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Steam Sees 60 New Native Linux Game Builds Released Last Week

Between May 6 and May 13, 2026, 60 new games with native Linux builds were released on Steam. This was reported by Boiling Steam, noting that these titles represented approximately 11.7% of the 511 ne...

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Ollama v0.30.0-rc17 Shifts to llama.cpp, GGUF, Adds MLX for Apple Silicon

Ollama has recently released v0.30.0-rc17, a pre-release introducing a significant architectural overhaul. This version "will change the architecture to directly support llama.cpp instead of building ...

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NVIDIA Releases 595.44.08 Vulkan Developer Beta Driver for Linux

NVIDIA released its Vulkan Developer Beta Driver version 595.44.08 for Linux three days ago on May 14, 2026. This driver, available via the open-gpu-kernel-modules GitHub repository, primarily focuses...

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Proton 11.0-1-beta3 Released, Integrates FEX-2605 for ARM64 Linux Systems

Valve Software today released Proton 11.0-1-beta3, a targeted update specifically for ARM64 Linux systems. This minor release primarily integrates FEX-2605, an updated version of the FEX x86 emulator....

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Heroic Games Launcher v2.22 Adds Customizable Game Editing, Console Mode Updates

Heroic Games Launcher v2.22, codenamed "Hajrudin," was released today, introducing new features focused on user customization and console mode functionality. The update enables users to edit details f...

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Linux ssh-keysign-pwn Vulnerability Exposes Root-Owned Files to Unprivileged Users

A new Linux kernel vulnerability, dubbed ssh-keysign-pwn, has been reported today. This flaw allows unprivileged users to read files owned by the root user. Phoronix stated that this vulnerability is ...

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KDE Receives €1.28M Sovereign Tech Fund Grant for Plasma and Linux Development

KDE announced today it has received a €1.28 million ($1.51 million) grant from the Sovereign Tech Fund (STF), a German government-backed initiative. The funding is earmarked for improving the Plasma d...

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Collabora Details Rust-Based Tyr Progress for Vulkan on Mali CSF GPUs

Collabora published a blog post yesterday, May 14, detailing the continued development of its Rust-based "Tyr" project, focusing on the CSF (Command Stream Frontend) architecture for Arm Mali GPUs. Th...

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OpenCL Working Group Publishes Draft Cooperative Matrix Extensions for ML

The OpenCL Working Group today published a draft extension, cl_khr_cooperative_matrix, which introduces cooperative matrix operations to OpenCL. Developed in collaboration with Arm, Intel, and Qualcom...

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Open-Source PanVK and Panfrost Drivers Add Arm Mali G1-Pro GPU Support

The open-source PanVK Vulkan driver and Panfrost Gallium3D driver now support the Arm Mali G1-Pro GPU. This development brings open-source graphics capabilities to Arm's latest "v14" generation of Mal...

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Cemu Wii U Emulator Linux AppImage/ZIP Builds Compromised with Malware

The Cemu development team announced that specific Linux builds of their Wii U emulator, Cemu 2.6, were compromised with malware. This affects AppImage and ZIP downloads retrieved directly from the pro...

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Wine Wayland Driver Now Supports wp_pointer_warp_v1 Pointer Warp Protocol

Wine's native Wayland driver recently received an update, merging support for the wp_pointer_warp_v1 protocol. This integration allows the Wayland driver to correctly handle pointer warping, a critica...

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Vulkan SDK 1.4.350.0 Released with 16 New Extensions and KosmicKrisp Updates

The Vulkan SDK 1.4.350.0 has been released today, simultaneously available for Linux, macOS, and Windows. This update focuses on maintenance and brings several tooling and platform-specific improvemen...

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Valve Launches 2026 Steam Controller With Less Radical Design

Valve has released the 2026 Steam Controller, marking a return to the hardware segment ten years after the original device debuted in 2015. Boiling Steam reports that the new controller aims to addres...

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GNOME Yelp 49.1 Addresses Flatpak Sandbox Escape Vulnerability

GNOME's help viewer, Yelp, has received an update to version 49.1. This release addresses a newly identified security vulnerability described as "a possible Flatpak sandbox escape vector." The fix is ...

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