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LWN.net Apr 6, 2026

[$] Protecting against TPM interposer attacks 📋

The Trusted Platform Module (TPM) is a widely misunderstood piece of hardware (or firmware) that lives in most x86-based computers. At SCALE 23x in Pasadena, California, James Bottomley gave a presentation on the TPM and the work that he and others have done to enable the Linux kernel to work with it. In particular, he described the problems with interposer attacks, which target the communication between the TPM and the kernel, and what has been added to the kernel to thwart them. 📋

LWN.net Apr 6, 2026

6.6.133 stable kernel released 📋

Greg Kroah-Hartman has released the 6.6.133 stable kernel. This reverts a backporting mistake that removed file descriptor checks which led to kernel panics if the fgetxattr, flistxattr, fremovexattr, or fsetxattr functions were called from user space with a file descriptor that did not reference an open file. 📋

How-to Geek Apr 6, 2026

Don't switch to Linux just yet—ask yourself these 5 questions first 📋

Before you format that drive, have a quick, honest chat with yourself. 📋

LWN.net Apr 6, 2026

Security updates for Monday 📋

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (freerdp, grafana, grafana-pcp, gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free, gstreamer1-plugins-base, gstreamer1-plugins-good, and gstreamer1-plugins-ugly-free, kernel, libpng12, libpng15, perl-YAML-Syck, python3, and rsync), Debian (dovecot, libxml-parser-perl, pyasn1, python-tornado, roundcube, tor, trafficserver, and valkey), Fedora (bind9-next, chromium, cmake, domoticz, freerdp, giflib, gst-devtools, gst-editing-services, gstreamer1, gstreamer1-doc, gstreamer1-plugin-libav, gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free, gstreamer1-plugins-base, gstreamer1-plugins-good, gstreamer1-plugins-ugly-free, gstreamer1-rtsp-server, gstreamer1-vaapi, libgsasl, libinput, libopenmpt, mapserver, mingw-binutils, mingw-gstreamer1, mingw-gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free, mingw-gstreamer1-plugins-base, mingw-gstreamer1-plugins-good, mingw-libpng, mingw-python3, nginx-mod-modsecurity, openbao, python-gstreamer1, python3.12, python3.13, python3.14, python3.9, rust, rust-sccache, tcpflow, and 📋

It's FOSS Apr 6, 2026

A New Linux Kernel Driver Wants to Catch Malicious USB Devices in the Act 📋

If adopted, this kernel module would detect when a plugged-in USB device is acting suspiciously. 📋

Phoronix Apr 6, 2026

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... 📋

How-to Geek Apr 6, 2026

The 7 levels of Linux users: Which one are you? 📋

From "I installed Ubuntu once" to "I built my own OS"—where do you actually fall on the Linux skill ladder? 📋

Phoronix Apr 6, 2026

NetBSD 11.0 Nears Release With RC3 Released For Testing 📋

For the better part of the past year NetBSD developers have been preparing for the NetBSD 11.0 release and in February NetBSD 11.0-RC1 released followed by 11.0-RC2 and now a third release candidate was announced today... 📋

Phoronix Apr 6, 2026

Wine Staging 11.6 Ships Big Patch Series For Working On DirectComposition 📋

Following Friday's release of Wine 11.6 with reviving the Android driver and improving game mod support as part of DLL loader updates, Wine-Staging 11.6 is out today with extra patches atop... 📋

9to5Linux Apr 6, 2026

KDE 4’s Air Theme Making a Comeback, Oxygen Gets Major Revamp for Plasma 6.7 📋

The Oxygen and Air themes from the KDE 4 desktop environment are making a major comeback with the upcoming KDE Plasma 6.7 release. 📋

Linuxiac Apr 6, 2026

Red Hat Launches RHEL Extended Life Cycle Premium With 14-Year Support 📋

Red Hat has launched RHEL Extended Life Cycle Premium, a stand-alone subscription that extends major-version support to 14 years. 📋

Linuxiac Apr 6, 2026

PeaZip 11.0 Released With Faster Archive Browsing 📋

PeaZip 11.0 improves archive browsing speed, updates 7z/p7zip to 26.00, adds batch archive testing, and refines the file manager. 📋

9to5Linux Apr 6, 2026

PeaZip 11.0 Archive Manager Speeds Up File Browsing and Enhances Bookmarks 📋

PeaZip 11.0 open-source archive manager is now available for download with faster archive browsing, enhanced bookmarks, internal drag and drop, and other changes. Here’s what’s new! 📋

Phoronix Apr 6, 2026

Many MediaTek MT76 WiFi Driver Improvements Coming For Linux 7.1 📋

Separate from the recently discussed work on MediaTek MT7927 "Filogic 380" support being worked on for the MT76 Linux driver (still undergoing review), a number of other MediaTek MT76 wireless driver improvements are queued up ahead of the Linux 7.1 merge window opening as soon as next week... 📋

Phoronix Apr 6, 2026

Google Proposes JSIR As A High-Level IR For JavaScript 📋

Google engineers have been developing JSIR as a high-level intermediate representation (JSIR) for JavaScript that they are already using in production at the company code code analysis and transforming other code/bytecode to JavaScript as well as for deobfuscating JavaScript code... 📋