Debian 13.3 is out today as the newest stable point release for Debian Trixie.

This latest point release for Debian 13 brings dozens of security fixes as well as a variety of bug fixes. Besides addressing numerous CVEs, Debian 13.3 brings new point releases for the likes of GNOME Mutter, fixes a timing side-channel issue in EDK2, fixes a Wayland start-up crash for QIV by forcing the X11 GDK back-end (XWayland use), fixing timezone data for

For those loading Linux on the ASUS ROG Xbox Ally X gaming handheld, there is currently audio quality issues, including gaps/dropouts in audio playback. A workaround is in the process of making its way to the Linux kernel until a proper solution can be sorted out.

Linux audio woes for the ROG Xbox Ally X handheld are being attributed to the calibration process for the TAS2781 audio codec causing these noticeable issues for users. The workaround is to skip the calibration process and just rely on the calibration data

Alice Ryhl of Google has been working on an improvement to the Linux kernel code for inlining C helpers into Rust when making use of a Link-Time Optimized (LTO) kernel build. At least some of the patches are queued up for merging in the upcoming Linux 6.20~7.0 cycle for helping those enabling the Rust kernel support and also making use of the LLVM/Clang compiler's LTO capabilities for greater performance.

This work to inline C helpers into Rust when using LTO involves adding a

The ollama 0.14-rc2 release is available today and it introduces new functionality with ollama run --experimental for in this experimental mode to run an agent loop so that LLMs can use tools like bash and web searching on your system. It's opt-in for letting ollama/LLMs make use of bash on your local system and there are at least some safeguards in place.

Sure to rub some people the wrong way, the new experimental agent loop with ollama 0.14 allows for

With new volunteers stepping up for This Week in Plasma , there is a new issue out this week to highlight more development activities going into the upcoming KDE Plasma 6.6 desktop release.

With the end of year holidays past, KDE developers are back to working expeditiously on new feature activity for Plasma 6.6. Some of this week's highlights include:

- Plasma 6.6 will allow you saving your current visual settings as a new global theme.

- The Bluetooth system tray widget added a "forget device

The current incarnation of ZLUDA continues moving along for running unmodified CUDA apps on non-NVIDIA GPUs. Released on Friday was ZLUDA 6-preview.48 with now boasting CUDA 13.1 compatibility.

The current form of ZLUDA is on delivering CUDA for non-NVIDIA GPUs but not explicitly being tied to one GPU target/vendor like in the past. This multi-GPU CUDA implementation though has been taking a special focus on AI workloads but ultimately this implementation will hopefully allow most unmodified CUDA software to run gracefully

Hitting the "1.0" milestone last summer was the GNOME AI virtual assistant app called Newelle . This third-party GNOME app has continued evolving as an AI-focused assistant on the GNOME desktop and has now rolled out MCP server support to integrate with "thousands" of other apps.

The Newelle app now supports the Model Context Protocol (MCP) server support for AI agents to connect and interact with external data, tools, and systems for real-time context. Now that Newelle has MCP server support,

For situations where Samba (SMB) or NFS usage aren't appropriate or desiring the convenience of accessing files from a web browser on any device, TrueNAS is introducing TrueNAS WebShare as an easy-to-use solution for enterprise-grade file sharing in the web browser.

In desiring a more robust solution than WebDAV or the FileBrowser app and for cases where SMB or NFS may not be too straight-forward like for mobile devices on the WAN, iXsystems developed TrueNAS WebShare.

With no Wine 11.0 release candidate last Friday due to the New Year festivities, Wine 11.0-rc5 is out today and it comes packing 32 bug fixes for the past two weeks.

The Wine 11.0 release candidates are continuing until the Wine 11.0 stable release is ready to take place sometime this week. For reference, Wine 10.0 saw six RCs before its stable release while Wine 9.0 saw five RCs. Long story short, the