Linux kernel devs drop obligatory confession of AI tool usage

"The Maintainers Summit reached consensus to deprecate the Assisted-by Tag," said Sasha Levin, a Linux kernel developer and ...
The Hacker News

Critical PwnEscape Linux Kernel Vulnerability Lets Guest VMs Read Host Memory

A critical Linux kernel flaw let a guest VM read host memory in Vercel's live sandboxes; host code execution was shown only ...
Phoronix

Linux 7.4 Kernel Crypto Library Enjoying Optimized AES Implementations On x86 & RISC-V

The latest Linux kernel cryptographic subsystem performance work carried out by Google engineer Eric Biggers is migrating x86 ...
OSTechNix

Linux Kernel 7.3 Is Officially Released: 5 Key Features You Must Know

Linux Kernel 7.3 is officially released. Discover the 5 big features, including dmemcg VRAM management, Btrfs speedups, ...
Cybernews

Onslaught of Linux kernel bugs forces cyber pros to rethink security boundaries

XBOW’s AI system found a high-severity Linux kernel flaw that can let some users gain root privileges. The bug affects SMC-D code that now runs on ordinary x86 Linux machines through loopback ...
ZDNet

What Linux kernel maintainers do and why they need your help

Monterrey, California: At the Linux Foundation Members Summit, Jonathan Corbet, Linux kernel developer and executive editor of Linux Weekly News, explained where the pain points are for Linux kernel ...
Phoronix

Patches Posted For Enabling Apple Silicon Mac Speaker & Headset Jack Support On Linux

While the downstream Asahi Linux kernel has offered working speaker support and headset jack capabilities on Apple Silicon Macs, the mainline Linux kernel hasn't supported this functionality. But a ...
ZDNet

Linux kernel 6.11 is out - with its own BSOD

Vienna, Austria: Linus Torvalds and I are both in Vienna, which is being blasted by a storm. So, instead of looking at museums, I spent my time writing, and he spent his time releasing the Linux 6.11 ...