Open-source News

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

Fedora beats Ubuntu in almost every way—except where it matters most  How-To Geek

New DirtyClone Linux Kernel Flaw Lets Local Users Gain Root via Cloned Packets  The Hacker News

Linux Foundation Unveils New Open Source Security Project Akrites  SecurityWeek

Supernatural horror adventure ASYLUM gets upgraded with Linux support  GamingOnLinux

Linux Foundation launches Akrites to protect open source from AI  Techzine Global

Intel engineers on Thursday released the newest version of the Intel Implicit SPMD Program Compiler, ISPC. The ISPC 1.31 supports their variant of the C programming language with extensions for Single Program, Multiple Data programming for leveraging their range of CPU and GPU hardware...

Linux Foundation and leading orgs launch Akrites to protect open source from AI threats  GamingOnLinux