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So this rc is still a bit smaller than usual, but it's not _much_ smaller, and I think next week is likely going to be more or less back to normal.

Which is all exactly as expected, and nothing here looks particularly…

The members of the security team contain a handful of core kernel developers that have experience dealing with security bugs, and represent different major subsystems of the kernel. They do this work as individuals, and specifically…

Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 6.18.3 stable kernel. As always, this update contains important fixes; users of this kernel are advised to upgrade.

Version 4.19.0 of the shadow-utils project has been released. Notable changes in this release include disallowing some usernames that were previously accepted with the --badname option, and removing support for escaped newlines in configuration files. Possibly more interesting is the announcement that the project is deprecating a number of programs,…

I just discovered that the original Cyclone roller coaster at Palisades Amusement Park has its own Wikipedia…

Daniel Stenberg has written a blog post about the decision to ban the use strcpy() in curl:

The main challenge with strcpy is that when using it we do not specify the length of the target buffer nor of the source string. [...]

To make sure that the size checks…