Open-source News

Intel Releases LLM-Scaler 1.0 As Part Of Project Battlematrix  Phoronix

This Linux Workstation Laptop Has an RTX 5090 Inside  Yahoo! Tech

Kubuntu Focus launches Zr GEN 1 Linux laptop with Nvidia RTX 5090 option  BetaNews

Even prior to the Linux 6.17-rc1 release on Sunday I already had kicked off some Linux 6.17 Git benchmarking in being eager to see how the performance is beginning to shape up for this next kernel release that is set to power the likes of Ubuntu 25.10 and Fedora 43. There is some good news and bad news with my early testing on the ZBook Ultra G1a for AMD Strix Halo...

Early Linux 6.17 Tests Show Some AMD Strix Halo Performance Improvements & Regressions  Phoronix

The Linux Foundation's Alliance for OpenUSD "AOUSD" and the Academy Software Foundation "ASWF" announced today an updated Inclusive Language Guide...

Updated Inclusive Language Guide Calls Out "Sanity Check", "Hung", "Native Support"  Phoronix

How Debian 13's little improvements add up to the distro's surprisingly big leap forward  ZDNET

For over a year now Intel has been working on a new DRM sharpness property for making use of Lunar Lake's new adaptive sharpening filter capabilities built into its display engine. This new sharpening filter with Lunar Lake and future SoCs can hep with sharpening blurred or upscaled content and over the past year has gone through several rounds of code review. The latest patches were sent out last week for this DRM sharpness property...

Intel Posts Latest Patches For DRM Sharpness Property To Enjoy With Lunar Lake & Beyond  Phoronix

Ubuntu 25.10 May Ship with an “Unstable” Linux Kernel  OMG! Ubuntu

Linus Torvalds: "This is Garbage!" Criticizes the RISC-V Patch for Linux 6.17  Red Hot Cyber

Debian 13 'trixie' released with five years of support and new architecture options  BetaNews

Why some games on Linux, SteamOS / Steam Deck have broken videos and what you can do  GamingOnLinux

While there is already MoltenVK for Vulkan implemented over Apple's Metal graphics API, the graphics engineers at LunarG have announced KosmicKrisp as a Mesa-based driver implementing Vulkan over Metal...

Hackers Turn Linux Webcams into Keystroke Injection and Attack Platforms  Cyber Press

Hackers Weaponized Linux Webcams as Attack Tools to Inject Keystrokes and Launch Attacks  CyberSecurityNews

Legitimate System Functions Weaponized to Steal Secrets in Shared Linux Environments  Cyber Press

Recently we looked at the performance of the AMD EPYC 4545P that is a 16 core 65 Watt processor in the EPYC 4005 "Grado" series. This is quite an interesting processor for those after low-power servers, edge AI deployments, and other purposes with no similar Ryzen 9000 series processor or competition from Intel offering sixteen performance cores at around 65 Watts. Complementing all the performance and power data from that review article, here are some additional tests putting its performance and efficiency compared to the original AMD EPYC 7601 flagship processor that ushered in the EPYC family eight years ago.

Linux desktop frozen? My 5 go-to tricks to try - before forcing a hard reboot  ZDNET