Christopher Light, 22, of the District of Columbia, was sentenced today to 90 months in federal prison for his role in a 24-hour violent crime spree that included a gunpoint carjacking and armed robberies, announced U.S. Attorney Jeanine Ferris Pirro.

Investors will be looking for a path to a turnaround from UnitedHealth's earnings release, after an abrupt CEO change and over 40% drop in the company's stock.

The good folks at Linode still have not managed to fix whatever broke in their data center, so we are running on an emergency backup server. Things seem to be working, but the occasional glitch is to be expected. Please accept our apologies for the extended downtime!

Update: we're back on the regular production server, and all seems stable now.

Up to £925M on table as government pushes ahead with project likely to be a decade late

The UK government is talking to tech suppliers to provide handsets for the country's emergency services' voice and data network, in a procurement which could be worth up to £925 million ($1.24 billion).…

Linus has released the 6.16 kernel:

It's Sunday afternoon, and the release cycle has come to an end. Last week was nice and calm, and there were no big show-stopper surprises to keep us from the regular schedule, so I've tagged and pushed out 6.16 as planned.

Headline changes in this release include enabling five-level page tables by default on x86 systems, a number of core-dump changes including the ability to send core dumps to a socket, the ability to create pipes in io_uring, atomic-write support in the XFS filesystem, the elimination of block-layer bounce buffering, a new DMA-mapping API, an option to block file descriptors passed in via Unix-domain sockets, and more.

See the LWN merge-window summaries (part 1, part 2) and the KernelNewbies 6.16 page for more information.

Version:	6.16 (mainline)
Released:	2025-07-27
Source:	linux-6.16.tar.xz
PGP Signature:	linux-6.16.tar.sign
Patch:	full

Marvel's "Fantastic Four: First Steps" opened to an estimated $118 million at the domestic box office.

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This week in Linux, we've got a bit of bad news from Intel as they abruptly ended Clear Linux out of no where and Arch Linux warned users that malware was found in the AUR. It's not all bad this week though because Wayback is back on the show with the first preview release for keeping X11 desktops alive in our future Wayland powered world. Plus according to one source, Linux usage is even higher than we already thought it was. A couple of episodes ago I reported that we broke the 5% threshold on the US desktop market based on StatCounter data but according to one source it's already climbed passed 6%. What source you ask? The analytics of U.S. federal government websites. Speaking of governments, GitHub is trying to get EU lawmakers to scale Germany’s Sovereign Tech Fund into a EU wide program to fund critical open‑source projects. Also for some more good news, we're so close to hitting 100,000 subscribers on the channel, if you want to help please consider subscribing. 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
01:56 Intel is Shutting Down Clear Linux
05:44 Linux hits 6% U.S. Government Website Analytics
08:29 GitHub Wants the EU to Fund Open Source
13:56 Sandfly Security, agentless Linux security [ad]
16:02 Arch Linux finds Malware in the AUR
18:34 Wayback 0.1 Released
21:10 NVIDIA Bringing CUDA To RISC-V
22:06 Unofficial GUI for Lossless Scaling's Frame Generation on Linux
23:08 Outro

Links:

• Intel is Shutting Down Clear Linux
  • https://community.clearlinux.org/t/all-good-things-come-to-an-end-shutting-down-clear-linux-os/10716
  • https://www.omglinux.com/intel-clear-linux-os-discontinued-2025/
• Linux hits 6% U.S. Government Website Analytics
  • https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/according-to-one-source-linux-hits-over-6-desktop-user-share/
  • https://analytics.usa.gov/
• GitHub Wants the EU to Fund Open Source
  • https://github.blog/open-source/maintainers/we-need-a-european-sovereign-tech-fund/
  • https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/07/github-eu-open-source-funding
  • https://www.sovereign.tech/news/celebrating-two-years-of-empowering-public-digital-infrastructure
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_Tech_Agency
  • https://github.com/ossf/wg-securing-critical-projects/tree/main/Initiatives/Identifying-Critical-Projects/Version-1.1
• Sandfly Security, agentless Linux security [ad]
  • https://thisweekinlinux.com/sandfly
• Arch Linux finds Malware in the AUR
  • https://lists.archlinux.org/archives/list/aur-general@lists.archlinux.org/thread/7EZTJXLIAQLARQNTMEW2HBWZYE626IFJ/
• Wayback 0.1 Released
  • https://wayback.freedesktop.org/news/2025/07/23/wayback-0.1-released/
  • https://wayback.freedesktop.org/
• NVIDIA Bringing CUDA To RISC-V
  • https://riscv.org/ecosystem-news/2025/07/nvidia-to-bring-cuda-platform-support-to-the-risc-v/
  • https://dataconomy.com/2025/07/21/nvidias-cuda-platform-now-officially-supports-risc-v-cpus/
• Unofficial GUI for Lossless Scaling's Frame Generation on Linux
  • https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/theres-now-an-unofficial-gui-for-lossless-scalings-frame-generation-on-linux/
  • https://github.com/Caliel666/lsfg-vk-ui
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Intel's stock dropped 8% after the chipmaker said it would slash foundry costs in its latest attempt to turn around its struggling business.