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This week's x86 platform driver fixes include not only a handful of bug fixes but also enabling some additional laptops within existing drivers for HP and ASUS devices...

Back in 2022 it was announced DreamWorks Animation was open-sourcing their MoonRay renderer that has been used in production feature films. It ended up being published as open-source in March 2023 as OpenMoonRay and since then has continued advancing with new feature releases and improvements. Now it's being contributed to the Academy Software Foundation as the newest project...

Supply Chain Attack Flags 700+ GitHub Repos With Hidden Linux Payload  Crypto Adventure

The Team Behind The Flipper One Needs Your Help  Hackaday

KDE Plasma 6.7 will make managing your clipboard a lot less annoying  XDA

In a Weird Case, German Deutsche Bahn's Website Was Locking Out Linux Users  It's FOSS

Another major Linux security flaw revealed — nine-year old issue could spell disaster for users  TechRadar

In addition to the recent influx of Linux security vulnerabilities affecting Linux, FreeBSD has also begun receiving security reports via AI/LLM-driven discovery tools. FreeBSD 15.1-RC1 is out today ahead of the planned official release in June and it brings a handful of security fixes out of this new AI-driven security research space...

GNOME Commander, the orthodox file manager for the GNOME desktop that was inspired by Norton Commander, has been rewritten in the Rust programming language and also now using the GTK4 toolkit...

Linux 7.1 Merges AMD Dynamic EPP Fixes, Intel Bartlett Lake Scaling Fix  Phoronix

Merged today for Linux 7.1 was this week's power management fixes with a few notable fixes for both AMD and Intel platforms...

Flipper One Brings AI and Linux to a Pocket Sized Device  SQ Magazine

From edge appliance to enterprise compromise: Multi-stage Linux intrusion via F5 and Confluence  Microsoft

Released earlier this month was the OpenCL 3.1 specification with a focus on enhancing AI and HPC workloads for this long-time Khronos specification. Out today is OpenCL 3.1.1 as a point release with an emphasis on addressing a possible performance regression of OpenCL 3.1...

Mozilla VPN's shortcut lands on iPhone, with macOS and Linux users also getting a boost — here's all you need to know  TechRadar

Flipper One is a next-gen Flipper Zero with a Linux brain and serious hardware upgrades  TechSpot

How The Banana Pi BPI-R4 Pro Violates The First Rule Of OpenWRT Club  Hackaday

The first release candidate of systemd 261 is out today and it includes yet more features for this Linux init system and service manager...

systemd 261-rc1 Released With OS Installer, IMDS Subsystem & New storagectl  Phoronix

Proxmox 9.2 Virtual Environment launches with the 7.0 Linux kernel as default  Notebookcheck