Open-source News

RefluXFS Linux Kernel Vulnerability Lets Attackers Gain Root Access  CyberSecurityNews

A Linux utility to control USB power per-port on smart USB hubs  Adafruit

COSMIC 1.4 Desktop Environment Introduces New Default Sound Theme  9to5Linux

Ubuntu snap-confine Flaw Could Give Local Users Root on Default Desktop Installs  The Hacker News

RefluXFS: A Linux Kernel Local Privilege Escalation to Root in XFS (CVE-2026-64600)  Qualys

Linux kernel team publishes 432 CVEs in two days  The Register

AMD EPYC Turin With PCIe 5.0 Storage Shows Off Nice Gains On Linux 7.2  Phoronix

Earlier this week was an exciting look at Intel Xe3 graphics performance gains on Linux 7.2 with Intel Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake" hardware. On the other side of the table, with AMD hardware on this forthcoming kernel an area to be excited about are some I/O improvements at least for 5th Gen EPYC with speedy PCIe Gen5 NVMe SSD storage.

Proton VPN's anti-censorship Stealth protocol finally lands on Linux  TechRadar

AMD is adding HDMI 2.1 support for Linux. That's good news for the Steam Machine.  GameDev.net

An enthusiast has built an unusual system based on Arch Linux and two Xeon processors.  GameGPU

Compile Here, Run Everywhere: Crosstool-Ng  Hackaday

Compile Here, Run Everywhere: Crosstool-Ng  Hackaday

Only one new Galaxy foldable supports Linux Terminal, and not everywhere  Android Authority

I replaced my default Linux terminal with this cross-platform one—and I'm not going back  Yahoo Tech

I replaced my default Linux terminal with this cross-platform one—and I'm not going back  How-To Geek

For helping to keep X11 clients running in a modern Linux desktop world with Wayland or even for running on macOS or Android, there is now yet-another option being developed with libx11-compat. The libx11-compat project is working to re-implement the Xlib client library atop SDL2/SDL3 interfaces for allow broad underlying platform coverage...

libx11-compat Is Working To Implement Xlib Atop SDL For Wayland, macOS, Android  Phoronix

Back in March Intel software engineers began sending out Linux patches for Directed Package-Level Thermal Interrupts as a new capability with recent Intel processors. This notable efficiency improvement is now queued for introduction in the Linux 7.3 cycle once its merge window opens in a month...

Intel Directed Package-Level Thermal Interrupts Slated For Linux 7.3  Phoronix