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While not as exciting as features like HDMI 2.1 FRL and Display Stream Compression itself, as part of AMD's efforts to provide a fully open-source HDMI 2.1 driver implementation for AMDGPU, new code is being prepped for their kernel driver to support the HDMI compliance testing efforts...

AMDGPU Linux Driver Preps For HDMI 2.1 Compliance Testing  Phoronix

Cave Story+ 2026 major update out now - Native Linux version dropped  GamingOnLinux

Among the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) work being queued ahead of the upcoming Linux 7.2 merge window are preparations for supporting Advanced Performance Extensions within KVM virtual machines...

Linux's KVM Preps For APX Support In VMs  Phoronix

Initially introduced in RDNA3 (GFX11) GPUs is INST_PREF_SIZE to specify the number of instruction bytes to prefetch prior to a wavefront beginning execution. The Mesa Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" is now making use of this feature in RDNA3/RDNA4 GPUs for better instruction cache prefetching...

RADV Driver Now Leveraging RDNA3+ Hardware Feature For Better Instruction Cache Prefetching  Phoronix

Budget Linux or premium Android? TRIMUI's upcoming Brick handheld lineup gives you two options  Android Authority

AORUS RTX 5060 Ti AI Box: Portable eGPUs Are So Hot Right Now  Tedium.co

Alpine Linux 3.24 released with support for COSMIC Desktop and other improvements  Neowin

Made public today is CVE-2025-10263 as a "critical" security vulnerability affecting many different Arm CPU cores. CVE-2025-10263 could allow for privilege escalation on affected systems due to a specific timing condition during a memory permission change. Fundamentally it comes down to completion of affected memory accesses might not be guaranteed by the completion of a TLBI...

Linux Sees Patches For "Critical" Vulnerability Affecting Many Arm CPUs  Phoronix

Today we released Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.7, which builds on previous releases with more features and enhancements to help you enable a platform engineering approach to automation, accelerate adoption across different teams, and prepare your IT operations for AI-driven automation. Here's a look at what's included in our latest release. Empower platform engineering and boost developer productivity The self-service automation portal, released with Ansible Automation Platform 2.6, allows ITOps teams to make automation available to users who are not automation experts yet need easy

The keys that Microsoft uses to sign for Secure Boot are expiring at the end of June 2026. Here is what you need to know:Secure Boot-enabled systems will continue to boot after June 2026 whether they are immediately updated or not.Red Hat has released new shims, signed by multiple certificates, for all supported RHEL 9 and RHEL 10 streams; RHEL 8 will receive the new shim in June 2026.To prepare your systems for the future, it’s best to update your firmware database, if an update is available, and update your shim.What is Secure Boot?UEFI Secure Boot is a security feature that permits only s

Alpine Linux 3.24 Released with GNOME 50, KDE Plasma 6.6, and COSMIC Desktops  9to5Linux

Alpine Linux 3.24 Brings COSMIC Desktop to Its Community Repository  Linuxiac

Alpine Linux, the Linux distribution popular especially for containers / micro-services and embedded devices, is out with its newest feature release...

How AI and Linux devs are keeping old AMD Radeon cards alive  MakeUseOf

Microsoft's new Linux utilities for Windows are missing the point—here's why WSL wins  How-To Geek

Proton releases Proton Drive CLI for Windows, Mac, and Linux  Neowin