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The Asahi Linux developers involved with working on Linux support for Apple Silicon M-Series devices have put out a new progress report on their development efforts...

Valve contractor Timur Kristóf for their Linux graphics driver team has been working on improving Linux driver support for old AMD Radeon GCN 1.0 and GCN 1.1 generation GPUs. This has been about improving the AMDGPU driver to fill remaining gaps in GCN 1.0/1.1 support with those graphics cards by default relying on the older "Radeon" DRM kernel graphics driver compared to the AMDGPU driver used by default with GCN 1.2 and later. Another feature gap for AMDGPU is now being addressed with Video Coding Engine 1.0 support...

New Code Allows VCE 1.0 Video Acceleration To Work On AMDGPU Driver For GCN 1.0 GPUs  Phoronix

Patina 13.0 is now available as this Rust implementation of UEFI firmware. Patina has been working to replace the core UEFI firmware components in a pure Rust implementation to avoid the use of C code...

Xubuntu Website Hacked to Spread Malware Via Downloads: What You Need to Know  Bitdefender

Back in August, open-source developer Masahiro Yamada stepped down from maintaining the Kconfig and Kbuild areas of the Linux kernel. While Kbuild maintainership was quickly passed on, no one immediately stepped up to maintain Kconfig as the infrastructure code for configuring the Linux kernel builds. That led to Kconfig officially being orphaned code within the kernel but now that situation has been addressed...

Actiphy Inc. Introduces New Version of ActiveImage Protector 2022  World Business Outlook

Agenda Ransomware Actors Target VMware Deployments with Linux-Based RAT on Windows Systems  Cyber Press

Linux RATs on Windows: Ransomware Actors Target VMware Deployments  GBHackers News

Intel Begins Adding Nova Lake Xe3P To Linux OpenGL/Vulkan Drivers - Some Will Lack Ray-Tracing  Phoronix

Intel recently began sending out Xe3P kernel graphics driver patches for Nova Lake that will begin landing in the upcoming Linux 6.19 kernel cycle. Now on the user-space side, merged today for Mesa 26.0 were the first enablement patches for Xe3P Nova Lake for their open-source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers on Linux...

Fedora 43 complete with its rocket-themed default desktop background on Fedora Workstation 43 is cleared for lifting off next week...

Fedora Linux 43 Cleared For Release Next Week  Phoronix

New Windows 11 25H2 versus Linux 6.17 benchmarks (no games)  [H]ard|Forum

New Windows 11 25H2 versus Linux 6.17 benchmarks (no games)  [H]ard|Forum

I built an ultra-light NAS setup instead of using TrueNAS or Proxmox  XDA

Back in May AMD announced the Radeon AI PRO R9700 with 128 AI accelerators, 32GB of GDDR6 video memory, and other advantages for this AI-focused RDNA4 based graphics card over the RDNA3-based Radeon PRO W7900. The Radeon AI PRO R9700 was supposed to be available in July while today AMD announced it will be going on sale next week...

AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 Hitting Retailers Next Week For $1299 USD  Phoronix

Windows 10 retiring is a great opportunity for Linux — and it’s being wasted  Medium

Red Hat introduces Developer Lightspeed, an AI-driven assistant to streamline workflows  BetaNews