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Stop using these outdated Linux commands before they cause problems  PCWorld

While there is the AMD openSIL project for open-source CPU silicon initialization for platforms moving forward with plans to ultimately replace AGESA and be more friendly toward the likes of Coreboot, for those on aging AMD Bulldozer and Piledriver era platforms there is some updated open-source firmware available thanks to an independent free software project...

Intel on Monday released version 0.1 of their Low Power Mode Daemon, the open-source daemon in development for several years now for optimizing active idle power on modern Intel Core (Ultra) CPUs under Linux...

Intel LPMD 0.1 Released With Support For Panther Lake  Phoronix

GNU Coreutils 9.9 brings fixes and updates across essential tools  Help Net Security

MX Linux 25 'Infinity' arrives with a cleaner look and easier installation  BetaNews

System76 engineer Victoria Brekenfeld and Red Hat engineer Sebastian Wick presented at the recent XDC2025 developer conference with their hopes of finally fixing the multi-GPU experience on Linux. As part of this is getting the necessary Wayland protocols in order as well as a new gpu-daemon service for proper multi-GPU handling for the Linux desktop...

How System76 & Red Hat Hope To Finally Improve The Linux Multi-GPU Experience  Phoronix

Sentry gets improved crash reporting for games running via Proton / Wine on SteamOS / Linux  GamingOnLinux

New Linux kernel patches currently undergoing review will allow AMD Ryzen AI NPU power metrics to be exposed under Linux. In turn this is useful for helping to gauge the utilization of the neural processing unit and also helping to evaluate the actual power efficiency of leveraging the AMD Ryzen AI NPU...

New Linux Patches To Expose AMD Ryzen AI NPU Power Metrics  Phoronix

What a Shame! FlatHub is Ranking on Google for Po*nHub Downloads  It's FOSS

VanHelsing Ransomware RaaS Expands Reach to Windows, Linux, BSD, ARM and ESXi Environments  Cyber Press

The YouTube video recordings for the X.Org Developers' Conference 2025 that took place at the end of September in Austria are finally available. Among the many interesting XDC2025 presentations was Intel engineer Matthew Brost talking about the GPU Shared Virtual Memory (SVM) within Intel's modern Xe kernel graphics driver...

Intel Xe Linux Driver Working Toward UALink & High Speed Fabrics Support  Phoronix

The SDL3 library that is popular with cross-platform games for abstracting various software/hardware features has implemented render batching for its built-in rendering API. This render batching is successfully wired up now for Direct3D 11/12, Apple Metal, and Vulkan APIs for more efficient graphics rendering...

New VanHelsing Ransomware-as-a-Service Hits Windows, Linux, BSD, ARM and ESXi  GBHackers News

$500+ MINISFORUM MS-R1 Arm Linux AI mini PC features CIX CP8180 12-core SoC, up to 64GB LPDDR5x  CNX Software

While there is already AMDXDNA as one of the few currently mainline drivers in the accelerator "accel" subsystem for supporting AMD Ryzen AI NPUs, another AMD accel driver is on the way: amd_vpci. The new amd_vpci driver patches were posted today for review as AMD continues to further expand their diverse offerings in the ecosystem...

AMD Posts New "amd_vpci" Accelerator Driver For Linux  Phoronix