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A Microsoft Research project that was quietly announced a few years ago to some fanfare but not hearing much about since has been Demikernel as their library OS architecture for kernel-bypass I/O. A Phoronix reader brought up Demikernel this week and while it hasn't been talked about much in recent years it does remain under active development with the most recent commits as of hours ago...

IBM isn't formally releasing Power11 processors until next year, but their software engineers continue being quite busy preparing the Linux kernel and other open-source software for Power11. The newest on the kernel side is enabling support for KVM nested guests on IBM Power11 platforms...

China-linked APT Gelsemium uses a new Linux backdoor dubbed WolfsBane  Security Affairs

For those still running a 1st Generation Xeon Scalable "Skylake" era server, support for it within the open-source Coreboot firmware may continue to improve all these years later thanks to firmware consulting firm 9elements...

Wine 9.22 is out this weekend ahead of the Wine 10.0-rc1 in two weeks...

KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his traditional weekly development recap that highlights all of the interesting work taking place within the KDE desktop space...

Following the recent messaging from Bcachefs lead developer Kent Oversteet that Bcachefs changes for Linux 6.13 were rejected on the basis of his Code of Conduct, the Linux CoC committee has now formally announced their decision...

Cyber Analyst with Kali Linux Installed on WSL  Medium

The x86 platform driver updates were merged this week for the in-development Linux 6.13 and include some nice refinements, especially for those using AMD Ryzen on Linux...

AMD 3D V-Cache Optimizer Driver Headlines The x86 Platform Enhancements In Linux 6.13  Phoronix

Public developer spats put bcachefs at risk in Linux  The Register

Public developer disagreements endangering bcachefs  The Register

There are some new improvements in Linux 6.13 for the Intel TDX code for Trust Domain Extensions in providing hardware-based security protections for virtual machines on recent Xeon processors...

Linux 6.13 Enhances Interactions Between Intel TDX Guests & VMMs  Phoronix

Novel WolfsBane backdoor leveraged in Chinese attacks against Linux systems  SC Media

Following the Linux 6.13 DRM feature pull this week that brought many new open-source kernel graphics driver features, it's now time to further stabilize that new feature code with fixes. Sent out today were a batch of fixes for the AMDGPU/AMDKFD kernel driver code targeting the early Linux 6.13 state. In addition to fixes though is also allowing the AMDGPU Display Core "DC" code to build properly on LoongArch hardware for allowing recent AMD Radeon GPUs to work on these Chinese systems...

AMD Linux Graphics Driver Now Allows Display Support With Modern GPUs On LoongArch  Phoronix

Linux devices hit with even more new malware, this time from Chinese hackers  TechRadar

Oracle Linux 9.5 comes with OpenJDK 17, .NET 9.0, and more  Notebookcheck.net

China-linked hackers target Linux systems with new spying malware  The Record from Recorded Future News