ModRetro M64 Console Plays Original Nintendo 64 Cartridges via AMD FPGA With Open-Source Core

ModRetro's M64 runs original N64 cartridges on an AMD Artix UltraScale+ FPGA, building on the open-source MiSTer core with improvements headed back upstream.

Gaming Fpga 2026-06-03

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Steam on Linux Settles at 3.99% in May Hardware Survey

Steam on Linux landed at 3.99% in Valve's May 2026 hardware survey, off recent highs but still nearly double macOS, with AMD CPUs holding near 70%.

Gaming Steam 2026-06-04

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8849 Tank 5 Packs 1080p Projector and 17,600 mAh Battery Into Android 16 Rugged Phone

The 8849 Tank 5 fuses a 220 lumen 1080p projector, DisplayPort input, 17,600 mAh battery, and Dimensity 9400e into a 715 gram rugged Android 16 phone.

Devices 8849 Tank 5 2026-06-03

Home Assistant 2026.6 Adds Entity-First Card Picker and Two-Way Infrared

Home Assistant 2026.6 flips the dashboard editor to pick entities first then suggest cards, makes infrared two-way via ESPHome, and cuts Bluetooth scanning battery use by 95 percent.

Linux Home Assistant 2026-06-03

ASRock Tiny H810 Brings a Socketed LGA1851 CPU to a 1-Liter Mini PC

ASRock's Tiny H810 packs a socketed Intel LGA1851 CPU, 128 GB of DDR5, two M.2 slots, and dual 2.5 GbE into a 1.1-liter chassis.

Devices Asrock 2026-06-03

Asus NUC 16 Debuts With Wildcat Lake Chips and Dual 2.5GbE Ports

Asus's new Wildcat Lake mini PC packs dual 2.5GbE, Thunderbolt 4, and WiFi 7 into the same chassis as the Panther Lake NUC 16 Pro, with a bare-board variant available too.

Devices Asus Nuc 2026-06-03

Morse Micro Debuts MM8108-M20, Its First In-House Wi-Fi HaLow Module With 28.5 dBm Output

Morse Micro's first in-house Wi-Fi HaLow module pushes 28.5 dBm output in the 902-928 MHz band, extending range by about a third over existing MM8108 designs.

Devices Wifi Halow 2026-06-03

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Canonical's Steam Snap for ARM64 Reaches Stable Channel

Canonical's Steam Snap for ARM64 Ubuntu has graduated to stable, bringing FEX-powered x86 game emulation to the NVIDIA DGX Spark, Snapdragon X laptops, and Radxa's Orion O6.

Gaming Steam 2026-06-03

ECS Details LIVA Z15 Plus Mini PC With Intel Wildcat Lake and Dual 2.5GbE

ECS fills out the LIVA Z15 Plus spec sheet: Intel Wildcat Lake, up to 64GB DDR5-6400, USB4, and dual 2.5GbE in a 122mm-square mini PC.

Devices Ecs Liva 2026-06-02

Minisforum N4 Brings Intel Wildcat Lake to a 4-Bay NAS

Minisforum's Computex-debuted N4 pairs Intel's hybrid-core Wildcat Lake with 10GbE, USB4, and a 17 TOPS NPU in a four-bay metal chassis aimed squarely at homelab builders.

Devices Minisforum 2026-06-02

Incus 7.1 Brings Custom VM CPU Topology and Patches Critical Security Flaw

Incus 7.1 lands with explicit VM CPU topology, custom TPM platform certificates, server-side S3 CopyObject, and a critical security fix for the LXD fork.

Linux Incus 2026-06-02

Microsoft Reveals Surface RTX Spark Dev Box Mini PC for Local AI

Microsoft's Surface RTX Spark Dev Box packs NVIDIA's 20-core Arm chip and 128GB of unified memory into a 3D-printed aluminum mini PC built for running 120B+ parameter models locally.

Devices Nvidia Rtx Spark 2026-06-02

OpenWrt 24.10.7 Patches Dirty Frag Kernel Flaw and dnsmasq CVEs

OpenWrt 24.10.7 closes the Dirty Frag IPsec kernel privilege escalation, six dnsmasq CVEs, and TLS library flaws, with Airoha EN7581 platform support filled out.

Linux Openwrt 2026-06-02

Dell Ships XPS 14 With Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and Panther Lake

Dell's 2026 XPS 14 is now available preinstalled with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, configurable up to a Core Ultra X9 388H with Arc B390 Xe3 graphics.

Linux Ubuntu 2026-06-02

ASRock Rack Debuts Linux-Ready NVIDIA Vera CPU Server at COMPUTEX 2026

ASRock Rack's 2UXGM-VERA2 puts NVIDIA's ARM-based Vera CPU with custom Olympus cores into a 2U chassis alongside liquid-cooled HGX Rubin NVL8 systems.

Linux Nvidia Vera 2026-06-02