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Linux kernel flaw exposes 16 million RHEL systems to silent root takeover

If your enterprise servers run Red Hat Enterprise Linux or a close derivative — Oracle Linux, AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux, Fedora Server, Amazon Linux 2023 — there is a nine-year-old flaw in their default ...
ZDNet

Linux 6.16 brings faster file systems, improved confidential memory support, and more Rust support

The changes in the latest Linux kernel, Linux 6.16, may be small, but they include some significant ones. Linus Torvalds himself summed up this release as looking fine, small, and calm, but not ...
Neowin

Linux 6.16-rc2: Smaller than usual, but with notable network and bcachefs tweaks0 0

Linus Torvalds has released the second release candidate of the Linux 6.16 kernel. It brings a smaller set of changes than usual, but they're notable nonetheless. Paul Hill Neowin @ziks_99 · Jun 15, ...
InfoWorld

Linux 6.0 kernel arrives, quietly

Linux 6.0 release is loaded with many small improvements, with bigger changes including Rust support promised for Linux 6.1. The Linux 6.0 kernel has been released with changes impacting areas such as ...
Cybernews

Critical Linux kernel vulnerability leads to full KVM escape

PwnEscape Linux vulnerability lets VM guests leak host memory via malformed IPv4 packets. See what the evidence shows ...
Ars Technica

As the Kernel Turns: Rust in Linux saga reaches the “Linus in all-caps” phase

Rust, a modern and notably more memory-safe language than C, once seemed like it was on a steady, calm, and gradual approach into the Linux kernel. By late 2024, however, Rust enthusiasts were ...
ZDNet

Tuning the Linux kernel with AI, according to ByteDance

Richmond, Virginia: At the Linux Plumbers Conference, the invite-only meeting for the top Linux kernel developers, ByteDance Linux Kernel Engineer Cong Wang, proposed that we use artificial ...