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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Linux 7.0 dropped yesterday. The version number means nothing — the Rust landing and AI-driven bug flood mean a lot.
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.
Trail of Bits just killed the most annoying problem in Linux memory forensics — no debug symbols, no problem.
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?
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.
A suspicious CPU spike, a poisoned release, and a community that caught the blade mid-swing.
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.
A two-year courtship, a backdoor in the wings, and one engineer who heard the orchestra go wrong.
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.
Five famous error messages take a bow — and a knife — in a dramatic review.
The kernel hits a cosmetic milestone while the Rust-vs-C war reaches an uneasy armistice.