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It seems that we are in for an extended period of the disclosure of vulnerabilities before fixe [...]

The kernel's DAMON subsystem provides user-space monitoring and management of system memory. DAMON is developing rapidly, so an update on its progress has become a regular feature of the annual Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF ...

Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 7.0.5, 6.18.28, 6.12.87, and 6.6.138 stable [...]

Hyunwoo Kim has announced the Dirty Frag security flaw, a local-privilege-escalation (LPE) vuln [...]

On April 21, Andrew Morton let it be known that he intends to begin stepping away from the maintainership of kernel's memory-management subsystem -- a responsibility he has carried since before memory management was even seen as its own subsystem. At ...

Arjen Hiemstra has published an article on the status of the Union project: a single system to [...]

The 7.0.4, 6.18.27, and 6.12.86 stable kernels have been released; each contains another set of [...]

Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: LLMs and security; restartable sequences and TCMalloc; Fedora and GNOME bug reports; Prolly trees; Arm on s390. Briefs: NHS open source; Alpine outage; GCC 16.1; Incus 7.0 LTS; NetHack 5.0.0; PHP ...

Predictions that LLM tools would cause a surge in reports of security vulnerabilities have, unquestionably, borne out. As expected, maintainers are having to wade through more security reports than ever before; in addition, LLM tools are disrupting ...

Version 7.0 of the Incus container and virtual-machine management system has been released. Not [...]