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02:18 Linux passes 10% market share in North America
https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/north-america#monthly-202506-202607
https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/08/03/linux-didnt-just-eat-10-of-windows-market-share-ai-bots-are-inflating-the-numbers/

06:01 AI models being fed ads and poisoned content
https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/08/05/time-magazine-has-a-separate-version-of-its-website-with-ads-only-ai-can-see/5283640
https://www.techradar.com/ai-platforms-assistants/the-poison-ai-movement-wants-to-corrupt-chatgpt-and-gemini-to-make-them-useless-but-it-comes-with-a-huge-risk-of-collateral-damage

10:01 Hybrid GPU systems will get much better with Plasma 6.8
https://zamundaaa.github.io/wayland/2026/07/31/fixing-multi-gpu.html

13:20 KDE now has a tool to change gamma and RGB on Wayland
https://blog.davidedmundson.co.uk/blog/wayland-and-kgamma/

15:19 Valve prepares Lepton and FEX for the Steam Frame
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/lepton-and-fex-get-prepared-for-the-steam-frame-release/

16:42 Linux kernel rejects LLM generated patches for staging area
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Staging-Reject-LLMs

19:08 Nvidia now sponsors LVFS
https://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/2026/08/04/nvidia-is-now-supporting-the-lvfs/

20:37 Bottles gets massive update
https://linuxiac.com/bottles-65-released-with-over-100-changes-for-windows-apps-on-linux/

23:03 Union KDE theming engine makes good progress
https://quantumproductions.info/articles/2026-08/union-summer-2026-update

25:45 New nasty Linux vulnerability
https://github.com/V4bel/Zapscape

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01:49 Valve sponsors work to bring FOSS AMD Drivers to Windows
https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/cracking-windows-open-porting-radv-to-win32.html

04:46 Framework Laptop 13 pro looks solid on Linux
https://www.phoronix.com/review/framework-laptop-13-pro/11
https://frame.work/products/laptop13pro-amd-ai300/configuration/new
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/07/framework-laptop-13-pro-review-much-better-battery-much-worse-price/

08:27 GoG working on a Linux client
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/gog-confirm-they-are-working-towards-gog-galaxy-on-linux/

10:24 Ubuntu Touch gets big update
https://ubports.com/blog/ubports-news-1/ubuntu-touch-24-04-2-0-and-24-04-1-4-release-4007

12:29 GNOME’s session restore won’t land in GNOME 51
https://linuxiac.com/gnome-is-building-session-save-and-restore-but-it-wont-make-gnome-51/

14:12 Fedora working on a conflict of interest policy
https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/conflict-of-interest-guidelines-policy-draft-feedback-please/197508

16:55 Firefox’s redesign lands in Nightly builds
https://9to5linux.com/first-look-at-firefoxs-brand-new-design-in-firefox-nightly

18:59 New full desktop environment written with AI
https://starling.build/

21:24 New patches improve gaming performance on AMD
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-P-State-Better-1p-Lows

24:29 Debian now has 5 proposals to handle AI contributions
https://www.debian.org/vote/2026/vote_002

27:04 Intel Arc GPUs getting better on Linux
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-HuC-DG2-Alchemist-Xe

29:03 Keychron builds open source mouse firmware
https://itsfoss.com/news/keychron-zgm-mouse-firmware/

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01:51 Upstream vs distros debate kicks off again
https://linuxiac.com/linux-mint-and-gnome-calendar-clash-resurfaces-months-later/
https://gitlab.com/linuxmint/pins/mint/gnome-calendar/-/work_items/1
https://tesk.page/2026/07/18/how-far-would-hostile-distributions-go-to-hurt-upstream/

05:25 432 CVEs published in 2 days by the Linux kernel team
https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/07/22/linux-kernel-team-publishes-432-cves-in-two-days/5276497

08:28 Flathub reviewers leaving
https://bbhtt.in/posts/flathub-leave/
https://bbhtt.in/posts/taking-a-pause/

11:26 Flathub’s AI slop ban was probably the right call
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/07/flathub-ai-slop-ban-data

13:20 Collabora talks about their work on the Steam Frame OS
https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/building-an-arch-linux-aarch64-port-for-holo-core.html

14:59 GNOME changes how they handle CVEs
https://blogs.gnome.org/mcatanzaro/2026/07/20/some-changes-to-gnome-security-tracking/

17:30 Firefox 153 released with containers
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/07/firefox-153-new-containers-feature

19:26 LibreOffice explains why MSOffice formats aren’t really open
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/07/17/microsofts-main-tool-for-lock-in/

22:09 JellyFin loses multiple contributors
https://forum.jellyfin.org/t-project-leadership-changes
https://linuxiac.com/jellyfin-loses-project-leader-and-core-team-member-in-major-shake-up/

23:20 Libx11-compat trying to keep legacy apps alive on systems without x11
https://www.phoronix.com/news/libx11-compat

25:17 Thunderbird update adds accent color and better account setup
https://blog.thunderbird.net/2026/07/thunderbird-153-meadow-is-out-now/

26:58 How AI is changing open source
https://enblog.eischmann.cz/2026/07/23/how-ai-is-changing-open-source/

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02:04 Torvalds talks Kernel and AI
https://www.zdnet.com/article/open-source-summit-linus-torvalds/

04:05 Torvalds says AI is here to stay on the kernel
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Is-Not-Anti-AI
https://sfconservancy.org/llm-gen-ai/llm-backed-generative-ai-recommendations.html

07:19 Wayland gives better gaming performance than x11
https://www.phoronix.com/review/plasma-67-wayland-cachyos/3

09:11 Proton warns against Age verification
https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-privacy-security/the-death-of-privacy-online-proton-launches-interactive-map-to-show-age-verification-laws-are-spreading-fast
https://proton.me/age-verification

10:49 Cosmic gets its frosted glass UI & good updates
https://9to5linux.com/first-look-at-cosmic-desktop-environments-frosted-glass-effect
https://linuxiac.com/cosmic-desktop-1-3-shines-with-its-new-frosted-glass-design/

13:31 X11 server alternative vibe coded in Assembly
https://isene.org/2026/07/Frame.html

15:59 GNOME working on a TestFlight-like interface
https://modal.cx/blog/image-based-for-developers/

18:32 Linux does run on anything
https://cakehonolulu.github.io/linux-on-32x/

20:56 Firefox will release new versions every 2 weeks
https://groups.google.com/a/mozilla.org/g/dev-platform/c/qlaQ1YSlOP8?pli=1

22:13 Mozilla study points all the dark patterns around Edge
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/browser-choice-windows-report-over-the-edge-2/

24:41 AppManager makes AppImages much better
https://github.com/kem-a/AppManager
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/07/appmanager-appimage-installer-linux

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01:44 Another German state moves to open source
https://www.regierung-mv.de/Aktuell/?id=221531&processor=processor.sa.pressemitteilung

04:25 Windows drops below 60% market share
https://linuxiac.com/windows-drops-under-60-in-global-desktop-os-share-for-the-first-time-in-years/
https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide/

07:36 OpenMandriva victim of sabotage from former contributor
https://forum.openmandriva.org/t/statement-regarding-attempted-distribution-sabotage/8997

10:04 GNOME 51 has its first alpha
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-51-Alpha
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Mutter-Background-Blur

12:40 FSF makes progress on LibrePhone project
https://www.fsf.org/bulletin/2026/summer/ensuring-freedom-one-blob-at-a-time

14:07 Ubuntu outlines their work on ARM
https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-on-arm-summer-26-update/84872

16:28 More performance improvements for AMD on Linux
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Marek-Double-VRS-RADV-Perf

17:42 Tuxedo OS moves to Debian Testing
https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en/A-new-foundation-for-TUXEDO-OS-Switching-to-Debian.tuxedo

21:14 Mint 23 will have a full Wayland session
https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=5046

22:31 Valve published Windows drivers for Steam machine
https://www.techradar.com/computing/gaming-pcs/lies-about-driver-support-valve-now-lets-you-install-windows-11-on-a-steam-machine-but-many-people-dont-want-to-be-fooled-twice

25:21 Proton 11 released
https://linuxiac.com/proton-11-0-released-with-big-compatibility-boost-for-linux-gaming/

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