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The CentOS Hyperscale special interest group that is focused on providing new packages and features atop CentOS Stream for use by hyperscalers like Meta and Twitter have now established a "hyperscale-intel" repository for Intel-optimized packages...

New Privacy-Focused Browser Aims to Protect Your Data Online  CNET

While for a number of years now System76 has manufactured their own Thelio desktop line of Linux PCs from their facility in Denver, Colorado (and their Launch Keyboard), they have long talked up ambitions for eventually manufacturing their own Linux laptops rather relying on other white-label manufacturers as they currently do. Today a first glimpse of their in-house laptop prototyping was shared,..

System76 Teases Their "Virgo" In-House Manufactured Laptop  Phoronix

Linux Mint team adds styles to Cinnamon desktop  Neowin

How to install Erlang on Amazon Linux 2 - AWS EC2?  H2S Media

How to encrypt a file on Linux (and when you should)  ZDNet

How to encrypt a file on Linux (and when you should)  ZDNet

As part of the process for getting Intel's new Xe DRM kernel driver upstreamed as the eventual replacement to the existing i915 driver for Gen12 graphics hardware and newer, Intel engineers on Monday posted the initial Xe DRM scheduler patches that have been separated out to get review on them, figure out what can be common/shared among drivers, and get those bits upstreamed...

System76 Pangolin Review: A 15-Inch Linux Laptop for the Masses  WIRED

NVIDIA has published updated NVIDIA TU10x /TU11x "Turing" GPU firmware to support newer RTX 20 hardware revisions and fix outstanding issues affecting the open-source Nouveau driver...

Updated NVIDIA Turing Firmware Published For Open-Source Nouveau Driver  Phoronix

WiFi Flaws Allow Network Traffic Interception on Linux, iOS, and ...  HackRead

Ubuntu 23.04 'Lunar Lobster' beta is here in all its glitchy glory  The Register

Heroic Games Launcher 2.7.0 is out now for Epic Games and GOG  GamingOnLinux

04 | April | 2023  Hackaday

As I pointed out at the end of March, AMD has begun bringing up a new CDNA GPU in their Linux kernel driver code, past the currently known Instinct MI300 "GFX940" series. This "GFX943" part is some new CDNA multi-XCC accelerator and the open-source AMD engineers have begun posting many patches for this new GPU target. The initial bits of that support will appear in the upcoming Linux 6.4 cycle...

Initial Support For AMD's Next-Gen, Multi-XCC CDNA Accelerator ...  Phoronix

Open-Source FaceID With RealSense  Hackaday

A currently-testing implementation of VK_EXT_fragment_shader_interlock has been published for Mesa's Radeon Vulkan "RADV" driver. This Vulkan fragment shader interlock support is used by some game emulators as well as being useful in running Direct3D 12 atop Vulkan and similar purposes...