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Last week alongside our Framework Desktop review with the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 "Strix Halo" SoC I posted benchmarks of the Strix Halo performance compared to the Ryzen 9 9950X / 9950X3D socketed desktop processors. For those wondering similarly how the top-end Strix Halo SoC in the Framework Desktop competes with the Intel Core Ultra 9 285K "Arrow Lake" flagship in performance and power efficiency, here are those comparison benchmarks.

Several years ago Google engineers began exploring address space isolation for the Linux kernel and ultimately proposing Linux ASI for better dealing with CPU speculative execution attacks. While the hope was it would better cope with the ever growing list of CPU speculative execution vulnerabilities, the effort was thwarted initially by I/O throughput seeing a 70% performance hit. That level of performance cost was unsustainable. But now that I/O overhead has been reduced to just 13%...

Following this weekend's release of Debian 13.0 "Trixie", Debian GNU/Hurd 2025 has been released as the state of Trixie while running atop Hurd rather than Linux...

Even prior to the Linux 6.17-rc1 release on Sunday I already had kicked off some Linux 6.17 Git benchmarking in being eager to see how the performance is beginning to shape up for this next kernel release that is set to power the likes of Ubuntu 25.10 and Fedora 43. There is some good news and bad news with my early testing on the ZBook Ultra G1a for AMD Strix Halo...

HackerBox is a monthly subscription service delivering electronics kits for hobbyists, students, and makers. Issue #0117, titled “RFID Lab,” focuses on radio-frequency identification technology, combining a Raspberry Pi RP2040-Zero microcontroller with a dual-frequency RFID system, full-color TFT display, and a selection of RFID tags for experimentation. The kit supports both high-frequency (13.56 MHz) and low-frequency […]

Making a bit of a FOSS with Virtual Environment update Viennese virtualization veteran Proxmox has updated its hypervisor and its storage offering to new, Debian 13 versions.…

The XpressReal T3 is the first single board computer in the XpressReal product family, developed in collaboration with Fyde Innovations, Radxa, and Realtek. This compact, open-source, and hackable SBC is built around the Realtek RTD1619B SoC and supports operating systems such as openFyde, custom Linux distributions, and Android. According to the Wiki page, the XpressReal […]

Back in May the Ubuntu engineers at Canonical announced plans to ship Ubuntu 25.10 with Linux 6.17 given their recent commitment to always shipping with the latest upstream Linux kernel version. They still are committing to it even if it means the kernel and Ubuntu schedules don't perfectly align and Ubuntu 25.10 out-of-the-box may end up being on an unstable "-rc" kernel...

While there was previously talk of Blender 5.0 likely defaulting to using the Vulkan API for rendering but keeping the OpenGL driver around, those plans look like they may be changing. OpenGL-by-default looks to now be on the table for Blender 5.0 due out later this year...

The bad news? The machines, and their operators, are coming on fast Black Hat/DEF CON At the opening of Black Hat, the largest security shindig in the Hacker Summer Camp week ahead of DEF CON and BSides, the opening keynote speaker suggested the current state of AI slightly favors defenders over attackers, but he warned that was not a given for much longer.…

Well, at least he didn't drop the F-bomb Linux head honcho Linus Torvalds has put a kernel developer "on notice" for waiting until the eleventh hour to supply a patch set for Linux on RISC-V systems which "makes the world actively a worse place to live" – in a scathing missive harkening back to his invective-laden tirades of old.…

The man command, is short for manual. It provides access to the various up-to-date on-board documentation pages. This helps users utilize the Linux/Unix operating systems in a better manner. What is man ? The man command is a manual pager which provides the user with documentation about specific functions, system calls, and commands. The man […]

After three years since the launch of the original VisionFive 2, StarFive has introduced another device, the VisionFive 2 Lite. The company has launched a campaign on Kickstarter for this cost-effective RISC-V single board computer, aimed at applications in education, AIoT, smart home, and IIoT. According to the product page, the VisionFive 2 Lite is […]

The upcoming FFmpeg 8.0 release continues to increase in excitement with this weekend Vulkan hardware acceleration for Apple's ProRes RAW codec being merged...

LILYGO launched the T-Embed CC1101, built around the ESP32-S3 Dual-core LX7. It supports Wi-Fi, BLE 5, and Sub-GHz wireless communication, targeting remote and low-power IoT projects. The ESP32-S3 microcontroller is paired with 16MB of Flash memory and 8MB of PSRAM. The CC1101 chip operates across frequency bands of 300-348 MHz, 387-464 MHz, and 779-928 MHz, […]

Debian 13.0 released yesterday while already Debian developers are beginning to think about Debian 14 as the next major release due out in 2027. Debian 14 is codenamed Forky and among the changes expected is LoongArch64 "Loong64" CPU port support being improved...

Ahead of the Linux 6.17-rc1 release due out in the coming hours, the Turbostat updates for that tool living within the kernel source tree were merged...

Linus Torvalds just released the Linux 6.17-rc1 kernel a few hours ahead of his typical release regiment due to currently being in Europe. That marks the end of the Linux 6.17 merge window with many exciting changes merged this cycle. This is notable with Linux 6.17 expected to power Ubuntu 25.10 and other late 2025 Linux distribution releases...

Decision to use MXFP4 makes models smaller, faster, and more importantly, cheaper for everyone involved Analysis Whether or not OpenAI's new open weights models are any good is still up for debate, but their use of a relatively new data type called MXFP4 is arguably more important, especially if it catches on among OpenAI's rivals.…

With the arrival of GNOME 48, the desktop experience steps into a refreshing new era, blending clarity, visual richness, and adaptability. This release unfolds a more intuitive configuration interface, native HDR capability, and finer-grained display scaling. Whether you’re streaming, tweaking your workspace, or simply glancing over your notifications, GNOME 48 brings you improvements that feel both modern and meaningful, crafted to feel like they were made for real people doing real tasks.