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RefluXFS: A Linux Kernel Local Privilege Escalation to Root in XFS (CVE-2026-64600)  iTWire

Linux Foundation, Nineteen Companies Launch Akrites to Coordinate Open Source Vulnerability Fixes  ADTmag

The need for trustworthy networking, reliable cloud access, and compliance with digital sovereignty requirements has increased substantially in recent years. These demands have been generally addressed by fragile, costly, and outdated models based on IP address evaluation. These requirements must also be considered within the stark geopolitical reality of data sovereignty, where national and regional laws increasingly restrict where data must reside and who can access it.We believe it is time to provide enhanced, identity-based mechanisms to satisfy these requirements and to address use cases

Every OpenShift admin knows the calculus. A new Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS ships with capabilities you want: better hardware support, updated crypto policies, kernel improvements. But adopting it has always meant adopting it everywhere. Your hardware certifications don't transfer automatically. Your internal validation pipeline needs another quarter. Your change advisory board wants a rollback plan for something that hasn't historically rolled back gracefully.The result is that teams delay platform upgrades to avoid the OS migration, missing capabilities they actually need. The OS upgrade

Organizations can no longer rely on static operating models. AI capabilities expand daily, reshaping what humans and machines can do together. To capture that potential safely and at speed, companies need a new organizational capability: frontier operations. Frontier operations as an organizational differentiator and its connection with harness engineering and experiment trackingWhat is frontier operations?Frontier operations is the practice of continuously aligning evolving AI capabilities with business strategy through the adjusting of people, processes, and technology. It turns integration

Mission Center (Linux system monitor) adds battery stats + more  OMG! Ubuntu

Mission Center update adds battery, partition and power draw stats  OMG! Ubuntu

Looking to be added to the Linux kernel source tree for the upcoming Linux 7.3 cycle is test_amd_pmf, a small testing application for exercising the AMD Platform Management Framework (PMF) interfaces and dumping various system data points...

AMD PMF Testing Tool Slated For Linux 7.3  Phoronix

I tested a new Debian Linux loaded with local AI - see if it's right for you  ZDNET

First Look at Firefox’s Brand-New Design in Firefox Nightly  9to5Linux

Google Chrome is now available for Arm64 Linux distros  BetaNews

Last October on Phoronix we were first to point out there being some mysterious intrigue around a new x86 implementation from a "corporate entity other than Intel/AMD" with the developer involved not elaborating on the matter. Now that same developer has posted another semi-cryptic message to the Linux kernel mailing list to talk about 16-tile and 32-tile Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX) implementations. To date Intel only has 8-tile AMX...

Mysterious 16-Tile & 32-Tile AMX Implementations Talked Up For More Performance  Phoronix

Windows 11 ruined my old laptop, but this lightweight Linux distro brought it back to life  XDA

Fwupd 2.1.7 Linux Firmware Updater Brings New Features and Improvements  9to5Linux

Fwupd 2.1.7 is out today as the newest update to this open-source firmware updating utility that pairs with the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) for offering a nice firmware upgrade story on Linux systems...

Fwupd 2.1.7 Released With Many Bug Fixes  Phoronix

FreeBSD Builds BSD-Native NTSYNC Driver, Launches AMD ROCm Compute Port  Tech Times

I tried Framework's premium 'Linux-first' laptop: consider the bar raised  ZDNET