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Valve puts up a Proton 11.0-2 Release Candidate for testing  GamingOnLinux

In addition to Instinct MI455X and Helios launching along with the new AMD EPYC 9006 "Venice" processors, AMD used their annual Advancing AI day to announce ROCm.AI as an AI-driven platform for developers...

AMD EPYC 9006 Venice Announced & Looks Poised To Be A Grand Slam  Phoronix

While AMD EPYC 9005 "Turin" launched just under two years ago, it has aged remarkably well. It is one of the few CPU generations in my past 22 years of Linux hardware reviews/benchmarking that has still captivated me two years on in finding still typically industry-leading performance across varying workloads, exceptional reliability, and all around a very robust platform. Today though at AMD Advancing AI 2026, Lisa Su formally announced EPYC 9006 "Venice" for taking their server offerings to the next level in the agentic AI era.

AMD Launches Instinct MI455X, Helios AI Rack  Phoronix

Lisa Su at AMD Advancing AI 2026 just launched the new Instinct MI455X GPUs and the Helios rack...

I've used Linux for 30 years, and this free security suite does it all - almost perfectly  ZDNET

SimpleBLE 1.0 Streamlines Bluetooth Low Energy Testing Across Windows, Linux, macOS, iOS, and Android  Embedded Computing Design

The FreeBSD project issued a statement today over the FreeBSD Ports repository having been frozen for the past two days. The freeze is not due to a malicious compromise but rather a very large commit breaking things...

Dual-booting Linux is no longer worth the headache—there's a better way  How-To Geek

CIQ Arms Federal Agencies and Contractors with Kernel-Level Detection and BOD 26-04-Compliant Remediation  PR Newswire

Linux XFS has a decade-old race condition allowing full root access  Network World

Fedora 45 Atomic Desktops Look To Allow For Web-Based Remote Installations  Phoronix

One of the latest change proposals filed for Fedora Linux 45 is for supporting web-based remote installations of Fedora Atomic Desktop images...

Claude Cowork Flaw Could Let AI Agent Escape Its VM and Access Mac Files  The Hacker News

Linux Kernel Flaw Exposes 16 Million RHEL Systems to Silent Root Takeover  Tech Times

Steam Machine with SteamOS Linux - initial thoughts  GamingOnLinux

Ryzen AI Software 1.8 Released With New Model Support, More Optimizations  Phoronix

Ahead of Lisa Su's keynote this morning at the AMD Advancing AI event, tagged on GitHub just now was the Ryzen AI Software 1.8 release for helping to deploy AI models on Ryzen AI PCs...

LLVM 23.1-rc1 Released With AMD Zen 6 & AVX-512 BMM Support, Other Compiler Enhancements  Phoronix