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NVIDIA 560.35.03 Linux Driver Released With More Wayland Fixes  Phoronix

NVIDIA 560 Linux Driver Released with Open GPU Kernel Modules by Default  9to5Linux

An update made to fix a vulnerability broke dual-boot Windows-Linux PCs  Neowin

An update made to fix a vulnerability broke dual-boot Windows-Linux PCs  Neowin

Google engineer Qais Yousef has posted a set of 16 patches for the "Schedutil" scheduler utilization code within the Linux kernel to better manage system response time. Schedutil is often used by default on many Linux distributions and with these patches a popular web browser benchmark can be as much as 30% faster with these kernel patches...

Experimental Schedutil Patches Yield 30% Boost To Web Browser Benchmark On Linux  Phoronix

Don't panic! It's only 60 Linux CVE security bulletins a week  ZDNet

Ryzen 9 9950X runs 16% faster on an Intel-optimized Linux distro  Tom's Hardware

Windows update breaks Linux dual boot - but there is a fix for some users  ZDNet

Following all of the Snapdragon X1 upstream enablement work over the past number of months by Qualcomm and then DeviceTree additions emerging for enabling the likes of the ASUS Vivobook S 15, Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x, Lenovo ThinkPad T14s Gen 6, and Microsoft Surface 7, the Samsung Galaxy Book4 Edge is the newest Snapdragon X1 Elite laptop seeing Linux DT support...

Linux Support Emerging For The Samsung Galaxy Book4 Edge X1 Elite Laptop  Phoronix

Microsoft breaks some Linux dual-boots in a recent Windows update  GamingOnLinux

Dual Booting Windows and Linux No Longer Available After Microsoft’s Security Update—Why?  Tech Times

Microsoft breaks dual-boot Windows and Linux PCs with security update sent to wrong systems  Windows Central

Indian State Continues Its Successful Journey With Linux at Schools  It's FOSS News

Zed, the code/text editor being developed by former Atom editor developers, has continued to gain interest among developers since going open-source, being written in the Rust programming language, and native Linux builds taking shape. The latest feature work on Zed is beginning to integrate AI-powered functionality by leveraging Anthropic's Claude LLM...

SVT-AV1 2.2 is now available for this leading open-source AV1 video encoder. With this new version comes yet more performance optimizations...

Released last month was the VirtualBox 7.1 Beta 1 virtualization software release from Oracle. This new version is bringing a modernized GUI, Wayland clipboard sharing, and other improvements. Released yesterday was the second beta of this big VirtualBox update...

Microsoft’s latest security update has ruined dual-boot Windows and Linux PCs  The Verge

The best SSH clients for Linux (and why you need them)  ZDNet