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Linux kernel flaw added to CISA’s exploited vulnerabilities list  SC Media

Android and Chrome OS already are carrying the VirtIO Media driver as a means of enabling virtualization of host media devices into a guest while now patch review is underway in trying to get VirtIO Media upstreamed in the mainline Linux kernel...

VirtIO Media Driver Upstreaming Pursued For Relaying V4L2 Media Devices To Guests  Phoronix

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Canonical Delivers Ubuntu Tar Archives for Easy Installation in the Windows Subsystem for Linux  Hackster.io

After recently re-visiting the AMD EPYC 9005 series AVX-512 performance, I followed up with some fresh SMT benchmarks looking at the performance benefits and power of toggling Simultaneous Multi-Threading on the 5th Gen AMD EPYC "Turin" hardware. Here are some fresh numbers looking at the SMT performance with AMD Zen 5 server processors.

CISA: Actively exploited Linux kernel flaw requires immediate remediation  SC Media

CREDEBL comes under Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust  Biometric Update

AMD Talks Up IREE/MLIR Programming For Ryzen AI NPUs  Phoronix

While the AMDXDNA driver was merged for the Linux 6.14 kernel for enabling the Ryzen AI NPUs atop a mainline kernel build, there's still the user-space software needed for making use of the neural processing units found in Ryzen AI SoCs. AMD talked more about programming Ryzen AI NPUs last weekend in Belgium at the FOSDEM 2025 developer conference...

KDE Gear 24.12.2 Improves Dolphin, Itinerary, Tokodon, and Many Other KDE Apps  9to5Linux

Monster Hunter Wilds looks unplayable on Steam Deck but good on Desktop Linux  GamingOnLinux

Intel's software engineers working on the OpenVINO AI toolkit today released OpenVINO 2025.0 that brings support for the much talked about Deepseek models along with other large language models (LLMs), performance improvements to some of the existing model support, and other changes...

LibreOffice 25.2 is out this morning as the newest half-year update to this leading cross-platform, free software office suite...

Mabox Linux integrates Firefox 135 in the latest update alongside a new kernel and more  Notebookcheck.net

LibreOffice 25.2 Open-Source Office Suite Officially Released, This Is What’s New  9to5Linux

Mesa 25.0-rc2 was released yesterday and it's rather boring on the changes, but that's a good thing during this bug fixing phase...

Critical Linux 0-Day Attack Warning: U.S. Government Says Act Now  Forbes

Ubuntu installations on WSL 2 are now better than ever and don't require the Microsoft Store  Windows Central

With the recent GNU Binutils 2.44 release, one of the changes is worth calling out in its own article: the GNU Gold linker is now officially deprecated and is now being segregated to its own extra Binutils package but risks being removed all together without new developer volunteers stepping up to maintain this linker...