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Browsers on MacOS and Linux have failed to block malicious instructions sent to 0.0.0.0 – for 18 years  CyberNews.com

Major browser providers scramble to patch an 18-year-old vulnerability affecting MacOS and Linux systems but Windows remains gloriously immune  PC Gamer

Major browser providers scramble to patch an 18-year-old vulnerability affecting MacOS and Linux systems but Windows remains gloriously immune  PC Gamer

Submitted for DRM-Next last week with intentions of getting it into the Linux 6.12 kernel was a new DRM "power saving policy" property. The intent was for this new monitor/display connector property to indicate whether power saving features should be used that could compromise the experience intended by the desktop compositor. But one week later this property is now set to be removed as it's been deemed immature...

Linux's DRM Power Saving Policy Gets Reverted For Now  Phoronix

TUXEDO reveal the InfinityFlex a fully foldable Linux laptop  GamingOnLinux

Linux On The Snapdragon X1 Microsoft Surface Laptop 7, But Critical Features Missing  Phoronix

A Qualcomm engineer has posted the Linux kernel patches for adding the DeviceTree to support the Microsoft Surface Laptop 7 devices powered by the new Qualcomm Snapdragon X1 SoCs. This allows Linux to run on these new Snapdragon X1-powered Microsoft laptops but as with the other devices there are a number of support caveats that for most end-users will be a showstopper...

For those making use of the EROFS read-only file-system designed with mobile/embedded devices and containers in mind, EROFS-UTILS 1.8 is now available as an important update for these user-space utilities...

EROFS-UTILS 1.8 Brings Multi-Threaded Compression, Intel IAA Acceleration, Initial Zstd  Phoronix

The Linux kernel itself can already boot quite fast but with a simple one-line patch another ~0.035 seconds will be able to be shaved off the boot time...

Linux Will Be Able To Boot ~0.035 Seconds Faster With One Line Kernel Patch  Phoronix

For those still running an AMD Ryzen 3000 series "Zen 2" desktop it really ought to be time to upgrade soon for better performance and power efficiency given the Zen 5 performance benchmarks thus far, but for those still planning to use the Ryzen 3000 series for some time, a quirk/workaround is on the way for enabling more of those older platforms to work with the AMD P-State Linux driver...

Ryzen 3000 Series Gain Workaround For AMD P-State Linux Driver  Phoronix

New Double-Extortion Ransomware Attacking Linux Machines  CybersecurityNews

The post How to Read and Filter Awk Input from STDIN in Linux – Part 7 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

In the previous parts of the Awk command series, we looked at reading input mostly from files, but what if

The post How to Read and Filter Awk Input from STDIN in Linux – Part 7 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

Following decisions like exploring -O3 package builds for Ubuntu Linux, another newly-announced change by Canonical I must applaud is their decision to commit to shipping the very latest upstream kernel code at release time...

Canonical Moves To Shipping Very Latest Upstream Kernel Code For Ubuntu Releases  Phoronix

OpenBLAS 0.3.28 made it out today as the open-source optimized BLAS library that caters to a wide range of processors spanning various architectures. With this OpenBLAS 0.3.28 release are yet more optimizations and new CPU optimized paths...

3-in-1 Linux Convertible Laptop Unveiled by TUXEDO  OMG! Ubuntu!