📰 Intel's Jay Graphics Shader Compiler Now Passing Vulkan CTS With Xe2/Xe3 Hardware

Last year Alyssa Rosenzweig joined Intel to work on their Linux graphics drivers after previously serving as a contractor for Valve on their graphics stack and also previously leading the Mesa driver work for the Asahi Linux Apple Silicon graphics support. Since joining Intel, she has been leading the development of Jay as a new SSA-based shader compiler for Intel graphics hardware to be used by the Mesa Iris Gallium3D and ANV Vulkan drivers...

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https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Jay-Compiler-Xe2-Xe3-CTS

📰 Late Sound Fixes For Linux 7.2 Bring More Device Quirks, Intel Nova Lake HDMI-In Capture

Ahead of the presumed Linux 7.2 stable kernel release tomorrow, some last minute sound fixes/quirks have been merged for this next kernel version...

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https://www.phoronix.com/news/Last-Sound-Fixes-Linux-7.2

📰 Marek Olšák's 19 Latest Patches Further Optimizing RADV & ACO

Legendary Mesa Radeon Gallium3D driver developer Marek Olšák who was a longtime AMD employee and then joined Valve's Linux graphics driver team earlier this year has continued his focus now on perfecting his art around the RADV Vulkan driver and ACO shader compiler...

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https://www.phoronix.com/news/RADV-ACO-19-More-Patches-Valve

📰 tlbi= Boot Option Submitted Ahead Of Linux 7.2 Kernel Release

Ahead of the Linux 7.2 kernel stable release expected to occur in the coming hours, a last minute "x86/urgent" pull request was submitted with one patch for adding the new tlbi= boot option...

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https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-x86-urgent-tlbi

📰 NVIDIA’s GeForce NOW Native Linux App Now Stable, Offers Flatpak Support

NVIDIA's GeForce NOW native Linux app has graduated from beta and it's now available as a stable release with Flatpak and Ubuntu support.

🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/nvidias-geforce-now-native-linux-app-now-stable-offers-flatpak-support

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📰 Linux is now adopting a CPU requirement Windows already demands, but don't worry, it's not TPM 2.0

In fact, if you're reading this line, your computer's CPU is most definitely still supported.

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https://www.xda-developers.com/linux-is-now-adopting-a-cpu-requirement-windows-already-demands-but-dont-worry-its-not-tpm-20/

📰 Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands has Easy Anti-Cheat removed

Good for players on Linux / SteamOS and modders - Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands is now free from Easy Anti-Cheat.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

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https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/tom-clancys-ghost-recon-wildlands-has-easy-anti-cheat-removed/

📰 GNU Linux-libre 7.2-gnu Released Following More Driver Cleaning

Following yesterday's release of the Linux 7.2 kernel, GNU Linux-libre 7.2-gnu is now available for this kernel downstream that strips out support for drivers depending upon non-free-software microcode/firmware, the ability to load closed-source kernel modules, and other restrictions in the name of software freedom...

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https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNU-Linux-Libre-7.2

📰 Evooo1Bot Linux Botnet Exploits Known Flaws to Turn Edge Devices Into SOCKS5 Proxies

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a previously undocumented Linux botnet family dubbed Evooo1Bot that derives its core functionality from the Mirai botnet source code and is equipped to turn internet-facing devices into SOCKS proxies."While the malware reuses the DDoS engine from the publicly leaked Mirai source code, it extends the original framework with numerous capabilities, including.

🔗 Source: https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/evooo1bot-linux-botnet-exploits-known.html

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📰 ARM64 BBML3 Feature Ready With Linux 7.3, NVIDIA Olympus Workarounds

AI/LLM patch craziness hurt ARM64 development for the Linux 7.2 cycle that no real features landed for that kernel version on AArch64. Fortunately, the ARM Linux developers are more prepared now and for Linux 7.3 are introducing some new ARM64 features...

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https://www.phoronix.com/news/ARM64-Linux-7.3