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Boost Your Linux Terminal Productivity by Learning This Advanced Search Syntax  How-To Geek

Steam Beta finally enables Proton on Linux fully, making Linux gaming simpler  [H]ard|Forum

The Servo browser engine project born out of Mozilla as an early Rust project and now advanced by open-source developers from various firms continues moving forward. Servo has finally scratched animated GIF support off its TODO list among other features...

CISA warns of attackers exploiting Linux flaw with PoC exploit  BleepingComputer

Download Chromium (free) for Windows, macOS, Android, APK and Linux  Gizmodo

AMD engineers today posted the second iteration of their AMD ISP4 Linux kernel driver, which is for supporting the web-camera with the high-end Strix Halo powered HP ZBook Ultra G1a laptop and presumably many AMD Ryzen laptops in the future...

Updated AMD ISP4 Driver For Linux Benefits The HP ZBook Ultra G1a, Future Ryzen Laptops  Phoronix

Linux Security: New Flaws Allow Root Access, CISA Warns of Old Bug Exploitation  SecurityWeek

CISA Flags CVE-2023-0386 as Actively Exploited Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation Threat  The Cyber Express

U.S. CISA adds Linux Kernel flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog  Security Affairs

Chaining two LPEs to get "root": Most Linux distros vulnerable (CVE-2025-6018, CVE-2025-6019)  Help Net Security

Qilin Emerges as a New Dominant Ransomware Attacking Windows, Linux, and ESXi Systems  CyberSecurityNews

Steam turbo-charges its performance overlay, shows you how many real and framegen frames you're getting and, oh, Proton is enabled on Linux by default now  PC Gamer

Broadcom has been working on a new Linux Ethernet networking driver dubbed "BNGE" for supporting their new high-end BCM5770X chipset family...

Broadcom BNGE Linux Network Driver Published For BCM5770X  Phoronix

The Arch Linux project announced this week they are working to transition their Wine and Wine-Staging packages over to pure WoW64 builds. This "Windows on Windows 64-bit" allows for 32-bit Windows applications on 64-bit Linux platforms without needing 32-bit software libraries/prefixes present and overall a big architectural win...

Alienware G-Mode / Game Shift is a feature designed to "enhance gaming performance" on select Dell/Alienware laptops with the press of a key. But at least under Linux with select laptop models it can actually regress performance compared to just running the laptop in the "performance" platform profile...

Alienware "G-Mode" Reverted For Linux: It Actually Hurt Performance  Phoronix

New Linux bug a “critical and universal” risk?  The Stack

The Qt Creator 17 integrated development environment released today with a variety of improvements for this primarily C++/Qt focused developer IDE...