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Cyber Security Headlines: New Kimsuky technique, KDE Linux warning, Atlassian critical flaws  CISO Series

Beijing issues list of approved CPUs – with no Intel or AMD  The Register

9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: March 24th, 2024  9to5Linux

Linux 6.9-rc1 provides a glimpse into the future of the open source kernel  BetaNews

In this two-part blog, we will provide essential technical information about SAS Institute's latest analytic platform, SAS Viya, as well as a reference architecture for deploying SAS Viya on Red Hat OpenShift. Also, make sure to take a look at part 2 of this blog, where we will discuss security, machine management and storage considerations. Let’s start with a few introductory words before we get into the technical details.Since the launch of SAS Viya in 2020, SAS has offered a fully containerized analytic platform based on a cloud-native architecture. Due to the scale of the platform, SAS V

Linus Torvalds just released the first release candidate for Linux 6.9 that now marks the formal end of the two-week merge window...

Linux 6.9-rc1 Released With AMD P-State Preferred Core, Larger FB Console Fonts  Phoronix

Linus Torvalds Announces the First Linux Kernel 6.9 Release Candidate  9to5Linux

Sam Lantinga released an SDL preview release today of SDL3 for helping to encourage developers to test out the new SDL 3.0 API...

The Kernel-based Virtual Machine changes for Linux 6.9 continue to enhance the capabilities of the open-source Linux virtualization software stack...

KVM Virtualization With Linux 6.9 Brings More Optimizations For Intel & AMD  Phoronix

Windows subsystem for Linux will get a graphical interface  ITC

Windows subsystem for Linux will get a graphical interface  ITC

Out this weekend is a new version of uutils' Coreutils 0.0.25 as the Rust-written drop-in replacement to GNU Coreutils for common utilities found on Linux platforms and other systems...

The speakup driver that's long existed within the Linux kernel is a speech synthesizer that can interface with various synthesizer hardware and from user-space software can interface with /dev/synth for submitting data to the synthesizer. With Linux 6.9 the speakup driver is seeing two useful improvements...

Linux 6.9 Improves Speakup - Its In-Kernel Speech Synthesizer  Phoronix

Linux 6.8 dropped the SLAB allocator after its deprecation in v6.5 and now just leaving SLUB for all allocation duties. For Linux 6.9 there is continued cleaning from that SLAB removal as well as making more SLUB improvements...

Linux 6.9 Delivers More Improvements To The SLUB Allocator  Phoronix

With security concerns at all-time highs in the industry, Linux 6.9 is seeing yet more work to beef up its security hardening with various additional safety checks and other compile-time defenses for ensuring security best practices...

Linux 6.9 Sees Further Security Hardening  Phoronix