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134 postsFairphone 6's wide camera gets experimental mainline Linux support
Fairphone 6's OmniVision wide camera now works experimentally on mainline Linux via a ported qcom-camss driver for the milos SoC.
Building an Arch Linux Aarch64 Port for Holo Core
Collabora and Valve detail Holo Core, an unofficial aarch64 port of Arch Linux for Steam Frame, and the CI tooling needed to replay its build history.
Why TLS Certificate Trust Isn't Universal on Linux
A breakdown of why TLS certificate trust varies across applications on Linux, covering system trust stores, private CAs, and per-runtime overrides.
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commitbrief.comAI Uncovers 15-Year-Old Root Vulnerability in Linux Kernel
GhostLock (CVE-2026-43499): AI tool VEGA found a 15-year-old use-after-free root exploit in Linux kernel futex code. What engineers need to patch now.
Sigwire: a live TUI for tracing every Linux signal
Sigwire is an open-source TUI that uses Linux kernel tracepoints to show every signal on a machine live, without strace or ptrace.
Januscape: 16-Year-Old Critical Linux KVM Escape, PoC Public
CVE-2026-53359 (Januscape) is a critical Linux KVM guest-to-host escape in the shadow MMU, present since 2010; a public PoC causes host kernel panic.
Netkit: Closing the Linux Container Networking Performance Gap
How Cilium's netkit devices and bpf_redirect_peer eliminate backlog queue overhead to match container network performance to bare host speeds.
SoLo Lets Static musl Binaries Load glibc GPU Drivers
SoLo lets fully static musl Linux binaries dlopen glibc GPU drivers at runtime — no container, no AppImage, one file.
How one engineer reverse engineered the Attack Shark keyboard protocol
An engineer reverse engineered the closed Attack Shark keyboard protocol via WebHID, producing an open-source configurator for 523 board models.
Microsoft Secure Boot Flaw Persisted for 13 of Its 14 Years
ESET researchers find a Secure Boot vulnerability that went unpatched for 13 years, letting old signed shims bypass UEFI firmware protection.