A slew of security flaws in VMware Workstation Pro are fixed in the latest update, along with several other minor annoyances. Details and how to update inside.
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The open source AI ecosystem has reached a pivotal moment. There are now almost 2 million models on the Hugging Face Hub and open models, including a growing number of small but mighty ones, are rapidly catching up to proprietary alternatives in performance. Beyond models, researchers and developers across the world are collectively democratizing AI by sharing and collaboratively developing a range of open technologies, from open source frameworks and open standards for building AI agents and robots to open pretraining datasets and benchmarks for specialized domains and underrepresented languages.
Ubuntu 25.10 uses a minimal default install on Raspberry Pi, reducing install size. See what's changed and why the move makes sense for developers.
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New Python video compressor Constrict uses FFmpeg to compress videos to target file sizes on Ubuntu. Simple GTK4 GUI now available on Flathub.
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In an era when remote work, video conferencing, and travel-heavy lifestyles are the norm, users expect laptops to last longer unplugged. Meanwhile, growing awareness of sustainability adds pressure to maximize energy efficiency. Recognizing this mantra, Linux developers have overhauled power-handling strategies, from the kernel core to user-space tools, to meet these expectations in 2025.
Core Kernel Enhancements: Harnessing Modern Power Tech Kernel 6.x’s Focus on Power EfficiencyLinux 6.8 introduced refined support for newer hardware, including better CPU/GPU idle-state transitions and energy-friendly firmware interfaces.
Linux 6.15, released in May 2025, continues this trend by adding improved power-capping, more regulators, voltage handlers, and enhanced support for ARM, RISC-V, and Intel/AMD CPU power modules.
These enhancements enable finer-grained control over sleep states, clock gating, and dynamic walling-off of unused chip domains, all pivotal for squeezing extra runtime.
MCU-Firmware Communication with FWCTLA new firmware controller (fwctl) infrastructure within 6.15 gives user-space tools secure communication channels with embedded controller features, making tasks like adjusting battery charge thresholds more accessible and scriptable.
Advanced CPU & GPU Power Strategies Smarter Frequency GovernorsBoth intel_pstate and amd_pstate drivers continue evolving. Passive and conservative CPU governors now dynamically adapt based on workload profiles, delivering noticeable battery gains with minimal performance loss.
Low-Power On-Battery GPU ModesGraphics subsystems are smarter about sleep:
Intel's Arc and DG2 families now feature improved idle ramp-down behaviors for better battery performance.
For AMD users, the transition from generic AMDGPU RADEON_POWER_PROFILE settings to fwctl-control offers more granular DPM tuning on laptops, especially under battery constraints.
The adoption of ACPI 6.6 and expanded kernel support for S0ix and modern-sleep states allow laptops to hang out in ultra-low-power standby, extending idle time battery life. Suspend-to-disk and resume logic also got less noisy, reducing spur-of-the-moment wake-ups that were draining battery life for many users.
Go to Full ArticleA bug fix update that tackles a number of glaring issues and compatibility hiccups in the recent major ONLYOFFICE 9.0 release is available to download.
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Linux configuration files are often plain text, which makes them easily editable using command-line tools. Among the most powerful of
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Another bug to file under 'once you see it, you can't unseen it' has been fixed in Ubuntu, this one concerning the curved corners on the desktop dock.
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Welcome to the July 2025 edition of the Linux Foundation Newsletter.
This month, our global community of developers, maintainers, and members came together in Denver for Open Source Summit North America. Thank you to our attendees for a vibrant week of innovation, collaboration, and connection! (In case you missed it,SiliconANGLE rounded up 13 key takeaways from the event.)
Here are more of this month’s highlights:
Read on for more news, research, and opportunities from across the Linux Foundation.
Sudoers is the default sudo security policy plugin in Linux; however, experienced system administrators can specify a custom security policy
The post Let Sudo Insult You When You Enter Incorrect Password first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.By default, SSH already uses secure data communication between remote machines, but if you want to add an extra security
The post How to Setup Two-Factor Authentication For SSH In Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.Kiro, a new AI-powered IDE for Linux, macOS, and Windows, is now in public preview. Learn about its "spec-driven" workflow and VS Code compatibility.
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The new Blender 4.5 LTS release features major improvements, including full Vulkan support, faster startup, new Geometry Nodes, HDR and more.
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When Rust first made its way into the Linux kernel in late 2022 (mainline inclusion began with version 6.1), it didn’t merely introduce a new programming language, it marked a profound shift in how we ensure operating system resilience. This article dives into why that matters, how it’s being implemented, and what it could mean for Linux’s long-term robustness.
Tackling the C Legacy: A Fragility ProblemFor over three decades, the Linux kernel has been maintained in C, a language that offers both raw control and notorious pitfalls. Manual memory juggling in C leads to high-risk bugs: buffer overflows, phantom pointers, heap corruption, and race conditions. In fact, memory safety issues account for around two-thirds of all kernel vulnerabilities.
Enter Rust: a systems language designed to eliminate whole classes of these errors through strict compile-time checks, without sacrificing low-level efficiency.
Rust’s Safety Toolkit: What Sets It ApartRust’s most powerful features for kernel reliability include:
Ownership semantics & the borrow checker These enforce rules about who owns a piece of memory at compile-time, no dangling pointers, no double frees.
No runtime garbage collector All abstractions compile down to efficient machine code, ensuring performance remains rock-solid.
Race elimination for free Rust-language concurrency prevents data races statically, eliminating a whole breed of timing-related bugs.
Combined, these attributes strip away entire categories of vulnerabilities that plague C-based code.
A New Layer: The Rust-for-Linux FrameworkThe groundwork for Rust modules in Linux was laid with kernel 6.1, and by version 6.8, the first experimental Rust drivers, covering areas like network PHYs and panic QR logging, were accepted. These drivers coexist with traditional C components, forming a hybrid architecture where Rust is used for new drivers while C remains the backbone.
Crucially, this integration includes:
A Rust bindings crate to interface safely with C internals.
A kernel crate that wraps core kernel structures and APIs for Rust consumption.
This layering enables gradual Rust adoption, developed drivers, not wholesale rewrites.
Early Results: Fewer Bugs, More ConfidenceEvidence is already showing promise:
Memory safety vulnerabilities drop out as code gets written in Rust, tackling roughly two-thirds of past CVEs.
Kernel maintainers are noticeably more comfortable merging Rust patches, citing the added rigor from the borrow checker.
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