APTUI is a new open-source terminal UI that simplifies APT package management for Debian, Ubuntu, and Linux Mint users.

Reddit user “Ok_Lingonberry3296” has posted the
results of an extensive investigation into the companies that are
pushing US state legislatures to enact age-verification bills.

I’ve been pulling public records on the wave of “age verification”
bills moving through US state legislatures. IRS 990 filings, Senate
lobbying disclosures, state ethics databases, campaign finance
records, corporate registries, WHOIS lookups, Wayback Machine
archives. What started as curiosity about who was pushing these
bills turned into documenting a coordinated influence operation
that, from a privacy standpoint, is building surveillance
infrastructure at the operating system level while the company
behind it faces zero new requirements for its own platforms.

(See also this article for a look at the
California law.)

Qualys has sent out a
somewhat breathless advisory describing a number of vulnerabilities in
the AppArmor security module, which is used in a number of Debian-based
distributions (among others).

This “CrackArmor” advisory exposes a confused-deputy flaw allowing
unprivileged users to manipulate security profiles via
pseudo-files, bypass user-namespace restrictions, and execute
arbitrary code within the kernel. These flaws facilitate local
privilege escalation to root through complex interactions with
tools like Sudo and Postfix, alongside denial-of-service attacks
via stack exhaustion and Kernel Address Space Layout Randomization
(KASLR) bypasses via out-of-bounds reads.

Earlier this month were various Linux 7.0 file-system benchmarks showing how XFS is leading the race in the overall upstream Linux file-system performance on this forthcoming kernel. Stemming from that testing some premium supporters requested a fresh look at the historical performance of XFS as well as EXT4. So today’s article is a look at how XFS and EXT4 have performed on every kernel release going back to Linux 6.12 LTS.

In 2019, researchers published a way to
identify which file-backed pages
were being accessed on a system using timing information from the page cache,
leading to a handful of unpleasant consequences and a change to the design of
the

mincore() system call. Discussion at the time
led to a number of ad-hoc patches to address the
problem. The lack of new page-cache attacks suggested that attempts to fix
things in a piecemeal fashion had succeeded. Now, however, Sudheendra Raghav Neela,
Jonas Juffinger, Lukas Maar, and Daniel Gruss have
found a new set of
holes in the Linux kernel’s page-cache-timing protections that allow
the same general class of attack.

Sent out this week were more Intel Xe driver feature patches to DRM-Next for queuing ahead of next month’s Linux 7.1 merge window…

Vulkan 1.4.346 was published today with one big new extension in tow: VK_KHR_device_address_commands…

FreeRDP as this open-source and cross-platform Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) implementation is out with FreeRDP 3.24 to ship new security fixes as well as other improvements…

Fwupd developer Richard Hughes released fwupd 2.1.1 today as a major update of this open-source Linux firmware update utility that introduces numerous new features and extends hardware support.

A fix is on the way to the Linux 7.0 kernel today for addressing an idle power issue with AMD RDNA4 GPUs reporting high power consumption and full utilization even after being “idle” following compute workloads like Llama.cpp…

For going along with the Intel IVPU kernel accelerator driver in the mainline Linux kernel is the Intel NPU driver support in user-space. Released yesterday was the Intel NPU Driver 1.30 milestone for advancing the Intel NPU user-space support on Linux with this open-source support for Core Ultra SoCs…

Arch-based EndeavourOS Titan debuts with Linux 6.19, enhanced hardware detection, GPU driver improvements, and more.

GNOME’s GitLab infrastructure has already been using Anubis for a while to help fend off bots and AI scraper traffic from wreacking havoc on their server resources and also their hosting budget. GNOME recently began redirecting some GitLab traffic to their GitHub repositories as another step in dealing with bots/scrapers. Now they have taken an added step of using the commercial, closed-source Fastly in their battle with bots…

Intel’s LLM-Scaler project that makes it easy to deploy various large language models on modern Arc Graphics hardware is out with a new test release to expand its LLM coverage…

The BeagleBoard.org Foundation has introduced BeagleBadge, an open-source wearable development platform for IoT and embedded applications. The badge integrates a 4.2-inch ePaper display, onboard sensors, wireless connectivity, and expansion interfaces in a compact board for prototyping wearable and interactive systems. The platform is built around the Texas Instruments AM62L Sitara SoC. The AM62L32 integrates a […]

What are GNOME Shell extensions? Imagine that Fedora Workstation is your desk, and GNOME Shell extensions are small accessories you add to make it feel more personal. It’s like placing a pencil case on the right side, a lamp that helps you focus, or a small cabinet to keep your things from getting scattered. It’s […]

Remote connection via ssh is significantly more convenient for cut and paste all set of LVs resizing, creating, removing commands along with fstab’s updates then typing all of them manually during local Arch Linux Instance setup with more or less complicated LVs updated layout .

Last year TrueNAS unified their SCALE and CORE offerings as part of solidifying their enterprise storage efforts around Linux from their prior FreeBSD base. This year the developers at iXsystems have another change in store with announcing TrueNAS Connect as a new bridge for accessing TrueNAS enterprise storage features without having to invest in their hardware…

The AppArmor Linux kernel security module used notably by Ubuntu Linux and currently maintained by Canonical has been affected by several vulnerabilities made public today…

Moonforge Linux is a new Yocto-based open-source framework that streamlines the development and maintenance of embedded Linux systems.