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Chrome 0-Day CVE-2025-4664 Exposes Windows, Linux Browser Activity  Hackread

Back in April Mesa deprecated Gallium Nine alongside the XA state tracker used for X.Org Server acceleration. Gallium-XA was developed by VMware for use with their DDX driver for accelerating X11 within their virtualized environments. XA isn't really used these days and the generic GLAMOR code is in much better shape. Thus Mesa is now no longer building the XA code as the next step toward its removal...

Dune: Awakening will have BattlEye enabled for Linux, SteamOS / Steam Deck  GamingOnLinux

While there is the AMDXDNA accelerator driver that was upstreamed to the mainline kernel earlier this year with Linux 6.14 for supporting the AMD Ryzen AI NPUs and also their AIE Plugin for IREE user-space components, it seems something more is on the way...

AMD Previews Mysterious Linux Runtime Stack For Ryzen AI NPUs  Phoronix

Following the recent decision to no longer issue alpha or beta releases of Wayland, the Wayland 1.24 release candidate was issued on Thursday in working toward that next release...

Here's all the games to claim for Steam Deck / Linux from Prime Gaming as of May 23rd  GamingOnLinux

It looks like the upcoming Linux 6.16 kernel will feature several additions to the FUTEX2 support...

FUTEX2 NUMA, MPOL & Task-Local Hash Maps Appear Ready For Linux 6.16  Phoronix

Heroic Launcher for Epic, GOG, Amazon games on Linux / SteamOS v2.17 released  GamingOnLinux

Splitgate 2 gets a Beta on Steam, works on Steam Deck but not other Linux systems for now  GamingOnLinux

Steam Deck gets a big upgrade with SteamOS 3.7 and you can now install it on other AMD handhelds  GamingOnLinux

AI Finds CVE-2025-37899 Zero-Day In Linux SMB Kernel  The Cyber Express

Arch Linux-based SteamOS 3.7.8 update brings Plasma 6, better battery controls, and Legion Go S support  BetaNews

AudioThing Wave Box, dual waveshaper plugin for mac, linux, win and now iOS AUv3  synth anatomy

Valve today released SteamOS 3.7.8 to their stable channel as the first stable version of their Arch Linux based SteamOS 3.7 operating system...

SteamOS 3.7 Stable Rolls Out With Updated Linux Kernel, Expanding AMD Handheld Support  Phoronix

Ubuntu 25.10 is joining the likes of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SUSE Linux Enterprise that are using Chrony as their Network Time Protocol (NTP) implementation. Ubuntu 25.10 is switching over to Chrony in enabling Network Time Security (NTS) support on Ubuntu Linux...

Mozilla announced today it's going to be shutting down its Pocket read-it-later bookmarking service this summer...

Ubuntu 25.10 Will Ship with the Linux 6.17 Kernel  OMG! Ubuntu