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Linux Patched For New "VMSCAPE" Vulnerability Affecting Intel & AMD CPUs

The Linux kernel was just patched moments ago for a new CPU security vulnerability... VMSCAPE. VMSCAPE affects both Intel and AMD processors...

Fedora 43 Beta Being Released Next Week

Fedora 43 Beta is declared a "GO" and ready for release next Tuesday...

Intel Fixes Panther Lake Xe3 Graphics Performance Issues For Linux Ahead Of Launch

A set of 14 patches were merged today to the Mesa 3D graphics driver codebase for fixing some wide-reaching performance issues that would have negatively affected the upcoming Xe3 integrated graphics with Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake" hardware. The patches have been merged so will be very important that anyone buying an upcoming Intel Panther Lake laptop move to using an up-to-date Mesa to avoid these performance problems...

KDE Linux and FreeBSD hit alpha and -- surprise -- fan fave Pop_OS nearly at beta

It's the season of FOSS fruitfulness as juicy goodness falls from the branch The Northern hemisphere is moving into autumn and FOSS vendors are falling over themselves in their efforts to get new versions out for the season.…

Mesa Drops VDPAU Video Acceleration In Favor Of VA-API

  • Phoronix (Posted by bob on Sep 11, 2025 7:59 AM EDT)
  • Groups: Linux; Story Type: News Story
Mesa's Gallium3D video acceleration code has long supported both the VA-API and VDPAU interfaces for video acceleration. VA-API has enjoyed more widespread support among Linux applications and typically more robust while the Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix (VDPAU) was the interface originally started by NVIDIA for their official Linux driver. As of today, Mesa has now removed support for VDPAU acceleration...

OpenAI reportedly on the hook for $300B Oracle Cloud bill

Tick tock Sam, just fifteen months before your first bill is due OpenAI will pay Oracle $300 billion over the course of five years to fuel Sam Altman's AI ambitions by providing five gigawatts of compute capacity.…

Fwupd 2.0.15 Released With Support For Newer NVIDIA ConnectX NICs

Richard Hughes of Red Hat announced the availability today of Fwupd 2.0.15 as the latest increment to this open-source firmware updating solution built around the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS)...

Intel Loses One Of Its NPU Driver Maintainers: "Time To Let Someone Else Deal With The NPU Bugs"

Following the numerous Intel Linux developer departures last month from the company following layoffs at Intel and others deciding to voluntarily leave, there is another one to report today. One of the Intel IVPU accelerator driver maintainers for the Intel NPUs found in Core Ultra SoCs is departing the company...

openSUSE Disabling Bcachefs Support For Its Linux 6.17+ Kernel Builds

Linus Torvalds recently marked Bcachefs as "externally maintained" and isn't merging any new Bcachefs code for the time being but for now at least is keeping the existing Bcachefs code in-tree for anyone that has been relying on this experimental CoW file-system from prior kernel versions. OpenSUSE announced today though they are resorting to disabling the kernel driver in their Linux 6.17+ builds...

Linux 6.17 Successfully Lands In Ubuntu 25.10

Back in May was the announcement by Canonical's kernel team that they were planning to ship Linux 6.17 in Ubuntu 25.10 as what will be the latest upstream kernel version when that Ubuntu release ships in October. But due to the timing of the Linux 6.17 release around late September and the Ubuntu 25.10 kernel freeze around the same time, it's led to some confusion with committing to a Linux 6.17-rc or potentially some suggesting Ubuntu 25.10 would ship with a Linux 6.16 kernel and then ship v6.17 as a stable release update. Well, the situation is more clear with Linux 6.17 having been merged now as the default kernel of Ubuntu 25.10...

Hackabone Project Offers BeagleBone-Based Embedded Linux Training with Emulated Framework

A new initiative called Hackabone has been launched with the goal of providing more accessible Embedded Linux training. Created by long-time Embedded and real-time Linux instructor Alejandro Lucero, the project combines detailed documentation with a web-based emulation framework centered around the BeagleBone Black single-board computer. The project name, short for “Hack-a-Bone,” reflects its emphasis on […]

Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite Linux Performance Improving But Short Of AMD Ryzen & Intel Core Ultra

Back in May we provided an initial look at the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite laptop performance on Ubuntu Linux with the upstream support for the Qualcomm Snapdragon X1E maturing, more laptops becoming supported, and the Ubuntu X1E "Concept" ISOs enhancing the end-user experience. The performance was okay but short of expectations. Months later we are revisiting the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite Linux performance on the newest Ubuntu Concept ISOs and newer firmware that is providing a much better experience albeit still not as competitive as the newest AMD Ryzen AI 300 series and Intel Core Ultra laptops under Linux.

SpecFive Strike Handheld Linux Workstation with LoRa Mesh

The SpecFive Strike is a handheld Linux workstation with integrated LoRa mesh networking. Built on the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 and a custom SpecFive carrier board, it targets developers, makers, hackers, and off-grid communicators by combining Linux computing, wireless connectivity, and portability. The device comes in a PETG enclosure featuring a 4.3-inch touchscreen and […]

Fedora's Modern OS Installer UI Working Well & Expanding Scope Before Deprecating GTK UI

The long-in-development web-based user interface for the Anaconda installer used by Fedora (and Red Hat Enterprise Linux) continues maturing well and expanding its usage before eventually seeing the Anaconda GTK-based UI deprecated in the future...

Forget disappearing messages -- now Signal will store 100MB of them for you for free

  • The Register (Posted by bob on Sep 9, 2025 10:11 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
Including messages sent to users, a potential problem for the privacy-conscious Encrypted messaging app Signal is rolling out a free storage system for its users, with extra space if folks are willing to pay for it.…

AlmaLinux 10.1 To Offer Expanded Software Selection With New Repository Default

The Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 (RHEL 10) downstream AlmaLinux 10 is further distinguishing itself from alternatives by enabling its CRB repository by default. This will be rolling out as an update to AlmaLinux 10.0 and as part of the upcoming AlmaLinux 10.1 point release...

Pre-owned software trial kicks off in UK as Microsoft pushes resale ban

ValueLicensing's David spins the sling for another go at the Windows Goliath Microsoft's tussle with UK-based reseller ValueLicensing over the sale of secondhand licenses returns to the UK's Competition Appeal Tribunal this week, with the Windows behemoth now claiming that selling pre-owned Office and Windows software is unlawful.…

Chip designer SiFive aims to cram more RISC-V cores into AI chips

  • The Register (Posted by bob on Sep 9, 2025 5:21 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
Why reinvent the CPU wheel when you can spend your time engineering a way out of your dependence on Nvidia? Every quarter, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is asked about the growing number of custom ASICs encroaching on his AI empire, and each time he downplays the threat, arguing that GPUs offer superior programmability in a rapidly changing environment.…

Dev snared in crypto phishing net, 18 npm packages compromised

Popular npm packages debug, chalk, and others hijacked in massive supply chain attack Crims have added backdoors to at least 18 npm packages after developer Josh Junon inadvertently authorized a reset of the two-factor authentication protecting his npm account.…

XFS File-System Ready To Enable Online Fsck Support By Default

The XFS file-system is ready to declare their online file-system checking "fsck" support in good enough shape for enabling by default in new kernel builds. Plus other XFS alterations ahead of Linux 6.18 that is expected to be this year's LTS kernel version...

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