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Since March we have been seeing patches from AMD software engineers beginning to enable their next-generation "AIE4" NPU platform under Linux. We still don't know for sure when this AIE4 NPU will premiere for sure in new Ryzen AI products, but the Linux enablement continues coming along nicely for the AMDXDNA accelerator driver...

AMD Preps More AIE4 NPU Hardware Enablement For AMDXDNA Driver In Linux 7.2  Phoronix

New Linux Kernel Vulnerability Fragnesia Allows Root Privilege Escalation  SecurityWeek

Yocto Project 6.0 “Wrynose” released with Linux 6.18 LTS  CNX Software

New Fragnesia Flaw Hands Linux Local Users Root Access  Infosecurity Magazine

AI is speeding up Linux flaw discovery as Fragnesia hits servers  Startup Fortune

The third major Linux kernel flaw in two weeks has been found - thanks to AI  ZDNET

I have been writing about the Cache Aware Scheduling work led by Intel engineers on the Linux kernel for more than a year. I've also tested out Cache Aware Scheduling on both Intel and AMD CPUs with the patched Linux kernel to great success. And thus very happy to see the Cache Aware Scheduling patches inching closer to the mainline Linux kernel...

Intel's Cache Aware Scheduling Inches Closer To Being Merged For Linux  Phoronix

Fragnesia Exploit Threatens Major Linux Distributions  SQ Magazine

In working toward the stable Plasma 6.7 desktop release in mid-June, out today is the first beta of KDE Plasma 6.7...

Another Day, Another Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in Linux: Meet Fragnesia  Hackster.io

Sent out on Wednesday was the latest AMDGPU/AMDKFD driver pull request of new feature code ready for DRM-Next as the staging area ahead of the upcoming Linux 7.2 kernel. This doesn't yet land the HDMI 2.1 enablement work that's finally been taking place but it is preparing for that with the FRL register headers now in place as part of this merge...

New AMDGPU Driver Pull Request For Linux 7.2 Preps For HDML 2.1 FRL  Phoronix

Introduced to the Linux kernel last year was Control-flow Enforcement Technology "CET" virtualization for modern AMD and Intel CPUs. This complements CET that has existed in Linux for quite some time but it's new now to the KVM virtualization world, but some yet to be diagnosed problems are causing some hosts to hang when making use of this virtualization security feature...

Linux's KVM With CET Virtualization Is Causing Some Hosts To Hang  Phoronix

Dirty Frag gets a sequel as Fragnesia hands Linux attackers root-level access  The Register

Steam Beta brings Big Picture Mode tweaks, Linux improvements and Steam Controller fixes  GamingOnLinux

New Fragnesia Linux flaw lets attackers gain root privileges  BleepingComputer

New Fragnesia Linux flaw lets attackers gain root privileges  BleepingComputer