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Use sudo insults to add spice to incorrect password attempts  TechTarget

USENIX Security ’23 – DDRace: Finding Concurrency UAF Vulnerabilities in Linux Drivers with Directe...  Security Boulevard

EA Anticheat arrives for Battlefield V in April, will break it on Linux / Steam Deck  GamingOnLinux

Following several days of discussions from both sides of the table over whether SDL 3.0 should revert its Wayland over X11 preference in light of some aspects of the Wayland ecosystem support not being in good shape, for now at least SDL 3.0 is sticking to the Wayland support by default. It may be revisited though closer to release to see how the upstream support is for users of this hardware/software abstraction library widely used by cross-platform games...

SDL3 Will Keep Wayland Default At Least For The Time Being  Phoronix

Canonical Continues Exploring Ubuntu x86-64-v3 Images - Now In Microsoft's Cloud  Phoronix

Ubuntu maker Canonical has spent the past several months exploring Ubuntu x86-64-v3 based images for leveraging the x86_64 micro-architecture feature level capabilities to target the level embracing AVX/AVX2, FMA, BMI2, and other instructions supported largely since Intel Haswell and AMD Excavator era processors. As shown in benchmarks Ubuntu x86-64-v3 builds can deliver better performance for the AMD/Intel systems of the past number of years. Canonical's latest foray in this area is offering up Microsoft Azure images that are tailored for x86-64-v3...

Now you too can lose all your time in Lost For Swords with the demo  GamingOnLinux

Blender has long enjoyed faster CPU rendering under Linux compared to using Microsoft Windows. Across many different processors over the years consistently we see faster Linux CPU render performance than under Windows, though that's typically the case for most renderers. With yesterday's release of Blender 4.1, there is even faster Linux CPU render speeds. Here are some initial Blender 4.0 vs. 4.1 benchmarks...

Blender 4.1 Benchmarks Confirm Even Faster CPU Render Times Under Linux  Phoronix

Red Hat has made the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 Beta available to their customers this week for those wanting to test the next iteration of RHEL9...

RHEL 9.4 Beta Brings Full Support For Intel SGX & DSA Accelerator Drivers  Phoronix

Tails 6.1 Is Out to Mitigate the RFDS Intel CPU Vulnerabilities, Fix More Bugs  9to5Linux

Tails 6.1 Is Out to Mitigate the RFDS Intel CPU Vulnerabilities, Fix More Bugs  9to5Linux

What a time we live in where Microsoft not only continues contributing significantly to the Linux kernel but doing so to further flesh out the design of the Linux kernel's Rust programming language support. A previously unimaginable combination of Microsoft, the Rust programming language, and the Linux kernel...

Microsoft Engineer Sends Rust Linux Kernel Patches For In-Place Module Initialization  Phoronix

A new Fedora Linux 40 beta release now available  Notebookcheck.net

Fedora Linux 40 beta released with GNOME 46 and Linux kernel 6.8  Notebookcheck.net

The Intel open-source engineers working on the modern Xe DRM kernel graphics driver have begun looking at Heterogeneous Memory Management (HMM) support for cross-device and cross-driver scenarios as the latest exciting feature work for this still-experimental driver...

TornadoVM is the OpenJDK and GraalVM plug-in that opens up the Java programming language to heterogeneous hardware support by allowing the easy targeting of Java code to TornadoVM targets including OpenCL, NVIDIA PTX, and SPIR-V -- in addition to CPUs. With the SPIR-V and OpenCL support in turn this means Java can run not only on GPUs but also some FPGAs and other devices...