Open-source News

Microsoft updates Recall feature to address privacy concerns but Linux remains a safer choice for some  BetaNews

CUPS vulnerabilities could put Linux systems at risk  TechTarget

With the Linux 6.12 merge window wrapping up this weekend and the bulk of the new feature merges now in the tree, I've begun running some Linux 6.12 benchmarks. Here is an initial look at Linux 6.10 vs. 6.11 vs. 6.12 Git on an AMD Ryzen 9 9950X desktop...

Early Linux 6.12 Kernel Benchmarks Showing Some Nice Gains On AMD Zen 5  Phoronix

New Cosmic DE Alpha 2 update adds slew of customisation options alongside app and settings improvements for the System76 Linux desktop  Notebookcheck.net

A quartet of Linux CVEs draws exploit fears among open source community  Cybersecurity Dive

Similar to the ACPI CPUFreq and AMD/Intel P-State CPU frequency scaling driver and scaling governor benchmarks and power efficiency comparisons I routinely do on Phoronix, when recently having the Supermicro AmpereOne server in the lab with the 192-core A192-32X processor, I carried out some CPPC CPUFreq schedutil vs. performance governor benchmarks for curiosity and reference purposes while looking at the performance and power efficiency...

Printing vulnerability affecting Linux distros raises alarm  ComputerWeekly.com

CUPS flaws allow remote code execution on Linux systems under certain conditions  Security Affairs

Zorin OS 17.2: Hands-On with the Latest Update  How-To Geek

Intel software engineers have released version 0.7 of Open PGL, their open-source Path Guiding Library (PGL) that can be used by 3D renderers to enjoy state-of-the-art path guiding methods for better sampling quality and efficiency...

Worried about that critical RCE Linux bug? Here's why you can relax  ZDNet

Apache CouchDB 3.4.1 was released today after the developers decided at the last minute before releasing CouchDB 3.4 to drop automatic upgrading of password hashes... Thus CouchDB 3.4.1 is out as the big "CouchDB 3.4" release. The CouchDB 3.4 series brings a number of performance improvements, QuickJS as an alternative to the SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine, and other enhancements...

Critical Linux CUPS Printing System Flaws Could Allow Remote Command Execution  The Hacker News

OpenPrinting CUPS Flaws Hit Major Linux Distributions  Channel E2E

Patches for wiring up async device shutdown within the Linux kernel were queued via the driver core branch for the in-development Linux 6.12 kernel. However, at the last minute these asynchronous device shutdown patches were reverted so that they can be reworked and hopefully land for the Linux v6.13 kernel in the new year...

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Sound Open Firmware 2.11 is now available for this open-source audio DSP firmware infrastructure and SDK project backed by Intel, AMD, and other IHVs/ISVs. With SOF 2.11 comes support for new hardware from both AMD and Intel...

The upstream Linux 6.11 kernel introduced the ability to easily produce a Pacman kernel package for Arch Linux with the new "make pacman-pkg" target. With Linux 6.12 new additions to the Kbuild code make it easy to also produce a debug kernel build for Arch Linux systems...

Upstream Linux 6.12 Makes It Easier To Build A Debug Kernel For Arch Linux  Phoronix