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Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 6.19.8, 6.18.18, and 6.12.77 stable kernels [...]

Reddit user 'Ok_Lingonberry3296' has posted the results of an extensive investigation into the [...]

Qualys has sent out a somewhat breathless advisory describing a number of vulnerabilities in th [...]

In 2019, researchers published a way to identify which file-backed pages were being accessed on a system using timing information from the page cache, leading to a handful of unpleasant consequences and a change to the design of the mincore() system ...

One of the first changes merged for the upcoming 7.0 release was nullfs, an empty filesystem that cannot actually contain any files. One might logically wonder why the kernel would need such a thing. It turns out, though, that there are places where ...

Sasha Levin has announced the release of the 6.19.7 and 6.18.17 stable kernels. As usual, each [...]

Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: Chardet; Linux and age verification; Debian AI; Python lazy imports; Python type-system PEP; PQC HTTPS certificates; MGLRU; Fedora strategy. Briefs: LLM vulnerability; NTP security; OpenWrt 25.12.0;

A recently enacted law in California imposes an age-verification requirement on operating-system providers beginning next year. The language of the Digital Age Assurance Act does not restrict its requirements to proprietary or commercial operating ...

Igalia has announced the Moonforge Linux distribution, based on OpenEmbedded and Yocto. Moonf [...]

There has been ongoing discussion in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) about how to protect internet traffic against future quantum computers. So far, that work has focused on key exchange as the most urgent problem; now, a new IETF working ...