Open-source News

With Q1'2024 in the books, here is a look back at the most popular Linux/open-source content on Phoronix for the past quarter. During Q1 were 754 original news articles written by your's truly along with another 43 Linux hardware reviews / multi-page benchmark articles. Here's what attracted the most interest from those nearly 800 articles for the past three months...

DinodasRAT Linux Malware Attack on Linux Servers to Gain Backdoor Access  GBHackers

Linux XZ Utils Supply Chain Attack—What You Should Know  WebProNews

It was discovered that a malicious backdoor was installed in the built-in compression tool 'XZ Utils' of Linux distributions ...  GIGAZINE（ギガジン）

Latest Arch Linux ISO Release Brings Linux Kernel 6.8, Updated Installer  9to5Linux

Linus Torvalds just released Linux 6.9-rc2 as the newest test release of Linux 6.9 that will be out as stable in mid-May...

Linux 6.9-rc2 Released As An Easter Test Kernel  Phoronix

Huge backdoor discovered that could compromise SSH logins on Linux  TechRadar

Security Alert: Backdoor Found in XZ Libraries for Linux Systems  Medium

An “urgent” Linux backdoor was discovered entirely by accident this week.  The Verge

Malware Spotlight: Linodas aka DinodasRAT for Linux  Check Point Research

XZ Utils backdoor update: Which Linux distros are affected and what can you do?  Help Net Security

Urgent High Severity Security Backdoor Found In Popular Linux Utility  Hot Hardware

Linux xz Backdoor Damage Could Be Greater Than Feared  The New Stack

DinodasRAT Linux variant targets users worldwide  Security Affairs

DinodasRAT malware targets Linux servers in espionage campaign  BleepingComputer

Linux could have been brought down by backdoor found in widely used utility  TechSpot

A new release of Llamafile is available this Easter Sunday from the Mozilla Ocho group. Llamafile is a means of distributing and running large language models (LLMs) from a single file, making LLMs much easier to distribute and use by developers and end-users. Llamafile remains one of the more interesting non-browser projects out of Mozilla in recent times that so far has a bright future...

Along with AMD's upcoming hardware enablement and other Q1 code contributions, Intel's open-source engineers remained very busy this quarter as well. Intel continues upstreaming a lot of new code not only for upcoming hardware but also a lot of exciting Linux kernel features in general, various optimizations and improvements to countless open-source user-space software projects, and their other great open-source efforts in general...

Intel Continued Upstreaming A Lot Of Great Linux/Open-Source Code This Quarter  Phoronix