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      Linux Might Finally Disable The Microsoft RNDIS Protocol Drivers In 2026

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 31 May 2026

    Going back to early 2023 there were efforts to disable all the Linux drivers for Microoft's RNDIS protocol. Remote NDIS has proven to be a real security concern while superior, modern alternatives exist...
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      Wine-Staging 11.10 Fixes 14 Year Old Bug, Also Fixes Issue Of Some Games Being Too Dark

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 31 May 2026

    Building off Friday's release of Wine 11.10 is now the Wine-Staging 11.10 experimental/testing flavor with nearly 300 additional patches atop that upstream code...
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      Servo 0.2 Released With Revamped Android Browser UI

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 31 May 2026

    For ending out the month of May is a new monthly release of Servo, the open-source, Rust-based browser engine being developed by Linux Foundation Europe stakeholders and the open-source community. There are many nice enhancements on the desktop side with Servo 0.2 while also improving the Android browser UI experience with Servo too...
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      Zrythm 2.0 Alpha Released For Rewriting The Digital Audio Workstation In C++ & Qt/QML

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 31 May 2026

    Zrythm is a wonderful open-source digital audio workstation (DAW) application. Zrythm 1.0 released back in 2024 for this software catering from beginners to audio professionals. It's been a GTK-based application for years but the developers have been porting it to Qt6/QML. Released this weekend is the first Zrythm 2.0 alpha release that moves from GTK to Qt/QML...
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      Linux 7.1-rc6 To Hide The Documentation On "clearcpuid" Feature

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 31 May 2026

    The clearcpuid= kernel parameter can be used to disable specific CPUID features for the kernel by specifying the targeted bit numbers of the feature(s) to disable or their flags from the /proc/cpuinfo output. The clearcpuid parameter, for example, has been useful for carrying out AVX-512 comparison benchmarks for apps that check for the presence of the AVX-512 extensions via /proc/cpuinfo. But moving forward the documentation on clearcpuid is being removed to discourage its use...
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      AV2 v1.0 Specification Released For Next-Gen Video Coding

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 31 May 2026

    As expected given AOM Video Model indications last week, the AV2 v1.0 specification was officially released on Friday...
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      Various USB Quirks Merged Ahead Of Linux 7.1-rc6

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 31 May 2026

    Ahead of the Linux 7.1-rc6 kernel due out on Sunday, this week's round of USB fixes have been merged with various new device quirks added as well as some patches as a result of scanning tools...
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      Rust Coreutils 0.9 Released With Additional Security Hardening, Zero-Copy I/O

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 30 May 2026

    Rust Coreutils 0.9 was tagged today as the latest major update to this GNU Coreutils implementation in the Rust programming language. Rust Coreutils 0.9 is up to a 90.4% pass rate against the GNU test suite!..
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      NixOS 26.05 Released With 20,442 New Packages, Stage 1 Now Based On systemd By Default

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 30 May 2026

    NixOS 26.05 is out today as the latest version of this Linux distribution built around the Nix package manager...