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Qualcomm Keeps Expanding Its Open-Source Linux GPU Drivers
At XDC 2026 in Toronto, Rob Clark outlined Qualcomm's latest work on the upstream open-source graphics driver stack for Linux.
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Valve Brings Foveated Rendering to the Open-Source Turnip Driver for Steam Frame
As part of developing its Steam Frame VR headset, Valve is adding foveated rendering support to the open-source Mesa Turnip driver for Qualcomm Adreno graphics.
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OpenMandriva ROME 26.09: A Long-Overdue Release After Technical Woes and Alleged Sabotage
The OpenMandriva team has shipped the long-awaited ROME 26.09, bringing more AI applications, Snap support, and PGO plus LTO build optimizations. The previous release dated all the way back to December 2024.
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Debian ships a major rsync upgrade to fix 33 CVEs
Rather than backport patches one by one, the maintainer bumped the whole package. The fixes bring behavior changes that may break existing setups.
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Qt 6.12 LTS Released With QML Hot Reloading and Experimental StyleKit
Qt 6.12 is out as the newest version of the Qt6 toolkit, and it also carries Long Term Support (LTS) status.
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DirtyBlanket: fake Express packages on npm spread a self-replicating Linux worm
In 33 minutes the npm account dirtyblanket published nine malicious packages impersonating Express and React. Installing any of them on Linux starts a worm that steals keys and tokens and infects new machines.
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Archinstall 4.5: AArch64 Improvements and RT Kernel Options
Ahead of October's refresh of the Arch Linux install media, Archinstall 4.5 has arrived — a new release of the handy text-based system installer.
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WSL gains support for Linux containers
Microsoft has made WSL Containers generally available: the Windows Subsystem for Linux can now build and run Linux containers directly, without a separate stack.
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US Sanctions Push the Netherlands Off Microsoft and Toward NixOS
After sanctions against the International Criminal Court cut its prosecutor off from Microsoft services, the Dutch government began building its own NixOS-based work environment.
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openSUSE Leap 16.1 Reaches Release Candidate With New Immutable Mode
The release candidate phase has begun for openSUSE Leap 16.1. The headline feature is a new immutable system mode.
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Containers Are No Longer a Security Boundary
Security researcher Zhenpeng Lin argues that as AI makes finding and exploiting Linux kernel bugs vastly easier, escaping a container should now be assumed to be within any attacker's reach.
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postmarketOS Rebrands as Nura
The mobile Linux operating system postmarketOS has a new name after a year-and-a-half selection process: Nura. The name nods to the ancient stone towers of Sardinia.
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A Race in AF_ALG: a 14-Year-Old Linux Kernel Hole Worth $113,337
A STAR Labs researcher found a race condition in the Linux kernel's crypto subsystem that lets an ordinary user become root and break out of a Docker container. The flaw, CVE-2025-39964, had lived in the code for roughly fourteen years.
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GNOME OS Developers Devise "Toolpak" — a Flatpak for Tools
GNOME developer Jordan Petridis has used a blog post to introduce Toolpak, a planned mechanism for shipping tools on GNOME OS that borrows its ideas from Flatpak.
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Infecting a Steam Link with NixOS
After finding a Steam Link forgotten since 2018 in his closet, a developer set out to turn it into a tiny always-on ARM server running NixOS — sidestepping the signed bootloader with a homemade kernel module.
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New FUTEX Syscalls Revived to Support Valve's ARM64 Gaming Push
Igalia has posted an updated set of get_robust_list2 and set_robust_list2 system call patches aimed at running Steam Play games on ARM64.
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The Linux Kernel Build Is Nearing Ten Seconds
Compiling the Linux kernel has long been a reliable excuse for a coffee break. Now a clean, default kernel build on x86_64 is closing in on ten seconds.
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The Netherlands builds a Microsoft alternative on NixOS
The open DAWO community brings government, industry and society together to build a "digitally autonomous" workplace for Dutch public agencies.
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Linux Kernel Developers Weigh Adding AGENTS.md to Guide AI Agents
The Linux kernel keeps getting bombarded with patches from AI agents, yet its source tree has never carried a file with instructions aimed at them. A new patch set proposes to change that.
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File Notification Attacks: Side-Channel Leaks on Linux, Android, Windows, and macOS
Researchers in Graz show that subscribing to filesystem change events lets an attacker without read access reconstruct user behavior — from keystroke timing to the list of websites someone visits.
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