📰 15-Year-Old Linux Kernel GhostLock Flaw Lets Local Users Gain Root

CVE-2026-43499, dubbed GhostLock by Nebula Security, exposes a long-standing Linux kernel futex bug that can lead to local root access.

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https://linuxiac.com/15-year-old-linux-kernel-ghostlock-flaw-lets-local-users-gain-root/

📰 Linux DT Patches Provide Very Basic Support For Apple M3 Pro / Max / Ultra

Upstreamed for the Linux 7.2 kernel was initial support for booting Linux on the Apple M3 SoC devices. But just the barebones suppport for booting with not yet any accelerated graphics or other typical function needed for daily use of M3 Apple devices on Linux, just booting to a console. Now this work is complemented by additional Device Tree patches for also booting M3 Pro / Max / Ultra devices on Linux...

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https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-DT-Apple-M3-Pro-Max-Ultra

📰 Linux 7.3 Enabling Second Graphics Pipe For Modern AMD APUs

AMD on Thursday sent out another round of AMDGPU kernel graphics driver and AMDKFD kernel compute driver updates to DRM-Next of new feature material ahead of the Linux 7.3 merge window...

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https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-Second-Pipe-GFX11-APU

📰 Linux 7.2-rc3 Bringing Display Detection Improvement To Help Some Multi-GPU Systems

Sent out today was this week's round of x86 (x86_64) fixes ahead of the Linux 7.2-rc3 kernel test candidate due out on Sunday...

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https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-rc3-Multi-GPU-Fix

📰 Reworked System Call Entry Handling Slated For Linux 7.3

Stemming from looking at a proposed Linux kernel patch to alter the Linux kernel's system call number handling, veteran Linux kernel developer Thomas Gleixner went down a rabbit hole of the kernel's system call entry handling to make a number of clean-ups and improvements to the code. That rework to the system call entry handling is now expected to land for the Linux 7.3 kernel cycle...

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https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rework-Sysclal-Entry-Linux-7.3

📰 New Linux Patches Aim To Better Handle Multiple Swap Devices

For those having Linux systems with multiple swap devices, such as for swap tiering or layered swap handling, a set of patches posted today for the Linux kernel are looking to improve the situation...

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https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Improve-Multi-Swap-Device

📰 Clonezilla Live 3.3.3 Adds Reverse-Connection Network Cloning

Clonezilla Live 3.3.3 arrives with Linux kernel 7.0, reverse-connection network cloning, new utilities, and important bug fixes.

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https://linuxiac.com/clonezilla-live-3-3-3-adds-reverse-connection-network-cloning/

📰 Linus Torvalds Reaffirms That Linux Is Not "Anti-AI" & Not A "Social Warrior" Project

Overnight Linux creator Linus Torvalds wrote another well crafted message that reaffirms the Linux kernel position of not being against AI and lashing back against some kernel developers that are against AI/LLM usage within the kernel project...

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https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Is-Not-Anti-AI

📰 Kernel 7.1: Graphics, Rust, and SoC Improvements

Linux kernel 7.1 brings improvements across filesystems, networking, scheduling, graphics, Rust, and hardware enablement, with Collabora contributing 65 patches from 16 engineers across Panthor, DRM, Rockchip, MediaTek, and driver fixes across the kernel.

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https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/kernel-7.1-graphics,-rust,-and-soc-improvements.html

📰 Linux Patches Introduce "KNOD" For In-Kernel Network Offloading Directly To AMD GPUs

Some extremely cool patches were posted to the Linux kernel mailing list on Sunday. The patches for "KNOD" allow for in-kernel network offloading to GPUs with an initial focus on AMD GPU support. What makes this all the more nifty is that it doesn't depend upon any user-space libraries like AMD ROCm but is all handled in-kernel with driving the GPU directly...

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https://www.phoronix.com/news/KNOD-Network-Offload-AMD-GPUs