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RDNA 2 received FSR 4.1 support on Linux earlier Windows  GameGPU

It was 6 AM when the first alert fired. Then the second. Then the third.The on-call engineer opened her laptop to find 3 unrelated failures from a single AI agent. The agent handled support tickets, processed billing adjustments, and answered customer questions. It ran on LangChain. It had passed every test in staging, and it worked—until it didn't.I've watched teams pour months into prompt engineering and model selection only to lose a weekend cleaning up an incident that had nothing to do with either. The failures that follow are not hypothetical. They're the kind of thing that happens the

Linuxiac Weekly Wrap-Up: Week 28, 2026 (July 6 – 12)  Linuxiac

Linux 7.2-rc3 is now available for testing in working toward the stable Linux 7.2 kernel version coming up in August...

Linux 7.2-rc3 Released: Close To The "New Normal"  Phoronix

Similar to Linux 7.2 enabling Eswin SoC support by default in the RISC-V "defconfig" kernel build, UltraRISC RISC-V coverage is also now being enabled by default for RISC-V kernel builds in Linux 7.2...

Linux 7.2 Enabling UltraRISC RISC-V Support In The Default Kernel Build  Phoronix

DOOM: The Dark Ages | FSR4 INT8 RX6600 | Linux  YouTube

Sega Dreamcast driver fixes appear in Linux 7.2-rc3 — fabled console remains in favor while iconic computing architectures like i486 fall by the wayside  Tom's Hardware

Cyber Security Newsletter and Bulletin Weekly – 16-Year-Old Linux, Ubiquiti Flaws, Accenture Breach, Android...  CyberSecurityNews

Critical U-Boot FIT Signature Verification Vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-46728) Expose Embedded Linux Devices to Stealthy Firmware Attacks  Rescana

The Harmonic Firmware Initiative "HFI" is trying to provide a generic, standardized power-on firmware experience for RISC-V boards. Akin to the x86 world with having immediate graphics card initialization to provide a display while the system is booting and also having a BIOS setup utility for system configuration, HFI is trying to do the same for the RISC-V world...

Microsoft stopped fighting Linux—now it's building it  How-To Geek

It wasn't on my bingo card for the week but merged to Git ahead of today's Linux 7.2-rc3 kernel release are a number of fixes for the SEGA Dreamcast drivers...

Linux 7.2-rc3 Bringing Fixes For The SEGA Dreamcast Drivers In 2026  Phoronix

The staging driver fixes that were sent out this week ahead of the Linux 7.2-rc3 release is predominantly made up of hardening the Realtek RTL8723BS WiFi driver. In particular, a number of fixes for addressing out-of-bounds behavior when connecting to "bad" WiFi hosts...

Realtek RTL8723BS WiFi Linux Driver Hardened Against Malicious WiFi Access Points  Phoronix

linux-in-fe  Thurrott.com

Fastfetch 2.66 System Information Tool Released with Better AMD GPU Detection  Linuxiac

AI discovers Linux bug that went unnoticed for 15 years  Cybernews