📰 Google's Kage Project Rethinks Linux Kernel Security With Isolated Device Drivers

by George WhittakerGoogle is exploring a new approach to Linux kernel security that could significantly change how device drivers interact with the operating system. The experimental project, known as Kage, uses compiler-based sandboxing to isolate drivers inside the kernel, potentially limiting the damage caused by memory corruption, programming errors, and exploitable vulnerabilities without requiring drivers to run as separate user-space...

🔗 Source: https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/googles-kage-project-rethinks-linux-kernel-security-isolated-device-drivers

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📰 HDR Support Coming For Qualcomm MSM Driver To Benefit Snapdragon X Laptops On Linux

For those making use of Qualcomm Snapdragon X laptops on Linux, one of the features coming to the MSM DRM kernel driver is static HDR support for DisplayPort outputs and eDP panels...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Qualcomm-MSM-DRM-HDR

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📰 Linux Patches Finally Make Hibernation Possible In Secure Boot / Lockdown Mode

When booting the Linux kernel using UEFI SecureBoot, the kernel is put in the lockdown mode to restrict the ability to modify the running kernel image or leaking data from kernel memory. Kernel lockdown mode can also be manually enabled by the user/administrator. Among the limitations imposed in Linux's lockdown mode is no hibernation support. But that soon may be relieved with new patches proposed...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Hibernation-With-Lockdown

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📰 Boro: NVIDIA's Open-Source Effort For AI-Assisted Linux Kernel Development

Over the past few months NVIDIA has been developing Boro as a new AI-assisted kernel development CLI written in Rust and focused on local AI for enhancing efficiency for kernel development...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-Boro-Linux-Kernel-AI

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📰 KNOD Progressing For Linux In-Kernel GPU Offloading For Network Packet Processing

A while back we covered KNOD as an experimental solution for in-kernel network offloading to AMD GPUs. The open-source KNOD project allows leveraging GPUs to handle packet processing in a very performant and energy efficient manner without needing any specialized hardware. KNOD has continued and a development update was shared this week at the Linux Plumbers Conference in Prague...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/KNOD-2026-GPU-Network-Process

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📰 Linux Networking Diverts 50+ Fixes To Next Kernel, Still Bombarded With AI Fueled Churn

Ahead of the Linux 7.3-rc7 kernel due for release on Sunday, this week's batch of networking fixes were submitted and merged. The vast networking subsystem of wired and wireless drivers plus the various other networking features continues to see a lot of activity due to AI-driven bug reports and patches...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-rc7-Networking

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📰 Many Laptop & Gaming Handheld Support Improvements Coming For Linux 7.4

Many x86 platform driver improvements have been queuing ahead of the upcoming Linux 7.4 merge window to offer a variety of laptop and gaming handheld device improvements with this next kernel version...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.4-Laptops-Handhelds

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📰 Auto Vectorizing The RISC-V Linux Kernel Shows Promising Results

The Linux kernel build for RISC-V doesn't currently make use of the CPU ISA's Vector extension. but leveraging it with compiler auto vectorization is showing the ability to provide nice performance results for enhancing RISC-V Linux performance...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Auto-Vectorize-RISC-V-Kernel

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📰 Linux Landing Kernel Workaround For AMD TLBI Erratum #1718

AMD TLBI Erratum #1718 was worked around in CPU microcode for addressing a defect in certain Zen CPUs where the Translation Lookaside Buffer Invalidate Instruction use could lead to to stale translation entries. But for those on affected AMD CPUs and not running the updated microcode, a kernel workaround is being introduced with today's Linux 7.3-rc7 kernel and to be back-ported to prior kernel versions...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-WA-TLBI-Erratum-1718

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📰 EXT4 Introducing IOmap Buffered I/O Path With Some Performance Gains

EXT4 with the upcoming Linux 7.4 kernel looks like it will introduce opt-in support for IOmap buffered I/O in replacing the file-system's buffer_head usage with IOmap...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/EXT4-iomap-Buffered-IO

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📰 Linus Torvalds "Did What I Preach", Used AI To Make Code Decipherable & Uncovered More Bugs

After using Claude Code to draft code to help make a fundamental improvement to the Linux kernel, Linux creator Linus Torvalds continued using AI this weekend and talking up its benefits. Beyond generating initial patches and a test program for that noted I/O enhancement, he separately talked up using AI/LLMs for making patches more decipherable to understand in the process the AI noted more long-standing bugs within the Linux kernel...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linus-Torvalds-Assoc-Array

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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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📰 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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