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Microsoft Lands Initial AV1 Encoding Using DirectX 12 + HMFT Within Mesa 26.2

Strata – An app that talks me out of dying outdoors

How to sequence your own DNA at home

Small AI Models Gain Traction In places with unreliable networks

NSA and IETF: Fairness

Ternlight – 7 MB embedding model that runs in browser (WASM)

Fable turned reMarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter

OpenSSH 10.4/10.4p1 Released

Acronym Fatigue Series Introduction: why I'm wary of acronyms

Poly/ML – A Standard ML Implementation

Full Writeup of the Windows GDID

A new study just debunked the biggest fear about AI and open source

FCC to end Biden-era rule that forces ISPs to list all their fees

AI: The ROI Runway Could Be Long Outside the Tech Sector

Vulkan Video H.264/H.265 Encode Now Working For Intel Alchemist GPUs On Linux

Learning to code is still worthwhile

Kremlin suspected of flying drones over Europe using Russian shadow fleet

Phishing poses as big-brand job interview to steal Google accounts

Hoto’s PixelDrive screwdriver is down to $60, matching its best price

Fake IT support calls on Microsoft Teams push EtherRAT malware

Microsoft, Google and Cloudflare just made 2029 the new quantum deadline

GLM 5.2 and the coming AI margin collapse

M/PC – A Concatenative OS

What is the oldest American object ever launched into space?

ReactOS "Open-Source Windows" Project Now Capable Of Running Half-Life 2

Pruning RAG context down to what the answer actually needs

Marek Olšák At Valve Lands RADV Code That Can "Double Performance" With Some VRS Cases

CoMaps – FOSS Offline Maps

America’s greatest idea is still under threat

Linux on the Atari Jaguar

Getting Claude Code to grunt in Caveman-speak might not save as many tokens as you think

Vietnam arrests suspects behind HiAnime anime piracy service

OpenWrt One – Open Hardware Router

Why most AI projects fail: It’s infrastructure and people 

NRC is (sort of) getting rid of "as low as reasonably achievable" standard

A global workspace in language models

Januscape: Guest-to-Host Escape in KVM/x86 [CVE-2026-53359]

Palantir’s Alex Karp and Mistral’s Arthur Mensch agree: AI lock-in is coming for enterprises

Five questions for Dr. Rubin, who’s armed with a mic and a bowtie

Katalyst's satellite rescue mission is now in pursuit of NASA's Swift

OfficeCLI: Office suite for AI agents to read and edit Microsoft Office files

Secret Claude tracker shocks users after Anthropic’s anti-surveillance stance

Former Xbox studios Double Fine and Compulsion will keep games after going indie

OpenSSH 10.4 released

The incredible shrinking Xbox: Five studios, 3,200 employees let go

I spy

F1 in Britain: Automated software to blame for crushing expectations

There were not one, but two asteroid encounters this weekend

Andrej Karpathy, Google and Garry Tan agree Markdown is the answer, but they’re not solving the same problem

The DJI Osmo Pocket 3 lookalike is down to $329

AMD Ryzen AI Halo – $4k AI Dev Kit

Ryzen AI Developer Platform: AMD's Own Linux Distribution Built Atop Debian

AMD Ryzen AI Halo Is An Excellent & Powerful Mini PC With Fully Open-Source Software

[$] The kernel's iomap layer

Inside the big business of the creator economy, with the agents making it happen

Resetting Xbox

UK regulator warns of "arms race" to keep up with AI use in financial services

Nintendo will stop selling the original Switch in Europe next year

GL.iNet Comet X Quad-Port Remote KVM with PoE and 4K HDMI

Software Is Now Written at the Speed of Thought. Security Isn't.

Can Partiful keep the party going?

The (Petty) Reason We Didn't End Up Using jj

Axiomtek MANO330 SBC features Intel N97/N150, HDMI, VGA, and LVDS

Microsoft is selling off four Xbox studios as part of significant gaming cuts

Aluminum foil (2021)

Linux 7.3 Expected To "Flatten The Pick" For Better Scheduling While Gaming & More

Solid Sands webinar to cover C++ multithreading qualification with SuperGuard

Max severity Adobe ColdFusion flaw now exploited in attacks

Security updates for Monday

PREEMPT_NONE Is Dead; Your Postgres Probably Doesn’t Care

Intel i915 Driver Nearly Ready To "Work Well" With RT Linux Kernel Sans Display Support

The code review bug hunt is dead. Here’s what developers get wrong.

Faster Builds with Elm 0.19.2

Bentley teases its first EV, the Torcal

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Beelink EQi Wildcat Lake Core 3 304 mini PC review – Part 1: Specifications, unboxing, teardown, and first boot

The Czinger 21C might be the wildest car we drive all year

The 4-body problem of SRE: Why autonomous operations depend on context

Evolving platform engineering for AI-native workloads

Canonical On Making Ubuntu For ARM64 "Truly A First-Class Architecture"

Pioneer DJM-S11 Professional DJ Mixer To Be Supported By Linux 7.3

Uniwill Laptop Driver Preparing A Number Of Features For Linux 7.3

Konform Browser 140.12.0-103

Jam Programming Language

Mr. Baby Paint & accidentally discovering a new cellular automata

Tiny Calixto Systems AM62L STAMP SOM targets industrial automation, HMI applications, EV chargers

u-blox F11 low-power dual-band GNSS chips and modules consume just 7mW in LEAP mode

Offside

D7VK's Performance Gains Since Its Inception For Older Direct3D Versions On Linux

A Speed Limit for Computers

Kernel prepatch 7.2-rc2

Linux 7.2-rc2 Released: "Things Look Very Normal"

AMD Versal Premium Gen 2 MoP adaptive SoC integrates 32GB LPDDR5X to shrink board footprint by 60%

Amazon's Starlink rival 🛰️, Nvidia revenue share 💰, agentic autonomy levels 🤖

DXVK 3.0.1 Released With More Game Fixes, Other Improvements

Microsoft, AWS and Anthropic are spending billions — and not on better models

Flipper Zero firmware development continues with community help

10 moments that defined AI’s turbulent first half of 2026

The AI revolution will not be televised — it’ll be quantized

Chemical accidents rise as Trump administration proposes weakening safety rules

The missing 500 million: Cosmic bombardment melted Earth's first crust

AMD Begins Staging Graphics Driver Changes For Linux 7.3

Macintosh emulator works on ESP32-P4 display devkits from M5Stack and Waveshare

Review: Supergirl is not the disaster its low box office suggests

Seven stable kernels for Saturday including two security fixes

JadePuffer ransomware used AI agent to automate entire attack

Why cheaper models alone won’t save your AI budget

When the ability to smell goes away

A martian rock has lots of carbon on it, and it's not clear why

The LLVM Compiler Infrastructure

BIGTREETECH Panda Sense Pro 8-in-1 smart air quality monitor works with Home Assistant and Klipper for 3D printers

A 2048-spin bulk acoustic wave Ising machine for number partitioning and Sudoku

NetNut proxy network disrupted, 2 million infected devices cut off

Craig Mod built his own Good Reads

Apple just turned Safari into something AI agents can control

Four vulnerabilities in Guix

ARToken PhaaS exposes EvilTokens' Microsoft 365 phishing toolkit

[$] Limiting negative dentries

Rocket Report: Indian startup nears first launch; SpaceX's millenary milestone

Security updates for Friday

Inside the Luddite festival harnessing Gen Z’s rage against Big Tech

Despite the darkness, I still see signs of hope in America

How data sovereignty is changing cloud native infrastructure design

HALO TOUCH V2 – A customizable desktop USB hub with rotary encoder fitted with round touchscreen display

ESP32-C5 dual-band WiFi 6 and Bluetooth LE IoT board features 1.47-inch color LCD

NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano/NX-based Mekotronics AI Box targets humanoid robots, Smart Cities management, transportation applications

Types of Tornado Alert

Claude Fable 5 isn’t permanently leaving subscriptions, Anthropic says

Claude Fable relaunch disappoints users with nerfed performance

Tesla 6-seat Model Y 🚙, Meta's AI disappointment 🤖, the understanding bottleneck 🧠

The $1.3 million theft that exposed AI’s blind spot

Microsoft just admitted its biggest AI mistake — and spent $2.5 billion fixing it

The Music of Destruction

CalyxOS is back

“AI contributions are demoralizing”: Godot bans coding agents to save its mentoring model

What comes after attention? This startup says it already knows.

Kernel archive /pub tree restoring

Spoofed email from LWN

Fedora Council proposes pausing Community Initiatives

Google loses final appeal to overturn €4.1 billion EU fine

(re)introducing kpt: Your toolchain for infrastructure automation

Titan Mini is a smaller Renesas RA8P1-based Edge AI board for RT-Thread RTOS development

[$] Two LLM-assisted memory-management patch sets

ConsentFix and ClickFix: How Microsoft 365 Accounts are Hijacked in 3 Seconds

Your social login buttons run on third-party cookies. FedCM doesn’t.

Security updates for Thursday

Why traditional CI/CD fails for LLMs (and the release gates we built to fix it)

Microsoft fixes bug that removed Copilot buttons in Outlook

Cisco finally confirms attackers exploiting Unified CM flaw

SONOFF NSPanel Pro Gen2 touch control panel review with eWeLink and Home Assistant

Evaluation order and nontermination in query languages

PaperBoy Game Boy Emulator works at 60 FPS on ESP32-S3 E Ink devkit

[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for July 2, 2026

SpaceX phone 📱, OpenAI govt equity 💰, Meta Ray Ban apps 🕶️ 

OpenClaw’s new app doesn’t run AI on your phone. That’s the whole point.

Cordyceps flaw pattern is more proof CI/CD is part of the attack surface

Sipeed NanoKVM-Go – A 4K USB-C KVM with Recall-like function, AI integration (Crowdfunding)

NanoKVM-Go compact USB-C KVM supports WiFi 6 and 4K capture

RootBoard open-hardware Linux handheld launches with Raspberry Pi Zero support

Understanding dynamic resource allocation in Kubernetes

Raspberry Pi CM0-based industrial data acquisition gateway features RS-485, RS-232, DI, and DO interfaces

Holes

Flipper BUSY Bar open-source productivity multitool features LED pixel display, supports Matter connectivity

Claude Sonnet 5 🤖, Meta Kalshi talks 💸, Fable returns 🏛️

Kepler, re-architected: Improved power accuracy and a community call to action!

Dragonfly v2.5.0 is released

iPhone 18 leaks 📱, Codex Micro ⌨️, verifiable outputs 👨‍💻

OTel and mesh-derived metrics: A 2026 reference

etcd-operator joins Cozystack with a new v1alpha2 API

Asteroid Threat

Forgix hybrid board pairs Raspberry Pi RP2354 MCU with Efinix Trion FPGA

Jetway’s latest x86 industrial SBCs offer a choice of Pico-ITX or 3.5-inch form factors

CirkitScape Top HAT brings ADC, RS-485, GPIO expansion, and USB hub to Raspberry Pi boards

Collabora introduces Kraid Rust compiler for Panfrost Mali GPU driver

Starlink mobile 🛰️, Meta prediction markets 📈, local coding agents 👨‍💻

WCH CH32V006EVT board supports Zephyr for low-cost RISC-V development

Security Profiles Operator v1: Stable APIs, Security Hardened, and Shaping Upstream Kubernetes

Quickly apply LUTs (color grading) with ffmpeg

Apple price hikes 📈, US restricts GPT-5.6 🚫, repricing software engineers 👨‍💻

OpenAI's custom chip 🖥️, Tesla virtual power plants⚡, coding token costs 💰

Framework's 10G Ethernet module exposes USB-C's complexity

LILYGO T-Impulse Plus wearable dev board comes with LoRa, GNSS, OLED, and IMU

DietPi v10.5 Updates Raspberry Pi Display and Camera Options

Anthropic's Slack coworker 🤖, Meta prediction markets  📈, loop engineering 👨‍💻

Nvidia robotics 🤖, Instagram shows 📺, optimal slop 👨‍💻

Apple reboots design 📱, Tesla Megapod ⚡, agent hook guardrails 👨‍💻  

Midjourney Scanner 🏥, AWS vs Nvidia ⚡, agent loop architecture 👨‍💻 

iPhone Air 2 📱, inside Anthropic ban ⚖️, Claude Design + Code 👨‍💻

SpaceX buys Cursor 💰, camera AirPods 🎧, S3 annotations 👨‍💻 

Anthropic's superpower 🤖, Roku acquired 💰, agentic code review 👨‍💻

Elon is trillionaire 💰, Anthropic removes Fable 🚫, Meta's AI gulag 👨‍💻

You can finally power on a Mac remotely

Bezos' AI engineer 🤖, SpaceX record IPO 💰, building vertical agents 👨‍💻  

SpaceX IPO oversubscribed 💰, OpenAI's price war 📉, Stack Overflow for Agents 🤖

Claude Fable 🤖, SpaceX AI1 🛰️, Apple container 👨‍💻

Siri AI 📱, Apple Core AI 🤖, loop engineering 👨‍💻

I tested every IP KVM in my Homelab

It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12

Tuning in FM Radio on a 3D Printer Heatbed

I patched iozone for better disk benchmarks on modern macOS

News about Raspberry Pi 6 and Microcontroller Development

Wi-Wi Is Wireless Time Sync at 1 nanosecond

Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract

HomePod mini feels like magic, but it's just good timing

SBC Clusters are a terrible value, but they're fun anyway

Raspberry Pi Connect may control Windows soon

New 10 GbE USB adapters are cooler, smaller, cheaper

An Arm Mainboard for the Framework Laptop