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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

The cryptography subsystem updates have been merged for the start of the Linux 6.16 cycle. Notable with the crypto updates this round are more performance optimizations for Intel and AMD CPUs with AVX-512 and also enabling next-generation Intel QAT accelerators...

Attacks with new Pumabot botnet hit Linux IoT devices  SC Media

While OpenH264 support coming to Fedora was widely celebrated as part of offering a better codec experience on Fedora Linux, an increasing number of Fedora users have grown frustrated with the OpenH264 packaging in that it's been out-of-date for several months with a high severity security vulnerability...

Linux Kernel 6.15 Boosts Virtualization, GPU, and CPU Performance  The New Stack

EROFS Lands Support For Tapping Intel QAT Accelerators  Phoronix

There is a lot of exciting file-system changes landing for the Linux 6.16 kernel... EXT4 brings a "really stupendous performance" change, Btrfs also brings some performance improvements, XFS landed atomic writes, and Bcachefs continues stabilizing. For the EROFS read-only file-system its changes have been merged and includes support for Intel QAT acceleration...

Canonical To Release Monthly Ubuntu Snapshots For Testing & Building Out Automation  Phoronix

Canonical is sticking to Ubuntu Linux releases every six months and a Long Term Support (LTS) release every two years, but a new change to their development process is that they are now working to release monthly Ubuntu snapshots of their testing stream...

Intel engineers have added yet more PCI graphics device IDs for Battlemage to their open-source driver code within Mesa for Iris OpenGL and ANV Vulkan driver support...

More Intel Battlemage Graphics PCI IDs Added To Mesa OpenGL/Vulkan Drivers  Phoronix

With the Error Detection And Correction (EDAC) subsystem updates sent out this week for the Linux 6.16 kernel there is support for a number of newer Intel hardware platforms...

Intel Hardware Support Expanded In EDAC Drivers For Linux 6.16  Phoronix

Microsoft Quietly Released a Dope New Terminal-based Editor  It's FOSS News

Sardina throws bait toward SUSE Enterprise Storage users  theregister.com

FOSS Weekly #25.22: Microsoft's Vim Alternative, Kernel 6.15, UBXI Desktop, End of Ubuntu 20.04 and More  It's FOSS

Rusticl as Mesa's Rust-based OpenCL driver implementation for Gallium3D drivers is ending the month of May on a high note... Merged this week was support for the Intel Subgroups OpenCL extension (cl_intel_subgroups) and before getting to that on my TODO list, an even bigger item was merged: Shared Virtual Memory (SVM) support...

Mythbuntu: What Happened to Ubuntu for TV?  How-To Geek