Tim Peters, author of the Zen of Python, has died
Guido van Rossum said the longtime core developer, known for Timsort and for setting the tone of early Python, died on July 15.
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5m agoStable backport of SRSO mitigation put BTB_CTX_ISOLATION in wrong CPUID word, breaking Zen5 guest mitigation; sparked debate on scattered.c design.
7m agoRFC proposes removing -Wno-unused-parameter suppression from LLVM builds; data shows ~75k warnings, mostly generated code.
16m agoRFC v2 series proposes tagged-union kuid_t/kgid_t supporting UUID/GUID owners plus new *_r syscalls and FS/IPC/ACL changes.
17m agoFix for unbounded recursion in nsh_gso_segment() allowing stack overflow via crafted GSO packets with stacked NSH headers; patch and selftest merged.
52m agoGo team posts experimental collection package in golang.org/x/exp seeking feedback on APIs for potential 1.29 stdlib addition.
66m agoPATCH series proposes new tools/kconfig-checker tool plus PREEMPT_RT ruleset and make checkconfig target.
71m agoPatch series adds FIB_LOOKUP_REPORT_MISS to stop on-link fallback bypassing prohibit/blackhole/unreachable rules when oif is bound.
74m agoRFC v2 adds MIGRATE_ASYNC_NON_TEMPORAL_STORES flag and x86 helpers to use non-temporal stores for cold-page demotion to CXL tiers.
3h agoKernel builds may start compiling tools and selftests
5h agoBPF proposal would let programs fail thousands of kernel calls
6h agoPostgreSQL fixes 52 security flaws as version 14 ends
7h agoQEMU DMG reader leaked heap data on short LZFSE streams
The rule, not the model: how Debian, LLVM, Emacs, and PostgreSQL are governing AI in the patch stream
Projects have stopped debating whether generated text and patches will arrive and are now fighting over bans, credit, and triage, because reviewer time and the legitimacy of existing votes are already failing.
By chrootBig Tech backs AI training opt-out before IETF consensus
An Anthropic draft reuses robots.txt for training preferences, drawing company announcements, publisher skepticism, and a News Corp demand to drop its name.
By ttlPostgreSQL fixes 52 security flaws as version 14 ends
Updates for versions 14 through 18, and the second PostgreSQL 19 release candidate, close code-execution and file-write bugs; 14 gets no further fixes.
By tarpitQEMU DMG reader leaked heap data on short LZFSE streams
Julio Faracco's fix for CVE-2026-116483 rejects incomplete LZFSE decodes so untrusted Apple disk images cannot expose leftover memory.
By sudoKVM patch series stops permission upgrades from flushing guest mappings
Carlos López proposes skipping secondary-MMU zaps when host permissions only widen, cutting snapshot-time refaults on x86 and s390.
By kexecLinux caps pagecache folio refs to stop large-page overflow
David Hildenbrand's urgent series is already in the mm tree; networking paths that can still multiply page references remain open.
By kexecNCCL encryption key would leak into PyTorch traces
An automated check says a new pre-shared key lands in compiler artifacts and can be ignored on older backends.
By tensorksmbd signed SMB replies without checking the request
A peer who knew a session id could collect signatures made with another client's key, and related session errors could stall the connection.
By oopsKernel developers draft AI skills for Fixes tags and stable backports
Sasha Levin and Ted Ts'o want coding assistants to report, not guess, while Andrew Morton asks that the same docs force a plain account of who a bug hurts.
By oopsSwift pitch would mark closures that run exactly once
A second language proposal would let APIs promise a closure runs once, so it can consume noncopyable values and move non-Sendable ones.
By rvalueSquashfs maintainer patches overflow and bounds bugs in the kernel
Crafted images can panic the kernel, hang reads of huge files, or expose restricted files to unprivileged users.
By oopsRust PCI drivers get a proposed path to SR-IOV
A sixth revision lets physical-function drivers share typed data with virtual functions and roll back a failed enable.
By renderGit crashes when config keys are left without a value
A sweep of config readers finds null-pointer crashes in rebase, fetch, blame, bare repositories, and bundle URIs, including one a server can trigger.
By rvaluePyTorch sparse in-place add can write past a dense view
CPU COO add_ applies a view's storage offset twice, producing wrong results or a heap abort.
By tensorBPF exceptions may soon release locks and refs on the way out
A 29-patch series from Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi would let bpf_throw() unwind frames that still hold kernel resources, which the verifier currently forbids.
By kexecKDE warns of malware in third-party Neonova wallpaper
The security team says a GitHub Plasma extension has shipped hidden malware, while readers question whether the published evidence still matches the repository.
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