📰 Linux Mint’s Cinnamon Menu Gets New Layout Customization Options

Linux Mint users can now move the search bar and reposition system buttons in Cinnamon’s menu, and the project also introduces a revamped System Information tool.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/linux-mint-cinnamon-menu-gets-new-layout-customization-options/

📰 Intel ANV Vulkan Driver Finally Exposes Pipeline Binary "VK_KHR_pipeline_binary"

Introduced back in August of 2024 with Vulkan 1.3.294 was VK_KHR_pipeline_binary as a pipeline binary extension to retrieve binary data associated with individual pipelines. The focus of this is to bypass the Vulkan pipeline caching mechanism and so applications can manage caches themselves. Finally today for Mesa 26.0-devel the Intel "ANV" open-source Vulkan driver has enabled this extension...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-ANV-Pipeline-Binary

📰 AI Controversy Forces End of Mozilla’s Japanese SUMO Community

The SUMO Japanese team quits en masse, accusing Mozilla’s AI system of erasing years of community translation work.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/ai-controversy-forces-end-of-mozilla-japanese-sumo-community/

📰 Chuwi Corebook Air is an ultralight laptop with a sub-$500 starting price

The Chuwi CoreBook Air is a thin and light Windows laptop designed to offer a mix of mid-range to premium features at an affordable price. Chuwi’s upcoming laptop features an AMD Ryzen processor, 16GB of RAM, 512GB of storage, a 55 Wh battery, and a backlit keyboard. But it’s expected to have a starting price of $500 .

🔗 Source: https://liliputing.com/chuwi-corebook-air-is-an-ultralight-laptop-with-a-sub-500-starting-price/

📰 Archinstall 3.0.13 Adds WiFi Connection Menu To Arch Linux Installer

Just days after the Archinstall 3.0.12 release for this text-based Arch Linux installer, Archinstall 3.0.13 is now available to deliver a new feature. That new feature is a text-based interface for being able to connect to a WiFi network within Archinstall...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Archinstall-3.0.13-Released

📰 SteamOS 3.7.17 released with fixes for Baldur's Gate 3, OS Updates and Discover

Valve released the latest stable system update with SteamOS 3.7.17 now available bringing bug fixes, but also disables wake-on-bluetooth for Steam Deck LCD..Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

🔗 Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/steamos-3-7-17-released-with-fixes-for-baldurs-gate-3-os-updates-and-discover/

📰 Vulkan 1.4.332 Brings A New Qualcomm Extension For AI / ML

Vulkan 1.4.332 is out today as the latest weekly update to this high performance graphics and compute API specification. Besides a number of documentation clarifications/corrections, there is one new extension this week in the name of AI / machine learning...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Vulkan-1.4.332

📰 Calibre 8.14 Open-Source E-Book Manager Updates the Tolino Driver and Fixes Bugs

Calibre 8.14 open-source e-book manager software is now available for download with various new features and bug fixes. Here's what's new!

🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/calibre-8-14-open-source-e-book-manager-updates-the-tolino-driver-and-fixes-bugs

📰 Google Releases Magika 1.0: AI-Powered File Type Detection Tool

Magika 1.0 debuts as Google’s AI-driven open-source file identification tool rebuilt in Rust, doubling file type coverage and delivering 99% accuracy.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/google-releases-magika-1-0-ai-powered-file-type-detection-tool/

📰 Linux To Gain ML-DSA/Dilithium Post-Quantum Cryptography For Module Signing

New code likely to be submitted for the upcoming Linux 6.19 kernel would introduce ML-DSA/Dilithium post-quantum cryptography to be initially used for dealing with kernel module signing...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Dilithium-ML-DSA-Module-Sign

📰 Kdenlive 25.08.3 Arrives With Stability Fixes and SVG File Support

Kdenlive 25.08.3 open-source video editor adds SVG file support, improves image rendering, and refines subnoscript handling on Linux.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/kdenlive-25-08-3-arrives-with-stability-fixes-and-noscript-file-support/

📰 NILFS2 File-System Seeing Renewed Interest With Additional Maintainer

It's been a while since having anything major to talk about with the NILFS2 file-system but it looks like that could be changing. NILFS2 as a reminder is a log-structured file-system with continuous snapshotting with its NILFS predecessor having been in the mainline kernel for two decades since the mid Linux 2.6 days...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/NILFS2-Second-Maintainer

📰 GTK Adds "Reduced Motion" Accessibility Option To Follow macOS, Windows & Others

In addition to GNOME's Mutter compositor removing its X11 back-end support to focus exclusively on Wayland while keeping around XWayland client support, another notable GNOME change this week was the GTK toolkit adding a "reduced motion" accessibility option...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/GTK-Reduced-Motion

📰 Linux PPA Ransomware Scare Lacking Evidence

Hysteria is contagious online. One person’s worry becomes another’s certainty, and that becomes a social media battle cry — the thrill of righteous outrage is addictive! This week saw claims a PPA is being used to distribute Linux ransomware go wild. The story is a bit long and dry but it goes like this: A user says they installed WinBoat (a tool for running Windows apps on Linux) and FreeRDP, but they didn’t connect.

🔗 Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/11/linux-ppa-ransomware-investigated-no-malware

📰 FreeBSD 15.0 Beta 5 Released With Build Fixes For Google & Azure Clouds

FreeBSD 15.0-RC1 had been expected this weekend but instead a fifth beta release of FreeBSD 15.0 was deemed warranted...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-15.0-Beta-5

📰 KDE Plasma 6.6 Shaving Off 100MB Of Memory Use, Fixing DrKonqi Crash Reporter Crashing

KDE developers were off to a busy start for the month of November. A lot of feature activity continues happening for Plasma 6.6 while a lot of bug fixing is still going on for Plasma 6.5 and related KDE components...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-6.6-100MB-Less

📰 oneDNN 3.10 Continues Preparing For Future Intel CPUs With AVX 10.2

Released one Friday was the newest version of oneDNN as this library started off by Intel and now officially under the UXL Foundation umbrella for serving as building blocks for deep learning software...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-oneDNN-3.10-More-AVX-10.2

📰 Proton Experimental gets fixes for multiple Xbox Game Studios noscripts, ARC Raiders and various other games

Valve released a new Proton Experimental update for November 7th with a nice batch of game fixes for Linux / SteamOS and Steam Deck gamers..Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

🔗 Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/proton-experimental-gets-fixes-for-multiple-xbox-game-studios-noscripts-arc-raiders-and-various-other-games/

📰 How I use Pi-hole and Tailscale for whole-network ad blocking

Creating a solution to ad blocking can be frustrating and costly if you’re not approaching it the right way. Running a DNS server with Pi-hole on a Raspberry Pi is an easy first step toward securing your entire network and all your connected devices, but combining Pi-hole with Tailscale, a mesh VPN that uses WireGuard, further secures your network while also enabling remote access, allowing you to access your home network and devices from...

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/how-i-use-pi-hole-and-tailscale-for-whole-network-ad-blocking/

📰 Ryzen AI Software 1.6.1 Advertises Linux Support

Ryzen AI Software as AMD's collection of tools and libraries for AI inferencing on AMD Ryzen AI class PCs has Linux support with its newest point release. Though this "early access" Linux support is restricted to registered AMD customers...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ryzen-AI-Software-1.6.1

📰 IncusOS: A New Immutable Linux System Built for Running Incus

IncusOS debuts as a modern, immutable Debian-based system built specifically to run Incus with atomic A/B updates and TPM-secured boot.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/incusos-is-a-new-immutable-linux-system-built-for-running-incus/