📰 New Lenovo Fan Driver, More ASUS Motherboards With Sensor Monitoring For Linux 7.1

All of the hardware monitoring "HWMON" subsystem updates were merged this week for the Linux 7.1 kernel...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-HWMON

#kernel #linux

📰 Google Blocks 8.3B Policy-Violating Ads in 2025, Launches Android 17 Privacy Overhaul

Google this week announced a new set of Play policy updates to strengthen user privacy and protect businesses against fraud, even as it revealed it blocked or removed over 8.3 billion ads globally and suspended 24.9 million accounts in 2025.The new policy updates relate to contact and location permissions in Android, allowing third-party apps to access the contact lists and a user's location in.

🔗 Source: https://thehackernews.com/2026/04/google-blocks-83b-policy-violating-ads.html

#android

📰 Glibc Lands A Big Optimization For LoongArch CPUs

Loongson's LoongArch processors are running decent in our recent Loongson 3B6000 benchmarks but even better performance is on the way with the next GNU C Library "glibc" release...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Faster-LoongArch-glibc-THP

#gnu

📰 21-year-old Polish Woman Fixed a 20-year-old Linux Bug!

She wasn't hunting for bugs. She was doing something mundane when she discovered the issue and made the fix. We need more such positive stories.

🔗 Source: https://feed.itsfoss.com/link/24361/17320855/kamila-enlightenment-e16-bug

#linux

📰 I don't use Tailscale or Nginx to access my home lab remotely, here's what I use instead

One of the most useful services to any home labber is a VPN, so that you can access your home network from anywhere and browse as if you're at home. That not only lets you use any self-hosted services you have on your NAS without having to open ports to the wider internet, but it also circumvents any geo-blocked services and nicely encrypts your data, so nobody can snoop in.

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/i-dont-use-tailscale-or-nginx-to-access-my-home-lab-remotely-heres-what-i-use-instead/

#nginx

📰 Valve Developer Lands RADV/ACO Changes For AMD's GFX11.7 / RDNA 4m

The open-source Linux graphics driver work continues around AMD's GFX11.7 GPU target for some yet-to-be-launched APUs/SoCs and to be branded as "RDNA 4m"...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-RDNA4m-RADV-ACO

#amd #linux #opensource

📰 PlayStation 3 emulator RPCS3 can now auto-configure games for you

Emulating the Sony PlayStation 3 just got even better, with the open source RPCS3 now configuring games for you.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

🔗 Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/playstation-3-emulator-rpcs3-can-now-auto-configure-games-for-you/

#opensource

📰 AMD's fTPM is still causing random stutters, but the fix could cost you money

Stutters are among the most annoying symptoms of PC dysfunction because they're some of the most non-specific issues to solve. It could be caused by literally any component in your rig, and beyond that, software can play a large part in the smoothness of your experience. If you've dealt with stutters and you're running a Ryzen processor, there's a good chance the culprit isn't your RAM, your GPU, or a misbehaving driver. It's caused by a...

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/amds-ftpm-is-still-causing-random-stutters-but-the-fix-could-cost-you-money/

#amd

📰 My Raspberry Pi NAS taught me that cheap storage isn't worth the compromise

A NAS without dependable storage is just a very patient disappointment.

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/raspberry-pi-nas-taught-cheap-storage-isnt-worth-compromise/

#raspberry

📰 The "NTFS Resurrection" Has Occurred For Linux 7.1

As a very exciting follow-up to the recent article around the new NTFS driver being submitted for Linux 7.1 to address the shortcomings of the current Paragon NTFS3 driver and the prior read-only NTFS kernel driver, that work has been merged!...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-New-NTFS-Driver

#kernel #linux

📰 Shelly 2.1 Package Manager for Arch Linux Revamps AppImage Support

Shelly 2.1 package manager for Arch Linux is now available for download with better support for AppImage, Flatpak, and AUR packages, as well as many other enhancements.

🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/shelly-2-1-package-manager-for-arch-linux-revamps-appimage-support

#appimage #arch #flatpak #linux

📰 KDE Plasma 6.7 Ready With Wayland Session Management, Other New Improvements

KDE Plasma 6.7 enjoyed a lot of recent feature development work thanks to a developer sprint in Graz, Austria. Also because of that developer sprint, This Week In Plasma wasn't published last week and so in turn a new issue is now available to highlight the changes over the past two weeks...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-6.7-Session

#kde #plasma #wayland

[OC] I Made an aesthetic terminal music player for spotify

https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments/1slkntb/oc_i_made_an_aesthetic_terminal_music_player_for/

📰 GNOME's Maps, Graphs, RustConn & Other App Improvements

For pairing nicely with the GNOME 50 desktop release last month, a number of GNOME-associated apps have been seeing new features and refinements...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Graphs-2.0-Maps-Transit

#gnome

📰 Payouts King ransomware uses QEMU VMs to bypass endpoint security

The Payouts King ransomware is using the QEMU emulator as a reverse SSH backdoor to run hidden virtual machines on compromised systems and bypass endpoint security.

🔗 Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/payouts-king-ransomware-uses-qemu-vms-to-bypass-endpoint-security/

#qemu

📰 Solus 4.9 “Serenity” Released with Linux 6.18 LTS, KDE Plasma 6.6, and More

Solus 4.9 distribution is now available for download with Linux kernel 6.18 LTS, Budgie 10.9.4, KDE Plasma 6.6, GNOME 49.5, and Xfce 4.20.

🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/solus-4-9-serenity-released-with-linux-6-18-lts-kde-plasma-6-6-and-more

#budgie #gnome #kde #kernel #linux #plasma

📰 Type with your voice on Linux using this Whisper-based app

Your mouth can say things faster than your hands can type them, yet voice typing is rarely used as a primary input method on desktop (most of us think nothing of it on mobile). That’s despite speech-to-text being available on desktop OSes for decades, natively and through dedicated apps. It never caught on because it was inaccurate and slow (and because what you do at a keyboard is less efficient to speak, but that’s a separate point).

🔗 Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/04/speed-of-sound-linux-voice-typing-app

#linux

📰 Mozilla’s New Firefox Mascot ‘Kit’ Triggers Online Backlash Over Pronouns

From cute mascot to online outrage, Firefox’s “Kit” quickly became the center of a debate no one expected. But is the controversy even justified?

🔗 Source: https://feed.itsfoss.com/link/24361/17321728/mozillas-firefox-mascot-gender-controversy

#firefox

📰 Valve Developer Further Improves Old AMD GPUs: HD 7870 XT Finally Working On Linux

Timur Kristóf of Valve's Linux graphics driver team is the one that worked on improving the old AMD Radeon GCN 1.0/1.1 graphics card support by making AMDGPU driver improvements so it could become the default for these Southern Islands and Sea Islands GPUs rather than the legacy Radeon kernel driver. That meant better performance, RADV Vulkan support out-of-the-box, and other benefits.

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Harvested-GPUs-Linux

#amd #kernel #linux

📰 Valve Developer Further Improves Old AMD GPUs: HD 7870 XT Finally Working On Linux

Timur Kristóf of Valve's Linux graphics driver team is the one that worked on improving the old AMD Radeon GCN 1.0/1.1 graphics card support by making AMDGPU driver improvements so it could become the default for these Southern Islands and Sea Islands GPUs rather than the legacy Radeon kernel driver. That meant better performance, RADV Vulkan support out-of-the-box, and other benefits.

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Harvested-GPUs-Linux

#amd #kernel #linux

📰 Sunshine and Moonlight let me build my own game streaming service for the cost of one GPU

Gaming on Linux was always viewed as a compromise. Leaving the clutches of Windows was met by roadblocks when it came to running PC games.

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/self-hosting-streaming-service-changed-the-way-play-games/

#linux