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@lwn@fedi.lwn.net · 4d ago

Security updates for Thursday

https://lwn.net/Articles/1062570/ #LWN #Linux #security

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@lwn@fedi.lwn.net · Mar 03, 2026

CBP Tapped Into the Online Advertising Ecosystem To Track Peoples’ Movements
(404 Media)

https://lwn.net/Articles/1061085/ #LWN #Linux #security

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@lwn@fedi.lwn.net · Mar 02, 2026

[$] The ongoing quest for atomic buffered writes

There are many applications that need to be able to write multi-block chunks of data to disk with the assurance that the operation will either complete successfully or fail altoget [...]

https://lwn.net/Articles/1060063/ #LWN #Linux #kernel #Git #PostgreSQL #PostgreSQL #XFS #BPF #io_uring

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@lwn@fedi.lwn.net · Mar 02, 2026

Høiland-Jørgensen: The inner workings of TCP zero-copy

https://lwn.net/Articles/1060953/ #LWN #Linux #kernel

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@lwn@fedi.lwn.net · Mar 02, 2026

Texinfo 7.3 released

https://lwn.net/Articles/1060950/ #LWN #Linux #Perl

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@lwn@fedi.lwn.net · Mar 02, 2026

[$] The exploitation paradox in open source

The free and open-source software (FOSS) movements have always been about giving freedom and power to individuals and organizations; throughout that history, though, there have als [...]

https://lwn.net/Articles/1058031/ #LWN #Linux #RedHat

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@lwn@fedi.lwn.net · Mar 02, 2026

Gram 1.0 released

https://lwn.net/Articles/1060912/ #LWN #Linux

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@lwn@fedi.lwn.net · Mar 02, 2026

Motorola announces a partnership with the GrapheneOS Foundation

https://lwn.net/Articles/1060913/ #LWN #Linux #Android

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@lwn@fedi.lwn.net · Mar 02, 2026

Security updates for Monday

https://lwn.net/Articles/1060911/ #LWN #Linux #security

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@lwn@fedi.lwn.net · Mar 02, 2026

Kernel prepatch 7.0-rc2

https://lwn.net/Articles/1060802/ #LWN #Linux #kernel

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@lwn@fedi.lwn.net · Mar 01, 2026

groff 1.24.0 released

https://lwn.net/Articles/1060786/ #LWN #Linux #Debian #Android #Perl #Git

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@lwn@fedi.lwn.net · Feb 27, 2026

[$] The troubles with Boolean inversion in Python

The Python bitwise-inversion (or complement) operator, "~", behaves pretty much as expected when it is applied to integers—it toggles every bit, from one to zero and vice versa. I [...]

https://lwn.net/Articles/1059177/ #LWN #Linux #Python

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@lwn@fedi.lwn.net · Feb 27, 2026

Two new stable kernels, possible regression

https://lwn.net/Articles/1060646/ #LWN #Linux #kernel

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@lwn@fedi.lwn.net · Feb 27, 2026

Security updates for Friday

https://lwn.net/Articles/1060645/ #LWN #Linux #security

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@lwn@fedi.lwn.net · Feb 26, 2026

[$] IIIF: images and visual presentations for the web

The International Image Interoperability Framework, or IIIF ("triple-eye eff"), is a small set of standards that form a basis for serving, displaying, and reusing image data on the [...]

https://lwn.net/Articles/1059565/ #LWN #Linux

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@lwn@fedi.lwn.net · Feb 26, 2026

Security updates for Thursday

https://lwn.net/Articles/1060391/ #LWN #Linux #security

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@lwn@fedi.lwn.net · Feb 26, 2026

[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for February 26, 2026

The LWN.net Weekly Edition for February 26, 2026 is available.

https://lwn.net/Articles/1059501/ #LWN #Linux

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@lwn@fedi.lwn.net · Feb 25, 2026

Support period lengthened for the 6.6, 6.12, and 6.18 kernels

https://lwn.net/Articles/1060271/ #LWN #Linux #kernel #Git

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@lwn@fedi.lwn.net · Feb 25, 2026

[$] No hardware memory isolation for BPF programs

On February 12, Yeoreum Yun posted a suggestion for an improvement to the security of the kernel's BPF implementation: use memory protection keys to prevent unauthorized access to [...]

https://lwn.net/Articles/1059218/ #LWN #Linux #kernel #BPF

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@lwn@fedi.lwn.net · Feb 25, 2026

[$] An effort to secure the Network Time Protocol

The Network Time Protocol (NTP) debuted in 1985; it is a universally used, open specification that is deeply important for all sorts of activities we take for granted. It also, des [...]

https://lwn.net/Articles/1059200/ #LWN #Linux #security #systemd #FOSDEM

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@lwn@fedi.lwn.net · Feb 25, 2026

MetaBrainz mourns the loss of Robert Kaye

https://lwn.net/Articles/1060189/ #LWN #Linux

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@lwn@fedi.lwn.net · Feb 24, 2026

[$] As ye clone(), so shall ye AUTOREAP

The facilities provided by the kernel for the management of processes have evolved considerably in the last few years, driven mostly by the advent of the pidfd API. A pidfd is a f [...]

https://lwn.net/Articles/1059673/ #LWN #Linux #kernel #systemd

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@lwn@fedi.lwn.net · Feb 19, 2026

[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for February 19, 2026

The LWN.net Weekly Edition for February 19, 2026 is available.

https://lwn.net/Articles/1058474/ #LWN #Linux

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@lwn@fedi.lwn.net · Feb 18, 2026

[$] More accurate congestion notification for TCP

The "More Accurate Explicit Congestion Notification" (AccECN) mechanism is defined by this RFC draft. The Linux kernel has been gaining support for AccECN with TCP over the last f [...]

https://lwn.net/Articles/1058666/ #LWN #Linux #kernel

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@lwn@fedi.lwn.net · Feb 18, 2026

Fedora now available in Syria

https://lwn.net/Articles/1059342/ #LWN #Linux

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@lwn@fedi.lwn.net · Feb 18, 2026

An Asahi Linux progress report

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@lwn@fedi.lwn.net · Feb 18, 2026

An update to the malicious crate notification policy (Rust Blog)

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@lwn@fedi.lwn.net · Feb 18, 2026

Security updates for Wednesday

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@lwn@fedi.lwn.net · Feb 17, 2026

[$] Do androids dream of accepted pull requests?

Various forms of tools, colloquially known as "AI", have been rapidly pervading all aspects of open-source development. Many developers are embracing LLM tools for code creation an [...]

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@lwn@fedi.lwn.net · Feb 17, 2026

Plasma 6.6.0 released

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@lwn@fedi.lwn.net · Feb 17, 2026

An update on upki

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@lwn@fedi.lwn.net · Feb 17, 2026

Security updates for Tuesday

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@lwn@fedi.lwn.net · Feb 16, 2026

[$] Open source security in spite of AI

The curl project has found AI-powered tools to be a mixed bag when it comes to security reports. At FOSDEM 2026, curl creator and lead developer Daniel Stenberg used his keynote se [...]

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@lwn@fedi.lwn.net · Feb 16, 2026

Four stable kernels to fix problematic commit

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@lwn@fedi.lwn.net · Feb 16, 2026

[$] Compact formats for debugging—and more

At the 2025 Linux Plumbers Conference in Tokyo, Stephen Brennan gave a presentation on the debuginfo format, which contains the symbols and other information needed for debugging, [...]

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@lwn@fedi.lwn.net · Feb 16, 2026

Four stable kernels for Monday

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@lwn@fedi.lwn.net · Feb 16, 2026

Security updates for Monday

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@lwn@fedi.lwn.net · Feb 14, 2026

Vim 9.2 released

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@lwn@fedi.lwn.net · Feb 13, 2026

New delegation for Debian's data protection team

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@lwn@fedi.lwn.net · Feb 13, 2026

[$] The first half of the 7.0 merge window

The merge window for Linux 7.0 has opened, and with it comes a number of interesting improvements and enhancements. At the time of writing, there have been 7,695 non-merge commits [...]

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@lwn@fedi.lwn.net · Feb 13, 2026

[$] Open-source mapping for disaster response

At FOSDEM 2026 Petya Kangalova, a senior tech partnership and engagement manager for the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) spoke about how the project helps people map their su [...]

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@lwn@fedi.lwn.net · Feb 13, 2026

Security updates for Friday

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@lwn@fedi.lwn.net · Feb 11, 2026

postmarketOS FOSDEM 2026 and hackathon recap

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@lwn@fedi.lwn.net · Feb 06, 2026

[$] Kernel control-flow-integrity support comes to GCC

Control-flow integrity (CFI) is a set of techniques that make it more difficult for attackers to hijack indirect jumps to exploit a system. The Linux kernel has supported forward-e [...]

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@lwn@fedi.lwn.net · Jan 28, 2026

Mourning Didier Spaier https://lwn.net/Articles/1056384/ #LWN

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