FOSS Weekly #9 - GNOME 43 Alpha, Linux laptop updates, C++ successor, and other exciting news.

Lots of interesting news this week! GNOME 43 is bringing new features, some Linux laptops got processor upgrades, Linus and team addressed Retbleed, there's a new programming language in town, and Asahi is already running on M2 chips!

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🐧 Linux news

• GNOME 43 Alpha released [debugpointnews.com/gnome-43-alpha/] [announcement]

• Asahi Linux now supports Apple M2 chips [asahilinux.org/2022/07/july-2022-release/]

• Epic Games has published the binaries of Unreal Engine 5 editor for Linux: [unrealengine.com/en-US/linux]

• Intezer security detects new Linux malware that can install backdoors [intezer.com/blog/.../new-linux-threat/]

• Retbleed, a recently discovered chip flaw has been fixed on Linux [theregister.com/2022/07/17/linux_5_19_rc7/]

💻 Hardware News

• System76 updates its Oryx Pro with 12th Gen Intel processor and NVIDIA RTX 3000 Ti GPUs [9to5linux.com/system76s-oryx-pro]

• Dell XPS 13 Plus developer edition is now certified for Ubuntu 22.04 LTS [canonical.com/blog/dell-xps-13...]

• Framework laptop also ships with 12th Gen Intel chips now [frame.work/products/laptop-diy-12-gen-intel]

• Framework now sells mainboards and upgrade kits for its laptops [frame.work/blog/12th-gen-and-upgrade-kit-reviews-are-live]

• Vulkan driver gets "100x improvement" with single line of code [phoronix.com/news/Intel-Vulkan-RT-100x-Improve]

📰 Other News

• Google engineers announce Carbon: An experimental successor to C++ [github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang]

• Android now supports DNS-over-HTTP/3 [security.googleblog.com/..../dns-over-http3-in-android.html]

• AWS announces Cloudscape Design System, an open source solution for building web applications [aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/07/cloudscape...]

• GNOME turns 25 [hpjansson.org/.../gnome-at-25-a-health-checkup/]

• Linux Foundation’s OS-Climate has released three analytic tools to help tackle the climate crisis [linuxfoundation.org/.../the-paris-climate-goals/]

• Epic games joins the Open3D foundation [linuxfoundation.org/featured/the-open-3d-foundation-welcomes-epic-games...]

📝 Releases

• Qubes OS 4.1.1 [qubes-os.org/news/2022/07/18/qubes-4-1-1/]

• VirtualBox 6.1.36 [virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog]

• FFmpeg 5.1 [ffmpeg.org/download.html#release_5.1]

• Cirq 1.0 [opensource.googleblog.com/.../Cirq-Turns-1.0.html]

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