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The power management changes merged for the Linux 7.2 kernel are aplenty as usual. New hardware support, dropping obsolete hardware support, and various bug fixes and other enhancements throughout this important area of the kernel...

Linux 7.2 Power Management Adds New Hardware Support While Dropping AMD Elan  Phoronix

Today's the day! KDE developers have just released Plasma 6.7 as the newest version of this leading open-source desktop environment...

After Linux 7.1 dropped support for old i486 CPUs and also began removing some old ISA and PCMCIA device drivers, there is some additional old hardware relics being cleared out of the in-development Linux 7.2 driver... The frame-buffer device driver for the old Hercules Monochrome ISA graphics card is now removed from the Linux kernel after decades at play...

China-Linked SprySOCKS Backdoor Expands to Windows with Driver-Based Stealth  The Hacker News

KDE Plasma 6.7 Desktop Environment Officially Released, This Is What’s New  9to5Linux

Windows version of SprySOCKS Linux malware used to attack govt orgs  BleepingComputer

V-Ray for Blender Update 3 now runs on Linux  CG Channel

Ubuntu Touch OTA 2.0 Promises Support for the Nothing Phone, Beta Out Now  9to5Linux

Someone moved three lines of code in Linux 7.2 and got a 5% storage speed boost  XDA

In addition to the surprising impact of /proc/filesystems read optimizations for Linux 7.2, another one of the VFS pull requests for this next kernel version is delivering some nice improvements for EXT4 and XFS around IOmap, the framework that maps file data offsets in memory to their physical locations on storage...

After some last minute delays pushing the 15.1-RELEASE back by two weeks, FreeBSD 15.1 is now shipping as the newest stable release of this BSD operating system...

FreeBSD 15.1 Released With Updated WiFi Drivers, Better C23 Support & Other Improvements  Phoronix

Linux 7.2 Optimization Shows +5% IOPS For EXT4 & XFS After Moving Around Two Lines Of Code  Phoronix

The community of developers continuing to maintain Ubuntu Touch for smartphones has released the Ubuntu Touch 24.04-2.0 beta ahead of the planned stable release in mid-July...

Ubuntu Touch 24.04-2.0 Beta Now Properly Handles Notches & Rounded Corners  Phoronix

The newest open-source project out of Intel is the Intel Performance Skills project that is providing AI agent skills to help with CPU performance analysis and performance optimizations on Linux...

Intel Performance Skills: New Open-Source Project Leveraging AI For Linux Performance Optimizations  Phoronix

Valve Loosens AMD's Handheld Grip As SteamOS Gains Intel GPU Support  HotHardware

The FreeBSD Project announced today the launch of an AI-Assisted Vulnerability Discovery Project with grant funding provided by the Linux Foundation backed Alpha-Omega project. Alpha-Mega has sponsors including Microsoft, AWS, Google, Anthrophic, OpenAI, and others who will now be helping with FreeBSD uncovering new vulnerabilities by leveraging AI...