Open-source News

F2FS Preparing To Land Async Buffered Write Support  Phoronix

Romanian cybercrime gang Diicot builds DDoS botnet with Mirai variant  CSO Online

Steam Next Fest June 2023 is live now with lots of games  GamingOnLinux

How to Disable Automatic Updates in Ubuntu  MUO - MakeUseOf

GOG giving away classic RPG Eschalon: Book II - plus Yakuza ...  GamingOnLinux

Save your owner as a space-pup in shoot 'em up ProtoCorgi  GamingOnLinux

Dark Chess now has a Native Linux version available  GamingOnLinux

Red Hat engineers are working to deal with Indirect Branch Restricted Speculation (IBRS) being too costly for mitigating Spectre V2 and Retbleed on older Intel Xeon Scalable processors. A new patch has been floated to disable IBRS when idle and is working out well at least for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 while isn't clear yet if it will be accepted into the upstream kernel...

How to install FF in Ubuntu Linux?  H2S Media

SVT-AV1 1.6 is now available as the latest version for this leading CPU-based AV1 encoder that is now enjoying 30~40% faster performance with high quality presets...

System76’s Oryx Pro and Bonobo WS Linux Laptops Get “Raptor Lake” CPUs  9to5Linux

Nitrux Devs Make It Easier to Upgrade Your Immutable Nitrux OS Installations  9to5Linux

Researchers Discover New Sophisticated Toolkit Targeting Apple macOS Systems  The Hacker News

Intel engineers had sent in Shadow Stack support for Linux 6.4 as this feature part of Control-flow Enforcement Technology (CET) but it hit a last-minute snag during the merge window with issues raised by Linus Torvalds. Now it looks like the cleaned-up Shadow Stack code will be re-submitted for the upcoming Linux 6.5 cycle...

Revised Intel Shadow Stack Support May Be Ready For Linux 6.5  Phoronix

OBS Studio 29.1.3 Improves the Source Record Plugin, AMF Encoder, and More  9to5Linux

Kali Linux review: A swiss army knife for cyber security pros  ITPro

Stemming from looking at the generated x264 video encode binary and some performance inefficiencies, SUSE engineers have worked out AVX-512 fully masked vectorization support for the GCC 14 development code...

While the Linux 6.5 merge window isn't opening for another week, Rust for Linux lead developer Miguel Ojeda has already submitted the pull request of the new Rust kernel code destined for this next kernel cycle...

Linux 6.5 Upgrading The Rust Toolchain, New Modules Added  Phoronix