📰 AV2 Codec Looks Like It Will Be Officially Released Next Week

For years already AV2 has been in development as the successor to AV1 for this wonderful open-source, royalty-free video codec. While there was talk about releasing AV2 by the end of 2025, that didn't happen but now latest indicators are pointing toward its formal debut next week...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AV2-Next-Week

#opensource

📰 More ASUS & HP Laptops See Platform Driver Support For Linux 7.1-rc5

This week's x86 platform driver fixes include not only a handful of bug fixes but also enabling some additional laptops within existing drivers for HP and ASUS devices...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-rc5-Platform-Drivers

#linux

📰 Dirty Frag, Copy Fail, Fragnesia: The start of a worrisome Linux security trend

Or is it just life today, with AI constantly digging through code repositories in search of security holes?

🔗 Source: https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/05/23/dirty-frag-copy-fail-fragnesia-the-start-of-a-worrisome-linux-security-trend/5244742

#linux

📰 Intel's Latest Round Of Open-Source Projects Ended: OBS Studio Plugin, CVE Binary Tool & More

With Intel having been one of the most dominant open-source contributors for years across the software ecosystem, months after they began sunsetting various software projects no longer aligned with today's Intel, they continue formally sunsetting/archiving different open-source projects...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-EOL-OBS-Plugin-And-More

#intel #opensource

📰 Linux Mint Making Improvements To Its File Manager, Theme & Dialogs

The Linux Mint project today published their May 2026 status report to outline recent work done to this Ubuntu/Debian-based Linux platform and much of their focus in recent weeks on enhancements to their Cinnamon desktop environment...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Mint-May-2026

#debian #linux #ubuntu

📰 KDE Plasma 6.7 Gets More Crash Fixes Ahead of June Release

KDE Plasma 6.7 gains more crash fixes, Discover improvements, KWin memory leak patches, and multi-monitor reliability work.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/kde-plasma-6-7-gets-more-crash-fixes-ahead-of-june-release/

#kde #plasma

📰 Shelly 2.3.1 GUI Package Manager for Arch Linux Improves Notifications

Shelly 2.3.1 open-source graphical package manager for Arch Linux-based distributions is now available for download with various new features and improvements.

🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/shelly-2-3-1-gui-package-manager-for-arch-linux-improves-notifications

#arch #linux #linuxbased #opensource

📰 Packagist Supply Chain Attack Infects 8 Packages Using GitHub-Hosted Linux Malware

A new "coordinated" supply chain attack campaign has impacted eight packages on Packagist including malicious code designed to run a Linux binary retrieved from a GitHub Releases URL."Although the affected packages were all Composer packages, the malicious code was not added to composer.json," Socket said. "Instead, it was inserted into package.json, targeting projects that ship JavaScript.

🔗 Source: https://thehackernews.com/2026/05/packagist-supply-chain-attack-infects-8.html

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📰 Phosh 0.55 GNOME-Based Mobile Shell Released with Syncthing Quick Settings

Phosh 0.55 adds a Syncthing quick setting, screen dimming fixes, Phoc 0.55 with wlroots 0.20, and more mobile Linux updates.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/phosh-0-55-gnome-based-mobile-shell-released/

#gnome #linux

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https://hackaday.com/2026/05/23/unitree-go-m8018-6-motor-reverse-engineering/

📰 Linux on the desktop isn't winning, but Linux on my handheld already has

The Penguin is ruling handheld gaming, and no one is surprised.

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/linux-on-the-desktop-isnt-winning-but-linux-in-my-handhelds-already-has/

#linux

📰 Picking a Linux distro is the wrong first question — here's what you should ask instead

Before you settle with a distro, you have to learn how to wield it.

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/picking-linux-distro-wrong-first-question/

#distro #linux

📰 Rust-Based Wild Linker 0.9 Brings New Platform Coverage, Linker Plugin API

Wild Linker 0.9 was released today as the latest version of this very fast linker for Linux systems that is written in the Rust programming language...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wild-Linker-0.9

#linux

📰 Someone turned a GBA into a Switch controller, and it uses the OG Link Cable as the cord

It's amazing what a Raspberry Pi Pico can do in the right hands.

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/someone-turned-a-gba-into-a-switch-controller-and-it-uses-the-og-link-cable-as-the-cord/

#raspberry

📰 Boot-Time Wizard Aims To Help Reduce Linux Boot Times

While in the past decade or so Linux desktop/laptop users likely have little to complain about boot times and there hasn't been much emphasis around trying to make boot times even faster on the Linux desktop especially in an era where many systems are always-on and suspend/resume working more reliably these days, boot times are still an important factor in the embedded Linux world.

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Boot-Time-Wizard-Linux

#linux

📰 KernelScript: A Programming Language For Kernel Customization & App Optimizations

Multikernel Technologies Inc has been working on a multi-kernel architecture for the Linux kernel while in addition to that they have been developing KernelScript as a domain-specific language for carrying out Linux kernel customizations and app-specific optimizations...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/KernelScript

#kernel #linux