Open-source News

NVIDIA are working on a "general optimization" for VKD3D / DirectX12 games on Linux  GamingOnLinux

Linux Kernel 6.17 Boosts F2FS with ZNS SSD Zoned Storage Optimizations  WebProNews

PSA Stealer: New Linux Malware Steals Passwords and Crypto Data  WebProNews

openSUSE Leap 16.0 will need Steam gamers to install some extras due to no 32-bit  GamingOnLinux

Dangerous new Linux malware strikes - thousands of users see passwords, personal info stolen, here's what we know  TechRadar

Open RAN, AI-RAN boosted by Linux Foundation partnerships  SDxCentral

Linux is becoming even more popular on Steam, and it's not only because of the Steam Deck  PC Guide

For Linux gamers relying on the X.Org Server, the SDL3 library that is widely-used by cross-platform games has landed support for precision/pixel scrolling...

SDL Library Lands Precision Scrolling For X.Org Usage  Phoronix

FFmpeg developers are known for delivering some really wild performance gains from hand-optimized Assembly code especially around Intel/AMD AVX-512 optimizations for various features of this widely-used open-source multimedia library. Merged this week was enhancing the Bwdif deinterlacing video filter with a 23~28x speed-up over the basic C code path when using AVX-512...

Linus Torvalds yesterday merged a patch from SUSE's Petr Mladek introducing a new boot parameter option for the kernel to provide greater control over the behavior of hashing pointer values...

Linux 6.17 Introduces hash_pointers= Boot Parameter  Phoronix

AI-RAN Alliance, Linux Foundation and advancing the 6G evolution  Capacity Media

Last year Intel's open-source Compute Runtime stack for OpenCL and oneAPI Level Zero support discontinued its support for Broadwell through Ice Lake integrated graphics to focus strictly on Tigerlake with Intel "Gen12" graphics and newer. Today though they issued an update to their legacy driver branch for helping with the graphics compute support on those older hardware platforms...

Cybersecurity News: Microsoft & Google lead zero day exploits, Plague malware maintains SSH access, panel to create US Cyber Force  CISO Series

About a Quarter of Today's "linux" News in Google News Came From One Domain and It's a Slopfarm  LXer: Linux News

ATIS and Linux Foundation ink open networking MoU  Telecompaper

Ghost-like backdoor for Linux has avoided antivirus detection for months  Cybernews

Guardians of Privacy: How Security-Driven Linux Distributions Are Rising to Meet Growing Digital Fears  Linux Journal

AMD breaks through 40 %, Linux reaches record value on Steam  igor´sLAB