Summary: LWN.net’s weekly edition covers important topics from the 2026 Maintainers Summit. Additionally, various technical subjects like Rust goals and GCC with LLMs are discussed. This news summarizes the content of …
Summary: Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced seven new stable kernel releases. These releases include a fix for a critical vulnerability (CVE-2026-99999). This news reports the release of new versions for seven different …
Summary: A vulnerability in the Linux kernel’s vhost subsystem allows local users to read and write kernel memory at will and gain root privileges. This critical flaw affects numerous kernel versions for nearly a decade …
Summary: A newly discovered critical vulnerability in the Linux kernel allows code within virtual machines to read the memory of the host computer they run on. A researcher demonstrated this flaw against Vercel’s live …
Summary: Huawei has made a proposal for the ACPI CPPC CPUFreq driver used on ARM64 Linux server platforms. This proposal involves enabling the CPU’s “boost” mode by default. This news discusses Huawei’s proposal for a …