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There’s a growing narrative in the platform engineering community that internal developer portals (IDPs) are "dead." That AI models are so good now, developers don’t need a portal to find things, scaffold projects, or understand their environment. That agents like Cursor, Claude, and GitHub Copilot have made the "alt-tab to a portal" workflow obsolete.I get the appeal of that argument. It’s clean, it’s provocative, and it contains a kernel of truth. But it also misses something fundamental about why developer portals exist in the first place—and why the agentic era makes them more im

D7VK continues advancing for this Vulkan-based implementation of Direct3D 7 that also supports D3D 6 / 5 / 3 APIs too for vintage games ultimately rendered using the modern Vulkan API...

Stop tolerating GNOME's limitations — here are 5 Linux desktops that give you real control  MakeUseOf

Dell and Lenovo Join Linux Vendor Firmware Update Project  TechPowerUp

Omarchy 3.7 Linux Distro Launches as a Gaming Edition  TechPowerUp

Eric Engestrom just announced another timely feature release of the Mesa drivers. Mesa 26.1 is out today for this collection of predominantly OpenGL and Vulkan drivers for a variety of hardware as well as the likes of Rusticl for OpenCL, Zink for OpenGL-on-Vulkan, various Windows acceleration components, and more...

The PCI-SIG today held a briefing around PCIe 8.0 that follows the PCIe 7.0 specification that was released to members last June...

New Quasar Linux Malware Is Stealing Developer Credentials with a Hidden Rootkit  HotHardware

I let two local LLMs fight over how to optimize a Linux VM, and they destroyed it instead  XDA

Sent out today was a batch of "new stuff" for the AMDGPU graphics and AMDKFD compute kernel drivers that are ready for DRM-Next to queue until the Linux 7.2 merge window happens in June. Most notable is the introduction of the AMDGPU DC power module to better align with the Radeon power management behavior under Microsoft Windows...

CISA Warning: High-Severity Linux Flaw Puts Unpatched Systems at Risk  TechRepublic

Quasar Linux (QLNX): A Supply Chain Foothold with Full RAT Capabilities  SOC Prime

I turned off one background service and my Linux machine finally felt fast  MakeUseOf

Nouveau vs. NVIDIA R595 Linux Driver For Workstation Graphics Performance  Phoronix

When having the HP Z6 G5 A workstation in the lab for benchmarking, one of the curiosity-driven tests was seeing how well the latest open-source and upstream Nouveau driver stack is competing against the latest official NVIDIA R595 driver for workstations. The official NVIDIA Linux driver stack remains the best positioned software solution for RTX (PRO) hardware but Nouveau continues evolving while awaiting the Nova kernel driver to reach the limelight.

ExpressVPN sharpens its desktop apps with faster controls and better accessibility — the updates are now live on Mac, Windows, and Linux  TechRadar

I tried these 5 command line tools on my Samsung phone—here's the ones that are worth using  How-To Geek

InstaMAT & InstaLOD Now Available For Linux  80 Level

I tried a hardened Linux kernel so you don't have to  How-To Geek

Exciting yesterday in the land of Intel's open-source Vulkan driver "ANV" for Linux systems was introducing experimental support for descriptor heaps with the VK_EXT_descriptor_heap extension. Today there is another separate exciting development for this open-source Intel driver: Vulkan device generated commands are finally merged!..