Tech News Roundup — June 22, 2026 (PM)
Linux dominates this afternoon’s headlines: the 7.2 merge window brings OneXPlayer support and a new sched_ext sub-scheduler, Valve quietly lands a Ray-Tracing Inspector GUI into Mesa, and AMD polishes its ROCm-on-WSL story. On the gaming-business side, the PlayStation-vs-Xbox-on-PC narrative is picking up — both an earnings-data piece and a new “Xbox Handheld” badge on the Xbox Store.
Linux & Open Source
Linux 7.2 lands a wave of gaming and scheduler work. The HID subsystem updates pulled in a OneXPlayer configuration driver alongside other new hardware support, and the sched_ext patches continue building out sub-scheduler support that lets userspace load BPF programs for scheduling tasks. Separately, the Mir-based Wayland compositor Miracle-WM shipped a 0.10 release with the project publicly eyeing a 1.0 milestone later this year, and AMD issued a new ROCDXG release to improve the ROCm experience on WSL with a cleaner open-source architecture compared to the legacy closed bits. Phoronix Phoronix Phoronix Phoronix
Valve ships a Ray-Tracing Inspector for Mesa. Merged today into Mesa 26.1 is RTI, a new GUI tool created by Valve’s open-source Linux graphics team. It’s designed to analyze and optimize Vulkan ray-tracing performance, with the immediate goal of further improving the Radeon RADV RT pipeline for Steam Play and Linux gaming. Phoronix
Gaming
- PlayStation’s PC ports have generated nearly double the revenue of Xbox’s PS5 ports — and Sony is still quitting Steam. According to Alinea Analytics, Sony’s earlier and broader PC-port strategy is now producing substantially more revenue than Microsoft’s inverse approach of bringing Xbox franchises to PlayStation 5. The piece lands the same week Microsoft started surfacing an “Xbox Handheld” badge across major Xbox Store game pages (Halo: Campaign Evolved, Gears of War: E-Day) — almost certainly referring to existing Windows handhelds like the Xbox Ally X rather than first-party hardware, but the badge is a clear sign Microsoft is taking the handheld-PC segment seriously. Meanwhile, Amazon Prime Day deals on Windows laptops, components, and Xbox hardware are already live ahead of the official 2026 sale. Windows Central Windows Central Windows Central
In Brief
- Vibe-coding has a security problem. A new piece looks at how non-developers using AI to ship apps are shipping real vulnerabilities with them — a project manager’s “Boomberg” site went live with a hidden SQL injection risk he didn’t notice for months. [The Verge]
- Wyze undercuts its own smart scale. A new $79.98 Wyze Scale BodyScan drops the price $40 below the existing Ultra model by giving up Wi-Fi (Bluetooth-only via the Wyze app) and a customizable LCD for a simpler 4.7-inch LED, but it keeps the retractable handle with four electrodes for segmented body-composition measurements. [The Verge]
Roundup compiled from the TTRSS Tech feed. 10 articles from 3 sources (Phoronix, Windows Central, The Verge) summarized.