Lilbits: GitHub loses its CEO, ARM to add neural accelerators to GPUs, and Kubuntu Focus launches a big, powerful Linux laptop

Kagi's privacy-focused Orion browser for Linux hits Milestone 2 with working tabs, bookmarks, and performance parity with GNOME Web/Epiphany.

This Patch Tuesday has brought a slew of Intel CPU microcode updates for the past few processor generations to address six new high severity vulnerabilities.

Syncthing 2.0, an open-source peer-to-peer file synchronization tool, debuts with a switch to SQLite, revamped logging, faster syncing, and more.

It's Fortnite time.

Podman now includes native Quadlet commands, streamlining declarative container and service management directly from its CLI.

Linux's firmware hub, the LVFS, announces a new funding model with quotas for vendors to help firm up the future of the service, benefitting us all.

Back during the Linux 6.17 merge window was an optimization geared for ARM64 that could have a '16x reduction' in the number of calls

00:00:00 - Intro
00:01:25 - Board setup
00:03:45 - NPU and capabilities
00:04:25 - LLM support. Clip and Yolo-world?:)
00:06:45 - VLM support
00:07:44 - Export
00:13:12 - Strange networks: stereo, flow
00:16:21 - Inference speed
00:17:51 - Wrap up

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Kaisen Linux 3.0 lands with a Debian 13 “Trixie” base, but it’s also the last release, as the project officially shuts down.

Valve seem confident enough in how Assassin’s Creed Shadows runs on Steam Deck, that it's now again Steam Deck Verified.

SR-IOV for virtualization with the Intel Xe kernel graphics driver will only be supported on the Arc Pro products and -- unfortunately -- not the consumer Arc B-Series graphics cards.

Linux's firmware hub, the LVFS, announces a new funding model with quotas for vendors to help firm up the future of the service, benefitting us all.

The newly-launched AMD Ryzen Threadripper 9000 series headlined by the 64-core Threadripper 9980X and 32-core Threadripper 9970X offer incredible performance and a wonderful addition to the Zen 5 family for the HEDT space.

Investigation reveals concerning findings.

GNOME Shell search asks for perfect spelling, but fuzzy search extensions let you find apps even with typos – and a new one has just appeared to help.

The Norwegian Police Security Service (PST) says that pro-Russian hackers took control of critical operation systems at a dam and opened outflow valves.

Go 1.25 lands with major toolchain and runtime enhancements, including experimental GC, encoding/json v2, and new testing/synctest support.

Oh dear. A regular occurrence with THE FINALS after updates, as it's causing various problems with it kicking Linux players at the moment.

comment: A large and unfortunate mistake in the kernel development management process is underway