Halo: Campaign Evolved Lands July 28 — Master Chief's Origin Story Gets a Full UE5 Makeover
The original Halo story gets a ground-up Unreal Engine 5 remake this July 28, landing simultaneously on Xbox, PlayStation 5, and PC with new prequel missions, four-player co-op, and full cross-play. »
Linux 7.2-rc1 Is Here — AMD Gets Native 4K/120Hz HDMI and the Kernel Hits 43 Million Lines
Linus Torvalds dropped Linux 7.2's first release candidate on June 28, delivering AMD's long-awaited HDMI 2.1 FRL support, ISP4 camera drivers, post-quantum signatures, and a kernel source tree that just broke 43 million lines. »
Jim Keller Kills the Qualcomm Rumor — Tenstorrent Is Building for an IPO, Not a Sale
On June 30, Tenstorrent CEO Jim Keller denied acquisition talks with Qualcomm, shooting down a widely-reported $10B deal and making clear the RISC-V AI chip startup intends to go public on its own terms. »
Coreboot 26.06 Arrives With Early Intel Nova Lake and AMD Strix Halo Support, Plus 31 New Boards
The open-source firmware project's latest quarterly release starts unlocking Intel's Nova Lake and AMD's Strix Halo months before those chips hit store shelves, and expands its board list with 31 new entries including Framework Laptop models. »
The Linux Foundation Just United 19 Tech Giants to Shield Open Source From AI-Powered Attacks
Launched June 25, Akrites is a new coordinated vulnerability-response initiative backed by AWS, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, NVIDIA, and 14 other organizations committed to defending the open source software the world runs on. »