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Alpine Linux 3.24 scales new desktop heights with COSMIC  The Register

10ZiG deepens ThinPrint integration for Linux thin clients  ChannelLife UK

GE-Proton 11-1 arrives with d7vk, discord bridge, optiscaler and more added  GamingOnLinux

USB4STREAM - Direct machine-to-machine transfers on Linux  Korben

Valve upgraded the SteamOS installation image to the big SteamOS 3.8 release  GamingOnLinux

Steam stable update brings Pipewire improvements for Linux, Remote Play upgrades and more  GamingOnLinux

Latest Steam Client Update Improves PipeWire Session Logic on Linux  9to5Linux

Chinese supercomputer using local processors heads TOP500 list  The Register

Fedora Governance Changes Take Effect as Project Refines Leadership, Policy, and Contributor Oversight  Linux Journal

Last week the main set of sched_ext changes were merged for Linux 7.2 that included continued work on sub-scheduler support. While Linus Torvalds didn't object to any of the features being worked on for this extensible scheduler framework that relies on user-space BPF programs, he was frustrated by the layout of the new C source files and remarked, "please don't do this disgusting thing...proper hierarchical filesystems have been available since 1965."..

"Disgusting" Linux sched_ext Source Code Restructured Following Complaint By Linus Torvalds  Phoronix

As the world prepares for the next era of human spaceflight, ensuring the health of astronauts on missions to the Moon and Mars is a top priority. However, it presents a significant challenge for missions the farther away from Earth we go: providing high-quality medical care when real-time communication with Earth-based doctors could be limited or impossible.Researchers at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston are testing the Crew Medical Officer Digital Assistant (CMO-DA) to meet this challenge. Powered by RamaLama for local AI inference, this clinical decision support system is designed t

AI coding assistants are transforming software development. The debate is no longer about whether to adopt them, but how to integrate them without compromising platform security, code quality, or operational compliance.AI has changed the economics of code productionWhether you're developing software in a proprietary enterprise or open source environment, you've witnessed a fundamental shift over the past year. Your developers are using AI coding assistants (GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, ChatGPT Codex, etc.) to accelerate development. Productivity gains are real—features can ship faste

This past March, the community gathered for Red Hat OpenShift Commons in Amsterdam. As the "zero day" kickoff to KubeCon and CloudNativeCon Europe 2026, there was no shortage of innovative presentations and discussions, but one session stood out, "Sit, Stay, Deploy: Teaching a Robot Dog with Red Hat OpenShift." Figure 1., ITQ staffers Johan van Amersfoort, Chief Evangelist and AI Lead, and Sander Harrewijnen, Technologist speaking at the OpenShift Commons Gathering in Amsterdam.Presented by ITQ staffers Johan van Amersfoort, Chief Evangelist and AI Lead, and Sander Harrewijnen, Technologist, t

COSMIC 1.1 Desktop Environment Released with COSMIC Monitor and Improvements  9to5Linux

System76 today released COSMIC Epoch 1.1 as the newest feature release as well as being their first time bumping the minor version number since the December release of COSMIC 1.0...

Brave Gives Linux Users Its Stripped Down Origin Browser for Free  Linuxiac

3 ways the new Steam Machine could be a huge win for Linux  ZDNET

Lutris Setup: Run Windows Games on Linux in 12 Steps [2026]  tech-insider.org

I gave my Android a terminal, and it became my most capable computer  MakeUseOf