[$] Removing read-only transparent huge pages for the page cache
Things do not always go the way kernel developers think they will. When the kernel gained support for the creation of read-only transparent huge pages for the page cache in 2019, [...]
https://lwn.net/Articles/1066582/ #LWN #Linux #kernel #Git #XFS #BPF
Security updates for Friday
[$] A flood of useful security reports
The idea of using large language models (LLMs) to discover security problems is not new. Google's Project Zero investigated the feasibility of using LLMs for security research in 2 [...]
https://lwn.net/Articles/1066581/ #LWN #Linux #security #FOSDEM
Relicensing versus license compatibility (FSF Blog)
Security updates for Thursday
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for April 9, 2026
The LWN.net Weekly Edition for April 9, 2026 is available.
[$] Ripping CDs and converting audio with fre:ac
It has been a little while since LWN last surveyed tools for managing a digital music collection. In the intervening decades, many Linux users have moved on to music streaming serv [...]
[$] An API for handling arithmetic overflow
On March 31, Kees Cook shared a patch set that represents the culmination of more than a year of work toward eliminating the possibility of silent, unintentional integer overflow [...]
https://lwn.net/Articles/1065889/ #LWN #Linux #kernel #GCC #LLVM #Clang #Rust
Nix privilege escalation security advisory
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