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AI hijacking is the new SEO - Linux Weekly News **[The Linux Experiment](https://daily.dev/sources/linuxexp)** · 29 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Head to https://squarespace.com/thelinuxexperiment to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code THELINUXEXPERIMENT Grab a brand new laptop or desktop running Linux: https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: Get access to: - a Daily Linux News show - a weekly patroncast for more thoughts - your name in the credits YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@thelinuxexp/join Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thelinuxexperiment Or, you can donate whatever you want: https://paypal.me/thelinuxexp Liberapay: https://liberapay.com/TheLinuxExperiment/ 👕 GET TLE MERCH Support the channel AND get cool new gear: https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 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 #linuxdesktop #linuxdistro #linuxnews ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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