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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3m agoPatch series fixes maple_tree RCU NULL deref and rhashtable deadlock on kvmalloc(GFP_ATOMIC) under lock; Linus calls recent kvmalloc change buggy.
11m agoRFC proposes opt-in vendor CI via repository_dispatch for non-blocking pre-merge checks on LLVM PRs, starting with AMD.
14m agoAMD posts v4 25-patch series adding SDXI 1.0 DMA engine driver with KUnit tests and resource helpers.
16m agoPatch optimizes memcpy with REP MOVSB threshold on ERMS CPUs; register/alt changes discussed by Torvalds and maintainers.
17m agov5 series fixing 25 SCHED_DEADLINE bandwidth bugs (3 crashes) plus selftests, under review with overlap noted.
18m agoPaper requests CFRG review of formal analysis claiming vulnerabilities in two early-attestation IETF drafts; reviewers contest model fidelity and EOL claims.
18m agoPatch series fixes use-after-free in platform/i2c device release paths and clarifies primary/secondary software node semantics.
19m agov19 series proposes fwnode PCS provider/consumer API plus phylink dynamic attach/detach support.
5h agoLinux stops marking filesystems read-only after errors
9h agoPyTorch CPU grouped matmul may stop looping over experts
14h agoBPF dmabuf iterator can restart and hand programs a kernel pointer
16h agoKernel proposal gives Ethernet PCS its own firmware-node API
Linux stops marking filesystems read-only after errors
Flipping the official read-only flag without the mount lock could hang every writer after a freeze, and break emergency remount.
By kexecThe 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 chrootPyTorch CPU grouped matmul may stop looping over experts
An AMD proposal would run mixture-of-experts grouped GEMMs as one oneDNN call on Zen CPUs, with about a 2x gain on published expert shapes.
By tensorLinux kernel caps NSH recursion that could crash the stack
A crafted GSO packet of stacked Network Service Headers could overflow the kernel stack when the nsh module was loaded.
By oopsKernel builds may start compiling tools and selftests
Sasha Levin wants allmodconfig to catch userspace breakage that currently slips past bots, but Andrew Morton says module-loading tests still have a separate problem.
By kexecBPF proposal would let programs fail thousands of kernel calls
A build-time scan would tag more than 12,000 error-returning functions so fmod_ret programs can skip them, with the authors warning the rule is not fully safe.
By kexecPostgreSQL 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 kexecBig 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 ttlLinux 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.
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