KDE Gear 26.04.2 Patches Akregator Arm64 Hang and Skanlite Crash
KDE Gear 26.04.2 fixes an Akregator launch hang on arm64 hardware, a Skanlite startup crash, and Kdenlive timeline glitches across the suite's 180-plus applications.
Avalue EPC-WCL Packs Wildcat Lake and 40 TOPS Into a Fanless Linux Mini PC
Avalue's fanless EPC-WCL squeezes Intel Wildcat Lake, 48GB DDR5, dual 2.5GbE, and 40 TOPS of edge AI into a Linux-friendly industrial box with USB-C Power Delivery.
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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%.
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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.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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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.
Minisforum N5 Max Brings Strix Halo and OpenClaw to NAS Lineup
Minisforum's N5 Max NAS pairs AMD's Strix Halo APU with OpenClaw, an open source local AI agent, putting 126 TOPS and up to 200 TB of storage into a Linux-friendly box.
iFlytek Fika Packs Android 15 Into a Pocket-Sized E Ink Reader
Phone-sized E Ink reader runs Android 15 with 6GB of RAM, a 300 PPI display, and a MediaTek SoC, leaving the door open for KOReader and sideloaded apps.
ASUS Ascent QN10 Brings 18-Core Snapdragon X2 Elite to a Mini PC
ASUS's Ascent QN10 packs Qualcomm's 18-core Snapdragon X2 Elite into a 130mm-square chassis, making it the first mini PC to ship with the new Arm desktop silicon.