📰 chipStar 1.3 Released For Running HIP/CUDA Code On SPIR-V With OpenCL

A new release of chipStar is now available as the open-source tool for compiling and running HIP/CUDA code in a vendor-neutral manner with the SPIR-V intermediate representation on OpenCL or even Intel Level Zero as the run-time alternative. This is part of the ambitious effort to allow NVIDIA CUDA and AMD HIP code to ultimately run on alternative vendors with increasing levels of success...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/chipStar-1.3-Released

#amd #intel #opensource

📰 New Patches Allow The Microsoft Surface Pro 9 5G To Be More Useful Under Linux

Back in 2024 there were Linux patches to enable a partially-working Microsoft Surface Pro 9 5G laptop that is powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8xc Gen 3 (SC8280XP) SoC. Now in 2026, there are new patches for making that ARM-powered Microsoft Surface laptop actually working more respectably under Linux... Like a working display and more...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Microsoft-Surface-Pro-9-Linux

#arm #linux

📰 AlmaLinux To Unveil Media/Entertainment Linux OS Edition

AlmaLinux shared with us that they will be introducing a new version of their RHEL-derived Linux operating system that is built specifically for media and entertainment use-cases...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AlmaLinux-Media-Entertainment

#linux

📰 Collabora + Flipper: Opening up the RK3576

Collabora is proud to share that we've partnered with Flipper Devices to work together on building an open Linux platform for hardware hackers. The long-awaited Flipper One will be built on the Rockchip RK3576!

🔗 Source: https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/collabora-flipper-opening-up-the-rk3576.html

#linux

📰 VKD3D 2.0 Released For Wine's Direct3D 12 Implementation Atop Vulkan

Wine developers have announced the release of VKD3D 2.0, the newest feature release for this Direct3D 12 API implementation built atop the Vulkan API. VKD3D is what's used by upstream Wine for D3D12 compared to Valve's downstream VKD3D-Proton within Steam Play (Proton)...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/VKD3D-2.0-Released

#proton #steam #wine

📰 I spent weeks chasing a DisplayPort problem that HDMI solved in seconds

DisplayPort has largely been the primary cable PC enthusiasts reach for, and for good reason. It has better bandwidth than the HDMI of its era, native VRR before HDMI caught up, and there's no royalty funny business or weird treatment of Linux drivers. When I upgraded from my 1440p IPS display to a 4K OLED, I reached for DisplayPort once more. I plugged it in, set my refresh rate on the "Gaming Mode" of my Samsung Odyssey G8 to 240Hz, and...

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/i-spent-weeks-chasing-a-displayport-problem-that-hdmi-solved-in-seconds/

#linux

📰 Ryzen AI AMDXDNA Driver Adding Expandable Heap Support With Linux 7.2

AMD engineers continue enhancing the AMDXDNA accelerator driver for supporting the Ryzen AI NPUs on Linux...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDXDNA-Expandable-Heap

#amd #linux

📰 KMSCON 10.0 Released With Natural Scrolling Option, Libseat VT Support

KMSCON 10.0 is out today as the newest feature release to this terminal emulator for Linux that can serve as an alternative to the in-kernel VT...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/KMSCON-10.0-Released

#kernel #linux

📰 Chinese hackers target telcos with new Linux, Windows malware

A Chinese cyber-espionage campaign has been targeting telecommunications providers with newly discovered Linux and Windows malware dubbed Showboat and JFMBackdoor, respectively.

🔗 Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/chinese-hackers-target-telcos-with-new-linux-windows-malware/

#linux

📰 Firefox Is Getting a New Look Later This Year

Mozilla has announced Project Nova, a forthcoming Firefox redesign that emphasizes speed, privacy, AI controls, and a streamlined desktop interface.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/firefox-is-getting-a-new-look-later-this-year/

#firefox

📰 openSUSE Releases Agama 21 Installer with Better Network Management

openSUSE releases Agama 21 installer for Tumbleweed and Slowroll with systemd-boot support, better network management, as well as numerous new features and improvements. Here’s what’s new!

🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/opensuse-releases-agama-21-installer-with-better-network-management

#opensuse #systemd

📰 Vivaldi 8.0 is out with a dramatic new look and UI layouts

A bold new look arrives in Vivaldi 8.0, the latest update to the Chromium-based web browser. Vivaldi 8.0 sees the browser’s main UI elements (the bits that make a browser looks like a browser, so tabs, toolbars, panels, and content) drop their boundaries to form a continuous look. Hence the named Unified. “Unified is not a visual refresh.

🔗 Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/05/vivaldi-8-0-released-redesigned

#chromium

📰 CHUWI's $449 USD Wildcat Lake Laptop Should Work Fine With Linux

CHUWI this week announced their UniBook laptop as a ~$449 USD laptop that aims to compete with Apple's MacBook Neo. While shipping with Microsoft Windows 11, it should be Linux-friendly and we'll soon be putting it to the test at Phoronix...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/CHUWI-449-Notebook

#linux

📰 Proxmox Virtual Environment 9.2 Released with Dynamic Load Balancer

Proxmox VE 9.2 introduces a dynamic load balancer, expanded SDN support, custom CPU model management, and an updated Debian 13.5-based stack.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/proxmox-virtual-environment-9-2-released-with-dynamic-load-balancer/

#debian

📰 Today's Linux Networking Fixes: "Craziness Continues With No End In Sight"

Driven by AI/LLM bots like Shashiko uncovering new issues within the Linux kernel source tree, including various security vulnerabilities like Dirty Frag, the mailing list has been wild with bug reports and fixes. Today's networking fixes pull request for Linux 7.1 continues to highlight the ongoing craziness and fears that the worst may be yet to come...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-Networking-Craziness

#kernel #linux

📰 ONLYOFFICE 9.4 brings new features – and a stricter licence

A new version of ONLYOFFICE, the open-source productivity suite, is out with a small set of improvements. The new release lands nearly two months after ONLYOFFICE suspended its eight-year Nextcloud partnership over Euro-Office, a fork by a European consortium that ONLYOFFICE says violates its AGPLv3 licence terms. Totally unrelated (yes, sarcasm), ONLYOFFICE 9.

🔗 Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/05/onlyoffice-9-4-released

#opensource

📰 Stop treating the Raspberry Pi 5 as a smart home hub — it's actually built for something bigger

This SBC can do more than run Home Assistant. Treat it as a small service hub, and its extra power finally makes sense.

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/stop-treating-raspberry-pi-5-smart-home-hub-bigger/

#raspberry

📰 Someone built a full Wayland compositor inside Minecraft, and it actually works

Wayland has been the center of a few big Linux stories this year. We've seen some distros adopt it, we've seen some drop X11 in favor of it, and we've seen people creating alternatives to X11 to stave off Wayland. But nobody asks, "What about adding Wayland to Minecraft?" mainly because, why would they? Minecraft is a game, not an operating system.

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/someone-built-a-full-wayland-compositor-inside-minecraft-and-it-actually-works/

#linux #wayland

📰 Good News! After Lenovo and Dell, Now HP Pledges to Support Linux Vendor Firmware Service

More major vendors supporting LVFS is a good sign for the desktop Linux community.

🔗 Source: https://feed.itsfoss.com/link/24361/17346142/hp-supports-lvfs

#linux

📰 Expanded Reset Support Coming For AMDGPU To Recover From More GPU Compute Hangs

A set of 42 patches were posted on Thursday for the AMDGPU kernel driver and associated AMDKFD compute driver code for enabling pipe reset capabilities for compute workloads...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDGPU-Pipe-Reset-Support

#kernel

📰 Linux Sound Subsystem Also Seeing Many Fixes Driven By AI/LLMs

It's not only the Linux networking subsystem where many fixes have been appearing -- including several notable security fixes for local privilege escalation issues -- leading to "craziness" from AI / LLMs. The Linux sound subsystem has also been seeing an uptick in activity with many "assisted-by" patches coming about in recent weeks...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-Sound-Many-Fixes

#linux