gaming Lenovo Legion C700
Lenovo Legion C700 Brings Dongle-Based PC Game Streaming to Android Handhelds
Lenovo's first Android gaming handheld ships with a USB dongle for direct PC game streaming at 10ms latency, bypassing Wi-Fi entirely.
linux fex emu
New Kernel Patches Bring FEX-Emu Closer to Smooth x86 Game Emulation on ARM64
Igalia posted v7 of its FUTEX robust list patches for the Linux kernel, improving x86 game emulation on ARM64 via FEX-Emu for Steam Play.
Incus 7.5 Fixes Five Critical Container Escape Flaws, Adds OVN Child Networks and GPU P2P Passthrough
Incus 7.5 patches four critical host-escape CVEs and ships OVN child networks, NVIDIA GPUDirect P2P passthrough for VMs, and improved OCI container support.
Mesa Adds 32-Bit Library Support to x86_64 LLVM SDK Docker Images
Mesa's Docker CI containers now ship 32-bit libraries in the x86_64 LLVM SDK, streamlining multilib builds for 32-bit Vulkan and OpenGL drivers used by Proton and Wine.
Reviews
Lenovo Legion Go 2 Review: Running Bazzite on AMD Z2 Extreme Handheld
Bazzite turns the Legion Go 2 into more than a gaming handheld, with the Z2 Extreme and OLED display making it a genuinely versatile Linux device.
Orange Pi Zero 3W Review: Octa-Core A733 in a Pi Zero Footprint
Orange Pi crams an octa-core Allwinner A733 and up to 16GB of LPDDR5 into a Raspberry Pi Zero footprint, with a 10 Gbps USB port and about 4x a Pi Zero 2 W's multi-core grunt.
ARK Electronics ARKV6X-RT Brings Open Source Flight Control to NXP's Dual-Core i.MX RT1176
ARK's ARKV6X-RT pairs NXP's dual-core i.MX RT1176 with triple-redundant IMUs and the open source PX4 stack on a tiny Pixhawk Autopilot Bus module.
devices Mango 2 (GL MG1300)
GL.iNet Mango 2 Squeezes OpenWrt and WireGuard Into a Pocket-Sized Travel Router
GL.iNet's Mango 2 packs dual-band Wi-Fi 5, Gigabit Ethernet, WireGuard, and OpenWrt into a 100g pocket router with USB 3.0 and Multi-WAN failover.
linux kde plasma
KDE Plasma 6.8 Beta Extends Union Theming to QtWidgets Apps, Drops X11 for Good
Plasma 6.8 beta unifies KDE theming with Union's new QtWidgets support, drops X11, and re-enables NVIDIA triple buffering by default ahead of its October release.
TrueNAS Lands First Veeam All-in-One Certification, Runs Backup Server as a ZFS-Backed VM
TrueNAS becomes the first platform certified under Veeam's new All-In-One virtualized appliance category, running the backup server as a ZFS-protected VM on the same array it backs up to.
Quectel's 40mm AI Vision Module Runs Debian Linux With a 3 TOPS Edge NPU
A 40 x 40mm module packing a Rockchip RV1126B with 3 TOPS NPU, five camera inputs, and Debian Linux for edge AI vision.
Orange Pi O1 Packs a 16-TOPS AI Accelerator Into a 90mm Single-Board Computer
Orange Pi's O1 squeezes a 16-TOPS Sophgo BM1688 AI accelerator, dual GbE, NVMe, SATA, and Wi-Fi 6E into a 9 x 7 cm SBC capable of running Llama2-7B locally.
devices MediaTek Dimensity CX C10 Max
MediaTek Unveils 3nm Dimensity CX C10 Max for Google's Googlebook Laptops
MediaTek's 3nm Dimensity CX C10 Max packs an All Big Core Armv9 CPU and 55 TOPS NPU for Google's new Googlebook laptops, which feature a pKVM-based Linux environment built in.
devices MINIX N304 AI
MINIX N304-AI Packs Intel's Wildcat Lake NPU Into a Compact Mini PC
MINIX's compact N304-AI pairs Intel's Wildcat Lake Core 3 304 with a 15 TOPS NPU that now has full Linux driver support for local AI inference.
devices SBC Dragonwing IQ 2390
SECO Unveils Compact Industrial SBC and HMI Powered by Qualcomm's Dragonwing IQ-2390
SECO's 4.7 x 11.4 cm industrial SBC runs Yocto Linux on Qualcomm's Dragonwing IQ-2390 with a RISC-V core, 1.1 TOPS NPU, and CAN/TSN connectivity.
devices Gearotons M17
Gearotons M17 Packs a Complete Open-Source Servomotor Into a Standard NEMA-17 Body
Gearotons' MIT-licensed M17 integrates motor, driver, controller, and encoder into a standard NEMA-17 body starting at $20, with full KiCad hardware files and an MCP server for AI-driven control.