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The CPU Performance Of The NVIDIA GB10 With The Dell Pro Max vs. AMD Ryzen AI Max+ "Strix Halo"  Phoronix

XDG-Desktop-Portal 1.21 is now available for testing with the latest features for this portal frontend service to Flatpak...

Qualcomm QCS6490-based 3.5″SBC supports Yocto, Ubuntu, and Windows on Arm  LinuxGizmos.com

This smartphone runs Android, Linux, and even Windows 11  Android Authority

This midrange Android phone also runs Windows and Linux  The Verge

System76's COSMIC desktop environment just fixed a bunch of problems  How-To Geek

Hackers Hijack Snap Store Accounts to Push Crypto-Stealing Malware on Linux  Cryptonews

SlowMist Identifies ‘Future Attack’ in Linux Store  ForkLog

Ahead of the Linux 6.20~7.0 cycle kicking off next month, the Apple Silicon Device Tree updates have been sent out for queuing ahead of that next merge window. Notable this round are the Device Tree additions for rounding out the USB 2.0/3.x support with the USB-C ports...

Linux 7.0 Apple Silicon Device Tree Updates Have All The Bits For USB Type-C Ports  Phoronix

Slimbook Executive Laptop Launches with Intel Core Ultra Upgradable RAM and Linux OS Flexibility  Technetbook

NVIDIA Nsight Graphics on Linux Exposed to Code Execution Vulnerability  gbhackers.com

Hungry Horrors is a unique deck-builder about feeding monsters out now  GamingOnLinux

Stop believing the Linux rumors: 5 myths that are keeping you stuck on Windows  How-To Geek

New benchmarks show Linux gaming nearly matching Windows on AMD GPUs  TechSpot

Voidlink Linux Malware Was Built Using an AI Agent, Researchers Reveal  Infosecurity Magazine

Adjusting One Line Of Linux Code Yields 5x Wakeup Latency Reduction For Modern Xeon CPUs  Phoronix

A new patch posted to the Linux kernel mailing list aims to address the high wake-up latency experienced on modern Intel Xeon server platforms. With Sapphire Rapids and newer, "excessive" wakeup latencies with the Linux menu governor and NOHZ_FULL configuration can negatively impair Xeon CPUs for latency-sensitive workloads but a 16 line patch aims to better improve the situation. That is, changing one line of actual code and the rest being code comments...

MX Linux 25.1 brings back switchable init systems  theregister.com

Prominent Intel Linux engineer H. Peter Anvin has posted a new patch series working to clean-up the Linux x86/x86_64 kernel boot code. Besides cleaning up the code, the kernel configuration would drop options around EFI stub mode and relocatable kernels in making those features now always enabled...