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Since Intel Meteor Lake has been the Intel Silicon Security Engine to serve as a silicon root-of-trust for secure firmware loading, boot measurements, and similar functionality. This Intel Silicon Security Engine has been built on with Lunar Lake and Panther Lake as well as set to take on more importance with future Intel hardware platforms. We are now seeing a Linux driver come for this silicon RoT with the Intel Silicon Security Engine Interface (ISSEI)...

These 3 tools made my dual-monitor Linux setup seamless  MakeUseOf

Following last week's disclosure of the Dirty Frag vulnerability for the Linux kernel, which only finished being patched up in mainline on Monday, Fragnesia is now public as a similar local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerability...

Fragnesia Made Public As Latest Linux Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability  Phoronix

Turning a toy into a Linux Cyberdeck with Raspberry Pi  Adafruit

Rust stalks IBM mainframes, but only in nightly form  The Register

Winpodx is like a Linux Subsystem for Windows  Adafruit

20,000 Linux users grabbed a malicious Cemu build that steals passwords for coding and cloud credentials  XDA

20,000 Linux users grabbed a malicious Cemu build, and it steals passwords for coding and cloud credentials  XDA

7 essential apps that work perfectly on both Windows and Linux  How-To Geek

CachyOS vs. MX Linux: Are you seeking speed or stability in your distro?  ZDNET

Your Old Potato PC Might Game Better With This Linux Kernel Patch  It's FOSS

Fragnesia Linux Vulnerability Let Attackers Gain Root Privileges – PoC Released  CyberSecurityNews

I asked Claude to customize my Linux desktop, and it cooked harder than expected  MakeUseOf

Discord declares it’s the “YEAR OF THE LINUX DESKTOP.”  The Verge

GCC 16 Produces Faster Binaries Than GCC 15, Competitive Race With LLVM Clang 22  Phoronix

GCC 16 Produces Faster Binaries Than GCC 15, Competitive Race With LLVM Clang 22  Phoronix

GCC 16.1 released at the end of April as the latest major, annual feature release to the GNU Compiler Collection. Early benchmarks showed some nice leads for GCC 16 over GCC 15. Continued testing of the new GCC 16 compiler has continued to show overall better performance of the resulting binaries than using GCC 15 on the same hardware and same compiler flags. That led many to wonder about the GCC 16 performance up against the latest LLVM/Clang open-source compiler, which is the focus of today's benchmarking showdown.

Red Hat Desktop vs. Fedora Hummingbird: Which AI development Linux path is right for you?  ZDNET

Platform9 Removes One of the Biggest Barriers to Replacing VMware: Linux Administration  PR Newswire