Open-source News

Linux Kernel May Soon Support USB 3.x on Apple M1 and M2 MacBooks and Desktops  TechPowerUp

Linux Kernel May Soon Support USB3 on Apple M1 and M2 MacBooks and Desktops  TechPowerUp

The first release candidate of OpenZFS 2.4 is now available for testing of this ZFS file-system implementation for Linux and FreeBSD systems...

Arch Linux remains under attack as DDoS enters week 2 - here's a workaround  ZDNET

APT36 hackers abuse Linux .desktop files to install malware in new attacks  BleepingComputer

Affordable Linux Laptop (Best Budget Picks)  Vocal

Arch Linux continues to feel the force of a DDoS attack after two brutal weeks — attackers yet to be identified as project struggles to restore full service  Tom's Hardware

Desktop Linux Keeps Winning the Wrong Battles  How-To Geek

Is This AI’s Linux Moment? Inside 0G’s Labs Push for an Open, Verifiable Stack for AI  HackerNoon

Microsoft’s open source journey: From 20,000 lines of Linux code to AI at global scale  Microsoft Azure

Linux Malware Delivered via Malicious RAR Filenames Evades Antivirus Detection  The Hacker News

Being worked on for a number of months now is GL_EXT_mesh_shader as an extension for bringing mesh shaders to OpenGL. This is an alternative to NVIDIA's GL_NV_mesh_shader extension being worked on for Mesa drivers and in particular the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver...

Released on Thursday were new Ubuntu X1E "Concept" install images for installing the modified Ubuntu 25.04 environment on Qualcomm Snapdragon X1 powered laptops...

New Ubuntu Snapdragon X1E Concept ISO Published - Still A Mess On The Acer Swift 14 AI  Phoronix

3 Useful Linux Apps to Try This Weekend (Aug 22-24)  Yahoo! Tech

3 Useful Linux Apps to Try This Weekend (Aug 22-24)  How-To Geek

Chromium Adds Native HDR Support for Linux Wayland  It's FOSS News

FFmpeg 8.0 is now available! FFmpeg 8.0 is a magnificent update to this widely-used open-source multimedia library and with this new version is the introduction of an OpenAI Whisper filter for automatic speech recognition, many Vulkan Video improvements for greater GPU-accelerated video handling, and a number of CPU performance optimizations...

APT36: Targets Indian BOSS Linux Systems with Weaponized AutoStart Files  CYFIRMA

Arch Linux takes a pounding as DDoS attack enters week two  theregister.com