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Just days ago Valve developer Autumn Ashton announced initial NVIDIA DLSS upscaling for the open-source Mesa NVK driver. One of those needed Vulkan extensions, VK_NVX_image_view_handle, is already merged to Mesa Git...

Adaptiva Expands Cross-Platform Patch Management Leadership with Support for Latest Linux, Mac, and Windows Platforms  PR Newswire

Beckhoff Introduces TwinCAT for Linux  Automation World

Hackers Deploy Linux Rootkits via Cisco SNMP Flaw in "Zero Disco' Attacks  The Hacker News

PipeWire 1.6 Promises Bluetooth Audio Streaming for Hearing Aid Support  9to5Linux

Posted to the Linux networking mailing list on Wednesday were the latest patches for enabling the Homa transport protocol. Homa is the clean-sheet design aiming to become an alternative to TCP within data centers and capable of offering 10~100x reductions in tail latency for short messages...

Firefox and Thunderbird 144 are here  theregister.com

Announced nearly one year ago was the OpenWrt One as a router/AP that is "hacker-friendly" and open-source. The OpenWrt One is powered by a Filogic 820 SoC and features WiFi 6. This official OpenWrt device is manufactured by Banana Pi. While there is downstream open-source code available for customizing the OpenWrt One to your heart's content, the upstream Linux kernel support to date hasn't been full-featured...

Proposed Patches Make Upstream Linux Kernel Usable For The OpenWrt One Router  Phoronix

SYCLBIN has been proposed by a longtime Intel compiler expert as a new way for storing SYCL device code for use as part of their GPU/XPU programming ambitions...

NordVPN open-sources its Linux app's GUI and simplifies installation  Yahoo! Tech

NordVPN open-sources its Linux app's GUI and simplifies installation  Tom's Guide

The latest Mesa Git code is now under version Mesa 26.0-devel with the Mesa 25.3 code being branched overnight for what will become this quarter's stable feature release...

Mesa 25.2.5 released with major bug fix for Intel graphics on Linux  GamingOnLinux

Next-gen Intel graphics confirmed for Nova Lake in Linux Kernel update  DLCompare.com

Cisco SNMP Vulnerability Actively Exploited to Install Linux Rootkits  GBHackers News

FOSS Weekly #25.42: Hyprland Controversy, German State with Open Source, New Flatpak App Center and a Lot More Linux Stuff  It's FOSS

Mesa Gallium3D Driver Merged For Arm Ethos NPUs  Phoronix

Arm has been working on an open-source Linux kernel accelerator "accel" driver for their Ethos NPUs. That kernel driver continues being revised and under review for inclusion into a future mainline Linux kernel release. Already though a Gallium3D driver for Mesa has been merged for leveraging the Ethos NPU...

The ollama 0.12.6-rc0 software released this evening and with it comes experimental Vulkan API support...