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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

Valve took care of Diablo IV fans - fixed game launch on Linux and SteamOS  ixbt.games

Juno Tab 4 13'' Linux tablet now available to pre-order for ~$1,000  Notebookcheck

I read the leaked Halloween Documents—here’s what Microsoft feared most about Linux  How-To Geek

Some great Native Linux games to grab in the Steam Summer Sale 2026  GamingOnLinux

Vulkan 1.4.356 is out today and it's interesting for the lone new extension debuting: VK_EXT_shader_ocp_microscaling_types. The VK_EXT_shader_ocp_microscaling_types is for enabling the Open Compute Project's Microscaling MX data types to help with machine learning workloads with Vulkan...

With 3mdeb's Dasharo port of AMD openSIL and Coreboot running on the Gigabyte EPYC motherboard, 3mdeb engineers have been devoting more time to their bring-up of Coreboot+openSIL on the MSI PRO B850-P consumer motherboard for desktop AMD Ryzen. They now even have Microsoft Windows 11 working atop this open-source firmware alternative along with other features implemented...