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Ubuntu has long provided hardware enablement "HWE" stacks for Ubuntu LTS releases to provide a newer kernel and Mesa drivers and more for better supporting new/modern hardware on the long-term support Ubuntu Linux releases. With Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, Canonical will also now be providing a virtualization HWE stack for shipping newer virtualization / confidential computing features...

Ubuntu To Provide Virtualization HWE Stack For Ubuntu 26.04 LTS  Phoronix

NVIDIA Launches 'Open Secure AI Alliance' Initiative To Improve Cyber Defense  Engadget

Last month I wrote bout new AMD Linux patches introducing a new "low power" CPU core type as an alternative to their standard performance cores and dense efficiency cores. That work now is poised to land with the upcoming Linux 7.3 kernel...

AMD "Low Power" CPU Core Type Patches Queued Ahead Of Linux 7.3  Phoronix

Linux isn't your only escape route from Windows and macOS—here are 4 alternatives  How-To Geek

NVIDIA and Linux Foundation Form Open Secure AI Alliance  Linuxiac

The Wayfire modular and extensible Wayland compositor formerly used by default on Raspberry Pi SBCs is nearing its v1.0 release. Wayfire 0.11 was released on Sunday for this Compiz-inspired, wlroots-powered compositor with that being their hopeful last planned version before Wayfire 1.0 releases...

The FreeBSD project published today their Q2-2026 status report that highlights all of their interesting open-source development initiatives for the past quarter. A lot is happening including FreeBSD seeing an AMD ROCm port and also their own NTSYNC driver being created...

FreeBSD Developing New NTSYNC Driver For Accelerating Windows NT Sync Primitives  Phoronix

NVIDIA and more than two dozen other companies have started the Open Secure AI Alliance for helping to keep open-source AI models secure. The other founding members range from Microsoft to Adobe, IBM, Red Hat, SpaceX, OpenClaw, Palantir, and others...

NVIDIA & Others Form The Open Secure AI Alliance  Phoronix

Chrome finally runs on Raspberry Pi (if you know where to click)  Korben

Qualys identifies Linux kernel vulnerability affecting millions of systems  Intelligent CISO

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Learn how to install safe-agentic-workflow (SAW) on Linux, add it to a project alongside Claude Code, and use it to

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Ready-to-use Proton LinUwUx builds for Linux with Denuvo hypervisor bypass are now available.  GameGPU

Chrome arm64 Linux builds now downloadable, but Google hasn't officially announced them yet  Neowin

Chrome arm64 Linux builds now downloadable, but Google hasn't officially announced them yet  Neowin

Linux 7.2-rc5 lands with patches for HP EliteBook 830 G8 and Alienware x16 R2  Neowin

9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: July 26th, 2026  9to5Linux