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Proposed last year was GL_EXT_mesh_shader as a cross-vendor mesh shading extension. That OpenGL mesh shader work led by an AMD engineer was merged today into the OpenGL Registry...

Proof-of-Concept Released for Exploited Linux Kernel ksmbd Filesystem Vulnerability  Cyber Press

DEFCON talk on Linux kernel bugs drives AI slop row  The Stack

Microsoft's Local Accounts Crackdown Is Yet Another Reason to Switch to Linux  How-To Geek

Ubuntu Linux 25.10 'Questing Quokka' arrives with memory-safe system tools and better hardware support  BetaNews

Merged overnight to the Linux 6.18 kernel were all of the perf subsystem tool updates. Notable with the perf tooling updates is a new Python application living within the kernel source tree...

PoCL 7.1 is now available for this "Portable Computing Language" implementation that brings OpenCL to CPUs and other devices/accelerators via support for the various LLVM back-ends such as NVIDIA PTX, Intel GPUs via Level Zero, etc...

Ubuntu 25.10 is Out: Here Are the Biggest Changes You'll Notice  It's FOSS News

Linux 6.18 Ships With A New Python App In The Source Tree  Phoronix

Ubuntu 25.10 'Questing Quokka' is out now  GamingOnLinux

FEX 2510 is out as the newest release of this open-source emulator for running x86/x86_64 applications on ARM64 (AArch64) Linux devices. Making FEX all the more popular is its continued ability for running Wine/Proton for handling Windows games on ARM64 Linux...

FEX 2510 Brings More Optimizations For x86_64 Binaries On AArch64  Phoronix

Canonical just officially announced the release of Ubuntu 25.10 as the newest non-LTS release of Ubuntu Linux...

Ubuntu 25.10 Released With GNOME 49, Linux 6.17 & Other Upgrades  Phoronix

So far the upstream GCC compiler hasn't seen any target enablement for Intel's future Nova Lake processors (a.k.a. -march=novalake support) but merged yesterday for the GNU C Library was initial targeting for Nova Lake as well as Wildcat Lake...

PoC Released for Linux Kernel ksmbd Filesystem Vulnerability  gbhackers.com

WinBoat for containerised Windows apps on Linux adds custom install path, home folder sharing and more  GamingOnLinux

What caught your eye? (Semicon West, AI bubble, Linux Arduino)  Electronics Weekly

Linux Foundation to form React Foundation for open governance  IT Brief Asia

Linux Foundation to form React Foundation for open governance  IT Brief Australia