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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"…

With openSUSE Leap making use of the modern Agama installer developed by SUSE engineers, the rolling-release openSUSE Tumbleweed is now preparing to make the same transitioning in replacing the YaST Installer…

With Fedora 45 having shipped last week, developers are turning more of their attention to Fedora 46 that will debut by the end of next April…

An early version has arrived with Firefox 160, letting you move a tab or a selected part of a page into its own mini window. Does that serve any purpose?

Samsung's Galaxy XR headset runs on Android XR by default with its own downstream kernel patches. A user leveraging AI with multiple LLMs has now drafted an initial set of patches getting the Galaxy XR headset working on the mainline kernel along with bringing up the Qualcomm Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 2 "Halliday" SoC that powers this VR/XR headset…

It is a release that has taken a year to develop, with major changes like a Wayland session that is no longer experimental.

The Firefox 160.0 release builds are now available as the latest bi-weekly stable update to Mozilla's web browser…

LibreOffice is free for business, but WPS Office's free edition has licensing limits. Compare the PDF, cloud, AI, and compatibility trade-offs.

Darling is the software project more than a decade in development that is designed to run macOS binaries on Linux. This macOS compatibility layer for Linux is now gaining more brisk developments as it turns to AI/LLMs to assist in this creation…