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Linux customers, beware: TrickBot malware is no more Windows-exclusive  Entertainment Overdose

Linux users, beware: TrickBot malware is no longer Windows-exclusive  TechRadar

Besides the code itself to Intel's oneAPI being open-source, the company is being surprisingly open about its support even for areas of usage outside of x86_64 CPUs...

IBM Fully Homomorphic Encryption Toolkit Now Available For Linux  InfoQ.com

Samsung engineers responsible for the modern exFAT file-system driver for Linux have updated the adjoining "exfatprogs" user-space programs around this file-system. Notable to exfatprogs-1.0.4 is much faster "fsck" file-system checking support...

Linux's exFAT File-System Driver Can Now "FSCK" As Fast As Windows  Phoronix

Learn Linux: The complete 2020 bundle of online courses is 98% off for a limited time  ZDNet

4 FAQs to help master KVM management  TechTarget

Here's how you'll be able to run Windows apps on Chromebooks  About Chromebooks

If all goes well the Linux 5.8 kernel will be released as stable this weekend. Linus Torvalds last weekend expressed some uncertainty whether an extra release candidate would be required, but so far this week the kernel Git activity is light, thus for the moment at least is looking like 5.8 will be christened on Sunday...

Any difference between various Linux installs on old Mac vs old PC? - Linux & Unix  BleepingComputer

Apollo Lake industrial mini-PC supports Linux  LinuxGizmos.com

The Speakup screen reader that is built into the kernel and allows for speaking all text printed to the text console from boot-up to shutdown for assisting blind individuals is now being promoted out of staging with Linux 5.9...

"Speakup" Promoted Out Of Staging For Linux 5.9  Phoronix

Fully Homomorphic Encryption Comes To Linux  iProgrammer

Linux dominates supercomputing  Network World

The X.Org/X11 Server has been hit by many security vulnerabilities over the past decade as security researchers eye more open-source software. Some of these vulnerabilities date back to even the 80's and 90's given how X11 has built up over time. The X.Org Server security was previously characterized as being even worse than it looks while today the latest vulnerabilities have been made public...

Learn Linux Inside Out With 110 Hours of Training for Just $69  XDA Developers

The developers working long on the GTK4 toolkit are finally close to declaring version 4.0...

BootHole fixes causing boot problems across multiple Linux distros  ZDNet