📰 Canonical and SpacemiT team up for Ubuntu on SpacemiT K1 and K3 RISC-V chips

Chinese RISC-V chip maker SpacemiT is partnering with Canonical to bring Ubuntu to computers powered by two of the company’s processors. The Spacemit K1 is an 8-core RISC-V processor that’s been around for a little while, but the SpacemiT K3 is a newer, higher-performance chip that’s one of the first to comply with the new .

🔗 Source: https://liliputing.com/canonical-and-spacemit-team-up-for-ubuntu-on-spacemit-k1-and-k3-risc-v-chips/

#ubuntu

📰 3mdeb Talks Up AMD openSIL & Open-Source Firmware Efforts For Confidential Compute

Engineers Michał Żygowski and Piotr Król of open-source firmware consulting firm 3mdeb presented at FOSDEM in Brussels on open-source for confidential compute infrastructure. With Intel not making strides to fully open-up their FSP package, the talk was centered around the modern AMD open-source firmware efforts led by their openSIL initiative for open-source CPU silicon initialization to replace AGESA in the Zen 6 timeframe...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/3mdeb-FOSDEM-2026-Firmware

#intel #opensource #amd

📰 Claude Opus 4.6 Finds 500+ High-Severity Flaws Across Major Open-Source Libraries

Artificial intelligence (AI) company Anthropic revealed that its latest large language model (LLM), Claude Opus 4.6, has found more than 500 previously unknown high-severity security flaws in open-source libraries, including Ghostscript, OpenSC, and CGIF.Claude Opus 4.6, which was launched on Thursday, comes with improved coding skills, including code review and debugging capabilities, along.

🔗 Source: https://thehackernews.com/2026/02/claude-opus-46-finds-500-high-severity.html

#opensource

📰 Calibre 9.2 Ebook Manager Improves the Bookshelf View, Ebook Viewer, and More

Calibre 9.2 open-source ebook manager is now available for download with various improvements and bug fixes. Here's what's new!

🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/calibre-9-2-ebook-manager-improves-the-bookshelf-view-ebook-viewer-and-more

#opensource

📰 Compromised dYdX npm and PyPI Packages Deliver Wallet Stealers and RAT Malware

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new supply chain attack in which legitimate packages on npm and the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository have been compromised to push malicious versions to facilitate wallet credential theft and remote code execution.The compromised versions of the two packages are listed below -@dydxprotocol/v4-client-js (npm) - 3.4.1, 1.22.1, 1.15.2, 1.0.31&.

🔗 Source: https://thehackernews.com/2026/02/compromised-dydx-npm-and-pypi-packages.html

#python

📰 Latest VirtualBox Code Begins Supporting KVM Backend

As of this week Oracle's latest VirtualBox development code begins to work with Linux's native KVM back-end. Support for KVM or other native OS hypervisors in conjunction with VirtualBox has long been sought and it's finally becoming a reality...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/VirtualBox-Upstream-With-KVM

#linux

📰 Qualcomm QUPv3 Firmware Upstreamed For Snapdragon X1 Elite Linux Users

One of the headaches right now when dealing with the Snapdragon X Elite on Linux is that for a majority of the devices you need to fetch firmware files from the Windows 11 on ARM partition as the necessary firmware bits for Linux use aren't upstreamed to linux-firmware.git. That has gradually improved over time from the qcom-firmware-extract making the process easier to more firmware bits eventually being added to linux-firmware.git...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Qualcomm-QUPv3-X1E-Firmware

#linux #arm

📰 JSAUX announce a charging-friendly Steam Deck travel case

Accessory maker JSAUX just revealed their new "Double-Decker Travel Supply Case" for the Steam Deck LCD & OLED that's charging-friendly.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

🔗 Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/jsaux-announce-a-charging-friendly-steam-deck-travel-case/

#steam

📰 AMD Introduces New GPU Target To AMDGPU LLVM: GFX1170 "RDNA 4m"

In addition to their ongoing AMDGPU LLVM compiler back-end work for upcoming GFX1250 and recently the GFX13 target for their graphics IP, today AMD compiler engineers introduced a new "GFX1170" target to the LLVM codebase that is also called RDNA 4m...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDGPU-LLVM-GFX1170

#amd

📰 China-Linked DKnife AitM Framework Targets Routers for Traffic Hijacking, Malware Delivery

Cybersecurity researchers have taken the wraps off a gateway-monitoring and adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) framework dubbed DKnife that's operated by China-nexus threat actors since at least 2019.The framework comprises seven Linux-based implants that are designed to perform deep packet inspection, manipulate traffic, and deliver malware via routers and edge devices. Its primary targets seem to.

🔗 Source: https://thehackernews.com/2026/02/china-linked-dknife-aitm-framework.html

#linux #linuxbased

📰 Vanilla OS 2 lets me run Ubuntu, Fedora, and Arch apps at the same time

Dealing with app compatibility on Linux can be a pain, but Vanilla OS aims to fix that by letting you install software from every distro.

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/vanilla-os-2-lets-run-ubuntu-fedora-arch-and-android-apps-same-time/

#fedora #linux #arch #ubuntu #distro

📰 VRR Improvements Merged To GNOME 50 For Lower Latency, Wayland Commit Timing

While just missing out on the recent Mutter 50 beta release, merged today to Mutter Git ahead of next month's GNOME 50 desktop release are some improvements to the Variable Refresh Rate (VRR) support...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mutter-50-VRR-Deadline

#gnome #wayland

📰 Is the Raspberry Pi Still an Affordable SBC? I Don’t Think So

Raspberry Pi has raised prices on many Pi 4, Pi 5, and Compute Module models as memory costs surge in 2026, undermining its once-low-cost SBC positioning.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/is-the-raspberry-pi-still-an-affordable-sbc/

#raspberry

📰 DKnife Linux toolkit hijacks router traffic to spy, deliver malware

A newly discovered toolkit called DKnife has been used since 2019 to hijack traffic at the edge-device level and deliver malware in espionage campaigns.

🔗 Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/dknife-linux-toolkit-hijacks-router-traffic-to-spy-deliver-malware/

#linux

📰 M5Stack AI Pyramid is an oddly-shaped Arm-based mini PC with a 24 TOPS NPU

The M5Stack AI Pyramid Computing Box is a small computer with an Axera AX88500 processor that combines four Arm Cortex-A55 CPU cores with an NPU that delivers up to 24 TOPS of hardware-accelerated INT8 AI performance. But what really caught my eye was the physical design. There’s a reason M5Stack calls this a “pyramid.” While most .

🔗 Source: https://liliputing.com/m5stack-ai-pyramid-is-an-oddly-shaped-arm-based-mini-pc-with-a-24-tops-npu/

#arm

📰 ML-LIB: Machine Learning Library Proposed For The Linux Kernel

Sent out today as a request for comments (RFC) by a Linux kernel engineer employed by IBM is a machine learning library for the Linux kernel. The intent is on plugging in running ML models to the Linux kernel that could be used for system performance optimizations and various other purposes...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Kernel-ML-LIB-RFC

#kernel #linux