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AMD Ryzen AI Developer Platform OS Updated With ROCm 10.0, Linux 7.2
With the AMD Ryzen AI Halo mini PC that launched this summer that focused on local AI, one of the biggest surprises for me when reviewing the unit was finding that the Linux preload wasn’t just a stock Ubuntu/Debian OS but rather a customized AMD Linux distribution known as AMD Ryzen AI Developer Platform. Yesterday the newest version of AMD Ryzen AI Developer Platform was released with some nice software updates… ⌘ Read more

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Ubuntu’s Next Rust Effort May See OpenPGP Replaced By Sequoia PGP
Canonical engineer Richard Scott McNew published a status update surrounding the Rust programming language efforts in the upcoming Ubuntu 26.10 release. Sequoia PGP is being rolled out to Ubuntu Linux and in a future release may end up replacing OpenPGP… ⌘ Read more

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OpenMandriva ROME 26.09 Released With More AI Apps, Snaps & PGO + LTO Optimizations
For ending out the month of September the OpenMandriva Linux distribution crew released OpenMandriva ROME 26.0 as their long overdue release held up by various technical issues and a reported sabotage attempt to their platform. With OpenMandriva ROME 24.12 having been their last release, this is quite a big update… ⌘ Read more

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Reddit Is Killing RSS Feeds, Ending Public API Access
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Amid a number of updates for moderators and developers announced Wednesday comes bad news for supporters of a more open web: Reddit is ending support for RSS feeds. Reddit says RSS has now become a “common surface for large-scale scraping and automated abuse,” which is why it’s made the decision to wind down RSS feed … ⌘ Read more

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Framework Desktop With AMD Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 495 Starts Out At $6799 USD
Framework Computer today opened the pre-order process for their updated Framework Desktop featuring the new AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 496 “Gorgon Halo” SoC with 192GB of LPDDR5x-8533 memory… ⌘ Read more

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Rusticl Had A Great Year For Rust OpenCL In Mesa With 3.1 Support, More Drivers
Rusticl lead developer Karol herbst provided a status update on this Mesa Rust-based OpenCL driver during the XDC 2026 conference happening in Toronto… ⌘ Read more

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Archinstall 4.5 For Arch Linux Brings AArch64 Improvements, RT Kernel Options
Ahead of the October ISO refresh of the Arch Linux media, Archinstall 4.5 released today as the newest update to this convenient, text-based Arch Linux installer… ⌘ Read more

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Google Says Chromebook Updates End In 2034, ‘Many’ Models Move to Googlebook OS
Google says ChromeOS will keep receiving regular updates and security patches through mid-2034, after which qualifying newer Chromebooks will be able to migrate to the new Googlebook OS. 9to5Google reports: Starting with Chromebook updates, Google says that “Chromebooks you have today will continue to receive updates th … ⌘ Read more

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SpaceX Launches Starship Into Orbit
SpaceX’s Starship reached orbit for the first time, successfully deploying 26 operational Starlink V3 satellites after overcoming an early Raptor 3 engine shutdown during ascent. “SpaceX plans to eventually deploy 100,000 upgraded Starlink V3s to expand the company’s wireless satellite internet services,” notes Space.com. Here’s the latest update from the report:
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New Patch Series Working Toward DRBD 9 Support In The Linux Kernel
Earlier this year developers at LINBIT began working toward a goal of upstreaming ~15 years worth of their Distributed Replicated Block Device changes into the mainline Linux kernel. That major update has yet to land but sent out this week was a new patch series in preparing the trek toward introducing DRBD 9 support in the mainline kernel… ⌘ Read more

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AI Finds So Many Linux Bugs, Canonical Changes to a Two-Week Stable Release Update Cycle
“Finding vulnerabilities faster also puts pressure on Linux distributions to fix and deliver patches faster,” writes Slashdot reader BrianFagioli

AI has transformed bug discovery from “a manual, time-intensive process into a highly automated engine,” notes Canonical’s blog, leading to a “recent expl … ⌘ Read more

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New FUTEX Syscalls Back To Being Worked On For Helping Valve’s ARM64 Gaming Ambitions
Going back to last year the Igalia open-source consulting firm has been working on enhancing the Linux kernel to help Steam Play gaming on ARM64 and ensuring the FEX emulator is operating efficiently for x86/x86_64 games running on the likes of the Steam Frame. After other kernel work in recent months, there’s finally an updated round of the FUTEX get_robust_list2 and set_robust_list2 system call patches… ⌘ Read more

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F-Droid 2.0: FOSS Android Appstore Continues Updating Despite Google’s Pending ‘Developer Verification’ Plan
“F-Droid, a third-party app repository that only distributes free and open-source software packages for Google’s Android mobile platform, on Thursday announced version 2.0 of its Android app,” reports The Register.

Though they also note “a big banner across the to … ⌘ Read more

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ReactOS Lands Significant DirectX Stack Update From Wine For Enabling More Games
The open-source ReactOS project striving to provide binary compatibility with Microsoft Windows applications/games as well as drivers took a huge step forward today with landing a significant update to its DirectX stack from code leveraged from the Wine project… ⌘ Read more

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Lemonade Fixes AMD APU Model Streaming, Drops OpenMOSS ROCm As ~40x Slower Than Vulkan
The AMD-aligned Lemonade open-source project for serving as a local AI server released 2026.39.1 today as well as issuing a release candidate of 2026.40 as their next release. Besides adapting to a new versioning scheme, the Lemonade SDK updates today bring a few notable changes… ⌘ Read more

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systemd 262 Released With AI/LLM Canary For Unreviewed Code, LUO Integration
Systemd 262 made it out today as the newest feature update to this Linux init system and service manager. As with most systemd releases, it’s heavy on new features and functionality… ⌘ Read more

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Orphaned VMs: Running VMs Uninterrupted While Host Kernel Is Offline For Reboots/Updates
Here’s some very intriguing work taking place by a Google engineer… With the hyperscalers and other cloud providers pushing for zero-downtime, a set of experimental patches for “Orphaned VMs” allow for the virtual machines to continue to run while the host kernel is offline for security updates or rebooting with the Live Update Orchestrator. The experimental patches and request for feedback from other Linux kernel stakeho … ⌘ Read more

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AMD Sends In More HDMI FRL Updates For Linux 7.4, Fixes For Upcoming Hardware
Linux 7.4 is set to be a very exciting holiday gift for AMD Radeon graphics customers. As covered last week on Phoronix, with this next kernel AMD Is enabling HDMI 2.1 support by default now that FreeSync, VRR, and ALLM support is included too. This week another round of AMDGPU kernel graphics driver updates were sent out ahead of the Linux 7.4 merge window in October… ⌘ Read more

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Intel Compute Stack Enables LEO For Nova Lake, Introduces Intel Portable ISA “PISA”
Released today was the Intel Compute Runtime 26.35.39758.10 update for Windows and Linux systems. With this updated OpenCL and Level Zero GPU compute driver stack comes some exciting updates for this monthly feature update… ⌘ Read more

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Adafruit’s New CircuitPython ‘Turbo’ Brings Native Code To Tiny Boards
Targeting students and beginners, Adafruit released “CircuitPython” in 2017 (as a derivative of the MicroPython microcontroller-optimized programming language).

Now Adafruit managing director Phillip Torrone (also long-time Slashdot reader ptorrone) brings this update:

Adafruit has published CircuitPython Turbo, a workflow that compile … ⌘ Read more

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Mir/Wayland-Powered Miracle-WM 0.11 Released With New Overview Mode, Window Urgency
Canonical engineer Matthew Kosarek rolled out Miracle-WM 0.11 today as an end-of-summer update to this Wayland compositor built atop the Mir library… ⌘ Read more

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AMD P-State Driver For Linux 7.4 Will Tune For Zen 6 Client CPUs
Linux 7.4 looks like it will be a very exciting kernel update for AMD customers. On the AMD Radeon graphics side HDMI 2.1 is being enabled by default with the AMDGPU driver with the HDMI FreeSync, VRR, and ALLM features in tow. On the AMD Ryzen client CPU side, there will be Zen 6 tuning with the AMD P-State CPU frequency scaling driver… ⌘ Read more

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Sound Open Firmware 2.15 Released With AMD ACP 7.x Support, Intel UAOL
Sound Open Firmware as the open-source, vendor-independent audio DSP firmware stack and driver framework is out today with a new feature update… ⌘ Read more

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OpenAPV Sees Big Update For Advancing The Advanced Professional Video Codec
OpenAPV as the open-source reference implementation of the Advanced Professional Video (APV) codec today saw its v1.1.1 release, succeeding v0.3.0 as the prior release… ⌘ Read more

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