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Your Old Potato PC Might Game Better With This Linux Kernel Patch  It's FOSS

Fragnesia Linux Vulnerability Let Attackers Gain Root Privileges – PoC Released  CyberSecurityNews

I asked Claude to customize my Linux desktop, and it cooked harder than expected  MakeUseOf

Discord declares it’s the “YEAR OF THE LINUX DESKTOP.”  The Verge

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

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  PR Newswire

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