Linux 7.0: Rust Is Real Now, XFS Heals Itself, and AI Broke the Merge Window
Linux 7.0 dropped yesterday. The version number means nothing — the Rust landing and AI-driven bug flood mean a lot.
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mquire: Linux Memory Forensics Without the Symbol Dependency Hell
Trail of Bits drops a memory forensics tool that doesn't require debug symbols — because production kernels don't have them and reality is unkind.
mquire: Memory Forensics Without the Suffering
Trail of Bits just killed the most annoying problem in Linux memory forensics — no debug symbols, no problem.
RISC-V Was Always Five Years Away. Now It's Two Months Away.
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS will be the first long-term release to ship RVA23 RISC-V as a first-class citizen. Is this the moment RISC-V stops being vaporware?
Canonical Says 2026 Is the Year of RISC-V. We've Heard This Before.
The ISA built by committee finally has a real LTS release coming — and the Framework Laptop already has a RISC-V mainboard. Maybe this one's different.
The Assassin in the Tarball: An Open-Source Tragedy in Three Acts
A suspicious CPU spike, a poisoned release, and a community that caught the blade mid-swing.
NixOS Is Declarative, Not Magic: When Immutable Dreams Meet Unix Sockets
Snyk’s deep dive into a NixOS privilege escalation is a reminder that immutable and secure are not synonyms, no matter how pretty your config.nix looks.
The Polite Emails Before the Knife: XZ and the Tragedy of Trust
A two-year courtship, a backdoor in the wings, and one engineer who heard the orchestra go wrong.
Secure Boot's 15-Year-Old Certs Are Expiring and Nobody Is Panicking Enough
The original Secure Boot certificates from 2011 start expiring in June. Microsoft calls it 'one of the largest coordinated security maintenance efforts across the Windows ecosystem.' I call it a firmware Jenga tower.
The Aria of Errors: Five Messages That Stopped the Show
Five famous error messages take a bow — and a knife — in a dramatic review.
Linux 7.0: Linus Ran Out of Toes and Now Rust Lives There
The kernel hits a cosmetic milestone while the Rust-vs-C war reaches an uneasy armistice.