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Auto-Color Linux Backdoor: TTPs and Internal Architecture Exposed  GBHackers News

The Rust-written Redox OS open-source operating system project has published its March 2025 status report that outlines exciting progress made over the past month...

Mozilla Builders' LocalScore: An Interesting Local AI LLM Benchmark  Phoronix

Via Mozilla's Mozilla Builders initiative for fostering open-source AI projects is LocalScore, an interesting local AI large language model (LLM) benchmark for Windows and Linux systems. LocalScore has a lot of potential and also builds off the Mozilla Ocho Llamafile project as an easy-to-distribute LLM framework. LocalScore is still in its early stages but is already working well and will also be used in future hardware reviews on Phoronix...

You Can Apparently Now Benchmark Up To 8,192 Cores On Linux, As Monitoring Tool Turbostat Sees An Impressive Upgrade  Wccftech

Phosh 0.46.0 brings customization, UI improvements to the mobile Linux user interface  Liliputing

Infosys (INFY) Advances Responsible AI in Networking Through Linux Foundation Partnership  Insider Monkey

Infosys (INFY) Advances Responsible AI in Networking Through Linux Foundation Partnership  Yahoo Finance

I'm a Linux power user, and the latest Ubuntu update put a smile on my face  ZDNET

At the end of March with the Ubuntu 25.04 beta release I began running Ubuntu 25.04 benchmarks on desktop hardware and finding some nice performance improvements thanks to the fresh Linux 6.14 kernel and other new software updates found in this next Ubuntu release. While those numbers were positive, the Ubuntu 25.04 beta performance I am seeing on AMD EPYC 5th Gen "Turin" servers is even more exhilarating. As the first of a lot more Ubuntu 25.04 server benchmarks to come, today is a first look at the Ubuntu 25.04 beta performance on AMD EPYC 9005 compared to Ubuntu 24.10 and the Ubuntu 24.04 LTS releases.

Ubuntu 25.04 Boosting AMD EPYC 9005 Performance Even Higher: ~14% Faster Than Ubuntu 24.04 LTS  Phoronix

Rust, Linux and Cloud Native Computing  The New Stack

DXVK 2.6.1 brings numerous needed fixes for playing Windows games on Linux and Steam Deck  GamingOnLinux

Download ExpressVPN for Windows, macOS, Android, APK, iOS and Linux  Gizmodo

DXVK 2.6.1 was just released as the newest update to this Direct3D 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 over Vulkan API implementation used by Valve's Steam Play (Proton) and other softwarefor enjoying older Windows games on Linux...

Auto-color Linux Backdoor TTPs & Internal Architecture Revealed  CybersecurityNews

Top 10 FOSS apps to make your Linux experience more enjoyable  Neowin

For those looking toward a pleasant suspend and resume experience on Ubuntu with the default GNOME desktop, the Ubuntu 25.04 cycle is poised to allow for addressing a five-year-old Ubuntu bug report around the experience. However, for the near-term this is only expected to be in good shape for those using the GNOME X11 session with the GNOME Wayland session requiring further work to the Mutter compositor...

Linux GPU Control Application (LACT) v0.7.3 brings configurable charts, improvements for AMD RDNA3  GamingOnLinux

FFmpeg is known for carrying a lot of hand-optimized Assembly code for speeding up this widely-used multimedia library and taking advantage of AVX-512 and other modern CPU ISA capabilities. Merged yesterday was support for making use of AES-NI for those relying on Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) within FFmpeg for encrypted video streams...