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Michael Catanzaro has disclosed a command-injection vulnerability affecting a number of GTK-bas [...]

José Marchesi and the GCC-BPF developers opened the BPF track at the 2026 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-management, and BPF Summit with a 90-minute summary of what has changed for GCC's BPF support in the past year. This kind of session has ...

The OpenBSD 7.9 release is out, right on schedule. There is the usual long list of new feature [...]

Gregory Price started his session in the memory-management track of the 2026 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit by saying that, in current kernels, if a NUMA node has memory, the assumption is that anybody can make use of it ...

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (kernel, kernel-rt, and libsndfile), Debian (bind9, evince, firefox-esr, openjpeg2, pdns, and rsync), Fedora (erlang-cowlib, evince, expat, firefox, kernel, mingw-expat, mysql8.0, mysql8.4, nss,

Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: OpenSUSE site age restrictions; Lots of LSFMM+BPF coverage; The tenth OpenPGP email summit. Briefs: Firefox 151.0; pgBackRest funding; RIP Peter G. Neumann; Quotes;

"Reclaim" is the task of finding memory that can be taken away from its current user and put to better uses within the system; it is a core part of the memory-management picture. The addition of the multi-generational LRU (MGLRU) was meant to provide ...

The OpenPGP Email Summit is an annual meeting for those who work on encrypted email and related topics. The tenth installment of this meeting took place in March 2026 and the minutes have now been published. As usual, a wide range of topics were ...

Version 151.0 of the Firefox browser has been released. Significant changes include the abilit [...]

Many people in the Linux community began using the operating system--and contributing to open source--at a tender age, often well before their 16th birthday. Thus, a recent change in openSUSE's terms of site (ToS) that required users of the project's ...