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As enterprise IT organizations push deeper into operationalizing AI, the conversation has shifted from theoretical capability to hard execution metrics. Whether your team is talking with customers about scaling large language models (LLMs) on restricted local hardware, navigating the real-world performance numbers of distributed inference, or shielding proprietary model weights, the underlying goal remains the same: building a predictable, highly security-focused foundation that returns clear business value. This month’s roundup brings you the critical architecture analyses, benchmark realit

CIFSwitch Vulnerability Exposes Some Linux Distros to Local Root Access  Linuxiac

Linux Supply Chain How-To – PSW #928  SC Media

IBM, Red Hat launch $5B Project Lightwell to boost open-source security  SiliconANGLE

These 5 Linux distros were popular until their developers disappeared  MakeUseOf

Rocky Linux 9.8 Is Now Available for Download  Linuxiac

Linux Foundation Releases OpenMDW-1.1; NVIDIA Adopts OpenMDW for Cosmos, Isaac GR00T, Ising and Nemotron, AI Model Families  Linux Foundation

Linux Foundation Releases OpenMDW-1.1; NVIDIA Adopts OpenMDW for Cosmos, Isaac GR00T, Ising and Nemotron, AI Model Families  PR Newswire

New Linux CIFSwitch Kernel Vulnerability Allows Attackers to Gain Root Access  CyberSecurityNews

Best mid-range tablet runs simultaneously with Android and Linux in review  Notebookcheck

New Linux CIFSwitch Kernel Vulnerability Allows Attackers to Gain Root Access  CyberSecurityNews

In recent weeks we have been exploring different areas of the Intel Arc Pro B70 graphics performance on Linux from various OpenCL and Vulkan to Level Zero compute benchmarks, scaling up to four Arc Pro B70 graphics cards, comparing to NVIDIA RTX PRO Blackwell, and other relevant tests. While not intended for gaming, many Phoronix readers keep raising requests for seeing the Arc Pro B70 performance for Linux gaming given the lack of any consumer BMG-G31 GPU. So for those curious, here is a look at the Linux gaming performance with the Arc Pro B70 graphics card.

Intel Arc Pro B70 BMG-G31 Linux Gaming Performance  Phoronix

MontaVista Expands MVShield to Support Ubuntu LTS Platforms Beyond Standard Maintenance  The National Law Review

Arm Announces Metis: Agentic AI Security Framework  Phoronix

Arm today announced the open-sourcing of Metis, an agentic AI security framework that delivers context AI-powered security analysis in looking out for software vulnerabilities...

Linux Fu: Fake Webcams Have Many Uses  Hackaday

FOSS Weekly #26.22: Win for Linux, Firefox New AI Feature, AMD Betrayal, Rust Linux Commands and More  It's FOSS

QEMU Shifting On AI Policy To Allow Some AI/LLM-Generated Contributions  Phoronix

The QEMU processor emulator that plays an important role in the open-source Linux virtualization stack had a policy that forbid any contributions including or derived from AI-generated content. But there are now second thoughts with a proposed patch that will permit AI/LLM contributions in non-critical areas...