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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

Linux is incredible, but these 4 things will frustrate you if you're not ready  MakeUseOf

FOSS Weekly #26.20: Killswitch in Linux, Fedora's AI Move, Rat in Terminal, KDE Dolphine Tweaks and More  It's FOSS

Since March we have been seeing patches from AMD software engineers beginning to enable their next-generation "AIE4" NPU platform under Linux. We still don't know for sure when this AIE4 NPU will premiere for sure in new Ryzen AI products, but the Linux enablement continues coming along nicely for the AMDXDNA accelerator driver...

AMD Preps More AIE4 NPU Hardware Enablement For AMDXDNA Driver In Linux 7.2  Phoronix

New Linux Kernel Vulnerability Fragnesia Allows Root Privilege Escalation  SecurityWeek