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Being worked on for a number of months now is GL_EXT_mesh_shader as an extension for bringing mesh shaders to OpenGL. This is an alternative to NVIDIA's GL_NV_mesh_shader extension being worked on for Mesa drivers and in particular the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver...

Released on Thursday were new Ubuntu X1E "Concept" install images for installing the modified Ubuntu 25.04 environment on Qualcomm Snapdragon X1 powered laptops...

New Ubuntu Snapdragon X1E Concept ISO Published - Still A Mess On The Acer Swift 14 AI  Phoronix

3 Useful Linux Apps to Try This Weekend (Aug 22-24)  Yahoo! Tech

3 Useful Linux Apps to Try This Weekend (Aug 22-24)  How-To Geek

Chromium Adds Native HDR Support for Linux Wayland  It's FOSS News

FFmpeg 8.0 is now available! FFmpeg 8.0 is a magnificent update to this widely-used open-source multimedia library and with this new version is the introduction of an OpenAI Whisper filter for automatic speech recognition, many Vulkan Video improvements for greater GPU-accelerated video handling, and a number of CPU performance optimizations...

APT36: Targets Indian BOSS Linux Systems with Weaponized AutoStart Files  CYFIRMA

Arch Linux takes a pounding as DDoS attack enters week two  theregister.com

The Servo browser project has published a monthly status report to outline all of the interesting changes made to this interesting, Rust-based browser layout engine over the past several weeks. Development continues moving along with Servo as more critical functionality continues to be added as well as new performance optimizations and other features to make it a compelling option for future embedded web use and more...

FreeRDP as one of the leading open-source / free software implementations of Microsoft's Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) is out with a new release. While FreeRDP 3.17 is primarily focused on shipping bug fixes, there is one noteworthy addition: fullchain support...

Calibre 8.9 E-Book Manager Adds Support for Embedded Fonts to HTMLZ Output  9to5Linux

Stealth Threat Unpacked: Weaponized RAR Files Deliver VShell Backdoor on Linux Systems  GBHackers News

Earlier this month Intel released LLM-Scaler 1.0 as part of their Project Battlematrix initiative. This is a Docker container effort to deliver speedy AI inference performance with multi-GPU scaling and PCIe P2P support and more...

New Linux Malware With Weaponized RAR Archive Deploys VShell Backdoor  CyberSecurityNews

VPNs With "No Logging Policy" You Can Use on Linux  It's FOSS

RAR Archive Turns Rogue – Linux Systems Targeted by VShell Backdoor  cyberpress.org

The Silent, Fileless Threat of VShell  Trellix

NVIDIA Proposes AI Disclosure Tags for Linux Kernel Patches  WebProNews

In addition to this week seeing Apple SoC DT updates prepped for Linux 6.18 and Apple laptop lid events and power button driver patches posted for review for the mainline Linux kernel, published today on the Linux kernel mailing list are the request for comments (RFC) on patches for enabling USB3 support with Apple Silicon M1 / M2 SoCs...