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Qualcomm today announced the Snapdragon X2 Elite SoCs as building off their X Elite laptop SoCs that shipped last year. With the Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme (X2E-96-100) flagship is 18 cores with a 5.0GHz single and dual core boost frequency...

Qualcomm Announces X2 Elite SoCs - Up To 18 Cores & Up To 5.0GHz Boost Frequency  Phoronix

Evaluating the Most Effective Embedded Linux Solutions for Intelligent Edge Systems  Robotics & Automation News

Kali Linux 2025.3 is out! A new release with improvements and new tools.  Red Hot Cyber

Kali Linux 2025.3 released with 10 new tools, wifi enhancements  BleepingComputer

Linux/Windows laptop vendor MALIBAL that caused quite a fuss last year when suggesting against supporting Coreboot and in turn blocked shipping of products to states/countries where the involved developers were located is now pursuing an initiative of made-in-America laptops. But it's going to be a lengthy journey and first they are soliciting investments to first pursue American-made keyboards and touchpads...

Zorin OS 18 beta makes Linux look like anything but Linux  theregister.com

I recommend people use these apps when moving from Windows to Linux  XDA

This is my all-time Linux distro - and I've tried them all  ZDNET

PureVPN bug leaked IPv6 traffic on Linux  Tom's Guide

Besides the support for MRDIMM-8800 memory, another distinct advantage of Intel Xeon 6 "Granite Rapids" processors is the continued presence of Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX). Here are some fresh benchmarks looking at the impact of AMX on the Intel Xeon 6980P processors for AI inference workloads.

DE25-Nano with 138K-LE Agilex 5 FPGA and Dual-Cluster ARM HPS  linuxgizmos.com

Kali Linux 2025.3 Drops Support for Raspberry Pi 1, Zero W and Other ARMel Devices  It's FOSS News

Imagination's open-source PowerVR Vulkan driver within Mesa now is able to generate its different internal shaders required by the driver to forego shipping old hard-coded shaders...

Open Source Infrastructure is Breaking Down Due to Corporate Freeloading  It's FOSS News

Intel announced this week that its moving its graphics driver support for integrated graphics on 11th Gen through 14th Gen processors over to their legacy driver model on Microsoft Windows. While this is a setback for those using Raptor Lake processors on Windows as well as the few Xe DG1 discrete graphics out there, Linux users don't have much to worry about...

Intel Moves Pre-Arc Graphics To "Legacy" Driver On Windows - Linux Users Need Not Worry  Phoronix

New Proposal Looks to Make Linux Multi-Kernel Friendly  It's FOSS News

Who Wants A Rusty Old Smartphone?  Hackaday

Who Wants A Rusty Old Smartphone?  Hackaday