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Running Android and Linux Applications on an Intel Laptop  Virtualization Review

Google engineers today introduced KFuzzTest as a new lightweight framework for in-kernel fuzz targets for internal kernel functions. KFuzzTest aims to make it easier to exercise Linux kernel code paths that are difficult to do from the system call boundary...

A new version of the Intel Implicit SPMD Program Compiler "ISPC" was just published for supporting that C programming language variant optimized for single program. multiple data (SPMD) programming that is optimized for Intel's various hardware offerings. While catering to Intel hardware, ISPC 1.28 notably adds new AMD Zen 4 and Zen 5 processor targets...

I use one simple tool to update my Linux OS and all of its software in minutes — Topgrade auto-detects and updates all of of my system via one command  Tom's Hardware

I customized my Linux desktop in minutes with this free app - here's how  ZDNET

How I used Conky to make my Linux desktop cooler - in minutes  ZDNET

XZ Utils backdoor still haunts DockerHub: dozens of Linux containers found  Cybernews

Why Breaking Your Linux Install Is a Rite of Passage  How-To Geek

I replaced Windows 11 with Linux on this mini PC, and it's already paying off for my workflow  ZDNET

Hands-on: We ran full desktop Linux apps on an Android phone!  Android Authority

Why Developers Prefer Linux Over Windows: A Deep Dive  Vocal

The IDXD Linux kernel driver used for the Data Streaming Accelerator (DSA) support on recent Xeon processors is being cleaned up for some "not so happy code paths" after an Intel engineer uncovered memory leaks and other troubles with the open-source driver code...

Intel IDXD Accelerator Driver Cleaned Up For Some "Not So Happy Code Paths"  Phoronix

It was nearly one year ago in the Linux 6.13 kernel that the ReiserFS file-system was dropped from the mainline kernel after having been deprecated in 2022. That dropped 32.8k lines of code from the Linux kernel but some documentation remnants of ReiserFS were mistakenly left in but now in the process of dropping those remnants for the defunct file-system...

Clearing The Last ReiserFS Remnants: Documentation Cleanse Of The Defunct File-System  Phoronix

The upcoming FFmpeg 8.0 multimedia library release continues to get more exciting almost by the day. The newest feature being squeezed into this next release is a Whisper audio filter for making use of OpenAI's Whisper model for providing automatic speech recognition / transcription capabilities...

Last week Microsoft released new versions of WSL2 for a yet-to-be-public security vulnerability affecting their Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 implementation. Those details around CVE-2025-53788 are now public for this vulnerability that could lead to elevation of privileges...

WSL2 Vulnerability Could Lead To Elevating Local Privileges  Phoronix

The xf86-input-mouse driver for mouse support when using the X.Orrg Server on operating systems like the BSDs, Illumos, GNU Hurd, and Solaris is out with a rare update...

Following the discussion over potentially obsoleting/deprecating the Itanium IA-64 support within the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC), developers are discussing similar treatment for some of the other poorly-maintained CPU ports...