📰 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

📰 I hacked FSR4 onto my Steam Deck before Valve could ship it officially

Older silicon is capable of running the heavier model.

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/hacked-fsr4-onto-my-steam-deck-before-valve-could-ship-it-officially/

#steam

📰 AMD EPYC 9006 Venice Announced & Looks Poised To Be A Grand Slam

While AMD EPYC 9005 "Turin" launched just under two years ago, it has aged remarkably well. It is one of the few CPU generations in my past 22 years of Linux hardware reviews/benchmarking that has still captivated me two years on in finding still typically industry-leading performance across varying workloads, exceptional reliability, and all around a very robust platform.

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/review/amd-epyc-9006-venice

#amd #linux

📰 Valve puts up a Proton 11.0-2 Release Candidate for testing

Valve have put up a Release Candidate to test the upcoming Proton 11.0-2 update, to fix up more issues found with Windows games on SteamOS / Linux.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

🔗 Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/valve-puts-up-a-proton-11-0-2-release-candidate-for-testing/

#linux #proton

📰 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