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Merged ahead of tomorrow's Linux 7.2-rc6 kernel test release are several ATA fixes that include a number of device-specific workarounds for some Western Digital SATA drives that have been failing to work on recent versions of the Linux kernel...

Linux 7.2-rc6 Working Around Several Buggy Western Digital SATA Drives  Phoronix

GNOME developers were quite busy in closing out the month of July from continued work on establishing a formal Request For Comments (RFC) process for the project to battling the continued flood of AI-generated GNOME Shell extensions...

It's been a very exciting week in the KDE Plasma 6.8 development space particularly thanks to performance work on bettering KWin's multi-GPU / external GPU handling...

If the recent release of the GNU C Library glibc 2.44 is too big for your embedded use-cases, Keith Packard continues hacking on Picolibc as his embedded-focused C library. Released overnight was Picolibc 1.8.12 with a variety of improvements for this embedded libc...

Starling is a new Linux desktop built using AI in six months  OMG! Ubuntu

AMD FPGA Tools 2026.1 Install on Ubuntu  Hackster.io

GTA V Enhanced Performance Comparison on Linux and Windows  GameGPU

4MLinux 52.0 Released with Better Support for Legacy GPUs, Linux Kernel 6.18 LTS  9to5Linux

AMD closed out the month of July by posting some new AMDGPU Display Core "DC" patches. Most notable with this weekly patch ritual is several patches beginning to establish the foundation for Display Core Next 6 "DCN6" as their next-generation display IP. The patches tie DCN6 to the AMD GFX13 graphics engine, which is anticipated to be for the next-generation RDNA5 graphics processors...

AMD Begins Posting Display Core Next 6 "DCN6" Linux Patches For RDNA5 GPUs  Phoronix

AerynOS Gets Linux Kernel 7.1.5, COSMIC 1.5, and Mesa 26.1.6  Linuxiac

RefluXFS: A Nine-Year-Old Linux Kernel Bug Found by AI in Weeks Affects 16.4 Million Systems  forkast.news

Arch Linux disables AUR package adoption to stop malware flood  BleepingComputer

Following last week's launch of the AMD Instinct MI455X, AMD has now kept with tradition and provided ISA documentation concerning this latest CDNA5 architecture...

AMD Publishes CDNA5 ISA Documentation For Instinct MI455X  Phoronix

Arch Linux's AUR is under attack as malicious packages begin flooding the repository  XDA

Framework Desktop: the repairable, Linux-friendly AI mini PC for open-source creatives  Camera Jabber

Last month 3mdeb released their open-source firmware for a modern AMD EPYC motherboard from Gigabyte that was built off the new AMD openSIL project and Coreboot. Today 3mdeb has delivered the first open-source firmware release for a modern AMD Ryzen desktop motherboard with having independently brought their openSIL+Coreboot powered Dasharo stack to the readily available MSI PRO B850-P WIFI...

Shotcut 26.7 is out today as the newest feature release to this open-source, cross-platform video editing solution...