Open-source News

One topic we haven't heard AMD talk too much about publicly this year has been their openSIL effort that was announced back in 2023 as their eventual replacement to AGESA and being an open-source CPU silicon initialization effort. They still appear to be working toward making openSIL production-ready for next-generation Zen 6 platforms but some of their proof-of-concept milestones have been running behind schedule. Meanwhile their EPYC 9005 "Turin" proof-of-concept code was recently published...

Ethical Hacking Distro Parrot OS 6.4 Is Out with Linux Kernel 6.12 LTS, New Tools  9to5Linux

Ethical Hacking Distro Parrot OS 6.4 Is Out with Linux Kernel 6.12 LTS, New Tools  9to5Linux

One USB stick and a Linux hacker can bypass secure boot, root partition encryption  cybernews.com

Lenovo WMI Gaming Series Drivers Expected To Debut In Linux 6.17  Phoronix

Being worked on for a number of months now has been the Lenovo Gaming Series WMI Drivers for Linux to expose additional power/performance settings for Lenovo gaming series hardware like the Lenovo Legion Go S gaming handheld with Steam OS. With the upcoming Linux 6.17 kernel, the Lenovo WMI Gaming Series Drivers are expected to be finally upstreamed...

Covert Data Heist: APT36 Exploits ZIP Vulnerabilities in BOSS Linux Systems  Cyber Press

Inside the ZIP Trap: How APT36 Targets BOSS Linux to Exfiltrate Critical Data  gbhackers.com

Lossless Scaling Is Getting Ported to Linux By The Community  Steam Deck HQ

The GNOME 49 Alpha "49.alpha" release was just announced as the first formal test release in the road to the GNOME 49 desktop release due out in September...

RingReaper - New Linux EDR Evasion Tool Using io_uring Kernel Feature  CyberSecurityNews

Key Linux distributions threatened by Sudo vulnerabilities  SC Media

Merged today for the LLVM/Clang compiler is -mcpu=gb10 support for catering to NVIDIA's forthcoming Grace Blackwell GB10 Superchip...

System76 Updates Its Meerkat Linux Mini PCs with Intel Raptor Lake or Arrow Lake CPUs  TechPowerUp

Linux Boot Vulnerability Allows Bypass of Secure Boot Protections on Modern Linux Systems  CyberSecurityNews

While coming a few weeks too late for making it into the LibreOffice 25.8 open-source office suite release, merged today to LibreOffice Git for next year's LibreOffice 26.2 is adding initial support for importing Markdown files into the LibreOffice Writer word processor...

The AMDKFD "Kernel Fusion Driver" used as the Linux kernel GPU compute driver and necessary part of their ROCm compute stack it turns out can build and run on the Chinese-developed LoongArch systems rather easily...

Intel VSEC/PMT Discovery Driver Expected For Linux 6.17 To Enhance Telemetry  Phoronix

With the upcoming Linux 6.17 kernel cycle Intel is further building out their Platform Monitoring Technology (PMT) capabilities with the introduction of a new discovery driver...

As a good sign of the progress being made on the Xe3 integrated graphics Linux support and of the Core Ultra Panther Lake launch approaching, the necessary graphics firmware binaries have now been upstreamed to the linux-firmware.git repository...