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Linux 7.4 kbuild patches cut kernel build times
A kbuild series aimed at Linux 7.4 cuts no-op builds by roughly 80% and trims 37.6 seconds off a full allmodconfig rebuild.
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Cloudflare splits AI training from search indexing
A Disallow AI Training toggle lets a site refuse training crawlers and stay in search. Mixed-use crawlers are 36.6% of verified crawler traffic.
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iOS 27.2 gives EU apps an alternative tracking prompt
The new prompt is mandatory in 5 EU countries and optional elsewhere. It drops the word track, and developers may ask again after a year.
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Fujitsu MONAKA ships 144 Armv9 cores in November
Fujitsu's 144-core MONAKA goes on sale in November, with 2nm cores stacked over 5nm cache and GCC 15 support already upstream.
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GNOME 51 ships reworked frame scheduling in Mutter
GNOME 51 arrived September 16 with smoother frame scheduling, FIDO2 passkey login, and one removal developers should note: legacy NVIDIA EGLStreams.
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Fedora 45 beta swaps the kernel console for kmscon
Fedora 45 moves the text console out of the kernel. Three tools stop working, and the beta landed September 15 with an automatic fallback to fbcon.
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Google Home adds an MCP server, gated at $20 a month
Early access to Google Home's MCP server needs the $20-a-month Premium Advanced tier, plus your own Google Cloud project, before an agent touches a device.
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Ubuntu 26.10 moves cp, mv and rm to Rust coreutils
Ubuntu 26.10 hands cp, mv and rm to Rust. A 113-issue audit held those three back from 26.04 LTS, and stable arrives October 15.
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Apple Reference Image signs photos inside the sensor
Reference Image negatives move to deleted photos after 30 days, and EU capture is off at launch. Apple's September 15 post explains the signing chain.
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SDL3 gains HarmonyOS support, headed for SDL 3.6.0
Ryan Gordon's port, sponsored by Outfit7 and squashed from 77 commits, merged upstream on September 15, 2026 with video, audio and touch working.
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Raspberry Pi OS adds an icon dock and app launcher
A swaybg option trims memory on boards under 2GB, and the labwc desktop gains an optional icon dock, a search-driven launcher and a Control Centre.
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iOS 27 ships with Xcode 27 and no dropped iPhones
Apple shipped six platform updates on September 14, 2026, claiming app launches up to 30% faster, and iPhone 11 still makes the cut.
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JPEG XL critique says AVIF now beats it on compression
A new benchmark puts AVIF ahead of JPEG XL across the fidelity range, and clocks a 1,918-byte JPEG XL file at 17.43 seconds to decode.
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Shotwell 33 finishes its GTK4 port after three years
Shotwell 33 is the GNOME photo manager's first major release since 0.32 in April 2023, and the GTK4 move restores drag-and-drop export on Wayland.
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Homebrew 7.0.0 stops building bottles for Intel Macs
Homebrew 7.0.0 moves Intel Macs to Tier 3, so brew install now compiles from source there, and support ends in or after September 2027.
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Intel's Linux NPU driver 1.38 adds Ubuntu 26.04 support
Intel's NPU driver 1.38 officially supports Ubuntu 26.04 LTS about five months late, with 322 tests passing across five processor generations.
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GTK 4.24 sharpens fractional scaling and frame timing
GTK 4.24 snaps content to whole screen pixels for sharper fractional scaling, reworks the frame clock, and pushes session restore back to 4.26.
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tsgolint v7 ships type-aware linting written in Go
tsgolint v7 runs typescript-eslint's type-aware rules in Go. It covers 59 of 61 rules, and the project's own two speed claims do not agree.
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Mold's Rust rewrite aims to be Linux's default linker
Mold links 4.9x faster than LLVM lld. Its author is rewriting it in Rust and wants distributions to install it as the default linker, /usr/bin/ld.
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KDE Plasma 6.8 beta brings Kup backups and Wayland fixes
KDE shipped the Plasma 6.8 beta as version 6.7.90 on September 10, 2026. It adds Kup as the desktop's backup scheduler, with stable due October 14.
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GNU Automake 1.19 fixes a 14-year-old dist bug
GNU Automake 1.19, its first release in 15 months, fixes a 14-year-old bug that broke concurrent commands like make dist-bzip2 dist-xz.
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COSMIC Epoch 1.8 ships tablet grab, Bluetooth renaming
COSMIC Epoch 1.8 shipped two weeks after 1.7 with tablet grab support and Bluetooth device renaming, but System76's own changelog is still pending.
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GNOME 51 adds custom pointer acceleration profiles
GNOME 51, shipping September 16, 2026, lets users define a custom pointer acceleration curve instead of picking one fixed speed profile.
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Open-source firmware boots on a consumer AMD desktop board
Coreboot and AMD's openSIL now run on the MSI B850P, a real desktop AM5 board. It cuts closed-source firmware code by 79.1%, but it ships as a paid product, not a free download.
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