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02:18 Linux passes 10% market share in North Americahttps://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/north-america#monthly-202506-202607https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/08/03/linux-didnt-just-eat-10-of-windows-market-share-ai-bots-are-inflating-the-numbers/

06:01 AI models being fed ads and poisoned contenthttps://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/08/05/time-magazine-has-a-separate-version-of-its-website-with-ads-only-ai-can-see/5283640https://www.techradar.com/ai-platforms-assistants/the-poison-ai-movement-wants-to-corrupt-chatgpt-and-gemini-to-make-them-useless-but-it-comes-with-a-huge-risk-of-collateral-damage

10:01 Hybrid GPU systems will get much better with Plasma 6.8https://zamundaaa.github.io/wayland/2026/07/31/fixing-multi-gpu.html

13:20 KDE now has a tool to change gamma and RGB on Waylandhttps://blog.davidedmundson.co.uk/blog/wayland-and-kgamma/

15:19 Valve prepares Lepton and FEX for the Steam Framehttps://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/lepton-and-fex-get-prepared-for-the-steam-frame-release/

16:42 Linux kernel rejects LLM generated patches for staging areahttps://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Staging-Reject-LLMs

19:08 Nvidia now sponsors LVFShttps://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/2026/08/04/nvidia-is-now-supporting-the-lvfs/

20:37 Bottles gets massive updatehttps://linuxiac.com/bottles-65-released-with-over-100-changes-for-windows-apps-on-linux/

23:03 Union KDE theming engine makes good progresshttps://quantumproductions.info/articles/2026-08/union-summer-2026-update

25:45 New nasty Linux vulnerabilityhttps://github.com/V4bel/Zapscape