📰 Initial Patches Posted For Booting The Apple M4 On Linux

With the Linux 7.2 kernel there is initial support for booting the Apple M3 SoC on Linux but it's not yet functional for end users with just booting to a simple console. There are now Device Tree files posted for booting the Apple M4 on Linux but also not yet useful for any typical Apple Mac/MacBook usage on Linux...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Apple-M4-DT-Linux

#kernel #linux

📰 GodDamn Ransomware Uses PoisonX Driver to Disable Endpoint Defenses

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new ransomware family called GodDamn that employs the PoisonX kernel driver to neutralize security software as part of its defense evasion strategy.According to a new report published by the Threat Hunter Team from Symantec, the ransomware was first publicly spotted in the wild on May 21, 2026. It's assessed to be a rebrand of the Beast ransomware,.

🔗 Source: https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/goddamn-ransomware-uses-poisonx-driver.html

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📰 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.

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

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📰 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...

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

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📰 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...

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

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📰 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...

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

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📰 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...

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

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📰 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...

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

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📰 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.

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

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📰 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...

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

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📰 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.

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

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📰 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...

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

#amd #kernel #linux

📰 Linux 7.2 Improves Intel Panther Lake Xe3 Arc B390 Graphics Performance

My testing of the in-development Linux 7.2 kernel continues in the lab. One of the latest promising findings from this kernel that will be released as stable in August is faster Intel Xe3 graphics performance on Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake" hardware.

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-72-panther-lake

#intel #kernel #linux

📰 Linus Torvalds Spent Years Dismissing AI, Only to Vouch for It

A chronological look at how Linux's creator went from "90% marketing" to telling AI critics to fork the kernel or walk away.

🔗 Source: https://feed.itsfoss.com/link/24361/17381815/linus-torvalds-on-ai

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📰 Cold Reset Recovery Coming Together To Better Help Intel GPUs On Linux

One of the patch series going through nearly a dozen revisions now is for introducing a cold reset recovery method for the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) drivers with an initial focus on the Intel Xe kernel graphics driver...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Cold-Reset-Recovery-Linux

#intel #kernel #linux

📰 AMD Getting The Linux Kernel Ready For Zen 6 Profiling/Perf With More EILVT Registers

Among the recent patch series in preparing Linux for upcoming AMD Zen 6 processors is making the kernel aware of additional EILVT registers to be found with at least EPYC Venice platforms...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Zen-6-More-EILVT-Registers

#amd #kernel #linux

📰 VirtualBox 7.2.14 Adds Initial Support for Linux Kernel 7.2

VirtualBox 7.2.14 is out with initial Linux kernel 7.2 support, RHEL guest fixes, Windows clipboard improvements, and UEFI corrections.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/virtualbox-7-2-14-adds-initial-support-for-linux-kernel-7-2/

#kernel #linux

📰 Steam streaming on Proxmox doesn't require GPU passthrough, and my LXC setup proves it

I've been wanting to turn my Strix Halo box into a game streaming server for months, and the only thing stopping me was the dread of VFIO GPU passthrough. It's a pain: block the driver, wrangle IOMMU groups, dedicate the entire GPU to one VM, and pray that the next kernel update doesn't break everything. My homelab already runs half a dozen services on Proxmox, and giving up the only GPU in the machine to a single VM just feels wasteful.

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/run-steam-in-an-lxc-on-proxmox-to-avoid-gpu-passthrough/

#kernel #steam

📰 Qualcomm Posts Linux Patches For X2 Elite Extreme Powered ASUS Zenbook A16

Following recent Linux kernel patches enabling the Snapdragon X2 Elite powered Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x Gen11 and HP EliteBook X G2q X2 Elite laptops to boot outside of Windows 11 on ARM, Qualcomm engineers have now posted a new patch series for getting the X2 Elite Extreme powered ASUS Zenbook A16 working on Linux...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Qualcomm-Zenbook-A16-X2EE

#arm #kernel #linux

📰 CachyOS rebuilds every package the 'wrong' way, and my Steam library runs faster for it

There's a set of unwritten rules that every Linux distribution follows, and I never thought about them until I found the one distro that doesn't. Compile for the oldest CPU anyone might own. Ship the mainline kernel. Use Valve's Proton, because Valve knows best. I've been running CachyOS on my ROG Ally X and my laptop for a while now, and it breaks every single one of those rules on purpose. It even skipped the Open Gaming Collective, the...

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/every-linux-gaming-distro-joined-collective-except-cachyos-its-beating-all-of-them/

#distro #kernel #linux #proton #steam