Linux NewsPipeWire 1.6.7 Multimedia Framework Fixes Silent Audio Ports After Rate Changes
PipeWire 1.6.7 is out with fixes for silent ports after sample rate changes, ALSA sync regressions, and several smaller audio improvements.
Latest LLVM Patch Further Points To AMD GFX1250/GFX1251 Being Instinct Hardware
With the ongoing work around the AMD GFX1250 (and GFX1251) in the open-source AMD Linux driver stack, it's led to a lot of speculation about these parts in the GFX12 series associated with RDNA4. RDNA4 refresh? Or a lot of signals have pointed to GFX125x being possible AI/HPC accelerators such as for the upcoming Instinct MI400 series. Adding to the intrigue is GFX1251 being an APU. The latest LLVM compiler activity is further pointing to GFX1250/GFX1251 being for enterprise hardware...
Linux 7.2 EDAC Drivers Prep For Diamond Rapids, Nova Lake H
The Error Detection And Correction (EDAC) drivers, such as for dealing with ECC memory error reporting, are heavy on the Intel side with Linux 7.2 in preparing for upcoming hardware...
SteamOS 3.8.10 Stable Released With Updated Arch, Steam Machine Support & Wayland Desktop Default
Overnight Valve released SteamOS 3.8.10 into the stable channel. for succeeding SteamOS 3.7. There's a lot happening across the board to their in-house Linux platform for the likes of the Steam Deck and upcoming Steam Machine hardware...
Linux 7.2 Protects Against "Stupid Or Malicious" DoS Attempts By Arming Timers In The Past
There are a number of time(r) core subsystem changes for the Linux 7.2 kernel to better harden the kernel...
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for June 18, 2026
Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: State of Fedora; mTHP creation; overlayfs; buffer-heads cleanup; 7.1 statistics. Briefs: curl summer of bliss; 7.1 kernel; AUR compromise; Fedora election; FairScan 2.0; Firefox 152.0; Homebrew 6.0.0; KDE Plasma 6.7; LWN topic list; Quotes; ... Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more.
Audacity 4.0 beta lets you test its new (and much nicer) Qt interface
Audacity 4’s first public beta arrived this month with the biggest design change the iconic open-source audio editor has seen in decades. The audio editor’s interface, built on wxWidgets since the project began, now runs in Qt. However, the audio engine which handles file I/O, project storage and the built-in effects, uses the older codebase, wired up to the new frontend via a module called au3wrap. In a sense, Audacity 4 is a new look atop the same core engine, although the Github changelog choose to frame it as a “ground-up rewrite” in Qt, that appears to be only relate […]
After Recent AUR Security Scare, Yay 13.0 Adds New Review and Automation Features
Yay 13.0 adds Lua hooks, PKGBUILD age visibility, and new automation tools following recent concerns over AUR package security.
AI/LLM Patch Craziness Having An Impact On ARM64 Linux Kernel Development
The ongoing rise in AI/LLM-generated patches hitting the mailing lists and affecting development workflows continues to impact Linux kernel development. For the ARM64 architecture updates in Linux 7.2 is an interesting anecdote over over feeling like this activity has "slowed us down a little on the feature side" and having to deal with this AI/LLM patch activity resulted in some features now being postponed from making it for this current Linux kernel development cycle...
FreeBSD Launches AI-Assisted Project to Find and Fix Vulnerabilities
With fresh funding from the Linux Foundation’s Alpha Omega initiative, FreeBSD is turning to AI tools and paid security staff to hunt vulnerabilities across its codebase. The post FreeBSD Launches AI-Assisted Project to Find and Fix Vulnerabilities appeared first on FOSS Force.
NVIDIA 595.84 Linux Driver Improves Support for 007 First Light and Other Games
NVIDIA 595.84 production-ready graphics driver for Linux is now available for download with improvements for several video games and various bug fixes to improve stability.
Firefox 153 Enters Beta Testing as the Next Extended Support Release Series
Firefox 153 open-source web browser is now available for public beta testing with new color picker quick action, PDF improvements, support for QWACs, and new features for web developers.
Arch Linux's largest software repo is blocking sign-ups due to a malware crisis
AUR was considered a looming security threat.
Bcachefs Tools 1.38.6 Brings Many Performance Improvements
Kent Overstreet announced the release today of Bcachefs-Tools 1.38.6 as the user-space tools built around the Bcachefs copy-on-write file-system. There are a few new features and a lot of performance work in v1.38.6 without bringing any on-disk format breakage...
Linux 7.2 Slab Changes Include More Performance Optimizations
The slab memory allocation changes for Linux 7.2 have been merged and continue to see more work around shaves and performance optimizations...