directly or other copying programs like rsync, Finally that issue is in the process of being resolved for addressing very slow copy times when dealing with many small files on the KDE Plasma desktop… ⌘ Read more
Allogloom is a gorgeous looking point and click adventure launching in October
If you’re a fan of point and click adventures, Allogloom needs to be not just on your radar but right at the top of your wishlist too.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/allogloom-is-a-gorgeous-looking-point-and-click-adventure-launching … ⌘ Read more
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
007 First Light is now Steam Deck / Steam Machine Verified
007 First Light recently had Denvuo DRM removed, and it’s now fully Steam Deck / Steam Machine Verified.
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Earth’s Biggest Disasters Strike In a Hidden Pattern Every 27 Million Years
A new analysis of 89 major geological events over the past 260 million years found evidence that mass extinctions, volcanic eruptions, ocean crises, and other upheavals may cluster around a roughly 27.5-million-year cycle. The cause remains unknown, with possibilities ranging from mantle activity and orbital changes to spe … ⌘ Read more
A Missing Underscore Sent Innocent Man To Prison For 18 Months
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: One missing underscore in a Skyrim-themed username put an innocent Nova Scotia man in prison for 18 months. A 2018 child-luring investigation, which began in Madison, Wisconsin, and eventually extended to Halifax, Canada, was based on a false premise. Police were looking for a man using the Kik me … ⌘ Read more
Peacock to Be Included With YouTube Premium In Major Streaming Tie-Up
YouTube Premium will include Peacock Premium at no extra charge beginning in early 2027. “The deal brings a slew of premium content to the [$15.99 per month] YouTube Premium subscription, including live sports like the NFL, NBA and MLB and entertainment like Law & Order, Saturday Night Live and Love Island,” reports The Hollywood Repo … ⌘ Read more
Amazon Trying to Launch a Global Satellite Cellphone Network In 2028
Amazon has asked the FCC to approve a 5,105-satellite constellation launching in 2028 that would provide global direct-to-cell “voice, messaging, data, and emergency services,” similar to Starlink’s partnership with T-Mobile. The network would use Globalstar spectrum, support future Apple satellite services, and complement Amazon’s existi … ⌘ Read more
AMD PMF Testing Tool Slated For Linux 7.3
Looking to be added to the Linux kernel source tree for the upcoming Linux 7.3 cycle is test_amd_pmf, a small testing application for exercising the AMD Platform Management Framework (PMF) interfaces and dumping various system data points… ⌘ Read more
Nvidia, Tech Giants Launch AI Safety Initiative
wiredmikey shares a report from SecurityWeek: Nvidia and a large group of technology, cybersecurity, and enterprise software companies have launched new initiative aimed at developing and sharing open source tools, models, and techniques for securing AI systems and agents. The new Open Secure AI Alliance aims to give defenders more open tools for testing, auditing and protecting AI m … ⌘ Read more
Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency and LLM-Generated Code Projects
Longtime Slashdot reader AmiMoJo shares a report from Hackaday: Community-led open source project hosting site Codeberg has formally announced that projects whose code is largely or fully machine-generated through LLMs and other ‘AI’ tools will no longer be welcome. This follows on the heels of a similar ban on cryptocurrency-related projects. The … ⌘ Read more
China Begins Mass Production of Homegrown DUV Chip Tools
According to The Information (paywalled), a state-backed Shanghai company has begun mass-producing China’s first homegrown immersion DUV lithography machines, with about five units expected this year for SMIC, Hua Hong, and CXMT. Roughly 20 more units are expected in 2027. Tom’s Hardware reports: The Information didn’t name the manufacturer, but its sources … ⌘ Read more
ChatGPT Starts Blocking Direct Requests To Copy an Author’s Style
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: OpenAI’s ChatGPT is now refusing requests to generate text that directly mimics the style of famous authors. When asked to do so, the popular LLM instead offers a response that draws on the “broad qualities” of those authors “while remaining distinct in its own voice,” for example. This morning, A … ⌘ Read more
Apple Will ‘Watch Everything Burn’ When AI Bubble Bursts
MacRumors interviewed AI critic Ed Zitron, author of the Where’s Your Ed At newsletter and host of the Better Offline podcast, about what could happen to Apple if the costly AI infrastructure boom collapses. Zitron argued that Apple is relatively well insulated because it has spent far less on data centers than rivals such as Microsoft, Google, and Amazon. He sai … ⌘ Read more
Mysterious 16-Tile & 32-Tile AMX Implementations Talked Up For More Performance
Last October on Phoronix we were first to point out there being some mysterious intrigue around a new x86 implementation from a “corporate entity other than Intel/AMD” with the developer involved not elaborating on the matter. Now that same developer has posted another semi-cryptic message to the Linux kernel mailing list to talk about 16-tile and 32-tile Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX) implementations. To date Intel only has … ⌘ Read more
Fwupd 2.1.7 Released With Many Bug Fixes
Fwupd 2.1.7 is out today as the newest update to this open-source firmware updating utility that pairs with the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) for offering a nice firmware upgrade story on Linux systems… ⌘ Read more
Big Tech Accused of Stonewalling European Social Media Researchers
European misinformation researchers say TikTok, X, and Meta are obstructing access to platform data required under the EU’s Digital Services Act through rejections, restrictive quotas, costly APIs, and burdensome security demands. Although regulators have fined X and pushed platforms to improve access, researchers remain skeptical that the ch … ⌘ Read more
Nvidia In Talks With OpenAI To Guarantee $250 Billion Financing For Data Center
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Nvidia is in talks to provide roughly $250 billion in financing guarantees for OpenAI as part of a massive data center project, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday. The backstop from Nvidia would help the ChatGPT maker lease a 10-gigawatt project that SoftBank’s … ⌘ Read more
Framework Laptop 13 Pro: Aiming To Be One Of The Best Upgradeable Linux Laptops
Back in April, Framework Computer announced the Framework Laptop 13 Pro as a ground-up re-design of their modular/upgradeable laptop. This new Framework Laptop 13 Pro features a much larger battery (74Wh), LPCAMM2 memory support, a full CNC aluminum chassis, haptic touchpad, and a new power-optimized touch display. Paired with the very efficient Intel Core Ultra Series 3 “Panther Lake” SoCs, the Framework Laptop 13 Pro ends up being … ⌘ Read more
NVIDIA, Red Hat, Cloudflare, The Linux Foundation and more launch the “Open Secure AI Alliance”
Some big names are coming together to form the “Open Secure AI Alliance”, with a plan to “share open tools that promote responsible use of and trust in AI”.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/nvidia-red-hat-clo … ⌘ Read more
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Cost of Hope DLC releases in August along with a big free upgrade
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Cost of Hope is the first major expansion for the open-world shooter, with a release date now set for August 20th.
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Skate 3 Recomp 2.0 brings native rendering to the PC port of the Xbox classic Skate 3
Skate 3 Recomp 2.0 brings the classic Xbox 360 version of Skate 3 to modern platforms, and now with a modern renderer using Vulkan (or Direct3D on Windows).
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/skate-3-recomp-2-0-brings-native … ⌘ Read more
Crack open planets in the idle incremental game Swarmslam
I’ve grown to love a few idle incremental games recently and started discovering more - like Swarmslam, which has a fun idea about smashing through planets.
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‘KVM Chainsaw’ Expected to Hit Linux 7.3 For Dealing with ‘God Data Structure’
An anonymous reader shared this report from Phoronix:
A patch series that appears destined for the upcoming Linux 7.3 merge window is what’s dubbed the “KVM Chainsaw” as a major code clean-up in dealing with the kvm_mmu “god data structure”. Red Hat engineer and KVM maintainer Paolo Bonzini has merged the kvm-chainsaw br … ⌘ Read more
Ubuntu To Provide Virtualization HWE Stack For Ubuntu 26.04 LTS
Ubuntu has long provided hardware enablement “HWE” stacks for Ubuntu LTS releases to provide a newer kernel and Mesa drivers and more for better supporting new/modern hardware on the long-term support Ubuntu Linux releases. With Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, Canonical will also now be providing a virtualization HWE stack for shipping newer virtualization / confidential computing features… ⌘ Read more
EmuDeck announce they are now ready for the Steam Machine
For those of you who want to do some emulation on the Steam Machine, EmuDeck is likely a good option and it should work better now.
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Qualcomm announce a big price rise - bad news for Valve’s Steam Frame
Valve don’t seem to be able to catch a break with their hardware releases - as Qualcomm reportedly plan to raise prices a lot.
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AMD “Low Power” CPU Core Type Patches Queued Ahead Of Linux 7.3
Last month I wrote bout new AMD Linux patches introducing a new “low power” CPU core type as an alternative to their standard performance cores and dense efficiency cores. That work now is poised to land with the upcoming Linux 7.3 kernel… ⌘ Read more
The awesome crime noir FPS ‘Fallen Aces’ has episode 2 out now
From publisher New Blood Interactive, the wonderful retro crime noir FPS ‘Fallen Aces’ has episode 2 out now.
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FreeBSD Developing New NTSYNC Driver For Accelerating Windows NT Sync Primitives
The FreeBSD project published today their Q2-2026 status report that highlights all of their interesting open-source development initiatives for the past quarter. A lot is happening including FreeBSD seeing an AMD ROCm port and also their own NTSYNC driver being created… ⌘ Read more
NVIDIA & Others Form The Open Secure AI Alliance
NVIDIA and more than two dozen other companies have started the Open Secure AI Alliance for helping to keep open-source AI models secure. The other founding members range from Microsoft to Adobe, IBM, Red Hat, SpaceX, OpenClaw, Palantir, and others… ⌘ Read more
A New Middle Class of Content Creators Is Quietly Quitting the 9-to-5
“The rise of TikTok, Instagram Reels and Amazon storefronts has created a new kind of white-collar exit strategy,” reports Bloomberg. Workers ditch office jobs not to become celebrities, necessarily, “but to piece together an income online through brand deals, affiliate links and highly personal videos documenting everyday life.”
In m … ⌘ Read more
2.1 Million People View Leaked ‘Odyssey’ Bootleg on X
Variety reports:
“The Odyssey” leaks have begun, as a high-quality bootleg of the film reached millions of people on X thanks to a viral tweet on July 25. At 2:25 p.m. PT, a post on X reading “Someone uploaded ‘The Odyssey’ full movie on X. Can you believe it?” amplified a message from a now-suspended account. The message included a high-quality version of the … ⌘ Read more
‘Inside the Dystopian World of Germany’s Free Speech Crackdown’
Thousands of Germans have been threatened with fines or prison sentences for social media posts, reports The Telegraph, calling the country’s political speech laws “unusually stringent for an EU member state.”
One German had his home raided for calling a minister a “Schwachkopf [dummy]” while another was fined €2,000 (£1,700) for calling Friedrich Me … ⌘ Read more
Linux 7.2-rc5 Released: “Once More We Have Quite A Massive -rc5”
In working toward releasing the stable Linux 7.2 kernel in less than one month’s time, out today is Linux 7.2-rc5 to ship this week’s latest bug/regression fixes and help facilitate more testing of this in-development kernel version… ⌘ Read more
NASA Replaces ULA’s Vulcan Centaur With SpaceX Falcon Heavy For Solar Storm Research
There’s been a change to NASA’s launch of six satellites for solar storms research. Space.com reports that those satellites “were originally slated to lift off on a United Launch Alliance Vulcan Centaur rocket but have now been assigned a SpaceX Falcon Heavy, according to a NASA mission update.”
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Apple’s Smart Glasses Delayed, As Engineers Consider Privacy Concerns
Digital Trends reports:
Apple could unveil its first smart glasses at WWDC in June 2027, followed by a consumer release toward the end of the year, according to Bloomberg… Part of the delay reportedly stems from Apple’s engineering and marketing teams spending more time refining the product and deciding how to address the privacy conc … ⌘ Read more
Google’s Anti-search-scraping Lawsuit Dismissed
A U.S. district court “has dismissed Google’s case against SerpApi over that company’s scraping of search results to train AI models,” reports Computerworld. Google had claimed that it was protecting copyright holders — and that SerpApi’s actions breached America’s Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA):
[Google] made two claims: first, that no person shall circumvent a technol … ⌘ Read more
GNU Binutils 2.47 Released With More RISC-V Extensions, New Options
Along with this weekend’s release of GNU C Library 2.44, the GNU Binutils 2.47 release is also now available for this important set of binary utilities common to Linux systems and other platforms with the GNU toolchain… ⌘ Read more
Wildfires, Evacuations, and Smoke Hit Europe and North America
270,000 people have been displaced by wildfires in France and Spain, reports the Guardian. A wildfire even forced evacuations in Scotland.
And wildfires “have now scorched four million acres of land in the U.S.,” reports NPR, as tens of millions of people in North America “are continuing to endure hazardous smoke from out of control wildfires burning a … ⌘ Read more
AI-Equipped Garbage Trucks Could Soon Start Spying On People in the US
America’s garbage trucks can do more than just collect trash, reports Newsweek. They may also help identify code violations using AI.
Officials in Cape Coral, Florida, recently considered equipping sanitation trucks with AI-powered cameras that would photograph properties as crews complete their normal collection routes. The system w … ⌘ Read more
Is Huawei Building Its Own DRAM Fab?
From the site tech-news site XDA Developers:
The consumer tech economy needs more DRAM manufacturers, and it needs them more urgently than perhaps at any point in its history. Anyone keeping track of the pricing trends will know that memory prices have climbed into the stratosphere on the back of AI infrastructure’s relentless demand, and every consumer device that depends on RAM has traveled from … ⌘ Read more
Three Astronauts Safely Return from Space Station, Landing in Kazakhstan Steppe
“Welcome home!” NASA posted on X.com, sharing footage of a successful “parachute-assisted” landing on a Kazakhstan steppe for the Soyuz MS-28, carrying three astronauts who’d spent 241 days on the International Space Station. (And YouTube has a full two-hour video with NASA’s coverage of the landing.)
A NASA web p … ⌘ Read more
“KVM Chainsaw” Expected To Hit Linux 7.3 For Dealing With God Data Structure
A patch series that appears destined for the upcoming Linux 7.3 merge window is what’s dubbed the “KVM Chainsaw” as a major code clean-up in dealing with the kvm_mmu “god data structure”… ⌘ Read more
Typo-Squatting Scammers Con South Carolina Town Out of $545K
It started with some underground utility work for the South Carolina town of Surfside Beach (population: 4,155). “Public records confirm that a payment of $545,598.30 was issued,” according to a local news station — but the CEO of Wildcat Contractors “stated that the account that received the money is a scammer account and that his company has an overdue i … ⌘ Read more