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Friday, 07 August 2026

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Linux Networking Continues Being Bombarded With AI Patches

Phoronix ·

While the Linux WiFi/wireless maintainer just announced taking a stand against AI/LLM generated slop patches with a new "three second review" rule, the broader Linux networking subsystem continues to be bombarded with AI-generated patches...

Linux Patched For Safe RET Interrupt Vulnerability

Phoronix ·

Made public minutes ago is the Safe RET Interrupt Vulnerability which is now patched in the newest Linux kernel Git code. The Safe RET Interrupt Vulnerability stems from improper handling within Linux's Speculative Return Stack Overflow (SRSO) mitigation affecting AMD Zen 1 through Zen 4 processors...

Apple NVMe Linux Driver Sees Fixes After Being Bitten By New Firmware

Phoronix ·

A set of patches providing fixes for the Apple Silicon NVMe driver for the Linux kernel were sent out today due to new issues cropping up when running newer Apple firmware. Firmware shipped by macOS 15+ is causing issues with the current Apple NVMe open-source Linux driver developed by the Asahi Linux crew...

The Performance Benefits To Upgrading Mesa With Intel Arc B390 On Ubuntu Linux

Phoronix ·

If you are an early customer of the Framework Laptop 13 Pro or other Intel Core Ultra Series 3 Panther Lake laptop and using Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, there can be real benefit from upgrading your Mesa stack for the newer Iris Gallium3D and ANV Vulkan drivers. In this article are some benchmarks of the Framework Laptop 13 Pro with Core Ultra X9 388H with Arc B390 Xe3 integrated graphics for looking at…

Linux Accidentally Left Legacy I/O & Memory Handlers Open In Kernel Lockdown Mode

Phoronix ·

For nearly the past decade has been the kernel lockdown mode for tightening up kernel access from user-space such as when UEFI Secure Boot is enabled. The kernel lockdown mode restricts PCI BAR access, no writing to /dev/mem, and other restrictions so user-space can't can't modify the running kernel or access sensitive kernel memory. An oversight has allowed legacy I/O and memory interfaces via…

Mario Meets Pareto

Hacker News ·

Article URL: https://www.mayerowitz.io/blog/mario-meets-pareto Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49195231 Points: 750 # Comments: 137

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Page Alloc Hogger Lets You Better Stress Memory Behavior On Linux For Testing/Debugging

Phoronix ·

A new kernel feature proposed by a Google engineer is Page Alloc Hogger to allow for fine control over where memory pages are allocated in order to more easily reproduce low-memory conditions, make it simpler to exert memory pressure, and enable other stressful memory conditions for testing/debugging how Linux copes...

AMD GFX1171 Support Merged For Mesa 26.3

Phoronix ·

Earlier this year we began seeing patches for AMD GFX1170 graphics IP labeled as "RDNA 4m" and that was then completed with also adding GFX1171 and GFX1172 as additional targets for the AMDGPU LLVM compiler back-end and AMDGPU kernel driver. Merged today for Mesa 26.3 is now adding the GFX1171 target to Mesa 26.3 for the RADV and RadeonSI drivers...

Discovery Loop

Hacker News ·

Article URL: https://www.discoveryloop.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49184960 Points: 891 # Comments: 561

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Denial WM: New Wayland Compositor With Flutter Directly Embedded

Phoronix ·

The newest Wayland compositor to talk about and discuss is Denial, a Wayland compositor focused on optimal Arch Linux integration and that embeds the Flutter engine directly into the codebase. Denial makes use of the Rust programming language and leverages Smithay to help in the compositor responsibilities...

Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs

Hacker News ·

https://www.axios.com/2026/08/05/google-deepmind-demis-hassa... https://www.reuters.com/business/google-shakes-up-ai-leaders... https://www.discoveryloop.com/ , https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49184960 https://twitter.com/JeffDean/status/2085034604172603724 , https://xcancel.com/JeffDean/status/2085034604172603724 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49184755 Points: 811 #…

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Additional Old Linux Drivers Face Removal Due To Noise From AI/LLM Coding Agents

Phoronix ·

There continues to be a lot of cleaning up of the kernel source tree to deal with noise generated by AI / LLM coding agents sending in reports and patches for old drivers that are likely not actively used by anyone on modern upstream kernel builds. Rather than continuing to carry these old drivers around with the uptick in AI/LLM-generated noise, kernel maintainers are finding it better to just…

AMD Preps HDMI FRL Fixes, New Knob For Disabling Older AMD GPU DCE Display Support

Phoronix ·

Overnight AMD engineers sent out their latest round of AMDGPU DC display code updates for their Linux driver. This week's round of display code updates include some additional fixes for their recently introduced HDMI FRL (Fixed Rate Link) support as part of the work toward their HDMI 2.1 implementation finally coming together for their open-source, upstream Linux driver...