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[$] Removing binder.c

The final talk at Kangrejos 2026 was about the removal of the C implementation of Android's Binder driver, the primary interprocess communication mechanism used on Android devices. Carlos Llamas announced that he had…

Source: LWN.net daroc
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Haas: Postgres 19 is late, and it's AI's fault

PostgreSQL developer Robert Haas writes about the struggles the project has encountered in putting together its next release. In the end, I don't think that the delay in shipping PostgreSQL 19 is particularly…

Source: LWN.net corbet
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Remote code execution on Linux systems with multipath TCP

On October 27, LLM provider Anthropic reported on a remotely exploitable use-after-free bug affecting systems with multipath TCP listeners open. The bug works by triggering a response to a retransmitted SYN packet at…

Source: LWN.net daroc
Open Source

[$] System-call wrappers for glibc

In a followup to his session at the 2025 Linux Plumbers Conference (LPC), Carlos O'Donell returned to the topic of system-call wrappers for the GNU C library (glibc) at this year's event. This time around, he was joined…

Source: LWN.net jake
Open Source

Eight more stable kernel updates

Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 7.3.1, 7.2.14, 6.18.60, 6.12.115, 6.6.161, 6.1.191, 5.15.224, and 5.10.273 stable kernels. As usual, he advises all users to update—advice that seems especially wise…

Source: LWN.net daroc
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Security updates for Friday

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (aspell, cjose, curl, gcc-toolset-15-gcc, httpd:2.4, ignition, java-21-openjdk, libX11, libXi, libXrender, libXtst, mariadb:10.11, nodejs:24, python-pillow,…

Source: LWN.net daroc
Open Source

GitLab Duo with Orbit: Side-by-Side Zero-Day Exposure Demo

Find out how GitLab Orbit gives AI agents the knowledge graph context needed to identify critical zero-day vulnerability exposure in seconds. John Coghlan, Senior Director of Developer Advocacy at GitLab, demonstrates a…

Source: GitLab GitLab