Firefox 148 Now Available With The New AI Controls / AI Kill Switches

Firefox 148 release binaries are now available ahead of the official release announcement on Tuesday. Most notable is the new AI controls found with Firefox 148 for those wishing to disable Firefox's growing AI capabilities...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Firefox-148

GNU Gawk 5.4 Released With New MinRX Regex Matcher, Faster Reading Of Files

Developers behind the widely-used GNU Awk text processing utility today released Gawk 5.4...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNU-Gawk-5.4-Released

Linux 7.0 Speeds Up Reclaiming File-Backed Large Folios By 50~75%

Merged on Wednesday were some additional memory management "MM" updates for the Linux 7.0 merge window. Most interesting out of these latest three dozen patches is support for batched unmapping of file-backed large folios...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.0-Faster-Large-Folios

Lutris 0.5.20 Linux Game Manager Brings New Features, Wine Wayland Option

For fans of Lutris as the open-source desktop client for installing and playing many games on Linux, Lutris 0.5.20 is out today with new features that further enhance the integration with different emulators and compatibility layers...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Lutris-0.5.20-Released

Google Chrome 145 Released With JPEG-XL Image Support

Back in 2022 Google deprecated and then removed JPEG-XL image support from the Chrome/Chromium browser codebase and now in 2026 it's back. Last month I wrote about JPEG-XL decoding merged back to Chromium/Chrome and that has rolled out today as part of today's Chrome 145 stable debut...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Chrome-145-Released

Mesa 25.3.5 Brings Vulkan Driver Fixes & Other Minor Changes -- Even For Old The R600g

While Mesa 26.0 stable will be out soon, the belated Mesa 25.3.5 point release is now available for serving as the current latest stable point release...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-25.3.5-Released

ML-LIB: Machine Learning Library Proposed For The Linux Kernel

Sent out today as a request for comments (RFC) by a Linux kernel engineer employed by IBM is a machine learning library for the Linux kernel. The intent is on plugging in running ML models to the Linux kernel that could be used for system performance optimizations and various other purposes...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Kernel-ML-LIB-RFC