📰 KDE Plasma 6.7.1 Released with Stability Fixes, UI Improvements, and Better Wayland Reliability

by George WhittakerThe KDE Project has officially released KDE Plasma 6.7.1, the first maintenance update for the Plasma 6.7 desktop environment. Rather than introducing major new features, this point release focuses on polishing the desktop with a broad collection of bug fixes, translation updates, and performance improvements aimed at making Plasma 6.7 more reliable for everyday use.

🔗 Source: https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/kde-plasma-671-released-stability-fixes-ui-improvements-and-better-wayland-reliability

#kde #plasma #wayland

📰 Jack Dorsey Launches Buzz, an Open-Source Slack Alternative

Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey has introduced Buzz, an open-source team chat platform aiming to reduce reliance on Slack and GitHub.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/jack-dorsey-launches-buzz-an-open-source-slack-alternative/

#opensource

📰 Ubuntu LTS is the best Proxmox LXC base, even though Debian seems like the obvious choice

Despite not sharing a native environment, Ubuntu is always the distro I reach for when creating LXCs in Proxmox.

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/ubuntu-lts-is-the-best-proxmox-lxc-base-even-though-debian-seems-like-the-obvious-choice/

#debian #distro #ubuntu

📰 Someone squeezed a 28.9M LLM onto an ESP32-S3, and so can you

Ever since LLMs hit the public eye, people have tried to cram them into the smallest thing they can find. We've seen people use both Raspberry Pis and ESP32s to run an AI locally, with varying results. Now, someone has managed to squeeze a 28.9M LLM on an ESP32-S3, and it can tell a pretty good story.

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/someone-squeezed-a-289m-llm-onto-an-esp32-s3-and-so-can-you/

#raspberry

📰 Intel knows it needs to ‘leapfrog’ ARM and AMD, says CEO Lip-Bu Tan

Chipzilla changes PC biz name to reflect belief edge and robots could be as valuable one day.

🔗 Source: https://www.theregister.com/systems/2026/07/24/intel-knows-it-needs-to-leapfrog-arm-and-amd-says-ceo-lip-bu-tan/5277968

#amd #arm #intel

📰 MARVEL Tōkon: Fighting Souls appears to block SteamOS / Linux

MARVEL Tōkon: Fighting Souls has an Open Beta available and sadly they seem to have blocked SteamOS / Linux from playing due to anti-cheat.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

🔗 Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/marvel-tokon-fighting-souls-appears-to-block-steamos-linux/

#linux

📰 LibreOffice 26.2.5 Open-Source Office Suite Released with 21 Bug Fixes

LibreOffice 26.2.5 is now available with 21 bug fixes addressing crashes, Calc regressions, document rendering, and interface issues.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/libreoffice-26-2-5-open-source-office-suite-released-with-21-bug-fixes/

#opensource

📰 Ubuntu Linux Looking To Get Rid Of /etc/debian_version Historical Artifact

Ubuntu Linux has shipped /etc/debian_version that is carried over from upstream Debian and in turn just indicating the Debian Sid development version from which the packages are arrived. Besides it being inaccurate, /etc/os-release has been the long preferred standard for reading the OS release information. Thus finally Ubuntu developers are looking at dropping the /etc/debian_version file...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-Drop-Debian-Version

#debian #linux #ubuntu

📰 Snapdragon X Elite Laptop Experience Still Lackluster On Ubuntu 26.04 LTS

At the end of last year when checking out the latest Linux experience on the Snapdragon X Elite it was a disappointing affair. The performance had regressed and overall a more headache-inducing experience than just running a modern AMD Ryzen AI or Intel Core Ultra laptop on Linux. Given the recent release of Ubuntu 26.

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/review/ubuntu-2604-snapdragon-x-elite

#amd #intel #linux #ubuntu

📰 GNOME Is Building Session Save and Restore, but It Won’t Make GNOME 51

GNOME is developing a modern way to reopen apps and restore their state after login, but the complete feature will not be ready for GNOME 51.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/gnome-is-building-session-save-and-restore-but-it-wont-make-gnome-51/

#gnome

📰 Beam Eye Tracker app adds Linux and macOS support in Beta

The highly rated Steam app Beam Eye Tracker just recently released a public Beta for their impressive looking eye-tracking app for gaming.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

🔗 Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/beam-eye-tracker-app-adds-linux-and-macos-support-in-beta/

#linux #steam

📰 Bing Images Flaws Let Crafted SVGs Run Commands as SYSTEM on Microsoft's Servers

A crafted SVG submitted to Bing's image search ran commands as NT AUTHORITYSYSTEM on Microsoft's production image-processing workers, and as root on the Linux machines in the same fleet.XBOW's testing got the same result on workers across different hosts and network ranges, so the problem sat in Bing's image tier, not on one bad machine. Microsoft issued two critical CVEs, CVE-2026-32194 and.

🔗 Source: https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/bing-images-flaws-let-crafted-svgs-run.html

#linux

📰 Firefox’s new tab page adds AI-powered daily crossword widget

More widgets are coming to Firefox’s New Tab page, including an interactive crossword puzzle powered by the AI news reader Particle. The mini crossword game is updated daily, with puzzles based around recent content Particle‘s AI has ingested and summarised that day, and links to articles you can read to help deduce crossword answers. You click on a square to activate the row or column (clicking on it again switches between “Across” and “Down”).

🔗 Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/07/firefox-new-widgets-crossword

#firefox

📰 Imagination PowerVR Driver Marking BXM-4-64 MC1 GPU As Supported In Linux 7.3

Sent out today was the weekly round of drm-misc-next patches of new Direct Rendering Manager feature material ready to be queued in DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 7.3 merge window...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Imagination-BXM-4-64-Linux-7.3

#linux

📰 Home Assistant quietly rewrote its Matter server from Python to TypeScript — here's what changed

The biggest Matter upgrade in years doesn't add a single feature.

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/home-assistant-quietly-rewrote-its-matter-server-from-python-to-typescript-heres-what-changed/

#python

📰 I back up my phone to a NAS with Immich and Syncthing, and it's replaced Google Cloud entirely

I back up files from almost every device I own to my NAS, but none of those backups are as important as the one from my phone. It has years of photos, videos, downloads, and files that are backed up to Google Cloud. However, I want to move away from it eventually and back this up to my NAS with a secondary cheap cloud backup.

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/phone-most-important-device-backs-up-nas-everyday/

#immich

📰 Linux Kernel 7.1.4 Released with Bug Fixes, Security Updates, and Hardware Improvements

by George WhittakerGreg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of Linux Kernel 7.1.4, the latest stable maintenance update for the Linux 7.1 series. As with other stable kernel releases, version 7.1.4 focuses on fixing bugs, improving hardware compatibility, and addressing security and reliability issues without introducing new features. The update became available on July 18, 2026, and users of the Linux 7.

🔗 Source: https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/linux-kernel-714-released-bug-fixes-security-updates-and-hardware-improvements

#kernel #linux

📰 Qualcomm QCE Driver On The Chopping Block With ~48x Slower Than Armv8 Crypto Extensions

A few days back I wrote about upstream Linux kernel developers marking the Qualcomm crypto accelerator driver as "broken" and "harmful" due to its slow performance, history of bugs, and other limitations. Now this Qualcomm Crypto Engine "QCE" driver might be removed outright from the Linux kernel source tree after discovering it's even worse than anticipated...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Qualcomm-QCE-48x-Slower

#kernel #linux

📰 Debian Considering General Resolution Over LLM Usage In The Project

Debian developers are discussing a general resolution whether to permit AI large language model (LLM) usage within the Debian software project...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Debian-GR-LLM-Usage

#debian

📰 GE-Proton 11-3 brings better OptiScaler integration, AMD FSR4 improvements and lots of game fixes

GE-Proton 11-3 (and 11-2 just before) is a huge release for the popular compatibility layer for SteamOS / Linux.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

🔗 Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/ge-proton-11-3-brings-better-optiscaler-integration-amd-fsr4-improvements-and-lots-of-game-fixes/

#amd #linux #proton

📰 GNU C Library 2.44 Released With /etc/tunables.conf, More Optimizations

GNU developers today released GNU C Library "glibc" 2.44 as the newest feature release for this critical library to modern Linux systems and other platforms...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNU-C-Library-glibc-2.44

#gnu #linux