A new beta of Resources, the system monitor tool Ubuntu 26.04 LTS ships with by default, is out with expanded AMD NPU stats and temperature reporting for PowerPC CPUs. Users with Ryzen 7040, 8040 and Ryzen AI 300/400-series chips can glean utilisation, power and performance metrics for their onboard neural accelerators. A reassuring way to tell if an AI workload is actually using the NPU rather than quietly frying your CPU. You might cock an eyebrow at hearing “PowerPC” mentioned. Resource’s support for PowerPC CPU temps uses the ibmpowernv hwmon driver, which covers POWER8 and newer chips and not the oldie, […]
GNOME 50.4 is now available as the fourth point release to the latest GNOME 50 desktop environment series with more bug fixes, updated translations, and other changes.
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...
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...
GStreamer 1.28.6 open-source multimedia framework is now available for download with H.266 muxing support to the Rust MP4 muxers, RTP retransmission bitrate estimation fixes, and more.
One of the nifty new features of Linux 7.2 is USB4STREAM as an Intel-developed solution for quickly sending data between USB4 connected systems. Now for the upcoming Linux 7.3 cycle, a busy poll mode is being added to provide lower-latency data transfers at the expense of increased CPU activity...
Konstantin Ryabitsev has announced the release of version 0.16.0 of the b4 software-development tool. The biggest change is the addition of bug-tracking support: The new "b4 bugs" command integrates with git-bug to let you track bug reports alongside your git repository. Bugs are stored as git objects inside the repo, so they travel with the code and can be shared via git push/pull without any external service. There are also a lot of improvements to b4 review (which was covered here in March), better conflict resolution in b4 shazam, improved history rewriting, and more.
Jordan Rife's work involves writing BPF programs for Cilium that interface with Kubernetes networking. As part of that work, he wants to enable BPF programs with appropriate permissions to iterate through the sockets of a different network namespace. He led a session about the idea at the 2026 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-Management, and BPF Summit where the BPF developers in attendance were quick to suggest a number of related alternatives.
Rhythmbox 3.5.0 is out and it now lets you sync podcast subscriptions and listening progress across apps – the standout feature in the music player’s first major release in nine months. A new podcast plugin ties into the gpodder.net API so your subscriptions and play counts carry over between Rhythmbox and other compatible clients via a self-hosted sync server like oPodSync or PinePods. The podcasts page itself is has also undergone a refresh, with the episode list now showing what you’ve already listened so you’re not ending up with a sense of deja vu. The v3.5.0 changelog also notes that […]
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