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Linux Boot Vulnerability Allows Bypass of Secure Boot Protections on Modern Linux Systems  CyberSecurityNews

While coming a few weeks too late for making it into the LibreOffice 25.8 open-source office suite release, merged today to LibreOffice Git for next year's LibreOffice 26.2 is adding initial support for importing Markdown files into the LibreOffice Writer word processor...

The AMDKFD "Kernel Fusion Driver" used as the Linux kernel GPU compute driver and necessary part of their ROCm compute stack it turns out can build and run on the Chinese-developed LoongArch systems rather easily...

Intel VSEC/PMT Discovery Driver Expected For Linux 6.17 To Enhance Telemetry  Phoronix

With the upcoming Linux 6.17 kernel cycle Intel is further building out their Platform Monitoring Technology (PMT) capabilities with the introduction of a new discovery driver...

As a good sign of the progress being made on the Xe3 integrated graphics Linux support and of the Core Ultra Panther Lake launch approaching, the necessary graphics firmware binaries have now been upstreamed to the linux-firmware.git repository...

TornadoVM version 1.1.1 is now available for this OpenJDK and GraalVM plug-in that supports Java offloading to GPUs, FPGAs, and other heterogeneous hardware. The past few years TornadoVM has been making a lot of progress to automatically run Java programs across GPUs and other devices supporting OpenCL, NVIDIA PTX, and Khronos SPIR-V/Vulkan...

It's now easier to get Mesa 25.1 on the latest Ubuntu 25.04  GamingOnLinux

lsfg-vk aims to bring Lossless Scaling's Frame Generation to Linux  GamingOnLinux

Blender 5.0 Set to Bring HDR Support for Linux Wayland Users  It's FOSS News

Allwinner A527, T527, and A733 datasheets, user manuals, and Linux SDK released  CNX Software

Linux boot Vujlnerability Allows Bypass of Secure Boot protections on modern Linux systems  Cyber Press

Linux Boot Vulnerability Lets Attackers Bypass Secure Boot Protections  gbhackers.com

Linux Boot Vulnerability Lets Attackers Bypass Secure Boot Protections  gbhackers.com

APT36 Attacking BOSS Linux Systems With Weaponized ZIP Files to Steal Sensitive Data  CyberSecurityNews

DXVK 2.7 Optimizations Give Intel Arc GPUs a Performance Boost on Linux  TechPowerUp

DXVK 2.7 Optimizations Give Intel Arc GPUs a Performance Boost on Linux  TechPowerUp

Linux Privilege Escalation Exploit Released – udisksd & libblockdev Vulnerability  Cyber Press

PoC Released for Linux Privilege Escalation Flaw in udisksd and libblockdev  gbhackers.com

PoC Released for Linux Privilege Escalation Vulnerability via udisksd and libblockdev  CyberSecurityNews