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Ahead of the Linux 6.12 merge window wrapping up this weekend with the Linux 6.12-rc1 release, merged on Friday were all of the Compute Express Link (CXL) updates for the new kernel...

I’ve Been Using These 8 Core Linux Commands Wrong for Years  How-To Geek

KDE developers remain very busy landing bug and crash fixes ahead of the upcoming Plasma 6.2 desktop release...

Valve's SteamOS is built atop Arch Linux and now the company is further helping the upstream Linux distribution by collaborating with resources to help with build service infrastructure and a secure signing enclave...

Valve Helping Arch Linux With Build Service Infrastructure & Secure Signing Enclave  Phoronix

New Chrome Security Warning For 3 Billion Windows, Mac, Linux, Android Users  Forbes

Valve (Steam) begin a direct collaboration with Arch Linux  GamingOnLinux

It's been just one week since the release of ROCm 6.2.1 while today ROCm 6.2.2 was released...

PSA: Critical 9.9 vulnerability discovered in the CUPS package (Linux)  GBAtemp.net

PSA: Critical 9.9 vulnerability discovered in the CUPS package (Linux)  GBAtemp.net

Remote code execution exploit for CUPS printing service puts Linux desktops at risk  CSO Online

Linux Distros Patching Printer Hijacking Flaw  BankInfoSecurity.com

The input subsystem updates merged this week bring a number of improvements to existing drivers while adding one new input driver...

Linux 6.12 Adds Driver For PixArt PS/2 Touchpad Found In Some Laptops  Phoronix

VirtualBox 7.1.2 Released with 3D Acceleration Support for VMs Running on ARM  9to5Linux

AMD today announced "AMD-135M" as their first small language model they are publicly releasing. AMD-135M is open-source with the training code, dataset, and weights all being open-source to help in the development of other SLMs and LLMs...

Microsoft updates Recall feature to address privacy concerns but Linux remains a safer choice for some  BetaNews

CUPS vulnerabilities could put Linux systems at risk  TechTarget

With the Linux 6.12 merge window wrapping up this weekend and the bulk of the new feature merges now in the tree, I've begun running some Linux 6.12 benchmarks. Here is an initial look at Linux 6.10 vs. 6.11 vs. 6.12 Git on an AMD Ryzen 9 9950X desktop...

Early Linux 6.12 Kernel Benchmarks Showing Some Nice Gains On AMD Zen 5  Phoronix