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Meta Has A New Linux Optimization To Avoid Throttling TCP Throughput Unnecessarily

…Allows Reading Root-Owned Files By Unprivileged Users Fragnesia Made Public As Latest Linux Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability Linux Scheduler Work Helping Boost Gaming Performance On Old "Potato" Hardware Linux 7.0…

Apr 3, 2026

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More AMDGPU Driver Fixes Prepped For Linux 7.2

…s390 Is The Latest Architecture Seeing Rust Linux Kernel Support Linux's Latest Vulnerability Allows Reading Root-Owned Files By Unprivileged Users Fragnesia Made Public As Latest Linux Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

May 21, 2026

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Expanded Reset Support Coming For AMDGPU To Recover From More GPU Compute Hangs

…Allows Reading Root-Owned Files By Unprivileged Users Fragnesia Made Public As Latest Linux Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability SDL Library Adds Support For The New Steam Controller Without Depending On Steam Claude…

May 22, 2026

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Linux 7.0 Released With New Hardware Support, Optimizations & Self-Healing XFS

…Allows Reading Root-Owned Files By Unprivileged Users Fragnesia Made Public As Latest Linux Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability Linux Scheduler Work Helping Boost Gaming Performance On Old "Potato" Hardware OpenZFS 2.4…

Apr 12, 2026

phoronix.com › news › Linux-7.0-rc7-Released

Linux 7.0-rc7 Released With Improved Docs For AI Agents, WiFi Driver Performance Fix

…Allows Reading Root-Owned Files By Unprivileged Users Fragnesia Made Public As Latest Linux Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability Linux Scheduler Work Helping Boost Gaming Performance On Old "Potato" Hardware Linux 7.0…

Apr 5, 2026

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FreeBSD 15.1-RC1 Released: Fixes With Now Seeing More AI-Discovered Security Issues

…Meanwhile others using GLM-5.1 from Z.ai found missing validation in ptrace(PT_SC_REMOTE) that can allow unprivileged local users to escalate privileges to root. A remote code execution…

May 23, 2026

phoronix.com › news › May-2026-Recap

AI-Driven Security Disclosures, NVIDIA Vera & Linux 7.1 Features That Made An Exciting May

…Root Privilege On All Distributions One week after the Copy Fail vulnerability, a new Linux local privilege escalation bug has been made public. This time around there are no patches or CVEs…

Jun 1, 2026

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AWS Engineer Reports PostgreSQL Performance Halved By Linux 7.0, But A Fix May Not Be Easy

…Allows Reading Root-Owned Files By Unprivileged Users Fragnesia Made Public As Latest Linux Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability Linux Scheduler Work Helping Boost Gaming Performance On Old "Potato" Hardware Linux 7.0…

Apr 4, 2026

phoronix.com › news › Linux-7.1-rc2-Released

Linux 7.1-rc2 Released With Audio Fix For Steam Deck OLED, Other Fixes

…Allows Reading Root-Owned Files By Unprivileged Users Fragnesia Made Public As Latest Linux Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability Linux Scheduler Work Helping Boost Gaming Performance On Old "Potato" Hardware OpenZFS 2.4…

May 3, 2026

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Today's Linux Networking Fixes: "Craziness Continues With No End In Sight"

…Allows Reading Root-Owned Files By Unprivileged Users Fragnesia Made Public As Latest Linux Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability KDE Receiving Over 1.2 Million EUR Investment From Sovereign Tech Fund Discord Touts…

May 21, 2026