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📰 Patina 13.0 Released As Rust UEFI Firmware Implementation
Patina 13.0 is now available as this Rust implementation of UEFI firmware. Patina has been working to replace the core UEFI firmware components in a pure Rust implementation to avoid the use of C code...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Pantina-13.0-Rust-UEFI-Firmware
📰 Stop trusting hotel Wi-Fi and build a secure travel router with Raspberry Pi
Discover this game-changing travel hack that keeps your devices secure on any network.
🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/i-combined-travel-router-and-vpn-box-into-one-raspberry-pi-project/
📰 Intel Begins Adding Nova Lake Xe3P To Linux OpenGL/Vulkan Drivers - Some Will Lack Ray-Tracing
Intel recently began sending out Xe3P kernel graphics driver patches for Nova Lake that will begin landing in the upcoming Linux 6.19 kernel cycle. Now on the user-space side, merged today for Mesa 26.0 were the first enablement patches for Xe3P Nova Lake for their open-source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers on Linux...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Nova-Lake-Mesa-Xe3P
📰 Valve's Steam Deck proves that gaming handhelds have stagnated already
What will it take for Windows handhelds to beat the Steam Deck?
🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/steam-deck-proves-gaming-handhelds-have-stagnated/
Fsearch Is An Amazing File Searcher For Linux
—> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x68o5o1l1Ms
DeepSeek and Qwen AI Models Now Available as Ubuntu Snaps
Canonical is making it easier for developers to deploy AI models on Ubuntu, with the release of new ‘optimised inference snaps’ for both Intel and ARM Ampere device.
—> https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/10/deepseek-qwen-ubuntu-snaps
📰 GTK 4.22 To Natively Support SVG - Including Animations
GTK has long supported Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) for icons but with up until recently relying on the external librsvg library, the integration hasn't been perfect. But Red Hat engineer Matthias Clasen has been working on having the GTK toolkit natively support SVG...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/GTK-4.22-Native-SVG
📰 Qualcomm Plumbing "SSR" Support To Deal With Crashes On AI Accelerators
Crashes on NPUs and AI accelerators are unfortunately a thing and yet another obstacle to worry about it with modern computing. Qualcomm developers have sent out patches for Sub-System Restart "SSR" functionality for their Qualcomm AI Accelerator (QAIC) driver for Linux to handle restarts when workload crashes occur on their AI accelerator hardware...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Qualcomm-QAIC-SSR-Patches
📰 DietPi 9.18 Adds NanoPi R3S, R76S, and M5 Support
DietPi 9.18 adds support for NanoPi R3S, R76S, and M5, plus a redesigned dashboard with better security and TLS enabled by default.
🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/dietpi-9-18-adds-nanopi-r3s-r76s-and-m5-support/
📰 Fedora Opens the Door to AI Tools, Demands Disclosure and Oversight
The Fedora Council greenlights the use of AI in open-source projects but keeps contributors fully responsible for the results.
🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/fedora-opens-the-door-to-ai-tools/
📰 AlmaLinux gives Btrfs a home after Red Hat kicked it out
Not the default file system, but in the installer if you want it AlmaLinux is to support the Btrfs file system in version 10.1 of its eponymous RHELative operating system.…
🔗 Source: https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/10/22/btrfs_almalinux/
📰 Forking confusing: Vulnerable Rust crate exposes uv Python packager
Forks of forks of forks, but which ones are patched? A vulnerability in the popular Rust crate async-tar has affected the fast uv Python package manager, which uses a forked version that's now patched – but the most widely downloaded version remains unfixed.…
🔗 Source: https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/10/22/vulnerable_rust_crate/
📰 Intel Nova Lake Support Merged For GCC 16 Compiler
Following last week LLVM/Clang 22 adding Intel Nova Lake with "-march=novalake" support, the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) has now received similar treatment for the promising next-generation desktop processors...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Nova-Lake-GCC-16
📰 Fedora-based Ultramarine Linux 42 Released with WSL GPU Acceleration
The Fedora-based Ultramarine Linux 42 lands with WSL GPU support, while the Terra repo gets faster builds and improved performance.
🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/fedora-based-ultramarine-linux-42-released-with-wsl-gpu-acceleration/
📰 Linux 6.19 To Enable Networking For The EIC7700 SoC Powering The SiFive Premier P550
Upstreamed for the current Linux 6.18 cycle was finally having mainline support for the ESWIN EIC770 SoC with its four SiFive P550 cores plus having the DeviceTree support for the SiFive HiFive Premier P550 RISC-V development board using that SoC. Sadly not making it though for Linux 6.18 was the Ethernet controller support for the EIC7700 SoC but that is now destined to arrive in Linux 6.19...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.19-Eswin-EIC7700-Net
📰 Fedora Plans to Block Unsigned RPM Packages by Default
Fedora developers propose enforcing RPM signature checks by default in Fedora 44, pending FESCo review and approval.
🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/fedora-plans-to-block-unsigned-rpm-packages-by-default/
📰 Asahi Linux Brings Apple Silicon Improvements in the Linux 6.17 Cycle
Linux kernel 6.17 merges essential Asahi patches, improving reboot handling, GPU support, and device compatibility for Apple Macs.
🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/asahi-linux-brings-apple-silicon-improvements-in-the-linux-6-17-cycle/
📰 Hackers earn $1,024,750 for 73 zero-days at Pwn2Own Ireland
The Pwn2Own Ireland 2025 hacking competition has ended with security researchers collecting $1,024,750 in cash awards after exploiting 73 zero-day vulnerabilities.
🔗 Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-earn-1-024-750-for-73-zero-days-at-pwn2own-ireland/
📰 I switched from Photoshop to GIMP, but this free tool is better than both of them
GIMP was promising, until I started using this tool.
🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/switched-from-photoshop-to-gimp-but-this-free-tool-beats-both/
📰 TerraMaster’s new 2 and 4-bay NAS systems have Intel N150 and 5 Gigabit LAN
The TerraMaster F2-425 Plus and TerraMaster F4-425 Plus are network-attached storage devices that combine a quad-core Intel N150 Twin Lake processor with a healthy set of I/O and connectivity features including dual 5 GbE LAN ports and four USB 3.2 ports. The F2-425 Plus is a 2-bay NAS that ships with 8GB of DDR5 memory. It has a list .
🔗 Source: https://liliputing.com/terramasters-new-2-and-4-bay-nas-systems-have-intel-n150-and-5-gigabit-lan/
📰 Linux's Proposed Cache Aware Scheduling Benchmarks Show Big Potential On AMD EPYC Turin
The past number of months has seen a lot of work by Intel Linux kernel engineers on cache-aware scheduling / load balancing for helping modern CPUs that have multiple caches. With cache aware scheduling, tasks that will likely share resources could be aggregated into the same cache domain to enjoy better cache locality.
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/review/cache-aware-scheduling-amd-turin
📰 ESWIN Launching EBC7702 Mini-DTX RISC-V Board With Dual-Die EIC7702X SoC
For those looking for a new RISC-V desktop option, ESWIN is launching a EBC7702 mini-DTX board powered by the EIC7702X dual-die SoC. The EBC7702 Mini-DTX is aiming for developers who want RISC-V under their desk for working on AI and other development tasks...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/ESWIN-EBC7702-Mini-DTX-RISC-V
📰 Pangolin Reverse Proxy Moves to Dual Licensing With New Enterprise Edition
The open-source Pangolin tunneled reverse proxy adopts dual licensing, adding a paid Enterprise tier with premium support and features.
🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/pangolin-reverse-proxy-moves-to-dual-licensing-with-new-enterprise-edition/
📰 OpenZFS 2.4-rc3 Released With New Workarounds For Linux 6.18
OpenZFS 2.4 stable should be out in the near future while out today is the third release candidate for this ZFS file-system implementation for Linux and FreeBSD operating systems...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenZFS-2.4-rc3-Released
📰 TARmageddon flaw in abandoned Rust library enables RCE attacks
A high-severity vulnerability in the now-abandoned async-tar Rust library and its forks can be exploited to gain remote code execution on systems running unpatched software.
🔗 Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/tarmageddon-flaw-in-abandoned-rust-library-enables-rce-attacks/
📰 LLVM Lands Some Long Overdue Tuning Optimizations For AMD Zen 4
Merged today to the LLVM/Clang compiler codebase are some long overdue adjustments to the AMD Zen 4 "znver4" CPU model for more accurately assessing various latency timings and micro-ops. These values were initially copied over from the Zen 3 (znver3) target but never adjusted properly for Zen 4 until now when an independent contributor took to sorting it out...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/LLVM-Overdue-Znver4-Tuning
📰 New Linux kernel patch lets you cancel hibernation mid-process
RFC proposes power-button interrupt – and highlights wider problems with sleep states A new Linux kernel patch lets you cancel the process of your machine going into hibernation, but the bigger context of the work may be more important.…
🔗 Source: https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/10/22/linux_hibernation_patch/
📰 OpenBSD 7.8 Released With Raspberry Pi 5 Support, AMD SEV Enablement
Theo de Raadt released OpenBSD 7.8 today as the newest feature release to this popular BSD operating system...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenBSD-7.8-Released
📰 Arduino Alternative Microcontroller Boards for Your DIY Projects in the Post-Qualcomm Era
If Arduino being acquired puts a bad taste in your mouth, or even if you just want to explore what the alternatives offer, this article is for you.
🔗 Source: https://itsfoss.com/arduino-alternative-microcontroller-boards/
📰 I built my own basic Kindle with Home Assistant and this 7-inch ePaper display
If you want a device that's like a Kindle, but made by you, then this might be a place to start.
🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/built-own-basic-kindle-reterminal-e1001/