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Ubuntu calls its new 6GB requirement an honesty bump  TechRadar

I tried Flatpak, AppImage, and Snap — this one made Linux easier  MakeUseOf

Windows 11 just beat Ubuntu 26.04 LTS in resource requirements, and nobody saw this coming  Windows Central

Little Snitch, the macOS network tool, is now available on Linux  OMG! Ubuntu

GNU nano 9.0 CLI Text Editor Released with New Features and Improvements  9to5Linux

AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 To Be Priced At $899 USD  Phoronix

At the end of March AMD announced the Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 processor with both dies having 3D V-Cache. This 16 core processor with 206MB of total cache is quit exciting and will be on sale later this month but AMD refrained from commenting on the price until today...

Raspberry Pi Imager 2.0.8 Released with Fastboot Improvements, Bug Fixes  9to5Linux

From the C: to the /Mnt/s, Linux is better than ever for PC gaming – and easier to switch to from Windows  Rock Paper Shotgun

New PGP signing key for GitHub CLI Linux packages  The GitHub Blog

Intel Arc Pro B70 Benchmarks With LLM / AI, OpenCL, OpenGL & Vulkan Review  Phoronix

Intel Arc Pro B70 Benchmarks With LLM / AI, OpenCL, OpenGL & Vulkan Review  Phoronix

Last month Intel announced the Arc Pro B70 with 32GB of GDDR6 video memory for this long-awaited Battlemage G31 graphics card. This new top-end Battlemage graphics card with 32 Xe cores and 32GB of GDDR6 video memory offers a lot of potential for LLM/AI and other use cases, especially when running multiple Arc Pro B70s. Last week Intel sent over four Arc Pro B70 graphics cards for Linux testing at Phoronix. Given the current re-testing for the imminent Ubuntu 26.04 release, I am still going through all of the benchmarks especially for the multi-GPU scenarios. In this article are some initial Arc Pro B70 single card benchmarks on Linux compared to other Intel Arc Graphics hardware across AI / LLM with OpenVINO and Llama.cpp, OpenCL compute benchmarks, and also some OpenGL and Vulkan benchmarks. More benchmarks and the competitive compares will come as that fresh testing wraps up, but so far the Arc Pro B70 is working out rather well atop the fully open-source Linux graphics driver stack.

Set to be merged for the upcoming Linux 7.1 merge window is the "Yogafan" hardware monitoring driver to provide fan speed monitoring not only for Lenovo Yoga laptops but also various Legion and IdeaPad laptops too...

Lenovo Laptops To Enjoy Better Fan Speed Monitoring With Linux 7.1  Phoronix

Social engineering attacks on open source developers are escalating  Help Net Security

Sentinel Adds Steam Achievements to Non-Steam Linux Games  games.gg

Intel's OpenVINO toolkit for optimizing and deploying AI inferencing across their range of hardware platforms is out with its newest quarterly feature update. There is official support for Intel's latest hardware as well as enabling more large language models and other new AI innovations for this excellent open-source Intel software project...

Intel Releases OpenVINO 2026.1 With Backend For Llama.cpp, New Hardware Support  Phoronix

Google on Tuesday announced the Chrome 147 stable release to all Windows, macOS, and Linux users. There are a number of refinements in this latest routine Chrome stable update paired with various fixes and new developer capabilities...