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SUSE Linux Kernel Multiple Vulnerabilities  Hong Kong Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination Centre

All Linux gamers should take the latest Bazzite release seriously - here's why  ZDNET

Debian Linux Kernel Multiple Vulnerabilities  Hong Kong Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination Centre

Radeon GPU drivers for Linux will finally get HDMI 2.1 support  HWCooling.net

Last month a Fedora Linux change proposal was shared proposing that Fedora 45 be built with x86_64-v3 packages to complement the generic x86_64 (v1) packages currently being compiled. This has the possibility of providing greater performance out of packaged Fedora software but comes with the cost of greater burdens on web mirrors, QA / testing, and related infrastructure impact. The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee "FESCo" decided today to wait on coming to a decision over this Fedora 45 change proposal...

Fedora Yet To Decide On x86_64-v3 Packages For Fedora Linux 45  Phoronix

Fedora 44 made me forget I was using Linux - in the best way  ZDNET

Flatpak 1.17.7 is now available for continuing to advance open-source app sandboxing and distribution on the Linux desktop. Some interesting new features are in tow with this Flatpak update plus there is also an updated XDG-Desktop-Portal release too...

There's a lot of pressure on many of us to use more AI to facilitate our jobs. This may sound familiar to you:"Where’s the AI?" the boss asks, somewhere between desperate and annoyed."Upgrades are deterministic! You can't use something that works MOST of the time!" the IT team replies. The boss replies, “But Alice built a new app environment in 2 hours with Claude Code! You've got servers that have been on my non-compliance list for 2 years." The boss has a point, but the fact is that upgrades don't lend themselves to "Just let the AI do it."So the IT folks (and the application owners) ten

Next week, thousands of IT leaders will gather in Atlanta for Red Hat Summit. The agenda covers everything from AI to digital sovereignty, but in the customer conversations I have continued to have over the past 24 months, a different topic keeps coming up: whether the virtualization platform they've been running for years and depend on is still the right foundation for their workloads today, and whether it sets them up for what's coming next. Most of them are already evaluating alternatives.For a long time, virtualization was a "set it and forget it" part of the stack. That isn't the case any

A financial services firm is deploying an AI assistant to help underwriters review policies, analyze risk documents, and answer compliance questions. The model is grounded in the firm’s own document collection, drawing answers directly from underwriting manuals, regulatory filings, and internal procedures. The business case is solid.Then the security review starts:Can a crafted prompt trick the model into ignoring its system instructions and exposing confidential data?What happens when a response surfaces personally identifiable information (PII) that's embedded in the retrieved documents?Is

Copy Fail: What You Need to Know About the Most Severe Linux Threat in Years  Unit 42

New stealthy Quasar Linux malware targets software developers  BleepingComputer

I stopped being afraid of Linux terminal commands once Claude started explaining them  MakeUseOf

COSMIC 1.0.12 Desktop Brings Improvements to Files, Terminal, and More  9to5Linux

This Linux tool lets me mix distro packages without breaking everything  MakeUseOf

After the merge request was open the past three months for code originally authored eight months ago, the Intel "ANV" open-source Vulkan driver for Linux systems is now advertising support for descriptor heaps with the VK_EXT_descriptor_heap extension. But for the moment at least it's treated as experimental...

Intel's Vulkan Linux Driver Lands Experimental Support For Descriptor Heaps  Phoronix

Latest Steam Client Update Adds Support for Valve’s New Steam Controller  9to5Linux

Orion for Linux issues new beta  OMG! Ubuntu