Firefox's AI summary, Wayland restores windows, Framework 12 preorders open

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Apr 12, 2025•24 min•Season 3Ep. 14

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02:11 Firefox 139 adds AI summaries https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/04/firefox-nightly-introduces-experimental-link-previews-with-ai-summary

04:43 Wayland gets a protocol to restore window size and position https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/merge_requests/238

06:47 Framework 12 preorders are open https://frame.work/fr/en/blog/framework-laptop-12-pre-orders-are-now-open

09:27 Tuxedo ARM laptop is far from ready https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en/How-is-TUXEDOCOes-ARM-Notebook-Coming-Along.tuxedo https://www.phoronix.com/news/TUXEDO-Snapdragon-Laptop-Update

11:42 Apple M4 support on Linux isn’t coming soon https://www.phoronix.com/news/Apple-M4-Linux-Rather-Painful

13:04 Microsoft’s AI detects 20 vulnerabilities in bootloaders https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/microsoft-uses-ai-to-find-flaws-in-grub2-u-boot-barebox-bootloaders/

15:18 Nvidia open sources PhysX and Flow SDK https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-OSS-PhysX-Flow-GPU

16:52 Proton confirms Drive client for Linux https://proton.me/blog/drive-roadmap-spring-2025

18:41 Wine 10.5 is out https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/releases/wine-10.5

19:27 Older AMD GPUs can now emulate ray tracing https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/mesa-25-1-will-make-indiana-jones-the-great-circle-playable-on-older-amd-gpus/

21:18 Valve’s new VR headset could come soon https://www.techradar.com/computing/virtual-reality-augmented-reality/valve-leak-hints-that-its-next-vr-headset-could-be-landing-sooner-than-we-realized