KDE's new design, Nvidia finally focuses on Linux, EU caves in to Big Tech
Linux & Open Source News · Nick
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01:50 Nvidia contributes to Nova driver https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-Turing-Nova-Core-GSP
03:26 Nvidia wants to improve DRM and screencasting https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-Less-DRM-API-Fragments https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-Shortcomings-Screencast
06:09 NVK makes good progress https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVK-Status-Update-2025
08:30 EU proposes to strip back privacy protections https://www.theverge.com/news/823788/europe-cookie-prompt-browser-changes-proposal https://edri.org/our-work/commissions-digital-omnibus-is-a-major-rollback-of-eu-digital-protections/
11:41 New Online Accounts for KDE https://nicolasfella.de/posts/a-new-online-accounts-system
14:18 KDE’s design system taking shape https://anditosan.wordpress.com/2025/11/18/design-system-progress-november-2025/
16:22 Zorin OS 18 reaches 1 million downloads in a month https://linuxiac.com/zorin-os-18-hits-1-million-downloads-in-just-one-month/
18:09 Budgie’s Wayland only version is in preview https://github.com/BuddiesOfBudgie/budgie-desktop/releases/tag/v10.10-preview.1
19:23 Mozilla’s API to automate AI browsing and scraping https://tabstack.ai/
21:57 Mastodon’s founder steps down, big funding secured https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/11/my-next-chapter-with-mastodon https://itsfoss.com/news/mastodon-ceo-steps-down/
24:09 VKD3D Proton gets massive update https://github.com/HansKristian-Work/vkd3d-proton/releases/tag/v3.0
25:30 Valve updates Steam Linux runtime https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/valve-put-up-a-new-steam-linux-runtime-4-0-with-a-move-towards-64-bit/