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Valve Developer Improves The Linux Gaming Experience For Limited vRAM Hardware  Phoronix

Solus Says It Has No Plans to Implement Age Verification  Linuxiac

My top 5 Linux desktops of 2026 (so far) - and I've tried them all  ZDNET

Beyond the capabilities of just the Vulkan Video API, the FFmpeg multimedia library has made interesting Vulkan-accelerated adaptations using compute shaders. With Vulkan compute they've implemented Apple ProRes video acceleration, FFV1 decode, and other features. The newest Vulkan feature now in place for FFmpeg is 360 degree video conversion...

Rethinking Linux security operations | perspective | SC Media  SC Media

Hackers Impersonate Linux Foundation Leader in Slack to Target Open Source Developers  CyberSecurityNews

Tails 7.6.1 drops as an emergency release to fix Tor Browser vulnerabilities  Notebookcheck

The open-source Lemonade local AI server that enables using Ryzen AI NPUs on Linux for LLM usage as well as AMD Radeon GPU support and common x86_64 CPU support (in addition to Microsoft Windows support) is now becoming easier to embed within other apps for AI usage...

AMD Making It Easier To Embed Lemonade AI Capabilities Into Other Apps  Phoronix

The newest Vulkan API extension now wired up for Mesa's Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" is VK_EXT_primitive_restart_index that was introduced last week...

RADV Lands Support For Vulkan's New Primitive Restart Index Extension  Phoronix

European firm releases free Linux tool to stop foreign apps from calling home  Cybernews

Miracle-WM as the Wayland compositor / window manager built atop Canonical's Mir project is out with a big new feature release. This "hackable" and i3/Sway-inspired Wayland compositor has landed a WebAssembly-based plug-in system for opening up new possibilities as well as a new Rust API with this week's v0.9 release...

PipeWire 1.6.3 Improves RAOP Compatibility to Make It Work on More Devices  9to5Linux

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Raises Requirements – Linux is Now Formally “Heavier” Windows 11  GameGPU

Claude Mythos Preview: Anthropic's Unreleased AI Cracked Linux and OpenBSD Bugs Humans Missed for Decades  Bitcoin.com News

Ubuntu 26.04 (Linux) OS Now Has Heavier PC Requirements Than Microsoft Windows 11  Wccftech

FSR 4 Upscaler Works on RDNA 3 in Linux-Based Games  GameGPU

Linux 7.0 Adds Support For New Keys On Upcoming Laptops For Expanded AI Agent Interactions  Phoronix

Since last year the Linux kernel already supported the Microsoft Copilot key appearing on recent laptops to trigger AI agent interactions. That keyboard key is becoming more common but now three additional new keys have been standardized for additional AI integration on future PCs. Merged today for Linux 7.0 is supporting those new standardized keycodes for AI use...