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AI-Assisted Bug Hunt Uncovers Linux Kernel 0-Day in net/sched  Infosecurity Magazine

Dusk Audio Sunset Circuits: six synthesizers in one free plugin (mac, linux, win)  synth anatomy

GOG confirms it is working on getting GOG Galaxy running on Linux  PC Gamer

A recent mini PC being benchmarked at Phoronix is the BOSGAME VTA-439 that employs the new AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 470 Gorgon Point SoC. With the BOSGAME mini PC having shipped with Microsoft Windows 11, here are some comparison benchmarks of the out-of-the-box Windows 11 performance up against Ubuntu 26.04 LTS and Fedora Workstation 44 while also tossing the rolling-release, highly-optimized Arch Linux based CachyOS into the benchmarking mix.

2 Star Ocean games go DRM-free on GOG as the storefront promises it's working on embracing the Linux faithful  PC Gamer

CachyOS Outperforming Windows 11, Ubuntu & Fedora On AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 470  Phoronix

I broke my PC and learned why Linux's boring features are actually genius  How-To Geek

GOG confirm they are working towards GOG Galaxy on Linux  GamingOnLinux

Nvidia unites with Microsoft, Linux, and many more in Open Secure AI Alliance after OpenAI bot goes rogue with cyberattack  PC Guide

A set of patches posted today to the Linux kernel mailing list implement per-core Energy Performance Preference (EPP) boosting for recently-busy CPUs. This feature is designed to have a dramatic impact for Linux gaming and helping especially with the 1% low frame-rates improving by 31.8% on the Valve Steam Deck...

Proton Experimental brings fixes for Far Cry New Dawn, Binding of Isaac: Rebirth, controller hotplugging and more  GamingOnLinux

Since 2014 there has been a KDE bug report titled Ridiculously slow file copy (multiple small files). With the Dolphin file manager or other KIO-based KDE programs, copying many small files can be much slower than using the cp command directly or other copying programs like rsync, Finally that issue is in the process of being resolved for addressing very slow copy times when dealing with many small files on the KDE Plasma desktop...

In addition to the deprecation and stripping down of AF_ALG, another piece of the Linux kernel crypto code steaming ahead toward removal is the crypto_rng abstraction layer...

Mission Center is a slick app to monitor CPU, Memory, Disk, Network, GPU and more on Linux  GamingOnLinux

ASUS laptops support a feature called "Whisper Mode" that intentionally slows down the fan speed and lowers the CPU clock speed in order to keep the device running cool and quiet. The open-source ASUS Armoury Linux kernel driver is now seeing patches to properly support this Whisper Mode on Linux...

ASUS Laptop Whisper Mode Support Being Worked On For Linux  Phoronix

Microsoft Defender Update Might Disable Linux Protection  WinBuzzer

Researcher Says AI Helped Develop Linux Traffic-Control Race Into Root Exploit  The Hacker News

Update may disable Microsoft Defender on Linux after a restart  Techzine Global

Firmware Updater Improves Linux Device Security  Open Source For You