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Google Cloud Upgrades A2A Protocol, Donates to Linux Foundation for AI Boost  WebProNews

Linus Torvalds still uses an AMD RX 580 from 2017 — also ditches Apple Silicon for an Intel laptop  Tom's Hardware

Back in May when AMD launched the EPYC 4005 "Grado" processors for low-power, low-cost server processors we tested the EPYC 4565P and EPYC 4585PX. The EPYC 4565P is their standard 16-core offering while the EPYC 4585PX is the 3D V-Cache variant for these processors catering to web hosting, SOHO servers, edge computing, and other applications where not needing the performance of the flagship EPYC 9005 "Turin" processors. There is also another 16-core variant with the EPYC 4545P and what makes this SKU interesting is the 16-cores / 32-threads but with a 65 Watt TDP. In the Ryzen 9000 series so far AMD hasn't introduced any 16-core, 65-Watt part that makes the EPYC 4545P all the more interesting. Here are some benchmarks of the EPYC 4545P for those shopping for an affordable and very power efficient server platform that still sharply outperforms Intel's Xeon E / Xeon 6300 competition.

For the Ubuntu 25.10 development cycle to complement the daily ISOs, Canonical began releasing monthly snapshots to facilitate more testing from the community and also in working to enhance their build automation / infrastructure. Today marks the third monthly release of Ubuntu 25.10 for testing...

I found a distro that brings the best of Windows, macOS, and Linux into one system  xda-developers.com

Canonical dusts off TPM encryption for Ubuntu 25.10  theregister.com

For Windows 10's 10th anniversary, I'm switching to Linux  xda-developers.com

It’s ‘everywhere’ – Mozilla ramps up access with VPN now available on all Linux distros  TechRadar

Lyon Switches to Linux, Open-Source from Microsoft by 2026  WebProNews

CISCO Giften AGNTCY Project to Linux Foundation to Standardize AI Agent Communication  It's FOSS News

Apple SMC Driver Merged For Linux 6.17 To Be Able To Reboot Macs  Phoronix

The Apple System Management Controller (SMC) driver was successfully merged this week into Linux 6.17 for being able to reboot modern Apple M1 / M2 Macs under Linux (the Apple M3 / M4 Linux support remains in development). It's the latest improvement for Apple Silicon on the upstream Linux kernel compared to the downstream Asahi Linux code that has been carrying the SMC driver and other in-development/tentative patches...

Linus Torvalds Continues Using A Radeon RX 580 Graphics Card, Back On An Intel Laptop  Phoronix

The AMD Radeon RX 480 / RX 580 "Polaris" graphics cards remain very popular on the Steam Survey and among enthusiasts/desktop users at large even though they are nearly a decade old. The nine year old Polaris graphics cards have aged well in the marketplace and are an affordable choice. For Linux users they continue enjoying strong open-source driver support. It turns out Linux creator Linus Torvalds himself is still relying on an AMD Radeon RX 580 with one of his main systems...

Another change proposal filed recently for the Fedora Linux 43 release is to hardlink identical files within /usr by default for RPM-provided files that are 100% identical and can be then deduplicated to help conserve disk space and increase system efficiency...

Bash, Fish, Zsh—Which Linux Shell Is the Best?  How-To Geek

Upstreamed to the Linux kernel back in 2019 was the Lockdown security module for opt-in hardware/kernel security restrictions. It was a difficult and contentious process getting to the Linux kernel but then was left without any formal maintainer shortly after being mainlined. Now for helping to renew this Linux security module, two developers have stepped up to takeover maintainership of Lockdown...

Libinput 1.29 was just released as the newest version of this open-source input handling library used on the modern Linux desktop both under X.Org and Wayland environments...

Arch Linux Installer Gets U2F Authentication and Bluetooth Support  9to5Linux

Gunra Ransomware New Linux Variant Runs Up To 100 Encryption Threads With New Partial Encryption Feature  CyberSecurityNews