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Fedora agrees policy allowing AI-assisted contributions  theregister.com

Linux's Proposed Cache Aware Scheduling Benchmarks Show Big Potential On AMD EPYC Turin Review  Phoronix

The past number of months has seen a lot of work by Intel Linux kernel engineers on cache-aware scheduling / load balancing for helping modern CPUs that have multiple caches. With cache aware scheduling, tasks that will likely share resources could be aggregated into the same cache domain to enjoy better cache locality. With the cache aware scheduling patches recently updated and now working past the "request for comments" stage, I was eager to try out these new patches. Especially with a 44% time reduction reported for one of the benchmarks, I was eager to run some tests and the first of those results are being shared today.

Canonical Begins Snap'ing Up Silicon-Optimized AI LLMs For Ubuntu Linux  Phoronix

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