Open-source News

Linux gamers can now use NVIDIA Reflex and AMD Anti-Lag 2 on any GPU thanks to a new open-source project  TweakTown

Copy Fail: A Linux Kernel flaw enabling root access  Mishcon de Reya LLP

Torvalds warns AI bug reports are flooding Linux maintainers  Startup Fortune

Microsoft surprises with its first server Linux distribution: Azure Linux 4.0  ZDNET

Yet more open-source Intel software projects have been formally archived. Over the past year Intel has formally discontinued a number of open-source projects it formally maintained. Many of them were already dormant and not too noteworthy but there were also some more notable ones discontinued like their legendary Clear Linux, Software Defined Silicon, Optane Memory software projects, and then other efforts like open ecosystem community/evangelism. This past week yet more Intel software projects were formally disbanded...

New Intel Xe Linux Graphics Driver Code Now Cites Multiple Crescent Island SKUs  Phoronix

The latest Intel Xe kernel graphics driver patches for Linux now indicate multiple PCI IDs for the upcoming Crescent Island "CRI" accelerators rather than just a lone model...

Torvalds Offers Guidance as AI Bug Reports Clog Up Linux Security Workflow  Security Boulevard

KDE Plasma is the Linux desktop I recommend to Windows users, but only after these tweaks  MakeUseOf

Public Exploit Released for “DirtyDecrypt” - A New Critical Root-Level Linux Vulnerability  LinkedIn

AI security readiness is now the No. 1 obstacle to adoption, Linux Foundation finds  The New Stack

Torvalds warns AI bug reports are killing Linux security work  BetaNews

Microsoft Backs Open Agentic AI Ecosystem with New Linux Releases, Governance Tools, and AAIF Push  HPCwire

Among the VFS patches queued into "-next" branches ahead of next month's Linux 7.2 merge window is the code for introducing the new OPENAT2_REGULAR flag for the openat2 system call...

Open‑Source Layer Brings NVIDIA Reflex and AMD Anti‑Lag 2 to Any GPU on Linux  HotHardware

Microsoft ushers in AI-native era with open agentic stack, Linux updates  SD Times

Linus Torvalds comments on "unmanageable" AI bug reports for Linux maintainers  PC Guide

Turning an $80 Android tablet into a Debian Linux PC  Liliputing

Linux kernel flaw opens root-only files to unprivileged users  The Register

I asked Codex AI to customize my Hyprland desktop - it worked, but beginners beware  ZDNET