Gentoo & Torvalds don't like AI, Flatpak flaw, Cosmic theming: Linux & Open Source News
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00:00 Intro
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01:34 Flatpak has a sandbox escape flaw
03:21 Cosmic will be able to theme all GTK apps
06:27 Gentoo doesn't want AI, Torvalds finds AI hilarious
08:40 Framework is struggling on software
10:55 Nouveau maintainer works for Nvidia, submits more code
12:33 Gaming; NTSYNC driver, x86 on ARM emulation
15:55 Support the channelFlatpak has a sandbox escape flaw
Flatpak Patch Addresses Major Sandbox Escape Flaw
Critical CVE-2024-32462 exposed in Flatpak, allowing unauthorized code execution. Update urgently to fixed versions 1.14.6 and above.
Linuxiac (linuxiac.com)
Cosmic will be able to theme all GTK apps
April Tools: Hammering out new COSMIC Features
Updates & fixes, dev contributors, and the new COSMIC App Store.
System76 Blog (blog.system76.com)
Gentoo doesn't want AI assisted contributions
https://linuxiac.com/gentoo-council-implements-ban-on-ai-assisted-contributions/
https://www.zdnet.com/article/linus-torvalds-takes-on-evil-developers-hardware-errors-and-hilarious-ai-hype/Framework is struggling on software
Framework’s software and firmware have been a mess, but it’s working on them
New features, security updates, and Linux support are all on a long to-do list.
Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)
Nouveau maintainer works for Nvidia, submits more code
Former Nouveau Lead Developer Joins NVIDIA, Continues Working On Open-Source Driver
Following last year Nouveau receiving support for running with the NVIDIA GSP firmware and initial GeForce RTX 40 series accelerated support, Ben Skeggs of Red Hat unexpectedly resigned as the Nouveau kernel driver maintainer
(www.phoronix.com)
Gaming: NTSYNC driver, x86 on ARM emulation
Linux 6.10 To Merge NTSYNC Driver For Emulating Windows NT Synchronization Primitives
Going through my usual scanning of all the '-next' Git subsystem branches of new code set to be introduced for the next Linux kernel merge window, a very notable addition was just queued up..
(www.phoronix.com)
FEX-Emu 2404 Optimization Can Take Memcpy From 2-3 GB/s To 88 GB/s
FEX 2404 is now available for this open-source emulator project to allow running x86/x86_64 binaries on AArch64 (ARM 64-bit) LInux systems
(www.phoronix.com)
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