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The open-source, community-developed NVIDIA-VAAPI-Driver that provides a Video Acceleration API (VA-API) implementation built atop NVIDIA's NVDEC video decode interface is out with a new release. This is the open-source project that's motivated by getting accelerated video decoding to work within Mozilla Firefox and other apps when running with NVIDIA's packaged Linux driver...

Merged as part of the perf subsystem fixes overnight is enabling Auto Counter Reload (ACR) functionality for upcoming Intel Xeon Diamond Rapids processors. This ACR enabling for Diamond Rapids "DMR" is happening in time for Linux 7.1-rc3 on Sunday while the work is also marked for back-porting to existing stable kernels...

I switched to Gentoo Linux and now I get why it's worth the headache  MakeUseOf

Linux mascot Tux the penguin hits 30 years old — Linus Torvalds outlined the design of the 'slightly overweight penguin' on May 9, 1996  Tom's Hardware

Good Job Dell and Lenovo! Hope Others Follow You  It's FOSS

Dirty Frag: Using the Page Caches as an Attack Surface  Qualys

Dirty Frag is a New Linux Exploit That Grants Root, and There's No Proper Patch Yet  It's FOSS

KDE developers continue to be quite busy in preparing additional Plasma 6.7 desktop features ahead of the stable release due out in mid-June...

FreeBSD 15.1 continues working its way toward a stable release in June. Out today is FreeBSD 15.1 Beta 2...

It’s A Dirty Frag Frag Friday  PC Perspective

Dirty Frag vulnerability in Linux lets hackers do more damage—here's how to protect yourself  How-To Geek

Linux Kernel Killswitch Proposed After Recent Vulnerability Disclosures  Linuxiac

'Dirty Frag' Linux zero-day exposes most distributions to LPE | news | SC Media  SC Media

Dirty Frag (CVE-2026-43284, CVE-2026-43500): Frequently asked questions about this Linux kernel privilege escalation vulnerability chain  Security Boulevard

New PamDOORa Backdoor Attacking Linux Systems to Steal SSH Credentials  CyberSecurityNews

New PamDOORa Backdoor Attacking Linux Systems to Steal SSH Credentials  Cryptika Cybersecurity

Star Labs StarFighter Linux laptop now ships with Core Ultra 9 285H and Ryzen 7 8845HS options  VideoCardz.com

Arc Raiders Dev Tests New Kernel-Level Anti-Cheat Solution, Raising Questions About Linux Support  TechPowerUp

New Dirty-Frag Exploit Targets Linux Kernel: Serious Memory Flaw Grants Root Access  HotHardware

'Dirty Frag' Gives Root on Linux Distros  BankInfoSecurity