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Linux, Security, and Hardware
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Instructionals/Technical
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MWL ☛ “Networking for System Administrators, 2nd ed” is out, except on Amazon’s Kindle store
The headline says most of it, but: The new edition of Networking for System Administrators is out. Most stores should have it now. Fashion Company Apple is being a pain, but that’s pretty usual.
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Games
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Hackaday ☛ Blue Hedgehog, Meet Boing Ball: Can Sonic Run On Amiga?
The Amiga was a great game system in its day, but there were some titles it was just never going to get. Sonic the Hedgehog was one of them– SEGA would never in a million years been willing to port its flagship platformer to another system. Well, SEGA might not in a million years, but [reassembler] has started that process after only thirty four.
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Distributions and Operating Systems
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Fedora Family / IBM
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The Fast Mode ☛ Red Hat Enterprise Linux Boost AI Performance with AMD, Intel & NVIDIA AI Accelerators
Red Hat, the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, announced a streamlined experience for Red Hat Enterprise Linux customers to more easily access and install leading AI accelerators from AMD, Intel and NVIDIA.
With this update, Red Hat Enterprise Linux delivers a robust operating system to power AI workloads, enabling IT teams to unlock critical hardware and software capabilities that have been validated for interoperability, reducing bottlenecks and accelerating the AI/ML lifecycle.
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Devices/Embedded
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Yahoo News ☛ Automotive Grade Linux Launches Open Source SoDeV Reference Platform to Accelerate Software Defined Vehicles
Automotive Grade Linux (AGL), a collaborative cross-industry effort developing an open source platform for connected car technologies, today announced SoDeV, a new open source SDV reference implementation that enables software-first development, decoupled from hardware constraints.
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PR Newswire ☛ Automotive Grade Linux Launches Open Source SoDeV Reference Platform to Accelerate Software Defined Vehicles
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SDx Central ☛ Linux developers can now use Intel AI chip without device meltdowns
The open source openSUSE project has begun to distribute packaging of the Intel Neural Processing Unit (NPU) driver for small-scale AI development.
Phoronx reported Intel NPU driver support is now available via release packages such as openSUSE’s fully rolling-release Tumbleweed distribution. With the capability, Linux developers using the open source SUSE system can leverage Intel’s built-in CPU accelerator for AI workloads on laptop and PC devices, with NPUs bringing advantages over CPUs and GPUs, which often drain power and work more slowly on smaller hardware.
Developers will need OpenVINO user-space software ready to leverage the NPU. Developed by Intel, OpenVINO is purpose-built for optimizing applications using low power consumption, low latency, and deployment on existing hardware at the edge, enabling standard edge-based hardware to run AI applications without expensive and drastic overhauls.
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Open Hardware/Modding
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CNX Software ☛ ESP32-C6-Devkit-Lipo – A small, open-source hardware ESP32-C6 board with battery support, UEXT connector
Olimex ESP32-C6-DevKit-Lipo board is a small open-source hardware board based on the ESP32-C6 WiFi 6, Bluetooth 5.0 LE, and Zigbee/Thread SoC with support for LiPo batteries and UEXT expansion modules. It’s the second announcement from the company this week, and comes after they introduced the MOD-ESP32-C5 to add wireless connectivity to boards equipped with a UEXT connector. The ESP32-C6-DevKit-Lipo adds to the list of small ESP32-C6 USB-C boards, such as the 01Space ESP32-C6 board and Seeed Studio XIAO ESP32C6, among many others. It’s actually larger than most similar boards, but differentiates itself with its open-hardware design, dual USB-C design, breadboard compatibility, LiPo battery circuitry, and a UEXT connector.
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Hackaday ☛ Sudo Clean Up My Workbench
[Engineezy] might have been watching a 3D printer move when inspiration struck: Why not build a robot arm to clean up his workbench? Why not, indeed? Well, all you need is a 17-foot-long X-axis and a gripper mechanism that can pick up any strange thing that happens to be on the bench.
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Hackaday ☛ Adding Electronics To A Classic Game
Like many classic board games, Ludo offers its players numerous opportunities to inflict frustration on other players. Despite this, [Viktor Takacs] apparently enjoys it, which motivated him to build a thoroughly modernized, LED-based, WiFi-enabled game board for it (GitHub repository).
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Security
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New Linux malware merges Mirai botnet with fileless cryptominer
The Cyber Express reports that new Linux malware has been identified, combining the disruptive capabilities of the Mirai botnet with a stealthy, fileless cryptominer, creating a dual-purpose threat for network disruption and illicit profit.
Researchers have detailed a sophisticated campaign employing advanced techniques like raw-socket scanning, masqueraded processes and dynamic DNS resolution to evade detection. The malware uses a multi-stage infection chain, starting with a downloader for Mirai binaries across various architectures. A key characteristic is its use of raw TCP sockets for high-velocity SSH scanning. Simultaneously, a fileless Monero cryptominer, XMRig, is deployed. This miner dynamically obtains its configuration—including wallet addresses and mining pools—directly from the command and control server, leaving no on-disk artifacts and hindering forensic analysis. This hybrid monetization strategy aims to maximize returns by leveraging compromised devices for both botnet attacks and cryptocurrency mining.
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Programming/Development
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Rust
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Rust Blog ☛ The Rust Programming Language Blog: crates.io: Malicious crates finch-rust and sha-rust
On December 5th, the crates.io team was notified by Kush Pandya from the Socket Threat Research Team of two malicious crates which were trying to cause confusion with the existing
finchcrate but adding a dependency on a malicious crate doing data exfiltration.
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