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The RISC-V architecture feature updates were merged on Friday for the Linux 6.16 merge window that is set to end on Sunday with the Linux 6.16-rc1 release...

ChatGPT Patched A BIOS Binary, And It Worked  Hackaday

Kali GPT- AI Assistant That Transforms Penetration Testing on Kali Linux  CybersecurityNews

It was just earlier this week that Mesa 25.1.2 arrived as the newest bi-weekly bug-fix release for these open-source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers. Coming out today is an emergency bug-fix release to fix a regression affecting AMD Radeon RX 9000 series RDNA4 graphics card owners...

Mesa 25.1.3 Released As Emergency Update For Radeon RX 9000 Series Linux Users  Phoronix

7 reasons I chose Btrfs over ZFS for my home NAS  XDA

Micro Machines  Hackster.io

No More Difficult Linux Gentoo Installs: Redcore Makes It Easy  The New Stack

Vulkan 1.4.317 was made public on Friday with a number of exciting new extensions, including VP9 video decoding for Vulkan Video, 8-bit floating-point data type support, and other additions...

For those making use of GNOME Papers as the increasingly popular document viewer app for the GNOME desktop, a major rework was merged to enhance the annotations experience...

8 things you must try with the Linux Terminal app on your Android phone  Android Authority

June 7 tech news roundup: Windows 11 will stop prompting EU users to use Edge, YouTube Premium Lite will show more ads, KDE is inviting Windows 10 users to switch to Linux  FileHippo

These Are My Favorite 15 Ubuntu Linux Keyboard Shortcuts  How-To Geek

Intel's Clear Linux distribution has made some packaging improvements to help better suit the needs of its users...

Intel's Clear Linux Rolls Out Software Packaging Bundle Improvements  Phoronix

Linux 6.16 Lands Support For EcoNet MIPS Platforms  Phoronix

While there isn't much new MIPS activity taking place due to other CPU architectures like RISC-V and LoongArch taking the interest away, the MIPS code within the Linux kernel does continue seeing enhancements as well as upstreaming of hardware that has long been relegated to downstream kernels...

I've used virtually every Linux distro, but this one has a fresh perspective  ZDNET

Merged on Friday to the Linux 6.16 kernel by way of the USB/Thunderbolt branch was the massive set of patches (12k+ lines of code) for USB offload support for audio devices...

KDE developers are on the final stretch of fixes and polishing ahead of the Plasma 6.4 release next Thursday. Plus there has been plenty of early work building toward Plasma 6.5...