Arch Linux vs. CachyOS vs. Omarchy 4.5 Performance Benchmarks
With CachyOS recently having rolled out its Linux 7.3 based kernel and various other improvements plus with Omarchy 4.5 having been released this week, this article provides a look at how CachyOS and Omarchy are competing on the performance front relative to upstream Arch Linux. ⌘ Read more

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Linux x86 32-bit Patches Clean Old Kernel Code After Recently Removing Vintage CPUs
With the Linux kernek having phased out i486 CPU support and dropping old AMD Elan SoC code along with removing other obsolete and stagnate 32-bit x86 hardware support, some x86 32-bit clean-ups are proceeding along with being able to make the kernel depend unconditionally now on some features… ⌘ Read more

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FEX Awaits The Linux Kernel To Align With Windows & macOS On ARM Register Usage
FEX 2611 is out for running Linux (and Wine) x86/x86_64 games/applications on AArch64 Linux. FEX 2611 brings JIT improvements while also waiting for the Linux kernel to align with the AArch64 specification and Windows on ARM and macOS Apple Silicon behavior around a particular register’s usage… ⌘ Read more

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Linux Developers Look To Drop RT_GROUP_SCHED As It’s “Broken Beyond Repair”
Linux kernel developers are looking at dropping the RT_GROUP_SCHED feature that is used for group scheduling of real-time tasks using cgroups… ⌘ Read more

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Blue Origin Announces New Glenn Third Stage, New Booster Engine
Blue Origin has unveiled a third stage called GS3 for its New Glenn rocket, designed to deliver satellite constellations directly to geostationary orbit and support heavy-lift missions to the Moon and deep space. The company also announced Northstar, a new methalox booster engine that it says produces 715,000 pounds of thrust while cutting mass b … ⌘ Read more

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Sound Subsystem Seeing Lots Of Fixes & Laptop/Device Quirks For Linux 7.4-rc2
The sound subsystem is seeing a “unsurprisingly high amount” fixes and device workarounds/quirks for this weekend’s Linux 7.4-rc2 kernel release… ⌘ Read more

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OpenCV 5.1 Brings More AVX-512 Optimizations, Other Improvements
OpenCV 5.0 debuted back in June with a rewritten DNN engine and many other exciting improvements for this widely-used computer vision (CV) library. Out today is OpenCV 5.1 with tons of fixes and other incremental improvements to this important code… ⌘ Read more

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FAA Phases Out Floppy Disks From Air Traffic Control
The FAA announced today that it is finally phasing out floppy disks from air traffic control systems at more than 400 facilities. Engadget reports: They’ll be replaced by a more modern system called Enterprise – Information Display System (E-IDS), which is comprised of a digital display for relaying status information, updates and other alerts to air traffic teams. … ⌘ Read more

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@zyak@twtxt.z85b.xyz @klaxzy@klaxzy.net It’s a musl problem and it’s probably/hopefully not that horrible in practice, because “sane” setups don’t use PasswordAuthentication yes anyway. It’s a real vuln, yes, but I think it’s over-hyped – it’s not like every SSH server is wide open.

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The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Is Changing the Color of the Ocean
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Scientific American: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, an area in the Pacific Ocean where debris naturally accumulates, is full of tiny bits of plastic – so full, in fact, that it seems to be changing the color of the ocean. […] To better understand how microplastics may have influenced the ocean’s … ⌘ Read more

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Applebee’s Exposed Customers’ Personal Data After Leaving Database Password In App
Joe_Dragon shares a report from TechCrunch: Applebee’s has fixed a security flaw that allowed anyone to access the personal information of its registered customers, after a researcher found a password for an internal database inside Applebee’s mobile app, TechCrunch has learned. The popular restaurant chain confi … ⌘ Read more

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OpenAI Responds to US Midterm Elections With New Commitment to Communities
“OpenAI has published a new National Community Compact and Compute Campus Policy Blueprint, apparently in response to the Blue Wave Midterm Elections,” writes ancient Slashdot reader Gilmoure. “Instead of moving into communities like a juggernaut, they say they will be dangling friendly carrots going forward.” Here’s an ex … ⌘ Read more

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AMDGPU Driver Seeing HDMI 2.2 FRL Fixes For Linux 7.4
With Linux 7.4 the AMDGPU driver enables HDMI 2.1 FRL functionality by default for driving higher refresh rate and higher resolution displays. That default enabling comes as HDMI FreeSync/VRR and ALLM features are also in place for Linux 7.4. Now coming by way of fixes for Linux 7.4 is also improving the Fixed Rate Link support with the newer HDMI 2.2 specification… ⌘ Read more

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OpenSSH Flaw Lets Attackers Log Into Password-Disabled Linux Accounts
A newly disclosed OpenSSH flaw dubbed “*sshole” can allow attackers to log in to password-disabled accounts on certain musl-based Linux systems simply by submitting a password longer than 256 bytes. “Apparently certain varieties of musl Linux (Alpine, OpenWrt, Buildroot, Yocto, etc.) have had this OpenSSH vulnerability for about a decade … ⌘ Read more

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Linux 7.4’s Build Time Performance From Optimizations But Also Larger Codebase
With Linux 7.4 the patches to speed-up the kernel build process began to land. This is the work that’s yielded extremely fast incremental builds and noop builds. The patch series in full is also allowing kernel build times approaching just ten seconds with enough CPU cores. In today’s article is a look at the Linux 7.3 vs. 7.4-rc1 build time performance on the Framework Laptop 13 Pro powered by Intel Panther Lake… ⌘ Read more

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Apple Is Putting Employees On an AI Budget
According to Bloomberg, Apple is cutting employee AI spending limits to reduce costs, lowering some engineers from $300 to $200 per day and considering limits as low as $100, with some teams capped at $25. Employees are also being encouraged to use cheaper models or on-device AI. MacRumors reports: Engineers at Apple have the largest budgets because using AI for coding can consume a large … ⌘ Read more

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Want to Rent an Internet Address at the White House?
Longtime Slashdot reader bbsguru shares a report from KrebsOnSecurity: Several staffers at the White House are using computers or mobile devices equipped with residential proxy services that render their internet address available for others to rent, security experts warned today. One of the proxy services is a Russian company whose founder’s web hosting business was groun … ⌘ Read more

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Discord Is Ditching Electron For Rust
Discord is replacing Electron with a desktop client built fully in Rust, which the company says should significantly reduce the app’s notoriously high resource usage while improving performance and memory safety. “We’ve been early adopters of Rust since 2018 and a lot of our infra, voice tech, and even some of the current client is already Rust, the holy grail was getting the whole client there,” exp … ⌘ Read more

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Motorola’s Ultra Premium Smartphone Is Its First With GrapheneOS Support
Motorola’s $1,600 Signature 27 will become the company’s first smartphone to support the security- and privacy-focused GrapheneOS that completely strips out native Google services and telemetry at the OS level. To help justify the price, Motorola equipped the Signature 27 with top-of-the-line specs, including a tandem OLED disp … ⌘ Read more

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Thank you for sending plain text e-mails, but why don’t you include a Date header, passport office?! Of course: Message-ID: <1663431506….JavaMail.weblogic@k1rrzv1637.komm-one.net> Komm on!

Also, I find it interesting that my e-mail client just invents the Epoch in the overview, but the details then correctly say that the send timestamp is unknown. A fallback to one of the Received lines would have also been nice.

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Linux’s RAID6 Check Tool Sees 3x Performance Via Batching
For those that use Linux’s raid6check command for checking/repairing an MD RAID6 software RAID array’s device for errors, newly-merged code is showing up to a 3x performance improvement… ⌘ Read more

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Major Digital Bank In Paraguay Collapses With Half of Population’s Savings
Paraguayan President Santiago Pena resigned Thursday amid mass protests and impeachment threats following the collapse of Ueno Bank, a major digital lender with close ties to his administration and more than 60% of the country’s adults as customers. Regulators seized the bank after uncovering risky insider lending and accountin … ⌘ Read more

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Microsoft’s Imagine Cup ‘Evolves’ From Student Competition To AI Startup Contest
theodp writes: That Was Then: The Imagine Cup competition, Microsoft explained in a 2003 press release, “seeks to provide students [aged 16-and-up] around the world with resources to use technology and Web services to solve everyday problems […] Imagine Cup is about empowering students to apply their creativity a … ⌘ Read more

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Servo Browser Engine Continues Broadening Web Compatibility, New Features
The Servo open-source browser engine project is finally out with their status report highlighting the improvements made back in September. There is expanded web compatibility, new HTML and JavaScript features, WebGL2 improvements, and continued work on expanding the embed capabilities of this engine… ⌘ Read more

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Zlib 1.4 Released With More Than One Dozen Security Fixes
Zlib 1.4 is now available for this widely-used compression library. In these AI times, Zlib 1.4 ships with more than a dozen security fixes… ⌘ Read more

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Linux Kernel Patches Posted For Review In Enabling Apple AirDrop Support
A set of Linux kernel patches have been posted for review with a hope of reaching the mainline kernel to provide Apple AirDrop support for Macs equipped with the T2 chip… ⌘ Read more

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Mir 2.31 Released With Expanded Wayland Protocol Support
Mir 2.31 is now available as the latest feature release for this Canonical/Ubuntu solution for providing C++ libraries to build Wayland-based shells… ⌘ Read more

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Linux’x New Core MM Tree Ready With Numerous Fixes For “Nasty Long-Standing Bugs”
New to the Linux 7.4 kernel cycle is the Core MM tree as the route for herding some of the core memory management Linux kernel patches to the mainline kernel rather than it all going through Andrew Morton’s “MM” tree. As the second pull request from this new kernel tree, a number of fixes were sent out today to address “nasty long-standing bugs” within the kernel… ⌘ Read more

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NASA Announces X-70 Experimental Aircraft to Advance Flight Research
NASA has unveiled the X-70 Fractal, a new crewed experimental aircraft “designed to accelerate the development and testing of advanced aviation technologies.” From a press release: The crewed X-70 features advanced, rapidly reconfigurable flight-control technology that will allow NASA to explore aircraft maneuverability in ways never b … ⌘ Read more

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Mesa Merges A Common Vulkan Layer For Working Around Cross-Driver Game Bugs
Merged to Mesa 27.0-devel is a new common Vulkan layer within Mesa’s Vulkan Runtime for being able to carry common game/engine/app workarounds that affect multiple drivers… ⌘ Read more

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AMD-Backed Lemonade Local AI Server Ships Redesigned Desktop App & Web UI
The AMD-backed Lemonade local AI server shipped its version 2026.45.3 update on Wednesday that introduces a completely redesigned desktop app and web UI… ⌘ Read more

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OpenAI Finds 948 Local Privilege Escalation Bugs In The Linux Kernel
OpenAI published a blog post outlining their work on autonomous vulnerability discovery. To showcase their AI potential, they found 948 valid local privilege escalation vulnerabilities within the Linux kernel… ⌘ Read more

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