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In late 2023 I reviewed the HP Z6 G5 A workstation that at the time was built around the AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7000 series and NVIDIA RTX Ada Generation graphics. More recently, HP has revised the Z6 G5 A workstation for the latest Threadripper PRO 9000 series and NVIDIA RTX PRO Blackwell graphics. HP sent over the upgraded Z6 G5 A workstation that I've been benchmarking the past few weeks. This workstation remains Linux-friendly down to convenient LVFS/Fwupd support and delivers stellar performance with the Zen 5 Threadripper and NVIDIA Blackwell combination.

In Other News: Train Hacker Arrested, PamDOORa Linux Backdoor, New CISA Director Frontrunner  SecurityWeek

Dark and Darker gets a fix for Linux / Steam Deck being unable to play certain modes  GamingOnLinux

TUXEDO BM 15 Is an Upgradable Business Linux Laptop with Smartcard and 4G LTE  9to5Linux

A new NVIDIA Labs project is greatly improving the capabilities of using the Rust programming language for developing CUDA kernels for NVIDIA GPUs...

Dirty Frag: Unpatched Linux vulnerability delivers root access  Help Net Security

After Copy Fail, Linux Now Faces Dirty Frag Privilege Flaw  Linuxiac

PrismLinux 2026.05.05 sports a redesigned installer, the Linux kernel 7.0, more  Notebookcheck

'Dirty Frag' Linux flaw one-ups CopyFail with no patches and public root exploit  The Register

Dirty Frag Linux Kernel Flaw Allows Local Privilege Escalation, Patch Now  9to5Linux

Pam Backdoor Targets Linux Systems to Steal SSH Credentials  gbhackers.com

Queued for merging as part of the DeviceMapper changes for the upcoming Linux 7.2 kernel cycle is the new dm-inlinecrypt target for leveraging inline block device encryption...

DM-INLINECRYPT Expected For Linux 7.2 To Leverage Inline Encryption  Phoronix

The Qt Group released the Qt Creator 20 Beta today for this Qt/C++ focused integrated development environment (IDE). In building off the trends of recent releases of Qt Creator and development tools at large, AI integration continues to be a big area of focus...

Dirty Frag: A new Linux privilege escalation vulnerability is already in the wild  Security Affairs

Quasar Linux RAT Steals Developer Credentials for Software Supply Chain Compromise  The Hacker News

Linux vulnerability ‘Dirty Frag’ affects nearly all distributions  Techzine Global

Qualcomm becomes premier member in Linux Foundation-hosted open DU/CU project  Telecompaper

New Dirty Frag Exploit Puts Millions of Linux Systems at Risk  SQ Magazine

Last October engineers at Meta announced OpenZL as a format-aware compression framework. OpenZL aims to be speedy yet capable of delivering high compression ratios depending upon what is being compressed. OpenZL is viewed as their next leap in data compression beyond their wonderful work on Zstandard (Zstd). This week there's finally a new OpenZL software release available...