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GCC 16 Produces Faster Binaries Than GCC 15, Competitive Race With LLVM Clang 22  Phoronix

GCC 16.1 released at the end of April as the latest major, annual feature release to the GNU Compiler Collection. Early benchmarks showed some nice leads for GCC 16 over GCC 15. Continued testing of the new GCC 16 compiler has continued to show overall better performance of the resulting binaries than using GCC 15 on the same hardware and same compiler flags. That led many to wonder about the GCC 16 performance up against the latest LLVM/Clang open-source compiler, which is the focus of today's benchmarking showdown.

Red Hat Desktop vs. Fedora Hummingbird: Which AI development Linux path is right for you?  ZDNET

Platform9 Removes One of the Biggest Barriers to Replacing VMware: Linux Administration  Yahoo Finance Singapore

Proton 11.0-1 Beta 3 brings FEX upgrades for Linux ARM64 (like the Steam Frame)  GamingOnLinux

1. Fragnesia: Linux Kernel Local Privilege Escalation via ESP-in-TCP  wiz.io
2. 'Dirty Frag' Exploit Poised to Blow Up on Enterprise Linux Distros  Dark Reading
3. Fragnesia Made Public As Latest Linux Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability  Phoronix

Dirty Frag Linux Vulnerability Raises New Root Access Risks  LinuxInsider

Linux gains more critical Windows apps ... 3D Movie Maker and Space Cadet Pinball  The Register

Intel on Tuesday released a new version of their open-source Compute Runtime for OpenCL and Level Zero support across their integrated and discrete graphics hardware...

Intel Compute Runtime 26.18.38308.1 Brings More Xe3P Enableement, Nova Lake P Support  Phoronix

KDE gets over €1 million investment to strengthen security and core infrastructure  Help Net Security

VTech Toy Becomes PinkPad, The DIY Linux Laptop  Hackaday

Discord, the popular instant messaging and VoIP communication platform, announced some significant improvements being made to their Linux client...

Discord Taunts "Year Of The Linux Desktop" With Linux Client Improvements  Phoronix

In addition to FreeBSD 15.1 releasing in the coming weeks, NetBSD 11.0 is also just around the corner as another prominent and major BSD update. NetBSD 11.0-RC4 is now available for last minute testing with this hoping to be the final release candidate...

Red Hat doubles down on data sovereignty with new features for OpenShift, Enterprise Linux, and more  IT Pro

KDE Receives Over €1M from Sovereign Tech Fund for Software Development  9to5Linux

KDE today announced a significant investment into the project by Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund. KDE will be receiving €1,285,200 EUR (or roughly 1.5 million USD) over the years 2026 and 2027 to make some significant improvements into their software stack...

A new core infrastructure improvement for the Linux kernel on ARM being worked on is enabling 128-bit page table entries (PTEs) with FEAT_D128 as a new optional feature of Armv9.3 and later...

Arm Preparing The Linux Kernel For 128-bit Page Table Entries "FEAT_D128"  Phoronix