Open-source News

For those still running a 1st Generation Xeon Scalable "Skylake" era server, support for it within the open-source Coreboot firmware may continue to improve all these years later thanks to firmware consulting firm 9elements...

Wine 9.22 is out this weekend ahead of the Wine 10.0-rc1 in two weeks...

KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his traditional weekly development recap that highlights all of the interesting work taking place within the KDE desktop space...

Following the recent messaging from Bcachefs lead developer Kent Oversteet that Bcachefs changes for Linux 6.13 were rejected on the basis of his Code of Conduct, the Linux CoC committee has now formally announced their decision...

Cyber Analyst with Kali Linux Installed on WSL  Medium

The x86 platform driver updates were merged this week for the in-development Linux 6.13 and include some nice refinements, especially for those using AMD Ryzen on Linux...

AMD 3D V-Cache Optimizer Driver Headlines The x86 Platform Enhancements In Linux 6.13  Phoronix

Public developer spats put bcachefs at risk in Linux  The Register

Public developer disagreements endangering bcachefs  The Register

There are some new improvements in Linux 6.13 for the Intel TDX code for Trust Domain Extensions in providing hardware-based security protections for virtual machines on recent Xeon processors...

Linux 6.13 Enhances Interactions Between Intel TDX Guests & VMMs  Phoronix

Novel WolfsBane backdoor leveraged in Chinese attacks against Linux systems  SC Media

Following the Linux 6.13 DRM feature pull this week that brought many new open-source kernel graphics driver features, it's now time to further stabilize that new feature code with fixes. Sent out today were a batch of fixes for the AMDGPU/AMDKFD kernel driver code targeting the early Linux 6.13 state. In addition to fixes though is also allowing the AMDGPU Display Core "DC" code to build properly on LoongArch hardware for allowing recent AMD Radeon GPUs to work on these Chinese systems...

AMD Linux Graphics Driver Now Allows Display Support With Modern GPUs On LoongArch  Phoronix

Linux devices hit with even more new malware, this time from Chinese hackers  TechRadar

Oracle Linux 9.5 comes with OpenJDK 17, .NET 9.0, and more  Notebookcheck.net

China-linked hackers target Linux systems with new spying malware  The Record from Recorded Future News

In Other News: Nvidia Fixes Critical Flaw, Chinese Linux Backdoor, New Details in WhatsApp-NSO Lawsuit  SecurityWeek

2-Minute Linux Tips: How to use the iotop command  Network World

AMD Bus Lock Trap Support Merged For Linux 6.13  Phoronix