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3mdeb announced on Thursday their release of Dasharo v0.9 for the Gigabyte MZ33-AR1 EPYC server motherboard. This is the first time seeing AMD openSIL and Coreboot available for a readily-available AMD EPYC server motherboard!..

New Linux privilege escalation flaw ‘Fragnesia’ disclosed; PoC available | news | SC Media  SC Media

Cloud Hypervisor 52 Now Supports Launching AMD SEV-SNP Confidential VMs With KVM  Phoronix

For what originally began as an open-source Intel software project, Cloud Hypervisor continues seeing robust development outside the confines of Intel Corp these days with ongoing improvements driven by Microsoft, Cyberus Tech, Ant, and other organizations for this Rust-based VMM for cloud workloads...

Linux Kernel Fragnesia Privilege Escalation Vulnerability (CVE-2026-46300) Notice  Security Boulevard

Ahead of the Linux 7.1-rc4 release due out on Sunday, a variety of HID subsystem patches were merged overnight to Linux Git...

Linux 7.1 Supports Newer Logitech Bluetooth Keyboards, Malicious Input Hardware Sanitization  Phoronix

It’s raining Linux vulnerabilities: what’s going on?  Techzine Global

Vulkan 1.4.352 is out today as the latest minor spec update to this Khronos API. Besides just a few fixes/clarifications, there is one new extension and that is a NVIDIA vendor extension for cooperative matrix decode vector support...

Fragnesia Flaw Hands Linux Users Root Access: Third Kernel Bug in Two Weeks, Born From Patch  Tech Times

Rocky Linux launches opt-in security repository for urgent fixes  Help Net Security

Rocky Linux Adds Security Repo for Urgent Fixes  Linuxiac

Colorado Age-Verification Proposal Sparks Linux Open Source Backlash  Open Source For You

Fragnesia and ssh-keysign-pwn are the latest Linux security problems  GamingOnLinux

Can You Run LLMs Locally Without a GPU? I Tested 8 Models on Linux  It's FOSS

My favorite Linux recovery OS just got a modern Ubuntu foundation  XDA

Six-Year-Old Linux Kernel Flaw Lets Unprivileged Users Read Root-Owned Files  9to5Linux

Following Dirty Frag, Fragnesia, and other Linux kernel vulnerabilities making themselves known in recent days, the latest now is ssh-keysign-pwn...

Linux's Latest Vulnerability Allows Reading Root-Owned Files By Unprivileged Users  Phoronix

Valve's new Steam Controller, which began shipping earlier this month for $99 USD, is a great piece of hardware. This high-end gaming controller is great hardware wise but what some may not enjoy about it currently is the tight integration with the Steam controller and no native OS drivers currently for use outside of Steam. As a big win today, the widely-used SDL3 gaming software/hardware abstraction library has added support for the new Steam Controller that works outside the confines of Steam...