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The Google Chrome web browser is moving away from the FreeType font rendering library and instead pursuing their Skrifa project that is written in Rust for better memory safety around handling fonts on the web...

Miracle-WM 0.5 released on Wednesday as their first update of 2025 for this Mir-based Wayland tiling window manager. With this release comes a number of new features and other enhancements...

Asahi Linux loses another prominent dev as GPU guru calls it quits  The Register

Linux Kernel Out-of-bounds Write Vulnerability Let Attackers Escalate Privileges  CybersecurityNews

Kali Linux 2025.1a drops with theme refresh, Kali NetHunter updates  Help Net Security

Linux Kernel Vulnerability Allows Attackers to Escalate Privileges via Out-of-Bounds Write  GBHackers

Kali Linux 2025.1a Released: New Tools and Desktop Environment Upgrades  GBHackers

FOSS Weekly #25.12: GNOME 48 and GIMP 3.0 Released, Switching to IceWM, Ollama Commands and More Linux Stuff  It's FOSS

Kali Linux 2025.1a Released With New Tool & Updates to Desktop Environments  CybersecurityNews

Kali Linux 2025.1a Released With New Tool & Updates to Desktop Environments  CybersecurityNews

7 Criminally-Underrated Linux Apps I Can't Live Without  MSN

SoftBank Group just announced they will be acquiring Ampere Computing, the leader in ARM64 server processors that has come under increasing pressure with more of the public cloud service providers like Google, Microsoft, and Amazon/AWS turning to their own in-house ARM64 server processor designs...

IBM To Donate Three AI-Related Projects to Linux Foundation  The New Stack

Kali Linux 2025.1a released with 1 new tool, annual theme refresh  BleepingComputer

Kali Linux 2025.1 Ethical Hacking Distro Is Here with Xfce 4.20, Refreshed Theme  9to5Linux

GNOME 48 Linux desktop launches with performance boosts but System76’s Cosmic is a rising threat  BetaNews

A change proposal filed for the upcoming Fedora Linux 43 development cycles hopes to establish an expectation that RPM package builds for the distribution are reproducible...

Mecha Comet modular Linux handheld gets pre-launch upgrade, coming to Kickstarter in Q3, 2025  Liliputing

Rising Cloud Platform Adoption Propels Market Growth: A Key Driver Transforming the Linux Software Market 2025  WhaTech

GNOME 48 is officially out as the newest stable release for this open-source desktop that will be powering the likes of Fedora Workstation 42 and Ubuntu 25.04...