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CSI Linux: Linux Distribution for Cyber and OSINT Investigation  hackernoon.com

EKS Windows Node 30s Boot Now Possible - Start as Fast as Linux! (eks-windows-bootstrapper - Part 2)  hackernoon.com

VMware Workstation Pro Now Free to Use on Linux & Windows  OMG! Ubuntu!

Firefox 127 Enters Beta Testing with Updated Screenshot Tool, Other Changes  9to5Linux

The Mesa 24.1 stable release is nearing while out today is the fourth weekly release candidate. While the Intel and AMD Radeon graphics driver changes typically dominate new Mesa releases, Mesa 24.1-rc4 is headlined by a big change for the NVK open-source NVIDIA Vulkan driver...

15-Year-Old Ebury Botnet Compromised 400,000 Linux Servers  Security Boulevard

Qualcomm warms bed for Linux on Arm PCs  The Register

The 5 Best Options for Linux Screenshots (RIP Neofetch)  MUO - MakeUseOf

One of the capabilities of newer Intel Xeon Scalable processors is support for Trust Domain Extensions (TDX) as a way of providing for confidential virtual machines. Intel TDX allows for "isolation, confidentiality, and integrity at the VM level" which is good from the security perspective but the dependence on signed binaries is causing mixed feelings within the Fedora camp at the broader open-source community...

Intel TDX For Confidential VMs Causing Concern Among Fedora & Open-Source Advocates  Phoronix

Linux maintainers were infected for 2 years by SSH-dwelling backdoor with huge reach  Ars Technica

VMware Pro apps are now free for personal use (virtualization for Windows, Mac, and Linux)  Liliputing

While Linux 6.10 is poised to merge the initial NTSYNC driver for a Windows NT Synchronization Primitive driver that can help with faster Windows gaming performance under Wine/Proton (Steam Play), the driver isn't complete. The initial patches have been in Greg Kroah-Hartman's char-misc-next branch for several weeks to expose the NTSYNC character device, it isn't the entire patch series. Greg has now marked the driver as "broken" for Linux 6.10...

Open-Source Linux for Automotive: Introducing Elektrobit's EB corbos  Electronic Design

Endless OS 6 debuts with new looks, updated apps, and more  Notebookcheck.net

Asmi 24.04: Ubuntu without GNOME, Snap, or Flatpak  The Register

With Asmi 24.04, Ubuntu's never looked so snappy (without the Snaps)  The Register

Will Linux Land You a Job?  Analytics India Magazine

Back in February I wrote about AMD having quietly funded the effort for a drop-in CUDA implementation for AMD GPUs built atop the ROCm library. This was an incarnation of ZLUDA that originally began as a CUDA implementation for Intel GPUs using oneAPI Level Zero. While AMD discontinued funding ZLUDA development earlier this year, this CUDA implementation for AMD GPUs is continuing to see some new code activity...

400000 Linux Servers Hit by Ebury Botnet  OODA Loop