As a gamer, if you have gamed on Linux with hardware that’s seen better days, there’s some work happening in the kernel that’s worth keeping an eye on. Linux kernel developer Peter Zijlstra has posted the second version of a patch series
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Dirty Frag has been the talk of the town (at least in Linux and open source circles) recently. The LPE was inadvertently exposed to the public, catching the Linux project and the various distros off guard. Thankfully, a proper patch is now
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Debian’s release team has made reproducible builds a hard requirement for the Debian 14 “Forky” cycle. Since May 9, the project’s migration software has blocked any package failing a reproducibility check from entering testing. If a package already in testing breaks reproducibility
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Sasha Levin, NVIDIA engineer and co-maintainer of the stable and long-term support kernel trees, has proposed a new patch that adds a mechanism called killswitch to the Linux kernel. It’s pitched as a way for system administrators to disable a vulnerable kernel
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It is getting harder for Linux distributions to stay neutral on AI. Between enterprise-grade solutions like RHEL AI and the steady rise of local inference tools, the pressure to take a position has been building for a while. Canonical recently made theirs
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Only last week, we were talking about how LVFS, the firmware update service for Linux, had turned up the heat on vendors who didn’t contribute their fair share. To tackle that, the project has been going through a phased restrictions rollout that
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It has not been a week since we came across Copy Fail, the exploit that took advantage of an old logic flaw to escalate a local user to root, giving them all kinds of harmful access over a system they shouldn’t have.
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It seems like Ubuntu cannot catch a break. Their entire web infrastructure was under continued DDoS attack for 5 days. Which seemed to be over now. But the misery is not. A few hours ago, there was a (now deleted) tweet from
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Before we dive into the topic at hand, you should know that Euro-Office is a new European productivity project by Nextcloud and IONOS, which was forked from ONLYOFFICE. It is a self-hosted, web-based office suite built for organizations and governments that want
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The Google Home Mini launched in 2017 as Google’s smallest, cheapest smart speaker. Millions were sold, handed out, and given away as promotional gifts. Many of them still work, but it being in the last phase of its lifecycle means that while
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