Updated Coreboot/Dasharo For MSI PRO Z690-A / Z790-P Motherboards, Adds Overclocking
In addition to 3mdeb providing their Coreboot-based Dasharo built atop AMD openSIL on a Gigabyte EPYC server motherboard and recently making their first Dasharo release for an AMD Ryzen AM5 platform with the MSI PRO B850-P WIFI, the firmware consulting firm today released updated versions of their MSI PRO Z690-A and MSI PRO Z790-P Dasharo ports to those Intel Core motherboards… ⌘ Read more
GeForce NOW On Linux Native App Exits Beta
At the beginning of the year NVIDIA released a native build of GeForce NOW for Linux using Flatpaks. Today their native Linux build has exited beta to reach official production status for this cloud gaming solution from NVIDIA… ⌘ Read more
NVIDIA GeForce NOW cloud gaming for Linux levels up and leaves Beta
Cloud gaming on Linux levels up officially today with the full release of the NVIDIA GeForce NOW app for Linux after being in Beta since January.
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Make sure your Flatpak is up to date due to security issues
Version 1.18.1 and 1.19.0 pre-release rolled out for Flatpak, due to some security issues that were found so it’s an essential update for all Linux systems.
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VA Launches Psilocybin Trial For Veterans With Treatment-Resistant Depression
Longtime Slashdot reader sbinning shares a press release: The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs announced the launch of a new clinical trial to evaluate the effectiveness and safety of psilocybin to treat major depression in Veterans, including those with concurrent PTSD. The new trial comes after a recent executive … ⌘ Read more
Microsoft’s Azure Linux 3.0.20260809 Ships With 233+ CVE Fixes
While Microsoft continues working on Azure Linux 4.0 as its overhauled Linux distribution built atop Fedora, Azure Linux 3.0 remains the current stable production series. Released overnight was Azure Linux 3.0.20260809 and it comes with more than 233 security patches for recent CVEs in the AI era… ⌘ Read more
Intel XPU Manager 2.1 Released For Monitoring Arc Pro Graphics On Windows/Linux
Intel XPU Manager 2.1 is now available as the latest version of this open-source tool for Linux and Windows systems for the monitoring and management of Arc Pro graphics cards. The Intel XPU Manager helps in keeping an eye on device utilization and other metrics via the xpu-smi command and other components… ⌘ Read more
Scientists Create Largest 2D Map of the Universe
After 13 years of observations and data processing, astronomers have released the largest two-dimensional map of the universe ever assembled, “offering a sweeping new view of nearly 4 billion celestial objects across roughly three-quarters of the sky,” reports Space.com. From the report: The new map, created by the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Legacy Imaging Su … ⌘ Read more
Rsync 3.5 Released As “Extraordinary” Update To Fix 33 Security Issues
Rsync as the widely-used, open-source remote sync software for synchronizing files and directories across networks is out today with a very important update… ⌘ Read more
GCC 17 Compiler Adding “-m128bit-atomic” For 128-bit Atomic Memory Operations
Merged today to the GNU Compiler Collection Git code is the new -m128bit-atomic option for next year’s GCC 17 feature release… ⌘ Read more
Manjaro Linux 26.1 Released With GNOME 50 & KDE Plasma 6.7 Desktops
Manjaro 26.1 Bian-May is now available as the newest feature release to this desktop Linux distribution built atop an Arch Linux base… ⌘ Read more
Linux GPU Configuration And Monitoring Tool (LACT) adds more NVIDIA GPU overclocking options
The Linux GPU Configuration And Monitoring Tool (LACT) is great for making a lot of GPU tweaks simple, with a new release v0.10.0 adding new options.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/linux-gpu-configuration-and-monitori … ⌘ Read more
The Lord of the Rings: War in the North returns with a Legacy Edition from Aspyr
After getting delisted way back in 2019 on PC, Aspyr Media have re-released The Lord of the Rings: War in the North - Legacy Edition.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/the-lord-of-the-rings-war-in-the-north-returns-with-a-legacy-edit … ⌘ Read more
Mold 2.42 Delivering Greater Performance For This High Speed Linker
It’s been quiet since the Mold 2.41 release back in April while today it’s now been succeeded by Mold 2.42 for deliver even greater performance out of this high speed linker… ⌘ Read more
Intel LLM-Scaler Ready With Muse Glimmer Support, Other LLMs & Features
Intel’s LLM-Scaler project that was born out of their Project Battlematrix initiative aims to make it easier to run generative AI on Arc (Pro) B-Series graphics cards with the likes of vLLM, ComfyUI, SGLang, and other popular AI software in this Docker-based pre-configured AI stack. This week new LLM-Scaler releases brought same-day support for new models and other enhancements… ⌘ Read more
LACT 0.10 Released With New NVIDIA Overclocking Controls, Blackwell Hotspot Sensor
LACT is one of the popular third-party Linux GPU configuration and monitoring utilities that works across NVIDIA, AMD, and Intel graphics. This GUI provides GPU overclocking controls plus a wealth of information reporting, which is especially great considering the lack of any official GUI control panel for AMD Radeon and Intel Arc graphics on Linux. With today’s LACT 0.10 release, there are yet more features in tow… ⌘ Read more
QEMU 11.1 Released With Numerous Improvements
For those using QEMU as part of the open-source virtualization stack, QEMU 11.1 is now available with a number of new feature enhancements and fixes… ⌘ Read more
Intel CPU Microcode 20260811 Release Fixes Eight Security Issues
Intel today published their 20260811 CPU microcode updates to fix a variety of issues for exciting processors, including shipping the first new microcode images for Bartlett Lake and Wildcat Lake. The new microcode updates stretch back to Intel Core Gen10 processors… ⌘ Read more
Be more prepared for the Steam Frame with Digiphile’s new VR Games Showcase Bundle
Build up that collection of VR games ready to sweat your buttocks off when the Steam Frame releases with the Digiphile VR Games Showcase Bundle.
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Flatpak 1.19 Released With Nine Security Fixes
Flatpak 1.19 was released today as a new development release along with the Flatpak 1.18.1 stable point release. Both of these releases ship a number of newly-discovered security issues with this app sandboxing and distribution tech… ⌘ Read more
GNOME Designers Lay Out Some Of Their GNOME Shell Dreams
GNOME interaction designer Tobias Bernard has shared some of the plans and ideas for long-term GNOME Shell improvements they have been eyeing for future GNOME releases… ⌘ Read more
FastFlowLM 1.0 Released Now As Part Of The AMD ROCm Umbrella
FastFlowLM is the open-source software for getting vision, audio, embedding, and MoE large language models up and running on AMD Ryzen AI NPUs. FastFlowLM 1.0 released today and is also now part of the AMD ROCm software umbrella… ⌘ Read more
Rusticl Now Supports cl_ext_float_atomics
With the recent release of Mesa 26.2 the Rusticl OpenCL driver now supports OpenCL 3.1 on RadeonSI, LLVMpipe, Zink, Intel Iris, and Apple Asahi. But the work is not over and more improvements to this Rust-based, modern OpenCL driver continue to land… ⌘ Read more
Meta’s ‘Open’ Muse Glimmer Model Can Run On a Single Computer
Meta has released Muse Glimmer, a slimmed-down open-weight AI model designed to run locally on a single GPU for agent tasks such as scheduling, file management, coding, and tool use. The release is based on Meta’s closed Muse Spark 1.2 model and appears to be aimed at attracting developers who want capable AI agents without relying entirely on cloud-hosted … ⌘ Read more
Paramount Promises 30 Film-A-Year Contracts After WBD Acquisition
Paramount is making commitments to major theater chains to release 30 films annually for three years if its Warner Bros. deal goes through. According to Deadline, the written commitment was sent to “at least one of the top two circuits” (specifically Regal but AMC may have also received a written commitment) and includes “an exclusive 4 … ⌘ Read more
Meta Publishes Muse Glimmer As 30B Open Agentic Model
The Meta Superintelligence Labs announced this morning they have released Muse Glimmer as their next large language model featuring 30 billion parameters for always-on local agent workflows. Muse Glimmer features open-source model weights under an Apache 2.0 license… ⌘ Read more
CachyOS gets improved handheld detection in the August release
CachyOS is one of the most popular Linux distributions and they’ve released their August release with lots of bug fixes and a few new features.
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AI Reviews Bring ‘New Normal’ to Linux Release Candidates: Lots of Bug Fixes
Linux Torvalds expects Linux 7.2 should be released next weekend “unless something really bad
pops up,” Torvalds said while announcing today’s release candidate.
But there’s something interesting about Linux 7.2-rc7, writes Phoronix. “By the time the Linux kernel typically hits a -rc7 release things have usually settled qui … ⌘ Read more
Linux 7.2-rc7 Released Following Another Exhausting AI-Driven Week
Linux 7.2-rc7 is now available for testing as we close in on the official Linux 7.2 release hopefully next weekend… ⌘ Read more
CachyOS August 2026 Release Preps For Upcoming Server Edition
CachyOS is out with its latest media refresh of the year. Beyond the usual desktop improvements for the performance-optimized CachyOS, they continue working toward the upcoming CachyOS Server Edition… ⌘ Read more
FreeBSD 14.5 Beta 1 Released With Various Backports, Security Fixes
For those still on the FreeBSD 14 N-1 stable series rather than the latest FreeBSD 15 series, FreeBSD 14.5 is working toward release to deliver various security fixes and backports… ⌘ Read more
Quake Celebrates 30th Anniversary: New Official Episode With New Maps and Mechanics
To celebrate Quake’s 30th anniversary, Bethesda released “a brutal new episode” — a new campaign chapter titled Dawn of the Machine “delivering ferocious combat, labyrinthine level design, and nightmarish realms that twist reality beyond recognition…”
Face deadly new twists on familiar foes, including the … ⌘ Read more
Slashdot Reader Builds a Free Photo-Verification App for iPhones
Long-time Slashdot reader BrianFagioli is announcing that he’s released a new iPhone app that creates a cryptographic witness for photos without uploading the original image.
The app hashes the file, signs the hash using a dedicated identity stored in Apple Keychain, and publishes the witness to Nostr relays while keeping the photo inside the a … ⌘ Read more
Polychromatic 0.9.8 Released With Razer Blade 16 2023 Support
For those looking to manage the RGB lighting and other features of their Razer devices on Linux, Polychromatic 0.9.8 is now available for that UI front-end that interacts with the OpenRazer kernel drivers for providing a decent albeit unofficial Linux configuration experience… ⌘ Read more
Wine 11.15 brings improvements for Wayland, more format conversions in WindowsCodecs
The Wine 11.15 development release is out for the Windows to Linux compatibility layer to help run more applications and games.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/wine-11-15-brings-improvements-for-wayland-more-format-conversions-in-windowscod … ⌘ Read more
Wine 11.15 Released With Wayland Fixes, Fix For A 20 Year Old MSXML3 Bug
Making its debut this Saturday rather than the usual bi-weekly Friday release regiment, Wine 11.15 is out today as the newest development release for this open-source software enabling Windows games and applications to run on Linux… ⌘ Read more
KDE Plasma 6.8 Improvements For UI, Built-In Remote Desktop Server
It’s been another busy summertime week of KDE developers working toward a great Plasma 6.8 desktop release in October… ⌘ Read more
Intel QATlib 26.08 Released With Gen6 Device Support, 2MB Hugepages
Intel today released an updated version of their QuickAssist Technology library (QATlib) as the user-space component for making use of QuickAssist accelerators under Linux… ⌘ Read more
PoCL 7.2-RC1 Brings Official OpenCL 3.0 Conformance On RISC-V & x86_64 CPUs
The release candidate of PoCL 7.2 is now available for testing of this Portable Computing Language implementation of OpenCL that allows for CPU-based execution or via alternative LLVM back-ends allows for OpenCL on Level Zero, NVIDIA GPUs, and even remote devices/hardware… ⌘ Read more
Linux 7.2-rc7 Addresses A “Nasty” Race Condition Leading To Use-After-Free After 8 Years
The Linux kernel Git activity continues being quite heavy this week on fixes. It’s looking like the Linux 7.2-rc7 kernel release on Sunday will be another big one with the changes continuing to flow in from both developers and AI bots… ⌘ Read more
GCC 16.2 Released With More Than 100 Fixes
Following the GCC 16.1 compiler release from the end of April as the first stable version of GCC 16, GCC 16.2 is now available with dozens of bug fixes collected since then for further stabilizing this year’s GNU compiler feature release… ⌘ Read more
IceWM 4.1 Window Manager Brings Bug Fixes
As the first new release since IceWM 4.0 released back on New Year’s Day for this X11 window manager, IceWM 4.1 is now available… ⌘ Read more
Blood Dungeon from the Wheel World and Nidhogg dev releases August 25
Blood Dungeon is an upcoming action roguelike featuring frenetic, fun, movement-focused gameplay with a rather silly squiggly art style.
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Ready up for the Steam Frame with the In Your World VR Bundle
Need to grab some VR games ready for the release of the Valve Steam Frame? There’s the In Your World VR Humble Bundle live now with some good stuff.
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Nazi Zombies is a free to play take on the classic Call of Duty Zombies mode
Remember the classic Call of Duty Zombies? You may want to take a look at the recent free release of Nazi Zombies.
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Mesa 26.2.0 released with lots of improvements for Linux / SteamOS graphics drivers
Mesa 26.2.0 is quite a bumper release bringing a lot of new features across many open source Linux / SteamOS drivers.
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Linux 7.3 To Fix Longstanding Gap In The Native Driver For Original Steam Controller
For those with one of the original Valve Steam Controllers from a decade ago and looking to make use of it with the native HID Linux driver outside of the Steam client or SDL, an important addition is coming with the Linux 7.3 kernel release later in the year… ⌘ Read more
Rust Coreutils 0.10 Released With More Security Hardening, Increased GNU Compatibility
Rust Coreutils 0.10 is out today from the uutils project for this alternative to GNU Coreutils. Rust Coreutils 0.10 development focused on additional security hardening plus also increasing the GNU test suite compatibility and robustness… ⌘ Read more
Mesa 26.2 Released With NVK Mesh Shader Support, Many Other Vulkan Improvements
Mesa 26.2 stable is now available as the newest quarterly feature release for this set of open-source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers typically used on Linux systems… ⌘ Read more
Meta Debuts First AI Coding Agent To Take On Anthropic and OpenAI
Meta has launched Muse Code, its first AI coding agent that’s positioned as a lower-cost rival to Anthropic’s Claude and OpenAI’s Codex. It offers pay-as-you-go pricing and an optional zero-data-retention feature for enterprise users. CNBC reports: Muse Code is the latest major release from AI chief Alexandr Wang, who leads Meta Superinte … ⌘ Read more