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In addition to the deprecation and stripping down of AF_ALG, another piece of the Linux kernel crypto code steaming ahead toward removal is the crypto_rng abstraction layer...

Mission Center is a slick app to monitor CPU, Memory, Disk, Network, GPU and more on Linux  GamingOnLinux

ASUS laptops support a feature called "Whisper Mode" that intentionally slows down the fan speed and lowers the CPU clock speed in order to keep the device running cool and quiet. The open-source ASUS Armoury Linux kernel driver is now seeing patches to properly support this Whisper Mode on Linux...

ASUS Laptop Whisper Mode Support Being Worked On For Linux  Phoronix

WARNING: Microsoft Defender Update Could Disable Protection On Linux Servers After Reboot  LinkedIn

Microsoft Defender Update Might Disable Linux Protection  WinBuzzer

Researcher Says AI Helped Develop Linux Traffic-Control Race Into Root Exploit  The Hacker News

Update may disable Microsoft Defender on Linux after a restart  Techzine Global

Firmware Updater Improves Linux Device Security  Open Source For You

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NetBird creates an encrypted WireGuard network between your devices without requiring a traditional VPN server or manual key exchange. In

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GOG Officially Expands Linux Support with Native Galaxy Client in Development  Linux Journal

OpenUK Wants Britain to Stop Giving Away Open Source Creations  It's FOSS

RefluXFS: A Linux Kernel Local Privilege Escalation to Root in XFS (CVE-2026-64600)  iTWire

Linux Foundation, Nineteen Companies Launch Akrites to Coordinate Open Source Vulnerability Fixes  ADTmag

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Every OpenShift admin knows the calculus. A new Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS ships with capabilities you want: better hardware support, updated crypto policies, kernel improvements. But adopting it has always meant adopting it everywhere. Your hardware certifications don't transfer automatically. Your internal validation pipeline needs another quarter. Your change advisory board wants a rollback plan for something that hasn't historically rolled back gracefully.The result is that teams delay platform upgrades to avoid the OS migration, missing capabilities they actually need. The OS upgrade

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Mission Center (Linux system monitor) adds battery stats + more  OMG! Ubuntu

Mission Center update adds battery, partition and power draw stats  OMG! Ubuntu

Looking to be added to the Linux kernel source tree for the upcoming Linux 7.3 cycle is test_amd_pmf, a small testing application for exercising the AMD Platform Management Framework (PMF) interfaces and dumping various system data points...