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CVE-2026-46333: Local Root Privilege Escalation and Credential Disclosure in the Linux Kernel ptrace Path  Qualys

PinTheft: Another Linux Privilege Escalation, Another Working Exploit, This Time Targeting Arch  Security Affairs

As a very exciting development ahead of the Linux 7.2 kernel merge window opening in about one month's time, it looks like the long-awaited Cache Aware Scheduling support will finally be merged! CONFIG_SCHED_CACHE has made it into a TIP branch with all the Cache Aware Scheduling code for helping with Linux performance on modern CPUs sporting multiple last level caches...

The Very Exciting Cache Aware Scheduling Looks Like It Will Land For Linux 7.2  Phoronix

The Very Exciting Cache Aware Scheduling Looks Like It Will Land For Linux 7.2  Phoronix

Linus Torvalds admits he has a 'love-hate relationship with AI'  ZDNET

Vizio Smart TV Owners Leading The Fight For Control Over Your Idiot Box  PC Perspective

PinTheft Linux Vulnerability Let Attackers Gain Root Access - PoC Released  CyberSecurityNews

Fedora: Microsoft is all aboard, but Deepin is dumped  The Register

Crashes with consequences: Serial code-reuse attack SFOP breaks Intel CET in Linux  Tech Xplore

PlayStation 5 runs Cyberpunk 2077 with path tracing through Linux at 34 FPS  VideoCardz.com

The latest nightly builds of Firefox 153 have rolled out a new appearance for the browser's settings area...

HP Linux Imaging and Printing (HPLIP) 3.26.4 Drivers Add Support for New Printers  9to5Linux

OneXPlayer controller will arrive in Linux kernel 7.2 in June  Foro3D

Almost every service I self-host runs in a Linux container, and the math just doesn't favor a VM anymore  XDA

Square Enix rolling out Steam Cloud support to various classics  GamingOnLinux

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.2 Released with Optional Command-Line AI Assistant  9to5Linux

One of the RISC-V SoCs we have been most looking forward to this year is the SpacemiT K3 that features the X100 RISC-V cores that are RVA23 compliant and among the first readily available RVA23 RISC-V platform for running on the likes of Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. In this article is a preview of some very early benchmarks of the SpacemiT K3 with the new Pico-ITX single board computer offering.

Initial Benchmarks Of The SpacemiT K3 RVA23 RISC-V CPU With The K3 Pico-ITX  Phoronix

CVE-2026-46333: Local Root Privilege Escalation and Credential Disclosure in the Linux Kernel ptrace Path  Qualys