GlobalFoundries Acquiring MIPS

Here's an unexpected company match... GlobalFoundries announced today they have entered into a definitive agreement to acquire MIPS. Yes, the company formerly part of Wave Computing and before that Imagination and Silicon Graphics during its long history. MIPS in recent years hasn't been focused on its namesake CPU architecture but rather RISC-V core designs...
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AMD CPU Transient Scheduler Attacks security flaw revealed gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/amd-…

#AMD #PCGaming #Security #Gaming #CPUs

AMD CPU Transient Scheduler Attacks security flaw revealed

Made public today is a fresh round of security issues, this time for AMD CPUs with Transient Scheduler Attacks.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Linux Patched For Transient Scheduler Attacks "TSA" Impacting AMD CPUs

Made public minutes ago is Transient Scheduler Attacks (TSA) as a new class of class of speculative side channel attacks affecting AMD processors...
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Framework 12 Platform Tuning For Better Performance Or Power Efficiency

Last month the Framework Laptop 12 began shipping as an upgrade-friendly, convertible 2-in-1 laptop that is friendly with Linux as we've come to expect out of Framework Computer devices. The launch-day Linux testing at Phoronix of the Framework 12 was done out-of-the-box on Ubuntu Linux with the defaults on it and the other comparison laptops tested. But as we've sho…
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IBM Announces Power11 With "99.9999%" Uptime, 55% Better Core Performance Than Power9

Following all of the Linux and broader open-source software enablement around Power11 the past three or so years, IBM today formally announced their new Power11 hardware...
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AMD Hardware Feedback Driver Destined For Linux 6.17 To Benefit Heterogeneous CPUs

The AMD Hardware Feedback Driver has been queued up via a TIP branch for expected merging during the upcoming Linux 6.17 kernel cycle. This new open-source AMD driver is designed to help make the kernel's scheduler make better decisions around task placement for heterogeneous processor designs with a mix of the "classic" and "dense" cores...
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Rhythm of Resistance is the "world's first" rhythm metroidvania gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/rhyt…

#RhythmofResistance #Metroidvania #Gaming #PCGaming #RhythmGame

Rhythm of Resistance is the "world's first" rhythm metroidvania

I'm not entirely sure if their announcement of it being the "world's first" truly holds up, but I can't say I've seen anything like Rhythm of Resistance.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Fan Control Firmware Updated For Intel Battlemage Graphics Cards On Linux

In addition to Intel upstreaming the Xe3 graphics firmware needed for upcoming Panther Lake SoCs to linux-firmware.git so those firmware binaries can get picked up by Linux distributions ahead of Panther Lake laptops shipping, Intel also upstreamed fan control firmware as a first for their graphics card efforts...
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The big Diplomacy Update for X4: Foundations is now in Beta gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/the-…

#X4Foundations #SpaceSim #Gaming #Linux

The big Diplomacy Update for X4: Foundations is now in Beta

The Diplomacy Update for X4: Foundations is now in Beta bringing some huge new features to the popular space sim.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Here's all the games to claim from Prime Gaming for Prime Day gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/here…

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Here's all the games to claim from Prime Gaming for Prime Day

Here's the Prime Day list for Prime Gaming, going over all the games you can claim if you sub to Amazon Prime.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Ardour Digital Audio Workstation Drops GTK+ Option In Favor Of Its "YTK" Fork

The Ardour digital audio workstation (DAW) software has removed its build support for the GTK+ (GTK2) toolkit in favor of now exclusively relying upon "YTK" as its own localized fork of this toolkit...
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EcoFlow Wave 3: A solid, portable air conditioner for heatwaves and camping currently on sale

Those looking for mobile cooling for heat waves, camping and the like will be in good hands with the EcoFlow Wave 3. We recently reviewed the portable air conditioner in order to determine its strengths and weaknesses.

^{Marcus Schwarten (Notebookcheck)}

AMD Merges New RDNA 3.5 iGPU Firmware Files Ahead Of Next Product Launch

Interestingly a batch of new AMD GPU firmware files were upstreamed to linux-firmware.git yesterday in preparing for the next AMD product launch of hardware featuring RDNA 3.5 integrated graphics...
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FEX 2507 Brings New Optimizations & Gets Some Ubisoft Games Running

FEX 2507 is now available for this open-source emulator that allows running x86/x86_64 games and applications atop 64-bit ARM Linux devices whether they be AArch64 servers or ARM64 single board computers and other devices...
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Bazzite gets a new app store, newly supported devices, improved WiFi and more gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/bazz…

#Bazzite #Linux #OpenSource #HandheldGaming

Bazzite gets a new app store, newly supported devices, improved WiFi and more

The popular Linux gaming image Bazzite has a July 2025 update out with some interesting new features and expanded device support.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

OBS Studio 31.1.0 released with Multitrack Video for Linux, explicit sync support for PipeWire gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/obs-…

#OBS #OBSStudio #OpenSource

OBS Studio 31.1.0 released with Multitrack Video for Linux, explicit sync support for PipeWire

OBS Studio 31.1.0 is out now with various new features and improvements, and it's a nice release for Linux users too.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Yes, a file full of zero bits transfers faster over USB2.0 than a file full of one bits.

I've known this forever but it still feels ridiculous when you actually test it and it's true!

USB truly is cursed.