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As a lovely early Christmas present, The Khronos Group used SIGGRAPH Asia today for announcing the Vulkan 1.4 specification release...

Even the Linux Foundation has Cyber Monday deals - get 60% off tech training courses  ZDNet

KDE is Making its Own Distro, and So is GNOME  It's FOSS News

Qt Creator 15 Open-Source IDE Released with Axivion Support, New Themes  9to5Linux

Lutris game manager v0.5.18 released with improved GOG and itch.io support, various other features  GamingOnLinux

5 Linux commands for locating system slowdowns fast  ZDNet

Discord Finally Fixed a Big Issue on Linux  How-To Geek

AMD Per-Core Energy Counter Support Slated For Linux 6.14  Phoronix

While the Linux 6.13 merge window just closed yesterday in landing all of the new features and functionality for that first kernel version of 2025, already for the Linux 6.14 kernel cycle to follow a feature was queued up early this morning in a TIP branch: AMD per-core energy counter support...

Discover the future of Linux security  The Register

Elektrobit launches EB corbos Linux SDK as an Amazon Machine Image to support cloud-first workflows  Morningstar

Elektrobit launches EB corbos Linux SDK as an Amazon Machine Image to support cloud-first workflows  PR Newswire

While Intel has been under much financial difficulties and as they pursue their build out of new fabs to better compete with TSMC, to much surprise Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger has retired effective today...

Building off the early October release of Qt 6.8 LTS, Qt 6.8.1 is out today with more than 550 fixes collected over the past two months...

Raspberry Pi Password Not Working? Here's What You Can Do  SlashGear

Vulkan Video Now Enabled By Default For Radeon VCN2/VCN3 Hardware On Linux  Phoronix

An exciting merge today for the Radeon "RADV" Vulkan driver with next quarter's Mesa 25.0 is enabling Vulkan Video API support by default for AMD graphics having VCN 2.x and VCN 3.x hardware...

Llamafile 0.8.17 debuted this weekend as the newest version of this Mozilla research project for making it easy to distribute and run AI large language models (LLMs) within a single file. As implied by its name, Llamafile leverages Llama.cpp along with other open-source software into one consistent framework for helping to make single-file LLM executables a reality...

Get up to 60% off Linux Foundation tech training courses and certifications for Cyber Week  ZDNet

Merged over the US holiday weekend was a big update to the Imagination PowerVR Vulkan driver code for Mesa 25.0... 71 patches in fact making up this merge request...