📰 AMD Strix Halo lineup expands with cheaper chips sporting Radeon 40-core Radeon 8060S graphics

The AMD Strix Halo line of processors are mobile chips that combine high-performance Zen 5 CPU cores with enough RDNA 3.5 GPU compute units to offer integrated graphics with discrete-class performance. When combined with high-bandwidth onboard memory, this makes these chips ideal for compact AI workstations, but they’ve also shown up in a few gaming .

🔗 Source: https://liliputing.com/amd-strix-halo-lineup-expands-with-cheaper-chips-sporting-radeon-40-core-radeon-8060s-graphics/

📰 Qualcomm bets on inferencing in the cloud, which Arm says can’t run it all it forever

Awkward, seeing as they’re close partners Qualcomm and Arm have offered differing predictions regarding the market for inferencing silicon.…

🔗 Source: https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/11/06/qualcomm_24_arm_q2_results/

📰 Fixing Image Thumbnails Not Showing Up in GNOME Files on Fedora Linux

Tiny problem but not good for the image of Fedora Linux, pun intended.

🔗 Source: https://itsfoss.com/image-thumbnails-missing-gnome/

📰 SQLite 3.51 Brings New JSONB Functions and Better Performance

SQLite 3.51 introduces new JSONB functions, improved query performance, enhanced CLI tools, and expanded support for 64-bit WebAssembly builds.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/sqlite-3-51-brings-new-jsonb-functions-and-better-performance/

📰 NVIDIA Preparing For Hopper & Blackwell GPU Support With Open-Source Nova Driver

NVIDIA engineers continue working a lot on the open-source and upstream Nova driver for the Linux kernel. This modern, Rust-written open-source NVIDIA driver is still taking shape as an alternative to NVIDIA's official downstream open-source driver and the aging and reverse-engineered Nouveau driver. Out on the horizon for Nova is Hopper and Blackwell GPU support...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Hopper-Blackwell-Nova-Prep

📰 The Falconeer gets a huge Revolution Remaster upgrade but drops Native Linux for Proton

The Falconeer: Revolution Remaster is now available bringing a massive upgrade to the action-adventure game, but Linux gamers will now need to use Proton..Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

🔗 Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/the-falconeer-gets-a-huge-revolution-remaster-upgrade-but-drops-native-linux-for-proton/

📰 Linux Mint’s Cinnamon Menu Gets New Layout Customization Options

Linux Mint users can now move the search bar and reposition system buttons in Cinnamon’s menu, and the project also introduces a revamped System Information tool.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/linux-mint-cinnamon-menu-gets-new-layout-customization-options/

📰 Intel ANV Vulkan Driver Finally Exposes Pipeline Binary "VK_KHR_pipeline_binary"

Introduced back in August of 2024 with Vulkan 1.3.294 was VK_KHR_pipeline_binary as a pipeline binary extension to retrieve binary data associated with individual pipelines. The focus of this is to bypass the Vulkan pipeline caching mechanism and so applications can manage caches themselves. Finally today for Mesa 26.0-devel the Intel "ANV" open-source Vulkan driver has enabled this extension...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-ANV-Pipeline-Binary

📰 AI Controversy Forces End of Mozilla’s Japanese SUMO Community

The SUMO Japanese team quits en masse, accusing Mozilla’s AI system of erasing years of community translation work.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/ai-controversy-forces-end-of-mozilla-japanese-sumo-community/

📰 Chuwi Corebook Air is an ultralight laptop with a sub-$500 starting price

The Chuwi CoreBook Air is a thin and light Windows laptop designed to offer a mix of mid-range to premium features at an affordable price. Chuwi’s upcoming laptop features an AMD Ryzen processor, 16GB of RAM, 512GB of storage, a 55 Wh battery, and a backlit keyboard. But it’s expected to have a starting price of $500 .

🔗 Source: https://liliputing.com/chuwi-corebook-air-is-an-ultralight-laptop-with-a-sub-500-starting-price/

📰 Archinstall 3.0.13 Adds WiFi Connection Menu To Arch Linux Installer

Just days after the Archinstall 3.0.12 release for this text-based Arch Linux installer, Archinstall 3.0.13 is now available to deliver a new feature. That new feature is a text-based interface for being able to connect to a WiFi network within Archinstall...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Archinstall-3.0.13-Released

📰 SteamOS 3.7.17 released with fixes for Baldur's Gate 3, OS Updates and Discover

Valve released the latest stable system update with SteamOS 3.7.17 now available bringing bug fixes, but also disables wake-on-bluetooth for Steam Deck LCD..Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

🔗 Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/steamos-3-7-17-released-with-fixes-for-baldurs-gate-3-os-updates-and-discover/

📰 Vulkan 1.4.332 Brings A New Qualcomm Extension For AI / ML

Vulkan 1.4.332 is out today as the latest weekly update to this high performance graphics and compute API specification. Besides a number of documentation clarifications/corrections, there is one new extension this week in the name of AI / machine learning...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Vulkan-1.4.332

📰 Calibre 8.14 Open-Source E-Book Manager Updates the Tolino Driver and Fixes Bugs

Calibre 8.14 open-source e-book manager software is now available for download with various new features and bug fixes. Here's what's new!

🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/calibre-8-14-open-source-e-book-manager-updates-the-tolino-driver-and-fixes-bugs

📰 Google Releases Magika 1.0: AI-Powered File Type Detection Tool

Magika 1.0 debuts as Google’s AI-driven open-source file identification tool rebuilt in Rust, doubling file type coverage and delivering 99% accuracy.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/google-releases-magika-1-0-ai-powered-file-type-detection-tool/

📰 Linux To Gain ML-DSA/Dilithium Post-Quantum Cryptography For Module Signing

New code likely to be submitted for the upcoming Linux 6.19 kernel would introduce ML-DSA/Dilithium post-quantum cryptography to be initially used for dealing with kernel module signing...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Dilithium-ML-DSA-Module-Sign

📰 Kdenlive 25.08.3 Arrives With Stability Fixes and SVG File Support

Kdenlive 25.08.3 open-source video editor adds SVG file support, improves image rendering, and refines subtitle handling on Linux.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/kdenlive-25-08-3-arrives-with-stability-fixes-and-svg-file-support/

📰 NILFS2 File-System Seeing Renewed Interest With Additional Maintainer

It's been a while since having anything major to talk about with the NILFS2 file-system but it looks like that could be changing. NILFS2 as a reminder is a log-structured file-system with continuous snapshotting with its NILFS predecessor having been in the mainline kernel for two decades since the mid Linux 2.6 days...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/NILFS2-Second-Maintainer

📰 GTK Adds "Reduced Motion" Accessibility Option To Follow macOS, Windows & Others

In addition to GNOME's Mutter compositor removing its X11 back-end support to focus exclusively on Wayland while keeping around XWayland client support, another notable GNOME change this week was the GTK toolkit adding a "reduced motion" accessibility option...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/GTK-Reduced-Motion

📰 Linux PPA Ransomware Scare Lacking Evidence

Hysteria is contagious online. One person’s worry becomes another’s certainty, and that becomes a social media battle cry — the thrill of righteous outrage is addictive! This week saw claims a PPA is being used to distribute Linux ransomware go wild. The story is a bit long and dry but it goes like this: A user says they installed WinBoat (a tool for running Windows apps on Linux) and FreeRDP, but they didn’t connect.

🔗 Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/11/linux-ppa-ransomware-investigated-no-malware

📰 FreeBSD 15.0 Beta 5 Released With Build Fixes For Google & Azure Clouds

FreeBSD 15.0-RC1 had been expected this weekend but instead a fifth beta release of FreeBSD 15.0 was deemed warranted...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-15.0-Beta-5