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With the Windows updates from August 13, various Linux installation media no longer boot. This is due to outdated boot loaders that have now been blocked. This article was originally published in German and has been automatically translated. And the Windows update greets us daily: Some Windows computers on which the update released on August…

Intel’s latest chips often fall behind Ryzen, or even older Intel CPUs. Would you believe that the Framework Laptop 13 is back again? Framework’s fifth motherboard for the Laptop 13—which, in typical fashion, can be easily swapped into any existing Framework Laptop 13 of any generation—is mainly significant because it offers Intel’s Meteor Lake-based Core…

Linux Foundation’s adoption of OMI could pave way for ethical LLMs, analysts say The Open Model Initiative aims to create what it calls community LLMs that are equal or better in quality to proprietary models, but free of restrictive licensing terms that limit their usage. The Linux Foundation’s move to take the Open Model Initiative…

New Linux Kernel Exploit Technique ‘SLUBStick’ Discovered by Researchers Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a novel Linux kernel exploitation technique dubbed SLUBStick that could be exploited to elevate a limited heap vulnerability to an arbitrary memory read-and-write primitive. “Initially, it exploits a timing side-channel of the allocator to perform a cross-cache attack reliably,” a…