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Intel engineers yesterday released QATlib 25.08 as the first new update in nearly one year for this QuickAssist Technology library. Intel QuickAssist allows hardware-accelerated offloading of various security authentication and compression operations from the CPU onto dedicated accelerator IP found in recent Xeon processors. Intel's QATlib is the open-source library for enabling that magic to happen from the user-space side...

Linux Phone  Hackaday

8-Core ARM Pocket Computer Runs NixOS  Hackaday

AMD Bringing SmartMux Support To Linux 6.17 For Better Hybrid GPU Laptop Support  Phoronix

For the upcoming Linux 6.17 kernel cycle AMD already queued fixes for GPU compute on some older AMD hardware, improved debugging support for AMDGPU, and other enhancements. Sent out today was a final batch of feature changes for AMDGPU/AMDKFD expected for the upcoming Linux 6.17 merge window. Most notable is AMD SmartMux support coming to Linux...

Linux Terminal Finally Hits Galaxy Z Flip 7, Fold 7 Doesn’t Make the Cut  SammyGuru

The first release candidate of LLVM 21.1 is now available for testing, which under their modern versioning scheme will represent the first stable version of the LLVM 21 compiler stack...

Android's Linux Terminal arrives on the Galaxy Z Flip 7, but Z Fold 7 users are left out  Android Authority

For those using an AMD Radeon RX 500 "Polaris" graphics card on Linux and routinely suspend/resume your system, going into the Linux 6.16 kernel and then to be back-ported to the stable series is a fix where the AMDGPU driver could end up producing a lot of spam in the kernel log...

Linux Receiving Fix For AMD Radeon Polaris GPUs Producing Lots Of Log Spam  Phoronix

Install Zoom on Linux: Best practices and troubleshooting tips  TechTarget

H2Miner Attacking Linux, Windows, and Containers to Mine Monero  CyberSecurityNews

Linux has over 6% of the desktop market? Yes, you read that right - here's how  ZDNET

Some commits merged today to FFmpeg Git provide additional hand-tuned Assembly code for AVX-512 with capable Intel and AMD processors...

Linux market share just crossed 5%, hitting a new milestone  MSN

Linux market share just crossed 5%, hitting a new milestone  PCWorld

LibreOffice 25.2.5 Office Suite Is Now Available for Download with 63 Bug Fixes  9to5Linux

H2Miner Targets Linux, Windows, and Containers to Illicitly Mine Monero  gbhackers.com

H2Miner Attacks Linux, Windows, and Containers for Monero Mining Operations  Cyber Press

Mesa 25.2 entered its feature freeze yesterday with many exciting driver improvements with new features and performance optimizations while one feature that wasn't ready for merging in this quarter's release is Magma, which is a recent effort by Google engineers working on a cross-platform system call interface for Mesa. And it's written in Rust...