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📰 Firefox Has Quietly Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine Mozilla shipped it in Firefox 149 without a mention in the release notes. 🔗 Source: https://feed.itsfoss.com/link/24361/17324714/firefox-ships-brave-adblock-engine #firefox

📰 Arm C1-Ultra Scheduling Model Merged For LLVM/Clang 23 Merged recently to the latest LLVM/Clang compiler development tree is the Arm C1-Ultra scheduling model for helping with delivering optimal binaries for that flagship next-gen Arm mobile CPU... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Arm-C1-Ultra-Sched-LLVM-Clang #arm

📰 Pull Request For Linux To Remove Old Network Drivers, ISDN Subsystem Due To AI/LLM Noise It was just days ago we reported on a proposal to drop old network drivers due to AI-driven bug reports becoming a burden on upstream kernel developers. Last night that culminated with an initial pull request to clear out some old, unused networking drivers plus also clearing out the entire ISDN subsystem and more... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-PR-Remove-Old-Net #kernel#linux

📰 5 Reasons to Upgrade to Ubuntu 26.04 (and 3 Reasons to Stay Away) Should you skip this new release or jump on the bandwagon and upgrade to 26.04? Let me help you with that. 🔗 Source: https://feed.itsfoss.com/link/24361/17324480/ubuntu-26-04-upgrade-or-not #ubuntu

📰 HDMI FRL Support Achieved With Open-Source Nouveau For NVIDIA GPUs While the AMDGPU open-source driver has struggled with HDMI 2.1 support due to the HDMI Forum blocking open-source implementations, HDMI Fixed Rate Link (FRL) as a feature of the HDMI 2.1 specification is enjoying success now with the open-source Nouveau graphics driver on Linux for NVIDIA GPUs... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/HDMI-FRL-On-Nouveau-Linux #linux#opensource

📰 Waydroid runs Android apps on Linux better than Windows ever ran them on WSA The Windows Subsystem for Android (WSA) is history now. Microsoft caved in and killed the project, which angered a lot of users because it was one of the main highlights of the Windows 11 launch. Microsoft failed to anticipate the demand for running Android apps with Google Play Store support, and the option to only download apps via the Amazon Appstore didn’t appeal to a lot of users. I thought WSA would kill third-party Android emulators on... 🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/waydroid-runs-android-apps-on-linux-better-than-windows-wsa/ #android#linux

📰 Gentoo-Based Redcore Linux Hardened 2601 Released with Kernel 6.19 Redcore Linux Hardened 2601 Vulpecula has been released, featuring Linux kernel 6.19, FFmpeg 8, and updates to the Sisyphus package manager. 🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/gentoo-based-redcore-linux-hardened-2601-released-with-kernel-6-19/ #ffmpeg#kernel#linux

📰 Bazzite is what most Linux gaming distros wish they were Choose Bazzite if you want a console-like experience on Linux. 🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/bazzite-is-what-most-gaming-distros-wish-they-were/ #linux

📰 Your GNOME desktop can do what Hyprland does, and you don't need to switch You might think you need a new Linux desktop to get a tiling window manager, but GNOME can give you that with a single extension. 🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/forge-brings-hyprlands-best-feature-gnome-actually-works/ #gnome#linux

📰 Godot 4.7 Will Finally Have HDR Output, Including On Linux With Wayland The upcoming Godor 4.7 open-source, cross-platform game engine release is rolling out support for high dynamic range (HDR)... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Godot-4.7-With-HDR #linux#opensource#wayland

📰 System76’s New Pangolin Pro Brings Ryzen AI Power to a 3.64 lb Linux Laptop System76 has introduced the Pangolin Pro, a new Linux laptop with Ryzen AI 7 350, a 16-inch 2K 165Hz display, and OCuLink eGPU support. 🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/system76-pangolin-pro-linux-laptop/ #linux

📰 Ubuntu Server 26.04 LTS Will Now Automatically Install HWE/OEM Kernel Packages Ubuntu LTS releases on the desktop have automatically installed OEM vendor kernels where needed and hardware enablement "HWE" kernels in later point releases by default. This provides a better out-of-the-box experience for Ubuntu desktop users and one less chore post-install if desiring a newer/better kernel. With Ubuntu Server 26.04 LTS, the server installer is finally doing the same... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-Server-26.04-HWE-OEM #kernel#ubuntu