Linux didn't pass 10% market share? AI optimization is the new SEO
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02:18 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/
06:01 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
10:01 Hybrid GPU systems will get much better with Plasma 6.8 https://zamundaaa.github.io/wayland/2026/07/31/fixing-multi-gpu.html
13:20 KDE now has a tool to change gamma and RGB on Wayland https://blog.davidedmundson.co.uk/blog/wayland-and-kgamma/
15:19 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/
16:42 Linux kernel rejects LLM generated patches for staging area https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Staging-Reject-LLMs
19:08 Nvidia now sponsors LVFS https://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/2026/08/04/nvidia-is-now-supporting-the-lvfs/
20:37 Bottles gets massive update https://linuxiac.com/bottles-65-released-with-over-100-changes-for-windows-apps-on-linux/
23:03 Union KDE theming engine makes good progress https://quantumproductions.info/articles/2026-08/union-summer-2026-update
25:45 New nasty Linux vulnerability https://github.com/V4bel/Zapscape