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Vulkan 1.4.325 was released on Friday with one new extension in tow: VK_KHR_shader_untyped_pointers for untyped pointers...

Critical Linux Kernel Vulnerability Allows Attackers Gain Full Kernel-Level Control From Chrome Sandbox  GBHackers News

Linus Torvalds has used his authority to reject the RISC-V architecture changes for the Linux 6.17 kernel. The RISC-V updates won't land this cycle and will need to try again for v6.18 later in the year. Linus refers to at least some of the proposed RISC-V code as garbage along with being submitted rather late during the merge window...

GNU/Hurd has made it as an official platform target within SDL that is the open-source library widely-used by cross-platform games and other applications for software/hardware abstractions across operating systems...

GNU/Hurd Now An Official Platform For SDL Cross-Platform Gaming Library  Phoronix

There were a lot of interesting changes that landed in GNOME's Mutter compositor codebase to end out the weekend and ahead of next month's big GNOME 49 release...

Like clockwork KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his weekly recap of all the interesting Plasma changes for the week. There continues to be a lot of feature work and polishing that is building up for the Plasma 6.5 desktop release...

New Linux Kernel Vulnerability Directly Exploited from Chrome Renderer Sandbox Via Rare Linux Socket Feature  CyberSecurityNews

New Linux Kernel Vulnerability Directly Exploited from Chrome Renderer Sandbox Via Rare Linux Socket Feature  CyberSecurityNews

The best Linux distros for beginners in 2025 make switching from MacOS or Windows so easy  ZDNET

6 mistakes I made when choosing a Linux distro for my PC  xda-developers.com

Additional Intel Linux Drivers Left Orphaned & Maintainers Let Go  Phoronix

Well, it's an unpleasant afternoon in Linux land with more signs of the ongoing impact from Intel's corporate-wide restructuring. Just after writing about Intel's CPU temperature monitoring driver now left unmaintained/orphaned, more patches hit the public Linux kernel mailing list to mark additional Intel drivers as orphaned and removing maintainer entries for Linux developers no longer at Intel...

Should I nuke my Linux install from orbit and do a fresh install?  [H]ard|Forum

There is yet more apparent fallout from Intel's recent layoffs/restructurings as it impacts the Linux kernel... The coretemp driver that provides CPU core temperature monitoring support for all Intel processors going back many years is now set to an orphaned state with the former driver maintainer no longer at Intel and no one immediately available to serve as its new maintainer...

Intel CPU Temperature Monitoring Driver For Linux Now Unmaintained After Layoffs  Phoronix

We still don't know what's going to happen for Bcachefs in the Linux 6.17 kernel even with the merge window set to end on Sunday with the Linux 6.17-rc1 release. Linus Torvalds commented over one month ago that they would be parting ways for Linux 6.17. At the start of the Linux 6.17 merge window a Bcachefs pull request was submitted but nearly two weeks later it's still not been pulled and Linus Torvalds hasn't commented on the matter...

AMD Linux Driver Prepares For Radeon RDNA4 "Kicker"  Phoronix

A few new firmware files were upstreamed today to the linux-firmware.git repository for supporting a new GFX12.0.1 (RDNA4) "Kicker" graphics processor. There was also an AMDGPU kernel graphics driver patch that just landed as well in Linux 6.17 for the RDNA4 Kicker variant...

5 Hidden Weaknesses in Your Linux Stack—And How Attackers Exploit Them  Morphisec