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Ubuntu 25.10's Move To Rust Coreutils Is Causing Major Breakage For Some Executables  Phoronix

System76 Releases Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS Beta with COSMIC Desktop  WebProNews

After being on a hiatus for more than one year and going through several rounds of Habana Labs driver maintainers due to Intel layoffs, there finally is some updated "habanalabs" AI accelerator kernel driver code slated to go into the upcoming Linux 6.18 kernel cycle. There is some new feature work but still no Gaudi 3 support for the upstream Linux kernel...

Intel Returns To Working On The Habana Labs AI Accelerator Linux Driver  Phoronix

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The Linux 6.18 kernel is bringing a new patch to benefit those using the decade-old AMD Bulldozer processors and wanting to make use of Linux's X86_NATIVE_CPU build option for enhancing performance in some areas by optimizing the kernel build for your particular processor/ISA capabilities...

Linux 6.18 Landing Patch For Old AMD Bulldozer CPUs With XOP Instruction Set  Phoronix

A new feature merged this week for the Intel Mesa compiler code for their ANV Vulkan and Iris Gallium3D drivers is support for Stochastic Rounding...

System76 COSMIC desktop Beta and Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS Beta now available  GamingOnLinux

Overnight the Linux PC vendor System76 released their long-awaited Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS Beta operating system along with the beta milestone of their COSMIC desktop environment...

System76 Releases Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS Beta Alongside COSMIC Desktop Beta  Phoronix

Steam Link VR now available for PICO and HTC headsets, plus Valve confirm experimental Linux support  GamingOnLinux

New LockBit Ransomware Variant Emerges as Most Dangerous Yet  Infosecurity Magazine

LockBit 5.0 Ransomware Targets Windows, Linux, and ESXi  Cyber Press

LockBit 5.0 Ransomware Targets Windows, Linux, and VMware ESXi Systems  gbhackers.com

System76 Releases COSMIC Beta Desktop Environment and Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS Beta  9to5Linux

Back in March AMD announced the open-source GAIA software for GenAI but as noted in that former article, at launch it was limited to Windows-only support. AMD recently released a new version of GAIA with Linux support albeit in a rather interesting twist is limited to Vulkan acceleration...

AMD's GAIA For GenAI Adds Linux Support: Using Vulkan For GPUs, No NPUs Yet  Phoronix

Linux 6.18 Kernel Boosts Apple Silicon Support for Enterprise Use  WebProNews

CLO Launches Marvelous Designer for Linux, Expanding Support for Professional Pipelines  WV News