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Red Hat today announced the releases of both Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.2 as well as RHEL 9.8...

Yearslong fight over users’ right to tweak smart TV software heads to trial  Ars Technica

Microsoft Azure Linux 4 Moves to a Fedora-Based Foundation  Linuxiac

Greg KH Calls For More Rust Linux Developers  Phoronix

Greg KH Calls For More Rust Linux Developers  Phoronix

Greg Kroah-Hartman took time away from his duties as Linux's second-in-command as stable maintainer, various subsystem maintainer, and recent hobby of using AI/LLMs for uncovering Linux kernel bugs to present at the Rust Week conference...

Deutsche Bahn: No information under Linux  heise online

I tested KDE Plasma 6.7 beta, and it's easily my new Linux desktop of choice  ZDNET

Bring Back That Aged Scanner, In Your Browser  Hackaday

Exploit released for new PinTheft Arch Linux root escalation flaw  BleepingComputer

That didn't take long. Mere days after Dell and Lenovo began sponsoring the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) as premiere sponsors in contributing $100k+ annually to this open-source firmware updating initiative, HP is also now a premiere sponsor...

HP Now Sponsoring The Linux Vendor Firmware Service / Fwupd  Phoronix

FFmpeg already supports CPU-based decoding for Samsung's APV as the Advanced Professional Video Codec. FFmpeg also has APV encode support too while now an interesting addition was merged this week: Vulkan-based acceleration for APV...

Intel software engineers today rolled out the llm-scaler-vllm PV v1.4 as the Docker build of their latest software stack for those wishing to run vLLM in a pre-configured, performant setup on their Arc (Pro) Graphics hardware...

Intel llm-scaler-vllm PV 1.4 Released With Updated Components, Arc Pro B70 Support  Phoronix

Intel llm-scaler-vllm PV 1.4 Released With Updated Components, Arc Pro B70 Support  Phoronix

Pardus Linux Vulnerability Allows Silent Local Root Privilege Escalation  cyberpress.org

Valkey 9.1 released on Tuesday as the latest version of this popular fork of the Redis in-memory, key-value database...

HP Is the Latest to Sponsor the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS)  9to5Linux

Pardus Linux Vulnerability Lets Local Attackers Gain Silent Root Access  gbhackers.com