ARM Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life (Terry Pratchett, Jingo)

NBD-VRAM Provides Swap Space On Your NVIDIA GeForce GPUs

([NVIDIA] 1 June 05:57 AM EDT NBD-VRAM)

An open-source developer has created NBD-VRAM as a way to create swap space on your consumer NVIDIA GPU's video memory under Linux.



NVIDIA Announces RTX Spark Superchip For Laptops & Desktops

([NVIDIA] 1 June 05:33 AM EDT NVIDIA RTX Spark)

Jensen Huang used his Computex keynote today to formally announce RTX Spark as their new superchip for compact desktop PCs and laptops.



AI-Driven Security Disclosures, NVIDIA Vera & Linux 7.1 Features That Made An Exciting May

([Free Software] 1 June 12:00 AM EDT May 2026 Recap)

May 2026 is now in the books after writing 275 original Linux/open-source minded news articles and another 20 featured-length benchmark articles / Linux hardware reviews. There was a lot of exciting topics in May to keep the month interesting and as we approach the Phoronix 22nd birthday this week.



Intel Xeon 6+ & Intel Ethernet E835 Launch

([Processors] 31 May 11:00 PM EDT 1 Comment)

Last year at Tech Tour Arizona, Intel announced Clearwater Forest as the Xeon 6+ series. Details were rather light then while for Computex, Intel is announcing that Xeon 6+ is now "launching" beginning tomorrow, 1 June. In addition to Xeon 6+, the new Intel Ethernet E835 is also launching while there are updates on Crescent Island and Diamond Rapids.



Dell Uses Intel Wildcat Lake To Deliver Their Cheapest XPS 13 Ever

([Hardware] 31 May 08:14 PM EDT Dell XPS 13 With Wildcat Lake)

Dell is using Computex to announce their new XPS 13 that comes at their lowest price ever of $599 USD for students and $699 for everyone else. The new Dell XPS 13 aims to compete directly with the Apple MacBook Neo while leveraging the new Intel Wildcat Lake processors as cut-down from Panther Lake.



AMD Announces Radeon RX 9070 GRE, Ryzen AI Max PRO 400 Series

([Processors] 31 May 08:00 PM EDT 19 Comments)

AMD is kicking off the busy Computex 2026 week with some new product announcements. The embargo is now up so meet the Radeon RX 9070 GRE and other new wares coming out this summer and later in the year from AMD.



Linux 7.1-rc6 Released Following Another "Larger-Than-I'd-Wish-For Size" Week

([Linux Kernel] 31 May 06:39 PM EDT Linux 7.1)

The Linux 7.1-rc6 kernel is now available for closing out the month of May and approaching the Linux 7.1 stable release that should be out by mid-June.



KDE Linux Prunes Its Insecure & Unused Software

([KDE] 31 May 01:08 PM EDT KDE Linux)

With the end of the month comes a new KDE Linux status report from prominent KDE developer Nate Graham.



Linux 7.1-rc6 To Support The ASUS ROG RAIKIRI II & Nova 2 Lite Controllers

([Hardware] 31 May 09:59 AM EDT Linux 7.1 Input)

Ahead of the Linux 7.1-rc6 test kernel due out later today, this week's batch of input subsystem fixes have been sent out that includes enabling a few newer input devices.



Linux Might Finally Disable The Microsoft RNDIS Protocol Drivers In 2026

([Linux Networking] 31 May 09:28 AM EDT Microsoft RNDIS)

Going back to early 2023 there were efforts to disable all the Linux drivers for Microoft's RNDIS protocol. Remote NDIS has proven to be a real security concern while superior, modern alternatives exist.



Wine-Staging 11.10 Fixes 14 Year Old Bug, Also Fixes Issue Of Some Games Being Too Dark

([WINE] 31 May 07:28 AM EDT Wine-Staging 11.10)

Building off Friday's release of Wine 11.10 is now the Wine-Staging 11.10 experimental/testing flavor with nearly 300 additional patches atop that upstream code.



Servo 0.2 Released With Revamped Android Browser UI

([Free Software] 31 May 07:01 AM EDT Servo 0.2)

For ending out the month of May is a new monthly release of Servo, the open-source, Rust-based browser engine being developed by Linux Foundation Europe stakeholders and the open-source community. There are many nice enhancements on the desktop side with Servo 0.2 while also improving the Android browser UI experience with Servo too.



Zrythm 2.0 Alpha Released For Rewriting The Digital Audio Workstation In C++ & Qt/QML

([Multimedia] 31 May 06:47 AM EDT GTK To Qt/QML)

Zrythm is a wonderful open-source digital audio workstation (DAW) application. Zrythm 1.0 released back in 2024 for this software catering from beginners to audio professionals. It's been a GTK-based application for years but the developers have been porting it to Qt6/QML. Released this weekend is the first Zrythm 2.0 alpha release that moves from GTK to Qt/QML.



Linux 7.1-rc6 To Hide The Documentation On "clearcpuid" Feature

([Linux Kernel] 31 May 06:29 AM EDT clearcpuid)

The clearcpuid= kernel parameter can be used to disable specific CPUID features for the kernel by specifying the targeted bit numbers of the feature(s) to disable or their flags from the /proc/cpuinfo output. The clearcpuid parameter, for example, has been useful for carrying out AVX-512 comparison benchmarks for apps that check for the presence of the AVX-512 extensions via /proc/cpuinfo. But moving forward the documentation on clearcpuid is being removed to discourage its use.



AV2 v1.0 Specification Released For Next-Gen Video Coding

([Standards] 31 May 06:17 AM EDT AV2)

As expected given AOM Video Model indications last week, the AV2 v1.0 specification was officially released on Friday.



Various USB Quirks Merged Ahead Of Linux 7.1-rc6

([Linux Kernel] 30 May 08:53 PM EDT Linux 7.1 USB)

Ahead of the Linux 7.1-rc6 kernel due out on Sunday, this week's round of USB fixes have been merged with various new device quirks added as well as some patches as a result of scanning tools.



Rust Coreutils 0.9 Released With Additional Security Hardening, Zero-Copy I/O

([Free Software] 30 May 01:08 PM EDT Rust Coreutils 0.9)

Rust Coreutils 0.9 was tagged today as the latest major update to this GNU Coreutils implementation in the Rust programming language. Rust Coreutils 0.9 is up to a 90.4% pass rate against the GNU test suite!



NixOS 26.05 Released With 20,442 New Packages, Stage 1 Now Based On systemd By Default

([Operating Systems] 30 May 10:05 AM EDT NixOS 26.05)

NixOS 26.05 is out today as the latest version of this Linux distribution built around the Nix package manager.



AMD Submits More Graphics Driver Changes For Linux 7.2

([Radeon] 30 May 09:39 AM EDT Linux 7.2 AMDGPU)

On Friday was the latest AMDGPU/AMDKFD pull request landing more kernel graphics/compute driver improvements in DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 7.2 merge window happening in mid-June.



G7 Agrees On Shared Language Around Open-Source AI, Open Weights AI

([AI] 30 May 06:44 AM EDT Open Source AI)

Ahead of the 52nd G7 Summit being held in Evian, France next month, the recently conducted G7 Digital and Technology Ministers’ Meeting came to agreement on shared language around open-source AI and on the importance of open-source in AI.



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Hear me out. Linux is Microsoft's main competition right now. Because of
this we are forcing them to "innovate", something they would usually avoid.
Now if MS Bob has taught us anything, Microsoft is not a company that
should be innovating. When they do, they don't come up with things like
"better security" or "stability", they come back with "talking
paperclips", and "throw in every usless feature we can think of, memory
footprint be dammed".

Unfortunatly, they also come up with the bright idea of executing email.
Now MIME attachments aren't enough, they want you to be able to run/open
attachments right when you get them. This sounds like a good idea to
people who believe renaming directories to folders made computing possible
for the common man, but security wise it's like vigorously shaking a
package from the Unibomber.

So my friends, we are to blame. We pushed them into frantically trying to
invent "necessary" features to stay on top, and look where it got us. Many
of us are watching our beloved mail servers go down under the strain and
rebuilding our company's PC because of our pointless competition with MS.
I implore you to please drop Linux before Microsoft innovates again.

-- From a Slashdot.org post in regards to the ILOVEYOU email virus