Rust 1.98 Adds Algebraic Floating-Point Methods Akin To "-ffast-math"
Michael Larabel · Phoronix
Rust 1.98 released today and is headlined the debut of new algebraic floating-point methods...…
Detailed Timeline of OpenAI’s Cyberattack on Hugging Face
Bruce Schneier · Schneier on Security
OpenAI presented details of its AI’s model’s cyberattack on Hugging Face at Black Hat last week. Simon Willison details the timeline. It’s really interesting to…
Announcing Rust 1.98.0
The Rust Release Team · Rust Blog
The Rust team is happy to announce a new version of Rust, 1.98.0. Rust is a programming language empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software. I…
PINE64 is Halting its Linux Hardware Line, and The AI Bubble is to Blame
Sourav Rudra · itsFOSS
The open hardware manufacturer recently posted an update on its Mastodon account, and it's not great news if you were hoping to grab new Linux-powered PINE64 ha…
Supply chain attack on arrayref (Rust blog)
Fonte: LWN.net
The Rust blog reports on a malicious crate, called proc-macro1, that was uploaded to the crates.io repository. Furthermore, we discovered that the popular array…
KMSCON 10.0.2 Brings asciicast Playback Support, Bug Fixes
Michael Larabel · Phoronix
KMSCON 10.0.2 debuted today as the latest update to this leading user-space terminal emulator for Linux systems. KMSCON is built around Linux's KMS/DRM interfac…
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Police Are Hiding Their Use of Flock Surveillance Cameras
Bruce Schneier · Schneier on Security
A usage policy for Flock license plate reader cameras tells police not to talk about the cameras: When cops use Flock to arrest someone in Wapello County, Iowa,…
Warp Launches Factories to Let Engineering Teams Build Their Own Cloud Software Factories
Sourav Rudra · itsFOSS
The platform is open at every layer, letting teams bring their own models, harnesses, and compute while Warp handles the orchestration.…
RPM 6.1.0 released
Fonte: LWN.net
Version 6.1.0 of the RPM Package Manager has been released. Notable changes include the ability to provide modifiers to RPM macros at definition time, improved …
KDE Software Now Has Stable Btrfs Snapshot Integration With KIO-Snapshot 1.0
Michael Larabel · Phoronix
With today's release of KIO-Snapshot, KDE software now has stable integration of Btrfs file-system snapshots...…
[$] The beginning of the 7.3 merge window
Fonte: LWN.net
As of this writing, 2,346 non-merge changesets have been pulled into the mainline repository for the 7.3 kernel release. That, clearly, is a mere down payment o…
Intel Hyper Threading Performance On The Xeon 678X "Granite Rapids-WS"
Michael Larabel · Phoronix
With the Intel Xeon 678X "Granite Rapids WS" processor that I have been recently testing within the HP Z4 G6i workstation, there are 48 cores plus with Hyper Th…
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Security updates for Thursday
Fonte: LWN.net
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (bind9.18, glib2, gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free, gstreamer1-plugins-good, kernel-rt, libcupsfilters, mysql8.4, mysq…
FSCRYPT Sees Cleanup With Linux 7.3 To Open Door For More Features Like Btrfs Encryption
Michael Larabel · Phoronix
FSCRYPT is the Linux file-system encryption framework for supporting per-directory, transparent encryption. FSCRYPT so far is used by the likes of EXT4, F2FS, a…
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for August 20, 2026
Fonte: LWN.net
Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: Debian AI GR; Python pathlib; bootstrappable builds; Fedora and AF_ALG; Arm 128-bit PTEs; BPF CI; 7.2 statisti…
Linux Driver Posted For The PreSonus Quantum 2626: A ~$700 Thunderbolt Audio Interface
Michael Larabel · Phoronix
The PreSonus Quantum 2626 is a high-end, Thunderbolt 3 based audio interface. PreSonus just maintains Windows and macOS drivers for this high-end audio interfac…
Go 1.27 released
Fonte: LWN.net
Go 1.27, the most recent version of the Go programming language, has been released with a number of new tools, the addition of support for the ML-DSA post-quant…
RPM 6.1 Released With Clang Build Fixes, New Release Model
Michael Larabel · Phoronix
RPM 6.1 is out today as the newest feature release for this package management system. With RPM 6.1 comes a number of features and improvements as well as a new…
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Mesa 26.2.1 Released With Dozens Of Fixes
Michael Larabel · Phoronix
For those preferring the tradition of waiting for the first point release of a new Mesa feature release before upgrading, Mesa 26.2.1 is available today with a …
Linux 7.3 Cleans Up The Code For Disabling Of Legacy 32-bit Time Support
Michael Larabel · Phoronix
The Linux kernel has supported the CONFIG_COMPAT_32BIT_TIME Kconfig build time option for optionally disabling of legacy 32-bit time system call support. This i…
KDE Gear 26.08 Delivers The Latest KDE App Experience
Michael Larabel · Phoronix
KDE Gear 26.08 was released today to deliver the latest collection of KDE application updates...…
X.Org Server 26.1 RC1 Prepares For First Feature Release In Five Years
Michael Larabel · Phoronix
Following today's release of XWayland 26.1 RC1, X.Org Server 26.1 RC1 was tagged. This xorg-server 26.1 release is aiming to become the first major feature rele…
EXT4 Preps More Performance Improvements For Linux 7.3
Michael Larabel · Phoronix
In addition to the IOmap improvements helping EXT4 performance in Linux 7.3, the main EXT4 feature pull request has now been submitted for this next kernel vers…
Two Very Exciting Memory Management Optimizations Going Into Linux 7.3
Michael Larabel · Phoronix
Andrew Morton on Tuesday sent out all of the memory management "MM" updates for the Linux 7.3 merge window. The MM pull was particularly heavy as he noted 1,250…
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