AMD leaves Linux FPGA users in the lurch with controversial Vivado licensing update — new tier model restricts future free versions to Windows

AMD has been accused of ‘bait-and-switch’ tactics following changes to the licensing of Vivado on Linux.

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California moves to exempt Linux from its upcoming age-verification law after backlash over forcing operating systems to collect users’ ages — amendment proposed by the same lawmaker who wrote the original law

California lawmakers introduced a new amendment that could exempt most Linux distributions from the state’s upcoming Digital Age Assurance Act after privacy backlash and concerns that the law would force open-source operat…

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Linus Torvalds says flood of duplicate AI-generated vulnerability reports have made Linux security mailing list ‘almost entirely unmanageable’ — private list ‘a waste of time for everybody involved’ in switch to new public system

“AI detected bugs are pretty much by definition not secret, and treating them on some private list is a waste of time for everybody involved.”
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Microsoft is working on a fix to downgraded GPU drivers in Windows Update — new system uses multiple IDs

Microsoft has finally confirmed that Windows Update downgrades GPU drivers in certain circumstances. A partial fix is coming later this year to reduce the chances of driver downgrades occurring on newer devices.
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Microsoft launches Cloud‑Initiated Driver Recovery for remote rollback of faulty updates — no user action or OEM intervention will be needed to handle broken drivers delivered via Windows Update

Microsoft introduces Cloud-Initiated Driver Recovery, an important Windows reliability change designed to minimize buggy driver mayhem.
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Microsoft staunchly defends its new ‘Low Latency Profile’ for Windows 11 after community backlash — says every other OS already boosts CPU speeds for quicker load times

After a new “low Latency Profile” for Windows 11 was discovered last week, the community has responded severely, criticizing Microsoft for suppressing a bigger issue. The company, however, is defending the decision on soci…

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Dell SupportAssist update is crashing PCs with constant blue screens and reboot loops — the boot service built for system recovery is the culprit of unending instability

SupportAssist Remediation is a background service that Dell bundles on its Windows PCs to automate system recovery and repair tasks, and a recent update is reportedly causing BSOD loops.
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AMD’s legendary K5, its first independently-designed processor, is being removed from the Linux kernel — 4.3-million-transistor chip gets the axe because it lacks Time Stamp Counter (TSC) support, making it a coding burden

AMD’s landmark K5 processor family will no longer be supported by Linux when kernel version 7.2 arrives.

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Linux mascot Tux the penguin hits 30 years old — Linus Torvalds outlined the design of the ‘slightly overweight penguin’ on May 9, 1996

Linux mascot Tux the penguin was first conceptualized by Linus Torvalds on this day in 1996.

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Microsoft CTO confesses that 30-year-old code from the mid-90s still forms the bedrock of Windows 11 — ancient Win32 API still the backbone, but CTO says it’s ‘more relevant than ever in 2026’

A top Microsoft exec has admitted that Windows 11 still relies on a bunch of old code from the 1990s.

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