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For two years now the Intel IVPU accelerator driver has been part of the mainline kernel for supporting the Neural Processing Unit (NPU) that's part of the Core Ultra "Meteor Lake" CPUs and newer. Only this week though was the firmware for the Intel NPUs now upstreamed to the linux-firmware.git repository...

Intel NPU Firmware Files Upstreamed To linux-firmware.git  Phoronix

5 Reasons Ubuntu Is Not the Best Windows Replacement  How-To Geek

Last year Microsoft donated the Mono Project to Wine for its stewardship under the WineHQ umbrella. Today marks the Framework Mono 6.14 release as the first major Mono release in five years and the first under the WineHQ organization...

Kagi is Bringing Orion Web Browser to Linux  OMG! Ubuntu!

7 Weaponized Go Packages Attacking Linux & macOS To Install Hidden Malware Loader  CybersecurityNews

KDE Neon Is the Linux Distribution With the Dynamic Desktop  The New Stack

The uutils project has released Rust Coreutils 0.0.30 as the newest version of this GNU Coreutils rewrite within the Rust programming language. Uutils developers will also be targeting more common Unix tools to port over to Rust too...

Kagi is Bringing Orion Web Browser to Linux  OMG! Ubuntu!

Garuda Linux “Broadwing” Released with New Mokka Edition, New Welcome App  9to5Linux

How much would you spend on building an anti-MacBook?  Android Police

In addition to Friday's very exciting GNOME 48 release candidate with some last minute features, there have also been some other GNOME-related changes this week to call out...

Mesa's Venus driver that allows for 3D graphics acceleration within virtual machines is now able to make use of the Vulkan ray-tracing extensions when using Mesa 25.1-devel along with updated Venus Protocol and Virglrenderer code...

Building off yesterday's release of Wine 10.3 is now Wine-Staging 10.3 for this more experimental version of Wine that is presently shipping 347 experimental/testing patches atop the upstream state...

KDE developer Nate Graham is out with the newest issue of This Week in Plasma to highlight all of the interesting KDE Plasma improvements merged for the week...

PoC Exploit Released for Actively Exploited Linux Kernel Out-Of-Bounds Write Vulnerability  CybersecurityNews

From OpenBSD to Linux: How Pledge can Enhance Linux Security  It's FOSS

NVIDIA Releases Linux Display Driver v570  info-mods.com

Linux Kernel Development: Behind the Scenes with an IBM Innovator  IBM

Good News! Google Starts Rolling Out Native Linux Terminal to Android Devices  It's FOSS News