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📰 Linux's Second-In-Command Turns To New Fuzzing Tools For Uncovering Kernel Bugs Greg Kroah-Hartman, the main Linux stable kernel maintainer and typically viewed as the second-in-command to the Linux kernel development, has turned to new "gregkh_clanker_t1000" fuzzing tooling to help uncover new kernel bugs... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Greg-KH-Clanker-Linux-Bugs #linux#kernel

📰 KDE Plasma 6.6.4 Released with Wayland, KWin, and Spectacle Fixes KDE Plasma 6.6.4 desktop environment fixes Wayland scaling, Spectacle crashes, KWin bugs, and several Plasma Desktop regressions. 🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/kde-plasma-6-6-4-released-with-wayland-kwin-and-spectacle-fixes/ #kde#wayland#plasma

📰 OpenSSL 3.6.2 Is Now Available for Download with Important Security Fixes OpenSSL 3.6.2 open-source TLS/SSL and crypto library is now available for download with fixes for several security vulnerabilities and bugs. Patch now! 🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/openssl-3-6-2-is-now-available-for-download-with-important-security-fixes #opensource

📰 Alacritty 0.17 Terminal Emulator Released with Wayland Resize Improvements Alacritty 0.17, a GPU-accelerated terminal emulator, adds TOML 1.1 support, Wayland resize increments, mouse wheel bindings, and more. 🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/alacritty-0-17-terminal-emulator-released-with-wayland-resize-improvements/ #wayland

📰 KDE Plasma 6.6.4 Is Out to Reduce CPU and GPU Load for Full-Screen Windows KDE Plasma 6.6.4 is now available as the fourth maintenance update in the KDE Plasma 6.6 desktop environment series with various improvements and bug fixes. 🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/kde-plasma-6-6-4-is-out-to-reduce-cpu-and-gpu-load-for-full-screen-windows #kde#plasma

📰 AMD ISP4 Driver On Track To Be Merged For Linux 7.2 It looks like with the Linux 7.2 kernel later in the year the AMD ISP4 driver will finally be merged to mainline. This driver is needed for the web camera on the HP ZBook Ultra G1a Strix Halo laptop and other future AMD Ryzen laptops... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-ISP4-For-Linux-7.2 #linux#amd#kernel

📰 Mesa Granted Permanent Updates Exception For Fedora Linux It doesn't change too much in practice with how Mesa updates typically have been handled under Fedora Linux, but now it's officially documented: Mesa graphics drivers have a permanent updates exception so new Mesa versions can be shipped as updates in Fedora stable releases... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-Updates-Exception-Fedora #linux#fedora

📰 RISC-V XIP Linux Feature Being Removed After It Keeps Breaking For Months At A Time Introduced in Linux 5.13 back in 2021 was eXecute In Place "XIP" support for RISC-V that allows for the kernel image to be executed from ROM. The intent is on allowing the kernel to run from non-volatile storage like NOR flash that is directly addressable by the CPU and to reduce RAM usage. But after RISC-V XIP support is broken for months at a time, the feature is now set to be retired from the mainline kernel... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/RISC-V-XIP-Being-Removed #linux#kernel

📰 Flowise AI Agent Builder Under Active CVSS 10.0 RCE Exploitation; 12,000+ Instances Exposed Threat actors are exploiting a maximum-severity security flaw in Flowise, an open-source artificial intelligence (AI) platform, according to new findings from VulnCheck.The vulnerability in question is CVE-2025-59528 (CVSS score: 10.0), a code injection vulnerability that could result in remote code execution."The CustomMCP node allows users to input configuration settings for connecting. 🔗 Source: https://thehackernews.com/2026/04/flowise-ai-agent-builder-under-active.html #opensource

📰 Rust Coreutils 0.8 Brings Significant Performance Gains Rust Coreutils 0.8 was released today as the newest major release to this alternative to GNU Coreutils... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rust-Coreutils-0.8-Released #gnu

📰FreeBSD Aims To Better Track Laptop Hardware That Works Or Doesn't For Their OS Over the past year the FreeBSD project has been making much progress on making it more viable to run this BSD operating system on laptop hardware. They have worked on better graphics driver support, improved power management / suspend, making sure audio is working, and even rolling out a KDE desktop option from the FreeBSD OS installer to ease the deployment on desktops. 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-Laptop-Matrix #kde

📰 A Small But Useful Debugging Addition For AMD Zen Systems With Linux 7.1 A small but convenient feature is coming with the Linux 7.1 that will be useful in debugging AMD Zen system problems and information reporting/transparency purposes... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-AGESA-Version-Linux-7.1 #linux#amd