📰 I tried Anthropic's open-source desk pet on an ESP32, and it fixes the most annoying thing about Claude

Anthropic open-sourced a cool desk pet project, so I ported it to the WT32-SC01 Plus.

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/tried-anthropic-open-source-desk-pet-esp32-fixes-annoying-thing/

#opensource

📰 Don't install Ubuntu as your first Linux distro; here's why learning the hard way actually matters

Uncover the limitations of learning Linux through Ubuntu, and why other distros offer a deeper, more comprehensive education in the operating system.

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/skip-ubuntu-as-first-linux-distro-learn-what-actually-matters/

#distro #linux #ubuntu

📰 Don't install Ubuntu as your first Linux distro; here's why learning the hard way actually matters

Uncover the limitations of learning Linux through Ubuntu, and why other distros offer a deeper, more comprehensive education in the operating system.

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/skip-ubuntu-as-first-linux-distro-learn-what-actually-matters/

#distro #linux #ubuntu

📰 NVIDIA CUDA 13.3 Rolls Out CUDA Python 1.0, CUDA Tile For C++

NVIDIA on Tuesday released CUDA 13.3 as another significant advancement for their unified GPU programming stack for NVIDIA hardware...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-CUDA-13.3-Released

#python

📰 Latest Steam Client Update Improves Steam Controller Support on Linux

A new stable Steam Client update is now available with better support for Valve's new Steam Controller on Linux, as well as improvements to in-game overlay, Steam Input, and Remote Play.

🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/latest-steam-client-update-improves-steam-controller-support-on-linux

#linux #steam

📰 Calibre 9.9 E-Book Manager Improves EPUB Page Counting

Calibre 9.9 adds accurate page counts for fixed-layout EPUBs, keeps searches across Virtual libraries, and fixes SSL loading on Fedora 44.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/calibre-9-9-e-book-manager-improves-epub-page-counting/

#fedora

📰 MangoHud v0.8.4 released - should fix the Steam Overlay not working

The excellent performance monitoring tool MangoHud v0.8.4 is out now, and it contains an important bug-fix with the Steam Overlay.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

🔗 Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/05/mangohud-v0-8-4-released-should-fix-the-steam-overlay-not-working/

#steam

📰 O3DE 26.05 Released With New Open Particle System, Other Engine Improvements

It's been nearly five years already since the start of O3DE as the Open 3D Engine that began as Amazon's Lumberyard project spun into an open-source project under the Linux Foundation umbrella. Out this week is O3DE 26.05 for shipping the latest improvements to this cross platform game engine...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/O3DE-26.04-Released

#linux #opensource

📰 KRAID Being Developed As New Compiler For Modern Arm Mali Graphics

KRAID is a new Rust-written shader compiler currently being developed for the Panfrost/PanVK open-source Arm Mali driver code. KRAID is designed for Mali's Valhall graphics processors and new as a modern, clean sheet design...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-Arm-Mali-KRAID

#arm #opensource

📰 Intel Arc G-Series Processors Announced For Handheld Gaming Devices

Ahead of Computex, Intel today announced the introduction of the Arc G-Series. While taking on the "Arc" branding, this isn't a new graphics card from Intel but rather their new processors with integrated graphics for handheld gaming devices...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Arc-G-Series

#intel

📰 AI agents get their own phone directory built atop DNS

DNS-AID, under the auspices of the Linux Foundation, promises easier agent discovery.

🔗 Source: https://www.theregister.com/ai-ml/2026/05/28/ai-agents-get-their-own-phone-directory-built-atop-dns/5247539

#linux

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📰 Every major Linux distro is converging on the same defaults, and here's what we lose when they do

The biggest Linux distros are all becoming copies of each other, and we're losing something important as a result.

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/every-major-linux-distro-is-converging-on-the-same-defaults-and-heres-what-we-lose-when-they-do/

#distro #linux

📰 QEMU Shifting On AI Policy To Allow Some AI/LLM-Generated Contributions

The QEMU processor emulator that plays an important role in the open-source Linux virtualization stack had a policy that forbid any contributions including or derived from AI-generated content. But there are now second thoughts with a proposed patch that will permit AI/LLM contributions in non-critical areas...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/QEMU-Patch-Allows-Some-AI

#linux #opensource #qemu

📰 Intel Arc Pro B70 BMG-G31 Linux Gaming Performance

In recent weeks we have been exploring different areas of the Intel Arc Pro B70 graphics performance on Linux from various OpenCL and Vulkan to Level Zero compute benchmarks, scaling up to four Arc Pro B70 graphics cards, comparing to NVIDIA RTX PRO Blackwell, and other relevant tests. While not intended for gaming, many Phoronix readers keep raising requests for seeing the Arc Pro B70 performance for Linux gaming given the lack of any consumer...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-b70-linux-gaming

#intel #linux

📰 Your smart home needs fewer Raspberry Pis and more boring microcontrollers

Microcontrollers are surprisingly useful for Home Assistant projects.

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/your-smart-home-needs-fewer-raspberry-pis-and-more-microcontrollers/

#raspberry

📰 Critical Gogs RCE Vulnerability Lets Any Authenticated User Execute Arbitrary Code

A critical security vulnerability has been disclosed in Gogs, a popular open-source self-hosted Git service, that allows an authenticated user to execute arbitrary code under certain conditions.The security flaw, per Rapid7, is rated 9.4 on the CVSS scoring system. It does not have a CVE identifier."The vulnerability allows any authenticated user to achieve remote code execution (RCE) on.

🔗 Source: https://thehackernews.com/2026/05/critical-gogs-rce-vulnerability-lets.html

#opensource

📰 Rocky Linux 9.8 Released for Enterprise Linux 9 Users

Rocky Linux 9.8 is now available as the latest update to the 9.x series, bringing refreshed security, development, and system tools.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/rocky-linux-9-8-is-now-available-for-download/

#linux

📰 CIFSwitch Vulnerability Exposes Some Linux Distros to Local Root Access

The flaw affects the boundary between the Linux CIFS client and cifs-utils, allowing local root access on some systems.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/cifswitch-vulnerability-exposes-some-linux-distros-to-local-root-access/

#linux

📰 Linux 7.2's Open-Source Nouveau Driver To Finally Support The NVIDIA GA100

Sent out today was the last drm-misc-next pull request ahead of the Linux 7.2 merge window getting underway in June. As part of this last batch of small Direct Rendering Manager graphics/accelerator driver changes is finally enabling the NVIDIA GA100 within the Nouveau driver...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-Nouveau-GA100

#linux #opensource

📰 Intel Sends Out Revised Linux Patches For Directed Package Thermal Interrupts

Back in March was an initial patch series out of Intel for Linux support for Directed Package Thermal Interrupts as a new feature of recent Intel CPUs. There wasn't much to report over the past three months on this work but today a second iteration of the patches emerged on the Linux kernel mailing list...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Directed-Pkg-Therm-Inter

#intel #kernel #linux