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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

WARNING: Microsoft Defender Update Could Disable Protection On Linux Servers After Reboot  LinkedIn

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

The post NetBird: Securely Connect Linux Machines with a WireGuard Mesh VPN first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

NetBird creates an encrypted WireGuard network between your devices without requiring a traditional VPN server or manual key exchange. In

The post NetBird: Securely Connect Linux Machines with a WireGuard Mesh VPN first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

OpenUK Wants Britain to Stop Giving Away Open Source Creations  It's FOSS

RefluXFS: A Linux Kernel Local Privilege Escalation to Root in XFS (CVE-2026-64600)  iTWire

Linux Foundation, Nineteen Companies Launch Akrites to Coordinate Open Source Vulnerability Fixes  ADTmag

Mission Center (Linux system monitor) adds battery stats + more  OMG! Ubuntu

Mission Center update adds battery, partition and power draw stats  OMG! Ubuntu

Looking to be added to the Linux kernel source tree for the upcoming Linux 7.3 cycle is test_amd_pmf, a small testing application for exercising the AMD Platform Management Framework (PMF) interfaces and dumping various system data points...