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by George Whittaker Why security buyers are rethinking what matters most. Security teams typically don't struggle to find vulnerabilities as much as they have in the past. The harder part usually begins after the report arrives, once dozens of ...

by George Whittaker Linux kernel developers are considering a new "steal governor" designed to improve performance when multiple virtual machines compete for limited physical CPU resources. The proposal uses the amount of CPU steal time observed ...

by George Whittaker The Thunderbird team has officially released Thunderbird 154, delivering several useful new features alongside a substantial collection of fixes for email, calendars, address books, authentication, and stability. Released on ...

by George Whittaker Linux creator Linus Torvalds has officially released Linux Kernel 7.2, opening another chapter in the development of the world's most widely deployed open-source kernel. The final release arrived on August 16, 2026, following ...

by George Whittaker Linux kernel developers made a significant last-minute graphics change for Linux 7.2, reverting the DRM GPU scheduler back to its previous FIFO policy by default after the newer fair scheduling implementation caused serious ...

by George Whittaker Intel's open-source Linux graphics stack has taken another step forward with hardware-accelerated AV1 encoding through Vulkan Video. New code merged for Mesa's ANV Vulkan driver enables the VK_KHR_video_encode_av1 extension on ...

by George Whittaker A newly proposed patch for the Linux kernel's AMD P-State CPU frequency scaling driver is showing impressive gaming performance improvements, potentially delivering a noticeable boost for Ryzen users without requiring new hardware ...

by George Whittaker Linux kernel developers are moving forward with plans to remove the crypto_rng API layer, a long-standing component of the kernel's cryptographic subsystem. The proposed change is part of a broader effort to simplify the kernel's ...