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Webcam-based head & eye tracking app for gaming, LookPilot gets improved Linux compatibility  GamingOnLinux

While the Linux v6.17 merge window only wrapped up earlier this month, Apple Silicon DeviceTree "DT" updates have already begun queuing for the Linux 6.18 merge window that will happen in October...

Apple SoC DT Updates Already Begin Lining Up For Linux 6.18  Phoronix

Intel's newest contribution to the upstream LLVM compiler stack is XeVM as their Multi-Level Intermediate Representation "MLIR" dialect catering to modern Intel graphics processors...

Patches were posted on Monday for Kernel Stack Watch, a new lightweight debugging tool for detecting kernel stack corruption in real-time on Linux...

Kernel Stack Watch Proposed As New Linux Debugging Tool  Phoronix

Lockbit Linux ESXi Ransomware Variant Reveals Evasion Techniques and File Encryption Process  GBHackers News

CVE-2025-38571 Impact, Exploitability, and Mitigation Steps  wiz.io

Unmasking the Secrets of Lockbit’s Linux ESXi Ransomware – Evasion Tactics and File Encryption Revealed  cyberpress.org

Windows Update Is Killing SSDs! Should You Switch to Linux?  It's FOSS News

Google engineer Roman Gushchin has proposed the ability for the Linux kernel to customize the out-of-memory "OOM" behavior using BPF programs...

New Linux Patches Allow Manipulating Out-Of-Memory Behavior Using BPF  Phoronix

This series takes a look at the people and planning that went into building and releasing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10. From the earliest conceptual stages to the launch at Red Hat Summit 2025, we’ll hear firsthand accounts of how RHEL 10 came into being.At Red Hat Summit 2025, we announced the latest version of the world’s leading enterprise Linux platform: Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 10. This release was much more than a few minor enhancements or feature additions; RHEL 10 delivers AI-powered Linux management, post-quantum cryptography capabilities and containers as the native languag

We still don't have much confirmed information on AMD's GFX1250 that has come to light in recent months due to being developed for their AMDGPU shader compiler back-end within LLVM. AMD GFX1250 surfaced in LLVM activity and the past few months has been seeing more additions made. A notable change committed today for LLVM is that the number of user Scalar General-Purpose Registers (SGPRs) has doubled...

Linux Patch Blind Spot Exposes Critical Cybersecurity Risks  LinuxInsider

Linux Patch Blind Spot Exposes Critical Cybersecurity Risks  TechNewsWorld

Wine 10.13 Enhances Windows App Compatibility on Linux and macOS  WebProNews

A new Linux backdoor is hitting US universities and governments  MSN

Following the AMD ZenDNN 5.0 release from last year's EPYC Turin launch that brought big performance improvements for CPU-based inferencing with this open-source library compatible with Intel's oneDNN, today marks the availability of ZenDNN 5.1 as the next update...

Kdenlive 25.08 is out today as the newest feature release for this KDE/Qt-aligned open-source video editor. In addition to a number of new features, there are also many bug fixes including more than 15 crash fixes...