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Android 17 QPR1 Beta 6 brings a major power-user upgrade to the Terminal app  Android Authority

Windows 11's predictive text is the hidden typing tool I never knew I needed  How-To Geek

RootBoard aims to stick a portable Linux PC into your pocket  Stuff South Africa

Linux Looking To Retire A Number Of Old ARM Platforms In Early 2027  Phoronix

It's not only old x86 i486 CPU support being removed from the Linux kernel but a number of older ARM platforms and features are on the chopping block too. A proposal has been laid out for deprecating and then removing a number of outdated ARM platforms and features from the Linux kernel in early 2027...

Back in May the FFmpeg project introduced Vulkan-accelerated decoding for the APV video format. The Advanced Professional Video (APV) codec was being handled using Vulkan shaders in a similar way to how FFmpeg implemented Vulkan acceleration for Apple ProRes. Now there is Vulkan-accelerated APV encoding too...

Red Hat engineer Karol Herbst has landed his latest optimization work to Rusticl in Mesa 26.2. The latest effort for this Rust-based OpenCL driver that works across Gallium3D drivers is around better hardware utilization...

A new release of libjxl is now available for this reference implementation of the JPEG-XL image format, including both image encode and decode support...

Erin Catto who has been developing the Box2D 2D physics engine for games announced the release of Box3D. Box3D is now providing a new open-source 3D physics engine that is forked off from the Box2D code...

KDE Gear 26.04.3 Released as the Last Update in the KDE Gear 26.04 Series  9to5Linux

Steam Survey - June 2026 shows Linux dip to 3.69%  GamingOnLinux

Microsoft Releases Azure Linux 4 ISO Files on GitHub for Local Testing  gHacks

Linux App Release Roundup (June 2026)  OMG! Ubuntu

Linux Foundation, tech giants Launch 'Akrites' to unify open-source security for AI  Escudo Digital

SUSE Linux Kernel Multiple Vulnerabilities  Hong Kong Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination Centre

Ubuntu Linux Kernel Multiple Vulnerabilities  Hong Kong Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination Centre

RedHat Linux Kernel Multiple Vulnerabilities  Hong Kong Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination Centre

Stemming from the widely varying views over the recent Fedora proposal for an "AI Developer Desktop" catering to running local AI and machine learning workloads in pre-configured environments with a seamless hardware-accelerated experience, the Fedora Council issued a statement this evening to effectively shutdown discussions for now over a Fedora AI Developer Desktop and to pause the Fedora Community Initiatives process...

Back in March Steam on Linux use shot up to 5.33% as a big 3.1% improvement over February. In April it dropped to 4.52% and then fell to 3.99% in May. Valve just published the Steam Survey numbers for June and it points to another minor setback from the recent all-time high of Steam on Linux...

Steam On Linux Usage Receded A Bit In June  Phoronix