Open-source News

“GhostLock” flaw survived in the Linux kernel code for 15 years  CyberInsider

Proton Releases Drive CLI for Windows, macOS and Linux  StorageNewsletter

Linux Foundation Launches Akrites to Protect Critical Open Source Software from AI-Powered Threats  infoq.com

Linux Foundation to Launch Open Health Stack Software Foundation to Advance Digital Health Innovation  fundsforNGOs News

Upstreamed for the Linux 7.2 kernel was initial support for booting Linux on the Apple M3 SoC devices. But just the barebones suppport for booting with not yet any accelerated graphics or other typical function needed for daily use of M3 Apple devices on Linux, just booting to a console. Now this work is complemented by additional Device Tree patches for also booting M3 Pro / Max / Ultra devices on Linux...

Linux DT Patches Provide Very Basic Support For Apple M3 Pro / Max / Ultra  Phoronix

Linux FUSE Page Cache Overflow Lets Local Attackers Gain Root Access  cyberpress.org

After two years being on the TODO list for a possible performance optimization, the Intel open-source "ANV" Vulkan driver has now merged an HiZ plane optimization that can yield up to a few percent frame-rate improvement for Linux gaming/graphics on newer Intel integrated and discrete graphics hardware...

HiZ Plane Optimization Merged For Intel Vulkan Linux Driver For Some Performance Benefit  Phoronix

Cinnamon 6.8 will support Wayland – if you want it  The Register

Earlier this week NVIDIA confirmed some basic details around their next-gen Rosa CPU that succeeds Vera. Among the public confirmation was that it will feature a "Rigel" Armv9.2-A core iterating on their Olympus core design. With the basic details published, NVIDIA immediately introduced Rigel core support into the GCC compiler. Now they have also upstreamed their initial Rigel core enablement into the LLVM Clang compiler...

LLVM Clang Merges Initial Support For NVIDIA Rigel Core With Next-Gen Rosa CPU  Phoronix

Released this morning was Intel's newest version of Intel-Scaler-vLLM as their Docker-based solution providing an optimized vLLM stack for execution on Intel Arc (Pro) graphics hardware...

Intel-Scaler-vLLM 0.21.0-b1 Delivers Latest Features For vLLM On Intel GPUs  Phoronix

Google Transfers Open Health Stack to Linux Foundation to Advance Global Digital Health  TechAfrica News

SYSGO Strengthens Industrial Linux Security With ELinOS 8 Release  Open Source For You

Ubuntu 25.10 Reached End of Life, It’s Time to Upgrade to Ubuntu 26.04 LTS  9to5Linux

Linux Mint Now Considers Wayland Stable  It's FOSS

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I'm a Windows user who installed Linux for the first time - here's how the experience changed me  ZDNET