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Rocky Linux 9.8 released with improved Image Builder  Neowin

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Back in March was an initial patch series out of Intel for Linux support for Directed Package Thermal Interrupts as a new feature of recent Intel CPUs. There wasn't much to report over the past three months on this work but today a second iteration of the patches emerged on the Linux kernel mailing list...

Intel Sends Out Revised Linux Patches For Directed Package Thermal Interrupts  Phoronix

Sent out today was the last drm-misc-next pull request ahead of the Linux 7.2 merge window getting underway in June. As part of this last batch of small Direct Rendering Manager graphics/accelerator driver changes is finally enabling the NVIDIA GA100 within the Nouveau driver...

Linux 7.2's Open-Source Nouveau Driver To Finally Support The NVIDIA GA100  Phoronix

CIFSwitch Vulnerability Exposes Some Linux Distros to Local Root Access  Linuxiac

Linux Supply Chain How-To – PSW #928  SC Media

IBM, Red Hat launch $5B Project Lightwell to boost open-source security  SiliconANGLE

These 5 Linux distros were popular until their developers disappeared  MakeUseOf

Rocky Linux 9.8 Is Now Available for Download  Linuxiac

Linux Foundation Releases OpenMDW-1.1; NVIDIA Adopts OpenMDW for Cosmos, Isaac GR00T, Ising and Nemotron, AI Model Families  PR Newswire

New Linux CIFSwitch Kernel Vulnerability Allows Attackers to Gain Root Access  CyberSecurityNews

Best mid-range tablet runs simultaneously with Android and Linux in review  Notebookcheck

New Linux CIFSwitch Kernel Vulnerability Allows Attackers to Gain Root Access  CyberSecurityNews

In recent weeks we have been exploring different areas of the Intel Arc Pro B70 graphics performance on Linux from various OpenCL and Vulkan to Level Zero compute benchmarks, scaling up to four Arc Pro B70 graphics cards, comparing to NVIDIA RTX PRO Blackwell, and other relevant tests. While not intended for gaming, many Phoronix readers keep raising requests for seeing the Arc Pro B70 performance for Linux gaming given the lack of any consumer BMG-G31 GPU. So for those curious, here is a look at the Linux gaming performance with the Arc Pro B70 graphics card.

Intel Arc Pro B70 BMG-G31 Linux Gaming Performance  Phoronix

MontaVista Expands MVShield to Support Ubuntu LTS Platforms Beyond Standard Maintenance  The National Law Review

Arm Announces Metis: Agentic AI Security Framework  Phoronix

Arm today announced the open-sourcing of Metis, an agentic AI security framework that delivers context AI-powered security analysis in looking out for software vulnerabilities...