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Critical Linux Kernel Flaw 'ssh-keysign-pwn' Exposes SSH Keys and Shadow Passwords  CyberSecurityNews

It seems that Valve isn't done expanding their open-source Linux graphics driver team and securing top talent for enhancing the Linux GPU drivers for a better gaming experience. One of the foremost leading Mesa developers has left AMD to join Valve...

Longtime Leading AMD Linux GPU Driver Developer Now Working For Valve  Phoronix

These 6 Linux pipelines are unnecessary, complex, and inefficient; here's how to fix them  How-To Geek

Ahead of the Linux 7.1-rc4 kernel test release due out on Sunday, a new round of x86 platform driver fixes were submitted for the week...

Linux 7.1-rc4 Seeing The Latest Laptop Quirks  Phoronix

This week marked the release of the KDE Plasma 6.7 beta and even so there were some last-minute features being squeezed into this popular Linux desktop option. Plasma's built-in remote desktop server enhancements and improved Plasma notification effects are among the changes topping out this week...

A few days ago the widely-used SDL library added support for the new Steam Controller without depending upon the Steam client. Now another improvement for the new Steam Controller has been merged to this widely-used library for cross-platform games/apps with software/hardware abstractions...

ANBERNIC Brings Linux To The RG DS  Retro Dodo

Linux “ssh-keysign-pwn” Flaw Exposing Critical Authentication Files  gbhackers.com

Shelly 2.3 GUI Package Manager for Arch Linux Brings Performance Improvements  9to5Linux

Discord Gets Massively Improved Linux Support and Official Fedora and Arch Packages  TechPowerUp

ROCm 7.13 was released today as the newest ROCm Core SDK Preview in working toward what will presumably be called ROCm 8.0 later in the year...

Wine 11.9 is out today as the newest bi-weekly development release and nearing the half-way point of the development cycle toward Wine 12.0...

Why Block handed Goose to the Linux Foundation  The New Stack

6 Linux distros that were huge once, but barely matter now  MakeUseOf

Anbernic RG DS gets a brand new Linux OS, and you don't need to uninstall Android  Notebookcheck

The 4th Linux kernel flaw this month can lead to stolen SSH host keys  ZDNET

Merged today for the Linux 7.1 kernel is some new documentation surrounding what qualifies as a security bug as well as around responsible use of AI for finding kernel bugs...

I turned on zram and my 8GB Linux laptop stopped choking on browser tabs  MakeUseOf