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A few new firmware files were upstreamed today to the linux-firmware.git repository for supporting a new GFX12.0.1 (RDNA4) "Kicker" graphics processor. There was also an AMDGPU kernel graphics driver patch that just landed as well in Linux 6.17 for the RDNA4 Kicker variant...

5 Hidden Weaknesses in Your Linux Stack—And How Attackers Exploit Them  Morphisec

Last week the Threadripper 9000 series began shipping and as shown in our launch-day Linux testing there was stunning performance with the 32-core Threadripper 9970X and 64-core Threadripper 9980X processors. Beyond the improvements thanks to the Zen 5 microarchitecture enhancements, the new Threadrippers while working as a drop-in replacement to existing TRX50 workstation motherboards now can handle DDR5-6400 R-DIMMs up from DDR5-4800 R-DIMMs with the Threadripper 7000 series. For those wondering about the gain attributed to the faster memory modules, here are benchmarks looking at the DDR5-4800 vs. DDR5-6400 real-world performance impact for AMD Ryzen Threadripper 9970X and 9980X CPUs.

DDR5-6400 vs. DDR5-4800 R-DIMM Performance For Threadripper 9980X / 9970X CPUs  Phoronix

3 Ways to Test a Linux Distro Without Using a USB Drive  How-To Geek

While we eagerly await the release of ROCm 7.0, ROCm 6.4.3 is out today as the newest point release to the ROCm 6.4 open-source GPU compute stack...

AMD ROCm 6.4.3 Released With A Few Fixes  Phoronix

The Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) is rolling out a "fair use" quota where they will be asking the major hardware vendors (OEMs) to sponsor the project or contribute developer resources for the biggest users that rely on LVFS/Fwupd for serving system and device firmware to customers...

LVFS Introducing Fair-Use Quota: Asking Major Vendors To Pay Or Contribute Code  Phoronix

11 Go packages hide malicious commands targeting Linux and Windows  SC Media

OpenLinkHub for managing iCUE LINK Hub and various Corsair devices on Linux expands device support  GamingOnLinux

Linux GPU Configuration And Monitoring Tool (LACT) gets expanded support for older AMD GPUs  GamingOnLinux

Linux Desktop Market Share Tops 6%, Poised for 10% by 2030  WebProNews

My 4 favorite image editing apps on Linux - and two are free Photoshop alternatives  ZDNET

Intel Is Reportedly Preparing Arc B380; Adds New Battlemage PCI ID to Linux Kernel  Wccftech

The latest Radeon RADV driver ray-tracing optimization being merged to Mesa 25.3 is support for triangle pair compression with RDNA4 (GFX12) graphics processors...

Battlefield 6 requires Secure Boot to run and it's coming to more games soon, including Call of Duty Black Ops 7: here's what it is, why Linux gamers are mad about it, and how to enable it  PC Gamer

ChatGPT Is the Best Homelab Assistant I Could Ask For  How-To Geek

Tails 7.0 Now Available for Testing, Based on Debian 13 “Trixie” and GNOME 48  9to5Linux

The PCI changes were merged last week for the Linux 6.17 merge window. There is new PCIe controller support and some other additions worth mentioning with the new PCI feature code...