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This Linux kernel patch could give the Steam Deck a surprising performance boost
In a world where new gaming handhelds are getting increasingly expensive, this is definitely a good thing…
Three stable kernels for Wednesday fix a single regression
Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 6.12.99, 6.6.146, 6.1.179 stable kernels. T [...]…
Microsoft called Linux a cancer, and now it ships a real Linux kernel inside Windows
Microsoft loves Linux now, it seems.…
FreeBSD's Kernel Still Has A Bit Of GPL Code While Its Base User-Space Is GPL-Free
A few weeks ago there was excitement in the FreeBSD camp with FreeBSD 16 set to retire the last of its GPL code from the base system…
Show HN: CogniKernel; AI Coding with cross session and cross platform memory
Persistent, structured project memory for Claude Code and Codex - event-sourced, typed, fail-open. Your agent stops re-deciding what you already decided. - KanishkNoir/cognikernel…
Point AI at a "Proven" Microkernel?
When AI Makes 0-Days Feel Like N-Days
Lessons from my first Linux kernel 0-day, exploitation, and why deep subsystem knowledge still matters.…
PyTorch: A Reference Language
[$] Hazard pointers for the kernel
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RedHat 7.2 (2001), Abiword 1.0, & Sanger's Rule towards kernel development
Red Hat 7.2 (2001) with 8MB RAM Red Hat 7.2 System Information Two nights ago (technically Saturday night) I spent some time using free tok...…
Kernel prepatch 7.2-rc5
The 7.2-rc5 kernel prepatch is out for testing. Linus said: 'So it's a bit too big for my liki [...]…
Maybe we should revisit microkernels
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New stable kernel for ext4 users
Greg Kroah-Hartman has released the 6.12.98 stable Linux kernel with a single fix for a file de [...]…
Hefty stable kernel updates for Friday
Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 7.1.5, 6.18.40, 6.12.97, 6.6.145, 6.1.178, [...]…
Fedora 45 Looks To Begin Phasing Out In-Kernel Crypto Userspace API
Going along with the upstream Linux 7.2 kernel deprecation of AF_ALG and Linux 7.3 to further restrict this interface for letting user-space programs interact directly with the Lin…
Show HN: QuantmLayer – kernel-enforced containment for AI coding agents
Kernel-enforced containment for AI coding agents - the agent runs with your privileges; the cell enforces what it's allowed to do. Linux, Rust. - quantmlayer/quantmlayer…
Vanguard on Demand: Kernel Level Cheating (Prevention)
Changes are coming soon to a taskbar near you…
Linux 7.2 To Raise LLVM/Clang Compiler Requirement, Add Support For Distributed ThinLTO
Among the early pull requests sent in prior to today's Linux 7.1 release of new material aiming for Linux 7.2 were all the Kbuild updates.…
Linux DRM Ioctl Developed By AMD Being Disabled Following Ongoing Security Issue
It's unfortunately another busy week in the Linux 7.1 kernel space with not everything slowing down so well, late in the cycle and leading to the upcoming 7.1 stable release…
Extract More Kernel Performance with Nvidia CompileIQ Auto-Tuning
NVIDIA CompileIQ tackles one of the hardest problems in performance engineering: finding the compiler options that unlock the best performance for a specific workload. Consider a t…
GPU Forecasters: Language Models as Selective Surrogates for Kernel Optimization
GPU kernels are the workhorse of modern deep learning, and optimizing them (via evolutionary search or coding agents) usually requires repeated measurement on target hardware. Whil…
cgroups and Namespaces — The Linux Kernel's Building Blocks Behind Containers
Every container you have ever run is, at its core, a process with a restricted view of the world and...…
Will installing the CachyOS kernel on Arch Linux break my dual-boot setup or cause any problems?
AMD Expands The Range Of Zen 6 CPUs Detected By The Linux Kernel
The latest open-source/Linux patch activity around AMD's next-gen Zen 6 processors is expanding the range of the CPU models detected by the Linux kernel.…
Erofs – Enhanced Read-Only File System – The Linux Kernel Documentation
From Kernel Scheduler to Python Source Line: Tracing a GPU Stall End to End
TL;DR A GPU that reports 97% utilization can still be the slowest part of a training step,...…
Btrfs Change Coming For Linux 7.2 Yields Very Healthy Performance Gain
A change coming on the way for the upcoming Linux 7.2 kernel cycle is yielding a significant improvement to the direct I/O write performance…
New Linux CIFSwitch Kernel Vulnerability Allows Attackers to Gain Root Access
Show HN: CVE-2026-40369 Windows Kernel Arbitrary Write Chrome SBX
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for May 28, 2026
The LWN.net Weekly Edition for May 28, 2026 is available.…
Integrating the Rust Delta Kernel into ClickHouse
Ubuntu 26.10 Planning To Ship With The Linux 7.2 Kernel
Canonical's kernel team confirmed today their intention of shipping the Ubuntu 26.10 release with what will be the Linux 7.2 kernel.…
The Biggest and Weirdest Commits in Linux Kernel Git History (2017)
A Linux-like kernel in a browser tab – deep dive in the BrowserPod architecture
How the BrowserPod kernel supports running many Linux applications concurrently in the browser using WebAssembly.…
[$] Further progress toward removing the page map count
The mapcount field was created to track the number of mappings (page-table entries) that refer [...]…
Tell HN: First commit on Linux Kernel GitHub Page is from 30th of April 2005
Signed-off-by: Russell King <[email protected]>…
Xe-Forge: Multi-Stage LLM-Powered Kernel Optimization for Intel GPU
Porting deep learning algorithms to new hardware accelerators requires developers to repeatedly apply the same low-level optimizations -- quantization, memory access coalescing, ti…
Towards Feedback-to-Plan Decisions for Self-Evolving LLM Agents in CUDA Kernel Generation
Large language models (LLMs) have shown strong empirical gains as self-evolving agents for CUDA kernel generation, driven by feedback-conditioned planning across generations. Howev…
A Case for Tracing Based DSL Kernel Languages
On the architectural divide between parsing and tracing kernel DSLs, and what tends to go wrong in each.…
Finding deadlocks in CuTe kernels with SPIN
Using SPIN model checker to statically find or prove the absence of deadlocks in CuTe DSL kernels on NVIDIA B200, and presenting a proof-of-concept github.com/cheshire/cute2promela…
Build System Reworked
Request for reviews - Jikei microkernel
Kernel golfer scores first career ace in Lakeview round
May 26—MITCHELL — Mitchell High School golfer Elliot Smith holed her first career ace over the weekend at Lakeview Golf Course. Smith, who plays for the Kernel girls golf team, had…
Please help!! Live event Kernel error 141 and 1b8
Linux Fu: The Bluetooth Regression
There’s a line in a [Weird Al] (no relation) song that says, “I upgrade my system at least twice a day…” I know how that is. I primarily use a rolling distro, OpenSuse Tumbl……
Linus Torvalds is fed up with AI-generated bug reports bloating the Linux kernel
In his weekly state of the kernel update, Torvalds noted that the new RC5 is much larger than any other RC5 in recent memory, and he blamed...…
Writing High-Performance Kernels in TileLang, from GEMM to MLA
If you write GPU kernels, you live somewhere on a spectrum. At one end is Triton: quick to write,...…
Elusive order of async GPU kernels: scheduling, abstractions, DSL implications
SIMT offered a fantastic bargain. You write a straight-line program, the machine runs a lot of copies of it, and when one waits for memory the hardware swaps in others. You look wi…
Show HN: Auto GPU Kernel – Autonomous GPU-kernel discovery and optimizer
Winner 🏆 (Agent-only) MLSys 2026 - FlashInfer AI Kernel Generation Contest for the DeepSeek Sparse Attention (DSA) track with an average speedup of 34.93x - Dogacel/auto-gpu-kerne…
BODHI: Precise OS Kernel Specification Inference
The formal verification of operating system kernels requires precise specifications that capture the intended behavior of system calls. Writing these specifications manually demand…
CVE-2026-28952: Apple macOS 26.5 Kernel Vuln found by Claude
This document describes the security content of macOS Tahoe 26.5.…
[$] Reviewing kernel patches with LLMs
In a plenary session at the 2026 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit, [...]…
I stopped dual-booting Linux after discovering Windows' hidden kernel
Discover the hidden Linux kernel inside your Windows PC and how it can revolutionize your computing experience.…
Kernelplay-JS Update v0.3.0 Sprite & Animation System ECS Game Engine
Torvalds Tightens Linux Kernel Rules to Reject Deluge of Low-Value AI Fixes
Linus Torvalds has tightened Linux kernel rules to reject low-value AI-generated fixes, pushing back against trivial patches flooding maintainers.…
Linus Torvalds Is Unhappy About the AI Influence in Linux Kernel Development
Linus Torvalds is unhappy with AI’s impact on Linux kernel development, citing release candidate bloat and low-quality bug reports.…
Windows and Linux: A Tale of Two Kernels (2004) [video]
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[$] Dirk and Linus discuss AI and kernel development
Linus Torvalds does not enjoy giving talks, but he does consent to the occasional on-stage conv [...]…