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APT36 hackers abuse Linux .desktop files to install malware in new attacks  BleepingComputer

Affordable Linux Laptop (Best Budget Picks)  Vocal

Arch Linux continues to feel the force of a DDoS attack after two brutal weeks — attackers yet to be identified as project struggles to restore full service  Tom's Hardware

Desktop Linux Keeps Winning the Wrong Battles  How-To Geek

Is This AI’s Linux Moment? Inside 0G’s Labs Push for an Open, Verifiable Stack for AI  HackerNoon

Microsoft’s open source journey: From 20,000 lines of Linux code to AI at global scale  Microsoft Azure

Linux Malware Delivered via Malicious RAR Filenames Evades Antivirus Detection  The Hacker News

Being worked on for a number of months now is GL_EXT_mesh_shader as an extension for bringing mesh shaders to OpenGL. This is an alternative to NVIDIA's GL_NV_mesh_shader extension being worked on for Mesa drivers and in particular the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver...

Released on Thursday were new Ubuntu X1E "Concept" install images for installing the modified Ubuntu 25.04 environment on Qualcomm Snapdragon X1 powered laptops...

New Ubuntu Snapdragon X1E Concept ISO Published - Still A Mess On The Acer Swift 14 AI  Phoronix

3 Useful Linux Apps to Try This Weekend (Aug 22-24)  Yahoo! Tech

3 Useful Linux Apps to Try This Weekend (Aug 22-24)  How-To Geek

Chromium Adds Native HDR Support for Linux Wayland  It's FOSS News

FFmpeg 8.0 is now available! FFmpeg 8.0 is a magnificent update to this widely-used open-source multimedia library and with this new version is the introduction of an OpenAI Whisper filter for automatic speech recognition, many Vulkan Video improvements for greater GPU-accelerated video handling, and a number of CPU performance optimizations...

APT36: Targets Indian BOSS Linux Systems with Weaponized AutoStart Files  CYFIRMA

Arch Linux takes a pounding as DDoS attack enters week two  theregister.com

The Servo browser project has published a monthly status report to outline all of the interesting changes made to this interesting, Rust-based browser layout engine over the past several weeks. Development continues moving along with Servo as more critical functionality continues to be added as well as new performance optimizations and other features to make it a compelling option for future embedded web use and more...

FreeRDP as one of the leading open-source / free software implementations of Microsoft's Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) is out with a new release. While FreeRDP 3.17 is primarily focused on shipping bug fixes, there is one noteworthy addition: fullchain support...

Calibre 8.9 E-Book Manager Adds Support for Embedded Fonts to HTMLZ Output  9to5Linux

Stealth Threat Unpacked: Weaponized RAR Files Deliver VShell Backdoor on Linux Systems  GBHackers News