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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-18 23:09:05)
Claude AI Assists In Fixing Years Old AMD Radeon Linux Display Bug Affecting Numerous Laptops
A bug in the AMDGPU Linux kernel graphics driver leading to some laptop displays freezing after periods of use may finally be close to being resolved. Given the length and quantity of bug reports and one of the problematic commits being tracked back to 2017, it's a heavy hitting issue for some Linux users. With the help of Claude Code, it looks like a fix is on the way to the L…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDGPU-Fixing-Display-Freeze
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-18 22:54:04)
AF_ALG Deprecation Approved For Linux 7.2, Useless & Insecure Crypto Driver Code Removed
The cryptographic subsystem updates have been merged for the ongoing Linux 7.2 kernel merge window...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-Crypto
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-18 21:54:05)
Ubuntu Flavors Now Mandated To Participate In Beta Releases For Official Status
Canonical and the Ubuntu Release Team have implemented an important policy change for Ubuntu flavors moving forward. If they are to have an official release, they must now successfully submit a beta release...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-Flavors-Beta-Mandate
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-18 19:39:09)
Latest LLVM Patch Further Points To AMD GFX1250/GFX1251 Being Instinct Hardware
With the ongoing work around the AMD GFX1250 (and GFX1251) in the open-source AMD Linux driver stack, it's led to a lot of speculation about these parts in the GFX12 series associated with RDNA4. RDNA4 refresh? Or a lot of signals have pointed to GFX125x being possible AI/HPC accelerators such as for the upcoming Instinct MI400 series. Adding to the intrigue is GFX1251 being an APU. The late…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-GFX1250-SRAM-ECC-LLVM
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-18 19:39:06)
Linux 7.2 EDAC Drivers Prep For Diamond Rapids, Nova Lake H
The Error Detection And Correction (EDAC) drivers, such as for dealing with ECC memory error reporting, are heavy on the Intel side with Linux 7.2 in preparing for upcoming hardware...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-EDAC
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-18 19:09:11)
SteamOS 3.8.10 Stable Released With Updated Arch, Steam Machine Support & Wayland Desktop Default
Overnight Valve released SteamOS 3.8.10 into the stable channel. for succeeding SteamOS 3.7. There's a lot happening across the board to their in-house Linux platform for the likes of the Steam Deck and upcoming Steam Machine hardware...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/SteamOS-3.8.10-Stable
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-18 19:09:09)
Linux 7.2 Protects Against "Stupid Or Malicious" DoS Attempts By Arming Timers In The Past
There are a number of time(r) core subsystem changes for the Linux 7.2 kernel to better harden the kernel...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-Timers
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-18 09:39:15)
AI/LLM Patch Craziness Having An Impact On ARM64 Linux Kernel Development
The ongoing rise in AI/LLM-generated patches hitting the mailing lists and affecting development workflows continues to impact Linux kernel development. For the ARM64 architecture updates in Linux 7.2 is an interesting anecdote over over feeling like this activity has "slowed us down a little on the feature side" and having to deal with this AI/LLM patch activity resulted in some features now bein…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/ARM64-Linux-7.2-Changes
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-18 05:09:08)
Bcachefs Tools 1.38.6 Brings Many Performance Improvements
Kent Overstreet announced the release today of Bcachefs-Tools 1.38.6 as the user-space tools built around the Bcachefs copy-on-write file-system. There are a few new features and a lot of performance work in v1.38.6 without bringing any on-disk format breakage...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Bcachefs-Tools-1.38.6
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-18 05:09:06)
Linux 7.2 Slab Changes Include More Performance Optimizations
The slab memory allocation changes for Linux 7.2 have been merged and continue to see more work around shaves and performance optimizations...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-Slab
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-18 04:54:11)
AMD's Lemonade AI Server Now Much More Useful With MCP Server Integration
The open-source Lemonade AI server for "100% free and private" AI usage across Windows and Linux in leveraging AMD Ryzen AI NPUs, Radeon GPUs, and x86_64 CPUs, is now much more powerful with today's v10.8 release...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Lemonade-10.8-Released
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-18 01:40:12)
Experimental, Reverse-Engineered & AI Assisted Rust Driver Targets Modern DisplayLink Hardware
The original DisplayLink USB display adapters were great for working with an upstream, open-source driver while sadly the newer DisplayLink tech has been limited to an out-of-tree driver and proprietary user-space daemon. But posted today is an experimental "Vino" driver that is a clean-room, reverse-engineered driver for newer DisplayLink hardware...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Experimental-Vino-DRM-Driver
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-17 19:24:04)
GCC 17 Lands Initial Infrastructure For C++29
Merged yesterday to the GCC Git development codebase for next year's GCC 17 release is the initial infrastructure laying out support for -std=c++29 and the like for targeting the C++29 standard not anticipated for release until around 2029...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GCC-17-std-CPP29-Experimental
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