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KDE Plasma 6.5 is out now with a number of highly-requested features  GamingOnLinux

The Linux 6.19 kernel coming out in early 2026 will add full support for the Logitech G13 gaming keypad, a device first launched back in 2009. Some functionality has worked in Linux over the past 17 years while full support is only coming to this next version of the Linux kernel...

Linux 6.19 Will Add Support For The Logitech G13 Keypad - 17 Years After Hardware Debut  Phoronix

While the Blender 5.0 3D modeling software is being released next month, there is already exciting changes to look forward to with Blender 5.1 in the new year. Beyond AMD HIP-RT ray-tracing by default in Blender 5.1, this follow-on Blender release is also planning on enabling Vulkan API support by default...

KDE Plasma 6.5 is out today as the newest major feature release for the Plasma 6 desktop. Plasma 6.5 brings many great improvements and continues further evolving this modern, Wayland-focused open-source desktop...

KDE Plasma 6.5 Desktop Environment Officially Released, This Is What’s New  9to5Linux

Google fixes Pixel bootloops, boosts Linux support, brings Pixel 8 to its refurb store, & more  PiunikaWeb

Mobian brings Debian 13 'Trixie' to phones and tablets  theregister.com

Self-Tuning Linux Kernels: How LLM-Driven Agents Are Reinventing Scheduler Policies  Linux Journal

New Tariffs & Windows 10's End: Your Smart Tech Upgrade Path  courierjournal.net

The most unexpected surprise today was AMD releasing ROCm 7.9 as a new technology preview / development branch for the open-source ROCm GPU compute stack just one month after formally releasing ROCm 7.0. While not a fan of how they handled the version discontinuity, ROCm 7.9 has been working out well in my very initial tests on AMD Ryzen AI Max "Strix Halo"...

Over the weekend we wrote about the visually-impressive Tellusim Core SDK being posted to GitHub as a C++ SDK for high-end graphics and compute. The downside was that the Tellusim Core SKD was rather restrictive in only being free for education, free for companies with less than $200k USD in annual revenue, and evaluation purposes. Or you needed to obtain a negotiated license for the software. As a pleasant surprise, OSI-approved open-source projects not backed by for-profit organizations can now openly use this superb graphics SDK...

Tellusim Core SDK Opens Up For Use By OSI-Approved Open-Source Projects  Phoronix

Pixel 10 leads Android in Linux app support  findarticles.com

Currently on Linux if you are putting the system into hibernation, there isn't a way to interrupt it and cancel it if you change your mind, even with most systems taking a number of seconds to successfully hibernate. But a new patch series sent out this weekend would introduce that capability...

Patches Posted To Allow Hibernation Cancellation On Linux  Phoronix

Google’s Pixel 10 can now run Linux apps better than other Android phones  Android Authority

LunarG in August announced KosmicKrisp as a Vulkan-to-Metal driver for a better Vulkan API experience on Apple macOS devices compared to the likes of using MoltenVK as another Vulkan-on-Metal adaptation. As of today the KosmicKrisp driver for Vulkan 1.3 on Apple devices is now in the Mesa 26.0 codebase...

AMD is hosting an AI Day out in San Francisco today and as part of those festivities today they announced the ROCm Core SDK 7.9 SDK paired with TheRock build and release infrastructure system they have been crafting...

Android’s Linux Terminal lacks Snapdragon support  findarticles.com