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GCC 11 Releasing Next Week With Intel AMX, New CPU Support, More C++20/C++23  Phoronix

Train at your own pace to become a master ethical hacker for $43  ZDNet

LunarG, the consulting firm known for their contributions around Vulkan and also having been involved with Mesa development over the years and experimenting with Gallium3D features and other interesting efforts like the past LunarGLASS, is looking to hire another experienced graphics driver development engineer...

LunarG Is Hiring Another Graphics Driver Engineer  Phoronix

With it appearing all the essentials are in place for IBM POWER10 Linux support, in recent days we have seen an uptick in patches from IBM engineers working on POWER10 performance optimizations...

MYS-8MMX i.MX 8M Mini SBC runs Yocto 3.0 Linux or Ubuntu 18.04  CNX Software

Playing adventure games has always been a big part of my experience with computers. From the earliest text-based adventure games to 2D pixel art, full-motion video, and 3D games, the adventure game genre has provided me with a lot of fond memories.

Sometimes I want to revisit those old games, but many were released before Linux was even a thing, so how do I go about replaying those games? I use ScummVM, which is honestly one of my favorite open source projects.

What is ScummVM

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The drama in kernel land this week was University of Minnesota being banned from Linux kernel development over research they previously carried out looking at "hypocrite commits" and the possibility of intentionally introducing vulnerabilities (such as use-after-free bugs) into the kernel source tree. This weekend those researchers involved published an open letter to the Linux kernel community...

University of Minnesota Linux "Hypocrite Commit" Researchers Publish Open Letter  Phoronix

How to install WHM Cpanel on AlmaLinux 8 Server - Linux Shout  H2S Media

Critical RCE Bug Found in Homebrew Package Manager for macOS and Linux  The Hacker News

Critical RCE Bug Found in Homebrew Package Manager for macOS and Linux  Internet

Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 21364 Lets You Run Linux GUI Applications  MUO - MakeUseOf

After it was pushed back last week due to blocker bugs, on Friday it was determined that Fedora 34 is now in proper shape to officially ship next week...

Fedora 34 To Release Next Week As A Very Exciting Update  Phoronix

New cryptomining malware builds an army of Windows, Linux bots  BleepingComputer

Queued this week into perf/core ahead of the imminent Linux 5.13 merge window is perf subsystem bring-up for Intel's next-gen Alder Lake processors...

Linux 5.13 To Add Perf Support For Intel Alder Lake  Phoronix

Sony Linux engineer Peter Enderborg has proposed a soft watchdog for the Linux kernel to carry out pre-defined tasks in certain situations but not being like hardware watchdogs that would reboot the system if a problem crops up...

Sony Proposes A New Soft Watchdog For Linux  Phoronix