For going along with the Intel IVPU kernel accelerator driver in the mainline Linux kernel is the Intel NPU driver support in user-space. Released yesterday was the Intel NPU Driver 1.30 milestone for advancing the Intel NPU user-space support on Linux with this open-source support for Core Ultra SoCs.

Intel doesn't list all of the changes of their Intel NPU driver user-space package updates, but in digging through the code there have been some build system enhancements. Intel NPU Driver 1.3

GNOME's GitLab infrastructure has already been using Anubis for a while to help fend off bots and AI scraper traffic from wreacking havoc on their server resources and also their hosting budget. GNOME recently began redirecting some GitLab traffic to their GitHub repositories as another step in dealing with bots/scrapers. Now they have taken an added step of using the commercial, closed-source Fastly in their battle with bots.

The GNOME Infrastructure team announced they have decided to make use of Fastly for more advanced bot management at the edge.

Intel's LLM-Scaler project that makes it easy to deploy various large language models on modern Arc Graphics hardware is out with a new test release to expand its LLM coverage.

Intel on Thursday released llm-scaler-vllm 0.14.0-b8.1 as the latest version of this Docker-based deployment setup for LLMs on Intel graphics hardware leveraging the excellent vLLM. Ultimately this is building off and benefiting from Intel's work over the past year with Project Battlematrix driver enhancements.

Last year TrueNAS unified their SCALE and CORE offerings as part of solidifying their enterprise storage efforts around Linux from their prior FreeBSD base. This year the developers at iXsystems have another change in store with announcing TrueNAS Connect as a new bridge for accessing TrueNAS enterprise storage features without having to invest in their hardware.

TrueNAS Community Edition has been their free operating system for NAS devices and other enterprise storage devices that is Linux-based and delivers a great standard offering. But for TrueNAS Enterprise it's only been available to those with

The AppArmor Linux kernel security module used notably by Ubuntu Linux and currently maintained by Canonical has been affected by several vulnerabilities made public today.

Qualys researchers discovered vulnerabilities within the AppArmor code of the Linux kernel they are calling CrackArmor. Some issues can lead to denial of service to kernel memory information leaks but when paired with a sudo discovery can together lead to local privilege escalation.

The cpupower tool that lives within the Linux kernel source tree has squeezed in a few improvements today for the ongoing Linux 7.0 development cycle.

Merged today to Linux 7.0 Git as part of this week's power management fixes ahead of Linux 7.0-rc4 are some cpupower updates.

First up, there is now support for setting the system's ACPI Energy Performance Preference (EPP) as part of the cpupower systemd service file.

Within the cpupower-service.conf file for systemd is

Google has shared exciting news with us today that they are bringing their Chrome web browser to ARM64 Linux devices.

The embargo has lifted and Google is announcing Chrome is launching for ARM64 Linux in Q2'2026. This follows Chrome already on Arm-powered macOS hardware since 2020 and Arm-powered Windows since 2024.

The Google Chrome ARM64 binaries will be available for Debian and RPM based distributions, similar to their x86_64

The first release candidate of systemd 260 arrived in late February with the new mstack feature, dropping System V service scripts support, and other changes . A week after that systemd 260-rc2 released with a few more changes and now another week later is systemd 260-rc3.

Systemd 260-rc3 doesn't bring any major new features at this stage but mostly bug fixes for issues turned up during the release candidate testing the past few weeks.

New in systemd

AMD today released ZenDNN 5.2 as the latest versio nof their deep nueral network library that now introduces their next-generation runtime architecture. ZenDNN 5.2 is designed to deliver better performance and geater scalability over earlier versions of this AMD library that began as their take on Intel's open-source oneDNN.

ZenDNN 5.2's major redesign is described as " a fully re-engineered internal design offering significant gains in performance and extensibility, with full backward compatibility. " ZenDNN 5.2 now supports