Open-source News

New Linux Variant Of RansomHub Attacking ESXi Systems  CybersecurityNews

How to escape VMware's pricey clutches with Virt-v2v  The Register

My Windows Computer Just Doesn't Feel Like Mine Anymore  How-To Geek

Intel software engineers have been upstreaming the Lunar Lake support for Linux a number of months already and the basics appear in good shape, aside from the Xe2 graphics enablement being an ongoing matter. Much of the rest of the core functionality has appeared to be in good shape ahead of Lunar Lake laptops launching in Q3, but it seems there have been a few missing power management related bits...

Intel Lunar Lake Workload Hints & Power Floor Patches Posted For Linux  Phoronix

Newly merged patches for Mesa 24.2 slightly enhance the default out-of-the-box build experience for the open-source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers on POWER/PowerPC platforms...

The Intel Xe driver is working on supporting PMT functionality with a new set of patches that may be mainlined for Linux v6.11~6.12...

Best Linux laptops of 2024  TechRadar

USENIX Security ’23 – FirmSolo: Enabling Dynamic Analysis Of Binary Linux-Based IoT Kernel Modules  Security Boulevard

Is 2024 the year of Windows on the desktop? – OSnews  OS News

OSnews - Exploring the Future of Computing  OS News

Efficient Container Orchestration Tips with Docker Swarm on Linux  Linux Journal

ELDEN RING Shadow of the Erdtree DLC update causing problems on Steam Deck / Linux  GamingOnLinux

While not talked about as much as the likes of the Intel Gaudi accelerators with their upstream Habana Labs kernel driver or the AMD Instinct MI300 series with their open-source upstream support too, back in 2022 Qualcomm did post an open-source kernel driver for their Cloud AI accelerator. That was followed by an open-source compiler and user-space stack and in turn the QAIC driver was upstreamed into the accelerator (accel) subsystem last year with Linux 6.4...

Qualcomm Cloud AI 100 "AIC100" Firmware Upstreamed  Phoronix

Linux version of RansomHub ransomware targets VMware ESXi VMs  BleepingComputer

UNC3886 hackers use Linux rootkits to hide on VMware ESXi VMs  BleepingComputer

UNC3886 hackers use Linux rootkits to hide on VMware ESXi VMs  BleepingComputer

Intel on Wednesday released version 1.5 of their Linux NPU driver, their user-space driver component for Linux systems in enabling the neural processing unit found with Core Ultra "Meteor Lake" processors and newer. This goes along with their upstream IVPU kernel accelerator driver for allowing a full open-source solution for AI workloads with the likes of OpenVINO...

Intel Linux NPU Driver v1.5 Released - Now Validated On Arrow Lake & Lunar Lake  Phoronix