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Explicit Sync in Wayland is The Answer to NVIDIA Linux Problems!  It's FOSS News

Blanket Ambient Sounds App for Linux Gets Calming New Look  OMG! Ubuntu!

Linux 6.9-rc4 Brings More Bcachefs Fixes, Native BHI Mitigation  Phoronix

Lakka 5.0 retro gaming Linux-based operating system now available with updated LibreELEC and RetroArch  BetaNews

Ubuntu 24.10 [expected this October] and Debian GNU/Linux 13 "Trixie" [expected June-July 2025] "will feature a refined APT command-line interface," reports 9to5Linux: APT developer and Canonical engineer Julian Andres Klode took to LinkedIn to present the revamped APT interface powered by the upcoming APT 3.0 package manager that looks to give users a more concise and well-laid-out command-line output when updating, installing, or removing packages via the terminal emulator. The new APT 3.0 UI brings a columnar display that will make it easier for users to quickly scan for a package name, support for colors (red for removals and green for other changes), which makes it easier to quickly distinguish commands at a glance, and smoother install progress bars using Unicode blocks. In addition, the new APT 3.0 command-line interface will be less verbose and offer more padding to make it easier to separate sections and extract the relevant information for you. "Bleeding-edge users and Linux enthusiasts who want to try this right now can check out Debian Unstable..."

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Linux 6.10 To Merge NTSYNC Driver For Emulating Windows NT Synchronization Primitives  Phoronix

OpenRazer 3.8 Brings Support For Newer Razer Devices On Linux  Phoronix

Audirvāna announces a Linux beta program  Alpha Audio

TUXEDO Unveils World’s First Linux-Based Laptop To Feature AMD Ryzen 8040 APUs & RDNA 3 dGPU  Wccftech

TUXEDO Unveils World’s First Linux-Based Laptop To Feature AMD Ryzen 8040 APUs & RDNA 3 dGPU  Wccftech

TUXEDO Unveils World’s First Linux-Based Laptop To Feature AMD Ryzen 8040 APUs & RDNA 3 dGPU  Wccftech

TUXEDO Unveils World’s First Linux-Based Laptop To Feature AMD Ryzen 8040 APUs & RDNA 3 dGPU  Wccftech

TUXEDO Unveils World’s First Linux-Based Laptop To Feature AMD Ryzen 8040 APUs & RDNA 3 dGPU  Wccftech

TUXEDO Unveils World’s First Linux-Based Laptop To Feature AMD Ryzen 8040 APUs & RDNA 3 dGPU  Wccftech

TUXEDO Unveils World’s First Linux-Based Laptop To Feature AMD Ryzen 8040 APUs & RDNA 3 dGPU  Wccftech

TUXEDO Unveils World’s First Linux-Based Laptop To Feature AMD Ryzen 8040 APUs & RDNA 3 dGPU  Wccftech

TUXEDO Unveils World’s First Linux-Based Laptop To Feature AMD Ryzen 8040 APUs & RDNA 3 dGPU  Wccftech

Master WSL 2: A Concise Guide for Windows Subsystem for Linux  Medium

5 of the most underrated Linux distros  MSN

An anonymous reader shared this report from BleepingComputer: Researchers have demonstrated the "first native Spectre v2 exploit" for a new speculative execution side-channel flaw that impacts Linux systems running on many modern Intel processors. Spectre V2 is a new variant of the original Spectre attack discovered by a team of researchers at the VUSec group from VU Amsterdam. The researchers also released a tool that uses symbolic execution to identify exploitable code segments within the Linux kernel to help with mitigation. The new finding underscores the challenges in balancing performance optimization with security, which makes addressing fundamental CPU flaws complicated even six years after the discovery of the original Spectre.... As the CERT Coordination Center (CERT/CC) disclosed yesterday, the new flaw, tracked as CVE-2024-2201, allows unauthenticated attackers to read arbitrary memory data by leveraging speculative execution, bypassing present security mechanisms designed to isolate privilege levels. "An unauthenticated attacker can exploit this vulnerability to leak privileged memory from the CPU by speculatively jumping to a chosen gadget," reads the CERT/CC announcement. "Current research shows that existing mitigation techniques of disabling privileged eBPF and enabling (Fine)IBT are insufficient in stopping BHI exploitation against the kernel/hypervisor." "For a complete list of impacted Intel processors to the various speculative execution side-channel flaws, check this page updated by the vendor."

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