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Billion Windows PCs Face Critical Security Certificate Expiration  The Tech Buzz

The many memory management "MM" related improvements were recently merged to Git for the Linux 7.2 kernel. As typical most kernel cycles, some of the low-level improvements can yield nice efficiency wins and better performance in different areas...

MGLRU Improvement Yielding Nice Gains On Linux 7.2: MongoDB 30~100% Higher Throughput  Phoronix

The first open-source Linux driver for the ASUS ZenVision lid OLED  Adafruit

KaOS Linux 2026.06 Launches Officially as First Release with Dinit  9to5Linux

Linux Foundation prepares open standard for AI agent verification  CIO Dive

Nvidia “Blackwell-Next” GPUs mentioned in Linux kernel patch  KitGuru

AMD FSR 4 lands on RDNA3 dGPUs for Linux / SteamOS and Steam Machine via Proton Experimental  GamingOnLinux

NTFS3 Driver Sees Bug Fixes & Minor Improvements With Linux 7.2  Phoronix

While the new NTFS file-system driver merged for Linux 7.1 and has seen more improvements for Linux 7.2, for now at least the NTFS3 kernel driver continues to be maintained with new fixes and improvements. NTFS3 is the driver that was upstreamed to the Linux kernel a few years ago back during the pandemic by Paragon Software...

The Flash-Friendly File-System (F2FS) changes have landed for Linux 7.2...

5 Things You Need To Know Before Buying A Steam Machine  bgr.com

Kubuntu Focus Ar (GEN 1) is a Linux Laptop with Intel Panther Lake and Arc B390 graphics  Liliputing

For those with limited rack space and wanting to assemble a high-end server/workstation, the SilverStone RM32 provides a lot of opportunities in being a 3U rackmount chassis that can accommodate an E-ATX or SSI-EEB motherboard, up to a 360mm liquid cooling radiator, and up to four full-size expansion cards all within 3U height requirements. Paired with the SilverStone Extreme 1000Rz Platinum 1000W PSU, you can patch a lot into 5.25 inches.

Vendefoul Wolf is a Linux distro that goes against the grain with terrific results  ZDNET

In addition to AMD engineers being busy rolling out HDMI 2.1 for their open-source Linux driver at long last, another notable display-related improvement on the way to their AMDGPU kernel graphics driver is exposing the Gamma 2.4 and Gamma 2.6 curves support...

The KVM virtualization-related changes were merged a few days ago for the ongoing Linux 7.2 kernel merge window. While there are a number of features/improvements for AMD and Intel virtualization as well as the likes of s390 and RISC-V, there aren't any new features on ARM64. The lack of ARM64 feature work this cycle is being attributed to "so many AI-fueled fixes" swamping the ARM Linux developers...

"So Many AI-Fueled Fixes" Means No New ARM64 KVM Features For Linux 7.2  Phoronix

Your Linux PC has a Secure Boot problem - what to do first (and the workaround to avoid)  ZDNET

Wind River Continues Long-Standing #1 Ranking in Edge Operating System Platforms  Business Wire