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The Xen Project has released the type-1 hypervisor Xen 4.22 – with new hardware support, RISC-V progress and five years of security support.

Barely after Linux 7.2, the 7.3 merge window opens – with AMD UALink, the first CXL Type-2 driver and initial Apple M3 support.

The Linux flaw SCTPhantom (CVE-2026-64564) in the SCTP code allows local root access and container escape. Fixes are available.

Starlink has discontinued Global Roam and limited Roam Unlimited to 30 days abroad per trip. For long-distance sailors this gets expensive and complicated.

The Aoostar WTR Pro is a compact NAS barebone with an AMD Ryzen 7, four drive bays and up to 88 TB – an interesting pick for homelab builders.

The Linux Foundation has unveiled OpenMDW-1.1, a unified licence for open AI models – Nvidia is adopting it for several model families.

The gaming distribution Bazzite has been released in version 44 – with a SteamOS-aligned gaming stack, kernel 7.2, Mesa 26.2.1 and a graphical updater.

Go 1.27 is out – with long-awaited generic methods, a stricter encoding/json/v2 and more SIMD support.

Rust 1.98 is here: new “algebraic” methods for f32 and f64 give the compiler more room to optimise floating-point calculations.

Attackers briefly laced the widely used Rust library arrayref with malicious code – via a disguised dependency. It was pulled after 86 minutes.