IT & infrastructure
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Linux 7.4 merge-window work and certificate-trust updates dominated. Microsoft pushed out-of-band fixes, and several projects shipped or proposed removals.
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Microsoft released out-of-band Windows updates to distrust certificates tied to compromised eMudhra certificate authority keys. The updates also refresh certificate trust list entries.
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Linux 7.4 hardens the NTFS3 driver against corrupted and maliciously crafted NTFS volumes, per Paragon's Konstantin Komarov. The merge window also adds DMA-BUF infrastructure for io_uring, AMD EPYC Zen 6 PML support and ARM64-on-s390 virtualization in KVM.
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Python's experimental JIT compiler is set to be removed from CPython, according to an LWN report.
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Apple released iOS 27.2 with new Siri AI languages and security fixes for iPhones and iPads.
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A kernel patch proposes removing unmaintained BSD-Compress support from the Linux PPP networking code.
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Ghostty 1.4.0, the terminal emulator, is out with release notes published.
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Peter Robinson describes Fedora's Raspberry Pi 5 support: Fedora 45 works on the Model 5B, and Fedora 44 needs a boot workaround.
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Linux 7.4 merge window adds infrastructure for DMA-BUF support in the io_uring I/O path.
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Merged today for the ongoing Linux 7.4 merge window is the infrastructure for enabling DMA-BUF support in the kernel's I/O path with the wonderful IO_uring framework...
Alexandre Courbot at Kangrejos 2026 seeks Rust for Linux developer input on panic and error-handling standards in kernel code.
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Alexandre Courbot spends most of his time working on the kernel doing code reviews. Recently, he's been wondering about what the standards should be for when Rust code is allowed to panic, and how it should do error handling more generally. Unlike many of the other talks at Kangrejos 2026, his talk was not presenting some existing work, but rather hoping to solicit opinions on the topic from the assembled Rust for Linux developers. He brought along a collection of tricky cases that he had run into recently to prompt discussion.
Cloudflare Radar reviews global Internet disruptions in Q3 2026 caused by power failures, disasters, and government shutdowns.
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An examination of global Internet disruptions observed by Cloudflare Radar during the third quarter of 2026. This review analyzes how power failures, natural disasters, and government shutdowns impacted network connectivity and traffic.
Microsoft released out-of-band Windows updates to refresh certificate trust list entries, including eMudhra certificates.
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Did you hear the one about eMudhra and the power of 4? Time to get connected to certificate trust list updates
Linux 7.4 KVM merges AMD EPYC Zen 6 PML support and ARM64 on s390 virtualization features.
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The many Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) improvements have been merged for Linux 7.4 to deliver a number of new features for different server processors...