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The ASUS ROG RAIKIRI II is a recently-launched wireless gaming controller for both PC and Xbox gaming. This is a premium controller priced at $160 USD and has been receiving positive reviews under Windows while now it will soon be seeing mainline Linux support...

Linux Support Coming For The ASUS ROG RAIKIRI II: A $160 High-End Gaming Controller  Phoronix

Nearly every Linux system built since 2017 vulnerable to ‘Copy Fail’ flaw  The Record from Recorded Future News

"Copy Fail" flaw impacts all Linux kernels released since 2017  TechRadar

Arch Linux May ISO Is Out with Linux Kernel 7.0  Linuxiac

Nine-year-old high-severity Linux bug discovered  Computing UK

Linux distributions worldwide targeted by the Copy Fail exploit  Techzine Global

Running Linux On The PS5 With A Hypervisor Exploit  Hackaday

Zero-Day Flaw in Linux Kernel Found by AI-Equipped Security Researcher  Infosecurity Magazine

Calibre 9.8 E-Book Manager Improves Content Server, Native TTS Engine, and More  9to5Linux

Intel's upcoming Crescent Island product as a reminder is a new inference-optimized Xe3P graphics card with 160GB of vRAM and targeting enterprise AI workloads. Intel's open-source Linux graphics driver engineers continue to be very busy enabling the driver support for Crescent Island as well as making broader Xe3P improvements...

Intel Making More GPU Driver Improvements For Crescent Island With Linux 7.2  Phoronix

Linux exploit instantly grants administrator access on most distributions since 2017 — cryptography optimization snafu grants root privileges to local users  Tom's Hardware

Mike Blumenkrantz of Valve's Linux graphics team has ignited a discussion over potentially shifting some of Mesa's older GPU drivers into a new legacy Git branch in order to better support the more modern OpenGL and Vulkan drivers without having to worry about breaking the legacy drivers and to allow for better cleaning of the Mesa codebase. Among the drivers that could be impacted are the ATI/AMD R300 and R600 drivers and many smaller drivers...

First Arch Linux ISO Powered by Linux Kernel 7.0 Is Now Available for Download  9to5Linux

A lot happened in the Linux and open-source world during the month of April. Ubuntu 26.04 LTS and Fedora 44 shipped, a lot of news around age attestation/verification laws, the Linux 7.0 kernel was released, Linux 7.1 is bringing many exciting changes as well as removing of old hardware drivers, the Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition CPU was released, we began testing the Intel Arc Pro B70 "BMG-G31", and much more software and hardware content that made the month interesting. Last month on Phoronix were 303 original news articles and 16 Linux hardware reviews / multi-page featured benchmark articles...

Ubuntu is adding AI features, and it's on a collision course with its own user base  TechSpot

Ubuntu is going all in on Generative AI and other Linux distros might follow  Neowin

Canonical, the company that makes Ubuntu Linux, says its web infrastructure is under a 'sustained, cross-border attack'  PC Gamer

Volla Phone runs Linux in a rugged shell and proves replaceable batteries are still doable  Digital Trends