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Watch out Nvidia, a Linux leak revealing three new Intel Arc Battlemage GPUs may challenge the RTX 5000 series  TechRadar

Over the past week I have published a number of GeForce RTX 5090 Linux compute benchmarks as well as the GeForce RTX 5080 on Linux. With that early NVIDIA R570 Linux driver build as part of the CUDA 12.8 package I was asked to wait on Linux gaming benchmarks until the proper RTX 50 Linux driver is released. Well, it was released this morning with the NVIDIA 570.86.16 Linux beta availability and have in turn been pushing the GeForce RTX 5080 and RTX 5090 through a number of Linux gaming/graphics benchmarks.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 / RTX 5090 Linux Gaming Benchmarks Review  Phoronix

Navigating Linux Container Challenges with Scott McCarty  Cloud Native Now

Last week saw the big set of Bcachefs updates merged for the Linux 6.14 kernel that included the last anticipated big on-disk format change as well as scalability improvements. It was a particularly big pull after Bcachefs missed out on any changes being upstreamed for Linux 6.13. This week a set of follow-on fixes/improvements have been merged for this experimental copy-on-write file-system...

Android 16's Linux Terminal will soon let you run graphical apps, so of course we ran Doom  Android Authority

High Tide is a Promising New TIDAL Client for Linux  OMG! Ubuntu!

How to Change the Default Text Editor on Linux  Techloy

Mini PC with Linux: System76 Meerkat updated with up to Intel Core Ultra 7 CPU and 96 GB of memory  Notebookcheck.net

The best Linux distributions for beginners in 2025: Expert tested and reviewed  ZDNet

One of the details not too widely talked about with Intel's newest Core Ultra Series 2 processors is the introduction of the Partner Security Engine, which is a new dedicated security engine on the SOC that is capable of running the Microsoft Pluton firmware and software. Intel today published more details around their Partner Security Engine...

NVIDIA 570 Linux Graphics Driver Promises VRR Support on Multi-Monitor Setups  9to5Linux

Just ahead of the GNOME 48 feature freeze this weekend, gdctl has been merged into GNOME's Mutter as the GNOME Display Control Utility...

Civ 7 requirements for PC, Steam Deck, Linux, and Mac  TechRadar

Facebook admits that the Linux topic crackdown was 'in error' and has been fixed  Tom's Hardware

CyberArk Helps Modernize Identity and Access Management for Linux Machines With New Identity Bridge Capability  Business Wire

CyberArk Helps Modernize Identity and Access Management for Linux Machines With New Identity Bridge Capability  Yahoo Finance

This Game-Changing Linux Security Tool Just Made System Authentication 10x Easier  StockTitan

NVIDIA Beta driver 570.86.16 released with VRR for multiple displays and lots of improvements  GamingOnLinux

Internet tech company Yandex announced the open-source release today of Perforator as a tool to help identify and evaluate code inefficiencies at scale. They say Perforator can lead to businesses saving "billions of dollars a year on server infrastructure."..