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Microsoft today released an updated version of Windows Subsystem for Linux "WSL" that allows running Linux binaries atop Windows 11. There is only one change noted and it's for a yet-to-be-public security vulnerability...

Windows Subsystem For Linux "WSL" Updated For A Yet-To-Be-Public Security Vulnerability  Phoronix

Linux Kernel 6.15 Hit by Btrfs Log Tree Corruption: Fixes Submitted  WebProNews

Microsoft Announces Open-Source "Wassette" Using Rust + WebAssembly To Help AI Agents  Phoronix

Microsoft formally announced today its newest open-source project: Wassette. The Wassette is MIT-licensed and includes Linux and macOS support alongside Windows while being a Rust+WebAssembly-based project focused on securing AI agents...

Updating your Linux kernel sounds scary, but here's why it's no different from a Windows update  xda-developers.com

Linux 6.17: AppArmor Adds AF_UNIX Mediation and Security Enhancements  WebProNews

Mesa 25.2 is now available as the newest quarterly feature release for this set of open-source Linux graphics drivers predominantly for OpenGL, Vulkan, and video acceleration support on the Linux desktop...

Test and Measurement: ATIS, Linux Foundation seal 5G/6G collaboration  RCR Wireless News

KDE Desktop: 9 of the Best Features You Should Be Using  How-To Geek

Yes, you can edit video like a pro on Linux - here are my 4 go-to apps  ZDNET

5 Linux distros I recommend to help businesses cut costs and boost security  ZDNET

5 command line backup tools every Linux user should use for desktops and servers  ZDNET

On top of all the Linux 6.17 kernel graphics driver feature changes that landed last week like promoting Panther Lake's Xe3 graphics to on-by-default, SR-IOV for Battlemage GPUs, multi-GPU preparations, Wildcat Lake enablement work, and more, some additional Intel Xe kernel graphics driver changes were submitted today for merging to Linux 6.17 in the coming days...

Independent Distro KaOS Linux 2025.07 Is Out with KDE Plasma 6.4 and Linux 6.15  9to5Linux

The AlmaLinux project announced today that there is now "native" NVIDIA graphics driver support for AlmaLinux 10 and AlmaLinux 9 using NVIDIA's open-source kernel modules that are now conveniently packaged in an AlmaLinux repository for easy usage complete with NVIDIA's closed-source user-space packages like CUDA...

A Year of Silence! Plague Discovered, the Linux Malware No One Had Seen  Red Hot Cyber

Merged last week for Linux 6.17 were the FUTEX locking changes that include addressing an observed performance bottleneck...

On Linux 6.15.3+ there have been increased reports of log tree corruption being hit by users of the Btrfs file-system. Fortunately, a fix has now been submitted for Linux 6.17 Git and then for back-porting to the recent stable kernel versions...