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LLVM Clang Merges -mcpu=gb10 Support For NVIDIA GB10 Superchip
Merged today for the LLVM/Clang compiler is -mcpu=gb10 support for catering to NVIDIA's forthcoming Grace Blackwell GB10 Superchip...
2025-07-07 08:06
LibreOffice Begins Landing Markdown File Import Support
While coming a few weeks too late for making it into the LibreOffice 25.8 open-source office suite release, merged today to LibreOffice Git for next year's LibreOffice 26.2 is adding initial support for importing Markdown files into the LibreOffice Wri...
2025-07-07 06:52
AMDKFD Kernel Compute Driver Used By ROCm Can Work On LoongArch Hardware
The AMDKFD "Kernel Fusion Driver" used as the Linux kernel GPU compute driver and necessary part of their ROCm compute stack it turns out can build and run on the Chinese-developed LoongArch systems rather easily...
2025-07-07 06:46
Intel VSEC/PMT Discovery Driver Expected For Linux 6.17 To Enhance Telemetry
With the upcoming Linux 6.17 kernel cycle Intel is further building out their Platform Monitoring Technology (PMT) capabilities with the introduction of a new discovery driver...
2025-07-07 06:39
Intel Panther Lake Xe3 Integrated Graphics Firmware Upstreamed
As a good sign of the progress being made on the Xe3 integrated graphics Linux support and of the Core Ultra Panther Lake launch approaching, the necessary graphics firmware binaries have now been upstreamed to the linux-firmware.git repository...
2025-07-07 06:09
TornadoVM 1.1.1 Released For Java Programming Of Heterogeneous Hardware
TornadoVM version 1.1.1 is now available for this OpenJDK and GraalVM plug-in that supports Java offloading to GPUs, FPGAs, and other heterogeneous hardware. The past few years TornadoVM has been making a lot of progress to automatically run Java progr...
2025-07-07 05:52
WinUAE 6.0.0 released
WinUAE has released version 6.0.0 of the Windows version of the UAE Amiga emulator, packing a truly terrifying number of changes, improvements, and fixes. Major update to custom chipset emulation. Internally almost everything in main chipset emulation ...
2025-07-07 00:15
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9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: July 6th, 2025
The 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for July 6th, 2025, brings news about KDE Plasma 6.4.2, Thunderbird 140, Libreboot 25.06, DXVK 2.7, KDE Gear 25.04.3, Geany 2.1, digiKam 8.7, new Steam Client update, TUXEDO Stellaris 16 Gen7 with AMD, Debian 13 installer ...
2025-07-07 00:14
MacOS’ icons keep getting worse every time Apple touches them
With macOS 26, Apple has announced a dramatically new look to their UI: Liquid Glass. Solid material icon elements give way to softer, shinier, glassier icons. The rounded rectangle became slightly more rounded, and Apple eliminated the ability for ico...
2025-07-06 22:05
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Tone-deaf Xbox executive urges laid off employees to talk to Copilot for emotional support
A couple of days ago, Microsoft announced 9,000 layoffs across its global workforce, impacting its engineering, Xbox, sales, and management teams. This move also affected various initiatives, resulting in the cancellation of at least three Xbox games...
2025-07-06 21:53
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Geany 2.1 Open-Source IDE Released with Improved UI and File Type Support
Geany 2.1 open-source IDE (Integrated Development Environment) is now available for download with new file type support, UI enhancements, and other changes. Here's what's new! The post Geany 2.1 Open-Source IDE Released with Improved UI and File Type ...
2025-07-06 21:17
New Linux Security Flaw Can Bypass Disk Encryption
A newly found security flaw in Ubuntu could allow attackers with physical access to bypass full disk encryption. Learn how the attack works. You're reading New Linux Security Flaw Can Bypass Disk Encryption, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not reprodu...
2025-07-06 17:49
New Linux Security Flaw Uses Initramfs to Inject Malware
A newly found security flaw in Ubuntu could allow attackers with physical access to bypass full disk encryption. Learn how the attack works. You're reading New Linux Security Flaw Uses Initramfs to Inject Malware, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not r...
2025-07-06 17:49
Ubuntu Security Flaw Lets Attackers Bypass Full Disk Encryption
Cybersecurity researchers claim to have found a “critical” security vulnerability affecting Linux able to give attackers full system access — even if on device using full disk encryption. The vector has been demonstrated against Ubuntu 25.04 and ...
2025-07-06 17:49
Ubuntu Security ‘Oversight’ Lets Attackers Access Encrypted Systems
Cybersecurity researchers have detailed a “critical” security vulnerability in Linux distros that can give attackers full system access — even for devices using full disk encryption. A report published by ERNW demonstrates the exploit on Ubuntu 2...
2025-07-06 17:49
Linux 6.16-rc5 Released With A Performance Fix, Bcachefs Fixes & New Device Support
Linus Torvalds just tagged Linux 6.16-rc5 as the newest test release of Linux 6.16...
2025-07-06 17:24
Wayland 1.24 Released With Few Improvements
Minutes ago Simon Ser announced the official release of Wayland 1.24...
2025-07-06 09:15
Many NGG Improvements Arrive For AMD's Open-Source Linux OpenGL/Vulkan Drivers
Well known AMD Mesa developer Marek Olšák has been working on a number of improvements to benefit the Next-Gen Geometry "NGG" support within the RadeonSI and RADV graphics drivers for benefiting modern Radeon GPUs under Linux...
2025-07-06 09:00
Fedora 43 Looks To Zstd-Compressed Initrd By Default For Space Savings & Faster Boots
A change proposal has been raised to compress the initrd by default using Zstd compression rather than XZ. This change would help provide some disk savings as well as speeding up the boot process on modern systems with Fedora Linux...
2025-07-06 06:44