📰 Dynamic clock, calendar and weather icons extension adds new styles

You can bring Ubuntu’s clock, calendar and weather app icons to life with the Dynamic Calendar, Clocks and Weather Icons GNOME Shell extension – which has been updated with new icon styles. The extension already provided Yaru, Adwaita, Paprius, Big Sur and other icon styles, built-in (the dynamic versions don’t depend on the icon sets themselves), so you can see real-time clock, date and weather info on app icons that look like their static...

🔗 Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/08/dynamic-icons-gnome-extension-updated

#gnome #ubuntu

📰 KDE Software Now Has Stable Btrfs Snapshot Integration With KIO-Snapshot 1.0

With today's release of KIO-Snapshot, KDE software now has stable integration of Btrfs file-system snapshots...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Btrfs-Snapshots

#kde

📰 KMSCON 10.0.2 Brings asciicast Playback Support, Bug Fixes

KMSCON 10.0.2 debuted today as the latest update to this leading user-space terminal emulator for Linux systems. KMSCON is built around Linux's KMS/DRM interfaces and the most viable alternative to date for in-kernel VTs...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/KMSCON-10.0.2-Released

#kernel #linux

📰 Researcher tricks Apple’s Find My into sharing location data with Linux

Clever protocol wrangling gets iBiz-only people tracking working on a non-iGadget.

🔗 Source: https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/08/20/researcher-tricks-apples-find-my-into-sharing-location-data-with-linux/5290496

#linux

📰 New AMD P-State Patch Delivers Major Linux Gaming Performance Boost

by George WhittakerA newly proposed patch for the Linux kernel's AMD P-State CPU frequency scaling driver is showing impressive gaming performance improvements, potentially delivering a noticeable boost for Ryzen users without requiring new hardware. Early benchmarks indicate that the optimization can significantly improve frame rates in CPU-bound games by allowing processors to respond more quickly to changing workloads. (phoronix.

🔗 Source: https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/new-amd-p-state-patch-delivers-major-linux-gaming-performance-boost

#amd #kernel #linux

📰 Meloville Is a New Open-Source Music Player for Linux

Meloville is a new Qt-based open-source music player for Linux with synced lyrics, Bluetooth controls, playlists, and metadata editing.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/meloville-is-a-new-open-source-music-player-for-linux/

#linux #opensource

📰 The same Linux setup follows me across three PCs, without cloning a single drive

Keep the same Linux workflow across multiple PCs without cloning drives by syncing configs, package lists, and personal data separately.

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/same-linux-setup-across-three-pcs-without-cloning-drives/

#linux

📰 Intel Mesa Linux Drivers Now Treating Nova Lake S / U / H / HX As Stable

Intel's open-source Mesa drivers for Iris Gallium3D (OpenGL) and ANV (Vulkan) on Linux are no longer treating next-gen Nova Lake processors with integrated graphics as experimental and off-by-default. With today's Mesa 26.3-devel code, the Intel driver code across Nova Lake's S, U, H, and HX product families are considered stable and enabled by default...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Mesa-Nova-Lake-Stable

#intel #linux #opensource

📰 Phosh 0.57 Linux Mobile Shell Brings New Wi-Fi, Cellular, Network, and Bluetooth Settings

Phosh 0.57 is out with new mobile settings panels, improved landscape support, keyboard enhancements, and an updated Phoc compositor.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/phosh-0-57-linux-mobile-shell-released/

#linux

📰 Bazzite Linux 44 for handhelds finally launches with some massive upgrades

Bazzite Linux 44 has been out for desktops for a while, but the "Deck" image for handhelds and console-like TV PCs is finally here with a huge overhaul.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

🔗 Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/bazzite-linux-44-for-handhelds-finally-launches-with-some-massive-upgrades/

#linux

📰 Linus Torvalds Endures A Debug Session From Hell, "Enormously Helped" By AI

It's pretty rare to see Linus Torvalds author patches himself pertaining to the open-source Linux graphics drivers, but waking up this morning I was surprised to see he authored and committed an Intel Xe kernel graphics driver change himself. It ended up being after he encountered a "debug session from hell" but was ultimately helped by AI in fixing a bug that had been irking him...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linus-Torvalds-Debug-AI

#intel #kernel #linux #opensource

📰 Intel Computer Vision Sensing Driver Now Ready For Nova Lake

The main set of media subsystem updates have been merged for the ongoing Linux 7.3 merge window. Notable this round is the Intel Computer Vision Sensing "CVS" driver merged the previous cycle now supporting next-gen Nova Lake platforms...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-Media

#intel #linux

📰 Nginx Dark Mode Support For Error Pages Remains Elusive

In early 2025 I wrote about the upstream Nginx web server rejecting dark mode support for its error pages on the basis of wanting to keep the default error pages simple and developers arguing the extra HTML tag for the dark mode styling as superfluous. Following a lot of public backlash for being against offering native dark mode handling by default, Nginx stakeholders were polled and largely came out in favor of supporting the functionality but...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Nginx-Dark-Mode-Mystery

#nginx

📰 An old phone beats a Raspberry Pi for everything except the one thing that matters

Server or microcontroller — pick before you build.

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/old-phone-beats-raspberry-pi-everything-except-one-thing-that-matters/

#raspberry

📰 Proton 11.0-2 Brings Support for AsteroidsHD, Portal Worlds, and Plain Sight

Proton 11.0-2 is now available with support for AsteroidsHD, Portal Worlds, Plain Sight, Warhammer: Dark Omen (Classic), Heroes of the Three Kingdoms 7, and many other Windows games.

🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/proton-11-0-2-brings-support-for-asteroidshd-portal-worlds-and-plain-sight

#proton

📰 14 Trojanized npm Packages Drop RedC2 4.0 Linux Backdoor With AI-Assisted C2

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a set of trojanized npm packages that masquerade as working calendar and streak utilities but are engineered to stealthily deliver an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered Linux implant dubbed RedC2 4.0."When the module loads, it locates the bundled binary, marks it executable, and launches it as a detached background process," TrendAI, Trend Micro's.

🔗 Source: https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/14-trojanized-npm-packages-drop-redc2.html

#linux

📰 Linus Torvalds fixed a Linux bug using AI, highlighting both the strengths and weaknesses of the new tech

The creator of Linux, Linus Torvalds, is no stranger to using AI to fix problems. Not only has he allowed AI-written code submissions to the kernel (as long as the person running the agent takes full responsibility for any issues it has), but he has gone on record saying that he's ignoring anyone who argues against its use.

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/linus-torvalds-fixed-a-linux-bug-using-ai-highlighting-both-the-strengths-and-weaknesses-of-the-new-tech/

#kernel #linux

📰 Postcard is a new email client for GNOME, built with AI

Postcard is a new email client for GNOME that has echoes of Geary The app is the work of a solo developer, gxanshu on GitHub, who is upfront about using AI coding tools to bring this “modern mail client” to life. Postcard is written in Python with GTK4/libadwaita. It uses imaplib and smtplib for networking, a local SQLite index for searching, WebKitGTK for rendering HTML and libsecret for keeping passwords safe.

🔗 Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/08/postcard-gnome-email-client

#gnome #python

📰 Open-Source Etnaviv Driver Now Able To Run YOLOX

The open-source, reverse-engineered Etnaviv driver stack that began for providing accelerated graphics support on Vivante GPU IP and since expanded to handle Vivante NPUs as well is now able to handle YOLOX object detection...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Etnaviv-YOLOX

#opensource

📰 Sched_ext's Sub-Scheduler Support Now "Feature Complete" With Linux 7.3

The extensible scheduler framework "sched_ext" that allows for custom schedulers as BPF programs has been working on sub-scheduler support in recent kernel cycles. With Linux 7.3, sub-scheduler support is now deemed feature complete...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-sched-ext

#kernel #linux

📰 KDE Plasma 6.8 to Make Auto-Hide Panels 10x Faster

KDE developers continue shaping Plasma 6.8 with smarter automatic brightness, faster panels, improved lock screen authentication, and performance gains.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/kde-plasma-6-8-to-make-auto-hide-panels-10x-faster/

#kde #plasma