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The kernel is able to run a few types of executable files, including native binaries in the ELF format and interpreted programs that begin with the #! marker. It also, however, has a mechanism, called binfmt_misc, that can be configured from user ...

Version 0.10 of the uutils project's Rust Coreutils has been released. This release focused on [...]

Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: Process-builder API; Fedora COI; FUSE io_uring buffer sizes; BPF network namespaces; FUSE plans; BPF libraries; directory creation system call. Briefs: AISI hack; JFrog on CVEs; npm worm; AUR adoption ...

Konstantin Ryabitsev has announced the release of version 0.16.0 of the b4 software-developmen [...]

Jordan Rife's work involves writing BPF programs for Cilium that interface with Kubernetes networking. As part of that work, he wants to enable BPF programs with appropriate permissions to iterate through the sockets of a different network namespace.

Filesystem in Userspace (FUSE) maintainer Miklos Szeredi led a birds-of-a-feather (BoF) discussion about the subsystem at the 2026 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit. In it, he talked about maintenance challenges, proposed ...

Jynn Nelson describes the Rust language team's new LLM policy on the Inside Rust blog. No on [...]

The AI Security Institute has released a detailed report on an security incident of its own mak [...]

The Fedora Council is considering a conflict-of-interest (COI) policy for its decision-making bodies, such as the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee (FESCo), special-interest groups (SIGs), and any other groups or individuals that report to the ...

StepSecurity is reporting the emergence of a new worm affecting npm packages. The design of [...]