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4K @ 60 FPS USB Video Capture Finally Becomes Less Problematic On Linux  Phoronix

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Added to the Wayland Protocols repository back in May of 2025 was the ext-background-effect-v1 protocol for background blur that had been under discussion since early 2024. The initial focus is on being able to apply a blur effect on a window's background or otherwise a specified screen region. GNOME 51 has now merged support for ext-background-effect-v1 with the latest Mutter code...

Why I stopped installing apps the traditional Linux way  How-To Geek

In addition to this week's drm-intel-next pull request beginning to lay out the Intel kernel graphics driver changes for Linux 7.3, the first drm-xe-next pull request was sent out on Friday. Intel Nova Lake enablement remains the hot area for the Intel GPU driver code...

Linux 7.3 Adding More Graphics PCI IDs For Intel Nova Lake S  Phoronix

A post merge-window change that landed in Linux Git overnight ahead of tomorrow's Linux 7.2-rc2 release is bumping the default limit on the number of supported CPU cores for RISC-V 64-bit. Now by default Linux will support up to 256 cores with RISC-V 64-bit kernel builds...

Linux 7.2-rc2 Raising The Default RISC-V 64-bit CPU Limit To 256 Cores  Phoronix

Along with releasing Plasma 6.7.2 this week, KDE developers continue to be quite busy working on new features and improvements for the Plasma 6.8 release while also furthering along fixes for future Plasma 6.7 point releases...

Building A Wireless Fingerprint Authorization Device  Hackaday

New "Bad Epoll" 0-Day Vulnerability Allows Root Access on Linux Servers and Android Devices  CyberSecurityNews

While typically quite rare encountering a GPU reset under Linux in most conditions, currently if encountering one under GNOME your session gets wiped out. But thanks to a Google Summer of Code "GSoC" project this year, GNOME's Mutter compositor is finally seeing real GPU reset recovery handling...

In working toward the stable GNOME 51 desktop release due out in September, today marks the alpha release of GNOME 51...

GNOME 51 Alpha Desktop Environment Is Now Available for Public Testing  9to5Linux

NetworkManager 1.58 Is Now Available for Public Testing with Many New Features  9to5Linux

New "Bad Epoll" Linux Kernel Flaw Lets Unprivileged Users Gain Root, Hits Android  The Hacker News

The UPower abstraction layer used for power management on Linux systems, especially laptops and desktops, is out with an important fix today to avoid inadvertently falling back to the laptop battery "fast" charging mode on some laptops that in turn could degrade your laptop battery faster...

UPower 1.91.3 Fixes Behavior To Avoid Degrading Your Laptop Battery Faster  Phoronix

3 reasons most people stick with Windows, even though Linux is free  Yahoo Tech

3 reasons most people stick with Windows, even though Linux is free  How-To Geek