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Version 1.5.0 of the GNU Guix package manager and the Guix System have been released. Notable i [...]

Greg Kroah-Hartman has released the 6.18.7 and 6.12.67 stable kernels. As always, each contains [...]

The Linux Kernel Runtime Guard (LKRG) is a out-of-tree loadable kernel module that attempts to detect and report violations of the kernel's internal invariants, such as might be caused by an in-progress security exploit or a rootkit. LKRG has been ...

ReactOS, an open-source project to develop an operating system that is compatible with Microsof [...]

Version 1.93.0 of the Rust programming language has been released. Notable changes include in [...]

Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: Singularity; fsconfig(); io_uring restrictions; GPG vulnerabilities; slab allocator; AshOS. Briefs: Pixel exploit; telnetd exploit; OzLabs; korgalore; Firefox Nightly RPMs; Forgejo 14.0; Pandas 3.0;

As part of the process of writing man pages for the "new" mount API, which has been available in the kernel since 2019, Aleksa Sarai encountered a number of places where the fsconfig() system call--for configuring filesystems before mounting--needs ...

Version 3.0.0 of the pandas data analysis and manipulation library for Python has been released [...]

At the 39th Chaos Communication Congress (39C3) in December, researchers Lexi Groves ("49016") and Liam Wachter said that they had discovered a number of flaws in popular implementations of OpenPGP email-encryption standard. They also released an ...

Konstantin Ryabitsev has put up a blog post about korgalore, a tool he has written to circumven [...]