Back in March Intel software engineers began sending out Linux patches for Directed Package-Level Thermal Interrupts as a new capability with recent Intel processors. This notable efficiency improvement is now queued for introduction in the Linux 7.3 cycle once its merge window opens in a month.

Rather than package-level thermal interrupts being broadcast to all CPU cores, directed package thermal interrupts allow broadcasting to just one CPU core tasked for handling the package-wide events. This feature in turn enables reduced resource contention and avoids needlessly waking up the

Linux sound subsystem maintainer Takashi Iwai of SUSE sent out this week's batch of sound fixes that he describes as " A collection of fixes that have been accumulated recently. The amount is still "new normal", but all small fixes. Mostly hardware-specific quirks, but including a few core fixes, too. " The "new normal" has been a common phrase recently to reflect the increased tempo of patches as well as security/bug disclosures all due to the increased pace of AI/LLM activity.

Following the launch of the 7-inch Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2 and the 5-inch display variant , Raspberry Pi announced today the addition of a 10-inch model.

The 10-inch Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2 launched today at the $80 price point for those wanting a larger touchscreen for your Raspberry Pi based deployments.

Linux's cryptsetup for configuring and managing encrypted storage devices is ready with a new version as the developers work to deal with the recent deprecation of the Linux AF_ALG interface.

Cryptsetup has been one of the users of AF_ALG for providing user-space applications with direct access to the Linux kernel's internal cryptography API. But various aspects of AF_ALG have been quickly removed in the name of security concerns and in Linux 7.2 AF_ALG was deprecated due to its "massive attack surface

Canonical today disclosed three new Snap security vulnerabilities affecting snapd. Two are rated high impact vulnerabilities while the third is considered medium but covers all Ubuntu releases of the past decade going back to Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.

CVE-2026-8933 was uncovered by Qualys and allows a local attacker to escalate privileges. CVE-2026-8933 impacts Ubuntu LTS releases going back to 22.04 and is rated high with its CVSS3.1

Following recent Linux kernel patches enabling the Snapdragon X2 Elite powered Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x Gen11 and HP EliteBook X G2q X2 Elite laptops to boot outside of Windows 11 on ARM, Qualcomm engineers have now posted a new patch series for getting the X2 Elite Extreme powered ASUS Zenbook A16 working on Linux.

Konrad Dybcio of QUalcomm posted the patches enabling the X2 Elite Extreme powered Zenbook A16 for this high-end ARM laptop with 48GB of RAM and OLED