More than 100 S&P 500 names are scheduled to post their latest quarterly figures this week.

The Arch Linux project has sent out an advisory warning that a set of malicious packages, containing a remote access trojan, were uploaded to the Arch User Repository (AUR). The affected packages were librewolf-fix-bin, firefox-patch-bin, and zen-browser-patched-bin. "We strongly encourage users that may have installed one of these packages to remove them from their system and to take the necessary measures in order to ensure they were not compromised."

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This week in Linux, we have some interesting distro news from CachyOS & Chrome OS. We've also got new releases from the open source 3d rendering powerhouse Blender & the popular dynamic tiling wayland compositor Hyprland. Then, Plasma Bigscreen is back on the air from KDE. All of this and more on This Week in Linux, the weekly news show that keeps you up to date with what’s going on in the Linux and Open Source world. Now let's jump right into Your Source for Linux GNews!

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Chapters:

00:00 Intro
00:43 CachyOS July 2025 Release
03:41 Hyprland 0.50 Released
05:50 Blender 4.5 LTS Released
08:31 Lossless Scaling's Frame Generation for Linux
10:42 Sandfly Security, agentless Linux security [ad]
12:42 OCCT for Linux
13:38 Chrome OS is Apparently Merging with Android
15:11 Plasma Bigscreen is Back on Air
17:08 Outro

Links:

• CachyOS July 2025 Release
  • https://cachyos.org/blog/2507-july-release/
• Hyprland 0.50 Released
  • https://hypr.land/news/update50/
• Blender 4.5 LTS Released
  • https://www.blender.org/download/releases/4-5/
  • https://developer.blender.org/docs/release_notes/4.5/eevee/#vulkan
  • https://www.blender.org/
  • https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/07/blender-4-5-lts-vulkan-support
• Lossless Scaling's Frame Generation for Linux
  • https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/lsfg-vk-aims-to-bring-lossless-scalings-frame-generation-to-linux/
  • https://www.pcguide.com/news/lossless-scaling-frame-gen-on-linux-gets-some-help-from-the-original-dev-next-3-steps-outlined-by-creator/
  • https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/lossless-scalings-frame-generation-for-linux-gets-upgraded-to-the-latest-v3-1/
  • https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/lossless-scaling-frame-gen-gets-a-decky-loader-steam-deck-plugin-but-theres-drama/
• Sandfly Security, agentless Linux security [ad]
  • https://thisweekinlinux.com/sandfly
• OCCT for Linux
  • https://www.ocbase.com/
  • https://www.ocbase.com/news/occt-available-on-steam
  • https://www.ocbase.com/news/occt-v14-vulkan
  • https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/stress-testing-toolkit-occt-arrives-on-steam-with-linux-and-steam-deck-support/
  • https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/stress-testing-app-occt-switches-to-vulkan-by-default-dropping-directx/
• Chrome OS is Apparently Merging with Android
  • https://www.techradar.com/phones/android/i-think-you-see-the-future-first-on-android-googles-android-leader-sameer-samat
  • https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/07/is-chrome-os-merging-with-android
  • https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/07/googles-android-head-confirms-chrome-os-and-android-are-merging/
• Plasma Bigscreen is Back on Air
  • https://plasma-bigscreen.org/
  • https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/07/plasma-bigscreen-revival-kde-tv
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Intel has announced the abrupt end of its Clear Linux cloud-oriented distribution:

After years of innovation and community collaboration, we're ending support for Clear Linux OS. Effective immediately, Intel will no longer provide security patches, updates, or maintenance for Clear Linux OS, and the Clear Linux OS GitHub repository will be archived in read-only mode. So, if you're currently using Clear Linux OS, we strongly recommend planning your migration to another actively maintained Linux distribution as soon as possible to ensure ongoing security and stability.

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