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The kernel's direct map provides code running in kernel mode with direct access to all physical memory installed in the system -- on 64-bit systems, at least. It obviously makes life easier for kernel developers, but the direct map also brings some ...

Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 6.19.10, 6.18.20, 6.12.78, 6.6.130, and 6.1 [...]

Version 149.0 of the Firefox web browser has been released. Notable features in this release in [...]

PHP's licensing has been a source of confusion for some time. The project is, currently, using two licenses that cover different parts of the code base: PHP v3.01 for the bulk of the code and Zend v2.0 for code in the Zend directory. Much has changed ...

This issue report describes a credential-stealing attack buried within LiteLLM 1.82.8 in the Py [...]

Chris Down has posted a detailed look at how the kernel's zswap and zram subsystems work -- and [...]

The Krita project has announced the release of Krita 5.3.0 and 6.0.0: Krita 5.3/6.0 is the re [...]

BPF programs can run in both sleepable and non-sleepable (atomic) contexts. Currently, sleepable BPF programs are not allowed to enter an atomic context. Puranjay Mohan has a new patch set that changes that. The patch set would let BPF programs ...

Linus has released 7.0-rc5 for testing. 'It looks like things are starting to calm down - rc5 i [...]

Version 0.15.0 of the b4 patch-management tool is out. Highlights in this release include the [...]