Open-source News

CrossC2 Enables Cobalt Strike to Go Multi-Platform – Linux and macOS Now in the Crosshairs  Cyber Press

Intel Job Cuts Feared To Deliver A Critical Blow To Future Linux Projects  HotHardware

Intel Layoffs Orphan Linux Drivers, Threaten Kernel Stability  WebProNews

Hackers Found Using CrossC2 to Expand Cobalt Strike Beacon's Reach to Linux and macOS  The Hacker News

AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 9995WX Performance With TRX50 + Quad Channel DDR5 Review  Phoronix

The newly-launched AMD Ryzen Threadripper 9000 series headlined by the 64-core Threadripper 9980X and 32-core Threadripper 9970X offer incredible performance and a wonderful addition to the Zen 5 family for the HEDT space. But there is also the Threadripper PRO 9000 series with the flagship Threadripper PRO 9995WX sporting 96 cores. In this article is a look at how that 96-core AMD Threadripper PRO 9995WX performs using a TRX50 platform with quad channel DDR5-6400 memory.

One of the latest departures from Intel amid their ongoing restructuring is the official maintainer of the "habanalabs" accelerator Linux kernel driver that provides support for their range of Gaudi AI accelerator products...

Intel's Habana Labs / Gaudi Accelerator Driver Maintainer Is Leaving The Company  Phoronix

FireWood Malware Targets Linux Systems for Command Execution and Data Theft  GBHackers News

Intel's Linux Exodus: CPU Temperature Monitoring and Critical Drivers Orphaned  It's FOSS News

Security Researchers Find XZ Utils Backdoored Debian Images on Docker Hub  It's FOSS News

I converted this Windows 11 mini PC into a Linux work station - and didn't regret it  ZDNET

KDE Gear 25.08 is out this morning as the newest feature release to this collection of KDE applications...

Epic Games adds Easy Anti-Cheat for ARM devices — Feature unlocks support for Windows, Linux, and Switch 2  Tom's Hardware

Sent out today was the first DRM-Misc-Next pull request to DRM-Next for queuing ahead of the Linux 6.18 merge window opening around early October. There are a number of smaller DRM graphics driver improvements ready as well as continued work around the accelerator "accel" drivers for the increasing number of NPUs in devices...

AMDXDNA Improvements & New Rockchip NPU Accelerator Driver For Linux 6.18  Phoronix

Next year's LibreOffice 26.2 open-source office suite is set to better handle documents with restricted embedded fonts. This is for dealing with situations where fonts may have restricted licensing rights and where up to now LibreOffice Writer simply hasn't dealt with them correctly...

Tbe BeOS-inspired Haiku operating system has continued in advancing this open-source platform with more fixes and other enhancements. The project published its July recap to outline the interesting changes made...

You Can't Buy This Linux Phone Anymore  MSN

A change queued in drm-misc-next for DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 6.18 kernel cycle later this year is promoting the Nouveau driver for open-source NVIDIA GPU support to be using the GSP firmware by default. This reflects the reality that using the NVIDIA GPU System Processor "GSP" firmware with Turing and Ampere GPUs should provide a better experience than the older firmware alternative with Nouveau...