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I've been throwing away leftunders, a word I just made up and then found in the Urban Dictionary.

And it will probably be very bad

A super El Niño is coming this year.

Speaking of worse

Axios says we're scaling sin. They…

The kernel's <a href="https://docs.kernel.org/driver-api/dma-buf.html">dma-buf subsystem</a> provides a way for drivers to share memory buffers, usually in order to support efficient device-to-device <span class="nobreak">I/O</span>. At the 2026 <a href="https://events.linuxfoundation.org/lsfmmbpf/">Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit</a>, Pavel Begunkov, assisted by Kanchan Joshi, led a joint session of the storage and memory-management…

As a general rule, when developers talk about huge pages, they are referring to PMD-level pages that are 1MB or 2MB in size, depending on the CPU architecture. Most CPUs can support other huge-page sizes, though. On x86 systems, PUD-level huge pages hold 1GB of data. Providing such large pages…

Security updates have been issued by <b>AlmaLinux</b> (freerdp, glib2, libsoup3, and openexr), <b>Debian</b> (dnsmasq, p7zip, p7zip-rar, python-authlib, and rails), <b>Fedora</b> (chromium, firefox, httpd, and nss), <b>SUSE</b> (java-25-openj9, krb5, libmodsecurity3, and mcphost), and <b>Ubuntu</b> (imagemagick, linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-fips, linux-aws-hwe, linux-azure-4.15, linux-fips, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-4.15, linux-gcp-fips, linux-hwe, linux-kvm, linux-oracle, linux-azure, linux-azure-fips, linux-oracle, linux-azure-5.15,…

Death to #2

Dentistry numbers your teeth. Number one is the top right back tooth. If you’ve got one, that’s a wisdom tooth, one of the four that erupted last through your gums. Your other top wisdom tooth is…

<p>Daniel Stenberg has published a <a href="https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/05/11/mythos-finds-a-curl-vulnerability/">lengthy article</a> on his thoughts on Anthropic's Mythos, which the company decided was too dangerous for wide public release.</p> <blockquote class="bq"> <p>My personal conclusion can however not end up with anything else than that the big hype around this model so far was primarily…

<p>Greg Kroah-Hartman has released the <a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/1072312/">7.0.6</a> and <a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/1072313/">6.18.29</a> stable kernels with Hyunwoo Kim's <a href="https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/?id=aa54b1d27fe0c2b78e664a34fd0fdf7cd1960d71">patch</a> for the second vulnerability (<a href="https://lwn.net/ml/all/2026051149-CVE-2026-43500-60d6%40gregkh/">CVE-2026-43500</a>) reported with <a href="https://github.com/V4bel/dirtyfrag#dirty-frag-universal-linux-lpe">Dirty&#160;Frag</a> and <a href="https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/05/07/12">Copy&#160;Fail&#160;2</a>. All users are advised to upgrade.</p> <p></p>

Some CPU architectures are able to run with a number of different base-page sizes; using a larger size can often result in better performance at the cost of increased memory use. Other architectures are more limited. At the 2026 <a href="https://events.linuxfoundation.org/lsfmmbpf/">Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit</a>, two sessions…

Paul Gevers has slipped an interesting bit of news into a "<a href="https://lwn.net/ml/all/E1wLw4g-000n88-0p@respighi.debian.org">bits from the release team</a>" message: <p> <blockquote class="bq"> Aided by the efforts of the Reproducible Builds project, we've decided it's time to say that Debian must ship reproducible packages. Since yesterday, we have enabled our migration software…

Security updates have been issued by <b>AlmaLinux</b> (corosync, freeipmi, kernel, and kernel-rt), <b>Debian</b> (corosync, firefox-esr, kernel, lcms2, libpng1.6, linux-6.1, php8.2, php8.4, postorius, pyjwt, and tor), <b>Fedora</b> (dotnet10.0, exim, gnutls, kernel, nextcloud, nodejs22, php, proftpd, prosody, python-pulp-glue, python-requests, rclone, and SDL3_image), <b>Mageia</b> (firefox, nss, rootcerts, openvpn, thunderbird, and vim), <b>Oracle</b> (corosync,…