Ubuntu Just Patched Over 500 Vulnerabilities in Its Azure Linux Kernel
Canonical patched over 500 vulnerabilities in the Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Azure kernel on July 25, including AMD Zen 2 speculative execution flaws that enable local privilege escalation from within a VM. »
Linux 7.2-rc4 Lands: Cache-Aware Scheduling Doubles MongoDB Throughput and strncpy Is Finally Gone
Linux 7.2-rc4 merges Cache-Aware Scheduling — benchmarking at 100% higher MongoDB throughput on AMD Zen 5 — and permanently retires the unsafe strncpy API after a six-year kernel-wide cleanup. »
Three Snapd Bugs Let Any Local User Own Ubuntu — Patch Now
Canonical patched three snapd CVEs on July 21, including two high-severity privilege escalation flaws that hand a low-privilege account full root on default Ubuntu Desktop installs. »
The Last MPEG-4 Part 2 Patent Just Expired — DivX, Xvid, and a 26-Year Codec War Are Finally Over
On July 19, 2026, the final patent covering MPEG-4 Part 2 Visual expired in Brazil, making the codec that powered the era of internet video legally free worldwide for the first time. »
COSMIC Desktop 1.3 Is Here: System76's Rust Linux Desktop Gets Frosted Glass and GPU Monitoring
System76 shipped COSMIC Epoch 1.3.0 on July 14, 2026, delivering the long-awaited frosted glass visual effect, deeper AMD/Intel/NVIDIA GPU monitoring, and a Rust-native NetworkManager backend to its from-scratch Linux desktop environment. »