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The EFS file-system was used for non-ISO9660 CD-ROMs and disk partitions on SGI IRIX before IRIX 6.0 switched over to XFS. Inside the Linux kernel has been a read-only EFS file-system driver without a maintainer for 20+ years while for Linux 7.3 it's expected to be removed...

EFS File-System Slated For Removal With Linux 7.3 After 20+ Years Unmaintained  Phoronix

The trademark scam that could have handed Linux to a stranger demanding 10% royalties  MakeUseOf

FOSS Weekly #26.27: Dev Mode in KDE Linux, Local AI, De-Google Android, Free Terminal Starter Course, KDE Step and More  It's FOSS

10ZiG Announces General Availability of 10ZiG Manager v6 and Linux Virtual Appliance  VMblog

Linux Kernel Developers Again Discussing AI Agent Attribution - Potentially Dropping It  Phoronix

When AI/LLM agents are used in the creation of Linux kernel patches, the policy for a while now has been that it should be specified using an "Assisted-by" tag as part of the patches/commits. But Linux kernel developers this week have been discussing whether to revise that policy or to potentially eliminate it...

RISC-V RVV Vector Performance Benchmarks With The SpacemiT K3 SoC  Phoronix

Since May we have been benchmarking the SpacemiT K3 RISC-V SoC as one of the first to market RISC-V chips supporting the RVA23 profile. The SpacemiT K3 has shown how far RISC-V performance has come in the past half decade and one of the promising elements of this modern RISC-V SoC with its X100/A100 cores is supporting the RISC-V Vector Extension "RVV" 1.0. In this article are some initial benchmarks looking specifically at the RISC-V RVV 1.0 performance impact in different supported software.

iTmethods Joins the Linux Foundation, FINOS, and Agentic AI Foundation to Advance Governance Standards for Regulated Agentic AI  PR Newswire

The x86 Ecosystem Advisory Group led by Intel and AMD recently firmed up the AI Compute Extensions (ACE) specification for optimizing x86 for AI computation tasks around matrix multiplication and the like for machine learning workloads. The cross-vendor ACE extension is ultimately a successor to Intel's Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX). Posted to the GCC mailing list today by Intel engineers are the initial patches in preparing the compiler support for ACE...

iTmethods Joins the Linux Foundation, FINOS, and Agentic AI Foundation to Advance Governance Standards for Regulated Agentic AI  PR Newswire

The Linux Foundation Uses DNS to Give AI Agents a Trusted Identity  LinuxInsider

5 Windows habits that were sabotaging my Linux experience  How-To Geek

Microsoft's new Azure Linux 4.0 is here, and it could replace Windows Server in the enterprise  ZDNET

Android's Linux Terminal is getting some style with the latest Android 17 QPR1 Beta 6  Android Authority

One month ago we reported on YSERVER as a modern X11 server written in Rust with the help of Claude Code. Since then YSERVER has continued to advance in supporting more X11 functionality thanks to the help of Claude Code (AI) and out today is version 1.3 o this display server...

A security disclosure has been made public today for a yet-to-be-patched arbitrary code execution vulnerability with the KDE Plasma desktop...

Android's Linux Terminal no longer restricts you to a single font and window in QPR1 Beta 6  Android Authority

Android 17 QPR1 Beta 6 brings a major power-user upgrade to the Terminal app  Android Authority