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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:55 Sponsor: SquareSpace
02:26 Did Linux pass 10% market share in North America?
06:09 AI models being fed ads and poisoned content
10:09 Hybrid GPU systems will get much better with Plasma 6.8
13:28 KDE now has a tool to change gamma and RGB on Wayland
15:27 Valve prepares Lepton and FEX for the Steam Frame
16:50 Linux kernel rejects LLM generated patches for staging area
19:16 Nvidia now sponsors LVFS
20:45 Bottles gets massive update
23:11 Union KDE theming engine makes good progress
25:53 New nasty Linux vulnerability
27:47 Sponsor: Tuxedo Computers


Links:

Linux passes 10% market share in North America
https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/north-america#monthly-202506-202607
https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/08/03/linux-didnt-just-eat-10-of-windows-market-share-ai-bots-are-inflating-the-numbers/
https://www.usa.gov/website-analytics/

AI models being fed ads and poisoned content
https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/08/05/time-magazine-has-a-separate-version-of-its-website-with-ads-only-ai-can-see/5283640
https://www.techradar.com/ai-platforms-assistants/the-poison-ai-movement-wants-to-corrupt-chatgpt-and-gemini-to-make-them-useless-but-it-comes-with-a-huge-risk-of-collateral-damage

Hybrid GPU systems will get much better with Plasma 6.8
https://zamundaaa.github.io/wayland/2026/07/31/fixing-multi-gpu.html

KDE now has a tool to change gamma and RGB on Wayland
https://blog.davidedmundson.co.uk/blog/wayland-and-kgamma/

Valve prepares Lepton and FEX for the Steam Frame
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/lepton-and-fex-get-prepared-for-the-steam-frame-release/

Linux kernel rejects LLM generated patches for staging area
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Staging-Reject-LLMs

Nvidia now sponsors LVFS
https://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/2026/08/04/nvidia-is-now-supporting-the-lvfs/

Bottles gets massive update
https://linuxiac.com/bottles-65-released-with-over-100-changes-for-windows-apps-on-linux/

Union KDE theming engine makes good progress
https://quantumproductions.info/articles/2026-08/union-summer-2026-update

New nasty Linux vulnerability
https://github.com/V4bel/Zapscape

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