📰 Steam’s Nov 2025 Client Update Brings Expanded Chat Reporting, New Controller Support

Valve’s latest Steam client update adds expanded chat reporting tools, suspicious message alerts, and new controller support, including fixes for PS5, Xbox 360, and Nintendo devices.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/steams-nov-2025-client-update-brings-expanded-chat-reporting/

📰 RustDesk Pulls Ahead of TeamViewer, AnyDesk with Wayland Multi-Scaled Display Support

New nightly build brings support for monitors with different scaling factors.

🔗 Source: https://itsfoss.com/news/rustdesk-multi-scaled-display-support/

📰 AOOSTAR EG02 graphics dock supports Thunderbolt 5 and OCuLink connections

Last month AOOSTAR launched the EG01 graphics dock with an OCuLink port and a design that includes a stand so you can position a power supply next to your graphics card and perch a mini PC above the power supply. At the time the company said it was also working on an EG02 model that has a .

🔗 Source: https://liliputing.com/aoostar-eg02-graphics-dock-supports-thunderbolt-5-and-oculink-connections/

📰 KDE Plasma 6.5.3 Delivers Bug Fixes Across KWin, Discover, and Breeze

KDE Plasma 6.5.3 is now available, delivering fixes across KWin, Discover, and Breeze, improving stability, navigation, and desktop responsiveness.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/kde-plasma-6-5-3-desktop-released/

📰 MLPerf Client 1.5 Introduces Experimental Linux Support

MLPerf Client as MLCommons' machine language inferencing benchmark for client form factors / PCs now has a Linux build. MLPerf Client 1.5 was released yesterday with an experimental Linux build but for now at least is not nearly as full-featured as this AI benchmark on Windows and macOS...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/MLPerf-Client-1.5-Linux

📰 The big new RPG Where Winds Meet release works well on Linux

Where Winds Meet is a new free to play game on Steam that's doing some big numbers right now, and thankfully it seems to work great on Linux with Proton..Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

🔗 Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/the-big-new-where-winds-meet-release-works-well-on-linux/

📰 Debian Libre Live Images Debut for Fully Free Debian Installations

The Debian Libre Live project releases its first free-only amd64 live ISOs, removing all non-free components from the installation media.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/debian-libre-live-images-debut-for-fully-free-debian-installations/

📰 Linus Torvalds is OK with vibe coding as long as it's not used for anything that matters

Linux inventor also discusses Rust in the kernel, Nvidia's proprietary code, and the problem of AI crawlers Linux and Git inventor Linus Torvalds discussed AI in software development in an interview earlier this month, describing himself as "fairly positive" about vibe coding, but as a way into computing, not for production coding where it would likely be horrible to maintain.…

🔗 Source: https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/11/18/linus_torvalds_vibe_coding/

📰 Throwing stones at Pebble: Rebble accuses Core Devices of stealing its work for new Pebble smartwatch services

The Pebble line of smartwatches is back. But in some ways it never really went away… because after Fitbit acquired Pebble in 2016 and stopped making Pebble-branded hardware, an independent team of developers got to work creating an open source software ecosystem that allowed existing watches to continue functioning. For the past decade, the Rebble .

🔗 Source: https://liliputing.com/throwing-stones-at-pebble-rebble-accuses-core-devices-of-stealing-its-work-for-new-pebble-smartwatch-services/

Smart Table Tennis Bat with Live Analytics
https://www.hackster.io/s4muela/smart-table-tennis-bat-with-live-analytics-360981

📰 Intel LASS Feature Looks Like It Will Be Upstreamed For Linux 6.19

Intel's LASS functionality was queued today into tip/tip.git's "x86/cpu" Git branch. With LASS now making it into a TIP branch, it looks like it will be submitted for the upcoming Linux 6.19 merge window barring any last minute issues or objections from Linus Torvalds...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-LASS-For-Linux-6.19

Blender 5.0 Released With Better Vulkan Support, HDR On Wayland - Phoronix
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Blender-5.0-Released

📰 ClamAV to Cut Signature Database Size by 50%

ClamAV will retire outdated signatures on December 16, reducing both databases by about 50% to improve performance and trim update costs.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/clamav-to-cut-signature-database-size-by-50-percentage/

📰 Xubuntu Reveals How its Website Was Hijacked

The Xubuntu team has shared an incident report on its October website breach. Attackers brute-forced the site to inject malware - but was anything else affected?You're reading Xubuntu Reveals How its Website Was Hijacked, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not reproduce elsewhere without permission.

🔗 Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/11/xubuntu-website-breach-report

📰 Vulkan SER Showing Up To ~47% Performance Improvement For Ray-Tracing

Last week's Vulkan 1.4.333 brought a new ray-tracing extension with VK_EXT_ray_tracing_invocation_reorder that was derived from a prior NVIDIA vendor extension (VK_NV_ray_tracing_invocation_reorder). This new extension for Shader Execution Reordering "SER" is showing to deliver some nice performance potential for Vulkan ray-tracing performance...

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

📰 After Nearly 10 Years of Building Mastodon, Eugen Rochko Steps Into Advisory Role

Mastodon's creator steps back from CEO role, transfers assets to non-profit organization.

🔗 Source: https://itsfoss.com/news/mastodon-ceo-steps-down/

📰 Cloudflare broke itself – and a big chunk of the Internet – with a bad database query

Thought it was the victim of a ‘hyper-scale DDoS attack’ before finding the fix Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince has admitted that the cause of its massive Tuesday outage was a change to database permissions, and that the company initially thought the symptoms of that adjustment indicated it was the target of a “hyper-scale DDoS attack,” before figuring out the real problem.…

🔗 Source: https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/11/19/cloudflare_incident_report/

📰 Linux 6.18 Receives Fixes For ELECOM M-XT3URBK & SONiX AK870 PRO Devices

Sent out today was likely the last batch of HID subsystem fixes ahead of the Linux 6.18 kernel releasing as stable around the end of the month. With it are some new device-specific quirks for fixing hardware support for a mouse and keyboard...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.18-HID-ELECOM-SONIX

📰 More NVIDIA Nova Enablement For Linux 6.19 With Other Rust Graphics Driver Code

Alice Ryhl of Google sent out the main set of Rust language code changes for the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) graphics/display driver subsystem ahead of Linux 6.19. Notable is continued DRM core infrastructure work for Rust plus the open-source NVIDIA "Nova" driver continues taking shape albeit isn't yet ready for end-user usage...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/DRM-Rust-Code-For-Linux-6.19

📰 Steamworks SDK adds support for Linux Arm and Android, and it seems we know the first Android game on Steam

As we get closer to the launch of the new Steam Machine and Steam Frame, Valve put out a new Steamworks SDK that brings in libraries for linuxarm64 and android..Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

🔗 Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/steamworks-sdk-adds-support-for-linux-arm-and-android-and-it-seems-we-know-the-first-android-game-on-steam/

📰 AMD Continues Working On Xen GPU Virtualization Features - "The Best Is Yet To Come"

When it comes to GPU virtualization we have seen AMD engineers carry out a lot of work in recent years around the Xen hypervisor even when it hasn't seen as much interest from other vendors. We found out that much of their interest in Xen for GPU virtualization is due to automotive / in-vehicle infotainment demands and it remains that way.

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Xen-2025-GPU-Virt