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The community of developers continuing to maintain Ubuntu Touch for smartphones has released the Ubuntu Touch 24.04-2.0 beta ahead of the planned stable release in mid-July...

Ubuntu Touch 24.04-2.0 Beta Now Properly Handles Notches & Rounded Corners  Phoronix

The newest open-source project out of Intel is the Intel Performance Skills project that is providing AI agent skills to help with CPU performance analysis and performance optimizations on Linux...

Intel Performance Skills: New Open-Source Project Leveraging AI For Linux Performance Optimizations  Phoronix

Valve Loosens AMD's Handheld Grip As SteamOS Gains Intel GPU Support  HotHardware

The FreeBSD Project announced today the launch of an AI-Assisted Vulnerability Discovery Project with grant funding provided by the Linux Foundation backed Alpha-Omega project. Alpha-Mega has sponsors including Microsoft, AWS, Google, Anthrophic, OpenAI, and others who will now be helping with FreeBSD uncovering new vulnerabilities by leveraging AI...

Last month a new GCC back-end was proposed for WebAssembly to allow C/C++ code to be compiled to WASM with this GNU compiler toolchain. The GCC Steering Committee has evaluated it and approves the notion of WebAssembly back-end for GCC...

After days of dealing with 1,500+ packages in the Arch Linux AUR containing malware, the latest headache in the Arch Linux User Repository is Russian spam and offensive messages...

Russian Spam & Profanities Are Now Plaguing The Arch Linux AUR  Phoronix

RefreshOS is a top contender for new Linux users - here's why  ZDNET

Arch Linux Blocks New AUR Registrations Amid Malware Cleanup  Linuxiac

Epic Is Looking For Someone To "Champion Linux Anti-Cheat Capabilities"  Steam Deck HQ

Red Hat gives Ubuntu a bootc up the backside at Canonical shindig  The Register

Ubuntu won't save your old PC, but these 4 lightweight Linux distros will  How-To Geek

Container made it easy to run Linux on my MacBook - here's how I set it up  ZDNET

The Firefox 152.0 release binaries are now available ahead of tomorrow's official unveiling. With Firefox 152 there is now the JPEG-XL support code being compiled by default for the release albeit still disabled at run-time by default behind a preference for now...

Flipper One is a Pocket-sized Linux Cyberdeck  It's FOSS

Playground Note: Linux on the Adafruit Fruit Jam  Adafruit

Reading /proc/filesystems for obtaining a list of file-systems supported by the running kernel is done frequently on Linux. Namely due to being read by the SELinux library (libselinux), reading of /proc/filesystems is done more often than one would typically expect and now the Linux 7.2 kernel is optimizing for it to yield much better performance...

Reading /proc/filesystems Is Surprisingly Done Very Often & Now As Much As 444% Faster  Phoronix