Open-source News

Apple and some Linux distros are open to Bluetooth attack  The Register

4 reasons Windows is a better OS for gaming handhelds than Linux  XDA Developers

In addition to AMD using its AI event today for launching the Instinct MI300A and MI300X along with ROCm 6.0, AMD also announced the Ryzen 8040 series mobile processors. A big emphasis with these forthcoming laptop processors is on the AI capabilities between the dedicated NPU with AMD XDNA, Zen 4 CPU cores with AVX-512 VNNI support, and AMD RDNA3 graphics capable of accelerating AI.

At AMD's AI event today the company provided more details on their Instinct MI300 series for their very exciting data center APU and CDNA3 discrete GPU accelerator. ROCm 6.0 was also announced for advancing AMD's AI software capabilities.

Kali Linux 2023.4 is Out: Cloud ARM64, Hyper-V, Pi 5, & More!  HackRead

Feral GameMode v1.8 out now with CPU core pinning and parking  GamingOnLinux

While there hasn't been much in the way of new Linux game ports from Feral Interactive since Steam Play (Valve's Proton + VKD3D-Proton) took over the scene, they do continue maintaining their GameMode open-source service and today released GameMode 1.8 with work by them and the open-source community...

Feral's GameMode 1.8 Adds CPU Core Pinning & Parking  Phoronix

Critical Bluetooth Flaw Exposes Android, Apple & Linux Devices to Takeover - Critical Bluetooth Flaw Exposes Android ...  Dark Reading

KDE Plasma 6's open beta delivers myriad delights - and you can try it now  ZDNet

KDE Plasma 6's open beta delivers myriad delights - and you can try it now  ZDNet

How to Set Environment Variables in Bash on Linux  How-To Geek

Red Hat greases migration to RHEL for CentOS 7 holdouts  The Register

Cloudflare has talked up their success in using the open-source Linux-based OpenBMC software for baseboard management controllers (BMCs) as a replacement to proprietary BMC software stacks...

Cloudflare Talks Up Its Success In Using OpenBMC  Phoronix

Fedora 40 is eyeing the next phase of its unified kernel (UKI) support within the distribution that will include the ability to support booting to unified kernel image files directly without having to go through a traditional bootloader like GRUB or SD-Boot...

Fedora 40 Eyes The Ability To Boot Unified Kernel Images Directly  Phoronix

New Ubuntu Security Fixes for Linux Kernel Vulnerabilities  Security Boulevard

Just about every Windows and Linux device vulnerable to new LogoFAIL firmware attack  Ars Technica

While Blender is at the forefront of receiving corporate sponsorships and funding for advancing that open-source 3D modeling software, other free software graphics programs haven't all received the same level of support. As good news for further raising the open-source creative/graphics ecosystem, an Austrian video game studio has become one of the new Krita sponsors...