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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:44 Sponsor: SquareSpace
02:00 Nvidia contributes to Nova driver
03:36 Nvidia wants to improve DRM and screencasting
06:19 NVK makes good progress
08:40 EU proposes to strip back privacy protections
11:51 New Online Accounts for KDE
14:28 Zorin OS 18 reaches 1 million downloads in a month
16:16 Mozilla's API to automate AI browsing and scraping
18:50 Mastodon's founder steps down, big funding secured
21:02 Valve updates Steam Linux runtime
22:23 VKD3D Proton gets massive update
23:57 Sponsor: Tuxedo Computers


Links:

Nvidia contributes to Nova driver
https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-Turing-Nova-Core-GSP

Nvidia wants to improve DRM and screencasting
https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-Less-DRM-API-Fragments
https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-Shortcomings-Screencast

NVK makes good progress
https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVK-Status-Update-2025

EU proposes to strip back privacy protections
https://www.theverge.com/news/823788/europe-cookie-prompt-browser-changes-proposal
https://edri.org/our-work/commissions-digital-omnibus-is-a-major-rollback-of-eu-digital-protections/

New Online Accounts for KDE
https://nicolasfella.de/posts/a-new-online-accounts-system

Zorin OS 18 reaches 1 million downloads in a month
https://linuxiac.com/zorin-os-18-hits-1-million-downloads-in-just-one-month/

Mozilla's API to automate AI browsing and scraping
https://tabstack.ai/

Mastodon's founder steps down, big funding secured
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/11/my-next-chapter-with-mastodon
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/18/mastodon-ceo-steps-down-as-the-social-network-restructures/?ref=itsfoss.com

VKD3D Proton gets massive update
https://github.com/HansKristian-Work/vkd3d-proton/releases/tag/v3.0

Valve updates Steam Linux runtime
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/valve-put-up-a-new-steam-linux-runtime-4-0-with-a-move-towards-64-bit/