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Intel’s next-gen Meteor Lake CPUs: Finally, a rival to Apple SoC
Intel has taken the wraps off its forthcoming next-gen Meteor Lake processors following its successful 12th (Alder Lake) and 13th Gen (Raptor Lake) processors with its new E- and P-core design. Its first chip built on the Intel 4 process node with Foveros 3D packaging, Intel calls Meteor Lake its “biggest architectural shift in 40… Read more
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More Linux Malware Means More Linux Monitoring
Forget about 2023 becoming “The Year of the Linux Desktop,” a popular slogan about growing Linux OS usage. It is already becoming the year of the Linux malware takeover. In the eyes of cybercriminals, Linux is now a more appealing target due to the computing platform’s potentially high return on their “investment.” Prevailing security countermeasures… Read more
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Announcing Fedora Linux 39 Beta
The Fedora Project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Fedora Linux 39 Beta, the next step towards our planned Fedora Linux 39 release at the end of October. Get the the prerelease of any of our editions from our project website: Or, try one of our many different desktop variants (like KDE Plasma,… Read more
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Not Linux or BSD: SerenityOS is a Unix-y love letter to the ’90s
Although it’s nowhere near ready for prime time, there’s a lot to love here. Today, I test-drove an in-development operating system project that seems almost disturbingly tailored to me specifically: SerenityOS. I cannot possibly introduce SerenityOS more accurately than its own website does: Every word of this introduction is almost surgically accurate. To someone in… Read more
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Chinese hackers have unleashed a never-before-seen Linux backdoor
SprySOCKS borrows from open source Windows malware and adds new tricks. Researchers have discovered a never-before-seen backdoor for Linux that’s being used by a threat actor linked to the Chinese government. The new backdoor originates from a Windows backdoor named Trochilus, which was first seen in 2015 by researchers from Arbor Networks, now known as… Read more
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Generative AI: A CIO and CTO guide
Hardly a day goes by without some new business-busting development related to generative AI surfacing in the media. The excitement is well deserved—McKinsey research estimates that generative AI could add the equivalent of $2.6 trillion to $4.4 trillion of value annually. CIOs and chief technology officers (CTOs) have a critical role in capturing that value,… Read more
