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Highguard requires Secure Boot to play, which might not be a popular move  PC Gamer

3 cool Linux apps to try this weekend (January 23 - 25)  Yahoo! Tech

3 cool Linux apps to try this weekend (January 23 - 25)  How-To Geek

GNU Guix 1.5 is out today as the latest major release for this platform built around its functional package manager. This is a big upgrade with it having been three years since the GNU Guix 1.4 release...

GNU Guix 1.5 Released With RISC-V Support, Experimental x86_64 GNU Hurd Kernel  Phoronix

Merged today for the Linux 6.19 Git kernel and then in turn for back-porting to prior Linux kernel series is making the x86 page fault handling code disable interrupts properly. Since 2020 it turns out the handling was subtly wrong but now corrected by Intel...

Zlib-rs is the effort out of the Trifecta Tech Foundation to provide a Zlib compression implementation written in the Rust programming language that can serve as a C dynamic library and Rust crate. The intent here being that zlib-rs is potentially safer than the classic C-based implementation of Zlib...

NexPhone revisits the long-running dream of combining your phone and laptop  New Atlas

Vulkan 1.4.340 is out today as the first significant new Vulkan API update following the end of year holidays. With Vulkan 1.4.340 comes four new extensions worth talking about...

KMSCON as a KMS/DRM-based virtual console emulator in user-space has been released. KMSCON is one of the leading solutions for potentially replacing the in-kernel Virtual Terminal (VT) implementation...

Linux Foundation pushes open source AI with expanded 2026 events program  eeNews Europe

Servo 0.0.4 is out today as the newest monthly update to this open-source, Rust-based web browser engine. Building off recent Servo embedding API additions, Servo 0.0.4 introduces support for multiple browser windows...

Servo 0.0.4 Browser Engine Released & Finally Supporting Multiple Windows  Phoronix

Arduino UNO Q Is a Hybrid SBC With Linux and Real-Time Microcontroller  Linuxiac

Globe And Nokia Scale Open Source Network APIs Through Linux Foundation Camara  Open Source For You

3-in-1 smartphone: NexPhone can run Linux, Windows 11 and Android  Mezha

Advanced Linux malware framework VoidLink likely built with AI  Digital Watch Observatory

Linux malware VoidLink reveals new dimension of AI-powered cyberattacks  igor´sLAB

Linux 7.0 finally retires a standard it supported for over 20 years  XDA

While slightly too late for making it into the Mesa 26.0 release that branched yesterday, merged now to Mesa Git for Q2's Mesa 26.1 release are some new RadeonSI Gallium3D (OpenGL) driver optimizations for the latest AMD Radeon RDNA4 graphics cards...