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Grafana 12.4 Observability Platform Released with Dynamic Dashboards
Grafana 12.4 introduces Dynamic dashboards, enhanced Git Sync, and new layout tools to simplify dashboard design and large-scale management.
What Everybody Knows About You: Retailers
This article is part of a continuing series about data collection today. The previous articles discussed devices ranging from robot vacuum cleaners and watches to web browsers. Now we’ll see where all this data is going. This article is the ... Read more The post What Everybody Knows About You: Retailers appeared first on Linux Professional Institute (LPI).
Two new stable kernels, possible regression
Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the 6.19.4 and 6.18.14 stable kernels. Shortly after 6.19.4 was released Kris Karas reported "getting a repeatable Oops right when networking is initialized, likely when nft is loading its ruleset"; the problem did not appear to be present in 6.18.14. Users of nftables may wish to hold off on upgrades to 6.19.4 for now. We will provide updates as they are available.
Intel Releases Updated CPU Microcode For Xeon 6 SoCs "Granite Rapids D"
Catching me by surprise today was a new Intel CPU microcode drop "20260227" for Linux users/administrators outside of their typical Patch Tuesday alignment for CPU microcode releases...
Stop copy-pasting commands: How to make scripts you actually reuse
Don’t waste any more your precious time: take full advantage of Linux’s powerful shell scripting tools today.
Security updates for Friday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (389-ds-base, buildah, firefox, freerdp, golang-github-openprinting-ipp-usb, grafana-pcp, kernel, libpng15, munge, nodejs:20, nodejs:22, podman, protobuf, python-pyasn1, runc, and skopeo), Debian (chromium, nss, and python-django), Fedora (firefox, freerdp, gh, libmaxminddb, nss, python3.15, and udisks2), Oracle (buildah, firefox, freerdp, kernel, libpng, podman, python-pyasn1, skopeo, and valkey), Red Hat (container-tools:rhel8), SUSE (autogen, chromium, cockpit, cockpit-machines-348, cockpit-packages, cockpit-repos, cockpit-subscriptions, crun, docker, docker-compose, docker-stable, erlang, freerdp, frr, glib2, gpg2, kernel, kernel-firmware, libsodium, libsoup, libsoup2, openvswitch, python, python-pyasn1, python-urllib3, python-urllib3_1, python3, qemu, redis7, regclient, and ucode-intel), and Ubuntu (linux-aws, linux-aws-6.8, linux-ibm, linux-ibm-6.8, linux-xilinx, python-authlib, and ruby-rack).
Hyprland 0.54 Released As A "Massive" Update To This Wayland Compositor
Hyprland 0.54 was released today as what's described as a "a massive update with no understatement" to this Wayland compositor...
Open Source Endowment Launches to Fund Critical FOSS Infrastructure
The Open Source Endowment introduces an investment-backed model to provide sustainable funding for widely used open source projects.
Why Kubuntu's next big update is a massive win for multi-monitor Linux users
I'm resolved to install the Resolute Raccoon release for Kubuntu as soon as it's stable.
SilverStone RM4A: 4U Rackmount Server/Workstation Chassis That's Great For Liquid Cooling
For those looking to build a rackmount-ready server or workstation that can handle up to an SSI-EEB motherboard and capable of fitting a large liquid cooling setup, the RM4A is a new option from SilverStone that can fit up to a 360mm radiator while still fitting an SSI-EEB motherboard and up to eight expansion slots within 4U size constraints.
LXD 6.7 Container & Virtual Machine Manager Released
LXD 6.7 adds AMD GPU CDI support and enhances VM GPU passthrough with updated QEMU and EDK2 versions, improving virtualization performance.
Intel Media Driver Update Brings Nova Lake S Support, AV1 Improvements
While at the end of February, today Intel released the Intel Media Driver 2025Q4 release as well as the latest VPL GPU Runtime for their media stack...
Canonical Talks Up RISC-V This Year With Ubuntu 26.04 LTS
Canonical put out a new blog post today highlighting their RISC-V work over 2025 that included switching to the RVA23 profile baseline for Ubuntu 25.10 and moving forward. Now with RVA23-compatible RISC-V hardware coming to market this year, Canonical is talking up the RISC-V possibilities when paired with the upcoming Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release...
Calibre 9.4 E-Book Manager Adds Reading Progress Stats
Calibre 9.4 introduces reading progress stats in the e-book viewer, UI refinements, and DOCX and ODT fixes.