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5 reasons why Linux beginners should be using Flatpak  XDA

PyTorch 2.9 is out today ahead of the PyTorch Conference happening next week in San Francisco. Notable with PyTorch 2.9 is better AMD ROCm and Intel XPU installation support via expanded wheel variant support...

Mesa 25.2.5 Released With Very Important Intel Driver Fix  Phoronix

Mesa 25.2.5 is out today as the newest bi-weekly point release for these open-source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers. Particularly if you are on Intel graphics of Battlemage or Lunar Lake and potentially older, Mesa 25.2.5 contains a very important bug fix for various rendering issues and potential game hangs/crashes...

It's been four years now since the Open 3D Engine was born out of Amazon's Lumberyard project and hosted by the Linux Foundation. Today marks the release of the Open 3D Engine "O3DE" 25.10 release with the newest features and fixes for this cross-platform game/graphics engine...

Open 3D Engine O3DE 25.10 Brings Build Improvements, Vulkan & Linux Fixes  Phoronix

In preparation for Panther Lake laptops shipping in early 2026, after Intel appears to have largely wrapped up work on the Linux driver enablement they are now ensuring the necessary firmware bits are out in time...

Intel ISH Firmware Upstreamed Ahead Of Intel Panther Lake Laptops  Phoronix

Heading to Linux now Windows 10 is no more? Commodore's distro has 'no nags' and 'no tracking'  TweakTown

Intel begins laying the groundwork for Xe3P GPUs on Linux  KitGuru

Cisco SNMP Vulnerability Exploited to Install Linux Rootkits  Cyber Press

'Systems that have a secure boot process, in reality, do not': Major backdoors have been discovered in Framework Linux machines and it might just be the tip of the iceberg  PC Gamer

I abandoned Google for a search tool that doesn't track me or push AI - and it gets better  ZDNET

Fedora Approves /nix Directory for Seamless Nix Integration  WebProNews

Cisco SNMP 0-Day Vulnerability Actively Exploited To Deploy Linux Rootkits  Cyber Security News

Cisco SNMP 0-Day Vulnerability Actively Exploited To Deploy Linux Rootkits  Cyber Security News

200,000 Linux systems from Framework are shipped with signed UEFI components vulnerable to Secure Boot bypass  Security Affairs

Last week Amazon/AWS announced the new EC2 M8a instances as their latest-generation, general-purpose compute instances now powered by AMD EPYC 9005 "Turin" processors. Amazon announced the M8a as having up to 30% higher performance and up to 19% better price performance over M7a. With my testing of both at 32 vCPUs, the new AMD EPYC Turin instance provided 1.59x the performance over the prior-generation EPYC Genoa instance!

4 Ways to Pinpoint Inevitable Network Outages on Linux  How-To Geek

NordVPN Makes Linux App GUI Open Source, Reverses Meshnet Shutdown Decision  It's FOSS News