The latest software with pending Wayland color management support for enabling HDR display support is the open-source Google Chromium code for the Chrome web browser.

The merge request was opened yesterday for Chromium to introduce Wayland color management protocol support (color-management-v1) to support rendering to HDR surfaces. This Chromium code has been successfully tested with HDR video playback within Chromium atop the KDE Plasma desktop. With the current code, this color management support is enabled by default.There is a built-in "remote kill

KDE Plasma 6.5 is introducing a change that has been "years in the wanting" and that is rounded bottom corners for windows.

KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his usual weekly recap of all the interesting Plasma changes for the week. Most significant this week is that now Breeze-decorated windows will have their bottom corners rounded automatically by KWin. The server-side rounded bottom corners are enabled by default but can be disabled for those preferring the old style.

Here's an example of the rounded bottom

While the Arch Linux AUR repository can be popular for fetching some packages not found in Arch Linux proper, it's important to keep in mind that AUR stands for the Arch User Repository . These user packages aren't always the best and rarely can be done with malicious intent as shown this week with an advisory over several malicious browser packages being briefly pedaled through AUR.

An Arch Linux user on Wednesday uploaded malicious AUR packages of firefox-patch-bin, librewolf-fix-bin, and zen-browser-

The most depressing news of the week: Intel is ending their performance-optimized Clear Linux distribution. Over the past decade the Clear Linux operating system has shown what's possible with out-of-the-box performance on x86_64 hardware... Not just for Intel platforms but even showing extremely great performance results on AMD x86_64 too. But with the cost-cutting going on at Intel, Clear Linux is now being sunset.

Intel put out a statement that

As we await to see what Linus Torvalds will end up doing about the Bcachefs file-system come Linux 6.17 , for the ongoing Linux 6.16 cycle he continues to honor the Bcachefs pull requests containing fixes.

Merged today to the Linux Git kernel ahead of the Linux 6.16-rc7 release this coming Sunday is the newest batch of fixes for this experimental copy-on-write file-system.

This week's Bcachefs fixes include:

" - two small syzbot fixes

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The Ubuntu 25.10 images geared for the Raspberry Pi will be much more lean than current Ubuntu Linux releases for the Raspberry Pi thanks to changes merged this week.

The Ubuntu desktop images targeting the Raspberry Pi single board computers will be derived from the "desktop-minimal" seed rather than the "full fat" desktop images. This means some applications will not be enabled by default but there is space savings of around 777MB at the moment,

Switching to the Ubuntu desktop-minimal base for

Back in May was the announcement by AMD of ROCm-DS as a new toolkit geared for real-world data science problems with various helpers to accelerate data processing on Instinct accelerators. AMD today is complementing ROCm-DS by announcing ROCm-LS and hipCIM.

ROCm-LS is a new toolkit from AMD for helping to accelerate life science workloads on Instinct accelerators. ROCm-LS is debuting in "early access" form for soliciting early developer feedback. ROCm-LS is described by AMD as:

"The early access

Intel is out today with its monthly feature update to the Compute Runtime as their open-source GPU compute stack providing Level Zero and OpenCL API support on Windows and Linux systems. This month there is new hardware support, more performance optimizations, and some new features.

Intel Compute Runtime 25.27.34303.5 is now released in providing OpenCL and Level Zero support back to Tiger Lake and Rocket Lake hardware up through the newest Battlemage discrete graphics and current-generation Lunar Lake / Arrow

The open-source and upstream Imagination Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) kernel graphics driver for supporting their modern graphics IP and pairing with their PowerVR Vulkan driver within Mesa is now being extended to work on the TI AM62P, AM67A, and J722S SoCs.

The Texas Instruments AM62P / AM67A / J722S SoCs aren't too popular to the masses but there are some developer/evaluation boards based around them and these Arm Cortex