This week besides the drama over Apple Silicon maintainership for the upstream Linux kernel, in recent days there has also been a number of rather subtle changes to the maintainership of several Intel Linux kernel drivers.

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The cutest overseer you'll ever have.

Brave Browser is getting a new feature called 'custom noscriptlets' that lets advanced users inject their own JavaScript into websites, allowing deep customization and control over their browsing experience.

EndeavourOS Mercury is now available for download with Linux kernel 6.13, Xfce 4.20, KDE Plasma 6.2.5, and various improvements.

Fastfetch 2.36 system information tool enhances CPU/GPU detection, improves OS support, and adds new logo updates for Linux, macOS, OpenBSD, NetBSD, and Haiku.

Playnite is a very popular free and open source video game library manager, one used a lot on Windows and a developer has confirmed they will be working on Linux support.

OKD project also has its own immutable CentOS image, which could be fun

Merged last week for Python 3.14 is a new tail-call intepreter that aims to offer significantly better performance with around 10% faster performance in PyPerformance or around a 40% speed-up in Python-heavy benchmarks

The Debian-based Netrunner 25 breaks its two-year silence, featuring KDE Plasma 5.27.5, Linux kernel 6.1, and more.

A recently discovered vulnerability in Ubuntu 22.04's printing subsystem, specifically within the "ippusbxd" package, could have allowed attackers to execute arbitrary code on locked laptops.

GIMP 3.0 RC3 is out today as what is hopefully the last release candidate before the long-awaited stable release of GIMP 3.0 as this long in development free software alternative to the likes of Adobe Photoshop.

KDE Plasma 6.3 desktop environment is now available with various new features and improvements for Plasma and its components.

The recent Linux kernel drama over Rust code has resulted in the creation of a Rust kernel policy.

Systemd lead developer Lennart Poettering has been working on adding the ability to let systemd boot directly into a disk image downloaded via HTTP within the initial RAM disk (initrd) during the Linux boot process.

X86-P6 Pocket NAS features Intel Twin Lake CPU, 4 x M.2 slots, and 2 x 2.5 GbE LAN port

EndeavourOS Mercury landed with Linux kernel 6.13, Plasma 6.2.5, Xfce 4.20, dark themes by default, and better installer functionality.

A new version of the slick Clapper media player is out with several neat improvements Not newly new, I should say. I hadn't run a flatpak update in Ubuntu

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