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After Nearly Two Decades, Linux Leaps to Version 7.0 — And Linus Torvalds Isn't Making a Big Deal About It  WebProNews

After Nearly Two Decades, Linux Leaps to Version 7.0 — And Linus Torvalds Isn't Making a Big Deal About It  WebProNews

Linux kernel 6.19 reaches stable release, kernel 7.0 work is already underway  Help Net Security

Ghostty vs Kitty: Which Modern Terminal is the Best for Linux Users?  It's FOSS

Mesa 25.3.5 arrives with bug fixes for open source Linux graphics drivers  GamingOnLinux

Spectro Cloud introduces Hadron, an immutable Linux for the enterprise edge  Edge Industry Review

The arrival of audio and video calling to WhatsApp Web is great news for Linux users  BetaNews

The Linux mid-life crisis that's an opportunity for Tux-led transformation  theregister.com

Linux kernel to move to version 7.0 after release of 6.19  Techzine Global

Linux Kernel 6.19 Released, This Is What’s New  Linuxiac

"Elon Musk said on Sunday that SpaceX has shifted its focus to building a 'self-growing city' on the moon," reports Reuters, "which could be achieved in less than 10 years." SpaceX still intends to start on Musk's long-held ambition of a city on Mars within five to seven years, he wrote on his X social media platform, "but the overriding priority is securing the future of civilization and the Moon is faster." Musk's comments echo a Wall Street Journal report on Friday, stating that SpaceX has told investors it would prioritize going to the moon and attempt a trip to Mars at a later time, targeting March 2027 for an uncrewed lunar landing. As recently as last year, Musk said that he aimed to send an uncrewed mission to Mars by the end of 2026.

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Major Updates to 6 Linux Distros in January 2026  gHacks Technology News

January Brought Major Updates to These 6 Linux Distros  gHacks Technology News

Triela on Linux, Legacy, and the Sound of 'Distrohop'  Broken 8 Music

AppManager is a Gear Lever alternative with a macOS aesthetic, and it just hit version 3.0.0  XDA

Linus Torvalds Announces Linux Version 7.0, Upholding ‘Fingers and Toes’ Rule  شبكة تواصل الإخبارية

Linux 6.19 is out now, and it gives some old AMD GPUs a 30% speed boost  XDA

As Super Bowl Sunday comes to a close, America's National Football League "is challenging innovators to improve the facemask on football helmets to reduce concussions in the game," reports the Associated Press: The league announced on Friday at an innovation summit for the Super Bowl the next round in the HealthTECH Challenge series, a crowdsourced competition designed to accelerate the development of cutting-edge football helmets and new standards for player safety. The challenge invites inventors, engineers, startups, academic teams and established companies to improve the impact protection and design of football helmets through improvements to how facemasks absorb and reduce the effects of contact on the field... Most progress on helmet safety has come from improvements to the shell and padding, helping to reduce the overall rate of concussions. Working with the helmet industry, the league has brought in position-specific helmets, with those for quarterbacks, for example, having more padding in the back after data showed most concussions for QBs came when the back of the head slammed to the turf. But the facemask has mostly remained the same. This past season, 44% of in-game concussions resulted from impact to the player's facemask, up from 29% in 2015, according to data gathered by the NFL. "What we haven't seen over that period of time are any changes of any note to the facemask," [said Jeff Miller, the NFL's executive vice president overseeing player health and safety]... "Now we see, given the changes in our concussion numbers and injuries to players, that as changes are made to the helmet, fewer and fewer concussions are caused by hits to the shell, and more and more concussions as a percentage are by hits to the facemask..." Selected winners will receive up to $100,000 in aggregate funding, as well as expert development support to help move their concepts from the lab to the playing field. Winners will be announced in August, according to the article, "and Miller said he expected helmet manufacturers to start implementing any improvements into helmets soon after that."

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Linux Kernel 6.19 Arrives! You Get Intel, AMD Improvements, and ASUS Armoury Support  It's FOSS

Linux 6.19 Release – Main changes, Arm, RISC-V, and MIPS architectures  CNX Software