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This AI-enabled terminal app can supercharge the command prompt and write code for you.  Tom's Hardware

Firmware Loader Makes It Possible To Use Old Samsung TV Cameras On Linux  Phoronix

Samsung used to sell web cameras for their smart TVs for use with living room video chatting with the likes of Skype. Samsung no longer supports Skype on their TVs (goodbye Skype!) or these devices but if you happen to have one laying around or buy one used for cheap, it's now possible to use these Samsung TV cameras as a standard web camera under Linux...

All of the PCI subsystem feature updates have now been merged for the Linux 6.15 kernel cycle. This includes some new drivers from AMD and Intel-Altera as well as various other PCI changes...

Linux 6.15 PCI Brings New Drivers For Agilex PCIe Controller & AMD Multimedia DMA Bridge  Phoronix

Earlier this month brought the Theora 1.2 beta release coming 16 years after Theora's libtheora 1.0 release for this video codec designed by Xiph.Org for use with Ogg audio. Theora is derived from the now rather ancient VP3 video codec, but for those continuing to enjoy content in Theora format, today brings the version 1.2 library...

Within This Week in Plasma, KDE developer Nate Graham notes the great excitement in KDE bug fixing this week/ KDE developers have lowered their HI/VHI priority bug counts down to "their lowest numbers ever numbers" in addition to working on new Plasma 6.4 features over the past few days...

The Debian release team announced that the Debian 13 "Trixie" transition and toolchain freeze began on-schedule this month...

The big set of open-source graphics driver updates for Linux 6.15 have been merged but Linux creator Linus Torvalds isn't particularly happy with the pull request. In particular, he's unhappy with some new "hdrtest" testing code being built as part of full kernel builds and the "turds" it leaves behind and this code "needs to die" at least from the perspective of non-DRM driver developers...

While fresh off the GNOME 48 release, GNOME desktop developers aren't slowing down and there's been some interesting activity to report this week...

Ubuntu namespace vulnerability should be addressed quickly: Expert  Network World

KaOS 2025.03 Linux Distro Released with KDE Plasma 6.3 and Linux Kernel 6.13  9to5Linux

Benchmark Anything With This Powerful Linux Tool  How-To Geek

The big pull request was sent out today of the numerous Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) updates for the in-development Linux 6.15 kernel. There are new drivers, a lot as usual for the AMD Radeon and Intel kernel graphics drivers, and a lot of other changes throughout for advancing these open-source kernel graphics/display drivers...

How to use the Sed command  Network World

Both Haiku and Linux get new FOSS Nvidia drivers  The Register

While there were a few graphics benchmarks in yesterday's Ubuntu 25.04 beta benchmarks, today's article is looking more at the Ubuntu 25.04 Linux gaming performance for both the GNOME 48 and KDE Plasma 6.3 desktops that default to the Wayland-based session by default while also trying out the X11 session for both of these desktops.

GNOME 48 & KDE Plasma 6.3 Delivering Great Wayland Desktop Experience On Ubuntu 25.04 For Linux Gaming  Phoronix

New Ubuntu Linux security bypasses require manual mitigations  BleepingComputer

Back during the Linux 6.13 kernel cycle initial support for many (pre-M1) Apple devices were upstreamed including various iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch devices. That though was the very preliminary support and continuing to work their way upstream are various drivers/patches to further enhance the support. Now for the Linux 6.15 kernel is a new Apple backlight driver for controlling the backlight on various mobile Apple devices...