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Today's Patch Tuesday is a busier one than normal for the quarter. Both AMD and Intel have rolled out new updates for Linux customers among other security disclosures today. Thankfully though the vulnerabilities don't appear to be too widespread or impactful...

The kernel's dma-buf subsystem provides a way for drivers to share memory buffers, usually in order to support efficient device-to-device I/O. At the 2026 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit, Pavel Begunkov, assisted by Kanchan Joshi, led a joint session of the storage and memory-management tracks to explore ways to make the use of dma-bufs more efficient yet, and to make them available for read and write operations initiated by user space.

DXVK-NVAPI 0.9.2 is now available for this implementation of NVIDIA's NVAPI/NVOFAPI interfaces atop DXVK and VKD3D-Proton that is used in turn by Valve's Steam Play (Proton) for enhanced NVIDIA Linux gaming support...

An IBM engineer posted the first set of patches enabling the Rust programming language support for the Linux kernel to be built on the s390 architecture...

Audacious 4.6 open-source media player is now available for public beta testing with a File Browser plugin, a macOS Now Playing plugin, support for playing Musepack SV8 files, and much more.

It's been nearly one year to the week since Intel introduced Project Battlematrix as their initiative for improving their Linux driver support for the Arc Pro B-Series with enhancements such as bettering the multi-GPU support in allowing up to eight Arc Pro GPUs per system as well as other open-source driver optimizations in the era of AI. Recently with the Arc Pro B70 in having four review samples for testing I was finally able to try out the multi-GPU state of the Arc (Pro) graphics cards on Linux with their open-source driver code.

As a general rule, when developers talk about huge pages, they are referring to PMD-level pages that are 1MB or 2MB in size, depending on the CPU architecture. Most CPUs can support other huge-page sizes, though. On x86 systems, PUD-level huge pages hold 1GB of data. Providing such large pages transparently to processes has generally not been considered as either feasible or desirable, but Usama Arif is trying to change that assessment. At the 2026 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit, he led a session in the memory-management track on how to make transparent huge pages (THPs) truly huge.

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (freerdp, glib2, libsoup3, and openexr), Debian (dnsmasq, p7zip, p7zip-rar, python-authlib, and rails), Fedora (chromium, firefox, httpd, and nss), SUSE (java-25-openj9, krb5, libmodsecurity3, and mcphost), and Ubuntu (imagemagick, linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-fips, linux-aws-hwe, linux-azure-4.15, linux-fips, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-4.15, linux-gcp-fips, linux-hwe, linux-kvm, linux-oracle, linux-azure, linux-azure-fips, linux-oracle, linux-azure-5.15, linux-nvidia, linux-nvidia-6.8, linux-nvidia-lowlatency, and linux-raspi).

Android Owners: You Could Get Part of Google's $135 Million Data Settlement

Two years ago, I replaced my laptop with an Android-based desktop

We previously wrote about Carbon’s CyberT, a Blackberry-style Raspberry Pi CM4 handheld Linux cyberdeck designed for Kali Linux and penetration testing

A new driver expected to land in the upcoming Linux 7.2 kernel is the ARCTIC Fan Controller driver to allow fan speed monitoring and PWM controls for this upcoming ARCTIC product. Making this new driver all the more exciting is that it was worked on by ARCTIC directly compared to the typical workflow for such desktop/consumer hardware peripherals often being left up to the reverse-engineering, open-source community...

LibreOffice 25.8.7 is now available for download as the seventh and last maintenance update to the latest LibreOffice 25.8 office suite series with more than 10 bug fixes.

LibreOffice 25.8.7 is now available for download as the seventh and last maintenance update to the latest LibreOffice 25.8 office suite series with more than 10 bug fixes.

I’ll put this mini PC through its paces from a Linux perspective

ALBA Linux Project is an Ubuntu-based Linux distribution that’s developed by a Japanese student