📰 Intel Nova Lake S & Nova Lake P To Support SR-IOV With Xe Graphics

A patch has been posted to the Linux kernel mailing list by an Intel engineer confirming that Nova Lake S and Nova Lake P processors with integrated graphics will support SR-IOV in conjunction with the Xe kernel graphics driver...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Nova-Lake-SR-IOV-Xe

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📰 Linus Torvalds Rejects AI Coding Bans as Linux Rethinks Disclosure Rules

Linus Torvalds opposes banning AI coding tools while Linux kernel developers propose dropping the Assisted-by disclosure requirement.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/linus-torvalds-rejects-ai-coding-bans-as-linux-rethinks-disclosure-rules/

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📰 Decoding with Rockchip at Kernel Recipes 2026

Next week we'll be in Paris for Kernel Recipes! We’re pleased to sponsor this gathering of the kernel community and contribute a talk on upstream H.264 and HEVC decoding for Rockchip RK3588/RK3576.

🔗 Source: https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/decoding-with-rockchip-at-kernel-recipes-2026.html

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📰 After 23 Years, Longtime Linux Developer To "Step Back For A While"

Longtime Linux kernel engineer Darrick Wong who stepped down as the XFS file-system maintainer in 2023 is now taking a step back from his other Linux kernel development roles after working on the kernel the past 23 years...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Darrick-Wong-Step-Back-23-Years

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📰 The Best Features Of Linux 7.3: Performance Improvements, Lots From Valve

The Linux 7.3 kernel is slated to be officially released on Sunday, 18 October, barring any last minute issues from coming about. With that said, here's a reminder about some of the most exciting features to look forward to in this next kernel version...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-Best-Features

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📰 Researchers Demonstrate OpenBSD Root Exploit Chaining 37-Year-Old Shared-Memory Bug

A local privilege escalation exploit published today gains root on OpenBSD 7.9 by chaining a roughly 37-year-old integer overflow with a separate kernel flaw, bypassing OpenBSD's KARL kernel-address randomization and its SMAP and SMEP hardware protections. Security firm Calif, which found and reported the flaws, published a detailed writeup and full proof-of-concept code after OpenBSD shipped.

🔗 Source: https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/researchers-demonstrate-openbsd-root.html

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📰 Linux Lands Fix for Rare, Varying SMP Boot Hangs Affecting Kernels Since 2024

Among the flurry of last minute patch activity ahead of tomorrow's presumed Linux 7.3 stable kernel release is a fix for addressing some rare hangs at boot time. The reports varied but ultimately tracked down to a kernel change made two years ago...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-KThreads-NBCON

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📰 Omarchy 4.0.5 Released with Linux Kernel 7.2.8, Better Hardware Support

Omarchy 4.0.5 ships with Linux kernel 7.2.8, Qt 6.12 compatibility fixes, desktop performance improvements, and better support for NVIDIA laptops and audio devices.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/omarchy-4-0-5-released-with-linux-kernel-7-2-8-better-hardware-support/

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📰 BFS Removed With Linux 7.4 As Old UnixWare File-System

Linus Torvalds began honoring pull requests overnight of new code entering the Linux 7.4 kernel -- as well as removing old code. BFS is the latest obsolete file-system removed from the mainline kernel...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/BFS-Removed-With-Linux-7.4

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📰 XFS Sees Small Performance Optimizations & Bug Fixes For Linux 7.4

The XFS file-system updates have landed for the in-development Linux 7.4 kernel...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.4-XFS

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📰 AMD Working On Ryzen Overclocking Driver For Linux

AMD recently published patches for the Linux kernel to implement AOD, an AMD Overclocking driver for Ryzen processors. Linux enthusiasts have long sought an official AMD Ryzen CPU overclocking driver for Linux akin to Ryzen Master on Windows and it's finally coming, at least from the kernel driver perspective...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-AOD-Overclocking-Linux

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📰 Upstreaming Tyr: Rust, DRM, and the Linux Kernel

Tyr has reached a major milestone by booting the Arm Mali-G610 GPU’s MCU using upstream Rust DRM memory-management abstractions, while helping shape the kernel infrastructure future Rust GPU drivers will rely on.

🔗 Source: https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/blog/2026/10/21/upstreaming-tyr-rust-drm-and-the-linux-kernel/

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📰 Several Linux Kernel Vulnerabilities Accidentally Posted To Public Kernel Mailing List

Seemingly as an accident, overnight several new Linux kernel vulnerability reports were posted to the public Linux kernel mailing list rather than the private security mailing list. The vulnerabilities have yet to be patched on mainline but at least in some cases there are patches undergoing testing or queued in "-next" branches. The CVSS scores are as high as 9.0...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/LKML-New-Trend-Vulnerabilities

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📰 x86 Kernel Shadow Stacks Being Worked On For Linux As Powerful Control Flow Protection

Linux user-space for several years had shadow stack support for hardware-enforced control-flow enforcement in defending against return oriented programming (ROP) attacks. Intel Tigerlake and newer CPUs or AMD Zen 3 and newer have the necessary hardware shadow stacks support. Shadow stacks have been effective for helping user-space software fend ROP attacks while now there is new work toward bringing shadow stack support for kernel space on Linux.

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Kernel-Shadow-Stacks

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📰 Two CVSS 9.0 Linux KSMBD RCE Flaws Disclosed on Public Mailing Lists Before Kernel Fixes

Linux servers running KSMBD, the kernel's built-in SMB server, are exposed to two publicly reported remote code execution flaws rated 9.0 by Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative, with no fix yet in the mainline kernel.One of them, ZDI-CAN-33774, can be triggered before any network authentication. The other, ZDI-CAN-33549, requires the SMB Direct transport and an RDMA-capable network.

🔗 Source: https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/two-cvss-90-linux-ksmbd-rce-flaws.html

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📰 AI Helping To Improve Linux's AMD Zen CPU Microarchitecture Detection

A request for comments (RFC) was sent out last night on the Linux kernel mailing list in seeking to clean-up the AMD Zen microarchitecture detection within the kernel. This is for enhancing the kernel where there are code paths specific to a certain generation of AMD Zen processors or select generations such as Zen 3 through Zen 5 CPUs. AI was leveraged in helping to clean-up this AMD Zen code in the Linux kernel...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-AMD-Zen-AI-Detection

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📰 Torvalds: AI is fine for competent devs, but spare us the 'drive-by' patches

Kernel maintainers stop asking who used AI, as long as the code is good.

🔗 Source: https://www.theregister.com/columnists/2026/10/23/torvalds-ai-is-fine-for-competent-devs-but-spare-us-the-drive-by-patches/5304357

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📰 Linux Moves Closer to Retiring the x32 ABI After Years of Limited Adoption

by George WhittakerLinux kernel developers are renewing efforts to retire the x32 application binary interface (ABI), a little-used compatibility feature that attempted to combine the advantages of 64-bit processors with the smaller memory footprint of 32-bit applications. A revised patch series submitted on October 8, 2026, proposes the first steps toward disabling the interface, potentially ending support for an architecture experiment...

🔗 Source: https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/linux-moves-closer-retiring-x32-abi-after-years-limited-adoption

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📰 Google's Kage Project Rethinks Linux Kernel Security With Isolated Device Drivers

by George WhittakerGoogle is exploring a new approach to Linux kernel security that could significantly change how device drivers interact with the operating system. The experimental project, known as Kage, uses compiler-based sandboxing to isolate drivers inside the kernel, potentially limiting the damage caused by memory corruption, programming errors, and exploitable vulnerabilities without requiring drivers to run as separate user-space...

🔗 Source: https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/googles-kage-project-rethinks-linux-kernel-security-isolated-device-drivers

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📰 HPFS Is The Latest File-System Slated For Removal On Linux

HPFS is the latest file-system driver for the Linux kernel facing removal. The High Performance File-System (HPFS) was developed by IBM and Microsoft for OS/2...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/HPFS-For-Linux-Removal

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