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Critical IXON VPN Vulnerabilities Let Attackers Gain Access to Windows & Linux Systems  CybersecurityNews

The XPG Alpha Wireless Gaming Mouse boasts a 16K DPI sensor and retails for $65~80 USD but turns out it doesn't even work properly under Linux without a pending kernel patch...

XPG Alpha Wireless Gaming Mouse Being Quirked For Linux Support  Phoronix

The SHA-256 code within the Linux kernel's cryptography subsystem is in the process of being refactoring so that it's available via the crypto's library API and also opening it up to support architecture-optimized implementations...

Mold 2.38 is out this weekend as the latest feature update to this open-source, high-speed linker...

6 things I wish I knew before installing SteamOS on my Asus ROG Ally X  XDA

I regret switching to Linux, even though I wanted to love it  XDA

Forget WinRAR: These Are the Best Native Archive Managers for Linux  How-To Geek

Ahead of the Linux 6.16 merge window opening up in just one month, the new Zblock allocator was queued up into Andrew Morton's "MM" tree of memory management material likely destined for the next kernel merge window. Zblock is showing much potential as a compressed slab memory allocator...

Zblock Compressed Slab Memory Allocator Looks Like It Could Be Coming In Linux 6.16  Phoronix

Tests indicate Intel's '200S Boost' feature provides no real gain for Arrow Lake CPUs on Linux  Tom's Hardware

'Fall Guys' on Linux Was Broken Until I Did This  How-To Geek

A worrying stealthy Linux security bug could put your systems at risk - here's what we know  MSN

The Death of Windows 10 Could Net You a Bunch of Free Linux PCs  How-To Geek

The Death of Windows 10 Could Net You a Bunch of Free Linux PCs  How-To Geek

The Best Office Suites for Linux  The New Stack

Tvrtko Ursulin of Igalia has been pursuing the Fair DRM Scheduler as a "fair" scheduling policy to help with multiple applications/processes aiming to make use of the GPU concurrently. With this week's v4 patch-set to the DRM Fair Scheduler there are some big code changes but overall looking well as a nice scheduling policy for multiple apps/games/processes wanting equal access to GPU resources...

Fair DRM Scheduler v4 Running Well On Steam Deck, "Looks Solid"  Phoronix

Linux 6.15-rc4 To Fix The Kernel Crashing For 32-bit Systems With Too Much RAM  Phoronix

With the Linux kernel now limiting 32-bit systems to 4GB of memory even with the "HIGHMEM" Kconfig option, an issue was uncovered where if the system was still populated with more memory than addressable by 32-bit systems, the kernel would crash. With the Linux 6.15-rc4 kernel due out on Sunday, this issue will be addressed...