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Servo 0.3 released today as the latest version of this modern browser engine developed in Rust. With Servo 0.3 the demo servoshell browser is becoming more useful and supporting additional modern web features while Servo also continues to possess much potential moving forward on the embedded front as an alternative to the likes of the Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF)...

Linux Foundation sets 2026 confidential computing summit  SecurityBrief Asia

Linux 7.2 is continuing the trend of removing obsolete hardware drivers for which the code hasn't seen any maintenance in years and there are no believed users left of said drivers, especially those that would be running modern mainline versions of the Linux kernel. The char/misc changes merged dropped two more obsolete drivers from the Linux source tree...

Linux 7.2 Drops Ancient PROFIBUS Driver: Ported From SCO Unix In 1998, Unused For Years  Phoronix

Flipper One Takes Hardware Hacking Into Uncharted Waters  LinuxInsider

Cache Aware Scheduling is one of the most exciting kernel innovations to land in Linux this year. While it was finally merged last week to Linux 7.2, a new patch series today is already working to extend Cache Aware Scheduling and is showing some exciting performance improvements...

Linux Cache Aware Scheduling Extended For Even Better Performance: Up To 360% In MySQL  Phoronix

Heroic Beats Lutris & Bottles? 30K Stars [2026]  tech-insider.org

I tried NetBSD as a desktop, and it felt like stepping into the '90s in a good way  How-To Geek

New Linux Foundation project aims to bring DNS-style trust to AI agents  InfoWorld

An AMD engineer has contributed to the upstream FFmpeg library an ONNX Runtime back-end for its DNN filter. The FFmpeg Deep Neural Network (DNN) filters allow for running AI models natively inside the video processing pipeline for upscaling, object detection, background segmentation, and more. This ONNX Runntime back-end support is notable in that it expands the GPU and NPU capabilities with FFmpeg...

Way back in 2017 for the Linux 4.12 kernel the Realtek rtl8723bs WiFi driver was added to the kernel's staging area. Nearly a decade later, it's still being cleaned-up to suit the more rigorous non-staging area of the kernel in the formal networking subsystem. For Linux 7.2, the staging pull request is once again dominated by clean-ups to this Realtek WiFi driver...

Linux 7.2 Staging Still Working To Tame The Realtek RTL8723BS "Beast Of A Driver"  Phoronix

Merged back in Linux 5.15 in 2021 was KSMBD as an in-kernel SMB3 file server. There hasn't been much KSMBD news to report on recently but for Linux 7.2 there is now SMB2 compression support...

There's a surprising amount of major games you can't play on Valve's Steam Machine - here are eight of the biggest, and why  Eurogamer

Making Windows a developer platform, again  InfoWorld

CollabPlayInputDisplay is an open source tool for displaying on-screen controller input  GamingOnLinux

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Planetary Annihilation: TITANS adds Galactic War Co-op  GamingOnLinux

Proton Experimental updated for ARC Raiders, DIRT 5, Kingdom Come: Deliverance II  GamingOnLinux