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📰 Glibc Lands A Big Optimization For LoongArch CPUs Loongson's LoongArch processors are running decent in our recent Loongson 3B6000 benchmarks but even better performance is on the way with the next GNU C Library "glibc" release... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Faster-LoongArch-glibc-THP #gnu

📰 Google Blocks 8.3B Policy-Violating Ads in 2025, Launches Android 17 Privacy Overhaul Google this week announced a new set of Play policy updates to strengthen user privacy and protect businesses against fraud, even as it revealed it blocked or removed over 8.3 billion ads globally and suspended 24.9 million accounts in 2025.The new policy updates relate to contact and location permissions in Android, allowing third-party apps to access the contact lists and a user's location in. 🔗 Source: https://thehackernews.com/2026/04/google-blocks-83b-policy-violating-ads.html #android

📰 New Lenovo Fan Driver, More ASUS Motherboards With Sensor Monitoring For Linux 7.1 All of the hardware monitoring "HWMON" subsystem updates were merged this week for the Linux 7.1 kernel... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-HWMON #kernel#linux

📰 Russian Baikal CPUs Are Losing Their Place in the Linux Kernel After sanctions, bankruptcy and removal of kernel maintainers, Baikal's unfinished kernel code is being removed. 🔗 Source: https://feed.itsfoss.com/link/24361/17320657/linux-kernel-baikal-cpu-support-removal #kernel#linux

📰 New NTFS File-System Driver Submitted For Linux 7.1 Making today very exciting in Linux 7.1 merge window land was a pull request being sent out for introducing the new, modern NTFS file-system driver. Linus Torvalds has yet to comment if he's going to merge the new driver but it looks like it's ready for providing a better Linux NTFS experience over the current NTFS3 driver that was upstreamed by Paragon Software a few years ago and hasn't seen too much feature progress... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/New-NTFS-Driver-Submitted-Linux #linux

📰 Proton 11.0 Beta Released With More Games Playable On Steam Play Valve and CodeWeavers have just released Proton 11.0 Beta as their first beta milestone for this software that powers Steam Play now rebased against upstream Wine 11.0... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Proton-11.0-Beta #steam

📰 Mir 2.26 Begins Working On Rust-Based Input Platform Canonical today released Mir 2.26 as the newest feature release for this compositor for building Wayland-based shells. Notable with Mir 2.26 is a Rust-based input platform is in development as part of their broader effort for bringing Rust code into Mir... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mir-2.26-Released #wayland

📰 AlmaLinux OS Kitten 10 Adds i686 User-Space Packages The community-based AlmaLinux OS alternative to Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) continues exploring ways to better differentiate it from upstream RHEL and other derivatives. The latest difference is AlmaLinux OS Kitten 10 adding i686 user-space packages for those wanting to run on a RHEL 10 based platform but still needing x86 32-bit user-space software compatibility... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AlmaLinux-Kitten-i686-Userspace #linux

📰 Mozilla announced "Thunderbolt", their open-source and self-hostable AI client Mozilla are leaning even more into AI, with the announcement today of Thunderbolt - their open-source and self-hostable AI client.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux. 🔗 Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/mozilla-announced-thunderbolt-their-open-source-and-self-hostable-ai-client/ #opensource

📰COSMIC desktop surprised me, because it's the Linux DE I've been waiting for Discover the Linux desktop environment that's turning heads with its modern tech, superior performance, and unmatched user experience. 🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/cosmic-desktop-is-the-linux-de-ive-been-waiting-for/ #linux

📰 Linux Mint Will Adopt a Longer Development Cycle Starting with Linux Mint 23 Linux Mint devs announced that they will adopt a longer development cycle starting with the upcoming Linux Mint 23 release, as well as other important changes to the distribution. 🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/linux-mint-will-adopt-a-longer-development-cycle-starting-with-linux-mint-23 #linux

📰 Intel LASS In Good Shape For Linux 7.1 In addition to Linux 7.1 supporting FRED by default for Flexible Return and Event Delivery, another Intel CPU feature now in good shape for this next kernel version is Linear Address Space Separation (LASS)... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-LASS-Linux-7.1 #intel#kernel#linux