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Just shy of 1,000 new patches were merged on the SoC side for the Linux 7.2 kernel. Among all those patches are enabling five more SoCs to work with the mainline Linux kernel -- including the long-awaited Apple M3 support...

Linux Foundation launches Appia Foundation to build standardised specifications for AI  Computer Weekly

Just days after AMD engineers released a new Lemonade AI server with MCP server integration to make it much more useful, they have now released a new release of their GAIA "Generative AI Is Awesome" open-source software. With AMD GAIA 0.21.2, they have introduced a bash coding agent is their latest big ticket item in the AI space...

For those interested in Trust Domain Extensions (TDX) with modern Intel Xeon processors for confidential computing but also view system uptime as critical, beginning in Linux 7.2 the TDX support is now much more practical with allowing live updates without the need to reboot the running system in the event of security updates and similar...

Intel TDX Now Much More Practical With Ability To Apply Important Updates Without Reboot  Phoronix

Pilot a powerful warship in the space bullet heaven roguelike Sublight  GamingOnLinux

For those that enjoy keeping an eye on all their system vitals from temperatures to voltages, the hardware monitoring "HWMON" updates have seen many device additions for Linux 7.2...

ARCTIC Fan Controller, More ASUS & ASRock Boards Have Sensor Monitoring With Linux 7.2  Phoronix

CNCF and Linux Foundation Education Partner with Udemy to Provide a Unified Cloud Native Training & Certification Opportunity  SMEStreet

China-Linked Showboat Malware Uses Linux Persistence to Target Telecom Companies  CyberSecurityNews

Running Modern Linux On A 68008  Hackaday

Godot Engine 4.7 is out bringing a new Asset Store, HDR support, Steam Frame support  GamingOnLinux

Godot 4.7 finally brings HDR support to Windows, macOS, and Linux  XDA

Qualcomm promises a major reset with upstream-first, Qualcomm Linux 2.0 for Dragonwing IoT platforms  CNX Software

Software Preservation Breakthrough: IOCCC-Winning VM Runs Linux on a Single Instruction  Tech Times

AMD ISP4 Driver Merged To Linux 7.2 Kernel  Phoronix

The media subsystem changes were merged tonight for the Linux 7.2 merge window and it includes the long-awaited AMD ISP4 driver now in the mainline kernel.. This ISP4 driver is what completes the loop for enabling the web camera on the HP ZBook Ultra G1a and other future high-end AMD Ryzen laptops...

Debian-Based SparkyLinux 2026.06 Rolling Brings Linux Kernel 7.1 Support  9to5Linux

The Linux kernel has dropped the last of its architecture-specific optimized MD5 hashing algorithm implementations...

Many organizations now operate under strict data governance requirements—whether driven by the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA), or NIS2 directive, by other national security classifications, or by sector-specific regulations in financial services, healthcare, government, and defense. These organizations, like everyone today, are increasingly seeking to adopt AI-powered infrastructure management and intelligence, but regulatory constraints mean they must figure out how to do so without sending data to the cloud.Red Hat Lightspeed (fo