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Canonical for a while has been developing Authd as an authentication service for external cloud-based identity providers. Authd was designed from the ground-up to provide secure management of identity and access for Ubuntu systems while only with next month's Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release is it actually hitting the universe archive...

Intel just published the XeSS 3.0 SDK to GitHub as the newest version of their Xe Super Sampling AI-enhanced upscaling technology for gamers. Sadly though it remains proprietary software and only with native support for Windows...

Intel Publishes XeSS 3 SDK To GitHub - Still As Windows-Only Binaries  Phoronix

Last week NVIDIA released the 595.45.04 beta Linux driver as their first public build in the R595 release branch. The NVIDIA R595 Linux driver is bringing a number of Vulkan driver improvements, HDR enhancements, DRI3 v1.2 support, and a variety of other improvements. Benchmarking the NVIDIA 595.45.04 Linux driver the past few days on GeForce RTX 50 "Blackwell" have been showing some nice incremental performance improvements over the current NVIDIA 590 driver stable series.

AMD Formally Launches Ryzen AI Embedded P100 Series 8-12 Core Models  Phoronix

AMD announced back at CES the Ryzen AI Embedded P100 series with initially the models up to six Zen 5 cores launching while the eight through twelve core models would be available later in H1. Today AMD formally announced those higher-tier Ryzen AI Embedded P100 series parts...

NVIDIA 595 Linux Driver Running Well In Early Benchmarks  Phoronix

New Rust Driver Aims To Improve Upstream Linux On Synology NAS Devices  Phoronix

A set of patches posted to the Linux kernel mailing list last week introduce a new driver for enhancing the upstream/mainline Linux kernel support for Synology network attached storage (NAS) devices. This new driver is Synology Microp and is making use of the Linux kernel's modern Rust programming language support...

ClipXDaemon Emerges as C2-Less Linux Clipboard Hijacker, Targeting Crypto Wallets in X11 Sessions  CybersecurityNews

CachyOS update brings improvements for PC gaming handhelds, the installer and more  GamingOnLinux

Linux 7.0 remains pretty volatile, we could end up with a longer cycle again  Neowin

New Linux Rootkits Leverage eBPF and io_uring For Stealth  cyberpress.org

Linux Has Been Ported To The PS5 By Modder, Has GTA V Enhanced Running At 60 FPS With Ray-Tracing Enabled  PlayStation Universe

ClipXDaemon Malware Targets Crypto Users in Linux X11 Sessions  gbhackers.com

Stop using these 5 deprecated Linux commands (and what to use instead)  How-To Geek

Coding on Linux Without Losing Your Mind – Real Talk About Modern Dev  commandlinux.com

Richard Biener of SUSE published a new status report on the state of GCC 16 development. Regression fixing has been going slow but they are hoping to publish a release candidate by mid-April...

Windows 11 26H2, 27H2 could get this new AMD Zen 6 performance boost feature  Neowin

ClipXDaemon Linux Malware Hijacks Crypto Wallet Addresses  The Cyber Express