Linux NewsCanonical Confirms Ubuntu Fixes for DirtyClone Linux Kernel Flaw
Canonical says Ubuntu kernel updates are available for DirtyClone, a high-severity Linux local privilege escalation flaw tracked as CVE-2026-43503.
GCC 16.2 Being Planned For Early August Release
For those that prefer waiting until the first bug-fix/point release before upgrading to a major new feature series, GCC 16.2 is being planned for an early August release for delivering back-ported bug fixes to the GCC 16 compiler...
Arch Linux AUR Malware, Linux 7.2 Developments & Other June Highlights
Last month on Phoronix there were 294 original news articles and 18 Linux hardware reviews / multi-page benchmark articles. Beyond Phoronix.com turning 22 years old in June, there were also a lot of exciting Linux hardware and open-source software developments worth recapping...
ASUS ROG Strix Laptop Sees Driver Fix For Linux Performance Too Low Compared To Windows
With modern laptops, proper platform/WMI drivers are becoming more depended upon not only for supporting all typical functionality from keyboards to backlights and other handling, but also for achieving proper performance. For many laptop vendors, the Linux platform drivers are maintained by the open-source community and actual customers. The latest example of the challenges of the community-maintained support rather than from the vendor is with the ASUS ROG Strix G16 G614PR gaming laptop seeing inappropriate power values set in the open-source driver that were incorrect and led to lower power/performance than Windows...
Asahi Linux Fixes Booting With macOS 27, Progress On M3 & Apple Video Decode
The Asahi Linux project published a new blog post outlining recent development efforts in getting Apple Silicon hardware working with their downstream Linux distribution. There is ongoing work on bringing up Apple M3 support, fixing boot support for macOS 27 beta systems, Apple Video Decoder (AVD) support progress, and more...
NVIDIA Working On New "TLV" Firmware Binary Format For Nova Driver
NVIDIA engineers have been developing a new binary format for their GPU firmware images for use with the in-development, open-source Nova kernel driver. With this new TLV binary firmware format it aims to be easier to parse by their Rust-based driver code...
VirtualBox 7.2.12 Fixes Linux Host Kernel Panic
VirtualBox 7.2.12 is out with an important Linux host fix, plus build improvements for Linux host and guest components.
COSMIC 1.2 Desktop Enables AVIF Support, Improves Support for Newer Intel GPUs
COSMIC 1.2 desktop environment is now available with improvements to COSMIC Files, COSMIC Term, COSMIC Edit, COSMIC Applets, COSMIC Setings, COSMIC Store, COSMIC Monitor, and COSMIC Greeter.
COSMIC Desktop 1.2 Released with File Manager Fixes and More Polish
COSMIC Desktop 1.2 lands with archive extraction fixes, better applet behavior, Store loading indicators, and Monitor improvements.
Performance Optimizations, NVIDIA Vera, Arc Pro B70 & Other Linux Highlights From Q2
As the last planned article on Phoronix of Q2, here is a look back at what excited readers the most in the second quarter. There were 872 original news articles this quarter as well as 54 Linux hardware reviews / multi-page featured benchmark articles. Here is what excited readers the most over these past three months...
Lumo 2.0: Proton's Private Alternative to ChatGPT and Claude Just Got Better
The Lumo 2.0 Max model reportedly feels just as sharp as the latest offerings from OpenAI and Anthropic.
COSMIC Epoch 1.2 Desktop Fixes Flickering Issues For Intel Graphics
Just a week after the COSMIC Epoch 1.1 release with its slick new system monitor, COSMIC Epoch 1.2 is now available for this Rust-based desktop developed by System76...
Creative Commons founders' fireside chat (Creative Commons blog)
Dee Harris has published a summary of the recent "fireside chat" featuring Creative Commons founders Hal Abelson, Lawrence (Larry) Lessig, Molly Van Houweling, and Glenn Otis Brown. The chat was to mark the 25th anniversary of Creative Commons and included a look back at its history as well as a look at the landscape today: Twenty-five years ago, a small group of people made a bet. They believed that if you gave creators a simple set of tools and licenses in language that a lawyer, a machine, and a human could all read, millions of people might choose to share their work with the world instead of locking it down. The video of the chat is available on YouTube.
MySQL Gets New Governance Model as Oracle Expands Community Push
Oracle is adding defined contributor roles, project leadership paths, and a Technical Steering Committee to guide MySQL’s future.
Ubuntu’s ‘Myna’ AI lets you talk instead of type – but how does it work
As you will know, Ubuntu is adding AI features this year, and Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth hopes the distro will become the OS for the ‘agentic’ era. But big ambitions begin with a small seed, and the first is planted is a speech-to-text tool dubbed Myna. Name: Myna. Age: Minus 4 months (it’ll debut in Ubuntu 26.10, out in October). Appearance: A keyboard shortcut you press to avoid using your keyboard for typing. What’s this about? A “lightweight speech-to-text application” powered by AI. You press a hotkey to activate it, talk at your computer and, like magic, your words appear on screen. Canonical’s VP […]