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How to Transfer Files between Linux/Windows/Mac/Android/iPhone  BollyInside

In addition to the road-map update for Arc Graphics and Sapphire Rapids along with announcing Falcon Shores as a server CPU/APU/XPU pulling in Xe Graphics, Intel's 2022 Investor Meeting also made other updates and some new disclosures...

Multiple vulnerabilities found in Snap-confine function on Linux systems  ZDNet

Black/White, multicolor static screen when shutting/reopening MacBook Pro - Linux & Unix  BleepingComputer

Using the Linux host command to dig out DNS details  Network World

How to Install the Windows Subsystem for Linux on Windows 11  BollyInside

Linux Process Management: The Ultimate Guide  MUO - MakeUseOf

Goodbye, CentOS: How to Install Rocky Linux 8  MUO - MakeUseOf

The Clutter toolkit -- as the OpenGL-based graphics library for rendering UIs that dates back more than one decade to OpenedHand that was then acquired by Intel and notably used during the Moblin/MeeGo era -- is finally being officially retired...

Vulnerability in Linux program enables local privilege escalation, researchers report  VentureBeat

1. Vulnerability in Linux program enables local privilege escalation, researchers report  VentureBeat
2. Linux kernel patches remote stack overflow bug  SC Media
3. Linux devs fix nasty vulnerability dating back half a decade  TechRadar
4. Linux Kernel Stack Overflow Patched | Decipher  Decipher
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Thanks to Google engineers there is Resizable BAR "ReBAR" support being worked on for the open-source Coreboot...

Azure IoT Edge for Linux on Windows Gets Continuous Release Update Branch  Redmondmag.com

Azure IoT Edge for Linux on Windows Gets Continuous Release Update Branch  Redmondmag.com

As part of Intel's Investor Meeting today, the company provided an updated technical roadmap with some interesting bits of information...

Last year Amazon launched the EC2 M6a instances powered by AMD EPYC 7003 series while this week they have expanded their range of AMD Zen 3 offerings by launching the EC2 C6a series. The EC2 C6a instances are designed for compute-intensive workloads (hence the "C" series) and AWS is promoting it as offering up to 15% improvement in price-performance over prior-generation C5a instances and up to 10% lower cost than comparable x86-based EC2 instances. I've run some benchmarks of the new EC2 C6a instances looking at how they perform over the prior 2nd Gen EPYC C5a based instances, against the Intel Ice Lake competition over in the M6i stack, and also how the C6a competes with Amazon's own Graviton2-based C6g type.

2 ways to Install Sublime Text 3 on Ubuntu 22.04 | 20.04  Linux Shout

Intel has released a new version of their open-source, interactive visualization software OSPray Studio that is built atop their OSPray ray-tracing rendering engine...

End-to-end encryption is non-negotiable for the enterprise  The Register

PipeWire continues with its rapid sequence of releases in continuing to fine-tune this audio/video stream server for the Linux desktop so it can successfully address the roles long-served by the likes of PulseAudio and JACK...