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USB4STREAM Merged For Linux 7.2 To Quickly Send Data Between USB4 Connected Systems  Phoronix

As part of today's USB/Thunderbolt subsystem updates for the ongoing Linux 7.2 kernel merge window, USB4STREAM was merged as a nifty and exciting addition to opening up some interesting USB4 connnectivity use-cases for high speed, low latency data transfers...

OBS Studio 32.2 Promises New Filter to Compose SDR into HDR, Beta Out Now  9to5Linux

Control AirPods & Galaxy Buds on Ubuntu with ‘BudsLink’  OMG! Ubuntu

You can now install SteamOS 3.8 on your standard gaming PC (with AMD GPU)  TheSixthAxis

Back in March Intel announced the Optimization Zone as a new initiative for helping server administrators and developers better maximize the performance of different workloads running on Intel hardware. Out today is the Intel Optimization Zone 1.1 release with more workloads now covered for squeezing out the most performance on Intel CPUs...

Intel Optimization Zone 1.1 Lays Out Tuning Recommendations For More Workloads  Phoronix

Documenting the manual: how curiosity and robotic arms led to a career in open source  blog.google

Valve's Proton Test Build For Steam Machine And Linux Gaming Adds FSR 4 For RDNA 3  HotHardware

Valve’s Steam Machine Gives Linux Gaming a New Living-Room Push  Linuxiac

Valve today finally revealed pricing on their SteamOS Linux-powered Steam Machine living room PC. Given the ongoing RAM and storage pricing pressure, the Steam Machine pricing comes in at the high-end...

Steam Machine Launches, Priced $1049 To $1428 USD  Phoronix

Steam Machines Is Up for Reservation from $1,049 with Arch Linux-Based SteamOS 3  9to5Linux

Steam Machine pricing and launch announced and yes it's pricey  GamingOnLinux

The Steam Machine Is An Iconoclastic Computer Born In Unforgiving Times  Aftermath

We brought Hermes Agent to iMessage, even on Linux and Windows  HackerNoon

I finally got KDE looking the way I always wanted — and it starts with one setting most people skip  MakeUseOf

Benchmarking Bcachefs 1.38.6: The First Release No Longer "Experimental"  Phoronix

Released last week was Bcachefs 1.38.6 with a host of performance improvements to this out-of-tree, copy-on-write file-system. Given all the performance improvements and this being the first release since Kent Overstreet dropped the "experimental" flag on the file-system, I decided to fire up some benchmarks looking at how the Bcachefs file-system performance has changed with this new version.

AMD release FSR Upscaling 4.1 for Radeon RX 7000 series / RDNA 3  GamingOnLinux