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Fedora Hummingbird Debuts As a Super Hardened Linux Distro  It's FOSS

Following yesterday's disclosure of the ssh-keysign-pwn vulnerability that allows unprivileged users to read root-owned files, a slew of new stable kernel releases are out today to address this latest Linux security issue...

New Linux Kernel Vulnerability Fragnesia Allows Root Privilege Escalation  OODAloop

This is what I'm doing with my old Windows 10 PC instead of trading it in like Microsoft wants me to  XDA

Earlier this year we reviewed the ZimaBoard 2 for building a Linux home storage server. That was a nifty little device but for those looking for a more polished product than assembling your storage devices in cardboard cut-outs and the like, IceWhale has launched the ZimaCube 2. The ZimaCube 2 is a nice and polished, literal cube, to serve as your personal cloud / network attached storage (NAS) device.

ZimaCube 2 Makes For A Nice Personal Cloud/NAS With Power Of Linux + Intel CPU Review  Phoronix

2 beginner Linux distros that don't force you to use the terminal  How-To Geek

In response to the likes of the Dirty Frag and Fragnesia vulnerabilities, Rocky Linux is introducing an optional security repository for shipping important security updates sooner...

Rocky Linux Launches Optional Security Repository To Get Important Fixes Sooner  Phoronix

Worldwide Trends Overview: The Rapid Evolution of the Linux Software Market  openPR.com

Subnautica 2 is looking good on Desktop Linux, it's okay on Steam Deck with caveats  GamingOnLinux

3mdeb announced on Thursday their release of Dasharo v0.9 for the Gigabyte MZ33-AR1 EPYC server motherboard. This is the first time seeing AMD openSIL and Coreboot available for a readily-available AMD EPYC server motherboard!..

New Linux privilege escalation flaw ‘Fragnesia’ disclosed; PoC available | news | SC Media  SC Media

Cloud Hypervisor 52 Now Supports Launching AMD SEV-SNP Confidential VMs With KVM  Phoronix

For what originally began as an open-source Intel software project, Cloud Hypervisor continues seeing robust development outside the confines of Intel Corp these days with ongoing improvements driven by Microsoft, Cyberus Tech, Ant, and other organizations for this Rust-based VMM for cloud workloads...

Linux Kernel Fragnesia Privilege Escalation Vulnerability (CVE-2026-46300) Notice  Security Boulevard

Ahead of the Linux 7.1-rc4 release due out on Sunday, a variety of HID subsystem patches were merged overnight to Linux Git...

Linux 7.1 Supports Newer Logitech Bluetooth Keyboards, Malicious Input Hardware Sanitization  Phoronix

It’s raining Linux vulnerabilities: what’s going on?  Techzine Global

Vulkan 1.4.352 is out today as the latest minor spec update to this Khronos API. Besides just a few fixes/clarifications, there is one new extension and that is a NVIDIA vendor extension for cooperative matrix decode vector support...