📰 Linux 7.4 To Upstream Support For Three Snapdragon X2 Elite Laptops

For those looking to run Linux on new Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 hardware, there are laptops from ASUS, HP, and Lenovo that are powered by the X2 Elite and will be supported with the mainline Linux 7.4 kernel...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/ASUS-UX3407NA-Linux-7.4

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📰 Linux 7.4 To Upstream Support For Three Snapdragon X2 Elite Laptops

For those looking to run Linux on new Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 hardware, there are laptops from ASUS, HP, and Lenovo that are powered by the X2 Elite and will be supported with the mainline Linux 7.4 kernel...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/ASUS-UX3407NA-Linux-7.4

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📰 Ubuntu 27.04 “Tenacious T-Rex” Is Slated for Release on April 22nd, 2027

Canonical's next major Ubuntu release, Ubuntu 27.04 "Tenacious T-Rex," has been slated for release on April 22nd, 2027, and it’s expected to come with the GNOME 52 desktop environment and Linux kernel 7.6.

🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/ubuntu-27-04-tenacious-t-rex-is-slated-for-release-on-april-22nd-2027

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📰 NVIDIA's Nova Driver Continues Leading The Way For Linux Rust GPU Drivers

The DRM Rust changes targeting the Linux 7.4 merge window have been submitted for pulling into DRM-Next ahead of that cycle kicking off (hopefully) next week. The NVIDIA Nova driver continues leading the way for the development of in-kernel Rust GPU drivers and in the process building out the Rust Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) infrastructure...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-Nova-Linux-7.4-Changes

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📰 Linux Kernel Developers Plan To Remove "Assisted-By" Tag Requirement For AI/LLM Usage

Currently there is a policy requirement for Linux kernel patches where AI tools contributed, they should be documented with an "Assisted-by:" tag to make clear AI was used in the creation of said patch. But Linux kernel developers are now looking at dropping this requirement amid the rampant use of AI/LLMs...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Dropping-Assisted-By-Req

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📰 AI-Found Linux Kernel Flaw Gives Local Users Root, and Can Break a Guest Out to the Host

A flaw in Linux's vhost subsystem lets a local user read and write kernel memory at will and become root across nearly a decade of kernel versions. In one virtualization setup, it lets an untrusted virtual machine write to the host's memory and hijack the program that runs the virtual machine.The bug is tracked as CVE-2026-74580 and named Vghost. Tencent Zhuque Lab, which found the.

🔗 Source: https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/ai-found-linux-kernel-flaw-gives-local.html

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📰 IPFire 2.29 Core Update 204 Fixes VPN DNS Issues, Updates Linux Kernel

IPFire 2.29 Core Update 204 fixes VPN-related DNS resolution issues, updates the Linux kernel to 6.18.54, and refreshes key packages.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/ipfire-2-29-core-update-204-fixes-vpn-dns-issues-updates-linux-kernel/

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📰 Linux Finally Making It Easier To Answer The Question: "Is This RISC-V System RVA23?"

The RISC-V RVA23 profile is a big deal for reducing fragmentation in the RISC-V ecosystem and standardizing more of the ISA to make it easier to distribute modern RISC-V binaries and the like. Modern versions of Ubuntu mandate RVA23 even though compliant hardware is still quite limited. Somewhat surprisingly, only coming about now is an easy ability for Linux users to find the answer to "is my RISC-V system RVA23 compliant?" Pending Linux kernel...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Answering-RVA23-Question

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📰 HP EliteBook 6 G1q Powered By Snapdragon X1 Plus Sees Linux Patches

Canonical engineer Juerg Haefliger posted a set of Device Tree patches in working to support the mainline Linux kernel on the HP EliteBook 6 G1q laptop that is powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon X1 Plus SoC...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/HP-EliteBook-6-Q1q-Linux-Patch

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📰 Intel Nova Lake S & Nova Lake P To Support SR-IOV With Xe Graphics

A patch has been posted to the Linux kernel mailing list by an Intel engineer confirming that Nova Lake S and Nova Lake P processors with integrated graphics will support SR-IOV in conjunction with the Xe kernel graphics driver...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Nova-Lake-SR-IOV-Xe

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📰 Critical PwnEscape Linux Kernel Vulnerability Lets Guest VMs Read Host Memory

A newly disclosed critical flaw in the Linux kernel allows code inside a virtual machine to read memory on the host computer it runs on. A researcher demonstrated the leak against Vercel's live cloud sandboxes, and Vercel confirmed it.The flaw, now tracked as CVE-2026-99999 and nicknamed PwnEscape, is in the Linux kernel's networking code, not in any one cloud's setup, so it reaches the shared.

🔗 Source: https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/critical-pwnescape-linux-kernel.html

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📰 Intel Nova Lake S & Nova Lake P To Support SR-IOV With Xe Graphics

A patch has been posted to the Linux kernel mailing list by an Intel engineer confirming that Nova Lake S and Nova Lake P processors with integrated graphics will support SR-IOV in conjunction with the Xe kernel graphics driver...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Nova-Lake-SR-IOV-Xe

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📰 Linus Torvalds Rejects AI Coding Bans as Linux Rethinks Disclosure Rules

Linus Torvalds opposes banning AI coding tools while Linux kernel developers propose dropping the Assisted-by disclosure requirement.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/linus-torvalds-rejects-ai-coding-bans-as-linux-rethinks-disclosure-rules/

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📰 Decoding with Rockchip at Kernel Recipes 2026

Next week we'll be in Paris for Kernel Recipes! We’re pleased to sponsor this gathering of the kernel community and contribute a talk on upstream H.264 and HEVC decoding for Rockchip RK3588/RK3576.

🔗 Source: https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/decoding-with-rockchip-at-kernel-recipes-2026.html

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📰 After 23 Years, Longtime Linux Developer To "Step Back For A While"

Longtime Linux kernel engineer Darrick Wong who stepped down as the XFS file-system maintainer in 2023 is now taking a step back from his other Linux kernel development roles after working on the kernel the past 23 years...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Darrick-Wong-Step-Back-23-Years

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📰 The Best Features Of Linux 7.3: Performance Improvements, Lots From Valve

The Linux 7.3 kernel is slated to be officially released on Sunday, 18 October, barring any last minute issues from coming about. With that said, here's a reminder about some of the most exciting features to look forward to in this next kernel version...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-Best-Features

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📰 Researchers Demonstrate OpenBSD Root Exploit Chaining 37-Year-Old Shared-Memory Bug

A local privilege escalation exploit published today gains root on OpenBSD 7.9 by chaining a roughly 37-year-old integer overflow with a separate kernel flaw, bypassing OpenBSD's KARL kernel-address randomization and its SMAP and SMEP hardware protections. Security firm Calif, which found and reported the flaws, published a detailed writeup and full proof-of-concept code after OpenBSD shipped.

🔗 Source: https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/researchers-demonstrate-openbsd-root.html

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📰 Linux Lands Fix for Rare, Varying SMP Boot Hangs Affecting Kernels Since 2024

Among the flurry of last minute patch activity ahead of tomorrow's presumed Linux 7.3 stable kernel release is a fix for addressing some rare hangs at boot time. The reports varied but ultimately tracked down to a kernel change made two years ago...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-KThreads-NBCON

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📰 Omarchy 4.0.5 Released with Linux Kernel 7.2.8, Better Hardware Support

Omarchy 4.0.5 ships with Linux kernel 7.2.8, Qt 6.12 compatibility fixes, desktop performance improvements, and better support for NVIDIA laptops and audio devices.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/omarchy-4-0-5-released-with-linux-kernel-7-2-8-better-hardware-support/

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📰 BFS Removed With Linux 7.4 As Old UnixWare File-System

Linus Torvalds began honoring pull requests overnight of new code entering the Linux 7.4 kernel -- as well as removing old code. BFS is the latest obsolete file-system removed from the mainline kernel...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/BFS-Removed-With-Linux-7.4

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