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Linus Torvalds just merged the change to the Linux 6.13 kernel that goes ahead and deletes the ReiserFS file-system from the source tree. Removing ReiserFS from the Linux tree lightens the kernel by 32.8k lines of code...

ReiserFS Has Been Deleted From The Linux Kernel  Phoronix

Mesa 24.3 Open-Source Graphics Stack Adds Vulkan 1.3 Conformance for V3DV  9to5Linux

Mesa 24.3 has managed to make it out today, one week ahead of the previous release plans due to the lack of any major blocker bugs appearing. Mesa 24.3 has a lot of new feature work on the contained open-source Vulkan drivers as well as evolutionary improvements to their OpenGL drivers and other user-space 3D driver code...

PINE64’s New Smart Camera Runs Linux  How-To Geek

Chinese APT Gelsemium Targets Linux Systems with New WolfsBane Backdoor  The Hacker News

Ubuntu Linux has a worrying security flaw that may have gone unseen for a decade  TechRadar

The four pull requests adding various SoC and board/platform support have now been merged for the Linux 6.13 kernel. This includes support for many older Apple iPad/iPhones, supporting another SoC with a combination of RISC-V and ARM cores, and a wide variety of other mostly ARM hardware support...

Linux 6.13 SoC Updates Land With Initial Support For Many Older Apple Devices  Phoronix

'Alarming' security bugs lay low in Linux's needrestart server utility for 10 years  The Register

Zrythm 1.0 released today as a big milestone for this open-source digital audio workstation (DAW) software that caters from professional users down to beginners...

On top of an exciting Vulkan spec update out today, The Khronos Group has announced the Slang Initiative based on NVIDIA's open-source Slang compiler code...

Ahead of the upcoming freeze for Wine 10.0, VKD3D 1.14 is now available for this prominent Wine component that allows Direct3D 12 to be implemented over the Vulkan API for enhancing Windows games/apps running on Linux and other platforms...

Jim Zemlin, 'head janitor of open source,' marks 20 years at Linux Foundation  ZDNet

Gelsemium APT Hackers Attacking Linux Servers With New WolfsBane Malware  CybersecurityNews

Why I Ditched Linux for Samsung DeX  How-To Geek

The Error Detection And Correction (EDAC) subsystem updates landed this week for the ongoing Linux 6.13 kernel merge window...

Linux 6.13 EDAC Preps For Panther Lake H & Missing Support For Old Kabylake S CPUs  Phoronix

PHP 8.4 is out today as the newest annual major feature release to this widely-used scripting language...

Privilege Escalation Risks in ‘needrestart’ Utility Threaten Linux Systems; OSS-Fuzz Finds 26 Hidden Flaws  SOCRadar