Daily ISOs of Ubuntu 26.10 "Stonking Stingray" continue to be published, but for those preferring something a bit more regulated, out today is Ubuntu 26.10 Snapshot 2 as the second monthly ISO image.

Canonical continues using monthly ISO snapshots of Ubuntu Linux to help exercise their release infrastructure. Stonking Snapshot 2 was released today that is the June snapshot of the current development state of Ubuntu 26.10.

The Linux Foundation along with others like Amazon, Anthropic, OpenAI, NVIDIA, Microsoft, Red Hat, and others have joined forces to launch Akrites. The Akrites project is aiming to help defend critical open-source software from the brisk pace of new AI/LLM-discovered software bugs and vulnerabilities in ensuring that said issues are effectively addressed before they can be exploited by bad actors.

Given the wild pace of new security-related bug discoveries being made these days by large language models, Akrites is an industry-wide

Philip Rebohle announced the release today of DXVK 3.0 as the latest major feature release for this Direct3D 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 implementation atop the Vulkan API for use by Wine and Valve's Steam Play (Proton).

With DXVK 3.0 one of the big changes is now using DXBC-SPIRV for shader compilation to replace the legacy shader translation code. DXBC-SPIRV is a SSA-based compiler for D3D SM 5.1+ that is also developed by

The Academy Software Foundation that advances open-source efforts for the VFX/cinema industry and more with the likes of OpenVDB, OpenMoonRay, Open Shading Language, and other projects, has announced the formation of a new working group to help with Wayland adoption for artists.

The Academy Software Foundation and Visual Effects Society’s Technology Committee formed the "Wayland for Artists Working Group" in working together on Wayland-related matters for Linux. This working group will be an industry-wide forum for changes around the VFX and animation

Servo 0.3 released today as the latest version of this modern browser engine developed in Rust. With Servo 0.3 the demo servoshell browser is becoming more useful and supporting additional modern web features while Servo also continues to possess much potential moving forward on the embedded front as an alternative to the likes of the Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF).

Servo 0.3 has seen many more features implemented over the past month, including additional scripting support, more CSS features like font-variant-numeric, a number of

Linux 7.2 is continuing the trend of removing obsolete hardware drivers for which the code hasn't seen any maintenance in years and there are no believed users left of said drivers, especially those that would be running modern mainline versions of the Linux kernel. The char/misc changes merged dropped two more obsolete drivers from the Linux source tree.

First up is the removal of the DTLK driver, which was touched on last month on Phoronix. The DTLK driver is a ISA speech synthesizer driver that upstream developers believe likely

Cache Aware Scheduling is one of the most exciting kernel innovations to land in Linux this year. While it was finally merged last week to Linux 7.2 , a new patch series today is already working to extend Cache Aware Scheduling and is showing some exciting performance improvements.

Cache Aware Scheduling can help improve Linux performance on modern CPUs with multiple cache domains as the scheduler tries to help ensure that tasks sharing data are colocated to the same last level cache (LLC) domain. The net result with Cache Aware Scheduling is ensuring

An AMD engineer has contributed to the upstream FFmpeg library an ONNX Runtime back-end for its DNN filter. The FFmpeg Deep Neural Network (DNN) filters allow for running AI models natively inside the video processing pipeline for upscaling, object detection, background segmentation, and more. This ONNX Runntime back-end support is notable in that it expands the GPU and NPU capabilities with FFmpeg.

AMD engineer Steven Xiao authored the ONNX Runtime back-end for FFmpeg's DNN processing filter. This addition opens up FFmpeg DNN to