Slimbook Executive pairs Intel Core Ultra 7 performance with a 1.2 kg chassis, Linux support, and a 99Wh battery for mobile professionals.

Version
3.0.0 of the pandas data
analysis and manipulation library for Python has been
released. Notable changes include a dedicated
string type (str), new “copy-on-write” behavior, and much more. This release also removes
a number of features that were deprecated in prior versions of pandas;
developers are advised to upgrade to pandas 2.3 and ensure code is
working without warnings before moving to 3.0. See the release
notes for the full changelog.

XDG-Desktop-Portal 1.21 is now available for testing with the latest features for this portal frontend service to Flatpak…

Dislike systemd but occasionally need it for something? MX can helpMX Linux 25.1 restores the ability to switch init systems – the killer feature of MX Linux of old.…

At the 39th
Chaos Communication Congress (39C3) in December, researchers Lexi
Groves (“49016”) and Liam Wachter said that they had discovered a
number of flaws in popular implementations of OpenPGP email-encryption standard. They also released an
accompanying web site, gpg.fail, with
descriptions of the discoveries. Most of those
presented were found in GNU Privacy
Guard (GPG), though the pair also discussed problems in age,
Minisign, Sequoia, and the OpenPGP
standard (RFC 9580) itself. The discoveries have spurred some interesting
discussions and as well as responses from GPG and Sequoia
developers.

If you like Firefox’s engine but not its direction, Zen Browser gives you a familiar foundation with a more flexible UI, built‑in theming, and productivity-focused features.

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With the Dell Pro Max GB10 testing at Phoronix we have been focused on the AI performance with its Blackwell GPU as the GB10 superchip was designed for meeting the needs of AI. Many Phoronix readers have also been curious about the GB10’s CPU performance in more traditional Linux workloads. So for those curious about the GB10 CPU performance, here are some Linux benchmarks focused today on the CPU performance and going up against the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 “Strix Halo” within the Framework Desktop.

A new Snap Store scam campaign abuses expired publisher domains to bypass trust signals and deliver malicious app updates.

It’s typically rare these days for the ATA subsystem updates in the Linux kernel to contain anything really noteworthy. But today some important fixes were merged for the ATA code to deal with a reported power management regression affecting the past number of Linux kernel releases over the last year. ATAPI devices with dummy ports weren’t hitting their low-power state and in turn preventing the CPU from reaching low-power C-states but thankfully that is now resolved with this code…

A new patch posted to the Linux kernel mailing list aims to address the high wake-up latency experienced on modern Intel Xeon server platforms. With Sapphire Rapids and newer, “excessive” wakeup latencies with the Linux menu governor and NOHZ_FULL configuration can negatively impair Xeon CPUs for latency-sensitive workloads but a 16 line patch aims to better improve the situation. That is, changing one line of actual code and the rest being code comments…

Prominent Intel Linux engineer H. Peter Anvin has posted a new patch series working to clean-up the Linux x86/x86_64 kernel boot code. Besides cleaning up the code, the kernel configuration would drop options around EFI stub mode and relocatable kernels in making those features now always enabled…

For those using the powerful PHPStan tool for static analysis on PHP code, this week’s PHPStan 2.1.34 is promoting optimized performance with projects seeing around 25% to 40% faster analysis times…

In this article, you will learn how to install Dart on Linux and configure Vim as an IDE for Dart, with some examples showcasing the usage.

More packaging options for the leading all-FOSS browserIf you can’t wait to get the bleeding-edge version of Firefox, we have good news. Mozilla is offering native RPM packages of Firefox Nightly for Linux distros in the greater Red Hat and SUSE families.…

In this article, you will learn how to install R and RStudio in your preferred Linux distribution and how to run your first program using RScript or RStudio, with practical examples.

The BentoIO CMX0 is a low-profile IO-carrier board designed for the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5, combining a compact footprint with onboard cooling and expansion support. It is intended for space-constrained systems that require access to standard Raspberry Pi interfaces while maintaining a reduced overall height. The CMX0 supports both Compute Module 5 Lite and […]

Mesa 26.0 was due to be branched last week and in turn start its feature freeze but ended up being pushed back to tomorrow (21 January) to allow some lingering features to land. It’s been beneficial for the Radeon Vulkan driver “RADV” with several interesting merge requests having landed in time for Mesa 26.0…

Deepin Linux 25.0.10 introduces upgrades to the File Manager, a smarter system installer, and multiple usability improvements across the desktop.

Raspberry Pi Imager 2.0.5 adds macOS dark mode icon support, fixes the update dialog, and improves UI behavior across platforms.

Intel Linux engineers have been working on enhancing the NVMe storage performance with today’s high core count processors. Due to situations where multiple CPUs could end up sharing the same NVMe IRQ(s), performance penalties can arise if the IRQ affinity and the CPU’s cluster do not align. There is a pending patch to address this situation. A 15% performance improvement was reported with the pending patch…