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Google’s Security Warning For 3 Billion Chrome Users—Update Now  Forbes

Rockchip RK3588 mainline Linux support – Current status and future work for 2025  CNX Software

Building off the ROCm 6.3 release from earlier this month, there's been a Friday night drop of ROCm 6.3.1 with some rather exciting end-of-year improvements...

How to Use Emacs as a Desktop Environment in Linux with EXWM  Make Tech Easier

The third weekly release candidate of Wine 10.0 is now available for testing with another 15 bugs fixed this week...

Direct3D to Vulkan translation layer DXVK v2.5.2 brings fixes for Alpha Protocol, The Sims 2, Borderlands 2 and more  GamingOnLinux

Debian-Based Grml 2024.12 Linux Distro Is Out with Support for 64-Bit ARM CPUs  9to5Linux

openSUSE Unveils YQPkg, a Standalone GUI Package Management Tool  LXer

Linux 6.13-rc4 To Fix A Nasty USB Problem Plaguing The Kernel For A Few Weeks  Phoronix

Merged to Linux Git minutes ago and ahead of the Linux 6.13-rc4 tagging on Sunday were this week's set of USB fixes that are particularly noteworthy. Most significant is fixing a USB regression that had been present in the stack since the Linux 6.13 merge window last month...

Grml 2024.12 ''Adventgrenze'' drops x86 support and welcomes 64-bit ARM CPUs  Notebookcheck.net

If you are looking for some interesting technical content to watch over the holidays or end-of-year downtime, AMD shared today that they have launched their own YouTube channel for developer-related content...

The openSUSE project announced today YQPkg as a new package management tool for openSUSE Linux distributions...

OpenSUSE Announces New "YQPkg" Package Management Tool  Phoronix

Jonas Ådahl of Red Hat just released Wayland Protocols 1.39 as the latest set of updates to this de facto repository for Wayland protocols...

Following the recent Intel Core Ultra 9 285K Windows 11 vs. Ubuntu Linux benchmarks I wanted to expand the testing to look at how well other Linux distributions as well were performing on this new 24-core Arrow Lake desktop processor. To much surprise Intel's own Clear Linux distribution didn't take the top spot this round but as a surprising upset the Arch Linux based CachyOS distribution outperformed Clear Linux, Ubuntu, Arch Linux, and Fedora Workstation on this flagship Arrow Lake processor.

Arch Linux Based CachyOS Takes The Lead On Intel Arrow Lake  Phoronix

Adélie Linux 1.0 – small, fast, but not quite grown up  The Register

Intel Arc B580 tested in five games on Linux; you're better off sticking with an AMD GPU for now  PC Guide - For The Latest PC Hardware & Tech News

Core Ultra 9 285K is faster in Linux than in Windows – flagship Arrow Lake chip is 6 to 8% faster on average in Linux  Tom's Hardware