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AOMP 20.0-1 was released on Tuesday as the newest version of this LLVM/Clang downstream focused on shipping the latest AMD patches around Radeon/Instinct OpenMP accelerator offload support...

Inside Linux Foundation’s Vision for Open-Source Models  AIM

Helltaker creator's new game Awaria to get macOS and Linux builds, with beta versions now available on Itch  AUTOMATON WEST

Merged today to the Linux kernel are fixes for two vulnerabilities with the Xen hypervisor. One of them concerns a malicious network backend being able to crash a guest after a suspend/resume cycle of a Linux guest. The other more pressing issue addressed is a Xen hypercall page being unsafe against speculative CPU attacks...

Linux Patched For Unsafe Xen Behavior Around CPU Speculative Attack Protections  Phoronix

New DDoS Malware “cShell” Exploit Linux Tools to Attack SSH Servers  CybersecurityNews

System76 Pangolin Linux laptop gets aluminum body and 2K display upgrade  BetaNews

Kali Linux 2024.4 launches with GNOME 47 and Python 3.12, drops 32-bit kernel support  Notebookcheck.net

Nexus Mods new cross-platform app v0.7.1 released finally supporting upgrades - better modding for Linux / Steam Deck  GamingOnLinux

System76 Refreshes Their AMD-Powered Pangolin Linux Laptop with 2K Display  9to5Linux

System76 has been offering AMD-powered Linux laptops for a few years now and before rounding out 2024 they have announced the new Pangolin "Pang15" laptop with an updated SoC, 2K display with 16:10 screen ratio and 120Hz refresh rate, and other refinements to this all-aluminum build Linux laptop...

System76 Releases Updated AMD Ryzen Linux Laptop  Phoronix

Fedora Asahi Remix 41 Released: Linux On Your Apple Silicon Mac  Forbes

6 ways modern Linux distros are less infuriating  XDA Developers

Unpacking the Diicot Malware Targeting Linux Environments  Wiz

Fedora Asahi Remix 41 Brings Better Gaming to Apple Silicon Macs  How-To Geek

Fedora Asahi Remix 41 brings AAA gaming to Apple Silicon with Linux  GamingOnLinux

Leaving Windows 10 for Linux? 5 security differences to consider first  ZDNet

Fedora Asahi Remix 41 Released for Apple Silicon Macs with KDE Plasma 6.2  9to5Linux

Last week with the availability of the Intel Arc B-Series Battlemage graphics cards I ran benchmarks looking at the GPU compute performance, Linux gaming benchmarks, and also the workstation graphics capabilities. The Intel Arc B580 graphics showed some nice generational uplift under Linux for most workloads but there were some anomalies where clearly the Intel Linux graphics driver had room to better optimize the new Xe2/Battlemage graphics support. Windows benchmarks of the Intel Arc B580 also showed it performing more competitively to the likes of the GeForce RTX 4060 compared to what I was seeing under Linux. Thus I spent the past few days working on some Windows 11 vs. Ubuntu Linux graphics benchmarks for both Intel Arc Graphics of Alchemist and Battlemage GPUs to see how the performance compares.