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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

New Cosmic DE Alpha 2 update adds slew of customisation options alongside app and settings improvements for the System76 Linux desktop  Notebookcheck.net

A quartet of Linux CVEs draws exploit fears among open source community  Cybersecurity Dive

Similar to the ACPI CPUFreq and AMD/Intel P-State CPU frequency scaling driver and scaling governor benchmarks and power efficiency comparisons I routinely do on Phoronix, when recently having the Supermicro AmpereOne server in the lab with the 192-core A192-32X processor, I carried out some CPPC CPUFreq schedutil vs. performance governor benchmarks for curiosity and reference purposes while looking at the performance and power efficiency...

Printing vulnerability affecting Linux distros raises alarm  ComputerWeekly.com

CUPS flaws allow remote code execution on Linux systems under certain conditions  Security Affairs

Zorin OS 17.2: Hands-On with the Latest Update  How-To Geek

Intel software engineers have released version 0.7 of Open PGL, their open-source Path Guiding Library (PGL) that can be used by 3D renderers to enjoy state-of-the-art path guiding methods for better sampling quality and efficiency...

Worried about that critical RCE Linux bug? Here's why you can relax  ZDNet

Apache CouchDB 3.4.1 was released today after the developers decided at the last minute before releasing CouchDB 3.4 to drop automatic upgrading of password hashes... Thus CouchDB 3.4.1 is out as the big "CouchDB 3.4" release. The CouchDB 3.4 series brings a number of performance improvements, QuickJS as an alternative to the SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine, and other enhancements...