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LXD 5.20 Released With Canonical Changing It To AGPLv3 Licensing  Phoronix

ONNX in collaboration with AMD have announced TurnkeyML as a new open-source machine learning toolchain focused on agile model development and deployment...

How to Use Port Knocking on Linux (and Why You Shouldn't)  How-To Geek

New Windows/Linux Firmware Attack  Security Boulevard

With Linux 6.7 there's now support for enabling/disabling 32-bit program support at boot-time. The "ia32_emulation=" argument can be used for enabling/disabling 32-bit user-space program support and the ability to support 32-bit system calls. Right now when forcing off the x86 32-bit support it can be confusing if the user is unaware as no warning is currently provided, but that is about to change...

Linux 6.8 Will Make It More Clear When x86 32-bit Support Is Disabled  Phoronix

The long-in-development work for a fully-functional multi-threaded FFmpeg command line has been merged! The FFmpeg CLI with multi-threaded transcoding pipelines is now merged to FFmpeg Git ahead of FFmpeg 7.0 releasing early next year. FFmpeg is widely-used throughout many industries for video transcoding and in today's many-core world this is a terrific improvement for this key open-source project...

Lynx Software Technologies Announces Acquisition of Timesys Corporation  Business Wire

Energy Industry Veteran Alex Thornton Joins Linux Foundation Energy as Executive Director to Drive Next Phase of ...  PR Newswire

Linux 6.6 brought an initial Intel Visual Sensing Controller "IVSC" driver. The Intel IVSC drivers have long been out-of-tree for use with Alder Lake laptops and newer. Linux 6.7 brought the La Jolla Cove Adadpter driver code as part of the IVSC controller. With Linux 6.8 there's yet more work landing on the IVSC front...

Intel Visual Sensing Controller Enablement Work Continues For Linux 6.8  Phoronix

Calamares 3.3 Released as the Next Generation Graphical Installer for Linux  9to5Linux

Cling 1.0 was released this week for this open-source interactive C++ interpreter that builds atop LLVM/Clang. Cling is implemented as an extension to LLVM/Clang to serve as an interpeter leveraging the read-eval-print loop (REPL) concept and relies on just-in-time (JIT) compilation...

The feature work continues pouring in for Mesa 24.0 with new OpenGL and Vulkan driver features continuing to be enabled...

Building a Retro Linux Gaming Computer Part 36: Entertainment for X Windows  GamingOnLinux

Kernel kerfuffle kiboshes Debian 12.3 release  The Register

Apache ActiveMQ Vulnerability Exploited by Kinsing to Attack Linux Servers  CybersecurityNews

How To Install and Use the Cockpit Linux Management Console  ITPro Today

Of the many new features in Linux 6.7, one of the items exciting Phoronix readers the most is the merging of the long-in-development Bcachefs file-system...

Linux gets a Blue Screen of Death - NotebookCheck.net News  Notebookcheck.net