Software Engineering Phoronix

Steam Client Adds HDR Streaming On Steam Deck OLED, AV1 Video Streaming

Steam client beta adds HDR and AV1 video streaming support for Linux and Steam Deck OLED.

Hardware/Chips Phoronix

Intel Graphics Driver Support For Xe3 "Peak Bandwidth Threshold" Feature In Linux 7.3

Intel updates Linux graphics drivers to include the 'Peak Bandwidth Threshold' feature for Xe3 GPUs.

Open Source Phoronix

Vibe Coded X11 YSERVER Gets Steam Working, Full-Screen Games With Cinnamon

YSERVER, a modern X11 server written in Rust using AI assistance, now supports Steam and Cinnamon desktop environment.

Open Source Phoronix

FreeBSD's Kernel Still Has A Bit Of GPL Code While Its Base User-Space Is GPL-Free

Investigation reveals that FreeBSD's kernel still contains GPL-licensed code despite efforts to make the base system GPL-free.

Open Source Phoronix

GCC To Decline Any Significant Contributions Made Via AI/LLMs - Except For Test Cases

The GCC Steering Committee decides to reject significant code contributions generated by AI/LLMs, except for test cases.

Hardware/Chips Phoronix

ARCTIC Launches Its New Fan Controller That Already Has Mainline Linux Support

ARCTIC releases a new fan controller that includes native mainline Linux kernel support via an open-source driver.

Open Source Phoronix

Starling: A New Linux Desktop Written In Swift, Own Wayland Compositor & Written With AI

Starling is a new open-source Linux desktop environment written in Swift with its own Wayland compositor and AI-assisted code.

Other Hacker News

London’s most equidistant pub

An off-topic Hacker News thread discussing the location of London's most equidistant pub.

Software Engineering Hacker News

Show HN: Edge Drop- #1 productivity and unique clipboard 200 stars on GitHub

A developer showcases Edge Drop, a productivity tool and unique clipboard manager that has gained traction on GitHub.

Cybersecurity Hackaday

Keyboard Lights As An Airgap Attack Vector

Research into how keyboard lighting can be exploited as a side-channel attack vector to exfiltrate data from airgapped systems.

Other Hackaday

Using Video Glasses As a Camera Viewfinder Is Harder Than It Looks

A technical exploration of the challenges involved in using video glasses as a camera viewfinder.

Other Hackaday

Scrap Pinball Parts Become Beautiful Wall Art

A story about repurposing vintage pinball machine parts into aesthetic wall art.

Open Source Hackaday

FLOSS Weekly Episode 877: RCE As a Service

An episode of FLOSS Weekly discussing SmokedMeat, an open-source red team security tool.

Hardware/Chips Hackaday

The ESP32 Gets a Web Browser

A technical demonstration of implementing a web browser on an ESP32 microcontroller.

Homelab/Self-Hosting Hackaday

Thingino Teaches Cheap IP Cameras New Tricks

A project that enables advanced functionality on inexpensive IP cameras using the Thingino firmware.

Software Engineering Phoronix

COSMIC Epoch 1.5 Brings More Fixes & Improvements To System76's Desktop

System76 continues to iterate on the COSMIC desktop environment, which is built using Rust.

Software Engineering Phoronix

DRM Format Modifiers For Old AMD GPUs Coming With Linux 7.3: Thanks Valve

Linux kernel 7.3 brings DRM format modifiers support for older AMD GPUs, thanks to work from Valve.

Other Hacker News

The Royal Order of Operations

A discussion on Hacker News regarding the royal order of operations.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

ClinFusion: A Vision-Centric Multimodal LLM System for Holistic Medical Understanding

Introduction of ClinFusion, a vision-centric multimodal LLM for medical imaging (2D and 3D) and clinical report generation.

AI/ML AI News

OpenAI report links coding agents to faster science software builds

OpenAI report suggests that coding agents using Codex and Claude Code can accelerate scientific software builds.