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Security updates for Wednesday

[$] The tenth OpenPGP email summit

Firefox 151.0 released

[$] openSUSE "terms of site" raise complaints about age restrictions

[$] In search of faster this_cpu operations

[$] What's brewing in CXL

[$] Improving the per-CPU memory allocator

Security updates for Tuesday

pgBackRest will continue

[$] Swap tables, flash-friendly swap, swap_ops, and more

Security updates for Monday

Kernel prepatch 7.1-rc4

RIP Peter G. Neumann

Some weekend stable kernel updates

[$] Controlling memory management with BPF

Seven new stable kernels with patches for CVE-2026-46333

[$] HugeTLB preservation over live update

Security updates for Friday

[$] Policy groups for memory management

[$] Buffered atomic writes, writethrough, and more

Three stable kernels for Thursday

[$] Keeping COWs in context (a.k.a. anonymous reverse mapping)

Security updates for Thursday

[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for May 14, 2026

[$] Friction in Fedora over AI developer desktop initiative

Yet another Dirty Frag type vulnerability: Fragnesia

[$] Managing pages outside of the direct map

[$] Revisiting mshare

Sovereign Tech Fund invests in KDE

[$] Using dma-bufs for read and write operations

[$] Scaling transparent huge pages to 1GB

Stenberg: Mythos finds a curl vulnerability

Two stable kernels with Dirty Frag fixes

[$] Providing 64KB base pages with 4KB kernels, two different ways

Debian to require reproducible builds

Kernel prepatch 7.1-rc3

More stable kernels with partial Dirty Frag fixes

[$] Forgejo "carrot disclosure" raises security questions

killswitch for short-term emergency vulnerability mitigation

[$] A 2026 DAMON update

Four stable kernels with partial fixes for Dirty Frag

Dirty Frag: a zero-day universal Linux LPE

[$] A new era for memory-management maintainership

An update on KDE's Union style engine

Three stable kernel updates