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Intel just published a new set of CPU microcode files for updating Alder lake and newer as well as Xeon Scalable 4th Gen and 5th Gen in order to address three security issues plus take care of various functional issues...

Qualcomm is bringing support for Snapdragon X chips to the mainline Linux kernel  Liliputing

Ebury botnet malware infected 400,000 Linux servers since 2009  BleepingComputer

Scaleway by way of their Scaleway Labs group recently launched the Elastic Metal RV1 (EM-RV1) as the world's first RISC-V servers available in the cloud. These RISC-V cloud servers are built around the T-Head 1520 SoC and are an interesting way to explore the RISC-V architecture and/or otherwise make use of RISC-V for CI/CD deployments or other testing purposes. In this article are some benchmarks showing the RISC-V EM-RV1 performance against Intel and AMD x86_64 Linux.

Qualcomm goes where Apple won't, readies official Linux support for Snapdragon X Elite  Tom's Hardware

Linux Foundation Announces the Launch of the High-Performance Software Foundation  HPCwire

Manjaro 24.0 Wynsdey packs a punch for Microsoft Windows 11 users switching to Linux  BetaNews

MEDIA ADVISORY: Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation Releases Rocky Linux v9.4  PR Web

What is the best solution for running the LINE App on Linux Desktop?  ASEAN NOW

Back in late 2023 were Rust abstractions for the Linux kernel's Virtual File-System (VFS) code. Those patches by Microsoft engineer Wedson Almeida Filho have now seen a second iteration posted... In addition to various improvements to the Rust VFS bindings, the new patches bring a work-in-progress EXT2 Rust file-system driver...

Microsoft Engineer Ports EXT2 File-System Driver To Rust  Phoronix

Debian's APT packaging tool is working its way toward the big APT 3.0 release. The APT 2.9 development series is underway and debuting last month was APT's new (CLI) user interface with a columnar display, colored text, and other improvements for this widely-used tool on Debian-based environments. APT 2.9.3 is out today as the newest development release and new to this version is a new package solver...

The Human Interface Devices (HID) subsystem updates have been submitted for the newly-opened Linux 6.10 kernel merge window. Among the HID driver updates coming with Linux 6.10 are supporting the Steam Deck IMU motion sensors as well as HID coverage for the ASUS ROG Ally and ASUS ROG Z13 devices...

Steam Deck IMU Support Submitted For Linux 6.10 Plus ASUS ROG Ally HID  Phoronix

400k Linux Servers Hacked to Mine Cryptocurrency  CybersecurityNews

Fanatical's Trinity Bundle - Immortal Edition has Prey, Fallout 3 & Vegas, Mortal Shell and more  GamingOnLinux

After the 22 patches were under review for the past eight months, merged today is the NVK Vulkan driver support for the VK_EXT_image_drm_format_modifier extension for handling DRM format modifiers...

Step aside AMD and Intel, Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite will also support Linux  XDA Developers

Intel Arc GPU hacked to work on a 64-core Arm Ampere system running Linux  Tom's Hardware

Linux 6.9 arrives with Intel Core Ultra Meteor Lake performance improvements  Tom's Hardware