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Last week was the review embargo lift on the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 graphics card while today the review embargo lifts on the GeForce RTX 5080, both of which graphics cards are officially available in the retail channel tomorrow (30 January). Due to waiting on the official NVIDIA R570 Linux driver release that is recommended for the RTX 50 series Linux gaming, today's tests at Phoronix are looking at the GeForce RTX 5080 GPU compute performance.

Here's the easiest thing Linux developers can do to win more users  ZDNet

Intel's Latest Linux Driver Hints At Several More Discrete Arc Battlemage GPUs  Hot Hardware

As expected, GNU C Library "glibc" 2.41 is now available as the newest half-year feature release to this important C library for Linux systems and other environments...

GNU C Library 2.41 Released With New C23 Features, Intel / AMD / Arm CPU Optimizations  Phoronix

Bytedance is praising eBPF as the in-kernel virtual machine for dynamic programs to help speed-up network packet processing, greater tracing and profiling abilities, and a wide-range of other purposes for these dynamic in-kernel programs. By tapping eBPF, Bytedance is reporting a 10% improvement to their networking throughput...

Bytedance Praises eBPF - Notes 10% Improvement In Network Throughput  Phoronix

Hackers Using SparkRAT In Wild To Attack Windows, macOS, and Linux Systems  CybersecurityNews

AMD Mesa driver guru Marek Olšák has landed a new set of 48 patches into Mesa 25.0-devel Git for refactoring various AMD-related driver code to work on improving the ACO compiler support within the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver...

Ubuntu's Snapdragon X1 Elite Laptop Support Enables Experimental Hardware Video Decode  Phoronix

Canonical has been maintaining experimental/testing ISOs of Ubuntu Linux for Snapdragon X1 Elite laptops. New ISOs for testing were recently published and allow enabling more features/functionality for these ARM laptops under Ubuntu...

Hackers Attacking Windows, macOS, and Linux systems With SparkRAT  GBHackers

The Network File System (NFS) client and server changes have been merged for the ongoing Linux 6.14 merge window...

The LLVM 20 compiler stack saw its code branched from the mainline Git codebase last night as release preparations begin for what will be LLVM 20.1 as the inaugural stable release...

Ubuntu upgrade had our old Nvidia GPU begging for a downgrade  The Register

System76 Meerkat Mini PC gets a nice upgrade with Intel Core Ultra  GamingOnLinux

Lynx Ransomware Infrastructure To Attack Windows, Linux, ESXi & Affiliate Panel Uncovered  CybersecurityNews

Facebook has started banning users for mentioning Linux OS  hi-Tech.ua

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Running large language models like DeepSeek locally on your machine is a powerful way to explore AI capabilities without relying

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Trusted computing encryption and cyber security for Linux embedded computing software introduced by SYSGO  Military & Aerospace Electronics