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[$] Support for private memory nodes

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. He is trying to implement the opposite policy β€” to make some memory off-limits for all processes except those designed specifically to use it. The session was used to present his goals and to discuss how they might be implemented.

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Security updates for Thursday

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, opencryptoki, pgadmin4, proftpd, python-django5, python-django6, python-dotenv, rsync, rust-nu, rustup, and strongswan), Oracle (nginx, nginx:1.24, ruby, ruby:3.3, and squid), Slackware (bind and rsync), SUSE (buildah, distribution, distribution-registry, docker, firefox-esr, helm, libpainter0, libsdb2_4_2, postgresql-jdbc, runc, and vim), and Ubuntu (gnutls28, gst-plugins-good1.0, jq, linux-nvidia, linux-nvidia-lowlatency, openvpn, rsync, and unbound).

LPI

Morrolinux: Protecting Your Data and Reputation

In today’s digital era, and even more with the rise of AI, the protection of your data and reputation has never been more crucial. As we navigate the vast landscape of information technology, understanding the foundational principles of IT security ... Read more The post Morrolinux: Protecting Your Data and Reputation appeared first on Linux Professional Institute (LPI).

Phoronix

chipStar 1.3 Released For Running HIP/CUDA Code On SPIR-V With OpenCL

A new release of chipStar is now available as the open-source tool for compiling and running HIP/CUDA code in a vendor-neutral manner with the SPIR-V intermediate representation on OpenCL or even Intel Level Zero as the run-time alternative. This is part of the ambitious effort to allow NVIDIA CUDA and AMD HIP code to ultimately run on alternative vendors with increasing levels of success...

Phoronix

New Patches Allow The Microsoft Surface Pro 9 5G To Be More Useful Under Linux

Back in 2024 there were Linux patches to enable a partially-working Microsoft Surface Pro 9 5G laptop that is powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8xc Gen 3 (SC8280XP) SoC. Now in 2026, there are new patches for making that ARM-powered Microsoft Surface laptop actually working more respectably under Linux... Like a working display and more...

LWN.net

[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for May 21, 2026

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; ... Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more.