Last week, Google and industry partners dismantled the XCPE backdoor which enrolled more than 1.3 million set-top boxes into a botnet. We assess with high confidence that the backdoor and botnet ...

Version 16.0 of the Tor Browser has been released. This is the first stable version based on Firefox ESR 153. Notable changes in this release include support for Linux on 64-bit Arm, redesigned ...

Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 7.2.15 kernel, with a handful of updates. Note, this is the LAST 7.2.y kernel release. After this one the 7.2.y kernel tree is end-of-life. Please ...

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The Redox OS project, which is a Unix-like microkernel-based operating system written in Rust, has published a report on the work that it has done in the last year to implement io_uring-like I/O. Last ...

From there, we made our account a superuser, impersonated Bash's maintainer, and confirmed we could add an SSH key with push access to the upstream Bash repository. An unpatched kernel gave us root ...

The Linux Plumbers Conference blog has a report from the sched_ext microconference held in Prague.

LWN looked at the PostgreSQL 19 release and its challenges in September.

Peter Robinson has written a blog post about the current state of Fedora support for Raspberry Pi 5 devices. According to Robinson, the upcoming Fedora 45 release will work—with caveats—on all ...

Christian Brauner has announced that he has merged support for writing leaf components of systemd in Rust. Rust will be used only for new leaf components, existing code is not being ported to Rust and ...

A common problem in kernel development is controlling when a specific task should be done. Kernel code often executes in contexts where some actions (sleeping, for example, or calling into filesystems ...