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📰 Linux 7.0.6 Released To Finish Mitigating the Dirty Frag Vulnerability Linux 7.0.6 is out as stable this morning to finish mitigating the Dirty Frag vulnerability that was made public last week... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.0.6-Released #linux

📰 AMD Ryzen AI & Intel NPU Drivers Adding New Power Features With Linux 7.2 Last week's drm-misc-next pull request of new Direct Rendering Manager and accelerator driver feature material destined for Linux 7.2 include some new power management control features both for the AMD Ryzen AI and Intel NPU drivers... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Intel-NPU-Drivers-Power-7.2 #amd#intel#linux

📰 PeaZip 11.1 File Archiver Adds Security Fixes and Updates 7z Backend PeaZip 11.1 updates its 7z backend, fixes security issues, and improves archive extraction workflows across Linux and Windows. 🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/peazip-11-1-file-archiver-adds-security-fixes-and-updates-7z-backend/ #linux

📰 Linux is Getting a Kill Switch! This AI-assisted patch would let admins disable vulnerable kernel functions until a proper fix ships. 🔗 Source: https://feed.itsfoss.com/link/24361/17338173/linux-killswitch-proposal #kernel#linux

📰 The year of the Linux desktop already happened, just not on desktops Fans have been waiuting for the year of the Linux desktop, but it arrived without us realizing it. 🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/year-linux-desktop-already-happened-just-not-desktops/ #linux

📰 OpenAI's Coding Agent Helped Create A New AMD Temperature Driver For Linux The newest open-source AMD Linux driver on the Linux kernel mailing list that has recently been undergoing review is prom21-xhci that exposes the temperature sensors found on the AMD Promontory 21 chipsets' xHCI controllers... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Prom21-xHCI-Temp-Driver #amd#kernel#linux#opensource

📰 Linux's adorable Tux the Penguin mascot turns 30 today, and the OG design is still being used Whenever people think of Linux, the first thing that springs to mind, regardless of whether they're an open-source vet or if they've never even touched a Linux PC before, is Tux. Tux is the penguin associated with the Linux kernel as a whole, and he's found his way onto operating systems, merch, and various memes that depict the image creator's distaste for Windows. 🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/linuxs-tux-the-penguin-mascot-turns-30-today/ #kernel#linux#opensource

📰 Shelly 2.2.4 Arch Linux GUI Package Manager Brings Smarter Fuzzy Search Shelly 2.2.4 open-source graphical package manager for Arch Linux distributions is now available for download with various improvements. Here's what's new! 🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/shelly-2-2-4-arch-linux-gui-package-manager-brings-smarter-fuzzy-search #arch#linux#opensource

📰 Aurora is the KDE side of Bluefin, and it might be the most polished Linux desktop right now I'm a huge fan of Linux's KDE. It's my favorite desktop environment by far, and sometimes, simply learning that an OS uses KDE is enough of an excuse to give it a try. So, when I heard that the Bluefin distro had a KDE fork called Aurora, I knew I had to give it a try. 🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/aurora-is-the-kde-side-of-bluefin-and-it-might-be-the-most-polished-linux-desktop-right-now/ #distro#kde#linux

📰 JDownloader site hacked to replace installers with Python RAT malware The website for the popular JDownloader download manager was compromised earlier this week to distribute malicious Windows and Linux installers, with the Windows payload found deploying a Python-based remote access trojan. 🔗 Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/jdownloader-site-hacked-to-replace-installers-with-python-rat-malware/ #linux#python

📰 Parrot OS 7.2 Ships with Linux Kernel 6.19 and Copy Fail Fix Parrot OS 7.2 is now available with Linux kernel 6.19, updated security tools, Debian package sync, and Copy Fail mitigation. 🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/parrot-os-7-2-ships-with-linux-kernel-6-19-and-copy-fail-fix/ #debian#kernel#linux

📰 NVIDIA-VAAPI-Driver 0.0.17 Fixes Support For GB10 Powered Systems The open-source, community-developed NVIDIA-VAAPI-Driver that provides a Video Acceleration API (VA-API) implementation built atop NVIDIA's NVDEC video decode interface is out with a new release. This is the open-source project that's motivated by getting accelerated video decoding to work within Mozilla Firefox and other apps when running with NVIDIA's packaged Linux driver... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-VAAPI-Driver-0.0.17 #firefox#linux#opensource