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XZ Utils: How a Major Cybersecurity Disaster Was Narrowly Avoided  Tech.co

From Russia with love: ROSA Fresh 12.5 delivers an improved Linux experience  BetaNews

AMD's Longtime Open-Source Linux Graphics Driver Advocate Retires  Phoronix

After working at ATI/AMD for more than a quarter century and being the open-source graphics driver manager during the early days, John Bridgman has retired...

Some Relief For Linux Admins Living In Terror Of The XZ Backdoor  PC Perspective

Best Practices and Strategic Insights to Dockerizing Your Linux Applications  Linux Journal

XFS: Tracking space on a realtime device  Oracle

The XZ Utils Backdoor in Linux: How it Happened  It's FOSS News

The PCI-SIG announced today that they have published their newest revision "version 0.5" of the forthcoming PCI Express 7.0 specification...

5 Linux network-related commands every new user should know  ZDNet

Mesa 24.1's Vulkan windowing system integration (WSI) code now has support for the Wayland linux-drm-syncobj-v1 protocol for explicit synchronization support...

TUXEDO Pulse 14 Gen 3 Continues Running Well As A Powerful AMD Ryzen 7 Linux Laptop Review  Phoronix

Trusted Contributor Plants Backdoor in Critical Open-Source Library  Infosecurity Magazine

The past two months I've been testing out the TUXEDO Pulse 14 Gen 3 laptop as a new AMD Ryzen laptop from this Bavarian Linux PC retailer. It's been working out very well under Linux (as would be expected of TUXEDO Computers) and quite adaptable for power and performance. For those needing a capable Linux laptop the TUXEDO Pulse 14 Gen 3 has proven quite stable and reliable under both their in-house TUXEDO OS distribution as well as Ubuntu Linux.

New XZ backdoor scanner detects implant in any Linux binary  BleepingComputer

Microsoft Engineer Foils Major Linux Backdoor Plot  Techopedia

AMD today announced the Ryzen Embedded 8000 series processors -- their first AMD embedded chips to offer Ryzen AI with the onboard Neural Processing Unit (NPU). This AMD XDNA NPU support is similar to the existing Ryzen AI on the Ryzen 8000 series...

Following the recent upgrade to Rust 1.77, the Linux kernel Rust code is preparing to move to Rust 1.78 that will be released as stable in about one month...

The Linux Kernel Begins Preparing For Rust 1.78 Upgrade  Phoronix

1. Malicious Code in XZ Utils for Linux Systems Enables Remote Code Execution  The Hacker News
2. Supply Chain Attack: Major Linux Distributions Impacted by XZ Utils Backdoor  SecurityWeek
3. Backdoor found in widely used Linux utility targets encrypted SSH connections  Ars Technica