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Bcachefs 1.37 Released With Stable Erasure Coding and Linux 7 Support  Linuxiac

I tried ML4W and got a super-customized Hyprland desktop in minutes - it's easy  ZDNET

EndeavourOS Titan released, devs comment on age verification laws  GamingOnLinux

Debian-based Br OS 13.4 now available  Notebookcheck

If you miss GPU-Z on Linux check out the new GPU-T  GamingOnLinux

Peropesis 3.2 keeps the CLI-only world alive with the 6.18.2 kernel, Bash 5.3, and more  Notebookcheck

Intel today announced their Core Ultra 200HX Plus series mobile processors as their refresh for Arrow Lake HX. The announcement of the Core Ultra 200HX Plus also mentions a new Intel Binary Optimization Tool software package that has the potential of being quite interesting...

Intel Announces Core Ultra 200HX Plus Along With "Intel Binary Optimization Tool"  Phoronix

Mesa & AMDGPU Linux Driver See Patches For The Sony PS5 GPU  Phoronix

Open-source developer Andy Nguyen recently demonstrated porting Linux to the Sony PlayStation 5. The PS5 notably uses a custom AMD SoC and with some patches is able to play nicely with the open-source AMD graphics driver stack...

Big moves in Linux filesystems as new bcachefs lands and KDE adds support for Apple's APFS  theregister.com

A patch posted today to the Linux kernel mailing list provides an ARM64-optimized CRC64-NVMe implementation for nearly a 6x improvement on modern Arm SoCs...

Ageless Linux Emerges to Protest OS-Level Age Verification Laws  It's FOSS

From Windows 10 Pro to Linux Mint... as a Noob - My Progress Log  TechPowerUp

CIQ Solves Vendor Lock-In Challenges for LG Uplus With Long-Term Support for Rocky Linux  Thailand Business News

The jemalloc memory allocator "malloc" implementation has been popular for HPC and server use down to desktop use in apps like Firefox. Jemalloc has proven over the years to be effective on delivering better performance and scalability while enjoying lower memory usage and less fragmentation than alternative malloc implementations. Meta recently announced that they are renewing their investment into jemalloc...

An interesting Linux detail from today's NVIDIA GTC 2026 kickoff is that Canonical will be integrating NVIDIA's DOCA-OFED software framework into the Ubuntu Linux archive for leveraging the high-speed networking stack for HPC and AI...

Canonical Plans To Integrate NVIDIA DOCA-OFED Into The Ubuntu Archive  Phoronix

As organizations scale generative AI (gen AI) across business units, a familiar tension appears—bigger models can often deliver better results, but they also require significantly more compute, cost, and operational complexity. This creates a production paradox— while enterprises want higher-quality reasoning, domain specialization, and agentic autonomy, they struggle to deploy monolithic trillion-parameter models that run continuously across clusters.As a result, the industry is shifting strategies, moving from single, massive models toward more efficient architectures. One of those techn

Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 3.3 is now generally available with Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform and Red Hat OpenShift Platform Plus. Based on the Istio, Envoy, and Kiali projects, this release updates the version of Istio to 1.28 and Kiali to 2.22, and is supported on OpenShift Container Platform 4.18 and above. While this release includes many updates, it also sets the stage for the next generation of service mesh features, including post-quantum cryptographic (PQC) encryption, AI enablement, and support for the inclusion of external virtual machines (VMs) with service mesh.Updates in