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Ubuntu 24.10 ARM64 Installer Supports The Snapdragon-Powered Lenovo ThinkPad X13s  Phoronix

New ‘Hadooken’ Linux Malware Targets WebLogic Servers  SecurityWeek

David Kaplan who is a Senior Fellow at AMD focused on security technologies has published an initial set of Linux kernel patches for "Attack Vector Controls" in rethinking the CPU security mitigation handling. The proposed Attack Vector Controls makes it easier to manage desired security mitigations to have enabled/disabled based upon intent of the system rather than having to be knowledgeable about individual CPU security vulnerabilities and the various tuning knobs...

AMD Engineer Proposes "Attack Vector Controls" To Rethink CPU Security Mitigation Handling  Phoronix

Most of you have fortunately not had to think about Adobe Flash support in years, but for those still having some old assets in Adobe Flash/SWF format or wanting to relive some old games/entertainment based in Flash, the open-source Ruffle project remains one of the leading contenders for dealing with Flash in 2024 and beyond. Ruffle is a Rust-based emulator for Adobe Flash that continues to be actively developed and supporting more features...

The LoongArch changes for the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) have been submitted ahead of the Linux 6.12 merge window opening. For enhancing KVM virtualization on these Chinese CPUs is enabling Loongson Binary Translation (LBT) for accelerating ARM/x86 binary translation...

LoongArch KVM To Speed-Up ARM/x86 Binary Translation  Phoronix

The Google Chrome/Chromium web browser merged two notable features yesterday for Linux users...

Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund is set to make a €688,800 investment into the Samba open-source project that re-implements the SMB networking protocol and focused on better file and print service interoperability with Microsoft Windows systems...

Ubuntu 22.04.5 launches as a minor update to the 22.04 LTS branch  Notebookcheck.net

A New Default Cinnamon Theme and Linux Mint Tweaks Announced  It's FOSS News

Linux and open-source documentation is a mess: Here's the solution  ZDNet

New Linux Malware Campaign Exploits Oracle Weblogic to Mine Cryptocurrency  The Hacker News

What's new in GNOME 47? 6 features that make it a worthy upgrade  ZDNet

Pop_OS! is still my favorite Linux distro for gaming  XDA Developers

NanoPi Zero2 is a tiny headless Arm Linux computer with Gigabit Ethernet, a USB port, and an M.2 Key-E socket for WiFi  CNX Software

'Hadooken' Linux malware targets Oracle WebLogic servers  The Register

This week we announced that for the second consecutive year, Red Hat has been named a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Container Management. This year, Red Hat was positioned furthest on the Completeness of Vision axis.1 We’re proud of this recognition and believe it is a great validation of Red Hat OpenShift as a comprehensive platform for developing, modernizing and deploying applications at scale, including AI-enabled apps. It provides a consistent experience across hybrid environments -- from the datacenter, to the cloud, to the edge.This announcement comes on the heels of R

5 top Linux text editors that aren't vi or Emacs (and why they are my favorite)  ZDNet

Emulating the Persistent and Stealthy Ebury Linux Malware  Security Boulevard