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Linux 7.4 to Speed Up Software RAID: Optimizing xor_gen for AVX-512
The Linux 7.4 kernel will get an AVX-512-rewritten xor_gen() function that noticeably speeds up computing and verifying parity blocks for RAID5 and RAID6.
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A Linux GPU Driver for the M4 Mac mini Was Written in a Month with AI
Cody Ho and Niklas Sheth put together a driver fully compliant with OpenGL ES 3.0 for the Apple Silicon GPU in a little over a month—where it usually takes years. AI agents wrote the bulk of the code.
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Acronis: Actively Exploited Vulnerability in cPanel Backup Plugin
Acronis has reported a high-severity local privilege escalation vulnerability in its plugins for cPanel, WHM and Plesk. According to the company, the flaw is already being used in limited, targeted attacks.
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BambooToken: Malware Controls Windows and Linux Through the IoT Protocol MQTT
A previously unknown malware framework called BambooToken, active since at least 2023, has adopted the lightweight MQTT protocol for covert communication with infected servers. According to Lumen researchers, the nature of the attacks points to a link with pro-Chinese operations.
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Fedora 45 Beta: KMSCON Instead of the Kernel Console, GNOME 51, and New Security Rules
The Fedora Project has released the beta of its 45th release right on schedule. The distribution replaces the kernel's built-in console with KMSCON and tightens the default security settings.
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Raspberry Pi OS Desktop Gets an Icon Dock and a New Launcher
The Raspberry Pi developers have released a major update to the desktop interface for ARM64 single-board computers, seriously refreshing the user experience for the first time in a long while.
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A Nix binary cache is just three functions — which means anything can be one
Farid Zakaria shows that to play the part of a Nix binary cache, all you need to do is answer three HTTP requests — and he proves it by turning GitHub Pages, npm, and even DNS into substituters.
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GNU Core Utilities 9.12 Released
Pádraig Brady has unveiled a new version of the GNU coreutils base utility suite, with useful additions and a fix for a bug that had lived in the code “from the very beginning.”
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Red Heron Breaches 13 Organizations Through a Gitea Vulnerability
In a matter of days, the presumed Chinese group Red Heron turned a public Gitea exploit into an automated tool and struck targets across six countries.
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Homebrew 7.0.0: Built-in Vulnerability Scanning, a Sandbox, and Farewell to Intel
Version 7.0.0 of the popular package manager is out: faster installs, tighter isolation, a native macOS app, and its own vulnerability database. And with it, the project bids a final farewell to Intel processors.
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EROFS Disables LZ4 Rolling Decompression Over Data Corruption Risk
The developers of the EROFS filesystem have temporarily removed the rolling decompression optimization for LZ4: in rare cases it led to data corruption. The change will land in Linux 7.3.
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Debian 13.7 “Trixie” Released with Security and Bug Fixes
The Debian project has released an updated set of Debian 13 “Trixie” installation images with accumulated security fixes and numerous resolved bugs.
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Mold Linker Being Rewritten in Rust, Aiming to Become Linux's Standard Linker
Mold's author, Rui Ueyama, is preparing a version 3.0 written in Rust and wants the fast linker to replace GNU ld in Linux distributions.
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AMDGPU Gets HDMI 2.1 by Default in Linux Kernel 7.4
After years of refusals from the HDMI Forum, an open implementation of HDMI 2.1 for the AMDGPU driver is finally ready: in Linux 7.4 it will be enabled by default, along with FreeSync, VRR and ALLM.
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trynix.dev: any Nix package right in your browser
Farid Zakaria has launched a Linux virtual machine that runs entirely in the browser via WebAssembly — and it can load any Nix package from the past 13 years.
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Ubuntu 24.04.5 LTS Released with Linux 7.0 Kernel in the HWE Stack
The fifth update to the long-term Ubuntu 24.04 branch brings a fresh hardware enablement stack with the Linux 7.0 kernel and Mesa 26.0 graphics drivers.
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AI wrote “ugly” code, but found the bottlenecks and sped up the Linux kernel build
ARM engineer Lorenzo Stoakes used a language model to uncover single-threaded bottlenecks in the Linux kernel build — and achieved speedups of up to 70% on incremental builds.
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FreeIPA Vulnerability Chain Grants an Anonymous Client Administrator Rights
Red Hat has described a pair of defects that together let a client who has never logged in create its own Kerberos account in the directory and land in the administrators group. The fix ships in FreeIPA 4.13.4.
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Scrapers are eating git.kernel.org: bots load the servers harder than live humans
Konstantin Ryabitsev explained that rendering commits for search and AI bots costs the Linux kernel infrastructure more than all legitimate traffic combined.
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CERN Moves Some of Its Systems from CentOS to Debian
The European Organization for Nuclear Research is planning to migrate part of its infrastructure from CentOS Linux to Debian — this was announced at the MiniDebConf Winterthur 2026 conference.
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