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      Realtek RTL8723BS WiFi Linux Driver Hardened Against Malicious WiFi Access Points

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 July 2026

    The staging driver fixes that were sent out this week ahead of the Linux 7.2-rc3 release is predominantly made up of hardening the Realtek RTL8723BS WiFi driver. In particular, a number of fixes for addressing out-of-bounds behavior when connecting to "bad" WiFi hosts...
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      Debian 13.6 Released To Ship All The Latest Security Fixes, Reverts GeoIP Database

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11 July 2026

    Debian 13.6 is out today as the newest point release of Debian Trixie to ship the latest security fixes and other maintenance updates...
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      Linux 7.3-rc3 Bringing Display Detection Improvement To Help Some Multi-GPU Systems

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11 July 2026

    Sent out today was this week's round of x86 (x86_64) fixes ahead of the Linux 7.3-rc3 kernel test candidate due out on Sunday...
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      LLVM Merges x86 LFI "Lightweight Fault Isolation" Target For In-Process Sandboxing

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11 July 2026

    Stanford researchers have been developing Lightweight Fault Isolation "LFI" compiler passes and targets for LLVM as a means of efficient, native code sandboxing. The AArch64 LFI target was previously upstreamed while this week the x86/x86_64 LFI target was also upstreamed for this means of in-process sandboxing...
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      KDE Developers Continue Landing More Features For Plasma 6.8

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11 July 2026

    KDE developers continue to be very busy this summer landing more features for the upcoming Plasma 6.8 desktop...
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      Mesa's Rusticl Now Enables Arm Mali Panfrost Driver Support By Default

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11 July 2026

    A change upstreamed to Mesa by an Arm engineer now enables the Panfrost Gallium3D driver for Arm Mali graphics to work with the Rusticl driver by default...
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      Wine 11.13 Better Supports Input Pointers, Improved Keyboard Scancode Mapping For X11

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11 July 2026

    Wine 11.13 is out today as the newest bi-weekly development release for this open-source software enabling support for running Windows games and applications on Linux...
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      Pop!_OS Rolls Out Its "Frosted Glass" Desktop Style For COSMIC

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11 July 2026

    System76 developers have for the past number of weeks been working on developing a "frosted glass" appearance for the COSMIC desktop environment featured on their Pop!_OS Linux distribution. For Pop!_OS users this frosted glass feature is now available and will become more widespread for other Linux distributions once the next COSMIC release is formally tagged...
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      Graviton5 CPU Benchmarks: 30% Geo Mean Improvement Over Graviton4

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9 July 2026

    After originally announcing Graviton5 last December, recently AWS finally made the M9g and M9gd instances generally available as the first featuring these new in-house ARM server processors for the EC2 cloud. Graviton5 makes use of Arm Neoverse-V3 cores compared to Neoverse-V2 with Graviton4, support up to 192 cores, and feature a higher 3.3GHz clock speed compared to 2.8GHz on the prior-generation Graviton CPUs. Here is an initial look at how the Graviton5 processor performs over Graviton4.