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Chrome arm64 Linux builds now downloadable, but Google hasn't officially announced them yet  Neowin

Linux 7.2-rc5 lands with patches for HP EliteBook 830 G8 and Alienware x16 R2  Neowin

9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: July 26th, 2026  9to5Linux

As AI capabilities advance, they transform the security landscape in real time. To address these challenges at scale, no single company can act in isolation. We must bring together our respective expertise across the industry. That is why Red Hat is proud to participate as an inaugural member of the new Open Secure AI Alliance with NVIDIA. This initiative focuses on developing open tools and techniques to safeguard the AI stack—from open weight models to agent harnesses—to help drive safety, transparency, and broad scientific scrutiny. Open source models and frameworks act as vital defensi

I’m fortunate that I get to speak with hundreds of customers every year. These enterprises span the technology adoption curve—some who thrive on the leading edge, and others who prefer being as risk-averse as possible. But the AI era—ever-churning and bursting with exuberance—has united nearly all of them at this moment. Experiment time is over. Enterprises are focused on moving beyond theoretical AI pilots to operationalizing it at scale, optimizing costs, and governing its actions.Beyond those corporate mandates, which are important, I think what’s refreshing about my conversations

When integrating AI into your software development processes, the methodology you use to build software is as important as the models themselves. At Red Hat, we believe the true value of AI emerges when it is integrated into transparent, scalable, and reliable enterprise workflows. We're moving beyond traditional development practices toward a new agentic software development life cycle (SDLC). Within Red Hat AI Engineering, this approach treats AI agents not as isolated, automated tools, but as active, collaborative participants in the development lifecycle—helping drive progress from the i

Linuxiac Weekly Wrap-Up: Week 30, 2026 (July 20 – 26)  Linuxiac

In working toward releasing the stable Linux 7.2 kernel in less than one month's time, out today is Linux 7.2-rc5 to ship this week's latest bug/regression fixes and help facilitate more testing of this in-development kernel version...

Linux 7.2-rc5 Released: "Once More We Have Quite A Massive -rc5"  Phoronix

FireDragon v13 Released as a Complete Rewrite of Garuda Linux’s Browser  Linuxiac

Chrome for Arm64 Linux is now available to download  OMG! Ubuntu

Along with this weekend's release of GNU C Library 2.44, the GNU Binutils 2.47 release is also now available for this important set of binary utilities common to Linux systems and other platforms with the GNU toolchain...

6 self-hosted apps that are better with Proxmox  How-To Geek

Your Linux kernel keeps getting smarter—here's how  How-To Geek

After a decade on Windows, I finally understand why Linux users never go back  MakeUseOf

Linus Torvalds tells AI critics to fork Linux or walk away and the software industry should listen  Startup Fortune

A patch series that appears destined for the upcoming Linux 7.3 merge window is what's dubbed the "KVM Chainsaw" as a major code clean-up in dealing with the kvm_mmu "god data structure"...

"KVM Chainsaw" Expected To Hit Linux 7.3 For Dealing With God Data Structure  Phoronix

JOPDF Offers Linux Users Free, Full-Featured PDF Editing  Linuxiac

Besides the FreeBSD graphics and WiFi drivers lagging behind Linux and other operating systems, the FreeBSD audio driver support and handling of audio streams with FreeBSD on the desktop can be problematic depending upon the hardware/system. One of the most active mailing list threads this week in the FreeBSD camp was over the "tragic state" of FreeBSD audio/sound support...