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AWS Cloud9 now supports Amazon Linux 2023  AWS Blog

Shotcut 23.12 debuted this weekend as the newest version of this open-source non-linear video editing solution for Linux, Windows, and macOS systems...

Linux All-in-one For Dummies 7th Edition (worth $24) free eBook offer  Neowin

8220 Hacker Group Attacking Windows & Linux Web Servers  GBHackers

Mozilla Firefox 121 Is Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New  9to5Linux

This new Canonical feature solves my biggest problem with online productivity apps  ZDNet

New InstallAware Multi Platform Builds GUI Setups with Console Fallbacks, Ensuring 100% Successful Deployments ...  PR Web

With the new Intel 5th Gen Xeon "Emerald Rapids" processors there is a new feature called the Optimized Power Mode (OPM). This Optimized Power Mode can be enabled via the system BIOS for Emerald Rapids for helping to reduce the CPU power consumption when not running at full utilization. With Intel claiming that up to 110 Watts of server power savings can be conserved when running at 30~40% utilization, I was curious and set out to run my own Optimized Power Mode benchmarks with the Xeon Platinum 8592+ processors. Here is a deep dive on Intel Optimized Power Mode benchmarks.

Claim a free copy of Lost Ruins during the GOG Winter Sale  GamingOnLinux

9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: December 17th, 2023  9to5Linux

HDR support for KDE Plasma 6 seems to be shaping up nicely  GamingOnLinux

All the pieces have been aligned that the mainline Linux 6.8 kernel should be able to boot on the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 SoC without any out-of-tree patches being necessary...

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 Will Be Able To Boot On The Mainline Linux 6.8 Kernel  Phoronix

ONF prepares to wind down operations, transfers projects to Linux Foundation  Telecompaper EN

Best Linux distro for privacy and security of 2023  TechRadar

While Intel Meteor Lake processors only launched last week, Intel Linux engineers have already been busy for some time enabling next-generation Arrow Lake and Lunar Lake processors...

A new driver set to be merged in the upcoming Linux 6.8 cycle is "gigabyte_waterforce" as a new kernel driver for supporting Gigabyte AORUS Waterforce AIO coolers...

Gigabyte Waterforce AIO Cooler Driver Set To Premiere In Linux 6.8  Phoronix

For Mesa 23.1 earlier this year initial RADV Vulkan Video decode support was merged for supporting GPU-based video acceleration with this Khronos video API. As we approach the end of the year, RADV's Vulkan Video encode support remains a work-in-progress but hopefully won't be too much longer before being upstreamed...

KDE developer Xaver Hugl has shared a status update on the current state of HDR support for the KDE Plasma desktop...