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Canonical's new push for their Snap app packaging/sandboxed format on Ubuntu Linux is for AI large language models (LLMs). Making it more interesting though is that they are working to deliver silicon-optimized AI LLMs for your hardware and to make it easily deployable for Ubuntu sers...

NAP, free visual and media framework, now dazzles anywhere  CDM Create Digital Music

Tuxera To Demonstrate Enterprise-Grade File Sharing For Linux Servers - UK Broadcast News | 23/10/2025  4RFV

The Xbox Ally X Is Already Being Turned Into A Super Steam Deck With Linux  Kotaku

The best Windows 10 alternative isn't Linux—it's modified Windows 11  MakeUseOf

GTK has long supported Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) for icons but with up until recently relying on the external librsvg library, the integration hasn't been perfect. But Red Hat engineer Matthias Clasen has been working on having the GTK toolkit natively support SVG...

Agenda Ransomware Deploys Linux Variant on Windows Systems Through Remote Management Tools and BYOVD Techniques  www.trendmicro.com

Asus ROG Xbox Ally X is being held back by Windows – running Linux boosts game performance  The Shortcut | Matt Swider

TransparentTribe Targets Linux Systems in Indian Military to Deploy DeskRAT  gbhackers.com

Hedera COO And Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust Share Insights On Hiero Project  Crowdfund Insider

TransparentTribe Targets Linux Systems in Indian Military Networks to Deploy DeskRAT  Cyber Press

For those looking for a new RISC-V desktop option, ESWIN is launching a EBC7702 mini-DTX board powered by the EIC7702X dual-die SoC. The EBC7702 Mini-DTX is aiming for developers who want RISC-V under their desk for working on AI and other development tasks...

ESWIN Launching EBC7702 Mini-DTX RISC-V Board With Dual-Die EIC7702X SoC  Phoronix

So much for Xbox full screen experience, it looks like the ROG Xbox Ally X might get much better performance on Linux with faux-SteamOS operating system Bazzite  PC Gamer

Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) usage is long obsolete even where it had enjoyed some successes in the likes of Germany and Norway. With no activity in years to the ISDN and mISDN subsystem code for the Linux kernel, a patch was sent out today for orphaning the code...

Xbox ROG Ally X Sees Up to 32% Higher FPS on Linux vs. Windows Among Other Benefits  Tech4Gamers

Crashes on NPUs and AI accelerators are unfortunately a thing and yet another obstacle to worry about it with modern computing. Qualcomm developers have sent out patches for Sub-System Restart "SSR" functionality for their Qualcomm AI Accelerator (QAIC) driver for Linux to handle restarts when workload crashes occur on their AI accelerator hardware...

The second weekly release candidate of Mesa 25.3 is now available for testing ahead of the official release in the coming weeks for this quarterly feature update to this set of open-source OpenGL, OpenCL, and Vulkan graphics drivers...

Fedora Linux project agrees to allow AI-assisted contributions with a new policy  GamingOnLinux

NordVPN breaks ground with Linux-based VPN app for Amazon's new-gen Fire TV Stick  TechRadar