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Fujitsu and the Linux Foundation Launch Fujitsu’s Automated Machine Learning and AI Fairness Technologies: Pioneering Transparency, Ethics, and Accessibility  MarkTechPost

Hours after posting a large patch series for enabling the Nouveau kernel driver to use NVIDIA's GSP for improving the support for RTX 20/30 series hardware and finally enabling accelerated graphics support on RTX 40 "Ada Lovelace" GPUs, the Red Hat maintainer has resigned from his duties...

The Maintainer Of The NVIDIA Open-Source "Nouveau" Linux Kernel Driver Resigns  Phoronix

Like many, the cable, media and entertainment industry is undergoing a period of transformation in the face of increasing cloud-based operations, growing hybrid cloud adoption and rising demand for live streaming and interactive event services. To meet this need, Red Hat is working with Summit Tech, a platform provider for virtual event and live streaming services, to deliver enhanced, cost effective livestream 360 VR event experiences on the trusted foundation of Red Hat OpenShift. Odience is a remote participation platform that delivers enhanced live streaming experiences and virtual inte

Chinese hackers have unleashed a never-before-seen Linux backdoor  Ars Technica

Chinese hackers have unleashed a never-before-seen Linux backdoor  Ars Technica

HP Linux Imaging and Printing Drivers Now Support Fedora 38 and Ubuntu 23.04  9to5Linux

HP Linux Imaging and Printing Drivers Now Support Fedora 38 and Ubuntu 23.04  9to5Linux

Windows Subsystem for Linux gets new 'mirrored' network mode  BleepingComputer

CIQ Bundles OpenRadioss and ParaView on Rocky Linux 9.1 for ...  insideHPC

Microsoft Releases A Big Update To Windows Subsystem For Linux, New Experimental Options  Phoronix

Microsoft has published a big feature update to Windows Subsystem for Linux "WSL" for running Linux binaries within the confines of Windows 11...

The long-awaited patches for allowing the open-source NVIDIA "Nouveau" upstream Linux kernel driver to leverage NVIDIA's GPU System Processor "GSP" firmware for handling GPU re-clocking and other hardware tasks with RTX 20 GPUs and newer have been posted. With this set of 44 patches also comes the initial GPU hardware accelerated support for the GeForce RTX 40 "Ada Lovelace" GPUs that is built upon this new GSP driver code path...

Nouveau Patches Posted For Running On NVIDIA GSP-RM ...  Phoronix

Portal 2 VR mod gets an early release  GamingOnLinux

Unity Considers Tentative Changes To Controversial Policies  GamingOnLinux

Red Hat’s big win: Salesforce picks Hatters’ Enterprise Linux to ‘innovate faster’  WRAL TechWire

XDG-Desktop-Portal 1.18 Released With Accent Color Support, New ...  Phoronix

XDG-Desktop-Portal 1.18 is out today as the newest stable release for this leading open-source app sandboxing and distribution tech. Flatpak's XDG-Desktop-Portal 1.18 adds yet more features for this cross-distribution solution for software deployment and package management...

Since March of 2022 the ReiserFS file-system has been deprecated and with Linux 6.6 ReiserFS is marked outright as "obsolete" with plans to remove the file-system from the mainline kernel code-base in 2025. In stepping toward that eventual milestone, a new kernel patch series begins removing ReiserFS from the default kernel configurations...