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One of the set of patches for the Linux kernel that we have been looking forward to but that wasn't wrapped up in time for the recent Linux v6.14 merge window was the work enabling use of the AMD INVLPGB instruction on Zen 3 CPUs and newer for broadcast TLB invalidation. This can lead to a nice performance bump in some workloads while the eighth iteration of those patches were posted overnight...

AMD Broadcast TLB Invalidation Patches For Linux Updated, Intel RAR Eyed Next  Phoronix

The Linux Foundation by way of their LF Energy initiative announced today the release of SEAPATH 1.0, a security-hardened real-time hypervisor...

Chinese Hackers Attacking Linux Devices With New SSH Backdoor  CybersecurityNews

Linux Foundation Announces The SEAPATH 1.0 Hypervisor  Phoronix

Texas Instruments Joins the Linux Foundation's Civil Infrastructure Platform as a Gold Member  PR Newswire

Texas Instruments Joins the Linux Foundation's Civil Infrastructure Platform as a Gold Member  WV News

Don't Be Intimidated By Linux's Notorious GRUB Bootloader  How-To Geek

Red Hat engineer Anirban Sinha presented at FOSDEM 2025 last weekend in Brussels on F-UKI, a new project being worked on at Red Hat as part of the confidential computing push for loading guest firmware within a Unified Kernel Image (UKI) for confidential VMs...

WSL 2 will soon get support for another popular, and legendary Linux distro  Windows Central

SystemBC Strikes Linux: Why Proactive Defense Is Now Critical  Cyber Security News

SystemBC Strikes Linux: Why Proactive Defense Is Now Critical  Cyber Security News

New Linux Patches Yield Up To 3.3x Faster AES-CTR Performance On AMD Zen 5 CPUs  Phoronix

Google engineer Eric Biggers is known for some of his great crypto performance optimization patches to benefit the Linux kernel and his most recent patch series is yielding some very tantalizing results for AMD Zen 5 processors whether it be the Ryzen 9000 series, Ryzen AI 300 series, or EPYC 9005 server processors...

Techrights — Anti-Linux FUD Sites cybersecuritynews.com and gbhackers.com Turn Out to be LLM Slop, Even Plagiarism That Spreads Lies  LXer

Back in December was word that cURL would be dropping its "Hyper" Rust HTTP back-end due to little demand and lack of developer interest for that experimental code. The cURL 8.12 release is out today with Hyper stripped out...

The GNOME Mutter 48 compositor beta is now available for testing as part of this week's GNOME 48 beta milestone...

Windows Users Will Soon be Able to Say “I use Arch, BTW”  It's FOSS News

Flathub adds We Love Games and On the go sections plus details on what's next for their infrastructure  GamingOnLinux

Why have I wasted time flashing USB drives to install Windows (and Linux) on PCs when I could have been doing this all along?  Windows Central