📰 New Steam Client Update Improves NVIDIA GPU Hardware Acceleration on Linux

Valve released a new stable Steam Client update that promises to improve hardware acceleration for NVIDIA GPUs and game recording on Linux systems.

🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/new-steam-client-update-improves-nvidia-gpu-hardware-acceleration-on-linux

#linux #steam

📰 CachyOS rebuilds every package the 'wrong' way, and my Steam library runs faster for it

There's a set of unwritten rules that every Linux distribution follows, and I never thought about them until I found the one distro that doesn't. Compile for the oldest CPU anyone might own. Ship the mainline kernel. Use Valve's Proton, because Valve knows best. I've been running CachyOS on my ROG Ally X and my laptop for a while now, and it breaks every single one of those rules on purpose. It even skipped the Open Gaming Collective, the...

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/every-linux-gaming-distro-joined-collective-except-cachyos-its-beating-all-of-them/

#distro #kernel #linux #proton #steam

📰 Ubuntu 26.10 will let you check your PC’s official certified status

Wondering if your laptop or desktop PC is Ubuntu Certified? Ubuntu 26.10 is adding a way to check from the Settings app. A new row in Settings > System > About reads “check if this computer is Ubuntu Certified”. Clicking it opens a new page that will read the local/cached status from the com.ubuntu.hwctl service (the Canonical hardware API introduced in 2025).

🔗 Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/07/ubuntu-2610-certified-hardware-check

#ubuntu

📰 Raspberry Pi Launches 10-Inch Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2 at $80

A new Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2 model is now available with a 10-inch display and an $80 USD price tag, compatible with Raspberry Pi 5 and Raspberry Pi 5 CM SBCs.

🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/raspberry-pi-launches-10-inch-raspberry-pi-touch-display-2-at-80

#raspberry

📰 Immich 3.0 finally let me delete the Google Photos app for good

Google finally lost its last foothold on my photo library.

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/immich-3-0-google-photos-app-deleted/

#immich

📰 GNOME can look like Windows – and Flashback can do it without extensions

New 'Simple-taskbar' is an option, but there's a simpler, stabler way.

🔗 Source: https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/07/22/gnome-can-look-like-windows-and-flashback-can-do-it-without-extensions/5276109

#gnome

📰 Talk to This Glowing Pyramid on Your Desk, and It'll Run Your AI Agent for You

It's a pyramid-shaped Orange Pi 4 Pro that ships with OpenClaw or Hermes preloaded and now talks back so you get that "Iron Man" feel.

🔗 Source: https://feed.itsfoss.com/link/24361/17384756/autonomous-intern-2

#orangepi

📰 Intel Directed Package-Level Thermal Interrupts Slated For Linux 7.3

Back in March Intel software engineers began sending out Linux patches for Directed Package-Level Thermal Interrupts as a new capability with recent Intel processors. This notable efficiency improvement is now queued for introduction in the Linux 7.3 cycle once its merge window opens in a month...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Direct-Pkg-Therm-Linux-73

#intel #linux

📰 I installed real Linux apps on my Android phone, and it got dangerously close to replacing my laptop

Android phones have been powerful enough to handle everyday work for years, but that power has never brought them particularly close to replacing my laptop. The problem is Android itself, where most work remains trapped inside individual apps that cannot access the same tools, files, and processes as freely as software running on a desktop operating system.

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/installed-linux-apps-android-phone-got-close-replacing-laptop/

#android #linux

📰 AMD EPYC Turin With PCIe 5.0 Storage Shows Off Nice Gains On Linux 7.2

Earlier this week was an exciting look at Intel Xe3 graphics performance gains on Linux 7.2 with Intel Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake" hardware. On the other side of the table, with AMD hardware on this forthcoming kernel an area to be excited about are some I/O improvements at least for 5th Gen EPYC with speedy PCIe Gen5 NVMe SSD storage.

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-72-epyc-9455p

#amd #intel #kernel #linux

📰 Linux kernel team publishes 432 CVEs in two days

Sunday-to-Monday onslaught fuels speculation over AI-assisted bug reports.

🔗 Source: https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/07/22/linux-kernel-team-publishes-432-cves-in-two-days/5276497

#kernel #linux

📰 Mozilla Firefox 154 Enters Public Beta Testing, Here’s What to Expect

Firefox 154 open-source web browser is now available for public beta testing with a new "Manage AI" quick action in the address bar, support for clearing cached favicons, and more.

🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/mozilla-firefox-154-enters-public-beta-testing-heres-what-to-expect

#firefox #opensource

📰 Ubuntu snap-confine Flaw Could Give Local Users Root on Default Desktop Installs

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerability in snap-confine that an unprivileged user can trigger to obtain root access and gain complete control of a target environment.The high-severity flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-8933 (CVSS score: 7.8), impacts default installations of Ubuntu Desktop 24.04, 25.10, and 26.04. The disclosure comes as.

🔗 Source: https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/ubuntu-snap-confine-flaw-could-give.html

#ubuntu

📰 Lemonade 11.5 Local AI Server Released With Completed Lemonade Router

Just one week after releasing Lemonade 11.0, the Lemonade 11.5 local AI server was released today for this open-source AMD backed project during their AMD Advancing AI event...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Lemonade-11.5

#amd #opensource

📰 Codeberg takes its side in the open-source scene's AI debate by banning vibe-coded projects

As AI coding tools evolve over time, the open-source scene has been drawing its lines in the sand as to how much AI is too much. On one side of the debate, Linus Torvalds has stated that he thinks AI tools are useful (which has attracted backlash). On the other side, we saw Fedora's community tear down the plans for an AI Developer Desktop spin.

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/codeberg-takes-its-side-in-the-open-source-scenes-ai-debate-by-banning-vibe-coded-projects/

#fedora #opensource

📰 Someone built a Raspberry Pi bot to catch their ISP lying about their speeds, and you can download it too

It can be annoying when you're convinced that your ISP is throttling your speeds, but it won't own up to its actions. Fortunately, there are ways to double-check if it is, in fact, your ISP that's causing the issues. One person decided to take matters into their own hands with a Raspberry Pi speed tester, and it did, in fact, prove that the ISP was at fault.

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/someone-built-a-raspberry-pi-bot-to-catch-their-isp-lying-about-their-speeds-and-you-can-download-it-too/

#raspberry

📰 Tails 7.10 Anonymous OS Released with Improved Data-Loss Protection

Tails 7.10 adopts GNOME’s standard shutdown process, replaces GNOME Videos with Celluloid, and updates Tor Browser.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/tails-7-10-anonymous-os-released-with-improved-data-loss-protection/

#gnome

📰 Nine-Year-Old RefluXFS Linux Flaw Gives Local Users Root on Default RHEL Installs

RefluXFS, a new Linux kernel flaw disclosed on July 22 and tracked as CVE-2026-64600, lets an unprivileged local user overwrite root-owned files on an XFS filesystem and gain persistent root access.Qualys said default installations of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and its derivatives, Fedora Server, and Amazon Linux can meet the conditions for exploitation.The company demonstrated the race.

🔗 Source: https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/nine-year-old-refluxfs-linux-flaw-gives.html

#fedora #kernel #linux

📰 Plex's Open Source Alternative Jellyfin is Having a Leadership Crisis

The departures come just months after the project flagged burnout as a growing risk.

🔗 Source: https://feed.itsfoss.com/link/24361/17385323/jellyfin-leadership-crisis

#opensource

📰 dav1d 1.5.4 Brings AV1 Decoding To OS/2

While the VideoLAN developers are busy these days working on dav2d for AV2 video decoding, they haven't let up work on dav1d and recently released dav1d 1.5.4 for continuing to enhance this leading open-source, CPU-based AV1 decoder...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/dav1d-1.5.4

#opensource

📰 Steam Machine with SteamOS Linux - initial thoughts

Good news everyone, I now have a Steam Machine in the GamingOnLinux house and I have some initial thoughts.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

🔗 Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/steam-machine-with-steamos-linux-initial-thoughts/

#linux #steam