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The end of the Red Hat security-announcements list
Red Hat has announced that its longstanding "rhsa-announce" mailing list will be shut down on October 10. That is the list that receives security advisories for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and a whole slew of related products.lwn.net
A local root vulnerability in glibc
Qualys has posted an advisory for a vulnerability in the GNU C Library related to the handling of the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable:lwn.net
Another round of speculative-execution vulnerabilities
There is a newly disclosed set of vulnerabilities in Intel processors that have been given the name Downfall attacks.lwn.net
Zenbleed: an AMD Zen 2 speculative vulnerability
Tavis Ormandy reports on a vulnerability that he has found in "all Zen 2 class processors" from AMD. (Wayback Machine link as the original site is overloaded.lwn.net
New C features in GCC 13 (Red Hat Developer)
The Red Hat Developer site has an overview of some of the new C-language features supported by the GCC 13 release.lwn.net
LLVM 16.0.0 released
Version 16.0.0 of the LLVM compiler suite has been released. As usual, the list of changes is long; see the specific release notes for LLVM, Clang, Libc++, and others linked from the announcement.lwn.net
The suspension of ipmitool
It would appear that the ipmitool repository has been locked, and its maintainer suspended, by GitHub. This Hacker News conversation delves into the reason; evidently the developer was employed by a sanctioned Russian company.lwn.net
Git 2.40.0 released
Version 2.40.0 of the Git source-code management system is out. Changes include a new --merge-base option for merges, a built-in implementation of bisection, Emacs support for git jump, a fair number of smallish user-interface tweaks, and a lot of bu…lwn.net
PinePhone: trying out a Linux-based smartphone
The PinePhone is a Linux-based smartphone made by PINE64 that runs free and open-source software (FOSS); it is designed to use a close-to-mainline Linux kernel.lwn.net