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Linux's Latest Vulnerability Allows Reading Root-Owned Files By Unprivileged Users

Phoronix - 3 hours 42 min ago
Following Dirty Frag, Fragnesia, and other Linux kernel vulnerabilities making themselves known in recent days, the latest now is ssh-keysign-pwn...

SDL Library Adds Support For The New Steam Controller Without Depending On Steam

Phoronix - 4 hours 31 min ago
Valve's new Steam Controller, which began shipping earlier this month for $99 USD, is a great piece of hardware. This high-end gaming controller is great hardware wise but what some may not enjoy about it currently is the tight integration with the Steam controller and no native OS drivers currently for use outside of Steam. As a big win today, the widely-used SDL3 gaming software/hardware abstraction library has added support for the new Steam Controller that works outside the confines of Steam...

New AMD Dynamic EPP Feature Causing Some Problems With Linux 7.1

Phoronix - 6 hours 31 min ago
Dynamic EPP is one of the new AMD P-State features in Linux 7.1, but, unfortunately is causing some fallout in early usage of this power-savings related functionality...

Linux Fragnesia - Security Affairs

Google News - 9 hours 14 min ago
Linux Fragnesia  Security Affairs

Plasma Big Screen Working Out Quite Well With Plasma 6.7 Beta

Phoronix - 11 hours 45 min ago
With today's KDE Plasma 6.7 beta release there has been a surprising amount of interest in the new revival of Plasma Big Screen as the TV-sized UI for Plasma. I've been trying it out today and it has worked out rather well, a very smooth experience, and in good shape for making its debut in next month's Plasma 6.7 release...

MSI Claw Configuration Driver For Linux Coming Together With The Assistance Of AI

Phoronix - 12 hours 53 min ago
One of the latest Linux gaming handheld drivers being worked on is the MSI Claw Configuration Driver for controller configuration...

ROCm 7.0.0 vs. ROCm 7.2.3 Performance On The AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700

Phoronix - Thu, 05/14/2026 - 22:20
With the new System76 Thelio Major workstation review unit having arrived equipped with an AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 graphics card, I took the opportunity of having the extra RDNA4 workstation GPU to satisfy a curiosity over whether there has been any meaningful performance gains from ROCm 7.0.0 released last year to now with the latest ROCm 7.2.3 stable release. Here are those benchmarks results if you are curious about the impact of just updating the user-space ROCm components from the end of last summer to the latest ROCm 7.2.3 milestone.

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