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GNOME & KDE Plasma Wayland Sessions Outperforming Xfce + LXQt On Ubuntu 25.04 For Linux Gaming  Phoronix

This morning's Intel TDX update reminded me that I still hadn't gotten around to digging into the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) changes merged last week for the ongoing Linux 6.15 kernel merge window. Here is a look at the KVM changes this cycle that continue to be particularly heavy on Intel and AMD virtualization improvements...

Many KVM Updates Merged For Linux 6.15  Phoronix

Linux Foundation Networking shares new AI projects, milestone releases  Network World

Intel Trust Domain Extensions (TDX) for providing hardware-backed isolation and confidential computing support for virtual machines (VMs) on modern Xeon processors is about to become more reliable and potentially faster for some workloads...

Intel TDX Is Becoming Potentially Faster, Avoiding "Slow & Buggy" Code Path On Linux  Phoronix

Adaptiva Expands OneSite Patch to Mac and Linux, Delivering Cross-Platform Patching at Scale  dailyrecordnews.com

Adaptiva Expands OneSite Patch to Mac and Linux, Delivering Cross-Platform Patching at Scale  PR Newswire

Adaptiva Expands OneSite Patch to Mac and Linux, Delivering Cross-Platform Patching at Scale  goSkagit

5 Tools to Enhance Your AppImage Experience on Linux  It's FOSS

Slackware-Based PorteuX 2.0 Distro Released with GNOME 48 and Linux Kernel 6.14  9to5Linux

Outlaw Group Uses SSH Brute-Force to Deploy Cryptojacking Malware on Linux Servers  The Hacker News

Celebrate Donald Trump’s Liberation Day by finally ditching Windows 11 for Linux  BetaNews

Qt 6.9 was just released as the newest version of this open-source, cross-platform graphics toolkit...

KDE Plasma 6.3.4 shipped this morning as the newest monthly point release for the Plasma 6.3 desktop...

Intel's original DG1 discrete GPU was principally a development vehicle on the path to DG2/Alchemist. It did appear with the Iris Xe Max laptop dGPU in very few configurations but surprisingly it's taken until now where the Intel Linux graphics driver is set to remove the experimental "force_probe" flag on these pre-Alchemist discrete GPUs...

Intel Linux Driver Finally Dropping The Experimental Flag For Original DG1 Graphics  Phoronix

Merged last week for the Linux 6.15 merge window were a bit set of scheduler updates...

New Outlaw Linux Malware Using SSH brute-forcing To Maintain Botnet Activities for long Time  GBHackers News

Exploiting Side-Channel Leakage Enable Successful Exploitations on The Latest Linux Kernel  CybersecurityNews