coreboot 26.09 hardens its parsers and writes down an AI policy
Over 1,300 commits from 120 authors, audits across every external format the firmware parses, DDR5 SPD caching with TPM-backed verification, and rules for how AI may comment on patches.
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Raspberry Pi lifts 2GB prices as the memory crunch tightens
A $12.50 increase on the 2GB Pi 4 and Pi 5, straight from the memory market, while Micron says supply stays tight through 2028 and its margins say it is not suffering.
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Backblaze Q2 2026 drive stats: AFR at 1.73%, and Seagate takes the honor roll
354,415 drives, 1,498 failures and a quarterly AFR of 1.73%, the highest in a while, with the report naming its own reasons. Three Seagate models went the quarter without a failure, and the 20TB-and-up cohort keeps posting the best numbers.
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Linux 7.4 will reset a hung Raspberry Pi GPU through the V3D block's own reset line
The vc4 driver has been recovering a hung GPU by forcing the V3D power domain down and back up, with a private refcount wrapped around every runtime PM call to keep the count honest. An Igalia series moves the reset onto the BCM2835 PM block's reset line instead, and it is queued for the Linux 7.4 merge window.
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KryonOS boots an ESP32 into a desktop, and its apps install over Wi-Fi
A GPL-3.0 GUI and JavaScript runtime for the ESP32: flash the board once, then install and update apps from an on-device store, on a machine with about 90 KB of RAM to spare.
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JetKVM Mini is a $39 matchbox KVM, and it ships October 26
The new Mini keeps JetKVM's web interface, cloud and open firmware in a 42 mm aluminium case: $39 wired, $42 wireless, $33 a unit in threes, using an ESP32-P4X where the original needed a Linux system.
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A Pi 5 EEPROM update stops boards whose SDRAM the bootloader does not expect
EEPROM 2026-05-11 stops a Raspberry Pi 5 booting when the memory it finds does not match the memory it expects, and the halt happens before the OS loads, so the fix is a recovery image and a downgrade.