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Intel Panther Lake Introducing 5th Gen NPU - Initial Linux Patches Posted  Phoronix

Earlier this week I delivered initial Intel Xe2 Lunar Lake graphics benchmarks on Linux while today the focus is on Lunar Lake's CPU performance. The Xe2 graphics performance under Linux was disappointingly slow with it performing even worse than Meteor Lake while RDNA3.5 graphics led. Intel has been investigating the Xe2 Linux graphics performance but I haven't heard any updates yet. Today the attention is on the Lunar Lake CPU side under Linux and it too isn't looking too good. The performance of this 8-core Core Ultra 7 256V SoC is poor in real-world multi-threaded scenarios and the performance-per-Watt is only compelling in a subset of workloads. The AMD Ryzen AI 9 365 and AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 Zen 5 SoCs tended to deliver the superior performance and power efficiency under Linux.

AMD Ryzen AI 300 Series Dominates Intel Core Ultra 7 Lunar Lake Performance For Linux Developers & Creators  Phoronix

Linux systems are being hit by a wide-ranging and dangerous new malware  MSN

Perfctl, This Linux Malware Is A Perfect Chameleon  PC Perspective

Pinball Spire is a wonderful reinvention of what Pinball can be  GamingOnLinux

The open-source ZLUDA project began life as a drop-in CUDA replacement that ran atop Intel GPUs using the Level Zero API. Then AMD quietly began funding it for several years as a viable CUDA implementation running atop AMD GPUs until discontinued funding earlier this year. ZLUDA for AMD GPUs was then made open-source but then in August the ZLUDA code was removed at AMD's request. Today it's taking on its third incarnation...

Fwupd 2.0 Open-Source Linux Firmware Updater Released with Major Changes  9to5Linux

Fwupd 2.0 Open-Source Linux Firmware Updater Released with Major Changes  9to5Linux

Richard Hughes of Red Hat just announced Fwupd 2.0 as a major release to this open-source firmware updating utility for Linux systems. Fwupd 2.0 clears out a lot of long deprecated and legacy bits while adding new features and shipping many fixes...

Fwupd 2.0 Released To Drop Legacy & Deprecated Bits, Adds New Features  Phoronix

Linux systems are being hit by a wide-ranging and dangerous new malware  TechRadar

Cups Linux printing bugs open door to DDoS attacks, says Akamai  ComputerWeekly.com

It’s finally time to say goodbye to Windows 11 — Nitrux Linux 3.7.0 is the OS you’ve been waiting for!  BetaNews

New Perfctl Malware targets Linux servers in cryptomining campaign  Security Affairs

Blender 4.3 is available today in beta form to encourage public testing of this next feature release to this leading open-source 3D modeling software...

5 Things You Can Do on Linux but Not on Windows  MSN

News - Scroller Home Page - Experts Warn of DDoS Attacks Exploiting Linux Printing Vulnerabilities  TEISS

News - Experts Warn of DDoS Attacks Exploiting Linux Printing Vulnerabilities  TEISS

Red Hat engineer Jocelyn Falempe has been working to sort out DRM Panic support for the AMDGPU driver. The DRM Panic infrastructure is useful since it's what allows presenting a panic screen, a.k.a. a "Blue Screen of Death" type experience when running into major kernel problems. With Linux 6.12 there's now the ability to show QR codes for error messages with DRM Panic...