daroc    Gregory Price recently posted a patch set that adds support for weighted memory interleaving allowing a process’s memory to be distributed between non uniform memory access NUMA nodes in a more controlled way. According to his performance measurements, the patch set could provide a...

daroc    Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux gnutls, java openjdk, mod http , and squid , Debian firefox esr , Fedora editorconfig, perl Clipboard, php, rust, and wordpress , Mageia less, libreswan, puppet, and x server, x server xwayland, and tigervnc , Slackware aaa glibc , and SUSE...

jzb    Gentoo Council member Micha G rny posted an RFC to the gentoo dev mailing list in late February about banning ’AI’ backed LLM GPT whatever contributions to the Gentoo Linux project. G rny wrote that the spread of the AI bubble indicated a need for Gentoo to formally take a stand on AI...

corbet    Kernel developers, like conscientious developers for many projects, will often include checks in the code for conditions that are never expected to occur, but which would indicate a serious problem should that expectation turn out to be incorrect. For years, developers have been encouraged to put...

jake    Security updates have been issued by Debian firefox esr, jetty , libdatetime timezone perl, tomcat, and tzdata , Fedora cockpit, filezilla, and libfilezilla , Red Hat firefox, gnutls, java . . openjdk, java openjdk, kernel, kernel rt, less, mod http , nodejs:, rhc worker script, and...

daroc    The LWN.net Weekly Edition for April , is available.

jake    Managing to do lists is something of a universal necessity. While some people handle them mentally or on paper, others resort to a web based tool or a mobile application. For those preferring the command line, the MIT licensed Taskwarrior offers a flexible solution with a healthy community and...

daroc    The . . , . ., . ., and . . stable kernel updates have all been released.

daroc    Security updates have been issued by Debian apache and cockpit , Fedora firefox, kernel, mbedtls, python cbor , wireshark, and yyjson , Mageia nghttp, Red Hat kernel, kernel rt, opencryptoki, pcs, shim, squid, and squid:, Slackware firefox , SUSE emacs, firefox, and kernel , and Ubuntu ...

daroc    The recent XZ backdoor has sparked a lot of discussion about how the open source community links and packages software. One possible security improvement being discussed is changing how projects like systemd link to dynamic libraries that are only used for optional functionality: using dlopen to...

jzb    Fedora Beta was released on March , and the final release is nearing completion. So far, the release is coming together nicely with major updates for GNOME, KDE Plasma, and the usual cavalcade of smaller updates and enhancements. As part of the release, the project also...

corbet    Version . of the PuTTY SSH client is out with a fix for CVE ; some users will want to update and generate new keys: PuTTY ., released today, fixes a critical vulnerability CVE in the use of bit ECDSA keys ecdsa sha nistp . If you have used a bit ECDSA...

corbet    Security updates have been issued by Debian php . and php ., Fedora c ares , Mageia python pillow and upx , Oracle bind and dhcp, bind ., httpd: . mod http , kernel, rear, and unbound , SUSE eclipse, maven surefire, tycho, emacs, kubevirt, virt api container, virt controller container,...

corbet    The Open Source Security Foundation and the OpenJS Foundation have jointly posted a warning about XZ like social engineering attacks after OpenJS was seemingly targeted. The OpenJS Foundation Cross Project Council received a suspicious series of emails with similar messages, bearing different...

daroc    Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi has been working to add support for exceptions to BPF since mid . In July, Dwivedi posted the first patch set in this effort, which adds support for basic stack unwinding. In February , he posted the second patch set aimed at letting the kernel release resources...