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Save your computer from Microsoft's Windows 10 end-of-life planned obsolescence  Neowin

As an alternative to the GNOME System Monitor application for system monitoring, Resources has been in development as a currently unofficial, GNOME-aligned resource/hardware monitoring application written in the Rust programming language. Resources v1.7 was released on Friday and now has the ability to monitor NPU usage and other enhancements...

Linux 6.13 Hits A "Tipping Point" With More Rust Drivers Expected Soon  Phoronix

In addition to the USB updates and big staging flush merged yesterday for the Linux 6.13 kernel merge window, the "char/misc" pull was also honored for that catch-all of various kernel changes. With the char/misc pull there are some notable additions for those wanting to write kernel drivers within the Rust programming language...

The Rust Hypervisor Firmware is a project out of the Cloud Hypervisor umbrella for developing open-source, Rust-based firmware that can be launched from any environment able to load ELF binaries and run them via the PVH booting standard. Rust Hypervisor Firmware v0.5 is out this weekend with the newest capabilities...

KDE developers have wrapped up a busy November with many fixes and other refinements landing this last week of the month...

Elementary OS 8: Interesting Ideas, Tough Ecosystem  Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet

Making for an even more exciting Black Friday is the Kbuild pull request submitted today for the near-over Linux 6.13 merge window... And it includes Clang Auto Feedback Directed Optimization (AutoFDO) support for kernel builds as well as Clang's Propeller...

Clang AutoFDO & Propeller Optimization Support Sent In For Linux 6.13: 5~10% More Performance  Phoronix

Code found online exploits LogoFAIL to install Bootkitty Linux backdoor  Ars Technica

Researchers discover "Bootkitty," the first UEFI bootkit for Linux  TechSpot

Both KDE and GNOME to offer official distros  The Register

Hello Bootkitty! Linux Gets A UEFI Bootkit  PC Perspective

For those with some extra time over the US holiday weekend, LibreOffice 25.2 Alpha 1 has been published as the newest feature version of this open-source, cross-platform office suite that is a great alternative to the likes of Microsoft Office...

LibreOffice 25.2 Alpha 1 Open-Source Office Suite Released  Phoronix

Use CasaOS to Easily Manage Your Homelab Server  Make Tech Easier

Godot Engine Exploited to Spread Malware on Windows, macOS, Linux  HackRead

Calibre 7.22: Better eReader Support, New Restart Option  OMG! Ubuntu!

Arch Linux installer now slightly less masochistic  The Register

Following the release last month of the EPYC 9005 series processors, AMD published a BIOS and Workload Tuning Guide of straight-forward settings recommendations for those running new EPYC Turin servers to optimize the performance of different workloads like databases and Java to HPC and AI/ML software. Recently I started running some benchmarks to look at the impact of AMD's recommended BIOS tuning and beginning this comparison by looking at the performance (and power) impact across a range of AI / machine learning workloads on a 5th Gen AMD EPYC server.