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New ARM 'TIKTAG' attack impacts Google Chrome, Linux systems  BleepingComputer

IceWM 3.6 is out today as the newest version of this lightweight X11 window manager...

After being talked about for years of DRM panic handling and coming with a "Blue Screen of Death" solution for DRM/KMS drivers, Linux 6.10 is introducing a new DRM panic handler infrastructure for being able to display a message when a panic occurs. This is especially important for those building a kernel without VT/FBCON support where otherwise viewing the kernel panic message isn't otherwise easily available...

Linux's New DRM Panic "Blue Screen of Death" In Action  Phoronix

For months Broadcom has been working on the VMware Hypercall API for the Linux kernel. This "vmware_hyperscall" is a new family of functions for use by the VMware guest code and virtual device drivers in an architecture-independent manner...

Christian Schaller of Red Hat shared an update on Friday around the ongoing enhancements to Fedora Workstation. Given the current industry trends, ongoing Fedora Workstation development is seeing a lot of attention around... AI, AI, AI...

Fedora Making Strides On Enabling Greater AI Use, Easier AMD ROCm PyTorch Acceleration  Phoronix

For years there has been the RKVDEC Linux media driver to provide accelerated video decoding on Rockchip SoCs. Being worked on now is RKVDEC2 for providing video decoding on the newer Rockchip SoCs...

RKVDEC2 Driver Posted For Accelerated Video Decoding On Newer Rockchip SoCs  Phoronix

Building off Friday's release of Wine 9.11 as that newest bi-weekly development release, Wine Staging 9.11 has been released with some 428 patches re-based atop this latest upstream Wine code...

New Linux malware is controlled through emojis sent from Discord  BleepingComputer

New Linux malware is controlled through emojis sent from Discord  BleepingComputer

A Linux power management change merged on Friday aims to help ensure AMD Ryzen systems with NVMe solid-state drive storage will work properly when resuming from suspend...

New Linux Change Helps Ensure AMD Ryzen With NVMe Works After Resuming From Suspend  Phoronix

Install Ollama AI on Ubuntu Linux to Use LLMs on Your Own Machine  The New Stack

SparkyLinux 7.4 'Orion Belt' update rolls out: Here's what's new  BetaNews

GNOME's longtime document viewer, Evince, was recently forked as GNOME Papers and saw its first release a few weeks back. This new GNOME document viewer has been ported from GTK3 to GTK4 and also brings an improved user interface and other refinements...

Apple compiler engineers have contributed Apple M4 CPU support to the upstream LLVM/Clang compiler via the new -mcpu=apple-m4 target. Interestingly the Apple M4 is exposed as an ARMv8.7 derived design...

KDE Plasma 6.1 is preparing for release next week on 18 June. KDE developers this week have thus been very busy with last minute finishing touches to this updated desktop while also already beginning feature work on Plasma 6.2...

New Linux malware is controlled through emojis sent from Discord  BleepingComputer