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AMD's legendary K5, its first independently-designed processor, is being removed from the Linux kernel — 4.3-million-transistor chip gets the axe because it lacks Time Stamp Counter (TSC) support, making it a coding burden

… Intel i486, AMD Elan SoCs, and AMD Geode CPUs also put out to pasture We reported a month ago that Linux devs had started to remove support for the 37-year-old Intel i486 CPU in patches destined for the Linux 7.1 kernel. …

May 10, 2026 · Mark Tyson
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Devastating 'Dirty Frag' exploit leaks out, gives immediate root access on most Linux machines since 2017, no patches available, no warning given — Copy Fail-like vulnerability had its embargo broken

… We even tested WSL2 ourselves and sure enough, "root" was the word. sh -c "printf 'install esp4 /bin/false\ninstall esp6 /bin/false\ninstall rxrpc /bin/false\n' /etc/modprobe.d/dirtyfrag.conf; rmmod esp4 esp6 rxrpc 2 /dev/null; true" The reason why Dirty Frag is catching everyone flat-footed is bec… …

May 8, 2026 · Bruno Ferreira
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Linus Torvalds says flood of duplicate AI-generated vulnerability reports have made Linux security mailing list 'almost entirely unmanageable' — private list 'a waste of time for everybody involved' in switch to new public system

Linus Torvalds declared the Linux kernel's private security mailing list "almost entirely unmanageable" on Sunday in his weekly post to the Linux Kernel Mailing List LKML , blaming a flood of duplicate vulnerability reports generated by researchers running the same AI tools against the same code. …

May 18, 2026 · Luke James
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