The MSI Claw Gamepad driver is set to be merged for the upcoming Linux 7.3 kernel for enabling RGB lighting and controller configuration support with the mainline kernel.

Developed by Derek Clark with Valve and other stakeholders, the MSI Claw Gamepad driver is expected to be merged for the Linux 7.3 kernel with this "hid-msi" driver being queued into the HID subsystem's "for-next" Git branch. This supports the configuration interface for the MSI Claw line of handheld console controllers for remapping of different

While the Apple M4 SoCs aren't yet supported by the mainline Linux kernel and the Apple M3 series hardware isn't yet ready for end-users , there are some early elements of the Apple M4 support beginning to come together by open-source developers working on the Apple Silicon support. Sent out to the Linux kernel mailing list were patches for enabling NVMe solid state drive support with the M4.

Yureka Lilian sent out the patches this week for enabling the ANS2 NVMe with the Apple M

While Microsoft continues working on Azure Linux 4.0 as its overhauled Linux distribution built atop Fedora , Azure Linux 3.0 remains the current stable production series. Released overnight was Azure Linux 3.0.20260809 and it comes with more than 233 security patches for recent CVEs in the AI era.

Azure Linux 3.0.20260809 continues using the Linux 6.6 LTS kernel by default while it now brings some alterations like enabling

Intel XPU Manager 2.1 is now available as the latest version of this open-source tool for Linux and Windows systems for the monitoring and management of Arc Pro graphics cards. The Intel XPU Manager helps in keeping an eye on device utilization and other metrics via the xpu-smi command and other components.

Intel XPU Manager 2.1 is predominantly made up of bug fixes but there is the new xpu-smi topology --p2p sub-command for printing an NxN matrix showing whether each GPU pair

Rsync as the widely-used, open-source remote sync software for synchronizing files and directories across networks is out today with a very important update.

Rsync 3.5 released today with 33 security fixes. The Rsync NEWS update describes it as an "extraordinary release" due to the volume of security issues. The 33 security issues stem from a focused audit of the path handling and daemon protocol and related code.

The Rsync 3.5 security fixes include arbitrary file read/transfer-shaping via symlinked operator

George Hotz of Comma.ai and Tinygrad today announced the Tiny Chestnut eGPU Dock and the "Chestnut" Dock complete with an AMD Radeon RX 9060 8GB GPU too. Making this Chestnut / Tiny Chestnut Dock interesting is that it runs on open-source firmware.

The primary focus of Comma.ai launching the Chestnut is to allow for larger driving models for their advanced driver-assistance systems. Rather than being bound to the 10 Watt compute footprint currently, with the Chestnut it can be expanded out

While the Tenstorrent Ascalon X is known as their high performance out-of-order RISC-V RVA23 CPU core for extreme performance over the H and S models, a new GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) patch today from Tenstorrent makes known a new Ascalon XG core.

This patch arriving on the GCC mailing list is the first time I've seen or heard of Ascalon XG and apparently a first for Google Search too. This is a new variant of Ascalon X and Tenstorrent engineers are working on getting the

Merged today to the GNU Compiler Collection Git code is the new -m128bit-atomic option for next year's GCC 17 feature release.

The -m128bit-atomic option is used for GCC to enable generation of instructions for 128-bit atomic memory operations on capable Intel / AMD / Zhaoxin / Hygon processors. This GCC built-in option allows avoiding the overhead of otherwise using the libatomic library.

Manjaro 26.1 Bian-May is now available as the newest feature release to this desktop Linux distribution built atop an Arch Linux base.

In being the first new tagged release since Manjaro 26.0 from January. Manjaro 26.1 comes with many new packages. Manjaro 26.1 offers the GNOME 50 and KDE Plasma 6.7 desktops as the most user-facing updates. There is also Xfce 4.20 available too for those preferring the lighter-weight desktop.

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