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My testing of the in-development Linux 7.2 kernel continues in the lab. One of the latest promising findings from this kernel that will be released as stable in August is faster Intel Xe3 graphics performance on Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake" hardware.

NetworkManager 1.58 Officially Released with New Features and Improvements  9to5Linux

Some extremely cool patches were posted to the Linux kernel mailing list on Sunday. The patches for "KNOD" allow for in-kernel network offloading to GPUs with an initial focus on AMD GPU support. What makes this all the more nifty is that it doesn't depend upon any user-space libraries like AMD ROCm but is all handled in-kernel with driving the GPU directly...

Collabora Releases First 64-Bit Arm Arch Linux Packages As It Prepares for Valve's Steam Frame VR  Hackster.io

My Bluetooth mouse kept disconnecting until I changed one Device Manager setting  How-To Geek

Moonshine - Turn your headless Linux server into a game streaming host  Korben

Mozilla has uploaded the Firefox 153.0 release binaries today for the newest monthly update to this cross-platform web browser. Making Firefox 153 exciting is that it's the newest Extended Support Release "ESR" as well as introducing Vulkan Video decode support...

Firefox 153 Available With Support For Vulkan Video Decoding, Experimental JPEG-XL  Phoronix

While openSUSE is closely aligned with SUSE as a company, they aren't the exclusive sponsor of this free and open-source Linux distribution with its rolling-release Tumbleweed and Leap stable releases. AMD has been a longtime major supporter of openSUSE and the Fastly content delivery company has been another platinum sponsor too besides SUSE. There are also various other lower-tier sponsors while today the openSUSE Project put out a call for further corporate sponsorship...

openSUSE Seeking Additional Corporate Sponsors  Phoronix

Earlier this month Intel compiler engineers posted initial GCC compiler patches for the AI Compute Extensions "ACE" that was born out of the x86 Ecosystem Advisory Group to augment AVX and scalar code with new capabilities for AI/ML workloads. Now as part of that an AMD compiler engineer posted patches over the weekend for AVX10_V2_AUX ISA support...

The Qualcomm Crypto Engine Accelerator "QCE" driver is being disabled within the Linux 7.3 kernel over a number of issues, including being slower than having the CPU cores handling cryptographic work and a history of different driver bugs. Plus race conditions causing security issues and other challenges...

Out today is Hyprland 0.56 as the newest feature update to this unique Wayland compositor and incorporating just under three months worth of improvements...

IPFire 2.29 Core Update 203 Firewall Distro Replaces Unbound with Knot Resolver  9to5Linux

AlmaLinux Rolls Out Open Source Creative Installer For Linux  Open Source For You

Collabora Opens Early Access To Arch Linux On AArch64  Open Source For You

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Linux Furtex Toolkit Enables Stealthy Process Injection and Data Exfiltration  cyberpress.org

Furtex Linux Toolkit Uses io_uring and eBPF to Bypass EDR and Falco Detection  gbhackers.com

Linux 7.2-rc4 finally fixes audio issues with the Asus ROG Ally X  XDA