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Ubuntu 26.04 LTS to Get a Separate HWE Stack for Virtualization
Alongside the traditional hardware enablement stack, Canonical will add a dedicated set of packages for virtualization and confidential computing, in order to bring the latest AMD SEV-SNP and Intel TDX capabilities into the LTS release.
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GNU Binutils 2.47: New RISC-V Extensions and Linker Options
GNU Binutils 2.47 has been released — the core set of binary utilities for systems built with the GNU toolchain. The update brings support for the latest RISC-V extensions, new assembler and linker options, and a faster linking mode.
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“KVM Chainsaw”: Cleaning Up the Kernel's “God Structure” in Linux 7.3
KVM maintainer Paolo Bonzini has merged into the next branch a patch series that splits the overloaded kvm_mmu structure into three parts. The work is slated for the Linux 7.3 development cycle.
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Ubuntu Touch 24.04-2.0: support for “notches,” rounded corners and a fresh Chromium
The Ubuntu 24.04 LTS–based mobile operating system has received a feature update: a newer browser engine, support for display cutouts and built-in data encryption.
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GNU C Library 2.44 Released: the /etc/tunables.conf File and New Optimizations
The GNU developers have unveiled glibc 2.44, a new feature release of a key library for Linux and other platforms. Among the novelties are a system-wide parameter configuration file and faster math functions.
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Debian Votes on the Fate of LLMs in the Project
Debian developers have begun discussing a general resolution that will determine whether large language models may be used when working on the project.
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AI Agent Hermes Ran an Unattended Attack on Thailand's Finance Ministry in YOLO Mode
The attacker installed an open-source assistant on a rented server, disabled the confirmation prompt for dangerous commands and pointed it at the network of Thailand's Ministry of Finance. It all came to light because of a directory listing left switched on.
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SharedRoot: Claude Cowork's Agent Could Break Out of Its Virtual Machine to Reach Mac Files
Researchers at Accomplish AI have shown how Anthropic's AI agent breaks out of a Linux sandbox with a single message and gains access to a Mac's entire file system. The vulnerability affected roughly 500,000 macOS users.
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RefluXFS: a Local Privilege Escalation to root in XFS, Found with AI
Qualys has disclosed CVE-2026-64600 — a race condition in the copy-on-write subsystem of the XFS file system that lets an ordinary user gain root privileges. The vulnerability has existed since kernel 4.11 and potentially affects more than 16 million systems.
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GNOME is building a window save-and-restore system
At the GUADEC 2026 conference, Adrian Vovk described the work on a system-wide mechanism for saving and restoring window positions in GNOME. This is the third attempt, and in his view a successful one — though it won't make it into the GNOME 51 release.
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Cryptsetup 2.8.7 Adapts to the Retirement of AF_ALG in the Linux Kernel
The cryptsetup developers have released an update that teaches the utility to work without the AF_ALG interface — one the kernel came to regard as too large a security hole and began phasing out.
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Three New Snap Vulnerabilities: One Dating Back to Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
Canonical has disclosed three vulnerabilities in snapd. Two were rated high severity, while the third affects every release of Ubuntu over the past decade.
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432 CVEs published for the Linux kernel in a single day
The official linux-cve-announce mailing list saw 432 vulnerability records for the Linux kernel appear in the last 24 hours.
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SleeperGem: Three Malicious RubyGems Packages Target Developer Machines
Researchers have detailed a supply-chain attack on Ruby: the attackers hijack long-abandoned RubyGems accounts and use updates to deliver a loader that installs a stealthy daemon on developers' computers.
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GNU Hurd Reports Progress: AArch64 Support and Translators in Rust
The GNU Hurd project has published its quarterly development report, announcing advances in porting to the AArch64 architecture and experiments with writing translators in the Rust language.
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A Book About the XZ Utils Backdoor Has Been Released: “Half a Second”
Adrian Mastronardi has published a book chronicling the story of the 2024 attempt to plant a backdoor in XZ Utils. The book is distributed freely, but under a non-commercial, no-derivatives license.
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Valve Releases Experimental Holo Core Build for the Steam Frame on ARM64
Together with Collabora, Valve has unveiled the first sources and binary builds of Arch Linux AArch64 under the name Holo Core — the software foundation for the upcoming Steam Frame headset built on a Qualcomm chip.
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Frame — an X11 server written entirely in x86_64 assembly
After YSERVER, the Rust-based X11 server, an even more exotic implementation has surfaced: Frame is written entirely in x86_64 assembly. As with its predecessor, a significant portion of the code was created with the help of AI.
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A Tool Has Appeared for Tracking Unpropagated Linux Kernel Security Patches
A developer has introduced a filtering engine with a database that tracks Linux kernel security patches that never made it to the stable branches. The project is available at patchless.natey.sh.
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AMD Unveils ROCm 7.14 with Ryzen AI 400 Support
AMD has officially announced ROCm 7.14 as the new production release of its platform for GPU computing. The update also adds support for the Ryzen AI 400 series of processors.
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