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Linux 6.16 Enabling Support For 11 More SoCs, Sophgo SG2044 & More Snapdragon X Laptops  Phoronix

All of the big SoC and DeviceTree board updates have been submitted for the Linux 6.16 kernel including support for a number of new Arm SoCs as well as a RISC-V server SoC. Plus many new board additions, including continued work on bettering the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite/Plus laptop support under Linux...

Ubuntu's Big Change, Piles of Android Updates, and More: Weekly Roundup  How-To Geek

AWS and Red Hat Partner for RHEL 10 Integration  WebProNews

New Linux Flaws Allow Password Hash Theft via Core Dumps in Ubuntu, RHEL, Fedora  The Hacker News

In a blog post dated for 28 May that was only made public on Friday night followed by a new ROCm build tag, AMD engineers have begun sharing more details publicly about changes coming for ROCm 7.0. In particular, the HIP 7.0 interface is going to be "aligning HIP C++ even more closely with CUDA."..

Merged back in late 2023 for Linux 6.7 was a cross-vendor solution for confidential computing attestation reports with the Linux Trusted Security Manager (TSM). In the succeeding kernel releases there weren't any further TSM updates issued but now for Linux 6.16 there finally is renewed work on this confidential computing code...

The popular Arch Linux derived CachyOS operating system that is known for its nice out-of-the-box performance and other optimizations is out with a new build. CachyOS is closing out the month of May with some nice refinements in its newest ISO refresh of the year...

CachyOS Improves NVIDIA Driver Loading, Better Handheld Device Support  Phoronix

A few new media drivers have been introduced as part of the Linux 6.16 merge window...

Along with this week bringing the Plasma 6.4 Beta 2 desktop, there's been other changes merged for Plasma 6.4 as well as some early feature work on Plasma 6.5...

CachyOS ISO Snapshot for May 2025 Improves Support for Older NVIDIA GPUs  9to5Linux

The many power management subsystem updates and related changes have been merged for the in-development Linux 6.16 kernel...

Intel PTC, Intel EAS & AMD Requested CPU Min Freq Features Merged For Linux 6.16  Phoronix

Ditch Windows 11 and try Alpine Linux 3.22 with GNOME 48 and Plasma 6.3  BetaNews

Linux Crash Dump Flaws Expose Passwords, Encryption Keys  Bank Info Security

Intel Prepping Linux Driver For Future Data Center GPUs Based On Battlemage  Phoronix

Intel engineers are preparing the Linux kernel for future Data Center GPUs. This work confirms new Intel Data Center GPUs coming based on Battlemage...

Linux Zero-Day Vulnerability Discovered Using Frontier AI  Bank Info Security

Alpine Linux 3.22 is now available as the newest version of this Linux distribution popular for use with containers and embedded purposes due to its small, simple, and secure focus...