The Future of Shopping

It’s clear that online shopping has given consumers more choices than ever, offering remarkable convenience with a few clicks of a button. But there’s a catch. With Fakespot by Mozilla, which uses AI to detect fake reviews and scams, we’ve seen it all when it comes to e-commerce. Counterfeits, fake reviews, review flooding, and nowadays, […]

Source: LXer – The Future of Shopping

KDE Releases Alpha Versions of Plasma 6, Frameworks 6 & Gear 24.02

The KDE Project released today the alpha version of the upcoming KDE Plasma 6 desktop environment, along with alpha versions of the KDE Frameworks 6 and KDE Gear 24.02 software suites.

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Source: Linux Today – KDE Releases Alpha Versions of Plasma 6, Frameworks 6 & Gear 24.02

[$] The push to save Itanium

It is (relatively) easy to add code to the kernel; it tends to be much
harder to remove that code later. The most recent example of this dynamic
can be seen in the story of the ia64 (“Itanium”) architecture, support for
which was removed during the 6.7 merge window. That removal has left a
small group of dedicated ia64 users unhappy and clinging to a faint hope
that this support could return in a year’s time.

Source: LWN.net – [$] The push to save Itanium

Kinsing Threat Actors Exploit Looney Tunables Privilege Escalation Flaw to Breach Cloud Environments

Recently, a severe vulnerability dubbed “Looney Tunables” (CVE-2023-4911) was found in an integral part of most Linux systems that provides basic system functions like file I/O, network, and memory access.

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Source: Linux Today – Kinsing Threat Actors Exploit Looney Tunables Privilege Escalation Flaw to Breach Cloud Environments

Cloud-Hypervisor 36 Brings AMD CPU Topology Support, AIO Backend For Block Devices

Cloud Hypervisor 36 has been released as this Rust-written VMM that started out as an Intel open-source project that since was folded into the Linux Foundation umbrella with support from Microsoft, Arm, and other vendors. More recently even the likes of AMD and Ampere Computing have been onboard with this cloud and security focused virtualization hypervisor…

Source: Phoronix – Cloud-Hypervisor 36 Brings AMD CPU Topology Support, AIO Backend For Block Devices

TuxClocker 1.3 Preparing Additional AMD GPU Voltage & Memory Controls

Since the release of TuxClocker 1.0 back in September, this open-source and independently-developed overclocking/performance utility for Linux systems has been quick to tack on new features and rolling out new versions. A release candidate for TuxClocker 1.3 was issued a few days ago with yet more AMD graphics card controls…

Source: Phoronix – TuxClocker 1.3 Preparing Additional AMD GPU Voltage & Memory Controls

How to Install Hugo Site Generator with Nginx on Rocky Linux 9

Hugo is an open-source static site generator written in Go. It generates content by converting posts written in markdown language to HTML. In this tutorial, we will explore how to install Hugo to create a static website on a server powered by Rocky Linux 9. We will use the Nginx server to host the site and the Let’s Encrypt SSL certificate to secure our installation.

Source: LXer – How to Install Hugo Site Generator with Nginx on Rocky Linux 9

MIPS AR7 Platform Support Removed In Linux 6.7

With the MIPS CPU architecture at the end of the road in light of RISC-V and LoongArch, there isn’t much going on when it comes to MIPS development for the Linux kernel. Most cycles these days just brings bug fixes and removing old/unmaintained platforms. The latest MIPS platform now being removed is AR7 with Linux 6.7…

Source: Phoronix – MIPS AR7 Platform Support Removed In Linux 6.7

How to rebase to Fedora Linux 39 on Silverblue

Fedora Silverblue is an operating system for your desktop built on Fedora Linux. It’s excellent for daily use, development, and container-based workflows. It offers numerous advantages such as being able to roll back in case of any problems. If you want to update or rebase to Fedora Linux 39 on your Fedora Silverblue system, this article tells you how. […]

Source: LXer – How to rebase to Fedora Linux 39 on Silverblue

Oracle off the hook for fraud but judge allows breach of contract claim to continue

Building material supplier left without functional ERP can amend claim. Oracle has won a temporary reprieve in its defense of a lawsuit alleging the company conducted a “widespread fraudulent scheme and unfair business practice” in sales of NetSuite software, with all claims dismissed against Big Red except for one.…

Source: LXer – Oracle off the hook for fraud but judge allows breach of contract claim to continue