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It's been an interesting 2026 in Linux development with beginning to phase out i486 CPU support, dropping ISDN and amateur "ham" radio support, and other code cleaning in the name of a diminishing user base -- or perhaps even no users left -- for those running such vintage hardware with a modern, up-to-date kernel. Yet ISA sound card drivers have seen an uptick in activity...

Turtle Beach WaveFront ISA Sound Cards Seeing Suspend/Resume Support On Linux In 2026  Phoronix

Linux Gets Closer to Full HDMI 2.1 Support with AMD Update  eTeknix

One of the interesting GNOME-aligned application developments in recent months has been RustConn as a modern GTK4-based connection manager. RustConn allows managing SSH, RDP, VNC, SPICE, and a variety of other connections from this Rust-written application. It's been steadily tacking on more features and that effort continued with more features landing...

One of the most prominent changes with the upcoming Linux 7.1 kernel release is the introduction of the new NTFS driver in the Linux 7.1 kernel. This new driver provides more features and better performance than the Paragon NTFS3 driver that's been in the kernel the past few years and far better off than the original NTFS read-only driver that previously was in the kernel and for which this new driver is based. Needless to say it's also a big improvement over the NTFS-3G user-space FUSE driver too...

CISA adds Linux Copy Fail flaw to exploited bug list  crypto.news

Week in review: High-severity LPE vulnerability in the Linux kernel, cPanel 0-day exploited for months  Help Net Security

US CISA adds ‘insane’ Linux Copy Fail flaw to watch list  Cryptonews.net

1. CISA Adds Actively Exploited Linux Root Access Bug CVE-2026-31431 to KEV  The Hacker News
2. CVE-2026-31431: Copy Fail vulnerability enables Linux root privilege escalation across cloud environments  Microsoft
3. Update Linux Now As 9-Year-Old Root Hack Confirmed, CISA Warns Users  Forbes
4. The most severe Linux threat to surface in years catches the world flat-footed  Ars Technica
5. Linux exploit instantly grants administrator access on most distributions since 2017 — cryptography optimization snafu grants root privileges to local users  Tom's Hardware
6. Copy Fail Linux Kernel Vulnerability Now Patched in Debian, Ubuntu, and Others  9to5Linux
7. Severe Linux Copy Fail security flaw uncovered using AI scanning help  The Verge
8. "Copy Fail": Linux root in all major distributions with 732 bytes of Python  heise online
9. Nine-Year-Old Zero-Day Flaw in Linux Kernel Discovered by AI-Equipped Security Researcher  Infosecurity Magazine

OptiScaler Client gains Linux support and new scanning filters  GameGPU

Linux 7.1 finally fixes a 2-year-old Steam Deck OLED audio issue  XDA

CISA Flags Linux Copy Fail Flaw on Watch List, Crypto Infra at Risk  MEXC Exchange

Linux Copy Bug: Trivially Exploitable, Impacts Crypto Infrastructure  MEXC Exchange

It turns out the Steam Deck OLED gaming handheld has not had working audio support with the mainline (upstream) Linux kernel since a change in late 2023 that was merged for Linux 6.8. There was an AMD ASoC audio change that inadvertently broke audio support for the Steam Deck OLED handheld but not affecting the original LCD model. Valve's downstream Steam OS kernel has compensated for this known breakage and other distributions targeting the Steam Deck OLED have carried the patch, but now there is a proper solution upstream ahead of Linux 7.1-rc2...

Linux 7.1 Fixes Audio For The Steam Deck OLED After Being Broken 2 Years On The Upstream Kernel  Phoronix

Miklos Szeredi of Red Hat has been developing the FUSEX file-system as an extended/experimental area for File-System in User-Space "FUSE" development...

AMD software engineers on Friday released a new version of GAIA "Generative AI Is Awesome" as their open-source software for Windows and Linux leveraging the Lemonade SDK and aiming to make it easy to build AI agents on your PC with all local AI processing across AMD's CPUs, GPUs, and NPUs...

AMD's GAIA Defaults To Better Model, Continued Improvements For Local AI  Phoronix

Merged on Friday ahead of the Linux 7.1-rc2 kernel release due out tomorrow were this week's batch of Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) kernel graphics / display / accelerator driver fixes...

Linux 7.1-rc2 Bringing Some More Improvements/Fixes For Older AMD GPUs  Phoronix