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The MMC subsystem feature changes have been merged for the Linux 6.16 kernel. Interestingly and surprisingly, it's not until now that the Linux kernel has properly supported the graceful host removal for eMMC and SD cards...

Linux 6.16 Adds Support For Graceful Host Removal For eMMC & SD Cards  Phoronix

Zotac’s Zone gaming handheld switched from Windows to Linux  PCWorld

PumaBot Targets Linux Devices in Latest Botnet Campaign  Dark Reading

A Big Change for Ubuntu Linux Releases Is Here  How-To Geek

NVIDIA 575 Linux Graphics Driver Released with Support for NVIDIA Smooth Motion  9to5Linux

NVIDIA just released their v575.57.08 driver as the first stable Linux driver in their R575 release branch...

NVIDIA 575.57.08 Linux Stable Driver Released With Smooth Motion & Other Updates  Phoronix

Qualys TRU Discovers Two Local Information Disclosure Vulnerabilities in Apport and systemd-coredump: CVE-2025-5054 and CVE-2025-4598  Qualys

Qualys TRU Discovers Two Local Information Disclosure Vulnerabilities in Apport and systemd-coredump: CVE-2025-5054 and CVE-2025-4598  Qualys

There is a lot of exciting networking changes to find with the in-development Linux 6.16 kernel both for wired and wireless devices as well as some exciting core networking improvements/optimizations...

Mesa 25.0.7 open source Linux graphics drivers released  GamingOnLinux

Microsoft Brings Post-Quantum Security To Windows 11 And Linux  Music + Essentials

REMATCH is working well on Linux / Steam Deck in the Beta  GamingOnLinux

Arc B770 inbound? 4 new Intel Arc GPUs spotted in Linux drivers  PCWorld

One of the many advantages with the newly announced EPYC 4005 series for entry-level servers is support for DDR5-5600 ECC memory compared to the current Xeon 6300 series being limited to DDR5-4800 memory. With the launch-day EPYC 4005 "Grado" benchmarks earlier this month of the AMD EPYC 4585PX and EPYC 4565P I was running with DDR5-5600 ECC memory modules. But for those wondering about the performance when using DDR5-4800 comparable to the Xeon 6300 / Xeon E-2400 series, here are some comparison benchmarks for reference.

The Linux 6.15 kernel arrives - and it's big a victory for Rust fans  ZDNet

The second beta release of KDE's Plasma 6.4 desktop is now available for testing ahead of the official release in June...

ELDEN RING NIGHTREIGN launches today and works on Linux, SteamOS / Steam Deck  GamingOnLinux

Linux 6.16 Crypto Brings Faster AES-XTS On AVX-512 CPUs, Intel QAT Gen6 Support  Phoronix