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Last month a new GCC back-end was proposed for WebAssembly to allow C/C++ code to be compiled to WASM with this GNU compiler toolchain. The GCC Steering Committee has evaluated it and approves the notion of WebAssembly back-end for GCC...

After days of dealing with 1,500+ packages in the Arch Linux AUR containing malware, the latest headache in the Arch Linux User Repository is Russian spam and offensive messages...

Russian Spam & Profanities Are Now Plaguing The Arch Linux AUR  Phoronix

RefreshOS is a top contender for new Linux users - here's why  ZDNET

Arch Linux Blocks New AUR Registrations Amid Malware Cleanup  Linuxiac

Chilled off-road exploration sim 'over the hill' has a demo worth exploring  GamingOnLinux

Epic Is Looking For Someone To "Champion Linux Anti-Cheat Capabilities"  Steam Deck HQ

Red Hat gives Ubuntu a bootc up the backside at Canonical shindig  The Register

Ubuntu won't save your old PC, but these 4 lightweight Linux distros will  How-To Geek

Container made it easy to run Linux on my MacBook - here's how I set it up  ZDNET

The Firefox 152.0 release binaries are now available ahead of tomorrow's official unveiling. With Firefox 152 there is now the JPEG-XL support code being compiled by default for the release albeit still disabled at run-time by default behind a preference for now...

Flipper One is a Pocket-sized Linux Cyberdeck  It's FOSS

Playground Note: Linux on the Adafruit Fruit Jam  Adafruit

Reading /proc/filesystems for obtaining a list of file-systems supported by the running kernel is done frequently on Linux. Namely due to being read by the SELinux library (libselinux), reading of /proc/filesystems is done more often than one would typically expect and now the Linux 7.2 kernel is optimizing for it to yield much better performance...

Reading /proc/filesystems Is Surprisingly Done Very Often & Now As Much As 444% Faster  Phoronix

Mozilla Firefox 152 Is Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New  9to5Linux

Linux 7.1 is out — Steam Deck audio fixed, Intel 486 support dropped  Dignited

7 ways AI can help with your Linux system management  ZDNET

Arch Linux locks down AUR signups amid wave of malicious commits  The Register

Windows Subsystem for Linux 3 gives developers a compelling reason to stick with Microsoft - here's why  ZDNET