Lenovo ThinkBook 16 Gen 9 IPL Lands With Core Ultra Chips and Wi-Fi 7
Lenovo's 16-inch ThinkBook ships with Intel Core Ultra Series 2 chips, optional Wi-Fi 7, a 71 Wh battery, and a 120 Hz 100% sRGB display upgrade.
Intel Wildcat Lake Laptops Begin Rolling Out, Starting With the Chuwi UniBook
Intel's budget Wildcat Lake chips are starting to ship in real laptops, kicking off with the $449 Chuwi UniBook and a wave of Chinese-market notebooks built on the same silicon.
RedMagic 11S Pro Launches With Overclocked Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5
RedMagic's 11S Pro and 11S Pro+ pair an overclocked Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 running at 4.74GHz with a 24,000 RPM internal fan and up to 16GB of RAM.
Qualcomm QCC74xM Evaluation Kits Arrive at $13 for Wi-Fi 6, Thread, and Zigbee Development
Qualcomm's $13 QCC74xM evaluation kits pack Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.4, and Thread/Zigbee around a 325 MHz RISC-V core that is essentially a rebadged Bouffalo Lab BL618.
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Best Single Board Computer for Home Server in 2026
Added Orange Pi 6 Plus (12-core, dual 5GbE, $199+). Updated Raspberry Pi 5 prices (RAM crisis: 4GB $75, 8GB $115). Updated Radxa X4 to 2.5GbE and corrected pricing. Updated ZimaBoard 2 to retail pricing ($279+).
Best Handheld Gaming PC for Bazzite in 2026
The best handheld gaming PCs for Bazzite in 2026, with updated prices, the new ASUS ROG Xbox Ally X, Legion Go S tariff price notes, and Valve confirming Steam Deck 2 is years away.
Geniatech APC888 Edge AI Box Pairs NXP i.MX 95 With Swappable M.2 AI Accelerators
Geniatech's APC888 pairs NXP's i.MX 95 with an M.2 slot that accepts Hailo, MemryX, DeepX, or Kinara AI accelerators up to 40 TOPS, running Yocto Linux.
Debian 12.14 Rolls Out With Sweeping Security Fixes for Bookworm
Debian 12.14 lands with a massive batch of CVE fixes spanning GRUB, glibc, openssh, containerd, and the Linux kernel, plus the latest installer images for bookworm.
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Valve Hires Veteran AMD Mesa Developer Marek Olšák
Marek Olšák, one of Mesa's most prolific contributors and a longtime AMD developer behind the modern RadeonSI driver, has joined Valve's growing Linux graphics team.
Lenovo ThinkPad P14s Gen 7 Lands With Ryzen AI Pro, up to 96GB of RAM, and Linux out of the Box
Lenovo's ThinkPad P14s Gen 7 mobile workstation pairs AMD Ryzen AI Pro silicon with a wild nine-tier memory ladder running from 16 GB to 96 GB of DDR5-5600.
Debian 13.5 Lands With Sweeping Security Fixes for Trixie
Debian 13.5 ships with roughly 100 package updates, headlined by massive FreeRDP and Apache CVE batches plus a StarFive RISC-V USB boot fix.
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SDL Library Adds Full Button Mapping for New Steam Controller
SDL just merged full button mapping for Valve's 2026 Steam Controller, letting cross-platform games address the gamepad without going through the Steam client.
Lenovo ThinkPad P16s i Gen 5 Lands in Europe With Core Ultra 7 and Optional 96GB LPCAMM2
Lenovo's new 16-inch mobile workstation ships with Intel Core Ultra 7 356H, a 2.8K OLED panel, and user-upgradeable LPCAMM2 memory up to 96 GB.
Asus ROG NUC 16 Packs RTX 5080 Mobile Into a 3-Liter Gaming Mini PC
Asus crams an Intel Core Ultra 9 290HX, RTX 5080 mobile graphics, and up to 128GB of DDR5 into a 3-liter toolless chassis with WiFi 7 and Thunderbolt 4.
Lenovo ThinkPad T14 Gen 7 Ships With User-Replaceable LPCAMM2 Memory, Earns Perfect iFixit Score
Lenovo's new ThinkPad T14 Gen 7 keeps user-replaceable LPCAMM2 RAM, pairs Intel Core Ultra Series 2 chips with an optional 2.8K OLED panel, and starts at $1,620.
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SDL3 Adds Support for the New Steam Controller Outside of Steam
SDL3 has merged native support for Valve's new Steam Controller, exposing touchpads, capacitive stick touch, and grip sense to games without needing the Steam client running.