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Only The Agile And Adaptable Survive  The Next Platform

Intel Software Defined Silicon Linux Driver Sees Latest "Intel On Demand" Updates  Phoronix

Going back to late last year Intel began working on a new Linux driver for "Software Defined Silicon" as a means of activating licensed hardware features akin to what they tried a decade ago with the "Intel Upgrade Service" for unlocking extra CPU features. The SDSi driver was merged in Linux 5.18 while this afternoon they sent out a rather sizable update to this controversial driver / hardware feature...

It's been 3+ years that the Mesa Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" has been working on NGG Stream-Out support for making use of the Next-Gen Geometry engine that is in workable shape for some RDNA GPUs. Finally with Mesa 22.3 releasing this quarter, a new environment variable option is allowing the NGG Streamout / Transform Feedback functionality to be flipped on with the RADV driver...

Linux Lite 6.2 Released, Based on Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS  OMG! Ubuntu!

OpenSSL 3 patch, once Heartbleed-level “critical,” arrives as a lesser “high”  Ars Technica

Indirect Branch Tracking (IBT) is still being eyed for enabling as part of the default Linux x86_64 kernel configurations to provide better out-of-the-box security on supported processors. A patch sent out today continues the upstream discussion over flipping on this feature by default that is part of Intel's Control-flow Enforcement Technology (CET) for helping to defend against jump/call oriented programming attacks...

Linux Still Eyes Better Security By Default Enabling Indirect Branch Tracking (IBT)  Phoronix

Dwarf Fortress releases December 6 on Steam and itch.io, Native Linux support later  GamingOnLinux

Dwarf Fortress releases December 6 on Steam and itch.io, Native Linux support later  GamingOnLinux

Dwarf Fortress releases December 6 on Steam and itch.io, Native Linux support later  GamingOnLinux

Linux Fu: Easy VMs  Hackaday

Using Sysmon for Linux to Monitor Against MITRE ATT&CK Techniques  Security Boulevard

Two high severity security vulnerabilities affecting OpenSSL were made public today, which were the issues that led to Fedora 37 being delayed to mid-November to allow the release images have mitigated OpenSSL packages...

OpenSSL Outlines Two High Severity Vulnerabilities  Phoronix

ONE Summit Adds New Industry Luminaries to Keynote Line-up, New Mini-Summits & Global Virtual participation  PR Newswire

How to Force Linux Users to Change Password at Next Login  MUO - MakeUseOf

First Arch Linux ISO Release Powered by Linux Kernel 6.0 Is Now Available for Download  9to5Linux

Developer tries to get Linux running at boot on Microsoft Dev Kit 2023, but largely fails  OnMSFT.com

The Impact of Linux and the GNU Project  hackernoon.com