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Currently when hibernating a Linux system LZO compression is used for preserving the memory contents while a new patch series posted today by Qualcomm allow for changing out the compression API used and makes LZ4 a new option during Linux hibernation...

Linux Patches Allow Changing Hibernation Compression Format ...  Phoronix

Golpe a Linux: este fallo de seguridad afecta a casi todas las ...  ADSLZone

Looney Tunables: New Linux Flaw Enables Privilege Escalation on Major Distributions  The Hacker News

Linux Tries To Dump Windows' Notoriously Insecure RNDIS Protocol  Slashdot

“Looney Tunables” Flaw in Linux Allows Root Access  Cyber Kendra

Linux Vulnerability Exposes Millions of Systems to Attack  HackRead

Bug in critical Linux library gives root: How big's the risk?  The Stack

New 'Looney Tunables' Linux bug gives root on major distros  BleepingComputer

New 'Looney Tunables' Linux bug gives root on major distros  BleepingComputer

The Linux Foundation Launches New Event: AI.dev: Open Source ...  Datanami

A nasty vulnerability has been made public today concerning Glibc's dynamic loader that can lead to full root privileges being obtained by local users. This affects Linux distributions of the past two years with the likes of Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, 23.04, Fedora 38, and others vulnerable to this local privilege escalation issue...

Glibc Dynamic Loader Hit By A Nasty Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability  Phoronix

Intel Comes Up With A Way For Vulkan Sparse Support On Their Existing Linux Driver  Phoronix

The biggest hindrance for using Intel Arc Graphics for Linux gaming has been the lack of Vulkan sparse support as needed for running many newer Windows DirectX 12 games atop Valve's Steam Play with Proton using VKD3D-Proton. Intel recently did implement Vulkan sparse support for ANV in Mesa 23.3 but it only works with their yet-to-be-upstreamed and still-experimental Xe kernel driver. But now Intel Linux graphics driver engineers have managed to pull off a solution for getting the sparse resources supported while using the existing i915 kernel DRM driver...

It was a decade ago that a security researcher commented on X.Org Server security being even "worse than it looks" and that the GLX code for example was "80,000 lines of sheer terror" and hundreds of bugs being uncovered throughout the codebase. In 2023 new X.Org security vulnerabilities continue to be uncovered, two of which were made public today and date back to X11R2 code from the year 1988...

X.Org Hit By New Security Vulnerabilities - Two Date Back To 1988 ...  Phoronix

Mastering User and Permission Management: Fortifying Your Linux Bastion  Linux Journal

13 main things in which Linux OS can be more convenient for you ...  Redditch Standard

elementary OS 7.1 Linux distribution focuses on privacy, inclusivity ...  BetaNews