Linux 7.0 Ready For Release With Many Exciting Changes
…12 Comments The Linux 7.0 kernel is gearing up for its stable release and should be out this coming Sunday, 12 April, barring any major last minute issues. Linux 7.0…
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Linux Kernel Adds Documentation For What Qualifies As A Security Bug, Responsible AI Use
…g., drivers for very old hardware, obsolete filesystems). In such cases, there is no need to consume a maintainer's time with an unimportant report. If the issue is clearly trivial and…
AMD & Intel Roll Out New Linux Updates For Today's Patch Tuesday
…That AMD patch is specific to older Zen 2 processors and correlates to today's CPU op cache corruption security bulletin. AMD-SB-7052 notes that a CPU operation cache issue on…
Various USB Quirks Merged Ahead Of Linux 7.1-rc6
…Nothing major in here, just lots of tiny fixes for reported issues found by users and some older patches found by some scanning tools. " One of the USB quirks standing out is…
SDL Adds Policy To Forbid LLM/AI Generated Code Contributions
…AI can be used to identify issues with contributions to this project, but the solutions to those issues should be authored by humans. We have found that AI will frequently hallucinate issues…
Farewell ISDN, Ham Radio & Old Network Drivers: Linus Torvalds Merges 138k L.O.C. Removal
Linus Torvalds did it! He merged the pull request to rid the Linux kernel of the old Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) subsystem and various other old network drivers largely for PCMCIA…
Linux DRM Ioctl Developed By AMD Being Disabled Following Ongoing Security Issue
Linux DRM Ioctl Developed By AMD Being Disabled Following Ongoing Security Issue Written by Michael Larabel in Linux Kernel on 5 June 2026 at 08:52 PM EDT. Add A Comment It…
VKD3D-Proton Merges Vulkan Descriptor Heap Support
…VK_EXT_descriptor_heap addresses issues uncovered with VK_EXT_descriptor_buffer and should provide more portable guarantees and more predictable performance characteristics. VK_EXT_descriptor_heap should be of big help…
KDE Plasma 6.7 Enables Overlay Planes For Intel Graphics, More Performance/Efficiency
…NVIDIA has "more severe issues" with its current overlay planes handling while AMDGPU has issues on some hardware where there are really slow atomic tests when overlays are used. - Plasma 6.7…
Dell XPS 13 Snapdragon Elite Laptop Sees New EC Linux Driver To Improve Support
…Having this dell-xps-ec Linux driver should address a number of issues as explained by Vinarskis: "With EC driver in place, the following issues are addressed: 1. Fans were not properly…