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Greg Kroah-Hartman has released the 6.6.133 stable kernel. This reverts a backporting mistake that removed file descriptor checks which led to kernel panics if the fgetxattr, flistxattr, fremovexattr, or fsetxattr functions were called from user space with a file descriptor that did not reference an open file.
Before you format that drive, have a quick, honest chat with yourself.
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (freerdp, grafana, grafana-pcp, gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free, gstreamer1-plugins-base, gstreamer1-plugins-good, and gstreamer1-plugins-ugly-free, kernel, libpng12, libpng15, perl-YAML-Syck, python3, and rsync), Debian (dovecot, libxml-parser-perl, pyasn1, python-tornado, roundcube, tor, trafficserver, and valkey), Fedora (bind9-next, chromium, cmake, domoticz, freerdp, giflib, gst-devtools, gst-editing-services, gstreamer1, gstreamer1-doc, gstreamer1-plugin-libav, gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free, gstreamer1-plugins-base, gstreamer1-plugins-good, gstreamer1-plugins-ugly-free, gstreamer1-rtsp-server, gstreamer1-vaapi, libgsasl, libinput, libopenmpt, mapserver, mingw-binutils, mingw-gstreamer1, mingw-gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free, mingw-gstreamer1-plugins-base, mingw-gstreamer1-plugins-good, mingw-libpng, mingw-python3, nginx-mod-modsecurity, openbao, python-gstreamer1, python3.12, python3.13, python3.14, python3.9, rust, rust-sccache, tcpflow, and
If adopted, this kernel module would detect when a plugged-in USB device is acting suspiciously.
A small but convenient feature is coming with the Linux 7.1 that will be useful in debugging AMD Zen system problems and information reporting/transparency purposes...
From "I installed Ubuntu once" to "I built my own OS"—where do you actually fall on the Linux skill ladder?
For the better part of the past year NetBSD developers have been preparing for the NetBSD 11.0 release and in February NetBSD 11.0-RC1 released followed by 11.0-RC2 and now a third release candidate was announced today...
Following Friday's release of Wine 11.6 with reviving the Android driver and improving game mod support as part of DLL loader updates, Wine-Staging 11.6 is out today with extra patches atop...
The Oxygen and Air themes from the KDE 4 desktop environment are making a major comeback with the upcoming KDE Plasma 6.7 release.
Red Hat has launched RHEL Extended Life Cycle Premium, a stand-alone subscription that extends major-version support to 14 years.
PeaZip 11.0 improves archive browsing speed, updates 7z/p7zip to 26.00, adds batch archive testing, and refines the file manager.
PeaZip 11.0 open-source archive manager is now available for download with faster archive browsing, enhanced bookmarks, internal drag and drop, and other changes. Here’s what’s new!
Separate from the recently discussed work on MediaTek MT7927 "Filogic 380" support being worked on for the MT76 Linux driver (still undergoing review), a number of other MediaTek MT76 wireless driver improvements are queued up ahead of the Linux 7.1 merge window opening as soon as next week...
Google engineers have been developing JSIR as a high-level intermediate representation (JSIR) for JavaScript that they are already using in production at the company code code analysis and transforming other code/bytecode to JavaScript as well as for deobfuscating JavaScript code...
Open-source friendly company Tiny Corp that is behind the Tinygrad MIT-licensed neural network framework and developing a "sovereign" AMD GPU driver stack with their Tinybox hardware offerings has their sights on shipping the Exabox next year. The Tiny Corp's Exabox is expected to retail for around $10M USD but offer immense AI compute power...
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