Open-source News

AI Is Taking Over Cybersecurity – PSW #915  SC Media

On recent builds of Ubuntu 26.04 when being prompted by sudo for the password, password feedback is now enabled by default to show asterisk (*) characters when inputting your password. Traditionally sudo has not provided password feedback in the name of security to not divulge the length of your password in case anyone is looking/capturing your screen. But upstream sudo-rs has now changed the default behavior in the name of an improved UX...

sudo-rs Breaks Historical Norms With Now Enabling Password Feedback By Default  Phoronix

Linux Explores New Developer Authentication System  findarticles.com

Enabling Linux in Safety Applications (ELISA) Project Expands Premier Membership with NVIDIA  The AI Journal

Kali Linux Introduces AI-Driven Penetration Testing Through Claude Integration  LinkedIn

Linux explores new way of authenticating developers and their code - here's how it works  ZDNET

Microsoft has published a new version of its open-source DirectX Shader Compiler. Besides adding Shader Model 6.9 production support, making this DX Compiler update interesting to us are the SPIR-V back-end improvements and enhancing interoperability with Vulkan drivers...

10 Powerful Ways to Use PowerShell Across Windows, Linux, and macOS  TechRepublic

Tails 7.5 comes with several security improvements and updated packages  Notebookcheck

9 open source operating systems that aren't Linux  How-To Geek

CIQ Launches RLC Pro, Redefining the Enterprise Linux Standard for the Next Generation of Infrastructure  The AI Journal

I replaced Android with a full Linux desktop on my old phone, and it's shockingly usable  XDA

CIQ launches RLC Pro to back Rocky Linux for enterprises  DataCenterNews Asia Pacific

CIQ Launches RLC Pro, Redefining the Enterprise Linux Standard for the Next Generation of Infrastructure  Yahoo Finance

Meta donates React to new Linux Foundation-backed body  IT Brief Asia

Benchmarking 18 Years Of Intel Laptop CPUs: Panther Lake As Much As 95x The Speed Of Penryn  Phoronix

For those curious how far Intel laptop CPU performance has evolved over the past nearly two decades, here are power and performance numbers when re-benchmarking all of the Intel-powered laptop CPUs I have on hand that are still operational from Penryn to Panther Lake. A ThinkPad from 2008 with the Core 2 Duo T9300 "Penryn" was still firing up and working with the latest upstream Intel open-source Linux driver support on Ubuntu 26.04 development. On a geo mean basis over the past 18 years from Penryn to Panther Lake, the performance was at 21.5x in over 150 benchmarks. At the most extreme was a 95x difference going from Intel's 45nm Penryn to the 18A Panther Lake.

Forget distro hopping: How to use any Linux distribution on one PC  How-To Geek

Tails 7.5 Anonymous Linux OS Released with Updated Tor Client and Tor Browser  9to5Linux