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. …
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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 is also improving power efficiency for full-screen windows and effects that don't gain any benefit from Dir… …
Fwupd 2.1.3 Brings Firmware Updating To Modular Smartphones
… There is also a number of bug fixes in Fwupd 2.1.3 for various hardware issues and other minor issues. When it comes to new hardware support in Fwupd 2.1.3, there is now support for firmware updates on the SHIFT6MQ and SHIFTphone 8. …
Flatpak 1.16.4 Brings Important Security Fixes For Sandbox Escape & Deleting Host Files
… XDG-Desktop-Portal 1.20.4 Released To Protect Against Apps Trashing Arbitrary Host Files Memtest86+ 8.10 Improves Support For Newer Hardware OpenZL 0.2 Released For Meta's Content-Aware Compression Software Flatpak 1.17.7 To Track The Age Of Configurations For Providing Much Better Performance Devu…
Ubuntu Rust Coreutils Audit Revealed 113 Issues, Ubuntu 26.10 Aims For "100% Rust Coreutils"
… The full audit report by Zellic hasn't yet been made public but it turned up 70 CVEs and another 73 issues, for a total of 113 issues identified. The vast majority of those issues have since been addressed. …
Linux 7.0 Ready For Release With Many Exciting Changes
… Ahead of Sunday's release, here is a reminder about some of the most notable changes to look forward to with Linux 7.0: - Intel Transactional Synchronization Extensions TSX now defaults to "auto" mode on Intel TSX-capable CPUs without any known TSX security issues, which will be able to help with o… …
Libinput Hit By Worrying Security Issues With Its Lua Plug-In System
… More details on these libinput security issues via today's advisory . …
New AMD Dynamic EPP Feature Causing Some Problems With Linux 7.1
… The patch message explains of some yet unresolved performance issues: "There are some performance issues being identified by dynamic EPP and we don't want to have distributions turning it on by default exposing them to users at this time. …
Valve Developer Further Improves Old AMD GPUs: HD 7870 XT Finally Working On Linux
… Now Timur's out with some more fixes for helping select GCN 1.0 hardware. …
GNOME Fixes Screencasting Issue With H.264 Recordings Being ~18x Larger Than VP8
… GNOME's Help Viewer Updated Due To Flatpak Sandbox Escape Vulnerability Nocturne Is The Latest Music Player For GNOME To Hit v1.0 The GNOME-Aligned RustConn Connection Manager Continues Piling On More Features GNOME's Maps, Graphs, RustConn & Other App Improvements GNOME Mutter 50.1 Fixes Performan…