Open-source News

LLVM's BOLT is an amazing tool for optimizing the layout of binaries and in turn can lead to some mighty useful performance improvements. But now an Arm compiler engineer has taken to leveraging BOLT for creating a binary analysis tool to vet the correctness of security hardening options...

Queued up recently into the crypto subsystem's development branch ahead of the Linux 6.10 merge window is support for VFIO live migration with Intel's QuickAssist Technology (QAT) driver...

Intel QAT Driver Preps Live Migration Support For Linux 6.10  Phoronix

Battlefield V now broken on Steam Deck / Linux with EA anticheat live  GamingOnLinux

FOSS Weekly #24.14: Homelab Special Edition (and Discussing XZ Backdoor in Linux)  It's FOSS

An anonymous coder nearly hacked a big chunk of the internet. How worried should we be?  The Conversation Indonesia

Microsoft Employee Discovers Critical Flaw in Linux Utility, Prevents Widespread Global Impact  gizmochina

Catch Of The Week: Backdoor Nearly Hits Linux  Los Alamos Daily Post

Just two days after a Linux 6.9 pull request was submitted for Bcachefs to better cope with "extreme file-system damage", another pull request for this current cycle was submitted that aims to improve the recovery capabilities of this newer copy-on-write open-source file-system...

Bcachefs Repair Code Reaching Complete & Robust Recovery  Phoronix

Tools for Linux Distro Hoppers: A Beginner-Friendly Guide  hackernoon.com

Here's How Millions of Linux Computers Almost Got Hacked  The Intercept

A Newly Exposed Linux Utility Backdoor Leaves Nearly Every Distro Vulnerable, Here's What to Do  MUO - MakeUseOf

Proton Mail is making a serious case to be my next Linux email client  ZDNet

Did One Guy Just Stop a Huge Cyberattack?  The New York Times

The Google Open-Source Blog today announced Jpegli, a JPEG coding library for encode/decode that maintains backwards compatibility with JPEG while offering around a 35% compression ratio improvement for high quality JPEG compression...

Outrageous: Microsoft to charge $61 for Windows 10 updates — consider switching to Linux!  BetaNews

The Netherlands-based PC vendor NovaCustom that specializes in privacy/security minded hardware and user freedoms has announced their V54 and V56 laptops. These new laptops powered by Intel Core Ultra "Meteor Lake" SoCs are self-proclaimed as the fastest Coreboot laptops in the world...

"We got lucky": What the XZ Utils backdoor says about the strength and insecurities of open source  ITPro

Last year the X.Org Server disabled byte-swapped clients by default over being a large and known attack surface within the X.Org/XWayland codebase. That's proven itself to further be the case with 3 of 4 new CVEs made public today being around the byte-swapped code...