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I started using Linux terminal on Android and now I can do things no app store tool allows  MakeUseOf

New Linux ‘Copy Fail’ flaw gives hackers root on major distros  BleepingComputer

PS5 Linux Loader Gets Public Release, Allowing Users to Run Steam and PC Games on Console  Gadgets 360

FOSS Weekly #26.18: Ubuntu's AI Move, New Entry in Home Directory, New Ubuntu Terminal, Fedora 44 Release and More Linux Stuff  It's FOSS

You can now install Linux on your PS5  KitGuru

Linux 7.1-rc1 Showing Off Some Wins On AMD Ryzen Threadripper  Phoronix

My initial testing of the Linux 7.1 development kernel on various systems in the lab continues going well. Aside from one main regression in a synthetic micro-benchmark appearing on multiple systems, not seeing much in the way of Linux 7.1 performance concerns thus far and seeing some nice performance gains in select workloads...

Nine-year-old Linux kernel flaw enables reliable local privilege escalation (CVE-2026-31431)  Help Net Security

GCC 16.1 is now available as the first stable release of GCC 16 as this year's major open-source GNU compiler feature release...

There are two exciting initiatives taking place simultaneously by the 3mdeb consulting firm: the open-source developers are working on an open-source firmware stack for a Gigabyte EPYC server motherboard and they are also working on a similar Coreboot + AMD openSIL port to a Ryzen AM5 consumer motherboard, the MSI PRO B850-P WiFi. While not yet ready for end-users, 3mdeb published their latest blog post to highlight their latest milestone achieved with the openSIL + Coreboot bring-up on the MSI PRO B850-P motherboard...

Someone Turned a PS5 Into a Linux Gaming PC, and It Actually Works  It's FOSS

AMD Posts Newest Linux Patches To Accelerate Page Migration For Better Performance  Phoronix

Posted to the Linux kernel mailing list this week was the newest revision of a patch series originally started in early 2025 by a NVIDIA engineer for accelerating page migration. Now being worked on by AMD engineers, this accelerated page migration via batch copies and hardware offloading continues to show promising results...

Linux Can Now Be Installed On PS5, But You’ll Need A Disc-Based Console Running Specific Firmwares  PlayStation Universe

Following the recent Servo 0.1 release, the Servo project has published their latest monthly status report to highlight recent development efforts around this modern open-source browser engine...

New “Copy Fail” bug puts Linux systems at serious risk  Latest news from Azerbaijan

Last year with the ACPI 6.6 specification release came revised Collaborative Processor Performance Control (CPPC) support for enhancing the capabilities around this standard for OS management of the performance of CPU cores using an abstract performance scale. That CPPC v4 support is now being worked on for the acpi_cppc Linux driver by NVIDIA engineers...

Urgent warning over critical Linux kernel privilege escalation bug: tiny script grants root  Cybernews

New Linux 'Copy Fail' Vulnerability Enables Root Access on Major Distributions  The Hacker News

PlayStation 5 Linux Breakthrough Lands A Little Late, But It Could Reshape How Some Owners Use Their Consoles  Wccftech