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Kvark is a new release from developer Latest Past and publisher Perun Creative, set in a fictional version of the 80s Czech Republic where you explore a top-secret uranium mine. The 1.0 release is out now, which comes with a Native Linux version after a year in Early Access.

A honeypot is a ‘cybersecurity mechanism’ that is primarily designed to lure threat actors away from legitimate targets. While this mechanism is performed by simulating a valuable asset like a “server” or “application.” Not only that even it also serves as a lure that enables the organizations to “monitor” and “analyze” the ‘tactics’ and ‘techniques’ used by threat actors.

ChromeOS may not be the most popular Linux distro, but it’s still a decent operating system for users who only rely on Google’s web apps. Although Google lets you set up ChromeOS Flex on devices that aren’t first-party Chromebooks, there are plenty of ChromeOS-based operating systems out there.

In a recent performance review comparing Intel's Lunar Lake Core Ultra 200 series laptop processors on Linux and Windows 11, performance on Linux was consistently better across almost all benchmarks. Linux was on average 14% faster, and Blender 3D rendering and heavily multi-threaded workloads saw the biggest performance gap.

You probably have documents on your desktop operating system that contain sensitive information. So what do you do to protect that data? You could hide the document in an obscure folder -- but that's not really safe, because anyone with access to your computer could rummage around and locate the file in question.

In the age of increasing digital threats, securing sensitive data and systems is more crucial than ever. For Linux users, whether they are managing personal projects or securing enterprise servers, enhancing security protocols is a key concern.

The Sipeed Tang Mega 138K Dock is an advanced and compact FPGA development platform designed to meet both high-performance requirements and cost-effective solutions. Featuring the GOWIN GW5AST RISC-V FPGA, this platform includes a development board with key features such as PCIe x4, a GbE port, and multiple I/Os.

Following my recent Intel Core Ultra 7 200V "Lunar Lake" Linux benchmarks and looking at the Xe2 Lunar Lake graphics (including Windows 11 vs. Linux already), you may be wondering about the Lunar Lake CPU performance between Windows and Linux...

Raspberry Pi wizard Jeff Geerling has demonstrated 4K60 gaming on his Raspberry Pi 5 setup. Crucially, the Pi 5 was given a considerable lift in the GPU department via the use of an M.2 to OCuLink adapter and an AMD Radeon RX 460 desktop graphics card.

Linux proxy servers are essential for individuals and organizations looking to enhance their online privacy, data, network security, and browsing experience.

Python, the popular free open-source programming language, finally announced 3.13.0 stable this Monday! Python 3.13 introduced new interactive shell. It’s enabled by default and based on code from the PyPy project.

Thanks to Descent 3 being officially open source, developers can do almost anything with it now and this has given rise to the Descent 3: Piccu Engine.

The idea of open-source is the best thing ever to happen in the field of software development. It has made way for collaboration on a global scale, outside a multinational corporation setting, that too with community values driving the initiative.

The Infineon XENSIV Game Controller combines XENSIV magnetic position sensors and the PSoC 6 BLE microcontroller to create a precise, low-power, plug-and-play device ideal for gaming and control applications.

While the Linux 6.12 merge window has been closed for more than one week, the modern NTFS "NTFS3" driver has seen some late feature enhancements as well as some fixes merged today for this new kernel version.

MZLA, the company behind the Thunderbird email client, is finally putting its mobile email client app into beta testing – but it's a lot more mature than that sounds.

Fedora test days are events where anyone can help make certain that changes in Fedora Linux work well in an upcoming release. Fedora community members often participate, and the public is welcome at these events. If you’ve never contributed to Fedora before, this is a perfect way to get started.

Today, Thundercomm introduced RUBIK Pi at an industry event in Austin, Texas. This development board, built on Qualcomm SoC platforms, is the first Pi product to offer AI capabilities tailored for high-performance application development.

With the Xeon 6980P Granite Rapids benchmarking at Phoronix the past few weeks it's been in a dual socket (2S / 2P) configuration. For those curious about the Intel Xeon 6980P 128-core server performance for a single socket (1S) configuration, here are those complementary results out today and for both DDR5-6400 and MRDIMM-8800 memory configurations.

If you’re using Canonical’s Steam snap to game on Ubuntu you may be pleased to hear that a number appreciable performance improvements have begun to filter out.