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WSL made using my Windows 11 PC so much easier, here's how  xda-developers.com

Framework Desktop Power Mode Tuning For Better Performance Or Power Efficiency Review  Phoronix

Continuing on with our Framework Desktop benchmarking powered by AMD Ryzen AI Max "Strix Halo", today we are looking at the performance and power impact of power mode tuning for this review sample powered by the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 SoC. A wide variety of benchmarks were done across the power saver / balanced / performance power modes for looking at the impact on performance as well as thermals and power consumption.

These 6 Linux apps could boost your productivity - and you might not have heard of them  ZDNET

5 more ways to share files on Linux that every pro should know  ZDNET

Patches Posted To Allow Writing USB Rust Drivers For Linux  Phoronix

An initial set of Linux kernel patches were posted this week for allowing USB Rust kernel drivers to be developed for Linux...

QEMU 10.1 Released with TDX Support, Many RISC-V and ARM Improvements  9to5Linux

Introduced earlier this month with the Vulkan API 1.4.325 spec update was the introduction of the untyped pointers extension with VK_KHR_shader_untyped_pointers and SPIR-V's underlying SPV_KHR_untyped_pointers for providing an alternative option to strongly-typed pointers. As of yesterday the Mesa Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" is now supporting this untyped pointers extension...

Wildcards Are How You Take Your Linux Terminal Skills to the Next Level  How-To Geek

PromptLock Arrives. The First Artificial Intelligence-Powered Ransomware for Windows and Linux  Red Hot Cyber

Generative AI "GenAI" is now being used in part to help determine the Linux kernel patches that should be back-ported to prior current stable Linux kernel releases such as the all-important Linux Long Term Support (LTS) branches...

AI Is Now Being Used To Help Determine Patches For Backporting In The Linux Kernel  Phoronix

There's a follow-up to yesterday's surprising story of Alyssa Rosenzweig stepping away from Asahi Linux and that ARM graphics driver work where she led reverse engineering and development of the Asahi Gallium3D and HoneyKrisp Vulkan drivers within Mesa. She's now working at Intel on their Linux graphics drivers...

The Former Lead For Apple Graphics Drivers On Linux Is Now Working At Intel  Phoronix

The NOVA open-source kernel graphics driver continues getting slowly built-up for the NVIDIA RTX 20 "Turing" and newer GPUs that sport the GPU System Processor (GSP) for easing the hardware initialization and management of modern NVIDIA GPUs within the mainline kernel. This Rust-written kernel driver now has patches pending for booting up the NVIDIA GSP to its RISC-V active state...

Latest NOVA Patches From NVIDIA Get The GSP Booting To RISC-V Active State  Phoronix

QEMU 10.1 was released overnight as the latest iteration of this open-source machine emulator that plays an important role in the Linux virtualization stack...

Bazzite adds support for Ayaneo 3 and the AOKZOE A1X with work towards MSI Claw A8 and Legion Go 2  GamingOnLinux

GE-Proton 10-14 brings lots of fixes for Windows games on Linux / SteamOS  GamingOnLinux