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BlackCat ransomware uses new ‘Munchkin’ Linux VM in stealthy attacks  BleepingComputer

AMD Completes Nod.ai Acquisition To Enhance Open-Source AI ...  Phoronix

It was just over one week ago that AMD announced plans to acquire Nod.ai to enhance their open-source AI software capabilities. Today already they announced that acquisition has completed...

Sent out today were a new batch of drm-misc-next changes intended for Linux 6.7. There's various fixes to the smaller Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) drivers, DRM VM_BIND async documentation, and other small changes. Plus the DRM_GPUVM code has been re-licensed from being GPLv2-only to now GPLv2 or MIT...

Linux's DRM GPUVM Code Relicensed From GPLv2-Only To GPLv2 ...  Phoronix

AMD today published a new CPU microcode revision for Family 19h processors, which include Zen 3 / Zen 3+ / Zen 4 processors. As is sadly standard, no change-log is provided...

AMD Family 19h CPU Microcode Updated (2023-10-19 Rev)  Phoronix

How to Change the Ubuntu Lock Screen Background  MUO - MakeUseOf

Ardour 8.1 Open-Source DAW Improves Launchpad Pro Support, Fixes Bugs  9to5Linux

The Linux Foundation Announces General Availability of Delta Lake ...  Datanami

Open Source Development Threatened in Europe  The New Stack

Grab more Steam Deck games with Fanatical's Premium Play on the ...  GamingOnLinux

Intel Meteor Lake Graphics Declared Stable With Linux 6.7  Phoronix

With the pending changes set to be merged for the upcoming Linux 6.7 kernel, all known issues/limitations around the i915 kernel driver support for upcoming integrated graphics with Intel Meteor Lake laptop processors...

During XDC 2023 this week in Spain, Faith Ekstrand with Collabora provided a status update on the NVK Vulkan driver that continues to be developed inside Mesa for providing open-source NVIDIA Vulkan driver support...

ONLYOFFICE 7.5 Released with New PDF Editor + More  OMG! Ubuntu!

In addition to AMD announcing the Ryzen Threadripper 7000 series / Threadripper PRO 7000 WX-Series, AMD also used today for announcing the Radeon RX 7900M for what they are calling their fastest Radeon laptop graphics ever developer...

"Så enkelt installerer du Linux"  ITavisen

AMD today announced the Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7000 WX Series as the company's long-awaited Threadripper update that brings up to 96 Zen 4 cores, RDIMM memory is now required for Threadripper platforms moving forward, and catering to both HEDT enthusiasts and professionals. Here is an initial overview of the new AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7000 series while the benchmark/review embargo isn't being lifted until a later date.

AdaptiveCpp 23.10 has been released for this open-source project formerly known as hipSYCL and OpenSYCL for aiming to provide an open-source project around SYCL and C++ standard parallelism that can target all major CPU and GPU platforms...