Local AI Weekly #4: The Fine Print of Running AI Locally
Abhishek Prakash · itsFOSS
There is a local desktop AI assistant for KDE Plasma.…
[$] The year in Plasma and what's ahead
Fonte: LWN.net
A lot has happened in the KDE Plasma desktop environment in the last year. Marco Martin, a KDE contributor who spends most of his time working on Plasma, took t…
Microsoft Has Made WSL Containers Available to Everyone
Sourav Rudra · itsFOSS
Announced via a two-part series of blogs, Microsoft has moved WSL containers (WSLC) out of public preview and into general availability. Let's take a look at wh…
EDG C/C++ Front-End Open-Sourced
Michael Larabel · Phoronix
Edison Design Group has open-sourced their EDG C/C++ front-end that has been known in the commercial world for its extensive dialect support and other features.…
The Netherlands Picked NixOS. France Was Already Using It
Sourav Rudra · itsFOSS
France’s digital agency has been using NixOS on internal workstations for months through Sécurix, its open-source, security-hardened configuration.…
EFF Deeplinks
📱 Hey Siri, How Do I Limit AI Data Access? | EFFector 38.17
Hudson Hongo · EFF Deeplinks
With the launch of iOS 27, Apple is rolling out a variety of new AI features to its familiar voice assistant, Siri. But how are AI tools like these handling our…
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Hardware
Baldur’s Gate 3 ganha romance de Astarion, livro de receitas e mais itens para fãs. Garanta o seu!
Larissa Ximenes · Hardware
Conheça os novos livros licenciados de Baldur's Gate 3: romance de Astarion, livro de colorir, caderno temático e livro de receitas.…
Kernel Recipes videos posted
Fonte: LWN.net
The full set of videos from the recently concluded Kernel Recipes conference has been posted. Also noteworthy are the associated caricature drawings, by Frank T…
Firefox in a New Skin! Nova Redesign Has Become The Default
Sourav Rudra · itsFOSS
Firefox has a new look that brings it up to 2026 web browser standards, where having a clean, minimal user experience is a growing phenomenon.…
Framework Desktop With AMD Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 495 Starts Out At $6799 USD
Michael Larabel · Phoronix
Framework Computer today opened the pre-order process for their updated Framework Desktop featuring the new AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 496 "Gorgon Halo" SoC with 192GB o…
God of War Laufey entra em pré-venda na Amazon para PS5 com desconto no Pix
William R. Plaza · Hardware
God of War Laufey entrou em pré-venda na Amazon Brasil para PlayStation 5, meses antes de sua estreia oficial, marcada para 16 de fevereiro de 2027. O título po…
Reports from the 2026 Python Language Summit
Fonte: LWN.net
The 2026 Python Language Summit was held on July 14 in Kraków, Poland; there is now a series of reports available on the topics that were discussed there. They …
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Hardware
Ultima chance! Promoção da Philips Ambilight 55″ 4K por menos de R$2.500 está acabando!
Larissa Ximenes · Hardware
Aproveite a oferta e transforme seu entretenimento com a Philips Ambilight 55 4K. Filmes, séries e jogos em outro nível!…
OpenJDK vs. GraalVM vs. Eclipse Temurin vs. Semeru Java Performance
Michael Larabel · Phoronix
Immediately following the OpenJDK 8 through OpenJDK 27 benchmarks I expanded the scope of testing to look at how recent OpenJDK releases have been comparing to …
Hardware
Nada é realmente grátis? Proton alerta que jogos gratuitos para celular podem custar seus dados pessoais
William R. Plaza · Hardware
A Proton acaba de publicar um estudo que coloca em números o que muita gente suspeitava, mas preferia ignorar: os jogos mobile grátis mais baixados do mundo são…
[$] Comparing Chromium development at Google and Igalia
Fonte: LWN.net
Sharon Yang is a Chromium developer who worked at Google on the browser and now works on it at Igalia. On the final day of FOSSY 2026, she gave a presentation o…
Qt 6.12 LTS Released With QML Hot Reloading, StyleKit In Experimental Form
Michael Larabel · Phoronix
Qt 6.12 is now available as the newest version of the Qt6 toolkit and also serving as a Long Term Support (LTS) release...…
The Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board 2026 election approaches
Fonte: LWN.net
The election for members of the Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board will be held electronically after the close of the upcoming Linux Plumbers Conference.…
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Rusticl Had A Great Year For Rust OpenCL In Mesa With 3.1 Support, More Drivers
Michael Larabel · Phoronix
Rusticl lead developer Karol herbst provided a status update on this Mesa Rust-based OpenCL driver during the XDC 2026 conference happening in Toronto...…
Security updates for Wednesday
Fonte: LWN.net
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (389-ds:1.4, container-tools:rhel8, go-toolset:rhel8, grafana, httpd:2.4, nodejs:22, postgresql:12, and postgresq…
Linux 7.4 To Support The NPU On AMD Ryzen AI Max 400 Series "Gorgon Halo"
Michael Larabel · Phoronix
While the AMD Ryzen AI 400 series "Gorgon Halo" systems are nearing the marketplace, the NPU support for Linux was seemingly overlooked until now. But at least …
Firefox 157.0 released
Fonte: LWN.net
Version 157.0 of the Firefox browser has been released. It features "Firefox's biggest visual refresh in years", the ability to use hardware AV1 decoding with W…
Proposal To Set ARM64 Kernel Stack Size At Boot Time To Reduce Memory Consumption
Michael Larabel · Phoronix
A proposal was posted this week to the Linux kernel mailing list by a Google engineer to make it easier for ARM64 Linux to adjust the kernel stack size. The mot…
Intel Media Driver 2026Q3 Introduces Crescent Island Support
Michael Larabel · Phoronix
Released overnight was the Intel Media Driver 2026Q3 stack for providing the latest open-source video encode/decode capabilities on Intel integrated/discrete gr…
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