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Heading to Linux now Windows 10 is no more? Commodore's distro has 'no nags' and 'no tracking'  TweakTown

Intel begins laying the groundwork for Xe3P GPUs on Linux  KitGuru

Cisco SNMP Vulnerability Exploited to Install Linux Rootkits  Cyber Press

'Systems that have a secure boot process, in reality, do not': Major backdoors have been discovered in Framework Linux machines and it might just be the tip of the iceberg  PC Gamer

I abandoned Google for a search tool that doesn't track me or push AI - and it gets better  ZDNET

Fedora Approves /nix Directory for Seamless Nix Integration  WebProNews

Cisco SNMP 0-Day Vulnerability Actively Exploited To Deploy Linux Rootkits  Cyber Security News

Cisco SNMP 0-Day Vulnerability Actively Exploited To Deploy Linux Rootkits  Cyber Security News

200,000 Linux systems from Framework are shipped with signed UEFI components vulnerable to Secure Boot bypass  Security Affairs

Last week Amazon/AWS announced the new EC2 M8a instances as their latest-generation, general-purpose compute instances now powered by AMD EPYC 9005 "Turin" processors. Amazon announced the M8a as having up to 30% higher performance and up to 19% better price performance over M7a. With my testing of both at 32 vCPUs, the new AMD EPYC Turin instance provided 1.59x the performance over the prior-generation EPYC Genoa instance!

4 Ways to Pinpoint Inevitable Network Outages on Linux  How-To Geek

NordVPN Makes Linux App GUI Open Source, Reverses Meshnet Shutdown Decision  It's FOSS News

NordVPN Open-Sources Linux GUI App on GitHub Amid 70% User Surge  WebProNews

Apple today announced the M5 SoC as the newest in the Apple Silicon family and with claims of 4x the peak GPU compute performance for AI of the M4...

Uncle Lee’s Cookbook will bring five episodes of point and click adventuring while you save the universe  GamingOnLinux

Raspberry Pi OS, LMDE, and Peppermint OS move to Debian 13  theregister.com

Merged today to the Tinygrad deep learning framework is a Mesa NIR back-end to allow targeting that common intermediate representation used by these open-source Linux GPU drivers. Initially supported with this Tinygrad NIR back-end is the open-source NVIDIA Vulkan driver "NVK" with its Rust-based NAK compiler as well as the CPU-based LLVMpipe driver...

Commodore Tells Windows 10 Users Shunned By Microsoft To Join Its Linux Sanctuary  HotHardware

LMDE 7 "Gigi" Released: Linux Mint's Debian-Based Alternative Gets Major Upgrade  It's FOSS News

AMD's HIP-RT is used by the Blender 3D modeling software for GPU-accelerated ray-tracing on Radeon GPUs. For Blender 5.0 the AMD HIP-RT support is expected to be declared "stable" but will not be enabled by default until Blender 5.1...