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Earlier in the year Microsoft proposed the "Hornet" Linux security module to provide signature verification capabilities for eBPF programs to provide for better system security. It's been months since hearing anything more about it and not being merged, but yesterday they "reintroduced" it to the Linux kernel community...

Microsoft Is Back To Working On "Hornet" Security For eBPF Programs On Linux  Phoronix

Last month the Vulkan VK_EXT_present_timing extension was merged after 5+ years in development. VK_EXT_present_timing ended up debuting at the end of November within the Vulkan 1.4.335 spec update to much excitement for providing functionality to obtain information on the presentation engine's display for accurate timing information and to assist in scheduling a present to happen no earlier than a desired time. This is a big win for helping avoid game stuttering and more while now the Mesa support for it is nearly complete and could be merged soon...

Linus Torvalds merged the Device Mapper "DM" changes overnight that include one stand-out change for Linux 6.19...

Retro gaming handheld with Android and Linux dual OS just got launched by Abxylute with an introductory offer  PC Guide

Following yesterday's release of a new llm-scaler-omni beta there is now a new beta feature release of llm-scaler-vllm that provides the Intel-optimized version of vLLM within a Docker container that is set and ready to go for AI on modern Arc Graphics hardware. With today's llm-scaler-vllm 1.2 beta release there is support for a variety of additional large language models (LLMs) and other improvements...

How Linux Foundation Unites Open Standards for Agentic AI  Technology Magazine

New Multi-Platform 01flip Ransomware Supports Multi-platform Architecture, Including Windows and Linux  CybersecurityNews

R36s  Hackaday

December 11, 2025  Hackaday

Building Rust Apps For Cheap Hackable Handheld Console  Hackaday

Linux Foundation Launches Agentic AI Group to Set Standards for Autonomous Systems  Hackernoon

What’s New in KDE Gear 25.12 — A Major Update for KDE Software  Linux Journal

Linux Foundation Launches Agentic AI Group to Set Standards for Autonomous Systems  Hackernoon

New 01Flip Ransomware Targets Both Windows and Linux Systems  GBHackers News

OpenAI, Anthropic, and Industry Leaders Form Agentic AI Foundation Under Linux Foundation  CXO Digitalpulse

FOSS Weekly #25.50: Linux Power Users, Helium Browser, Two New Linux Phones, Ubuntu Starter and More  It's FOSS

OpenSUSE vs. Manjaro: Which powerhouse Linux distro is best for you?  ZDNET

The big set of networking subsystem updates was recently merged for the ongoing Linux 6.19 merge window. There are some enticing core networking improvements like a big performance improvement for heavy transfer workloads, Bluetooth PAST enablement, and more. Plus a lot of wired and wireless networking driver activity and new hardware enablement...

Merged today to the Intel open-source "ANV" Vulkan driver in Mesa 26.0 is introducing a shader VMA allocator. Long story short this new allocator steps toward enabling Vulkan ray-tracing capture/replay support, which can come in hand for debugging issues with Vulkan ray-tracing on Intel graphics hardware under Linux and similarly to assist in optimizing for better performance...