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The development team behind CyanogenMod, Android, and Playtron unveils KORA, a Linux distribution built specifically for AI nerds.

Ubuntu doesn’t run Android apps and games natively, but Waydroid is an open-source effort that lets you use them – and it’s now really easy to setup on Ubuntu. Earlier this year, Waydroid was packaged in Debian. That put it a simple apt install away on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS and later. No need to add a PPA, find a third-party package or run scripts from Reddit threads. Waydroid runs a containerised…

In addition to the AMD EPYC 9996 256-core CPU benchmarks out today in that dual socket configuration for a combined 512 cores / 1024 threads flagship Zen 6C server configuration, also tested recently at Phoronix was the EPYC 9686F part. The AMD EPYC 9686F is their new high-frequency Zen 6 part that features 96 cores / 192 threads at a boost clock of 5.3GHz! When the AMD EPYC 9686F they originally…

ANS lets AI agents prove who they are, much like a domain name and its certificate do for a website.

The Linux kernel already has network drivers for the AMD Pensando networking hardware while coming for Linux 7.5 is an Ionic HWMON driver to support hardware monitoring with temperature, voltage, and power monitoring for this high-end networking gear…

Intel's intriguing Crescent Island Xe3P-based AI accelerator hardware now known as the Intel GPU D Series continues seeing a lot of Linux kernel driver activity. The upcoming Linux 7.5 kernel is continuing to build out the support for this upcoming hardware…

A new hardware project is using open-source hardware and software to breathe new life – and modern capabilities – into decades old iPods. Sprout, by London-based FOSS folk Certain Things, is a “modern motherboard for old iPods” that requires no soldering. It re-uses all of the iPod’s original parts, including the screen, click wheel, case, etc. The idea is you split open your old device, remove…

The Epic Games new launcher is still in preview, but it looks to land on several Linux distributions.

Intel on Tuesday released the microcode-20261110 package that ships updated CPU microcode binaries for recent Intel Core (Ultra) and Xeon processors. The updated CPU microcode is for Core Gen 13 "Raptor Lake" and newer while on the Xeon server side is for Sapphire Rapids and newer. This is also the first time Clearwater Forest has seen microcode updates…

The Early Days

Yesterday in the AMD EPYC 9006 "Venice" SP7 launch testing were reviews of the AMD EPYC 9996 256-core processor as well as the EPYC 9686F 96-core high frequency part. There were hundreds of benchmarks looking at the gen-on-gen performance from EPYC Turin to EPYC Venice as well as against the Intel Xeon 6 Granite Rapids competition. For those wondering about how AMD EPYC Venice is competing with…

Tria Technologies has unveiled its OSM-SB-EP5, a 146 × 102mm development platform supporting Open Standard Module (OSM) Size-S, Size-M, and Size-L modules. The carrier board combines dual Gigabit Ethernet, USB 3.0, MIPI camera and display interfaces ti intended for industrial IoT, edge AI, robotics, and embedded vision development. Introduced at electronica 2026, the OSM-SB-EP5 follows…

Mike Lothian got Vino working on three generations of DisplayLink docks, but Synaptics told him to take it down.

Flipper Devices is preparing a Kickstarter campaign for its “Flipper One,” a portable Linux computer powered by an octa-core Rockchip RK3576 processor and a Raspberry Pi RP2350 microcontroller. The handheld combines 8GB LPDDR5, Wi-Fi 6E, dual Gigabit Ethernet, and M.2 expansion for cellular modems, SDR modules, and other peripherals. The Rockchip RK3576 combines four Arm…

This past month has brought several software package updates for openSUSE Tumbleweed ARM with less than a handful of snapshots reaching the ARM port. The second half of October brought a two-version jump of GRUB2 to 2.16 with serial console and NVMe boot features, a security-focused Linux kernel 7.2.11 and…

Nautilus might be getting a neater way to organise its file views, with section headers breaking up long lists of content into groups. GNOME’s Christian Hergertr recently added support for section headers to GTK’s gridView, the widget Nautilus (among other apps) use to display items, noting it is ‘useful for organising items’ being displayed. Nautilus developer Peter Eisenmann commented to say he…

Sheets, Whiteboards, and Data artifact types bring Claude closer to a productivity suite

Autark can act without constant prompting, but leaves users to enforce their own security boundaries

A new version of High Tide, an unofficial TIDAL music streaming app for Linux built with GTK4/libdwaita, is out. Hight Tide 1.6.0 plumbs in support more features found in the paid streaming service’s official clients, including the ability to block artists and tracks for appearing in playlists or auto-play queues, with a new preferences panel to see and manage your blocks. Play buttons are now…

Backed by Samsung, Square Enix, and others, KORA Systems announced KORA OS today as a Linux distribution built for the age of "intelligent PCs"…