00:40
<Freeman>
Phoronix | Valve Lands VK_AMD_anti_lag Support For AMD RADV Driver In Mesa 26.3
Michael Larabel · 4h ago · 2 min read
There is yet another feature to get excited about for this quarter's Mesa 26.3 release
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01:09
<Freeman>
Phoronix | New AI Agent Resources Proposed For The Linux Kernel, AI Skills To Help Developers
Michael Larabel · 4h ago · 1 min read
The latest proposal for the upstream Linux kernel is introducing infrastructure for AI agent resources
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07:06
<Tux>
Linuxiac | Ventoy 1.1.18 Adds Experimental SteamOS Support, Linux Boot Fixes
Bobby Borisov · 22m ago · 1 min read
Ventoy 1.1.18 introduces experimental SteamOS recovery support, improves ISO partition mounting on Linux, and fixes several boot issues.
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07:06
<Tux>
Linuxiac | Calibre 9.16 E-Book Manager Adds Kokoro Voices, Improves PDF Support
Bobby Borisov · 9m ago · 2 min read
Calibre 9.16 introduces Kokoro text-to-speech voices, better PDF handling, AVIF image support, and performance improvements for large libraries.
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10:28
<Tux>
Linuxiac | Immich 3.3 Photo and Video Management Solution Adds People Sharing, Birthday Memories
Bobby Borisov · 42m ago · 2 min read
Immich 3.3 introduces shared people management, birthday memories, automatic photo stacking, and improved image quality.
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10:29
<Freeman>
Phoronix | HDR Support Coming For Qualcomm MSM Driver To Benefit Snapdragon X Laptops On Linux
Michael Larabel · 4h ago · 1 min read
For those making use of Qualcomm Snapdragon X laptops on Linux, one of the features coming to the MSM DRM kernel driver is static HDR support for DisplayPort outputs and eDP panels.
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10:29
<Freeman>
Phoronix | AMD Caps Off Linux 7.4 Graphics Driver Development With More HDMI 2.1 Fixes
Michael Larabel · 4h ago · 2 min read
AMD on Thursday sent out a final pull request of their feature work aiming to be submitted for the upcoming Linux 7.4 merge window
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10:29
<Freeman>
Phoronix | Boro: NVIDIA's Open-Source Effort For AI-Assisted Linux Kernel Development
Michael Larabel · 4h ago · 2 min read
Over the past few months NVIDIA has been developing Boro as a new AI-assisted kernel development CLI written in Rust and focused on local AI for enhancing efficiency for kernel development.
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10:59
<Freeman>
Phoronix | Linux Patches Finally Make Hibernation Possible In Secure Boot / Lockdown Mode
Michael Larabel · 4h ago · 2 min read
When booting the Linux kernel using UEFI SecureBoot, the kernel is put in the lockdown mode to restrict the ability to modify the running kernel image or leaking data from kernel memory
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11:56
<Freeman>
Phoronix | Faster Zswap With Patches To Batch The Writeback I/O
Michael Larabel · 4h ago · 2 min read
For those making increased use of Linux's Zswap as a compressed RAM cache for swap pages amid these times of sky high RAM prices, a new patch series was posted providing some incremental performance gains for Zswap by batching the writeback I/O.
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13:26
<Freeman>
LWN.net | Security updates for Friday [LWN.net]
jzb · 18m ago · 3 min read
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (bind, bind9.16, freerdp, glibc, kbd, mod_auth_openidc, openssl, perl-DBI, python3.12, python3.14, and tftp), Debian (rails and twitter-bootstrap3), Fedora (barman, cockpit, hcloud, libmodsecurity, nginx-mod-modsecurity, perl-DBI, sudo, and xorg-x11-server-Xwayland), Mageia (libxfont2), Oracle (bind9.18, fire...
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14:22
<Tux>
Linuxiac | aerynOS Makes Budgie 10.10.3 Widely Available, Updates COSMIC to 1.10
Bobby Borisov · 12m ago · 2 min read
aerynOS moves Budgie 10.10.3 from testing to its Unstable Stream, making it broadly available alongside COSMIC Desktop 1.10 and Linux 7.2.9.
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14:22
<Freeman>
Phoronix | Ubuntu 26.10 Sticks To Using GCC 15 By Default
Michael Larabel · 4h ago · 2 min read
From a performance and enthusiast perspective, what I personally find most disappointing and puzzling with the imminent release of Ubuntu 26.10 comes down to its default compiler version.
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14:23
<Freeman>
LWN.net | Let's Encrypt moving to 64-day certificate lifetimes in 2027
jzb · 20m ago · 1 min read
Let's Encrypt, the nonprofit that provides free TLS certificates for millions of sites, has ann [...]
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14:51
<Freeman>
Phoronix | AMD PerfOpt Boosting Prior-Gen Ryzen APU Performance For AI
Michael Larabel · 4h ago · 1 min read
Last week I ran benchmarks of the new AMD PerfOpt feature being introduced in Linux 7.4.
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15:21
<Freeman>
Phoronix | Python 3.15 Released With Experimental JIT Compiler Running Faster
Michael Larabel · 4h ago · 1 min read
Python 3.15 is out today as the newest annual feature release for the Python programming language.
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15:22
<Freeman>
LWN.net | [$] The state of systemd: 2026 edition
jzb · 24m ago · 1 min read
At the 2026 All Systems Go! conference, systemd maintainers Luca Boccassi and Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek delivered the traditional "state of the project" session with an overview of the systemd project's accomplishments in the past year. That was followed by a maintainer round table where Boccassi, Jędrzejewski-Szmek, Daan De Meyer, and project leader Le...
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16:53
<Tux>
OMG! Ubuntu | Calibre can now read ebooks aloud without sounding like a robot
Joey Sneddon · 25m ago · 2 min read
A new update to the Calibre ebook manager is out and it brings more natural sounding text-to-speech (TTS) voices, as well as AVIF image support and better
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17:46
<Freeman>
LWN.net | [$] Adding kernel control-flow-integrity checking to GCC
corbet · 39m ago · 1 min read
While many developers are struggling to keep up with the flood of vulnerability reports, others are still focused on preventing those reports from happening in the first place. Control-flow integrity (CFI) is the term for preventing (or at least detecting) exploits that divert the flow of control from its intended paths. At the 2026 GNU Tools Cauldron, Ke...
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17:46
<Freeman>
LWN.net | Python 3.15 released
jzb · 30m ago · 1 min read
Version 3.15 of the Python programming language has been released. Notable changes in this rele [...]
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17:46
<Tux>
Linuxiac | KDE Frameworks 6.31 Released with File Management and Text Encoding Improvements
Bobby Borisov · 42m ago · 2 min read
KDE Frameworks 6.31 improves file copying and moving, text encoding detection, text editing, metadata extraction, and more.
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18:16
<Freeman>
Phoronix | Valve's Proton 11.0-2e Released To Fix EA App Issues
Michael Larabel · 4h ago · 1 min read
CodeWeavers working with Valve today released Proton 11.0-2e as their downstream of Wine that powers Steam Play for enjoying Windows games on Linux.
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18:16
<Freeman>
Phoronix | Ubuntu 26.10 To Include Desktop Images For RISC-V
Michael Larabel · 4h ago · 1 min read
Ubuntu Linux ISOs for RISC-V 64-bit to date have just been the server/CLI version without any desktop environment pre-seeded
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20:15
<Tux>
OMG! Ubuntu | The Document Foundation gets its own logo after 16 years
Joey Sneddon · 10m ago · 1 min read
The Document Foundation, the non-profit steering the development of LibreOffice, has unveiled a new logo. The change means that, for the first time since
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21:11
<Tux>
Linuxiac | Woodpecker CI 3.19 Adds Server-Enforced Agent Labels
Bobby Borisov · 21m ago · 2 min read
Woodpecker CI 3.19 fixes a security issue involving matrix variables, adds server-enforced agent labels, and improves pipeline reliability.
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