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

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...

Fragnesia (CVE-2026-46300): Frequently asked questions about new Linux Kernel XFRM ESP-in-TCP privilege escalation  Security Boulevard

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...

New AMD Dynamic EPP Feature Causing Some Problems With Linux 7.1  Phoronix

Meet Fragnesia, the third Linux kernel vulnerability in a month  csoonline.com

Linux Fragnesia  Security Affairs

Fragnesia Extends Linux Kernel Security Challenge with Root-Level Exploit  Security Boulevard

Platform9 updates private cloud software to woo VMware users  IT Brief Asia

Linux devs are fighting the new age-gated internet  The Verge

Another major Linux security issue uncovered - new Fragnesia flaw allows attackers to run malicious code as root  TechRadar

This Pink Toy Laptop Is Actually a Fully Functional Arch Linux Machine  Hackster.io

Linux Kernel bug Fragnesia allows local root access attacks  Security Affairs

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...

One of the latest Linux gaming handheld drivers being worked on is the MSI Claw Configuration Driver for controller configuration...

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

A third Linux kernel exploit dropped in two weeks: researchers condemn disclosures without embargoes  Cybernews

Fragnesia: New Linux kernel LPE bug was spawned by Dirty Frag patch (CVE-2026-46300)  Help Net Security

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.

I became a better Linux user by watching these 10 YouTube channels  How-To Geek