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VerdantBamboo Deploys BSD Variant of BRICKSTORM on Linux Appliances  The Hacker News

In addition to the SpacemiT K1 and K3 RISC-V SoC Device Tree updates sent out last week, the RISC-V T-HEAD Device Tree "DT" changes were also sent out last week ahead of the upcoming Linux 7.2 kernel merge window...

BeagleV Ahead & Lichee Pi 4a RISC-V Boards To See Working WiFi With Linux 7.2  Phoronix

Linux Foundation: AI Is Boosting Tech Hiring in Europe  YourStory.com

Linux Mint was throttling my modern hardware by default — 3 changes fixed it completely  MakeUseOf

AI actually boosts demand for tech talent, says Linux Foundation  Techzine Global

Firefox 153 Lands Vulkan Video Decode Support, Big Win for Linux NVIDIA Users  Linuxiac

History of CentOS: How a biochemist's Linux hobby project became the enterprise world's default operating system  The Register

Linux kernel 7.1 is almost ready  Techzine Global

HandBrake 1.11.2 Improves Linux WebM Integration And Stability  Open Source For You

Armbian Imager 2.0 release supports over 300 boards from 64 SBC vendors, custom user profiles  CNX Software

New Linux Foundation Report Finds AI is Driving Positive Tech Hiring Trends in Europe Amid Growing Security and Skills Gaps  Linux Foundation

Meet Melia: A Privacy-First, Modern Desktop Email Client Made Just for Linux  It's FOSS

New Linux Foundation Report Finds AI is Driving Positive Tech Hiring Trends in Europe Amid Growing Security and Skills Gaps  PR Newswire

Linux 7.1 stable launch looms as Linus Torvalds releases the final release candidate  Neowin

Firefox 153 is finally ditching the Nvidia driver workaround Linux users have hated  XDA

Proton Drive client is (finally) coming to Linux  OMG! Ubuntu

Last week Linux 7.1-rc6 was larger than Linus Torvalds wished for and for Linux 7.1-rc7 it has come in still heavier than typically seen this late in the cycle, but is shrinking and making Linus comfortable in hopefully releasing Linux 7.1 stable next Sunday...

Linux 7.1-rc7 Released: Stable Hopefully Next Sunday  Phoronix

"Every AI lab is losing money serving your company right now. They know it. And they are doing it on purpose."That was the opening line of an article that landed in my inbox the same week 3 numbers crystallized to make it clear why open inference is no longer optional.A developer built a simple notes app over a weekend using an open source coding agent with a direct API key. One page, one feature. Cost: $50. The next day, a $20/month subscription provided 50x more tokens.One engineer on our inference team consumed 300 million tokens through open-weight models in 2 days, doing the same work tha