Intel-powered laptops are at risk if a Linux update is applied, as the notebook display could be physically damaged. This is one of those horror scenarios that PC owners dread, of course, and the update in question is the recently released version 5. 19.

12 of the Linux kernel.

Unfortunately, a bug in the graphics driver – for integrated Intel GPUs, this is – triggers a power sequencing issue which, as Phoronix (opens in new tab) reports, manifests as very fast white flashes happening on the screen.
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