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Patches queued up this month into net-next ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.15 kernel merge window add support for the Airoha NPU... Not to be confused with the Neural Processing Unit (NPU) that is all the rage these days for helping with AI, the Airoha NPU is a Network Processor Unit...

Tvrtko Ursulin of Igalia has been working on some optimizations to the DRM synchronization object "drm_syncobj" code for slightly more efficient use on the CPU side...

Ubuntu 25.10 plans to swap GNU coreutils for Rust  The Register

DRM Sync Object Optimizations Show Minor Benefit On The Steam Deck  Phoronix

ckb-next adds support for two more Corsair devices on Linux and fixes a major bug for multiple others  GamingOnLinux

Steam Beta improves download speed of Steam Client updates on Linux / Steam Deck and other fixes  GamingOnLinux

NVIDIA 570.133.07 driver released for Linux with bug fixes  GamingOnLinux

elementary OS 8.0.1 Released with Linux Kernel 6.11 from Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS  9to5Linux

AMD RX Vega 64 runs Indiana Jones and the Great Circle at well over 30FPS in Linux with RADV driver  HardForum

In addition to NVIDIA's GTC conference going on right now, they also released today an updated R570 Linux driver build...

NVIDIA 570.133.07 Linux Driver Released With A Few Fixes  Phoronix

Following Hector Martin stepping down from the Asahi Linux project that he founded for bringing Linux to Apple Silicon hardware, Asahi Lina announced today that she is pausing work on all of the Apple GPU driver development she had been pursuing for Asahi Linux with the open-source DRM kernel driver as well as Mesa contributions...

Asahi Lina Pausing Work On Apple GPU Linux Driver Development  Phoronix

Ubuntu developers decided a few months back to switch from IRC to Matrix for real-time communication needs. The newest fundamental shift being discussed by Ubuntu developers is shifting from mailing list discussions to Ubuntu Discourse for mailing list like written communications...

BLAKE3 as the cryptographic hashing function that is much faster than the likes of SHA-1/SHA-1 while being more secure than SHA-1 and MD5 is out with a new feature update. BLAKE3 v1.7 is now available for the official C and Rust code as the reference implementations to this cryptographic hash function...

Ryan Walker's Flipper Blackhat Is a Powerful Quad-Core Linux-Based Wi-Fi Add-On for the Flipper Zero  Hackster.io

The Fedora 42 Beta Is Here, Complete with a COSMIC Spin  How-To Geek

The full PCI Express 7.0 specification remains on track for publishing later this year while out today is version 0.9 of the specification as the planned final draft...

Fedora Linux 42 Beta is here with KDE edition, COSMIC spin, Asahi Remix, and major updates  BetaNews

AMD RX Vega 64 runs Indiana Jones and the Great Circle at well over 30FPS in Linux with RADV driver  Tom's Hardware