Open-source News

The Linux Foundation along with others like Amazon, Anthropic, OpenAI, NVIDIA, Microsoft, Red Hat, and others have joined forces to launch Akrites. The Akrites project is aiming to help defend critical open-source software from the brisk pace of new AI/LLM-discovered software bugs and vulnerabilities in ensuring that said issues are effectively addressed before they can be exploited by bad actors...

Philip Rebohle announced the release today of DXVK 3.0 as the latest major feature release for this Direct3D 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 implementation atop the Vulkan API for use by Wine and Valve's Steam Play (Proton)...

DXVK 3.0 Released With DXBC-SPIRV For Shader Compilation, Descriptor Heaps By Default  Phoronix

Linux Foundation launches Akrites to fix open source flaws  SecurityBrief New Zealand

DXVK 3.0 Released with Shader Compilation and D3D9 Improvements  9to5Linux

Purism’s Librem 16 Brings Linux Privacy Hardware at a Premium Price  Linuxiac

Linux Foundation and Industry Leaders Launch Akrites to Defend Critical Open Source Software Against AI-Enabled Cyber Threats  PR Newswire

Flipper One Takes Hardware Hacking Into Uncharted Waters  TechNewsWorld

The Academy Software Foundation that advances open-source efforts for the VFX/cinema industry and more with the likes of OpenVDB, OpenMoonRay, Open Shading Language, and other projects, has announced the formation of a new working group to help with Wayland adoption for artists...

Academy Software Foundation Announces The "Wayland For Artists Working Group"  Phoronix

Purism Announces Librem 16 as World’s Most Private and Secure Linux Laptop  9to5Linux

This entire operating system fits in 12 MB, and yes, it boots faster than Windows  MakeUseOf

Windows Secure Boot Certificate Expired — Billions of PCs Affected Including Linux Distros  CyberSecurityNews

A workaround for AMD's limitations to run FSR 4.1.1 on Linux has been published.  GameGPU

Updated Raspberry Pi OS With Linux 6.18 LTS Delivers Some Performance Benefits  Phoronix

Last week marked the release of an updated Raspberry Pi OS that moved to Linux 6.18 LTS from its former Linux 6.12 kernel base along with making a number of other package updates. Given the jump to the newer Long Term Support kernel and other improvements, I ran some fresh benchmarks on the Raspberry Pi 5 (Raspberry Pi 500+) to see the performance difference out of the updated operating system.

Cache-aware scheduling - The Linux patch aiming for +360% performance on MySQL  Korben

Linux Foundation unveils DNS-based identity standard for AI agents  Biometric Update

Red Hat Enterprise Linux runner images are now in public preview  The GitHub Blog

Servo 0.3 released today as the latest version of this modern browser engine developed in Rust. With Servo 0.3 the demo servoshell browser is becoming more useful and supporting additional modern web features while Servo also continues to possess much potential moving forward on the embedded front as an alternative to the likes of the Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF)...