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Hello Bootkitty! Linux Gets A UEFI Bootkit  PC Perspective

For those with some extra time over the US holiday weekend, LibreOffice 25.2 Alpha 1 has been published as the newest feature version of this open-source, cross-platform office suite that is a great alternative to the likes of Microsoft Office...

LibreOffice 25.2 Alpha 1 Open-Source Office Suite Released  Phoronix

Use CasaOS to Easily Manage Your Homelab Server  Make Tech Easier

Godot Engine Exploited to Spread Malware on Windows, macOS, Linux  HackRead

Calibre 7.22: Better eReader Support, New Restart Option  OMG! Ubuntu!

Arch Linux installer now slightly less masochistic  The Register

Following the release last month of the EPYC 9005 series processors, AMD published a BIOS and Workload Tuning Guide of straight-forward settings recommendations for those running new EPYC Turin servers to optimize the performance of different workloads like databases and Java to HPC and AI/ML software. Recently I started running some benchmarks to look at the impact of AMD's recommended BIOS tuning and beginning this comparison by looking at the performance (and power) impact across a range of AI / machine learning workloads on a 5th Gen AMD EPYC server.

AMD BIOS Tuning Guide Impact For Boosting AI/ML Performance On EPYC 9005 Series  Phoronix

Along with the staging changes, Greg Kroah-Hartman this morning also sent out the USB/Thunderbolt changes for the nearly-over Linux 6.13 merge window...

Best cheap Steam Deck / Linux games in the Steam Autumn Sale 2024  GamingOnLinux

The latest from Prime Gaming - November 29 edition - more for Steam Deck / Linux  GamingOnLinux

Greg Kroah-Hartman is out today with all of the pull requests for Linux 6.13 of the areas of the kernel he oversees. Most notable with the updates on the staging side are clearing out several drivers seeing no real code activity and no apparent users of the mainline Linux kernel... As such the staging pull lightens the kernel by around 107k lines of code...

A number of Vulkan Video enhancements landed this week in FFmpeg Git thanks to open-source developer Lynne that has been advancing the Vulkan Video encode/decode capabilities in this widely-used multimedia library...

Linux 6.13 Staging Clears Out 107k Lines Of Code From Old & Unmaintained Drivers  Phoronix

Just a quick reminder this "Black Friday" if you would like to help show your support...

The UBports community today released Ubuntu Touch OTA-7 as the latest version of the smartphone/tablet Linux platform currently running off an Ubuntu 20.04 base...

Proving Linux is not a safe sanctuary, ESET finds first Linux-targeting UEFI bootkit malware  BetaNews

Ubuntu Touch OTA-7 Released for Linux Phones with PulseAudio Security Fixes  9to5Linux

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Building modern apps can seem overwhelming with the many tools and technologies available. However, having the right tools can make

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