AMD engineers are experimenting with a proof-of-concept implementation of a Shared Virtual Memory (SVM) implementation atop the DRM_GPUSVM framework.

The AMD Linux graphics driver already supports Shared Virtual Memory while the drm_gpusvm framework is a newer approach to provide a unified implementation for GPU drivers for handling memory allocation / mapping / migration across CPU and GPU address spaces. Shared Virtual Memory at large is about enjoying a unified address space where the CPU and GPUs/accelerators can access the same memory locations and use the same

An Intel project developed the past several years was kAFL-Fuzzer as a hardware-assisted feedback fuzzer for x86 virtual machines (VMs) to help with security. While it saw a lot of work in prior years, development activity slowed down last year and now the project has been formally ended.

Joining other Intel open-source projects ended in recent months amid various open-source setbacks over the past year due to layoffs and corporate restructuring, the kAF-Fuzzer project has been formally archived. The kAFL-

GNOME 50 is out today, on-schedule and just in time for being the default desktop of the likes of Ubuntu 26.04 LTS and Fedora Workstation 44.

GNOME 50 has many incremental improvements for further polishing the modern GNOME Shell desktop. The GNOME Files (Nautilus) file manager is faster than before and with better thumbnailing of files, parental controls / digital well being support has improved, various accessibility improvements, improved HDR / color management support, better VRR and fractional scaling support, improved

While Fedora 43 was released at the end of October and there is just one month to go now until the release of Fedora 44 , Fedora Asahi Remix 43 debuted today as this spin of Fedora Linux for Apple Silicon Macs.

Fedora Asahi Remix 43 brings Fedora 43 to Apple Silicon devices, which at the moment given the Linux / Asahi Linux level of support means the older M1 and M2 Macs and MacBooks.

Fedora Asahi Remix 43 brings in all of the notable changes of Fedora 4

Last week it was security issues with AppArmor to worry about on Ubuntu Linux while this week a "high" rated vulnerability for Ubuntu's Snap daemon has been revealed.

CVE-2026-3888 was made public yesterday as a local privilege escalation affecting Snapd on ubuntu. Those with local user access can obtain root privileges by recreating Snap's private /tmp directory when systemd-tmpfiles is enabled. The CVE report notes:

"Qualys discovered that snapd incorrectly handled certain operations in the snap

It's been a while since having any improvements to talk about for the MGLRU multi-gen LRU functionality for the Linux kernel to optimize page reclamation and help with system performance especially when enduring memory pressure. But this week a Tencent engineer posted some very promising patches for further enhancing this kernel feature.

Kairui Song of Tencent posted a set of eight patches for improving the reclaim loop and dirty folio handling within MGLRU. Here's the exciting part:

"This series cleans up and slightly improves MGLRU's reclaim loop

Samba continues strong in 2026 for this leading open-source SMB protocol re-implementation for Microsoft Windows file and print services interoperability. Samba 4.24 brings more features, including remote password management support.

Samba 4.24 brings authentication information audit support for some attributes that are not secret but relied on for some forms of authentication. Samba 4.24 also now allows larger streams with vfs_streams_xattr with the likes of XFS able to handle more than 64k of extended

Google engineers have been spending the past number of months developing Sashiko as an agentic AI code review system for the Linux kernel. It's now open-source and publicly available and will continue to do upstream Linux kernel code review thanks to funding from Google.

Roman Gushchin of Google's Linux kernel team announced yesterday as this new agentic AI code review system. They have been using it internally at Google for some time to uncover issues and it's now publicly available and covering all submissions to the Linux kernel mailing