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NTFS3 Driver Vulnerability: A Crafted Image Grants Root on Linux
A specially crafted NTFS image on a USB stick lets a local user gain root privileges on Linux. The problem has remained unpatched since early summer.
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NVK Gains Vulkan Video Support: H.264 Decoding Now Works in Mesa 26.3
The open-source NVIDIA driver NVK has picked up Vulkan Video support for the first time. Out of the gate, it offers hardware H.264 decoding on Turing and newer graphics cards.
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AMD Uploads RDNA 4m Firmware to linux-firmware Ahead of GPU Announcement
The company has published all the binary firmware files the open-source driver needs to initialize the upcoming RDNA 4m “GFX 11.7” graphics — well before the hardware ships.
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OpenZFS 2.4.4: Linux kernel 7.2 support and dozens of fixes
A new stable release of the OpenZFS file system for Linux and FreeBSD is out. The headline feature is compatibility with the fresh Linux 7.2 kernel.
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14 Trojanized npm Packages Deploy the AI-Controlled Linux Backdoor RedC2 4.0
Trend Micro researchers have found a set of npm packages that, posing as calendar utilities, covertly deploy the Linux implant RedC2 4.0. A single import anywhere in the dependency tree — even a transitive one — is enough to trigger the payload.
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Torvalds Went Through “Debugging from Hell” — and Admitted AI Helped Him
Linus Torvalds personally committed a fix to the Intel Xe driver after an agonizing debugging session in which, by his own admission, artificial intelligence “helped enormously.”
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Linux 7.3 Networking Maintainers: “Completely Buried” in AI Patches
Networking changes have been accepted into the Linux 7.3 merge window, but the maintainers admit they're drowning in a flood of fixes from AI agents — and they plan to answer it with AI of their own.
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Framework BIOS Update Turns AMD-Chip Laptops into Bricks
The BIOS 3.20 update for Framework Laptop 13 machines running Ryzen 7040 chips is bricking some users' devices. The company is promising free board replacements and an emergency recovery mode.
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X.Org Server 26.1 RC1: The First Major Release in Five Years
After five years of quiet, the X.Org project is preparing its first feature release, succeeding the 21.1 series. The first release candidate has now been tagged, following XWayland 26.1 RC1.
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Linux 7.3 Scheduler: a boost for games, hybrid CPUs and lower latency
The Linux 7.3 merge window took in a notable batch of scheduler updates — from speeding up games on old “potato” hardware to more precise load distribution on Intel's hybrid processors.
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Fedora Prepares to Drop AF_ALG in the Linux Kernel
The userspace interface to the Linux kernel's Crypto API, a source of several vulnerabilities, has been declared obsolete. Fedora plans to restrict its use in the next release.
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Fairphone 6's main camera now works under postmarketOS
An enthusiast going by Catcrafts has written a main-camera driver for the Fairphone 6 on postmarketOS: it already takes pictures, though there's plenty left to do. Along the way — the saga of testing emergency calls, and plans for a homegrown RISC-V smartphone.
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The Linux 7.3 Kernel Drops EFS and FreeVxFS and Gains FailFS
In the Linux 7.3 development cycle, Linus Torvalds has accepted early pull requests: two ancient file systems have been removed from the kernel, and in their place comes a pseudo-filesystem that refuses to do anything.
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Linux 7.3 to Get the First vRAM Management Improvements for Games
Natalya Fock of Valve's graphics team has landed patches in the Linux 7.3 kernel that make games noticeably more comfortable on graphics cards with limited vRAM. The work continues.
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The Linux 7.2 kernel: nearly 600,000 lines of new code
On August 17, Linus Torvalds released the Linux 7.2 kernel — one of the busiest development cycles in the project's history.
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GIMP is preparing a new project format to replace XCF after nearly 30 years
The GIMP developers are working on a new project file format that will replace XCF, in use since 1997. The format will arrive in one of the graphics editor's future releases.
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In Linux 7.3, binfmt_misc will learn to pick the interpreter through BPF
The kernel mechanism for launching non-native executables is gaining a programmable interpreter choice — right down to attaching BPF programs that determine the environment for each individual launch.
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GNOME 51 Beta: Many Small Improvements and Prep for the September Release
The beta version of GNOME 51 has been released. The current cycle focuses on numerous small refinements across the entire package set, with the stable release expected on September 18.
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Intel's Jay Shader Compiler Passes the Vulkan CTS on Xe2 and Xe3
Intel's new SSA-based shader compiler Jay, developed under the leadership of Alyssa Rosenzweig, has passed the Vulkan conformance tests on Xe2 and Xe3 graphics cards for the first time.
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Evooo1Bot: A New Linux Botnet Turns Routers into Proxy Nodes
A modular Mirai-based malware strain infects gateway devices and turns them into SOCKS5 relays, while also stealing credentials and taking part in DDoS attacks.
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