Open-source News

Linus Torvalds just released Linux 6.9-rc2 as the newest test release of Linux 6.9 that will be out as stable in mid-May...

Linux 6.9-rc2 Released As An Easter Test Kernel  Phoronix

Huge backdoor discovered that could compromise SSH logins on Linux  TechRadar

Security Alert: Backdoor Found in XZ Libraries for Linux Systems  Medium

An “urgent” Linux backdoor was discovered entirely by accident this week.  The Verge

Malware Spotlight: Linodas aka DinodasRAT for Linux  Check Point Research

XZ Utils backdoor update: Which Linux distros are affected and what can you do?  Help Net Security

Urgent High Severity Security Backdoor Found In Popular Linux Utility  Hot Hardware

Linux xz Backdoor Damage Could Be Greater Than Feared  The New Stack

DinodasRAT Linux variant targets users worldwide  Security Affairs

DinodasRAT malware targets Linux servers in espionage campaign  BleepingComputer

Linux could have been brought down by backdoor found in widely used utility  TechSpot

A new release of Llamafile is available this Easter Sunday from the Mozilla Ocho group. Llamafile is a means of distributing and running large language models (LLMs) from a single file, making LLMs much easier to distribute and use by developers and end-users. Llamafile remains one of the more interesting non-browser projects out of Mozilla in recent times that so far has a bright future...

Along with AMD's upcoming hardware enablement and other Q1 code contributions, Intel's open-source engineers remained very busy this quarter as well. Intel continues upstreaming a lot of new code not only for upcoming hardware but also a lot of exciting Linux kernel features in general, various optimizations and improvements to countless open-source user-space software projects, and their other great open-source efforts in general...

Intel Continued Upstreaming A Lot Of Great Linux/Open-Source Code This Quarter  Phoronix

With the first quarter drawing to a close, here's a recap of the most exciting AMD Linux/open-source news from the quarter. During the past three months we've seen AMD finally publish their XDNA Linux driver for open-source Ryzen AI support, their open-source HDMI driver efforts were sadly rejected by the HDMI Forum, the AMD Zen 5 "znver5" compiler support was added to GCC 14, more AMD Zen 5 Linux kernel preparations made, and various other AMD Linux driver enhancements landed...

The open-source Rust-written Redox OS has enjoyed "significant" performance and corectness improvements to its kernel recently as it further shows off the capability of this from-scratch OS...

GNU Poke 4.0 has been released after a year in development for enhancing this open-source software that serves as an interactive editor for binary data accompanied by its own procedural programming language...

Released this weekend is a new version of Flowblade, an open-source video editor for Linux systems. Flowblade brings some new features while the work to upgrade against the GTK4 toolkit remains ongoing and will hopefully be ready in 2025...

Dangerous backdoor discovered in XZ packages for Linux  Techzine Europe