Open-source News

Voidlink Linux Malware Was Built Using an AI Agent, Researchers Reveal  Infosecurity Magazine

Adjusting One Line Of Linux Code Yields 5x Wakeup Latency Reduction For Modern Xeon CPUs  Phoronix

A new patch posted to the Linux kernel mailing list aims to address the high wake-up latency experienced on modern Intel Xeon server platforms. With Sapphire Rapids and newer, "excessive" wakeup latencies with the Linux menu governor and NOHZ_FULL configuration can negatively impair Xeon CPUs for latency-sensitive workloads but a 16 line patch aims to better improve the situation. That is, changing one line of actual code and the rest being code comments...

MX Linux 25.1 brings back switchable init systems  theregister.com

Prominent Intel Linux engineer H. Peter Anvin has posted a new patch series working to clean-up the Linux x86/x86_64 kernel boot code. Besides cleaning up the code, the kernel configuration would drop options around EFI stub mode and relocatable kernels in making those features now always enabled...

Microsoft and Canonical bring Ubuntu Linux binaries and Bash Shell to Windows 10  BetaNews

This new Linux distro is a multimedia powerhouse right out of the box  ZDNET

For those using the powerful PHPStan tool for static analysis on PHP code, this week's PHPStan 2.1.34 is promoting optimized performance with projects seeing around 25% to 40% faster analysis times...

Linux users targeted by crypto thieves via hijacked apps on Snap Store  Help Net Security

As VoidLink proves, malware is becoming AI-driven  Techzine Global

How to: Install Google Chrome web browser on Ubuntu Linux (and uninstall Firefox)  BetaNews

VoidLink Linux Malware Framework Built with AI Assistance Reaches 88,000 Lines of Code  The Hacker News

Linux based Jolla preorders closing in on maximum amount  Gamereactor UK

Ghostship - the new Super Mario 64 PC port gets a Linux release  GamingOnLinux

VoidLink shows how one developer used AI to build a powerful Linux malware  Security Affairs

Fastfetch 2.58 System Information Tool Enhances Linux and macOS Detection  Linuxiac

OpenMandriva ROME 24.07: A Linux-based alternative to Microsoft Windows 11 following Crowdstrike BSOD disaster  BetaNews

Block Devices In User Space  Hackaday

An Exciting Day With More Performance Optimizations Merged For RADV In Mesa 26.0  Phoronix

Mesa 26.0 was due to be branched last week and in turn start its feature freeze but ended up being pushed back to tomorrow (21 January) to allow some lingering features to land. It's been beneficial for the Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" with several interesting merge requests having landed in time for Mesa 26.0...