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With the Linux 6.15 kernel expected to be released as stable on Sunday unless Linus Torvalds has last-minute reservations, here's a look back at some of the most interesting Linux 6.15 changes...

The GNOME Release Team is issuing a call for help as GNOME Help and the associated GNOME documentation are much in need of some assistance...

Your Steam Deck Just Got a Big Update  How-To Geek

RHEL 10: Leading the future with AI, security and hybrid cloud  SiliconANGLE

OpenAI’s o3 model helps identify significant Linux security threat  Tech Monitor

This week Intel released the Compute Runtime 25.18.33578.6 release for Windows and Linux. This updated open-source GPU compute stack for OpenCL and Level Zero brings the latest work on Ultra Low Latency Scheduling (ULLS) for Xe2 Lunar Lake graphics and other ongoing Xe2 improvements along with further preparations for next-gen Xe3 hardware. This new Intel Compute Runtime release is clocking in around 76x lower OpenCL kernel latency and other nice wins for those with current-generation Intel Lunar Lake hardware.

Benchmarks: OpenCL Kernel Latency ~76x Lower For Intel Lunar Lake With Updated Compute Runtime  Phoronix

For those not yet on the newest GCC 15 compiler that debuted as stable one month ago, GCC 14.3 is out today in delivering the latest fixes for the GCC 14 stable series...

Linux 6.15 Sees Last Minute Power Savings Fix For Intel Arrow Lake U/H  Phoronix

Sent out today as part of last minute x86 platform driver fixes for Linux 6.15 is a rather important power-savings fix for Intel Arrow Lake U and Arrow Lake H laptops...

What would a Microsoft engineer do to Ubuntu? AnduinOS is the answer  theregister.com

How To Manage User Passwords in Linux  Yahoo

Chrome 0-Day CVE-2025-4664 Exposes Windows, Linux Browser Activity  Hackread

Back in April Mesa deprecated Gallium Nine alongside the XA state tracker used for X.Org Server acceleration. Gallium-XA was developed by VMware for use with their DDX driver for accelerating X11 within their virtualized environments. XA isn't really used these days and the generic GLAMOR code is in much better shape. Thus Mesa is now no longer building the XA code as the next step toward its removal...

Dune: Awakening will have BattlEye enabled for Linux, SteamOS / Steam Deck  GamingOnLinux

While there is the AMDXDNA accelerator driver that was upstreamed to the mainline kernel earlier this year with Linux 6.14 for supporting the AMD Ryzen AI NPUs and also their AIE Plugin for IREE user-space components, it seems something more is on the way...

AMD Previews Mysterious Linux Runtime Stack For Ryzen AI NPUs  Phoronix

Following the recent decision to no longer issue alpha or beta releases of Wayland, the Wayland 1.24 release candidate was issued on Thursday in working toward that next release...

Here's all the games to claim for Steam Deck / Linux from Prime Gaming as of May 23rd  GamingOnLinux

It looks like the upcoming Linux 6.16 kernel will feature several additions to the FUTEX2 support...