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Royal ransomware spreads to Linux and VMware ESXi  TechRepublic

NVIDIA just published to GitHub the DLSS Super Resolution SDK v3.1, their first software development kit update made public since last May when DLSS v2.4 was the latest and greatest...

NVIDIA Publishes DLSS Super Resolution SDK 3.1, Including Updated Linux Demo  Phoronix

Systemd 253 is gearing up for release while out today is the third and possibly final release candidate...

Linux System & Network Engineer (NL, remote)  IamExpat in the Netherlands

How to Install Rust on Ubuntu (the Easy Way)  MUO - MakeUseOf

Like a Dragon: Ishin! gets Steam Deck Verified ahead of release  GamingOnLinux

Elementary OS 7 is here and looking good  The Register

Don't bore us, get to the Horus: Elementary OS 7 is here and looking good  The Register

Scan UK to offer SSD upgrades compatible with Steam Deck  GamingOnLinux

An Intel engineer has implemented compute-based transcoding support to the DXT5 texture format as part of S3TC texture compression. This new path yields a 56% decrease in upload time for a texture upload micro-benchmark when tested on an Intel Ice Lake system with the Iris Gallium3D driver...

Steam Desktop and Steam Deck Beta reduces startup time, fixes ...  GamingOnLinux

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly in Cybersecurity - Week 6  SentinelOne

This week Intel released Embree 4.0 as the newest version of their open-source, high performance ray-tracing library. While the headline feature is now having support for GPU acceleration with SYCL to take advantage of Arc Graphics and other GPU hardware with SYCL support, for those that have long been using Embree on CPUs its performance has also improved. Here are some initial CPU-based benchmarks I did this week on Embree 4.0 with Intel's new 4th Gen Xeon Scalable "Sapphire Rapids" processors.

NetworkManager 1.42 Released with Source Load Balancing for Ethernet Bonds  9to5Linux

Apple introduced the Touch Bar to their MacBook Pro laptops a half-decade ago as a dynamic touchscreen to replace the function keys on the keyboard. While some MacBook Pro models have already dropped the Touch Bar for not catching on, some community developers in the open-source Linux community continue work on enabling the functionality for the upstream Linux kernel...

Another Attempt Made To Upstream An Apple Touch Bar Linux Driver  Phoronix

Global and China Automotive Operating System (OS) Industry Report 2022-2023: Foreign Providers Refine and Burnish Functions; Chinese Providers Expand Software and Hardware Cooperation  Yahoo Finance

After being in development for nearly one year , Zstd 1.5.4 has been released with many "significant performance improvements across multiple scenarios" for this increasingly-used data compression algorithm...

Red Hat engineers have been working on a new web-based user-interface for Fedora's installer for more than on year now and it's been worked into good shape while still not at feature parity to the Anaconda installer with its GTK interface. Martin Kolman presented at FOSDEM last weekend on Fedora's new installer UI to offer insight into their motives for making it web-based and what work remains...