…But various aspects of AF_ALG have been quickly removed in the name of security concerns and in Linux 7.2 AF_ALG was deprecated due to its "massive attack surface" . For…
For those concerned about current imbalance or voltage changes with the 12VHPWR power connectors and having an ASUS ROG Astral graphics card, there is now an open-source driver for Linux available…
…Furthermore, the zero-copy support was also removed already due to security concerns. The deprecation and these removals have now happened for Linux 7.2 without the objection of Linus Torvalds or…
…This week's DRM pull request of kernel graphics/accelerator drivers is again heavy on fixes and also ends up disabling an ioctl interface given ongoing security concerns from that code merged…
…XP Era Systems Running Linux Old SGI Drivers Being Removed In Linux 7.3 Over Security Concerns Dell Latitude 7320 2-in-1 Seeing Web Camera Support On Linux After Five Years…
…Independently-verifiable path from source to binary has become increasingly important for security concerns and validating the authenticity of packages. Moving forward, Debian must ship reproducible packages and thus Debian 14.0…
…both future AMD and Intel CPUs. "If x86 AMX/ACE with >8 tiles does not concern you, then you can stop reading. ----------------------- 8< ----------------------- I have been asked to document x86 AMX/ACE…
…There is no concern that the ports tree has been compromised. The freeze was entirely intended to limit the number of commits that will need to be re-written in order to…
…This interface for letting user-space programs interact directly with the Linux kernel crypto API has proven to be a "massive attack surface" due to a variety of security concerns . With its…
…AF_ALG will already be seeing its zero-copy support removed due to the associated security concerns. Additionally, as of this past week, this patch is moving ahead and dropping off-CPU…