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2m agoPatch series restores old-OID reporting to reference-transaction hooks on branch/tag deletion and adds conditional delete support to refs_delete_refs(). 8m agoIETF last-call thread (132 msgs) debating whether emailcore-as draft must require SMTP implementations to accept unencrypted mail. 17m agov2 patch proposes direct TID addressing for TOAST tuples to cut index lookups and write amplification in PostgreSQL. 26m ago40-patch series clarifies VMA flag semantics, removes VM_SPECIAL, and defines kernel-owned mapping predicates; active review by mm maintainers. 27m agoBackport request for CVE-2024-53114 disabling incorrect VMLOAD/VMSAVE virtualization on Zen4 AMD client CPUs in 6.6.y. 54m agov7 22-patch series adds exception cleanup landing pads to BPF verifier/JIT for safe bpf_unwind, addressing Rust panic support. 74m agoPatch series mirrors SOCK_NOSPACE into tcp_sock for cache efficiency and introduces helpers, incidentally fixing a long-standing DLM bug. 1h agoBranch Target Reuse brings Spectre-v2 back to JIT engines 1h agoNew eprint paper claims quasipolynomial distinguisher and decryption attack on Classic McEliece; 56-message debate on validity, costs, and parameters among Bernstein and others. 7h agoKernel kallsyms lookups sped up 7x for BPF tracing loads 7h agoStable 6.6 gets BPF fix for sign-extended packet pointer loads 8h agoFlatpak stack CVEs reopen the desktop sandbox trust question

Kernel & Low-Level

Kernel kallsyms lookups sped up 7x for BPF tracing loads Stable 6.6 gets BPF fix for sign-extended packet pointer loads Hazard pointer series fixes race, draws Linus on ptr_eq BPF gains exception cleanup pads so Rust Drop can unwind safely

Distributions & Plumbing

OpenWrt PR adds UniFi USW Pro XG 10 PoE switch support

Desktop & Graphics

Blender targets 5.4 with OpenPBR shader node for Cycles and EEVEE HMM migrate-on-fault series aims to cut page-table walks

Internet & Protocols

IETF TLS chairs put Bernstein under 30-day post moderation RFC Editor freezes two PQC TLS drafts after Bernstein complaints When machines join the queue: IETF, QEMU, and Emacs argue over AI participation IETF rejects appeal on ML-KEM TLS consensus and NSA conflict claims

Languages & Toolchains

PEP 824 proposes None-coalescing operators for Python Glibc ld.so overflow hits setuid programs via $ORIGIN paths PEP 823 proposes None-aware ?. and ?[] operators for Python glibc ld.so TOCTOU lets local users hijack $ORIGIN on setuid binaries

Databases & Infrastructure

Windows kubectl cp path traversal lets containers write arbitrary files PostgreSQL 19 ON CONFLICT DO SELECT can leak security_barrier rows QEMU plugs guest use-after-free in xHCI USB controller Kubernetes patches Windows kubelet NTLM coercion via subPath

Security & Cryptography

Flatpak stack CVEs reopen the desktop sandbox trust question An AI broke five of China's new crypto candidates in a day When the contributor might be a model Signal, noise, and the machine in the middle

AI & ML

PyTorch Inductor corrupts heap on dynamic-shape index_fill path PyTorch Dynamo silently drops closure mutations in local class methods PyTorch CPU fold path eyed for parallel col2im speedups Transformers adds early Gemma 4 logits and hidden-state support