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FireWood Malware Targets Linux Systems for Command Execution and Data Theft  GBHackers News

Intel's Linux Exodus: CPU Temperature Monitoring and Critical Drivers Orphaned  It's FOSS News

Security Researchers Find XZ Utils Backdoored Debian Images on Docker Hub  It's FOSS News

I converted this Windows 11 mini PC into a Linux work station - and didn't regret it  ZDNET

KDE Gear 25.08 is out this morning as the newest feature release to this collection of KDE applications...

Epic Games adds Easy Anti-Cheat for ARM devices — Feature unlocks support for Windows, Linux, and Switch 2  Tom's Hardware

Sent out today was the first DRM-Misc-Next pull request to DRM-Next for queuing ahead of the Linux 6.18 merge window opening around early October. There are a number of smaller DRM graphics driver improvements ready as well as continued work around the accelerator "accel" drivers for the increasing number of NPUs in devices...

AMDXDNA Improvements & New Rockchip NPU Accelerator Driver For Linux 6.18  Phoronix

Next year's LibreOffice 26.2 open-source office suite is set to better handle documents with restricted embedded fonts. This is for dealing with situations where fonts may have restricted licensing rights and where up to now LibreOffice Writer simply hasn't dealt with them correctly...

Tbe BeOS-inspired Haiku operating system has continued in advancing this open-source platform with more fixes and other enhancements. The project published its July recap to outline the interesting changes made...

You Can't Buy This Linux Phone Anymore  MSN

A change queued in drm-misc-next for DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 6.18 kernel cycle later this year is promoting the Nouveau driver for open-source NVIDIA GPU support to be using the GSP firmware by default. This reflects the reality that using the NVIDIA GPU System Processor "GSP" firmware with Turing and Ampere GPUs should provide a better experience than the older firmware alternative with Nouveau...

Linux 6.18 With Nouveau Driver Will Default To Using GSP Firmware  Phoronix

Intel's job cuts gut Linux driver support  Fudzilla.com

Wean yourself off of Windows with Linuxfx — I've tried many Linux distros designed to look and feel like Windows, and this is the best one yet  Tom's Hardware

Usb Switch USB C To Ethernet Adapter, CableCreation Gigabit Ethernet LAN Network, Ethernet Adapter For Laptop, Compatible With Nintendo Switch MacOs, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android Aukey Ethernet  roarmag.org

The plan for Linux after Linus? A work in progress  theregister.com

Ptyxis: Ubuntu’s Leap Into GPU-Powered Terminals  Linux Journal

Back to being FOSS, Redis delivers a new, faster version  theregister.com

FireWood Malware Emerges – New Linux Threat Executes Remote Commands and Steals Data  Cyber Press