Linux Users of Central Illinois

Wednesday June 3, 2026

The Linux Users Group of Springfield, Illinois and the surrounding area.

Some other users groups in the area:
Chicagoland Linux Users Group

Unix Hobbyists', Administrators' & Coders' Club

Meeting Info:

Meetings of the Linux Users of Central Illinois are the 2^nd and 4^th Tuesday of every month from 7 PM to 9 PM. Meetings are held on Jitsi Meet. Details are posted in the meeting announcement on the luci-announce mailing list.

The next LUCI meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, June 9, 2026.

The following LUCI meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, June 23, 2026.

News from around the web:

Google Launches 'Gemma 4 12B' AI Model That Can Run On Your Laptop

Google Shares Fitbit Air Blueprints So Anyone Can 3D-Print Accessories

Microsoft Plans Linux Tools, RTX Spark Desktop For Windows Devs

Meta Workers Can Opt Out of Workplace Tracking for Up to 30 Minutes

Microsoft Claims New Quantum Chip 1,000 Times Better Than Before

Android Gets Fake Call Detection That Uses RCS

Thanks To Robots, Ukraine Is Now Talking About Winning, Not Just Surviving

Trump Administration to Dismantle Ocean Monitoring System

Microsoft's Project Solara Is an OS For Devices That Run AI Agents Instead of Apps

Mathematicians Warn of AI Threats to Profession As Industry Encroaches

European Parliament Ditches Google For French Search Firm

Russian Spy Agency Says Foreign Spies Turned Officials' Smartphones Into Surveillance Devices

Microsoft Deliberately Bricking All Office For Mac 2019/2021 Installations

Microsoft Unveils Scout, an Autonomous AI Agent Built On OpenClaw

Trump Signs AI Executive Order Asking Companies To Give Government Early Access To Models

COSMIC Now Implements Wayland Pointer Constraints For Better Gaming Experience

AMD EPYC 8635P "Sorano" Benchmarks: Significant Upgrade Opportunity For EPYC 8004 Servers

Intel Preps GCC Function Multi-Versioning To Support APX & AVX10.2

Ubuntu To Ship Newer AMD ROCm Updates Via SRUs

NVIDIA Hopper & Blackwell GPU Support Moves Closer For Open-Source Nova Driver

Intel XPU Manager Adds Support For Arc Pro B65 + Arc Pro B70

Microsoft Announces Coreutils For Windows: Derived From Rust Coreutils

New "KRAID" Compiler Merged To Mesa For Panfrost/PanVK Drivers

Canonical Now Considers Their Steam Snap For ARM64 To Be Stable

Marek Olšák Scores Up To 100% Pixel Throughput Optimization For RADV Driver

Microsoft Announces Open-Source "Intelligent Terminal"

Benchmarking The Different CachyOS Linux Kernel Flavors

KDE Plasma 6.8 Still Planning To End X11 Support, 95% Of Plasma 6.6 Users Are On Wayland

The Linux Kernel Ready To Make TSC A Hard Requirement For x86 CPUs

Open-Source NVIDIA Vulkan Driver "NVK" Merges Mesh Shader Support

Mir 2.27 Released With More Wayland Rust Code

ASUS ZenVision Laptop Lid Screen Reverse Engineered & Now Able To Work On Linux

COSMIC Desktop's Frosted Glass Is Giving Windows Aero Vibes

Shotcut 26.6 Beta Brings Many Fixes, OpenFX & VST2 Plugin Support

Phoronix Marking 22 Years Of Linux Hardware Coverage This Week

X.Org Server Starts June With Nine New Security Vulnerabilities Discovered Via AI

AMD Radeon RX 9070 GRE Linux Performance

Intel Xeon Diamond Rapids EDAC Driver Changes Readied For Linux 7.2

Intel Preparing WiFi 8 "UHR" Support For Their IWLWIFI Linux Driver

Linux 7.2 Proceeding To Deprecate AF_ALG Due To "Massive Attack Surface", Drops Offloading

Some Elements Of Intel APX Not Proving Beneficial On Nova Lake / Diamond Rapids

NBD-VRAM Provides Swap Space On Your NVIDIA GeForce GPUs

FreeBSD 15.1-RC2 Restores PadLock RNG For VIA & Zhaoxin CPUs

NVIDIA Announces RTX Spark Superchip For Laptops & Desktops

AI-Driven Security Disclosures, NVIDIA Vera & Linux 7.1 Features That Made An Exciting May

Intel Xeon 6+ & Intel Ethernet E835 Launch

Dell Uses Intel Wildcat Lake To Deliver Their Cheapest XPS 13 Ever


webmaster@luci.org	Last updated Tue May 26 20:12:13 2026.