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Dirty Frag Vulnerability Made Public Early: Root Privilege On All Distributions

Phoronix - 1 hour 53 min ago
One week after the Copy Fail vulnerability, a new Linux local privilege escalation bug has been made public. This time around there are no patches or CVEs yet for this "Dirty Frag" vulnerability as the embargo was broken early and thus the security researcher went ahead and published earlier than anticipated...

Building a Center of Excellence for Ansible

Red Hat News - 2 hours 1 min ago
As Ansible adoption grows, a challenge can arise: How do organizations track automation efforts across the entire enterprise? A common solution is to establish a Center of Excellence (CoE) for Ansible, helping organizations move from isolated automation efforts to a scalable, coordinated enterprise strategy. What is a Center of Excellence for Ansible?A CoE for Ansible is a group responsible for setting automation standards and promoting Ansible’s collaborative open source nature. The CoE acts as an enablement and governance body, allowing for more effective automation across the organization

AMD K5 CPUs The Latest To Be Retired With Linux's Aging & Stagnate Hardware Support

Phoronix - 4 hours 17 min ago
Following Linux 7.1 beginning to phase out i486 CPU support and in turn drivers like those for the old AMD Elan SoCs now being removed, for Linux 7.2 the processor support removal is going further to now include some i586 and i686 class processors...

Linux 7.2 To Support Realtek RTL8159 10GbE USB Ethernet

Phoronix - 9 hours 58 min ago
The Realtek RTL8159 has been appearing in some 10G-rated USB network adapters at online retailers, some for less than $100 USD. But currently the RTL8159 is only supported by Realtek's out-of-tree Linux kernel driver, but fortunately there will be mainline support coming with the Linux 7.2 kernel this summer...

AMD RadeonSI Code Reorganized To Support Multimedia-Only Driver Builds

Phoronix - Thu, 05/07/2026 - 23:21
Merged today to Mesa 26.2-devel was a reorganization of the AMD RadeonSI Gallium3D driver code to better separate the graphics and multimedia acceleration code from the rest of the driver...

Flattened Image Tree 1.0 Specification For Embedded Linux Systems

Phoronix - Thu, 05/07/2026 - 22:26
The Flattened Image Tree "FIT" 1.0 specification was recently finalized for this container format used by U-Boot on embedded systems for providing various boot components like DTBs, the Linux kernel image, and more into a single file...

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