Open-source News

New DirtyClone Linux Vulnerability Allows Attackers to Gain Root Access Via Cloned Packets  CyberSecurityNews

Meet Drawy, KDE’s Infinite Whiteboard App for Linux  Linuxiac

Linux Association of Canada launches open-source jobs database |  BetaKit

New Linux pedit COW Exploit Allows Attackers to Gain System Root Access  CyberSecurityNews

Since delivering NVIDIA Vera CPU benchmarks one month ago and follow-ups like how the ARM Linux server performance has evolved in 8 years or how Vera compares to Ampere Altra that is still quite common in the marketplace, another frequent discussion point and inquiry is about the performance of NVIDIA Vera relative to NVIDIA's GB10 chip. For those curious about the per-core performance and the like, here are some benchmarks of the GB10 up against those initial Vera results.

How NVIDIA GB10 CPU Performance Compares To Vera  Phoronix

How NVIDIA GB10 CPU Performance Compares To Vera  Phoronix

NVIDIA 580.173.02 Linux driver released for older GeForce GTX GPUs  VideoCardz.com

Toxic tech communities — we really need to talk about this  Korben

Ubuntu 26.10 “Stonking Stingray” Snapshot 2 Is Now Available for Download  9to5Linux

The many x86 platform driver changes have now been merged for the in-development Linux 7.2 kernel. As usual it's mostly made up of driver enhancements for benefiting modern AMD Ryzen (AI) and Intel Core (Ultra) laptops...

More AMD Zen 6 Prepping, Many ASUS / Lenovo / HP Laptop Improvements For Linux 7.2  Phoronix

Linux Gets Dirty Again: DirtyClone Kernel Flaw Can Lead to Local Root Access  Linuxiac

I stopped using beginner Linux distros, and my workflow finally made sense  How-To Geek

One of the limitations of GNOME's current multi-monitor handling is that the same background is used across the displays. For those that want to enjoy per-monitor background selection, some experimental / proof-of-concept code is now working to allow such per-monitor backgrounds to work with the modern GNOME desktop...

New Linux pedit COW Exploit Enables Root Access by Poisoning Cached Binaries  The Hacker News

Back in early May was the experimental enabling of Vulkan descriptor heaps for the Intel ANV open-source driver. After nearly two months of continued testing and improvements, the VK_EXT_descriptor_heap support for Intel graphics on Linux is now enabled by default...

Intel ANV Vulkan Driver Now Enables Descriptor Heaps By Default  Phoronix

The PCI/PCIe subsystem changes have been merged this week as we approach the end of the Linux 7.2 merge window...

Linux 7.2 Fixes Where PCIe Devices Could Be Inadvertently Restricted To 2.5 GT/s  Phoronix