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Intel has upstreamed some Resource Control "resctrl" improvements to Linux 7.0 for enhanced telemetry monitoring. This is the good kind of telemetry with this new code being useful for being able to monitor how much energy or work is attributed to a group of tasks / process IDs on the system...

Intel Is Making It Easier In Linux 7.0 To Monitor Energy Use For A Group Of Tasks  Phoronix

SUSE exec blurts that the company uses Teams  theregister.com

Linux Mint Wants Fewer Releases Each Year (For Good Reasons)  It's FOSS

The Linux 7.0 kernel has removed support for signing kernel modules using SHA-1 as it's no longer considered secure but existing SHA-1 signed modules can still be loaded...

All of the media subsystem driver updates have been merged for the in-development Linux 7.0 kernel and brings some new work around AV1 acceleration as well as other driver updates...

Media Driver Updates Merged For Linux 7.0 - Still Without The AMD ISP4 Driver  Phoronix

Linux Mint is shutting down its shorter development cycle  Neowin

Keychron M3-A71 Wireless Mouse - 12,000 DPI, 95H Battery, Triple Mode (BT/2.4G/USB), For Mac/Windows/Linux  umlconnector.com

SSHStalker botnet preys on legacy Linux & cloud hosts  SecurityBrief UK

LibreOffice 26.2 Arrives: Faster Performance, Sharper UI, and Better Compatibility  Linux Journal

Linus Torvalds rejects Linux 7.0 MMC changes as 'complete garbage'  GIGAZINE

Linux Mint may publish fewer updates a year, but that's not necessarily a bad thing  XDA

How to write Linux bash scripts on your Android - and why you'd want to  ZDNET

The massive set of Linux kernel graphics/display driver Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) updates were sent out and merged today for the Linux 7.0 kernel. This also includes the growing work around accelerator "accel" drivers for AI NPUs and the like...

SSHStalker botnet brute-forces its way onto 7,000 Linux machines  csoonline.com

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Tails 7.4.2 Anonymous Linux OS Released to Fix Critical Security Vulnerabilities  9to5Linux

The Linux MultiMediaCard "MMC" subsystem was set to see some new hardware support, optimized support for secure erase/trim on some eMMCs, and a variety of other improvements. But all of the MMC changes are rejected and will be for the duration of the Linux 7.0 cycle due to an apparent lack of testing and vetting via linux-next that led Linus Torvalds to calling it "complete garbage" and "untested crap"...