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While typically quite rare encountering a GPU reset under Linux in most conditions, currently if encountering one under GNOME your session gets wiped out. But thanks to a Google Summer of Code "GSoC" project this year, GNOME's Mutter compositor is finally seeing real GPU reset recovery handling...

In working toward the stable GNOME 51 desktop release due out in September, today marks the alpha release of GNOME 51...

GNOME 51 Alpha Desktop Environment Is Now Available for Public Testing  9to5Linux

NetworkManager 1.58 Is Now Available for Public Testing with Many New Features  9to5Linux

New "Bad Epoll" Linux Kernel Flaw Lets Unprivileged Users Gain Root, Hits Android  The Hacker News

The UPower abstraction layer used for power management on Linux systems, especially laptops and desktops, is out with an important fix today to avoid inadvertently falling back to the laptop battery "fast" charging mode on some laptops that in turn could degrade your laptop battery faster...

UPower 1.91.3 Fixes Behavior To Avoid Degrading Your Laptop Battery Faster  Phoronix

3 reasons most people stick with Windows, even though Linux is free  Yahoo Tech

3 reasons most people stick with Windows, even though Linux is free  How-To Geek

Valve took care of Diablo IV fans - fixed game launch on Linux and SteamOS  ixbt.games

Juno Tab 4 13'' Linux tablet now available to pre-order for ~$1,000  Notebookcheck

I read the leaked Halloween Documents—here’s what Microsoft feared most about Linux  How-To Geek

Some great Native Linux games to grab in the Steam Summer Sale 2026  GamingOnLinux

Vulkan 1.4.356 is out today and it's interesting for the lone new extension debuting: VK_EXT_shader_ocp_microscaling_types. The VK_EXT_shader_ocp_microscaling_types is for enabling the Open Compute Project's Microscaling MX data types to help with machine learning workloads with Vulkan...

With 3mdeb's Dasharo port of AMD openSIL and Coreboot running on the Gigabyte EPYC motherboard, 3mdeb engineers have been devoting more time to their bring-up of Coreboot+openSIL on the MSI PRO B850-P consumer motherboard for desktop AMD Ryzen. They now even have Microsoft Windows 11 working atop this open-source firmware alternative along with other features implemented...

Coreboot + AMD openSIL On MSI Ryzen Motherboard Now Works With Windows 11  Phoronix

I used NotebookLM to wrangle a month of research—here's where it fell apart  How-To Geek

These 5 ancient Linux distros are still teaching modern users how systems actually work  How-To Geek

Linux Tops 2026 CVE Charts, Greg KH Says That’s a Good Thing  Linuxiac

While the Rust Coreutils offers better memory safety than GNU Coreutils due to being written in the Rust programming language, subtle incompatibilities continue to be spotted in the Rust Coreutils implementations of the different commands. The latest coming to light this week was the Rust Coreutils cp command breaking Ubuntu image builds due to differences in argument handling...