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📰 Attackers are cashing in on fresh 'CopyFail' Linux flaw Researchers dropped a reliable root exploit and it didn’t sit idle for long CISA is warning that a newly-disclosed Linux kernel bug dubbed "CopyFail" is already being exploited, just days after researchers dropped a working root-level exploit.… 🔗 Source: https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/05/05/cisa_sounds_the_alarm_on/ #kernel#linux

📰 Linux is finally ready for gamers, but gamers are still not ready for Linux We're in a golden age of Linux gaming, but most people are not ready to switch. 🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/linux-ready-for-gamers-but-gamers-not-ready-for-linux/ #linux

📰 Intel Drivers With Mesa 26.2 Ready With Xe In Linux 7.1 To Better Handle vRAM Pressure Merged to the Intel Xe kernel graphics driver with Linux 7.1 is an addition to improve the video RAM memory pressure or out-of-memory behavior for Intel graphics with dedicated video memory. Introduced is support for purgeable buffer objects via a new user-space API to provide usage hints for enhancing what is purged under vRAM pressure. Merged this week to Mesa 26.2-devel is support for the Intel Mesa drivers to make use of this new interface... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Mesa-26.2-Memory-Pressure #intel#kernel#linux

📰Manjaro 26.1 Preview Released With GNOME 50, KDE Plasma 6.6 & Xfce 4.20 Options The preview release of the Arch Linux powered Manjaro 26.1 is now available for testing... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Manjaro-26.1-Preview #arch#gnome#kde#linux#plasma

📰 AMD Preps Linux For CPPC HighestFreq Feature Coming With Future ACPI Spec An improvement on the way for the AMD P-State Linux CPU frequency scaling driver and the Linux ACPI Collaborative Processor Performance Control (CPPC) code at large is supporting a new "HighestFreq" register to be standardized by a future revision of the ACPI specification... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-CPPC-HighestFreq #amd#linux

📰 gThumb is barely recognisable in its GTK4/libadwaita port gThumb, the open-source image viewer and organiser, has been rewritten in Vala and ported to GTK4/libadwaita – and compared to the old UI, it’s barely recognisable. An alpha build of gThumb 4.0 is available for testing. Alongside the visual revamp, this brings support for WEBP and PNG animations, lets you export images in the JXL format and includes a censor filter to pixelate or blur out parts of an image. 🔗 Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/05/gthumb-gtk4-port-redesign #opensource

📰 GCC 16 Compiler Delivering Some Decent Performance Gains Over GCC 15 With the GCC 16.1 compiler released last Thursday, I have begun running more compiler benchmarks on this first GCC 16 stable feature release. GCC 16 comes heavy on new changes in being the annual feature release and delivering changes from AMD Zen 6 and Arm AGI CPU support to new C++ features and even the Algol 68 programming language front-end. 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/review/gcc-16-benchmarks #amd#arm

📰 Expanded AMD HDMI 2.1 support is coming to Linux One area that's lacking on Linux right now is support for later versions of HDMI with AMD GPUs, but it seems expanded features are coming.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux. 🔗 Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/05/expanded-amd-hdmi-2-1-support-is-coming-to-linux/ #amd#linux

📰 CachyOS Switches Python To Using Tail-Call Interpreter For 5~15% Better Performance CachyOS is a very fast out-of-the-box Linux distribution and for those concerned about Python performance, the newest updates to this Arch Linux based distribution will provide even better performance... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/CachyOS-Better-Python-Perf #arch#linux#python

📰 I tried an open-source Figma alternative, and its AI does what Figma's can't Not a Figma killer, but something more interesting. 🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/ditched-figma-for-open-source-tool-ai-does-what-figma-cant/ #opensource

📰 Raspberry Pi 5's price hike pushed me toward mini PCs, and now I can't justify going back When Raspberry Pi 5 got a price hike, my first reaction was to pause and re-evaluate my plans. I’ve been running a Pi 4 as my home lab for years, and I've always wanted to upgrade to the Pi 5. After waiting for stock availability, I decided to take my requirements more seriously. 🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/raspberry-pi-5-price-hike-pushed-me-to-mini-pcs/ #raspberry

📰 Moving to mainframe can be cheaper than sticking with VMware: Gartner Serious Linux VMs will enjoy big iron – if you can learn to love lock-in risks and skills challenges VMware users considering a new home might find it cheaper to move to an IBM mainframe than adopting Broadcom’s new licenses, according to Gartner Vice President Analyst Alessandro Galimberti.… 🔗 Source: https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/05/04/gartner_state_of_mainframes/ #linux