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Linux 7.1 stable launch looms as Linus Torvalds releases the final release candidate  Neowin

Firefox 153 is finally ditching the Nvidia driver workaround Linux users have hated  XDA

Proton Drive client is (finally) coming to Linux  OMG! Ubuntu

Last week Linux 7.1-rc6 was larger than Linus Torvalds wished for and for Linux 7.1-rc7 it has come in still heavier than typically seen this late in the cycle, but is shrinking and making Linus comfortable in hopefully releasing Linux 7.1 stable next Sunday...

Linux 7.1-rc7 Released: Stable Hopefully Next Sunday  Phoronix

"Every AI lab is losing money serving your company right now. They know it. And they are doing it on purpose."That was the opening line of an article that landed in my inbox the same week 3 numbers crystallized to make it clear why open inference is no longer optional.A developer built a simple notes app over a weekend using an open source coding agent with a direct API key. One page, one feature. Cost: $50. The next day, a $20/month subscription provided 50x more tokens.One engineer on our inference team consumed 300 million tokens through open-weight models in 2 days, doing the same work tha

There is a growing realization across the industry that we've reached an AI tipping point.For the last couple of years, the conversation has been dominated by the question of what is possible with AI. Today, that question has shifted to, "now that we have it, how do we control it?" We're also moving from a world where computation was plentiful to one where it’s becoming restricted again—not just by the availability of GPUs, but by the boundaries of geography, regulation, and trust.Many organizations are putting on the brakes, realizing that a "cloud-only" AI strategy can introduce complexi

For the millions of visually impaired individuals worldwide, the lack of access to trained guide dogs represents a severe accessibility gap. While robotic alternatives exist, they have historically been limited by high costs and short battery life due to the heavy on-device processing required for autonomy. This year at DTW Ignite 2026 in Copenhagen, we are showcasing the Catalyst project, "The robotic dog: AI at the edge, sustainable revenue at scale." This Catalyst project demonstrates our collaboration with AsiaInfo, ATT, China Telecom, Netcracker, Omantel, and ZTE, and shows how intelligen

9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: June 7th, 2026  9to5Linux

Linuxiac Weekly Wrap-Up: Week 23, 2026 (June 1 – 7)  Linuxiac

HandBrake fixes 2-pass encode crashes, WebM on Linux  OMG! Ubuntu

HandBrake 1.11.2 Video Transcoder Adds WebM MIME Type Support on Linux  9to5Linux

Yay 12.6 AUR Helper Lands After Six Months with Smarter Search  Linuxiac

Linux Kernel Improper Authentication Vulnerability Raises Privilege Escalation Risk Across Systems  Security Boulevard

Developer Turns Azure Linux 4 Into Bootable Desktop-App  WinBuzzer

CISA Flags Actively Exploited Linux Kernel Vulnerability - Orders Immediate Remediation Across Federal & Enterprise Systems  LinkedIn

Leaving Windows? Swap your favorite apps with these 5 Linux alternatives  How-To Geek

As an exciting development for GPU-accelerated video decoding within the Mozilla Firefox web browser, initial support for Vulkan Video has landed in the web browser!..

Firefox Merges Support For Vulkan Video Decoding  Phoronix

3 unheard-of Linux tools that fix everyday command-line annoyances  Yahoo Tech