KB5120998 bugs now linked to non-English Windows 11 installations

Microsoft has narrowed the mouse-personalization bug in Windows 11 preview update KB5120998 to non-English installations and confirmed that the same release can erase desktop background settings. The update had already been reported to reset custom cursors and wallpapers, but Microsoft now says affected systems cannot reload those settings even when users manually restore them.
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📰 Vulkan 1.4.362 Released With New Extension Developed By Valve

Vulkan 1.4.362 is out this morning as the newest routine spec update. Making Vulkan 1.4.362 more notable beyond a couple bug fixes are two new Vulkan API extensions, both of which were worked on by Valve's Linux graphics team and one of them being a Valve vendor extension...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Vulkan-1.4.362

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📰 Linux 7.4 To Improve Apple Silicon Audio Support & Its "Impossible" Power Management

The Apple Silicon audio driver code within the Linux kernel is preparing to make use of the recent shared GPIO infrastructure for allowing multiple drivers / kernel components to nicely share the same GPIO lines. This should help clean things up in the mainline kernel for the Apple Silicon audio support and with a cleaner architecture than the current downstream Asahi Linux code...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Apple-Audio-Shared-GPIO

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📰 LibreOffice 26.2.6 Open-Source Office Suite Released with More Than 30 Bug Fixes

LibreOffice 26.2.6 is now available for download as the sixth point release to the LibreOffice 26.2 office suite series with 36 bug fixes.

🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/libreoffice-26-2-6-open-source-office-suite-released-with-more-than-30-bug-fixes

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