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The open-source ZLUDA project began life as a drop-in CUDA replacement that ran atop Intel GPUs using the Level Zero API. Then AMD quietly began funding it for several years as a viable CUDA implementation running atop AMD GPUs until discontinued funding earlier this year. ZLUDA for AMD GPUs was then made open-source but then in August the ZLUDA code was removed at AMD's request. Today it's taking on its third incarnation...

Fwupd 2.0 Open-Source Linux Firmware Updater Released with Major Changes  9to5Linux

Fwupd 2.0 Open-Source Linux Firmware Updater Released with Major Changes  9to5Linux

Richard Hughes of Red Hat just announced Fwupd 2.0 as a major release to this open-source firmware updating utility for Linux systems. Fwupd 2.0 clears out a lot of long deprecated and legacy bits while adding new features and shipping many fixes...

Fwupd 2.0 Released To Drop Legacy & Deprecated Bits, Adds New Features  Phoronix

Linux systems are being hit by a wide-ranging and dangerous new malware  TechRadar

Cups Linux printing bugs open door to DDoS attacks, says Akamai  ComputerWeekly.com

It’s finally time to say goodbye to Windows 11 — Nitrux Linux 3.7.0 is the OS you’ve been waiting for!  BetaNews

New Perfctl Malware targets Linux servers in cryptomining campaign  Security Affairs

Blender 4.3 is available today in beta form to encourage public testing of this next feature release to this leading open-source 3D modeling software...

5 Things You Can Do on Linux but Not on Windows  MSN

News - Scroller Home Page - Experts Warn of DDoS Attacks Exploiting Linux Printing Vulnerabilities  TEISS

News - Experts Warn of DDoS Attacks Exploiting Linux Printing Vulnerabilities  TEISS

Red Hat engineer Jocelyn Falempe has been working to sort out DRM Panic support for the AMDGPU driver. The DRM Panic infrastructure is useful since it's what allows presenting a panic screen, a.k.a. a "Blue Screen of Death" type experience when running into major kernel problems. With Linux 6.12 there's now the ability to show QR codes for error messages with DRM Panic...

Valve officially sponsors Arch Linux, and here’s what that means for Steam Deck  PC Guide - For The Latest PC Hardware & Tech News

The Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver has experimental code now available for testing that also implements the Video Acceleration API (VA-API) atop the Vulkan Video APIs. This is an interesting effort that now allows VA-API applications to rely on drivers with Vulkan Video support underneath...

Unified Linux Wine Game Launcher (UMU) gets a first official release  GamingOnLinux

Unified Linux Wine Game Launcher (UMU) gets a first official release  GamingOnLinux

Linux Systems Vulnerable to perfctl Malware  Channel E2E

Zrythm is an interesting open-source digital audio workstation (DAW) software package. It's been making use of the GTK toolkit but now the developers have decided to switch to Qt6 instead...