video: https://youtu.be/tksoVnYTz1cThis week in Linux, we learned that NVIDIA might be buying Hugging Face and this AI community platform reportedly rejected extra investment from NVIDIA because they didn't want one company having too much influence. Now NVIDIA may be buying the entire company. Someone dumped more than 125 bug reports into QEMU in under ten minutes, leading one maintainer to call it an effective denial-of-service attack. Debian finished their debate on what to do with AI contributions and their decision was surprising. LibreOffice has a new release where they made it very clear they aren't interested in adding Ai tools to summarize the document you just wrote. Plus Flatpak is getting more than half a million euros to improve Linux app security and sandboxing, so that's awesome. And all of this is happening while Linux celebrates 35 years of the kernel. This is Your Source for Linux GNews so let's see what happened This Week in Linux.Download as MP3Support the ShowBecome a Patron = tuxdigital.com/membershipStore = tuxdigital.com/storeChapters:Links:Happy 35th Birthday Linuxhttps://bsky.app/profile/tuxdigital.bsky.social/post/3mtyonwnwvk2whttps://9to5linux.com/happy-35th-birthday-linuxhttps://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/linux-was-announced-by-linus-torvalds-35-years-ago-today-humble-os-started-with-10-000-lines-of-code-but-has-now-grown-to-40-million-dominates-global-infrastructureNVIDIA Reportedly Agrees to Buy Hugging Face for $12.9 Billionhttps://www.forbes.com/sites/siladityaray/2026/08/27/nvidia-has-reportedly-agreed-to-buy-ai-model-hosting-platform-hugging-face-for-13-billion/https://www.theinformation.com/articles/nvidia-agrees-buy-open-source-model-repository-hugging-face-12-9-billionhttps://www.reuters.com/technology/nvidia-talks-acquire-hugging-face-13-billion-deal-business-insider-reports-2026-08-27/https://www.businessinsider.com/hugging-face-nvidia-deal-reshape-ai-landscape-2026-8https://www.marketwatch.com/story/what-to-know-about-hugging-face-the-open-source-ai-startup-reportedly-catching-nvidias-eye-243771f8Announcing €500K Sovereign Tech Agency Investment in Flatpakhttps://modal.cx/blog/announcing-flatpak-sta/https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/sovereign-tech-agency-makes-a-big-investment-into-flatpak/https://www.phoronix.com/news/Sovereign-Tech-Agency-FlatpakDebian's AI Decisionhttps://www.debian.org/vote/2026/vote_002#textehttps://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2026/08/msg00360.htmlhttps://www.phoronix.com/news/Debian-Votes-On-LLM-Usagehttps://www.phoronix.com/news/Debian-Votes-Responsible-AI-UseAI Bug Reports Become a “Denial of Service” Against Open Source Maintainershttps://www.phoronix.com/news/AI-DoS-Attack-Maintainershttps://hachyderm.io/@berrange/117155755806497654https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/work_items?author_username=anwardawa981&first_page_size=20&sort=created_date&state=allhttps://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/work_items/4348LibreOffice 26.8 Makes “No AI” a Featurehttps://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/08/26/libreoffice-26-8/https://lwn.net/Articles/1090606/https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/08/libreoffice-268-releasedhttps://itsfoss.com/news/libreoffice-26-8-release/https://www.phoronix.com/news/LibreOffice-26.8Support the showhttps://tuxdigital.com/membershiphttps://store.tuxdigital.com/