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On October 27, LLM provider Anthropic reported on a remotely exploitable use-after-free bug a [...]

In a followup to his session at the 2025 Linux Plumbers Conference (LPC), Carlos O'Donell returned to the topic of system-call wrappers for the GNU C library (glibc) at this year's event. This time around, he was joined by Florian Weimer, who is ...

Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 7.3.1, 7.2.14, 6.18.60, 6.12.115, 6.6.161, [...]

The foundation of the design for containers in the kernel is that there isn't one; there is no container abstraction that the kernel recognizes. Instead, the kernel provides a long list of components -- namespaces, control groups, sandboxing ...

Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: Python JIT; Kernel clean up; Rust panics; Future Rust features; Northstar browser; 7.4 merge window; Smaller kernel stacks. Briefs: KeePassXC 2.8.0; Redox ring buffers; Rust in systemd; Quotes;

The Linux Plumbers Conference blog has a report from the sched_ext microconference held in Prag [...]

There is not a broad selection of mature, open-source web-browser engines for Linux users. Most of the browsers available for Linux are based on one of just three projects: Chromium's Blink, Firefox's Gecko, or WebKit. A new entrant would generally ...

The Redox OS project, which is a Unix-like microkernel-based operating system written in Rust, [...]

Peter Robinson has written a blog post about the current state of Fedora support for Raspberry [...]

Alexandre Courbot spends most of his time working on the kernel doing code reviews. Recently, he's been wondering about what the standards should be for when Rust code is allowed to panic, and how it should do error handling more generally. Unlike ...