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Zrythm 2.0 Alpha Released For Rewriting The Digital Audio Workstation In C++ & Qt/QML  Phoronix

The clearcpuid= kernel parameter can be used to disable specific CPUID features for the kernel by specifying the targeted bit numbers of the feature(s) to disable or their flags from the /proc/cpuinfo output. The clearcpuid parameter, for example, has been useful for carrying out AVX-512 comparison benchmarks for apps that check for the presence of the AVX-512 extensions via /proc/cpuinfo. But moving forward the documentation on clearcpuid is being removed to discourage its use...

Linux 7.1-rc6 To Hide The Documentation On "clearcpuid" Feature  Phoronix

As expected given AOM Video Model indications last week, the AV2 v1.0 specification was officially released on Friday...

Armbian 26.5 Released with Linux 7.0, Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Builds, and More  9to5Linux

Ahead of the Linux 7.1-rc6 kernel due out on Sunday, this week's round of USB fixes have been merged with various new device quirks added as well as some patches as a result of scanning tools...

Various USB Quirks Merged Ahead Of Linux 7.1-rc6  Phoronix

Windows won the desktop by being compatible with everything, but that's starting to look like a drawback  XDA

Microsoft’s open-source era still comes with an asterisk  MakeUseOf

Shelly 2.3.2 GUI Package Manager for Arch Linux Gets Downgrade UI, Flatpak Repair  9to5Linux

I figured out how to run my favorite Linux TUI music player on Android, and it's better than any app on the Play Store  How-To Geek

Marknote 1.6 WYSIWYG Note-Taking App Adds Initial Support for Sub-Folders  9to5Linux

California Age Verification Bill Clears Assembly: Linux Spared, Websites Added to Age-Gating Regime  Tech Times

Rust Coreutils 0.9 was tagged today as the latest major update to this GNU Coreutils implementation in the Rust programming language. Rust Coreutils 0.9 is up to a 90.4% pass rate against the GNU test suite!..

NixOS 26.05 “Yarara” Officially Released with GNOME 50, systemd by Default  9to5Linux

Linux desktop hardware support is still broken, and that's why adoption keeps failing  How-To Geek

This tool lets two people type in the same Linux terminal at the same time  MakeUseOf

New CIFSwitch Linux flaw gives root on multiple distributions  BleepingComputer

NixOS 26.05 “Yarara” Arrives with GNOME 50, Plasma 6.6, and Linux 6.18  Linuxiac

NixOS 26.05 is out today as the latest version of this Linux distribution built around the Nix package manager...