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Mixing Rust and C in Linux likened to cancer by kernel maintainer  The Register

Mixing Rust and C in Linux likened to cancer by kernel maintainer  The Register

Top 7 Most Secure Linux Distro for Privacy in 2025  New Jersey Digest

Yesterday I showcased Linux 6.14 Git performance worse than Linux 6.13 and 6.12 in a number of multi-threaded workloads. Due to that initial discover being on the lone AMD EPYC Turin 2P server that is always busy running through new benchmarks for future content as well as I am being persistently short on time and constantly under pressure due to the state of the web/ad industry, I didn't expect to get around to digging deeper into the problem in the near-term. But as I ended up being able to reproduce some of the regressions on a System76 Thelio Major workstation at my desk with the still mighty powerful Ryzen Threadripper 7980X, I was able to turn around a quick bisect...

Bisecting The Linux 6.14 Performance Regression With System76 Thelio + AMD Threadripper  Phoronix

U.S. CISA adds Linux kernel flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog  Security Affairs

Intel Is Reportedly Preparing New Battlemage Graphics Cards, New Device IDs Appear In Linux Graphics Driver Code  Wccftech

Ubuntu Linux on WSL gets massive upgrade with new tar-based install that makes Microsoft Store optional  BetaNews

NVIDIA Engineer Talks Up sched_ext Linux Scheduler Possibilities At FOSDEM  Phoronix

Merged last year for the Linux 6.12 kernel was sched_ext for allowing extensible scheduler possibilities by allowing schedulers to be implemented as eBPF code and dynamically loaded into the kernel. This allows for rapidly developing new schedulers as well as exploring other new possibilities around more intelligent kernel scheduling decisions. Meta, Google, Canonical (Ubuntu), and others have been big proponents of sched_ext and NVIDIA is also increasingly vocalizing their support for these extensible scheduler opportunities...

CISA orders agencies to patch Linux kernel bug exploited in attacks  BleepingComputer

CISA Adds Actively Exploited Linux Kernel Vulnerability (CVE-2024-53104) to Known Exploited Vuln Catalog  CybersecurityNews

Blocking Linux / Steam Deck in Apex Legends led to a 'meaningful reduction' in cheaters  GamingOnLinux

Blocking Linux / Steam Deck in Apex Legends led to a 'meaningful reduction' in cheaters  GamingOnLinux

AMD announced today the release of Schola 1.0 as an open-source reinforcement learning library that is being made available under an MIT license and as part of their GPUOpen software collection for helping game developers...

Linux 6.14 Features Include The AMDXDNA Ryzen AI Driver, NTSYNC, Uncached Buffered I/O & Much More  Phoronix

Now that the Linux 6.14 merge window wrapped up this past weekend with the release of Linux 6.14-rc1, here is a recap of all the great new features, hardware enablement, and other improvements to find with this kernel.

Linux Kernel Vulnerabilities Expose 78 Subsystems to Attack  Electropages

One of the set of patches for the Linux kernel that we have been looking forward to but that wasn't wrapped up in time for the recent Linux v6.14 merge window was the work enabling use of the AMD INVLPGB instruction on Zen 3 CPUs and newer for broadcast TLB invalidation. This can lead to a nice performance bump in some workloads while the eighth iteration of those patches were posted overnight...

AMD Broadcast TLB Invalidation Patches For Linux Updated, Intel RAR Eyed Next  Phoronix