Open Source Phoronix

FreeBSD Ports Currently Frozen Due To A Very Large Commit

The FreeBSD Ports repository is temporarily frozen following a massive commit that caused system breakage.

Open Source Phoronix

Fedora 45 Atomic Desktops Look To Allow For Web-Based Remote Installations

Fedora 45 Atomic Desktops are proposing support for web-based remote installations of atomic images.

AI/ML Phoronix

Ryzen AI Software 1.8 Released With New Model Support, More Optimizations

AMD releases Ryzen AI Software 1.8, adding new model support and deployment optimizations for AI PCs.

Software Engineering Phoronix

LLVM 23.1-rc1 Released With AMD Zen 6 & AVX-512 BMM Support, Other Compiler Enhancements

LLVM 23.1-rc1 is released, featuring AMD Zen 6 and AVX-512 BMM support among other compiler improvements.

Open Source Phoronix

dav1d 1.5.4 Brings AV1 Decoding To OS/2

The dav1d 1.5.4 update brings AV1 decoding capabilities to the legacy OS/2 operating system.

AI/ML Phoronix

Lemonade 11.5 Local AI Server Released With Completed Lemonade Router

Lemonade 11.5 local AI server is released, featuring a completed Lemonade Router for open-source AI deployments.

Hardware/Chips ServeTheHome

Intel Foundry Nabs A Custom ASIC Win with Fortinet

Intel Foundry has secured a partnership with Fortinet to develop the FortiSP6 custom ASIC.

Other Hackaday

Targeting Allele-Specific Faulty mRNA in SCNA2 Mutation Patients

An exploration of techniques to target allele-specific faulty mRNA in patients with SCNA2 mutations.

Software Engineering Hackaday

BASICally, Its Retro Machine Language

A retrospective look at 'The Wizard’s Castle', a BASIC game written for the Exidy Sorcerer in 1980.

Homelab/Self-Hosting Hackaday

A Train Departure Board For The Home

A project detailing the creation of a custom train departure board for home use.

Cybersecurity Hackaday

Mic Jammer Relies on Ultrasound

A technical look at how ultrasound can be used to jam modern smartphone microphones.

Hardware/Chips Hackaday

Hackaday Europe 2026: Half Quad, Half Blimp: Test. Fly. Survive.

Hackaday Europe 2026 introduces a unique hybrid quad-blimp drone design for testing and flight.

Software Engineering Hackaday

Running DOOM on a Custom CPU Built From Scratch

A developer successfully ported DOOM to run on a custom-built CPU created from scratch.

Cybersecurity Hackaday

Encryption in the 1790s

An examination of encryption methods used in the late 18th century, predating modern mechanical machines.

Hardware/Chips Phoronix

AMD EPYC Zen 7 "Florence" Confirmed With ACE, Next-Gen Memory

AMD confirms the upcoming EPYC Zen 7 'Florence' processors, featuring ACE and next-generation memory.

AI/ML Phoronix

AMD Announces ROCm.AI As AI-Driven Platform For Developers

AMD introduces ROCm.AI, a new AI-driven development platform, alongside new Instinct GPUs and EPYC processors.

Other Hacker News

Mourning Dan Williams

A community thread on Hacker News mourning the passing of Dan Williams.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

SynSur: An end-to-end generative pipeline for synthetic industrial surface defect generation and detection

SynSur is presented as an end-to-end generative pipeline for creating synthetic industrial surface defect data to overcome data scarcity in inspection systems.

Cybersecurity arXiv cs.AI

Rewriting the Response Path: Silent Tampering and Provider-Signed Defense in BYOK LLM Agents

Researchers identify a security gap in 'Bring Your Own Key' LLM agents where relays can silently tamper with responses; they propose 'sign-c' as a server-side authentication defense.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Do Data Agents Need Semantic Metadata? A Comparative Study in Agentic Data Retrieval

A comparative study showing that semantic metadata (e.g., schema.org) significantly improves the precision of agentic data retrieval compared to unstructured web searches.