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Ubuntu MATE Leader Stepping Down, Seeking New Contributors  Phoronix

Rspamd 4.0 is out today as a big update to this powerful open-source spam filtering system...

The Patching Paradox Driving Most Breaches  LinuxInsider

The Mesa Radeon "RADV" Vulkan driver has added new low-latency Vulkan Video encode/decode options for those seeking better performance...

Tech Soft 3D Announces Full Launch of HOOPS AI, Adding Embeddings & Linux Support  Business Wire

This hidden Linux feature makes Windows look embarrassing for developers  How-To Geek

Sent out today was the latest batch of drm-intel-next changes as feature work toward DRM-Next for Linux 7.1 winds down. This week's drm-intel-next pull is mostly fixes and some low-level code refactoring. The only item really standing out is some new quirk infrastructure for dealing with laptop display panels that may have buggy Panel Replay handling...

Intel Graphics Driver For Linux 7.1 Preps Workaround For Dell XPS Panther Lake Laptop  Phoronix

5 Linux Mint desktop widgets that save me time and help me get more done  How-To Geek

Back in 2023 AMD posted hardware-accelerated virtualized IOMMU patches for the Linux kernel as a request for comments (RFC). In 2024 they then posted a second iteration of the AMD vIOMMU patches but then seemingly fell off the radar. This morning is now the first set of updated AMD vIOMMU patches sent out on the Linux kernel mailing list with the RFC tag now removed...

AMD Revives Linux Kernel Patches For Hardware-Accelerated vIOMMU  Phoronix

SolveSpace 3.2 was released this past week as the newest feature update to this open-source parametric 3D CAD tool for creating 2D/3D parts and other CAD diagrams...

How I Use sysext to Inject Tools Into a Read-Only Linux System  It's FOSS

SystemRescue 13 updates its kernel to Linux 6.18 LTS, adds new recovery tools  Help Net Security

Linus Torvalds says Linux 7.0's calm was a mirage as rc6 refuses to settle down  XDA

Linus Torvalds expresses concerns over unusually large Linux 7.0 RC6 patch count  Neowin

Claude 5.0 Emerges in Internal Testing, Shakes Anthropic by Cracking 20-Year-Old Linux Vulnerability in 90 Minutes  36氪

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9.0 Extended Update Support (EUS) has been included in the Catalogue of Information and Communication Technology Security Products and Services (CPSTIC) of the National Cryptologic Centre (CCN). This inclusion enables RHEL for deployment in public sector bodies operating under the strictest requirements of Spain's National Security Framework (ENS).The ENS is the rigorous cybersecurity framework mandatory not only for all Spanish public administrations but also for the extensive network of private companies that provide them with services. It is a regulation aime

Organizations running Microsoft SQL Server 2025 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) in Azure can now install and integrate with the SQL IaaS Agent extension (see SQL Server IaaS Agent Extension for Linux - SQL Server on Azure VMs), which enables full licensing flexibility for their SQL deployment. As of today, the extension supports three licensing options. When registering in lightweight mode, you can choose:PAYG (Pay-As-You-Go): Pay per usage. The pay-as-you-go model means that the per-second cost of running the Azure VM includes the cost of the SQL Server license.AHB (Azure Hybrid Benefit):

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