California lawmakers introduced a new amendment that could exempt most Linux distributions from the states upcoming Digital Age Assurance Act after privacy backlash and concerns that the law would force open-source operating systems to become age-verification platforms.

Phoronix reports on a presentation about trying FreeBSD on modern Framework laptop from last week's Open Source Summit hosted by the Linux Foundation: With FreeBSD having worked on improving its laptop support over the past two years with some big changes and ongoing efforts for making a nice KDE desktop experience on FreeBSD, FreeBSD Foundation's Executive Director has been trying to daily drive FreeBSD on laptops..

"Canonical says Ubuntu Pastebin will be decommissioned at the end of May 2026," writes Slashdot reader BrianFagioli, "as part of an infrastructure modernization effort." The announcement only appeared this week, giving the Linux community barely any warning before a service that has been tied to Ubuntu support culture for years suddenly disappears

The It's FOSS blog has news about the Linux Vendor Firmware Service, which gives hardware vendors a secure portal to upload firmware updates "which can then be downloaded and installed by users through clients such as GNOME Software or fwupdmgr." (Originally developed in 2 by GNOME maintainer Richard Hughes...) The issue, however, obviously, had been funding with the largest contributors being the usual suspects, Framework and Open Source Framework Foundation, at $10K a year

Linus Torvalds spoke this week at the Linux Foundation's Open Source Summit North America, reports ZDNet and described how AI is impacting Linux kernel development: "In the last six months, we've seen a lot more commits," Torvalds noted, estimating that "the last two releases, it's been about 20% more commits than we had in the previous releases over many years...

The stick, however, is the removal of certain debug features. The thing that's likely to hit the hobbist community the worst, however, is that the free tier will now not be available on Linux

Qualys's Threat Research Unit (TRU) has discovered and published a logic flaw in Linux kernel "that permits an unprivileged local user to disclose sensitive files and execute arbitrary commands as root on default installations of several major distributions." Friday their blog pointed out "The bug has resided in mainline Linux since November 2016 (v4.10-rc1)." "Upstream patches and distribution updates are already available." Working exploits are circulating publicly, and administrators should apply vendor kernel updates without delay

Or is it just life today, with AI constantly digging through code repositories in search of security holes?

Dirty Frag, Copy Fail, and Fragesia show the new reality

There was a way to elevate normal Linux users' privileges to root, granting threat actors admin access.

The Flipper One is much more than just an incremental upgrade to the Flipper Zero, offering a Linux kernel, a fully open source platform, and greater modularity than its predecessor.

Mozilla VPNs latest updates introduce a handy iOS Control Center toggle for iPhone, alongside major performance and stability upgrades for macOS and Linux clients.

Flipper "One" is basically a hacker's Lego set.

The smartphone has replaced so many devices in our pockets over the last decade and more

BrianFagioli writes: Flipper Devices has finally revealed Flipper One, a Linux-powered cyberdeck that sounds less like a gadget like an attempt to rebuild portable ARM computing from the ground up

Not a Zero successor, ARM box aims for openness, but shipping remains the hard part

The creators of the Flipper Zero portable multi-tool device for geeks have announced the Flipper One.

The releases also add updated developer toolchains such as Go 1.26, LLVM 21, Rust 1.92, Python 3.14, and PHP 8.4. Phoronix reports: Red Hat Enterprise Linux has introduced the goose command for power users

A long-running lawsuit over Vizio's Linux-based smart TV software is headed to trial in August, with the Software Freedom Conservancy arguing that GPL rules require Vizio to release complete source code owners could use to modify, maintain, or strip ads and tracking from their TVs

Export a profile on Windows, restore it on Linux

Microsoft is turning Azure Linux into a general-purpose, Fedora-based cloud distribution available to all Azure customers, while also productizing Flatcar as Azure Container Linux for immutable container hosts

From campus ceremonies to Linux communities and academic journals, resistance to LLM evangelism is getting louder

Plus ModuleJail, a radical proposal for minimizing the impact of similar bugs

Torvalds says everyone is using AI to report on the same flaws, most of which have already been fixed.

Discord's latest efforts to improve the user experience, particularly on Linux, are certainly noteworthy, but its age-verification plans remain a concern.

"AI detected bugs are pretty much by definition not secret, and treating them on some private list is a waste of time for everybody involved."

ANBERNIC's Linux platform brings extensive dual-screen support and a slick design to the RG DS.

Siri cip pemprosesan Intel Panther Lake atau Intel Core Ultra 300 ialah siri cip pemprosesan komputer riba terbaru oleh Intel yang lazimnya digunakan untuk komputer riba nipis dan ringan premium yang masih mengekalkan kuasa pemprosesan perkomputeran dan grafik yang berkuasa. Terkini, kemaskini tampalan kernel Intel untuk sistem operasi Linux telah memperlihatkan penawaran model cip pemprosesan […]

Today Linus Torvalds announced another Linux release candidate on the kernel mailing list

Multiple researchers using the same tools to find the same bugs are creating unnecessary pain and pointless work

Long-time Slashdot reader internet-redstar shares an interestging response to "the recent wave of Linux kernel privilege escalation vulnerabilities like 'Copy Fail' and 'Dirty Frag'": Belgian Linux sysadmin and Tesla Hacker "Jasper Nuyens" got tired of the idea of manually blacklisting dozens or even hundreds of obscure kernel modules across large fleets of Linux systems in the near future

Former Microsoft programmer Keith Curtis "wrote and self-published After the Software Wars to explain the caliber of free and open source software," according to his entry on Wikipedia, "and why he believes Linux is technically superior to any proprietary OS." He's also KeithCu (long-time Slashdot reader #925,649), and has written a blog post on "How I added an LLM-based grammar checking + TeX math import to LibreOffice." : At Microsoft, I spent five years working on the text components RichEdit and Quill, and came to understand the "physics" of word processing: the file formats, data structures, and algorithms that provided fast access to text and properties, independent of the length of the file

The Linux 7.1 kernel has added new documentation clarifying what qualifies as a security bug and how AI-assisted vulnerability reports should be handled

A software engineer figured out a way to run an RTX 5090 on an M5 Max MacBook and play Cyberpunk 2077 at over 100FPS. The process required a lot of tweaking, including running a Linux VM and using the FEX translation layer to get games to work.

The flaw is in the same family as Dirty Frag and allows privilege escalation at kernel level.

Fresh kernel flaw comes with public exploit code and continues ugly run of highly reliable privilege escalation bugs tied to memory and page-cache handling

BrianFagioli writes: SOLAI has launched the Solode Neo, a $399 Linux-based mini PC designed for always-on AI agents, browser automation, and persistent developer workflows

A new Linux local privilege escalation flaw called Fragnesia has been disclosed as a Dirty Frag-like vulnerability, allowing arbitrary byte writes into the kernel page cache of read-only files through a separate ESP/XFRM logic bug

The German Sovereign Tech Fund has invested 1.2 million euros ($1.4 million USD) in KDE Plasma technologies to help strengthen the structural reliability and security of the desktop environment's core infrastructure, including Plasma, KDE Linux, and the frameworks underlying its communication services

Patch series would bring memory-safe code to Linux's s390 port, with compiler caveats attached

Further demonstrating its role as industry default OS the versatility of modern porting tools

"All modern operating systems do this, including macOS and Linux."

Production-version patches are coming online and should be installed pronto.

Microsoft defends CPU trick to boost Windows 11 performance after critics label it a fudged fix.

"I see no evidence that this setup finds issues to any particular higher or more advanced degree than the other tools have done before Mythos." He went on to call Mythos "an amazingly successful marketing stunt for sure." The Register reports: Stenberg explained in a Monday blog post that he was promised access to Anthropic's Mythos model - sort of - through the AI biz's Project Glasswing program. Part of Glasswing involves giving high-profile open source projects access via the Linux Foundation, but while Stenberg signed up to try Mythos, he said he never actually received direct access to the model

A maintainer wants a first-aid kit for the Linux kernel and a proposal is currently being reviewed.

Linux 7.1 started phasing out support for Intel's 37-year-old i486 processor

Instead of waiting for patch cycles, admins could simply shut down vulnerable functions before attackers get there

AMDs landmark K5 processor family will no longer be supported by Linux when kernel version 7.2 arrives.

Under the nonprofit Linux Foundation, "a new Sustaining Package Registries Working Group will seek to identify concrete funding, governance, and security practices," reports ZDNet, "to keep code flowing as download counts grow...

Linux mascot Tux the penguin was first conceptualized by Linus Torvalds on this day in 1996.

mrspoonsi shares a report: Dirty Frag is a vulnerability class, first discovered and reported by Hyunwoo Kim (@v4bel), that can obtain root privileges on major Linux distributions by chaining the xfrm-ESP Page-Cache Write vulnerability and the RxRPC Page-Cache Write vulnerability

A researcher shared their findings with Linux distro maintainers, but leaked before a patch was built.

Broken disclosure embargo left admins facing a fresh root-level flaw with no CVE

Dirty Frag exploit gets root on most Linux machines since 2017, no patches available

joshuark shares a report from Linux Magazine: Microsoft has issued a warning that a vulnerability with a CVSS score of 7.8 has been found in the Linux kernel

ExpressVPN's new 14.1.0 update for Windows, Mac, and Linux brings a minimized startup option, faster kill switch toggling, more reliable reconnections, and full keyboard and screen reader support.

Google is focusing on Linux kernel components, and prioritizing bugs that can't be easily found with AI.

The StarFighter Linux laptop is finally available for purchase on the website, after months of delays

Gartner says some VMware customers may find it cheaper to move certain Linux VM workloads to IBM mainframes than to adopt Broadcom's new VMware licensing, especially for fleets of hundreds of Linux VMs and mission-critical apps needing long-term stability

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: A severe security vulnerability affecting almost every version of the Linux operating system has caught defenders off-guard and scrambling to patch after security researchers publicly released exploit code that allows attackers to take complete control of vulnerable systems

Researchers dropped a reliable root exploit and it didnt sit idle for long CISA is warning that a newly-disclosed Linux kernel bug dubbed "CopyFail" is already being exploited, just days after researchers dropped a working root-level exploit.

NymVPN's v2026.8 update has arrived, finally adding split tunneling to the Linux app and rolling out a brand-new ad blocker for Android users.

AMD is preparing expanded HDMI 2.1 support for Linux, following earlier delays after the HDMI Forum rejected an open source implementation of HDMI 2.1 as proprietary technology

Fixed Rate Link being added now; Display Stream Compression coming soon.

CISA warns of the actively exploited Copy Fail Linux flaw (CVE-2026-31431), enabling root access, with a public exploit released before patches were ready.

Serious Linux VMs will enjoy big iron if you can learn to love lock-in risks and skills challenges VMware users considering a new home might find it cheaper to move to an IBM mainframe than adopting Broadcoms new licenses, according to Gartner Vice President Analyst Alessandro Galimberti.

High Definition Media Interface ataupun HDMI ialah format penghantaran sumber data video dan audio yang cukup terkenal dan dimanfaatkan oleh pelbagai pihak dalam industri audiovisual

That these are the only systems they provide binaries for shouldn't be seen as an indication that these are the "most important" platforms for Nethack, it's more that, since it's entirely open source, building it yourself is entirely possible, expected than with most software. Nethack can be built for Linux, Windows 8-11, AmigaDOS, MacOS (I'm not sure if this includes classic Mac too but it might), Windows CE (wow), OS/2 (additional wow), BeOS, VMS and multiple Unixes..

Steam on Linux use in March "had skyrocketed to 5.33%..." reports Phoronix, "easily the highest level we've seen Steam on Linux at since its inception more than a decade ago." So what happened in April? [April's results] point to Linux having a 4.52% marketshare on Steam, a drop of 0.81% compared to March

The exploit, dubbed CopyFail and tracked as CVE-2026-31431, allows hackers to take over PCs and data center servers. The Linux vulnerabilities have been patchedbut many machines remain at risk.

Linux users should update their servers now, or face possible attack.