Open-source News

Linux faces its largest security threat in years—here's how to deal with Copy Fail  How-To Geek

Ubuntu services hit by outages after DDoS attack  TechCrunch

It's not complete HDMI 2.1 support but to much surprise hitting the mailing list today were official patches from AMD for implementing HDMI Fixed Rate Link "FRL" support for their kernel graphics driver. HDMI FRL as part of HDMI 2.1+ allows for higher bandwidth to support higher refresh rates and resolutions...

Shelly 2.2 Arch Linux GUI Package Manager Released with Major UI Revamp  9to5Linux

Researchers Warn of an Easily-Exploitable Privilege Escalation Vuln in Linux: Copy Fail  Hackster.io

AI is coming to Linux, but not in the obnoxious way that will grind your gear  Yahoo Tech

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...