📰 Linux 6.18 Updating The Baseline For Marking Intel CPU Microcode As Outdated
Introduced this year with the Linux 6.16 kernel was the new functionality for reporting to users when running on outdated Intel CPU microcode since it can pose security vulnerability issues and/or functionality problems. The Linux kernel support for propagating this "old_microcode" reporting via sysfs relies on a static list of microcode versions corresponding to different Intel CPU generations. For the Linux 6.
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Old-Microcode-Linux-6.18
Introduced this year with the Linux 6.16 kernel was the new functionality for reporting to users when running on outdated Intel CPU microcode since it can pose security vulnerability issues and/or functionality problems. The Linux kernel support for propagating this "old_microcode" reporting via sysfs relies on a static list of microcode versions corresponding to different Intel CPU generations. For the Linux 6.
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Old-Microcode-Linux-6.18
Phoronix
Linux 6.18 Updating The Baseline For Marking Intel CPU Microcode As Outdated
Introduced this year with the Linux 6.16 kernel was the new functionality for reporting to users when running on outdated Intel CPU microcode since it can pose security vulnerability issues and/or functionality problems
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Qualcomm’s 18-core Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme dominates in first benchmarks – 18 cores and 48GB of on-package memory on a 192-bit bus look tough to beat
https://www.tomshardware.com/laptops/qualcomms-18-core-snapdragon-x2-elite-extreme-dominates-in-first-benchmarks-18-cores-and-48gb-of-on-package-memory-on-a-192-bit-bus-look-tough-to-beat
https://www.tomshardware.com/laptops/qualcomms-18-core-snapdragon-x2-elite-extreme-dominates-in-first-benchmarks-18-cores-and-48gb-of-on-package-memory-on-a-192-bit-bus-look-tough-to-beat
Tom's Hardware
Qualcomm’s 18-core Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme dominates in first benchmarks – 18 cores and 48GB of on-package memory on a 192…
Can competing chip makers strike back before the X2’s arrival in 2026?
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📰 NVIDIA Has Been Supplying NDA'ed Docs To Red Hat For Helping NVK Driver
Following AMD announcing the end of the AMDVLK Vulkan driver development in favor of focusing on the Mesa RADV driver for Linux systems, Red Hat engineer David Airlie who was one of the co-lead developers of the RADV driver shared some interesting insight on NVK as the open-source NVIDIA Vulkan driver being developed within Mesa...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVK-Vulkan-Red-Hat-NDA-Docs
Following AMD announcing the end of the AMDVLK Vulkan driver development in favor of focusing on the Mesa RADV driver for Linux systems, Red Hat engineer David Airlie who was one of the co-lead developers of the RADV driver shared some interesting insight on NVK as the open-source NVIDIA Vulkan driver being developed within Mesa...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVK-Vulkan-Red-Hat-NDA-Docs
Phoronix
NVIDIA Has Been Supplying NDA'ed Docs To Red Hat For Helping NVK Driver
Following AMD announcing the end of the AMDVLK Vulkan driver development in favor of focusing on the Mesa RADV driver for Linux systems, Red Hat engineer David Airlie who was one of the co-lead developers of the RADV driver shared some interesting insight…
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📰 Linus Torvalds Removes The Bcachefs Code From The Linux Kernel
With Linux 6.17 was the decision by Linus Torvalds to mark Bcachefs as "externally maintained" and not accept any new Bcachefs code into the mainline kernel but keeping the existing code within the tree. That was useful for those relying on Bcachefs to still boot a mainline kernel at least. Now for Linux 6.18, the Bcachefs code was removed from the mainline kernel...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Bcachefs-Removed-Linux-6.18
With Linux 6.17 was the decision by Linus Torvalds to mark Bcachefs as "externally maintained" and not accept any new Bcachefs code into the mainline kernel but keeping the existing code within the tree. That was useful for those relying on Bcachefs to still boot a mainline kernel at least. Now for Linux 6.18, the Bcachefs code was removed from the mainline kernel...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Bcachefs-Removed-Linux-6.18
Phoronix
Linus Torvalds Removes The Bcachefs Code From The Linux Kernel
With Linux 6.17 was the decision by Linus Torvalds to mark Bcachefs as 'externally maintained' and not accept any new Bcachefs code into the mainline kernel but keeping the existing code within the tree
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3 Terminal Tricks You'll Wish You Knew Earlier
https://www.howtogeek.com/terminal-tricks-youll-wish-you-knew-earlier/
https://www.howtogeek.com/terminal-tricks-youll-wish-you-knew-earlier/
How-To Geek
3 Terminal Tricks You'll Wish You Knew Earlier
Or slog it out with the keyboard for the rest of your life.
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📰 Intel Linux Setbacks, Linux Kernel Drama & Other Q3 Highlights
So far on this last day of Q3'2025 we are at just over 800 original Linux news articles for the quarter on Linux hardware and open-source software. Here is a look back at what proved to be most popular for the quarter...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Q3-2025-Linux-News
So far on this last day of Q3'2025 we are at just over 800 original Linux news articles for the quarter on Linux hardware and open-source software. Here is a look back at what proved to be most popular for the quarter...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Q3-2025-Linux-News
Phoronix
Intel Linux Setbacks, Linux Kernel Drama & Other Q3 Highlights
So far on this last day of Q3'2025 we are at just over 800 original Linux news articles for the quarter on Linux hardware and open-source software
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📰 5 tasks a Raspberry Pi can be good for as a home server
Turn your Raspberry Pi into a home server for media, files, ad blocking, websites, and smart home monitoring.
🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/tasks-raspberry-pi-good-for-home-server/
Turn your Raspberry Pi into a home server for media, files, ad blocking, websites, and smart home monitoring.
🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/tasks-raspberry-pi-good-for-home-server/
XDA
5 tasks a Raspberry Pi can be good for as a home server
Turn your Raspberry Pi into a home server for media, files, ad blocking, websites, and smart home monitoring.
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Wine 11.0 On Track For January Release With NTSYNC & New WoW64 Mode
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-11.0-January-2026
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-11.0-January-2026
Phoronix
Wine 11.0 On Track For January Release With NTSYNC & New WoW64 Mode
WineConf as the annual Wine developer conference, for this open-source software allowing Windows games and applications to run on Linux, took place this weekend in The Hague
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📰 I tested local LLMs on the Snapdragon X Elite's NPU, and they're surprisingly good and power efficient
NPUs haven't been getting a lot of use so far, but the latest Nexa SDK finally makes it possible to run popular LLMs on the Snapdragon X Elite.
🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/these-llms-run-locally-snapdragon-x-elite-npu-surprisingly-good/
NPUs haven't been getting a lot of use so far, but the latest Nexa SDK finally makes it possible to run popular LLMs on the Snapdragon X Elite.
🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/these-llms-run-locally-snapdragon-x-elite-npu-surprisingly-good/
XDA
I tested local LLMs on the Snapdragon X Elite's NPU, and they're surprisingly good and power efficient
The NPU is finally getting useful
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📰 CISA warns of critical Linux Sudo flaw exploited in attacks
Hackers are actively exploiting a critical vulnerability (CVE-2025-32463) in the sudo package that enables the execution of commands with root-level privileges on Linux operating systems.
🔗 Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cisa-warns-of-critical-linux-sudo-flaw-exploited-in-attacks/
Hackers are actively exploiting a critical vulnerability (CVE-2025-32463) in the sudo package that enables the execution of commands with root-level privileges on Linux operating systems.
🔗 Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cisa-warns-of-critical-linux-sudo-flaw-exploited-in-attacks/
BleepingComputer
CISA warns of critical Linux Sudo flaw exploited in attacks
Hackers are actively exploiting a critical vulnerability (CVE-2025-32463) in the sudo package that enables the execution of commands with root-level privileges on Linux operating systems.
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📰 Apple HFS/HFS+ File-System Drivers See More Fixes With Linux 6.18
In addition to the IEEE-1394 Firewire support still being maintained within the Linux kernel, another Apple tech still seeing code churn within the Linux kernel years later are the HFS and HFS+ file-systems. For the Linux 6.18 kernel are more fixes to the HFS/HFS+ support...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Apple-HFS-Linux-6.18
In addition to the IEEE-1394 Firewire support still being maintained within the Linux kernel, another Apple tech still seeing code churn within the Linux kernel years later are the HFS and HFS+ file-systems. For the Linux 6.18 kernel are more fixes to the HFS/HFS+ support...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Apple-HFS-Linux-6.18
Phoronix
Apple HFS/HFS+ File-System Drivers See More Fixes With Linux 6.18
In addition to the IEEE-1394 Firewire support still being maintained within the Linux kernel, another Apple tech still seeing code churn within the Linux kernel years later are the HFS and HFS+ file-systems
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📰 Pop! System76's 24.04 beta is here – complete with a beta of polarizing COSMIC
Twice the betas and twice the crashes means twice the fun, right? It's September 2025 and the beta of the April 2024 release of Pop!_OS is here. It's fast, fluid – and fallible.…
🔗 Source: https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/09/30/pop_os_2404_beta_released/
Twice the betas and twice the crashes means twice the fun, right? It's September 2025 and the beta of the April 2024 release of Pop!_OS is here. It's fast, fluid – and fallible.…
🔗 Source: https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/09/30/pop_os_2404_beta_released/
The Register
Pop! System76's 24.04 beta is here – complete with a beta of polarizing COSMIC
: Twice the betas and twice the crashes means twice the fun, right?
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📰 Ubuntu Touch 24.04-1.0 Released Based on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
UBports releases Ubuntu Touch 24.04-1.0 with new features, fresh logos, and support for additional mobile devices.
🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/ubuntu-touch-24-04-1-0-released-based-on-ubuntu-24-04-lts/
UBports releases Ubuntu Touch 24.04-1.0 with new features, fresh logos, and support for additional mobile devices.
🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/ubuntu-touch-24-04-1-0-released-based-on-ubuntu-24-04-lts/
Linuxiac
Ubuntu Touch 24.04-1.0 Released Based on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
UBports releases Ubuntu Touch 24.04-1.0 with new features, fresh logos, and support for additional mobile devices.
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📰 NVIDIA driver 580.95.05 released as the latest recommended for Linux
NVIDIA have launched their latest recommended driver for Linux users with driver version 580.95.05 now available..Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.
🔗 Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/09/nvidia-driver-580-95-05-released-as-the-latest-recommended-for-linux/
NVIDIA have launched their latest recommended driver for Linux users with driver version 580.95.05 now available..Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.
🔗 Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/09/nvidia-driver-580-95-05-released-as-the-latest-recommended-for-linux/
GamingOnLinux
NVIDIA driver 580.95.05 released as the latest recommended for Linux
NVIDIA have launched their latest recommended driver for Linux users with driver version 580.95.05 now available.
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📰 Qualcomm Posts Initial Open-Source GPU Driver Patches For Adreno 800 Series
Qualcomm engineers have posted the initial patches for bringing up the newest Adreno 800 series graphics IP within the open-source MSM Linux kernel Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) driver...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Kernel-Adreno-800-Patches
Qualcomm engineers have posted the initial patches for bringing up the newest Adreno 800 series graphics IP within the open-source MSM Linux kernel Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) driver...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Kernel-Adreno-800-Patches
Phoronix
Qualcomm Posts Initial Open-Source GPU Driver Patches For Adreno 800 Series
Qualcomm engineers have posted the initial patches for bringing up the newest Adreno 800 series graphics IP within the open-source MSM Linux kernel Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) driver.
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I install these 11 apps on every new Linux system, and you should, too - here's why | ZDNET
https://www.zdnet.com/article/i-install-these-11-apps-on-every-new-linux-system-and-you-should-too-heres-why/
https://www.zdnet.com/article/i-install-these-11-apps-on-every-new-linux-system-and-you-should-too-heres-why/
ZDNET
I install these 11 apps on every new Linux system, and you should, too - here's why
If you're wondering which apps take priority on your new Linux machine, these 11 will help you get the most out of the OS.
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📰 AMD Publishes Open-Source openSIL Code For Phoenix SoCs
After originally hoping to publish the open-source code last year, today AMD published the initial openSIL code for enabling Phoenix SoCs to make use of this in-development CPU silicon initialization alternative to AGESA...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-openSIL-Phoenix
After originally hoping to publish the open-source code last year, today AMD published the initial openSIL code for enabling Phoenix SoCs to make use of this in-development CPU silicon initialization alternative to AGESA...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-openSIL-Phoenix
Phoronix
AMD Publishes Open-Source openSIL Code For Phoenix SoCs
After originally hoping to publish the open-source code last year, today AMD published the initial openSIL code for enabling Phoenix SoCs to make use of this in-development CPU silicon initialization alternative to AGESA.
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📰 4 things nobody tells you before your first Raspberry Pi project
Discover the hidden challenges of your first Raspberry Pi project, from power needs to storage, costs, and troubleshooting.
🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/things-nobody-tells-before-first-raspberry-pi-project/
Discover the hidden challenges of your first Raspberry Pi project, from power needs to storage, costs, and troubleshooting.
🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/things-nobody-tells-before-first-raspberry-pi-project/
XDA
4 things nobody tells you before your first Raspberry Pi project
Discover the hidden challenges of your first Raspberry Pi project, from power needs to storage, costs, and troubleshooting.
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📰 You, too, can recreate the radio player from GTA 5 for your own car with a Raspberry Pi
It's like real life, in a video game, in real life.
🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/recreate-radio-player-gta-5/
It's like real life, in a video game, in real life.
🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/recreate-radio-player-gta-5/
XDA
You, too, can recreate the radio player from GTA 5 for your own car with a Raspberry Pi
It's like real life, in a video game, in real life.
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📰 Taliban impose tele-ban and takes Afghanistan offline
No internet or phones, which means no banks or commercial aviation, but lots more misery Afghanistan has dropped off the global internet.…
🔗 Source: https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/10/01/afghanistan_goes_offline/
No internet or phones, which means no banks or commercial aviation, but lots more misery Afghanistan has dropped off the global internet.…
🔗 Source: https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/10/01/afghanistan_goes_offline/
The Register
Taliban impose tele-ban and take Afghanistan offline
: No internet or phones, which means no banks or commercial aviation, but lots more misery
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GNU Linux-Libre 6.17 Kernel Is Now Available for Software Freedom Lovers
https://9to5linux.com/gnu-linux-libre-6-17-kernel-is-now-available-for-software-freedom-lovers
https://9to5linux.com/gnu-linux-libre-6-17-kernel-is-now-available-for-software-freedom-lovers
9to5Linux
GNU Linux-Libre 6.17 Kernel Is Now Available for Software Freedom Lovers - 9to5Linux
GNU Linux-libre 6.17 kernel is now available for download based on Linux 6.17 and targeted at those who seek 100% freedom for their PCs.
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