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One of the many changes with the recent Ubuntu 22.04 LTS release was enabling systemd-oomd by default as the out-of-memory daemon that can kill processes when under memory pressure. Unfortunately, for some users this has led to a poor desktop experience with finding their applications being unexpectedly killed. Ubuntu developers are now discussing how to improve this OOMD handling...

PipeWire 0.3.52 was released today as the newest version of this open-source server for handling audio/video streams on the Linux desktop and increasingly being used now as a replacement for PulseAudio...

Now you can boot Linux on Apple devices with A7 and A8 series chips  Liliputing

Hackers using stealthy Linux backdoor Symbiote to steal credentials  CSO Online

There was much interest in the recent Python 3.11 beta benchmarks showing much performance uplift from this in-development version of Python compared to prior 3.x releases. While Python 3.11 performance is looking great and huge advantages compared to prior versions, there are also alternative Python implementations like PyPy and Pyston. Stemming from Phoronix reader requests, here are benchmarks showing how Python 3.11 beta performance compares to those alternative Python implementations.

Symbiote: a new, nearly-impossible-to-detect Linux threat  TEISS

Embedded Linux Market Analysis, Development Trends, Types, Applications, Industry Share, Size and Forecast to 2022-2029  Digital Journal

Symbiote: A Stealthy Linux Malware Targeting Latin American Financial Sector  The Hacker News

1. Symbiote: A Stealthy Linux Malware Targeting Latin American Financial Sector  The Hacker News
2. New Symbiote malware infects all running processes on Linux systems  BleepingComputer
3. This new Linux malware is 'almost impossible' to detect  ZDNet
4. Hackers using stealthy Linux backdoor Symbiote to steal credentials  CSO Online
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Vulkan 1.3.217 is out this morning as the newest version of the Khronos' high performance graphics/compute API specification. With Vulkan 1.3.217 comes two new extensions...

New Symbiote malware infects all running processes on Linux systems  BleepingComputer

KDE Gear 22.04.2 Adds 7zip Support to Ark, Improves Dolphin, Kdenlive, and Other Apps  9to5Linux

How to run a Jar file  TheServerSide.com

Earlier this year was an AMD Linux patch to prefer using MWAIT rather than HALT for cases where the CPU idle driver isn't being used. Using MWAIT can lead to significant improvements for the exit latency and now for the Linux 5.20 cycle later this year that change is expected to land...

Using htop to check performance on Linux  Network World

Intel's open-source Linux driver engineers are busy not only preparing support for next-generation 13th Gen Core "Raptor Lake" processors but also the follow-on 14th Gen "Meteor Lake" on Linux...

More Intel Raptor Lake & Meteor Lake Driver Additions Coming For Linux 5.20  Phoronix

Meet SpiralLinux, a Debian-Based Distro Focused on Simplicity and Usability  9to5Linux

Linux Mint adopts Timeshift from overworked original developer  The Register

The newest contribution to the open-source Radeon Vulkan "RADV" driver in Mesa by Valve's Linux graphics driver developers is for supporting VK_EXT_primitives_generated_query...