Open-source News

Ubuntu Linux 25.04 is called Plucky Puffin  BetaNews

TuxCare Arms Enterprises with First-Ever Endless Lifecycle Support for EOL Linux Distributions and Open-Source Software  Security Boulevard

North Korea Hackers Get Cash Fast in Linux Cyber Heists  Dark Reading

North Korean hackers use newly discovered Linux malware to raid ATMs  Ars Technica

Building off the existing Linux support for GPU Direct RDMA / Peer-To-Peer DMA functionality, a set of patches were posted by NVIDIA today enabling this P2P DMA support to also work for device-private pages...

NVIDIA Posts Linux Patches For GPU Direct RDMA For Device Private Pages  Phoronix

VirtualBox gets Windows 11 24H2 fix, many TPM improvements, Linux 6.12 support, and more  Neowin

Back in March for GDC, Microsoft excitingly announced the official releases of Direct3D 12 Work Graphs for "enabling new types of GPU autonomy" for allowing more rendering work to be offloaded to the GPU. While this greater GPU-driven rendering with Work Graphs has been talked up by Microsoft and other parties, Valve engineers working on VKD3D-Proton for implementing D3D12 over Vulkan have found the new Work Graphs functionality to not be as nearly captivating...

Intel and AMD Form x86 Ecosystem Advisory Group  HardForum

A new Linux variant of FASTCash malware targets financial systems  Security Affairs

Intel and AMD have jointly announced the creation of an x86 ecosystem advisory group to bring together the two companies as well as other industry leaders -- both companies and individuals such as Linux creator Linus Torvalds...

ATM cash theft aimed by new FASTCash malware for Linux  scworld.com

Android may soon be able to run Linux apps easily  Tech Advisor

Announcing Finch on Linux for Container Development  AWS Blog

Linux: Sync Files Between Servers With Syncthing  The New Stack

New iPad Mini Has A17 Pro Chip and Apple Intelligence  Review Geek

Last week when launching the AMD EPYC 9005 "Turin" processors, on the same day AOCC 5.0 was quietly released as the newest version of AMD's Zen-focused compiler derived from LLVM/Clang. With not only adding AMD Zen 5 "znver5" support but also additional vectorization improvements and other performance optimizations, I was eager to run some benchmarks of AOCC 5.0 against the open-source GCC and LLVM/Clang compilers. Here are those initial benchmarks using dual AMD EPYC 9755 128-core Zen 5 processors.

VirtualBox 7.1.4 Adds Initial Support for Linux Kernel 6.12 and Other Linux Changes  9to5Linux

VirtualBox 7.1.4 Adds Initial Support for Linux Kernel 6.12 and Other Linux Changes  9to5Linux

New Linux Variant of FASTCash Malware Targets Payment Switches in ATM Heists  The Hacker News