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How Behavioral Analytics Stop Linux C2 & Credential Theft  Palo Alto Networks

KDE Plasma 6.6.3 Makes KWin’s Screencasting Feature More Robust for PipeWire 1.6  9to5Linux

Blender 5.1 is out today with many exciting improvements for this leading open-source 3D modeling software. From AMD GPU hardware ray-tracing being enabled by default at long last to more mature Vulkan support and performance, Blender 5.1 is a great release...

4 Linux init systems that almost replaced systemd (and why they failed)  How-To Geek

AppArmor Flaws Put Millions of Linux Systems at Risk  Petri IT Knowledgebase

Intel Graphics Compiler 2.30.1 is now available for this LLVM/Clang-based compiler stack used by the Compute Runtime on Linux and under Windows is used both for graphics and compute...

Intel Graphics Compiler 2.30.1 Exposes HF8 Support For Crescent Island  Phoronix

Bcachefs 1.37 Released With Stable Erasure Coding and Linux 7 Support  Linuxiac

I tried ML4W and got a super-customized Hyprland desktop in minutes - it's easy  ZDNET

EndeavourOS Titan released, devs comment on age verification laws  GamingOnLinux

Debian-based Br OS 13.4 now available  Notebookcheck

If you miss GPU-Z on Linux check out the new GPU-T  GamingOnLinux

Peropesis 3.2 keeps the CLI-only world alive with the 6.18.2 kernel, Bash 5.3, and more  Notebookcheck

Intel today announced their Core Ultra 200HX Plus series mobile processors as their refresh for Arrow Lake HX. The announcement of the Core Ultra 200HX Plus also mentions a new Intel Binary Optimization Tool software package that has the potential of being quite interesting...

Intel Announces Core Ultra 200HX Plus Along With "Intel Binary Optimization Tool"  Phoronix

Mesa & AMDGPU Linux Driver See Patches For The Sony PS5 GPU  Phoronix

Open-source developer Andy Nguyen recently demonstrated porting Linux to the Sony PlayStation 5. The PS5 notably uses a custom AMD SoC and with some patches is able to play nicely with the open-source AMD graphics driver stack...

Big moves in Linux filesystems as new bcachefs lands and KDE adds support for Apple's APFS  theregister.com

A patch posted today to the Linux kernel mailing list provides an ARM64-optimized CRC64-NVMe implementation for nearly a 6x improvement on modern Arm SoCs...

Ageless Linux Emerges to Protest OS-Level Age Verification Laws  It's FOSS