Open-source News

With the much-delayed Mesa 23.2 finally having been released last week, Mesa 23.1.9 is out the door as the last planned maintenance release for that open-source driver series introduced back in Q2...

Mesa 23.1.9 Released To End Out The Series  Phoronix

Linux distros vulnerable to 'Looney Tunables' root bug  The Register

Make-me-root 'Looney Tunables' security hole on Linux needs your attention  The Register

The Linux Foundation launches AI.dev: Open Source GenAI & ML Summit  Martechcube

Motivated by a 25% performance degradation seen on an Intel Xeon Scalable dual socket server due to Indirect Branch Restricted Speculation (IBRS), Red Hat's Waiman Long has been working on a patch series to update the IBRS handling in different conditions for affected Intel processors on Linux...

Linux 6.7 To Update Intel IBRS Mitigation Handling To Enhance System Performance  Phoronix

'Looney Tunables' Bug Opens Millions of Linux Systems to Root Takeover  Dark Reading

Looney Tunables Exploit Gives Hackers Root Access To Linux, That's All Folks  Hot Hardware

Project Nephio Joins LF Networking to Accelerate Cloud Native Automation on Kubernetes  Yahoo Finance

Major Linux distros targeted by hackers exploiting this significant flaw  TechRadar

Redox OS, the open-source Rust-written operating system led by developer Jeremy Soller, has been drafting some exciting plans for the rest of this year and moving into 2024...

Redox OS Planning A Server Version, Stable ABI & Better ...  Phoronix

Google formally unveiled Android 14 today in New York City at its Made By Google event. With that, Google has also published the Android 14 Open-Source Project (AOSP)...

Android 14 Open-Source Project Released  Phoronix

Data Safety and Efficiency with Rdiff-backup  Linux Journal

20th National Cybersecurity Awareness Month kicks off  Network World

Linux tries to dump Windows' notoriously insecure RNDIS protocol  ZDNet

Linux tries to dump Windows' notoriously insecure RNDIS protocol  ZDNet

GNOME developer Christian Hergert recently demonstrated how Linux terminal emulators have the potential of running much faster. At the time it didn't sound like he would pursue the matter further but more recently he's begun working on folding some performance improvements into GNOME's VTE for a faster terminal experience...