📰 Wild 0.11 Linker Released - Now Able To Link Linux Kernel Modules, WASM By Default

Wild 0.11 is out as the latest feature release of this very fast linker currently targeting Linux systems and focused on iterative development...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wild-0.11-Released

#kernel #linux

📰 Brotli Decoder Flaw Behind Node.js RCE Also Affects Bun, Python and Other Widely Used Software

A memory-corruption flaw in Google's Brotli decoder sits in many programs that unpack Brotli-compressed data, among them Bun, the Python Brotli and brotlicffi packages, and Envoy proxies set up to decompress Brotli.Tracked as CVE-2026-111497, the flaw allows crafted compressed data to overwrite past the end of a buffer and corrupt a program's memory, potentially.

🔗 Source: https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/brotli-decoder-flaw-behind-nodejs-rce.html

#python

📰 systemd Merges Support For Rust Programs

As of today in systemd Git it's now possible for the systemd programs to be written in the Rust programming language as an alternative to C...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/systemd-Merges-Rust-Programs

#git #rust #systemd

📰 KDE Plasma 6.9 Stabilizes KWin's Wayland Picture-In-Picture Support

With the wonderful KDE Plasma 6.8 having shipped just more than one week ago, KDE developers are beginning to go heavy on new features for Plasma 6.9...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-6.9-Wayland-PiP

#kde #plasma #wayland

📰 Raspberry Pi Desktop proves old PCs aren't past it

Debian 13-based refresh runs comfortably on veteran ThinkPads, without making installation a hobby.

🔗 Source: https://www.theregister.com/os-platforms/2026/10/24/raspberry-pi-desktop-proves-old-pcs-arent-past-it/5304676

#debian #raspberry

📰 539 MM Patches Merged For Linux 7.4 From Optimizations To More DAMON

Andrew Morton sent out the big set of memory management "MM" related patches for the Linux 7.4 merge window. This cycle it topped out at 539 total patches and a reviewed rate of 76%...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.4-MM

#linux

📰 Leaked LiteLLM Master Key Let Attackers Steal GitHub Tokens and Hijack Release Pipeline

LiteLLM on Friday revealed that an Agent Platform master key accidentally published to a public GitHub repository in late May 2026 ultimately allowed the threat actor to push a malicious version of the popular Python package."On May 27, 2026, a configuration file was committed to the public LiteLLM-Labs/lite-harness repository which inadvertently contained the master key to a deployment of.

🔗 Source: https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/leaked-litellm-master-key-let-attackers.html

#python

📰 Linux's Early Boot-Time Physical Memory Allocator Sees Big Speed-Up: ~268s To ~50ms

Sent out today for the Linux 7.4 kernel were a set of memblock improvements. Most notable is a performance optimization within mm/memblock.c that implements the kernel's early boot-time physical memory allocator that is used prior to the bring-up of the full page allocator...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.4-memblock

#kernel #linux