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A new tax-themed malware campaign targeting insurance and finance sectors has been observed leveraging GitHub links in phishing email messages as a way to bypass security measures and deliver Remcos RAT, indicating that the method is gaining traction among threat actors.

The ASUS Fanless Chromebox CF40, powered by the Intel Celeron N4500 processor, is a compact computing solution designed for stable performance. Its fanless chassis provides quiet operation and effective thermal management, with a small form factor and an optional lockable VESA mount for versatile placement.

Thundercomm has recently introduced the Rubik Pi AI SBC built around the Qualcomm QCS6490 SoC with a 12.5 TOPS AI accelerator. The SBC comes in a “PI-CO ITX” form factor that combines the Pico-ITX standard and the 40-pin GPIO header found on Raspberry Pi SBCs.

We’ve been here before, haven’t we? Every other week, a new vulnerability with a sky-high CVSS score causes a frenzy. This time, it’s a 9.9 CVSS vulnerability that was billed as a gift to hackers – a remote exploit that would supposedly render all Linux systems defenseless.

A single-player comedy adventure 2.5D platformer developer by a former Disney ride designer, Ari Buktu and the Anytime Elevator looks and sounds great. The game will have Native Linux support too.

It's only been 17 years, but developers can finally stop finding workarounds for running Linux on Android devices. Google is working on official support for Debian Linux on Android through a new Terminal app. Imagine running Android Studio directly on your Android tablet!

Can you replace Shazam with this open source app? Let's see!

The 24.10 release offers fun and freshness, but not immutability. The first interim release of Ubuntu since the somewhat troubled Noble Numbat is a smooth upgrade - but not all of the new hotness is here yet.

Thundercomm has recently introduced the Rubik Pi AI SBC built around the Qualcomm QCS6490 SoC with a 12.5 TOPS AI accelerator. The SBC comes in a “PI-CO ITX” form factor that combines the Pico-ITX standard and the 40-pin GPIO header found on Raspberry Pi SBCs.

At the X.Org Developer's Conference (XDC 2024) happening this week in Montreal, NVIDIA shared a road-map around their Wayland plans as well as encouraging Wayland compositors to target the Vulkan API.

Apple's latest OS release is the newest member of the Open Group list of officially verified UNIX variants – by quite some margin.

Want to save loads of time? Try executing multiple commands at once in your Linux terminal. This allows you to run simple sequential commands, execute commands in the background, and even handle conditional commands together.

GNOME Shell shows now playing info in the notification shade, out of view but there when you want to check in. Most users like this approach, but perhaps you don’t?

Last month Intel introduced their Xeon 6 "Granite Rapids" processors with up to 128 P cores, MRDIMM support, and other improvements as a big step-up in performance and power efficiency for their server processors.

File compression is a crucial technique in managing data, particularly in systems administration and software development. It helps reduce file size, making storage and transmission more efficient. Linux, known for its robust command-line utilities, offers powerful tools for this purpose, with tar and gzip being among the most frequently used.

Chinese web giant Tencent has revealed it created a NoSQL database that it believes can handle multiple data models more elegantly than other attempts to do so, and has used it to consolidate its database fleet and improve resource utilization.

AMD today quietly posted a new open-source Linux kernel driver for review... the AMD 3D V-Cache Performance Optimizer Driver. This AMD 3D V-Cache Performance Optimizer Driver for Linux is intended to help optimize performance on systems sporting 3D V-Cache such as the AMD Ryzen "X3D" parts and the EPYC "X" processors.

KDE neon users can now upgrade to rebase their systems on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. For those unfamiliar with it, KDE neon is an Ubuntu-based Linux distribution that is something of a reference platform for KDE Plasma. It’s available in User, Testing, Unstable, and Developer editions.

The default font size in the Linux terminal can seem small. If you have eye problems like me, you need to focus hard to read the text. Worry not because there are some tricks that let you zoom the Linux terminal so that you can see and read everything without any hardship.

One of the most exciting things you can do with a Raspberry Pi project is to incorporate a compatible camera and the camera software stack. The most recent versions of the Raspberry Pi OS include the rpicam-apps package by default, with five essential apps for capturing images and video.