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Ubuntu Core 26 offers an immutable Linux you can trust through 2041  ZDNET

While it has been nearly seven years since Apple acquired the Intel Mobile Communications' smartphone modem business and fifteen years since Intel acquired the wireless solutions division of Infineon, in 2026 we might see mainline Linux kernel support for the out-of-date XMM6260 modem...

Patches Trying To Bring Mainline Linux Support For The Infineon/Intel XMM6260 Modem  Phoronix

Linux power users have been doing this for years—Windows just caught up  How-To Geek

Pardus Linux Local Privilege Escalation Flaw Allows Silent Root Access  CyberSecurityNews

Red Hat today announced the releases of both Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.2 as well as RHEL 9.8...

Yearslong fight over users’ right to tweak smart TV software heads to trial  Ars Technica

Microsoft Azure Linux 4 Moves to a Fedora-Based Foundation  Linuxiac

Greg KH Calls For More Rust Linux Developers  Phoronix

Greg KH Calls For More Rust Linux Developers  Phoronix

Greg Kroah-Hartman took time away from his duties as Linux's second-in-command as stable maintainer, various subsystem maintainer, and recent hobby of using AI/LLMs for uncovering Linux kernel bugs to present at the Rust Week conference...

Deutsche Bahn: No information under Linux  heise online

I tested KDE Plasma 6.7 beta, and it's easily my new Linux desktop of choice  ZDNET

Bring Back That Aged Scanner, In Your Browser  Hackaday

Exploit released for new PinTheft Arch Linux root escalation flaw  BleepingComputer

That didn't take long. Mere days after Dell and Lenovo began sponsoring the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) as premiere sponsors in contributing $100k+ annually to this open-source firmware updating initiative, HP is also now a premiere sponsor...

HP Now Sponsoring The Linux Vendor Firmware Service / Fwupd  Phoronix

FFmpeg already supports CPU-based decoding for Samsung's APV as the Advanced Professional Video Codec. FFmpeg also has APV encode support too while now an interesting addition was merged this week: Vulkan-based acceleration for APV...

Intel software engineers today rolled out the llm-scaler-vllm PV v1.4 as the Docker build of their latest software stack for those wishing to run vLLM in a pre-configured, performant setup on their Arc (Pro) Graphics hardware...

Intel llm-scaler-vllm PV 1.4 Released With Updated Components, Arc Pro B70 Support  Phoronix