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📰Intel's Cache Aware Scheduling Inches Closer To Being Merged For Linux I have been writing about the Cache Aware Scheduling work led by Intel engineers on the Linux kernel for more than a year. I've also tested out Cache Aware Scheduling on both Intel and AMD CPUs with the patched Linux kernel to great success. And thus very happy to see the Cache Aware Scheduling patches inching closer to the mainline Linux kernel... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Cache-Aware-Sched-Nears #amd#intel#kernel#linux

📰 Dirty Frag gets a sequel as Fragnesia hands Linux attackers root-level access Fresh kernel flaw comes with public exploit code and continues ugly run of highly reliable privilege escalation bugs tied to memory and page-cache handling. 🔗 Source: https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/05/14/dirty-frag-gets-a-sequel-as-fragnesia-hands-linux-attackers-root-level-access/5240270 #kernel#linux

📰 New AMDGPU Driver Pull Request For Linux 7.2 Preps For HDML 2.1 FRL Sent out on Wednesday was the latest AMDGPU/AMDKFD driver pull request of new feature code ready for DRM-Next as the staging area ahead of the upcoming Linux 7.2 kernel. This doesn't yet land the HDMI 2.1 enablement work that's finally been taking place but it is preparing for that with the FRL register headers now in place as part of this merge... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-AMDGPU-FRL-Regs #kernel#linux

📰Fragnesia Is Yet Another Local Privilege Escalation Flaw in Linux Kernel Fragnesia is a new local privilege escalation flaw in the Linux kernel that may lead to local privilege escalation. Patch now! 🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/fragnesia-is-yet-another-local-privilege-escalation-flaw-in-linux-kernel #kernel#linux

📰Fragnesia Made Public As Latest Linux Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability Following last week's disclosure of the Dirty Frag vulnerability for the Linux kernel, which only finished being patched up in mainline on Monday, Fragnesia is now public as a similar local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerability... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Fragnesia #kernel#linux

📰 Your Old Potato PC Might Game Better With This Linux Kernel Patch A proposed scheduler update shows frame time improvements on aging hardware under heavy CPU load. 🔗 Source: https://feed.itsfoss.com/link/24361/17339878/linux-scheduler-patch-gaming-old-hardware #kernel#linux

📰 Arm Preparing The Linux Kernel For 128-bit Page Table Entries "FEAT_D128" A new core infrastructure improvement for the Linux kernel on ARM being worked on is enabling 128-bit page table entries (PTEs) with FEAT_D128 as a new optional feature of Armv9.3 and later... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Arm-Linux-FEAT-D128-Patches #arm#kernel#linux

📰IBM s390 Is The Latest Architecture Seeing Rust Linux Kernel Support An IBM engineer posted the first set of patches enabling the Rust programming language support for the Linux kernel to be built on the s390 architecture... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/IBM-s390-Linux-Kernel-Rust #kernel#linux

📰 Further expanded AMD HDMI 2.1 support is coming to Linux now with FRL and DSC Good news for Linux gamers and the upcoming Steam Machine, as it appears the AMD GPU kernel drivers are expanding their HDMI 2.1 support even further.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux. 🔗 Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/05/further-expanded-amd-hdmi-2-1-support-is-coming-to-linux-now-with-frl-and-dsc/ #amd#kernel#linux#steam

📰 Linux Scheduler Work Helping Boost Gaming Performance On Old "Potato" Hardware Prominent Linux kernel engineer Peter Zijlstra of Intel has been working on a set of scheduler patches to help with enhancing the behavior and delivering better results, especially for aging hardware he described as a "potato" -- an Intel Sandy Bridge desktop CPU with AMD Radeon RX 580 Polaris graphics. Benchmark results are promising from this work for gaming on old hardware while other workloads may ultimately stand to benefit too... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Flatten-The-Pick #amd#intel#kernel#linux

📰 Tails 7.7.3 Emergency Release Fixes Dirty Frag Vulnerability Tails 7.7.3 fixes the Dirty Frag Linux kernel vulnerability with kernel 6.12.86 and updates Tor Browser, Tor, and Thunderbird. 🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/tails-7-7-3-emergency-release-fixes-dirty-frag-vulnerability/ #kernel#linux

📰 Linux is Getting a Kill Switch! This AI-assisted patch would let admins disable vulnerable kernel functions until a proper fix ships. 🔗 Source: https://feed.itsfoss.com/link/24361/17338173/linux-killswitch-proposal #kernel#linux