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Building a Retro Linux Gaming Computer Part 42: Upset the Applecart  GamingOnLinux

At the start of the year AMD posted an open-source XDNA Linux driver to GitHub for supporting the Ryzen API NPU IP found within their newest Ryzen mobile SoCs. It wasn't until last month though in mid-July that AMD began the process of submitting the driver for review so that it can work its way toward the mainline Linux kernel within the "accel" accelerator subsystem. Today brings a second revision to that driver...

AMD XDNA Linux Kernel Driver For Ryzen AI Updated  Phoronix

Linux kernel exploitation SLUBStick can read and write memory arbitrarily  SC Media

Manjaro’s Immutable Version Is Available For Testing  WebProNews

Why Writing In VS Code Stopped Working For Me  Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet

Trying Out The Ubuntu "-O3" Optimized Build For Greater Performance Review  Phoronix

Canonical engineers on Friday announced they are evaluating "-O3" compiler optimized package builds for Ubuntu Linux. As part of this evaluation of using GCC's -O3 compiler optimization level rather than -O2 when compiling Ubuntu packages, experimental Ubuntu desktop and server ISOs are available for testing with this change. Excitingly I ran some initial benchmarks over the weekend in looking at the performance difference.

A one year old merge request to support Wayland's Tearing Control protocol (tearing-control-v1) has finally been merged into the Sway compositor codebase...

Mozilla Firefox 129.0 is now available for download ahead of its formal release announcement on Tuesday. Making Firefox 129 notable is that for non-local sites it's now replacing HTTP with HTTPS by default. Firefox will now aim for HTTPS as the default protocol on non-local sites...

Novel SLUBStick Linux Exploit Gives Attackers Full System Control  Security Boulevard

A three month old merge request finally landed in mainline LLVM Git this past week to deliver improvements initially for Intel Meteor Lake processors...

Vanilla OS Orchid improves on an already brilliant Linux distribution  ZDNet

New Linux kernel cross-cache attack allows arbitrary memory writes  CSO Online

Manjaro Linux Starts Experimenting With An Immutable Offering  It's FOSS News

New SLUBStick Attack Makes Linux Kernel Vulnerabilities More Dangerous  SecurityWeek

How to build a $240 gaming PC  Boing Boing

I Stopped Using Linux for a Year, Here's What Brought Me Back  How-To Geek

The Linux 6.12 kernel cycle later this year is expected to see a number of new Kconfig options introduced for greater build-time control over what CPU speculative execution security mitigations are included as part of the kernel build...

In-step with the GCC compiler beginning to see Intel AVX10.2 support patches, the LLVM Clang 20 Git code is already seeing initial AVX10.2 code merged for this open-source compiler...