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In mid-October a Meta engineer uncovered an RDSEED architectural issue with AMD Zen 5 CPUs. A patch in turn was sent out to the Linux kernel mailing list to disable RDSEED usage on affected Zen 5 processors. AMD this week issued a security bulletin to acknowledge the issue and report that a microcode fix is coming...

AMD Acknowledges RDSEED Failure On AMD Zen 5 With Software Fix Coming  Phoronix

KDE Plasma developers continue to be busy landing more fixes for the recently introduced Plasma 6.5 while also lining up more new features for Plasma 6.6...

CISA Issues Warning: Hackers Exploit Linux Vulnerability to Spread Ransomware  Cyber Press

CISA Alerts on Linux Kernel Vulnerability Exploited in Ransomware Attacks  GBHackers News

November 1 Tech news roundup: Fedora Linux 43 released, Xbox consoles sales drop again, Samsung Internet Browser for PC launched  FileHippo

The best VPN services for Linux in 2025  igor´sLAB

CISA Warns of Linux Kernel Use-After-Free Vulnerability Exploited in Attacks to Deploy Ransomware  CyberSecurityNews

Wine 10.18 is now available for capping off the month of October and working toward the code freeze for Wine 11.0 beginning in early December...

For GNOME desktop users desiring a more macOS-like experience, a new GNOME extension provides a macOS-inspired quick menu option...

The Linux gaming boom is real: 90% of Windows games now run on the platform  Gamereactor

Ubuntu Launches Architecture-Specific Variants for Optimal Performance  WebProNews

Proton VPN’s 2025-2026 Roadmap: Free Servers, Faster Speeds, Linux CLI  WebProNews

Old Linux Kernel flaw CVE-2024-1086 resurfaces in ransomware attacks  Security Affairs

Designing for reliability: How Nokia SR Linux and Event-Driven Automation transform data center network design  Nokia

Kodi 21.3 Improves Blu-Ray Playback on Linux, Adds HDR Support on Xbox One  9to5Linux

Over the summer months LunarG announced KosmicKrisp as a new Vulkan-on-Metal implementation for Apple devices and built around Mesa. That alternative to MoltenVK was upstreamed for next quarter's Mesa 26.0 release and now it's also celebrating being an officially Vulkan 1.3 conformant implementation...

Switching to Linux From Windows: 5 Pros and 5 Cons You Need to Consider  Currently.com

Switching to Linux From Windows: 5 Pros and 5 Cons You Need to Consider  How-To Geek

SUSE Brings Agentic AI into its SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16 Operating System  ChannelE2E