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I tried a hardened Linux kernel so you don't have to  How-To Geek

Exciting yesterday in the land of Intel's open-source Vulkan driver "ANV" for Linux systems was introducing experimental support for descriptor heaps with the VK_EXT_descriptor_heap extension. Today there is another separate exciting development for this open-source Intel driver: Vulkan device generated commands are finally merged!..

Intel's Vulkan Linux Driver Now Supports Device Generated Commands "DGC"  Phoronix

Yesterday was the OpenCL 3.1 release and today is another exciting development for The Khronos Group standards: the debut of the Vulkan SC SDK for safety-critical applications...

New Linux StarFighter laptop family debuts starting at $1,878 — Star Labs Systems' laptops arrive with spacious RAM, several options  Tom's Hardware

Dell & Lenovo Now Sponsoring The Linux Vendor Firmware Service  Phoronix

Dell and Lenovo have stepped up to become premier sponsors for the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) that provides for seamless system firmware and device/component firmware updating under Linux with the Fwupd client...

VKD3D-Proton 3.0.1 brings many Linux gaming enhancements for Direct3D 12 via Vulkan  GamingOnLinux

Linea Joins Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust  Cryptonews.net

Hans-Kristian Arntzen of Valve's Linux graphics driver team announced the release today of VKD3D-Proton 3.0.1 for Direct3D 12 over the Vulkan API...

CopyFail Bug Lets Attackers Seize Root on Almost Every Linux System  Technology Org

CopyFail in Linux: a critical vulnerability that gives full system control  hi-Tech.ua

Back in March AMD announced the open-source ROCDXG library for improved ROCm support on WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux). The ROCDXG-based solution provides better ROCm compatibility within these Linux confines atop Windows 11 compared to their prior, now-legacy-based WSL support. A new ROCDXG release now available further expands the ROCm WSL2 support to more Ryzen hardware...

AMD Expands ROCm Support On Windows WSL To More Ryzen Hardware  Phoronix

New malware turns Linux systems into P2P attack networks  csoonline.com

Stop using bloated apps: These 5 terminal tools are all I need for work  How-To Geek

Sophisticated Quasar Linux RAT Campaign Targets Software Developers in Supply Chain Attacks  CXO Digitalpulse

Linux Foundation Consolidates MCP Under Agentic AI Foundation  Let's Data Science

For those with fond memories of the AMD Geode x86 embedded processors, the Linux kernel is set to orphan these since discontinued and obsolete CPUs...

AMD Geode CPU Support Being Orphaned By Linux  Phoronix