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GNU Linux-Libre 5.12 Kernel Released for Those Who Seek 100% Freedom for Their PCs  LXer

Working on the Linux power management code is a never-ending and increasingly important task. The ACPI and power management updates were sent in today for the Linux 5.13 merge window though this isn't as exciting as some of the recent kernels heavy on CPUFreq and P-State changes...

Linux 5.13 Power Management Updates Submitted  Phoronix

The Linux Foundation's demands to the University of Minnesota for its bad Linux patches security project  ZDNet

1. Linux kernel team rejects University of Minnesota researchers’ apology  Ars Technica
2. The Linux Foundation's demands to the University of Minnesota for its bad Linux patches security project  ZDNet
3. Trust and Taint - University of Minnesota Banned By Linux  iProgrammer
4. Minnesota University Apologizes for Contributing Malicious Code to the Linux Project  The Hacker News
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Linux kernel team rejects University of Minnesota researchers’ apology  Ars Technica

SiFive reveals X280 core and AndeSight RISC-V IDE moves to v5.0  LinuxGizmos.com

As expected, support for the initial Apple M1 SoC support and 2020 Apple Silicon devices (Mac Mini, MacBook Pro, MacBook Air) has landed into the Linux 5.13 kernel...

Initial Support For The Apple M1 Lands In Linux 5.13  Phoronix

4 Ways to Generate Strong Pre-Shared Keys on Linux  MUO - MakeUseOf

Boxedwine is an emulator that can run Windows apps on the web (or Linux, Mac, or… Windows)  Liliputing

Here's how to play full Xbox games on Linux with xCloud (video)  Pocketnow

AMD EPYC 72F3 Linux Performance For 8-Core Zen 3 Server CPU  Phoronix

Over the past month we have been quite impressed by the performance of the EPYC 7003 series Milan processors when looking at the top-tier parts, but how does Zen 3 do for lower-tier server CPUs? Recently we were supplied with two EPYC 72F3 processors from AMD for these 8-core high performance SKUs. In our initial look at the EPYC 72F3 Linux performance is seeing how they compare to the similar previous-generation EPYC 7F32 processor.

Linux Fu: A Little Bit Of (Network) History Repeating Itself  Hackaday

Linux 5.11 brought mainline support for Intel Software Guard Extensions (SGX) after a lengthy mainlining process. Building off that SGX enclaves support in the mainline kernel more recently has been support for SGX with KVM virtualization and now for mainline Linux 5.13 that guest-side support is landing for KVM guests...

Linux 5.13 Bringing Code For Intel SGX Within KVM Guests  Phoronix

Qualys Extends VMDR to Patch Linux Workloads  AiThority

Linux 101: What is the Linux $PATH?  TechRepublic

The Khronos Group used the International Workshop on OpenCL (IWOCL 2021) to release OpenCL 3.0.7 as the latest OpenCL 3 revision that brings with it some new extensions...