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MEDIA ADVISORY: CIQ White Paper Quantifies Volume of Back-Ported Bugs in Stable Branches of Popular Linux Builds  PR Web

This week AMD announced the Ryzen 5 8400F and Ryzen 7 8700F processors as new Zen 4 budget CPU contenders lacking any integrated graphics. While part of the Ryzen 8000 series, the 8400F also lacks the Ryzen AI support found in the higher-end SKUs. The Ryzen 5 8400F offers 6 cores / 12 threads, a 4.2GHz base clock and 4.7GHz boost clock, and a 65 Watt TDP while retailing for $169~189 USD. Here are some initial benchmarks of the AMD Ryzen 5 8400F in putting it up against 230+ benchmarks under Linux while also monitoring the CPU power consumption and comparing it to Intel's closest contender as the Core i5 1440F that retails for just under $200.

Are all Linux vendor kernels insecure? A new study says yes, but there's a fix  ZDNet

Following Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund providing significant funding for GNOME, Rust Coreutils, PHP, a systemd bug bounty, and numerous other free software projects, the FFmpeg multimedia library is the latest beneficiary to this funding from the Germany government...

NVK driver gets DRM Format Modifiers to work with Gamescope in Mesa 24.1  GamingOnLinux

Breach Roundup: Kimsuky Serves Linux Trojan  BankInfoSecurity.com

Breach Roundup: Kimsuky Serves Linux Trojan  GovInfoSecurity.com

A patch has been posted by Samsung engineers for implementing Flexible Data Placement (FDP) support within the Linux kernel's NVMe driver code. NVMe FDP allows for the host system to have more control over the placement of logical blocks on the storage device...

Linux Patch Posted For NVMe Flexible Data Placement (FDP)  Phoronix

As more positive indications around AMD's OpenSIL effort for open-source CPU silicon initialization to eventually replace AGESA, both AMD and Supermicro are now collaborating with the Open-Source Firmware Foundation. Supermicro has also publicly shown off a platform with OpenSIL+Coreboot and is said to be exploring OpenBMC for future hardware...

Fedora warns security updates for version 38 of its Linux distro will soon end  Techzine Europe

Ampere Computing today made public their roadmap update concerning current and future AArch64 server processors. AmpereOne availability remains tough but the company is hoping next year to introduce a 3nm CPU with up to 256 cores and supporting 12 channel DDR5 memory.

The top three Linux 6.9 kernel upgrades  ZDNet

Report: 400K Linux servers affected by Ebury malware  SC Media

Kimsuky hackers deploy new Linux backdoor in attacks on South Korea  BleepingComputer

Kimsuky hackers deploy new Linux backdoor via trojanized installers  BleepingComputer

Kimsuky hackers deploy new Linux backdoor in attacks on South Korea  BleepingComputer

Following last year's release of PipeWire 1.0 for managing audio and video streams on the Linux desktop and proving itself a capable replacement to PulseAudio and JACK, among other uses, PipeWire 1.2 is nearing release. Out today is the first release candidate of the upcoming PipeWire 1.2...

Intel Habana Labs & Xe Linux Driver Maintainer Steps Down  Phoronix

Coming as a surprise, longtime Linux developer Oded Gabbay announced he's left Intel / Habana Labs and is therefore stepping down from the maintainer role of the Linux kernel drivers for the Intel Xe DRM driver and more notably the Habana Labs accelerator driver that he's maintained from the start...