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Rhino Linux Unveils KDE Plasma-Based Desktop and RPK2 Updates  WebProNews

While Linux 5.13 back in 2021 added support for the Apple Magic Mouse 2, only now with the Linux 6.16 kernel is there support arriving for the USB-C version of the Apple Magic Mouse 2 that debuted last year...

Linux 6.16 Merges Support For The Apple Magic Mouse 2 USB-C  Phoronix

I Turned a USB Drive Into a Linux App Swiss Army Knife  How-To Geek

The wide assortment of x86 platform driver updates have been merged for the Linux 6.16 kernel due out as stable in July. As is usually the case, there are a number of Intel and AMD platform updates along with a wide assortment of driver improvements primarily for laptops from the major OEMs/ODMs...

Linux 6.16 Brings Many Laptop Driver Improvements, New Dasharo ACPI Driver  Phoronix

6 things I wish I knew about Arch Linux before switching  XDA

New Linux PumaBot Targets IoT Devices with SSH Credential Brute-Force Attack  GBHackers News

My Winter Of ’99: The Year Of The Linux Desktop Is Always Next Year  Hackaday

Elementary OS 8 Gets Updated Dock, Window Manager, More  Thurrott.com

Malicious PyPI packages aim to backdoor Windows, Linux systems  SC Media

Coalition for Smarter Buildings Foundation Enables Building Management Innovation with Open Source Technical Project Contributions to the Linux Foundation  Chicago Star Media

SMT Proves Very Advantageous For AMD Ryzen AI MAX Strix Halo Performance  Phoronix

Coalition for Smarter Buildings Foundation Enables Building Management Innovation with Open Source Technical Project Contributions to the Linux Foundation  PR Newswire

SMT Proves Very Advantageous For AMD Ryzen AI MAX Strix Halo Performance  Phoronix

While Intel opted against implementing Hyper Threading for their latest Arrow Lake and Lunar Lake processors, Simultaneous Multi-Threading (SMT) still proves very effective on the AMD side. Even though the top-end AMD Ryzen AI MAX "Strix Halo" SoCs provide 16 Zen 5 cores, the presence of SMT for 32 threads still proves worthwhile from both a performance and power efficiency perspective. Here is an on/off comparison for SMT with the flagship AMD Ryzen AI MAX+ PRO 395 within the HP ZBook Ultra G1a.

AMD compiler engineer Joseph Huber is the one who ported DOOM to run on GPUs atop ROCm + LLVM libc as part of taking standard C/C++ code to run on GPUs and more recently has also been pursuing Flang/Fortran support atop GPUs. The latest in this ongoing quest is implementing efficient malloc support for memory allocation support on GPUs via the LLVM libc library...

Linux Hits Multi-Year High on Steam in May 2025  WebProNews

Valve engineer Pierre-Loup A. Griffais contributed ByoWave Proteus controller support to the Linux kernel. ByoWave Proteus are some modular controller designs that can be adapted based upon the needs of the gamer and even what title you may be playing at the moment. The triggers and buttons are all repositionable for a very customized controller experience. The only downside is the modular gaming controller kit retails for $299 USD, but at least now works off the mainline Linux kernel...

ByoWave Modular Proteus Controller Kit Support Lands In Linux 6.16  Phoronix