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Spiceworks Community Digest: Is it time to switch to Linux?  Spiceworks

Linux's Favorite Screenshot Tool Flameshot 13.0 Arrives After 3-Year Hiatus  It's FOSS News

Google is building a Linux terminal app for native Android development - here's why that's huge  ZDNET

5 Linux Distros That Got Major Updates Last Month  How-To Geek

What’s up with… Beeline & ZTE, Linux Foundation, Nokia  telecomtv.com

For several years now Intel has been working on SYCL support within LLVM and various related efforts like the LLVM SPIR-V back-end as part of their oneAPI ambitions and Data Parallel C++ across their spectrum of hardware. The latest hitting upstream LLVM is libsycl as a SYCL run-time library...

Oxmiq Labs exited stealth mode today as a new startup led by Raja Koduri of AMD / Apple / Intel fame to focus on GPU software and licenseable graphics IP. Oxmiq Labs is a new GPU software and IP startup that has been in development for two years already and built a team of talented GPU and AI architects...

Hunt: Showdown 1896 broken on Linux / SteamOS and Steam Deck due to Easy Anti-Cheat  GamingOnLinux

NVIDIA are working on a "general optimization" for VKD3D / DirectX12 games on Linux  GamingOnLinux

Linux Kernel 6.17 Boosts F2FS with ZNS SSD Zoned Storage Optimizations  WebProNews

PSA Stealer: New Linux Malware Steals Passwords and Crypto Data  WebProNews

openSUSE Leap 16.0 will need Steam gamers to install some extras due to no 32-bit  GamingOnLinux

Dangerous new Linux malware strikes - thousands of users see passwords, personal info stolen, here's what we know  TechRadar

Open RAN, AI-RAN boosted by Linux Foundation partnerships  SDxCentral

Linux is becoming even more popular on Steam, and it's not only because of the Steam Deck  PC Guide

For Linux gamers relying on the X.Org Server, the SDL3 library that is widely-used by cross-platform games has landed support for precision/pixel scrolling...

SDL Library Lands Precision Scrolling For X.Org Usage  Phoronix

FFmpeg developers are known for delivering some really wild performance gains from hand-optimized Assembly code especially around Intel/AMD AVX-512 optimizations for various features of this widely-used open-source multimedia library. Merged this week was enhancing the Bwdif deinterlacing video filter with a 23~28x speed-up over the basic C code path when using AVX-512...

Linus Torvalds yesterday merged a patch from SUSE's Petr Mladek introducing a new boot parameter option for the kernel to provide greater control over the behavior of hashing pointer values...

Linux 6.17 Introduces hash_pointers= Boot Parameter  Phoronix