Some Relief For Linux Admins Living In Terror Of The XZ Backdoor
Thanks to a curious and technically skilled engineer by the name of Andres Freud, Linux admins are living in a bit of a nightmare world. He discovered a backdoor in the XZ…
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Pick Up A PiStorm32-Lite And Make Your Amiga 1200 Up To 1300 Times Faster
If you like playing with old hardware and have run into troubles finding replacement silicon or would like to pump up the performance significantly, then check out the PiStorm32-Lite and other PiStorm…
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Sorry Linux Users, glibc 2.37 And 2.36 Have A Serious Vulnerability
Hey Linux admins, time to update your GNU C Library to 2.38 as glibc 2.37 and glibc 2.36 have a rather nasty vulnerability. There is a difficult but not impossible to exploit…
Read MorePodcast #744 – Intel Arc A580 Launch & A750 Price Drop, Windows 11 21H2 Already EOL, VBScript also ending, Gaming news, Security scares + MORE!
What is fifty-three minutes in time, and yet timeless? This episode of the PCPer podcast, of course! Yes, we made Podcast History (tm) once again this week, and did it in just…
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Patch Your Apple, Update Linux And Reboot Your Router
If you are running iOS 16, macOS 13 Ventura, iPadOS 16.5.1, macOS 13.4.1, and watchOS 9.5.2 you had better get patching! There are two zero days out there you are...
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RISC-V Business Running Doom On Linux Without A Memory Management Unit
You can add this to the list of things done with Linux because someone figured they could pull it off, as there isn't much of a usage case for a MMU-less system…
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Linux, Making AMD ACPI Response Slower For 20 Years
If you've run into workloads on your AMD powered Linux box that are slower than expected, a fix is on the way to make your life better. There is an ancient workaround…
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Intel Arc A380 On Linux
Phoronix have spent some time with the Intel Arc A380 on the Linux 6.0 core; which is required as is the i915.force_probe module option and Mesa 22.2. You should also ensure to…
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Adding Linux To A Windows Laptop
We are starting to see a few companies such as Dell return to offering laptops which are running Linux, instead of Windows. There are also some Windows laptops which are advertised as…
Read MorePodcast #667 – Threadripper Returns, Apple M1 Ultra, No OC For Ryzen 5800X3D, Nvidia hack badness + MORE!
Nvidia still dealing with hacked data, AMD asks for no OC on their 5800X3D and fixes stuttering due to onboard TPM, Threadripper releases, plenty of Apple M1 Ultra to go around, and…
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Linux Has Been Smoked By A Dirty Pipe
Several pipelines have been in the news lately, but this one is a wee bit different as it refers to the pipelines in Linux used to pass data from one process to…
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Intel Purchases Linutronix To Revive It’s Real Time Linux Kernel
You may not have known that Intel has been working on developing a real time Linux Kernel, but apparently they have been for more than 10 years. They have brought new…
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Humble Bundle’s Hubris, Support For Linux And Apple Ends February 1st
Humble Choice, Humble Bundle's subscription service, will be going through some drastic changes as of February. They are dropping their current three tiers for a single $12/month tier, which does...
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LemonDuck Still Sucks, It’s A Linux And Windows Miner That Isn’t Afraid To Learn New Skills
Lemonduck is not new malware, it has been driving sysadmins nuts since 2019 but some of what it does is rather unique. It started as a cryptocurrency miner which spread...
Read MorePodcast #638 – Steam Deck Announcement – Amazon MMO Bricking GPUs? – Gaming on Linux and MORE!
An Amazon MMO game might be contributing to high end GPU failures, the Steam Deck is on deck tonight and it looks pretty good all around. Linux and ARM seem like they…
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The Terrible Tuesday For Both Linux And Windows Sysadmins
There are a pair of newly discovered vulnerabilities to add to the nightmares of sysadmins everywhere, both those running Windows and Linux infrastructures. In one case it is an issue...
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WireGuard Is Coming To Your pfSense Router
Even after a herculean amount of effort by Wireguard's founder, Jason Donenfeld and developers Kyle Evans and Matt Dunwoodie, WireGuard will not be included in the upcoming release of FreeBSD 13.0. This…
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This Is Your RTX 3080 On Linux
Phoronix received an RTX 3080 to test on Linux and with a quick install of the NVIDIA 455.23.05 beta Linux graphics driver and CUDA 11.1 they were off to the races. The…
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