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Many MediaTek MT76 WiFi Driver Improvements Coming For Linux 7.1  Phoronix

Google engineers have been developing JSIR as a high-level intermediate representation (JSIR) for JavaScript that they are already using in production at the company code code analysis and transforming other code/bytecode to JavaScript as well as for deobfuscating JavaScript code...

Open-source friendly company Tiny Corp that is behind the Tinygrad MIT-licensed neural network framework and developing a "sovereign" AMD GPU driver stack with their Tinybox hardware offerings has their sights on shipping the Exabox next year. The Tiny Corp's Exabox is expected to retail for around $10M USD but offer immense AI compute power...

antiX 26 is the Linux distro that makes a 2009 laptop feel faster than a modern Chromebook  MakeUseOf

KDE 4’s Air Theme Making a Comeback, Oxygen Gets Major Revamp for Plasma 6.7  9to5linux.com

A New Linux Kernel Driver Wants to Catch Malicious USB Devices in the Act  It's FOSS

Linux gaming hits 5.3% share as Windows drops | tbreak  Tbreak Media

PeaZip 11.0 Archive Manager Speeds Up File Browsing and Enhances Bookmarks  9to5Linux

METATRON - Open-Source AI Penetration Testing Assistant Brings Local LLM Analysis to Linux  CyberSecurityNews

Linus Torvalds confirms Linux 7.0 is on track for final release next week  Neowin

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Extended Life Cycle Boosts Stability  The Fast Mode

Linuxiac Weekly Wrap-Up: Week 14, 2026 (Mar 24 – Apr 5)  Linuxiac

Take Your Linux Rig on the Road with the CyberDeck Pi  Hackster.io

Scientific research has a compute problem. Not a shortage of ideas, but a shortage of infrastructure that can keep up with them. It also has a platform problem—how can we deliver generative AI (gen AI) capabilities through the right architecture and operating model so institutions can provide access without handing every user unrestricted access to expensive models and runaway spend.What are small language models?Small language models (SLMs) are usually domain-specific AI models developed with significantly fewer parameters than their massive counterparts, typically ranging from 1 billion to

9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: April 5th, 2026  9to5Linux

Linux Kernel Targets 7.0 Stable Release  Let's Data Science

Timed for Easter this year is the seventh weekly release candidate for the Linux 7.0 kernel. If all goes well, Linux 7.0 stable will be out next week...

Linux 7.0-rc7 Released With Improved Docs For AI Agents, WiFi Driver Performance Fix  Phoronix

Linux 7.1 is finally ending support for Intel's 37-year-old 486 processor  XDA

Rufus alternative Ventoy, a Windows 11, Linux USB install app, reaches major milestone  Neowin