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Capacity strain from AI traffic showed up at GitHub, while the Linux 7.4 merge window produced file-system and SMB changes. Distro politics around LLM-written software and a Microsoft update bug rounded out the day.
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GitHub is adding about four million cores and re-architecting its service to handle load from AI-generated traffic.
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Linux 7.4 merged FAT32 changes that deliver up to 265x speedups, plus new options and improvements for KSMBD, the in-kernel SMB3 server. DRM-Next pull requests are already staging graphics and NPU driver work for 7.5.
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A Microsoft Edge update broke attachment opening in New Outlook on Windows. The summary gives no fix.
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A campaign seeks to add the LLM-written Nordstjernen browser engine to Debian and Arch Linux, raising concerns about security review processes.
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A patch proposes removing KGDB, the kernel debugger added in Linux 2.6.26, because it sees little recent use.
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Canonical is reviving Ubuntu Core Desktop, its immutable desktop offering, after a quiet period since 2024.
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AMD released version 0.1 of Loom, an SDK in the ROCm HRX stack targeting CPUs, GPUs and NPUs.
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Redox OS published a report on a year of work implementing io_uring-like ring buffers for system services.
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Linux 7.4 merges new options and improvements for KSMBD, the in-kernel SMB3 file server.
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A number of improvements to KSMBD, the in-kernel SMB3 file server, were merged for the Linux 7.4 kernel...
D7VK 2.4 is released, and a surprise new project implements the 3Dfx Glide API on top of Vulkan.
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The open-source D7VK project that implements the Direct3D 7 / 6 / 5 / 3 APIs atop the Vulkan API for faster, modern performance is out with a new release. This new D7VK 2.4 release came as a bit of a surprise since it was just last month D7VK announced its maturity status and more or less in maintenance mode. But brought up in today's D7VK 2.4 announcement is an even bigger surprise: there's now an implementation of the 3Dfx Glide API atop Vulkan...
LWN's weekly edition covers Python JIT work, kernel cleanup, Rust panics, and the 7.4 merge window.
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Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: Python JIT; Kernel clean up; Rust panics; Future Rust features; Northstar browser; 7.4 merge window; Smaller kernel stacks. Briefs: KeePassXC 2.8.0; Redox ring buffers; Rust in systemd; Quotes; ... Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more.
LWN reports on the Linux Plumbers sched_ext microconference covering priority inversion and paravirtualized scheduling.
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The Linux Plumbers Conference blog has a report from the sched_ext microconference held in Prague. Three main topics dominated the discussions Priority inversion and how to handle it in sched_ext: lock holder and lock waiter preemption, time slice extension, and making proxy execution work together with BPF schedulers. Paravirtualized scheduling: letting the host and guest schedulers cooperate across the VM boundary, with sched_ext as the policy engine on the host. Device and topology-aware scheduling: using hardware feedback (Intel HFI), device/accelerator locality and cache topology to drive task placement.
Roundup of security updates across AlmaLinux, Debian, Fedora, Mageia and other distributions, covering many packages.
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Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (emacs, thunderbird, and xdg-dbus-proxy), Debian (bind9, openjdk-21, pdns, php-mongodb, and thunderbird), Fedora (brotli, chromium, clevis, eog, flatpak, ghostscript, kernel, libinstpatch, libreswan, mingw-freetype, mingw-gstreamer1, mingw-gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free, mingw-gstreamer1-plugins-base, mingw-gstreamer1-plugins-good, openssh, perl-Alien-Brotli, perl-DBI, python3.12, rust-onefetch, stargz-snapshotter, util-linux, and webkitgtk), Mageia (cifs-utils, libxml2, packages, perl-Cpanel-JSON-XS, perl-Text-CSV_XS, sogo, util-linux, and weechat), Oracle (brotli, firefox, flatpak, gcc-toolset-15-gcc, kernel, libreswan, nodejs:22, nodejs:24, python-urllib3, skopeo, and xdg-dbus-proxy), Slackware (proftpd), SUSE (azure-storage-azcopy, containerd, corepack24, grok-build, ImageMagick, libsoup-2_4-1, matrix-synapse, podman, psqlODBC, python, python-M2Crypto-doc, python-Twisted-doc, and xen), and Ubuntu (authd).
A proposal adds a provenance time (ptime) timestamp to the Linux kernel alongside existing file birth times.
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While the Linux kernel and various file-system drivers already support the notion of the birth time for tracking a file/directory's birth/creation time, a slightly different provenance time "ptime" is now being proposed for the Linux kernel...
DRM-Next pull requests have begun staging graphics and NPU driver features for the Linux 7.5 cycle.
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Since last week drm-misc-next pull requests have already been sent out to DRM-Next to begin staging new feature code for what's intended for the Linux 7.5 kernel cycle kicking off at the end of the year...
The Redox OS project published a summary of its ring buffers work.
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The Emacs editor marks its 50th anniversary, a milestone for a long-running open source project.
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