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AMD Hardware Feedback Interface & CPUID Faulting Merged For Linux 6.17  Phoronix

Two notable AMD CPU feature additions were merged overnight for the in-development Linux 6.17 kernel...

Gunra Ransomware’s New Linux Variant Uses 100 Encryption Threads and Partial Encryption Feature  Cyber Press

AMD yesterday upstreamed a batch of new CPU microcode files to linux-firmware.git as the de facto repository where component firmware/microcode is easily distributed to Linux distributions. This also marks the first time that Family 1Ah (Family 26) CPU microcode is updated there for the latest Zen 5 processors...

AMD Zen 5 CPUs See First Microcode Updates In Linux-Firmware.Git  Phoronix

Earlier this year Linux kernel patches were posted for making SMP support unconditional so the kernel is always built for multi-core capabilities. With uniprocessor core environments being extremely rare especially for those that would be using an up-to-date, upstream Linux kernel, dropping non-SMP support would allow simplifying code paths within the kernel. Well, for Linux 6.17 it's finally happening...

Linux 6.17 Now Makes Multi-Core/SMP Support Unconditional  Phoronix

Archinstall 3.0.9 released today as the newest iteration of this text-based Arch Linux operating system installer...

Arch Linux Installer Adds Bluetooth Support & U2F Authentication  Phoronix

Hackers Target SAP NetWeaver to Deploy New Auto-Color Linux Malware  gbhackers.com

UNC2891 Bank Heist: Physical ATM Backdoor & Linux Forensic Evasion Evasion  Group-IB

July 30, 2025  Hackaday

Hackers Exploit SAP Vulnerability to Breach Linux Systems and Deploy Auto-Color Malware  The Hacker News

Cisco donates agentic AI platform Agntcy to Linux Foundation  theregister.com

Hackers Exploiting SAP NetWeaver Vulnerability to Deploy Auto-Color Linux Malware  CyberSecurityNews

Cisco’s Outshift Incubator Sends Agentic AI Protocol To The Linux Foundation  The Next Platform

Linux Kernel 6.16: Btrfs Boosts, Rust Integration, Intel TDX Security  WebProNews

After all of these years of Linux dominating the high performance computing (HPC) space and other industries, one might think (most) all the interesting performance nuggets have been uncovered and well thought out and robust fallbacks in place across all important code paths. As we showcase almost each cycle, interesting new performance bits to be uncovered within the Linux kernel. For Linux 6.17 thanks to a NVIDIA engineer is applying a better fallback for NUMA locality rather than simply picking a random CPU core...

Linux 6.17 Improves NUMA Locality For SMP Call Rather Than Deferring To Random CPU Core  Phoronix

Facebook's Meta already employs an all-star team of Linux kernel engineers and it doesn't appear that they are over in recruiting top-tier Linux kernel talent. One of Intel's senior Linux software engineers is now the latest high profile kernel developer onboard at Meta...