A weekly Linux and open source news roundup covering kernel improvements (idle CPU work stealing for up to 17.8% speedup, virtual swap layer redesign, MGLRU 30% MongoDB boost), UDP Lite removal for 10% networking gains, ARM64 CRC64 NVMe checksumming 6x faster, GNOME 50 'Tokyo' release with parental controls and X11 drop, KDE Plasma 6.7 3D LUT color pipeline, Wayland 1.25 color management docs, SteamOS 3.8 preview with Wayland default, Wine 11.5 syscall user dispatch fixing RDR2 crashes, systemd 260 adding birth date storage for age verification (controversial), PS5 AMD GPU PCI ID added to Linux drivers, Blender 5.1 and OpenShot 3.5 releases, Snapd local privilege escalation CVE on Ubuntu 24.04/25.10, Google's Shashiko AI kernel code reviewer now covering Rust, and $12.5M Linux Foundation investment from major tech companies.
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