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The Intel Graphics Compiler "IGC" 2.34.4 release is out today as this compiler used by the Intel Compute Runtime for Level Zero and OpenCL compute on Intel graphics hardware plus is also used as the graphics shader compiler under Windows...
PeaZip 11.1 updates its 7z backend, fixes security issues, and improves archive extraction workflows across Linux and Windows.
Introduced in Linux 7.0 was FSERROR as generic I/O error reporting infrastructure. Linux to that point had no standardized mechanism for reporting metadata corruption or file I/O errors to user-space with each file-system doing its own thing. The Flash-Friendly File-System (F2FS) is now the latest Linux file-system preparing for FSERROR usage...
The upcoming Linux 7.2 kernel will be adding support for Microchip's Switchtec PCIe Gen6 switches...
Last week's drm-misc-next pull request of new Direct Rendering Manager and accelerator driver feature material destined for Linux 7.2 include some new power management control features both for the AMD Ryzen AI and Intel NPU drivers...
Sculpt OS as the general purpose operating system built off the Genode OS Framework is out with a new feature release...
Linux 7.0.6 is out as stable this morning to finish mitigating the Dirty Frag vulnerability that was made public last week...
9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for May 10th, 2026, brings news about Steam Controller, Dirty Frag vulnerability, Mesa 26.1, COSMIC 1.0.12, Ubuntu Touch OTA 1.3, KDE Gear 26.04.1, KDE Frameworks 6.26, Inkscape 1.4.4, Firefox 150.0.2, Raspberry Pi Imager 2.0.9, Giada 1.4.1, Parrot 7.2, Shelly 2.2.4, and more.
Audacious 4.6 open-source media player is now available for public beta testing with a File Browser plugin, a macOS Now Playing plugin, support for playing Musepack SV8 files, and much more.
Linus has released 7.1-rc3 for testing. "I think this answers the 'is 7.1 continuing the larger size pattern that we saw with 7.0?' question, and the answer is yes: that wasn't a fluke brought on by a .0 release - it simply seems to be the new normal."
Catch up on the latest Linux news: Parrot OS 7.2, Manjaro 26.1 Preview, Hyprland 0.55, KDE Gear 26.04.1, COSMIC Desktop 1.0.12, Linux kernel killswitch proposed, and more.
Debian now blocks non-reproducible packages from entering testing, making reproducible builds a migration requirement for the 14 (Forky) cycle.
Privacy concerns drove me to move 20,000+ photos and videos out of OneDrive.
Linus Torvalds just issued the third weekly test candidate of the Linux 7.1 kernel with around a third of the patches being for the networking subsystem...
Planned across three new Fedora releases, the initiative targets Intel, AMD, NVIDIA, and ARM hardware.
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