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The Realtek RTL8159 has been appearing in some 10G-rated USB network adapters at online retailers, some for less than $100 USD. But currently the RTL8159 is only supported by Realtek's out-of-tree Linux kernel driver, but fortunately there will be mainline support coming with the Linux 7.2 kernel this summer...

Linux 7.2 To Support Realtek RTL8159 10GbE USB Ethernet  Phoronix

Merged today to Mesa 26.2-devel was a reorganization of the AMD RadeonSI Gallium3D driver code to better separate the graphics and multimedia acceleration code from the rest of the driver...

The Flattened Image Tree "FIT" 1.0 specification was recently finalized for this container format used by U-Boot on embedded systems for providing various boot components like DTBs, the Linux kernel image, and more into a single file...

Flattened Image Tree 1.0 Specification For Embedded Linux Systems  Phoronix

Here's How You Can Test HLSL and GPU Compilers on Linux Using the WSL 2 DirectX Bridge  HackerNoon

This is how a PS5 turns into a Steam Machine that plays PC games  Gamereactor UK

4 reasons a Fedora Atomic desktop is the first distro every Linux beginner should use  How-To Geek

Red Hat Delivers Post-Quantum Readiness and AI-Powered Automation with Latest Versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux  WebWire

New to Ubuntu? Start With These 15 Pro Tips Before You Do Anything Else  PCMag

Reservations open for credit card-sized Raspberry Pi computer described as a "pocket Linux lab" from $59  PC Guide

FOSS Weekly #26.19: Ubuntu Under Attack, Linux Exploitation Ongoing, Upgrading to 26.04, Linux on PS5 and More  It's FOSS

1. How Cloudflare responded to the “Copy Fail” Linux vulnerability  The Cloudflare Blog
2. ‘Copy Fail’ is a real Linux security crisis wrapped in AI slop  CyberScoop
3. Copy Fail: What You Need to Know About the Most Severe Linux Threat in Years  Unit 42
4. 'CopyFail' attackers start cashing in on Linux flaw  The Register
5. Exploitation of ‘Copy Fail’ Linux Vulnerability Begins  SecurityWeek
6. New Linux 'Copy Fail' Vulnerability Enables Root Access on Major Distributions  The Hacker News
7. Should You Be Worried About The Copy Fail Linux Exploit?  It's FOSS
8. Linux exploit instantly grants administrator access on most distributions since 2017 — cryptography optimization snafu grants root privileges to local users  Tom's Hardware
9. US government warns of severe CopyFail bug affecting major versions of Linux  TechCrunch

While there is the AMD Instinct MI400 series coming this year, today AMD announced an interesting and arguably overdue offering for the Instinct MI350 series: the MI350P. The AMD Instinct MI350P is a PCIe add-in-card to add Instinct MI350 compute capabilities to existing PCIe 5.0 air-cooled servers as an alternative to the Open Accelerator Module (OAM) currently used by the Instinct MI350 series.

Merged for the current Linux 7.1 cycle was beginning to phase out the Intel 486 processor support from the mainline kernel moving forward. That initial step with Linux 7.1 was dropping the various Kconfig options to allow compiling Linux kernel builds for targeting various i486 platforms. As part of that, the AMD Elan SoC configuration patches were dropped. The next step is proceeding on the AMD Elan side with beginning to remove the actual driver code...

Linux Drivers For The AMD Elan SoCs From The 1990s On Track For Retirement  Phoronix

Linux inherited Unix's superpower, and developers can't let it go  How-To Geek

KDE developer Xaver Hugl has whipped up another nice improvement for the upcoming Plasma 6.7 desktop release. Due to QtWidgets still relying on CPU-based rendering and finding the performance subpar with Wayland shared memory "wl_shm" usage, Xaver has leveraged UDMABUF for avoiding excess buffer copies to provide a much more fluid experience when dealing with CPU-based rendering / shared memory usage on KDE under Wayland...

When it comes to compiling C/C++ code to WebAssembly (WASM), LLVM/Clang and other LLVM-based tooling has dominated the space. Nearly a decade ago was a proposal for a GCC WebAssembly back-end that ultimately never ended up being merged while now there is a new proposal for a WebAssembly back-end for the GNU toolchain...

AMD recently upstreamed Linux support for their next-gen AIE4 NPU. That next-gen AMD NPU support is expected to premiere in Linux 7.2 while this week an interesting new patch series has surfaced for SR-IOV support with those upcoming neural processing units...