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Meta's Muse will happily hand over its whole filesystem
Two developers say they coaxed Meta's AI platform into zipping up and sharing its entire root filesystem with almost no effort. Meta insists it isn't a breach.
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Cloudflare fixes cross-tenant data exposure in Containers
Accomplish researchers showed how a Workers Paid customer could read residual data from disks previously used by other tenants' containers on the same host.
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Qualcomm Says Linux Support Is Coming to Snapdragon X2
Qualcomm says Linux support will come to its Snapdragon X2 series processors, an announcement tied to the company's Snapdragon Summit.
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Debian Launches Free AI Inference Portal for Its Developers
Following the project's vote to permit the responsible use of generative AI, the Scaleway-funded Debian Inference Portal now offers contributors self-service access to language models.
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Exploit Published for Unpatched Ubuntu Flaw: Container Escape to Host Root
A use-after-free bug in the Linux kernel's AF_UNIX socket subsystem lets an attacker break out of a container and gain root on the host. The kernel fix shipped on August 6, but Ubuntu has yet to release a patch for any affected LTS release.
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systemd 262 lands with embedded unit files, LUO integration and an AI “canary” for unreviewed code
The systemd project has shipped another major update to its init system and service manager. Highlights include embedded fallback unit files, Live Update Orchestrator support, and a mechanism to flag unreviewed code written by AI models.
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Linux Kernel Flaw Gives ARM64 KVM Guests Access to Host Memory
The CVE-2026-89775 bug in the Linux kernel's nested-virtualization code for ARM64 lets a guest read and write host memory — and, the researcher says, escape the guest to run code on the host.
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MX Linux 25.3 brings new tools and siduction kernels
The MX Linux project has shipped another update to its 25.x series, pairing security fixes from Debian with a batch of home-grown additions — from a fresh ISO signature checker to a colour-theme generator.
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The Unix 2038 problem and the art of underestimating
On the Runtime Arguments podcast, the hosts walk through the looming overflow of Unix's 32-bit timestamp and a whole parade of similar bugs — from Y2K to the Boeing 787.
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Starling 0.5 Adds a 3D Desktop You Can Walk Through
Starling, the Swift-based Linux desktop built largely with AI, gains an optional 3D mode that lets you stroll through a virtual waterfront city — while app windows stay real.
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Comparing Btrfs, ZFS and bcachefs on the Workloads That Classic Benchmarks Miss
A blogger sets out to pit three modern Linux file systems against each other under conditions that traditional tests usually overlook.
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io_uring learns to swap thread identities for the sake of speed
io_uring maintainer Jens Axboe has proposed a radical way to shed the overhead of asynchrony: if an operation ends up blocking anyway, the kernel swaps the "identities" of two threads.
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The Linux 7.4 Kernel Will Open Files for Reading Nearly 40% Faster
A small optimization of the do_open() function in the VFS subsystem, more than two years in the making, promises a noticeable boost in the speed of opening files for reading.
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CISA Adds Three Linux Kernel Vulnerabilities to Its Actively Exploited Catalog
The U.S. agency CISA has added three Linux kernel flaws to its catalog of known exploited vulnerabilities, citing evidence of attacks in the wild. Federal agencies are ordered to remediate them by September 21.
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Ubuntu 26.10 Makes a Surprise Jump to the Linux 7.3 Kernel
Canonical has revised its plans: the autumn Ubuntu release will ship with the Linux 7.3 kernel instead of the previously announced 7.2. The reason is upstream's ahead-of-schedule development pace.
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The Linux Kernel Bids Farewell to Binder in C: Rust Wins
The Linux 7.4 kernel is set to remove the old C implementation of Binder. The Rust version will become the sole option for inter-process communication on Android.
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Lily: an automatic backdoor hunter for the commit and release stages
Researchers have unveiled Lily, a tool that plugs into CI pipelines and release-review processes to catch hidden backdoors in open-source software before they ever reach users.
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Four Local Root Vulnerabilities in the Linux Kernel: DirtyAH6, TUNderflow, PPPoEject and DiagSpill
Researcher Asim Manizada has disclosed four vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel that let an unprivileged user gain root. The bugs are between 10 and 21 years old, and the fixes have already landed in the stable branches.
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Why you can't glue .tar.gz files together with cat
A simple task — merging several archives into one — sent a developer deep into the inner workings of tar and gzip, the history of magnetic tape, and patent wars.
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Ubuntu 26.10 Completes the Switch to Rust-Based coreutils
In the “Stonking Stingray” release, the last holdouts — cp, mv and rm — move to the memory-safe versions. Nothing changes for users; the gain is purely in security.
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