A fix for memory freezes lands alongside Zen 6 groundwork, and early Apple M3 support.

Linus Torvalds has released the 7.3 kernel, as expected. It's Sunday afternoon, and this week I somehow kept my wits together long enough to keep track of the day of the week, so the release isn't ra…

Linus Torvalds has released the 7.3 kernel, as expected. It's Sunday afternoon, and this week I somehow kept my wits together long enough to keep track of the day of the week, so the release isn't randomly delayed. Will wonders never cease? Anyway, nothing very special seems to have happened this last week, so as expected the final 7.3 is out, and thus tomorrow the merge window for 7.4 opens. Except I'm on my annual family vacation, so instead of merging anything first thing in the morning, I'll spend most of the day on a boat and under water. I'll get back to merging in the afternoon, but I expect my schedule to be a bit unusual for a while. This release is a record-breaker on all fronts; it brought in 18,765 non-merge commits from 3,021 developers, 807 of whom were first-time kernel developers. Significant changes in this release include some significant binfmt_misc extensions, some group-scheduling work aimed at improving performance on large systems, the new failfs filesystem that fails all operations, the fchroot() system call, global per-CPU data for BPF programs, the completion of the sched_ext subscheduler feature, working-set tracking for virtual machines, alternative data-stream support in the ntfs3 filesystem, a long list of SMB server improvements, and much more. See the LWN merge-window summaries (part 1, part 2) and the KernelNewbies 7.3 page for details.

The Linux 7.3 kernel is out today for an on-time release of this next stable kernel version...

When Google announced Gemini 4 Argon to a small group of testers on September 30, it came with a benchmark The post Gemini 4 Argon vs. Claude Opus 5.5: Half the price and about half as accurate appea…

When Google announced Gemini 4 Argon to a small group of testers on September 30, it came with a benchmark The post Gemini 4 Argon vs. Claude Opus 5.5: Half the price and about half as accurate appeared first on The New Stack.

Liquid AI’s new reasoning model was built to solve coding problems, but during training it kept combing Git history, GitHub, The post Liquid AI caught its model cheating on coding tests — then it rec…

Liquid AI’s new reasoning model was built to solve coding problems, but during training it kept combing Git history, GitHub, The post Liquid AI caught its model cheating on coding tests — then it recognized the sandbox appeared first on The New Stack.

Three clusters in trouble, and they look nothing alike. The first is a training fleet. It sat at a few The post Scale isn’t one number: three ways a Kubernetes control plane runs out of room appeared…

Three clusters in trouble, and they look nothing alike. The first is a training fleet. It sat at a few The post Scale isn’t one number: three ways a Kubernetes control plane runs out of room appeared first on The New Stack.

Intel Trust Domain Extensions (TDX) for confidential computing with VMs has assumed the need to perform cache flushing when transitioning memory between KeyIDs used by the total memory encryption (MK…

Intel Trust Domain Extensions (TDX) for confidential computing with VMs has assumed the need to perform cache flushing when transitioning memory between KeyIDs used by the total memory encryption (MKTME) for unique AES encryption keys. But it's turned out to be unneeded and the Linux kernel is working now to reduce the excessive cache flushing...

The Linux 7.3 kernel is expected to be released as stable later today and with that version there are many exciting changes and improvements. However, the Linux 7.4 kernel merge window will then open…

The Linux 7.3 kernel is expected to be released as stable later today and with that version there are many exciting changes and improvements. However, the Linux 7.4 kernel merge window will then open up and there are even more exciting changes expected to be merged for this follow-on kernel cycle. Here is a preview of some of the many exciting feature changes expected for Linux 7.4...

Omarchy 4.0.5 released this weeekend as the newest version of this Arch Linux based distribution built around the Hyprland desktop. Omarchy 4.0.5 pulls in the latest Linux 7.2 stable kernel with BORE…

Omarchy 4.0.5 released this weeekend as the newest version of this Arch Linux based distribution built around the Hyprland desktop. Omarchy 4.0.5 pulls in the latest Linux 7.2 stable kernel with BORE scheduler, updates against the Qt 6.12 toolkit, and a variety of smaller improvements...

Servo's August status report has finally appeared for outlining progress made on this open-source, Rust-based browser engine. This follows the recent release of the Servo 0.6 software, including the …

Servo's August status report has finally appeared for outlining progress made on this open-source, Rust-based browser engine. This follows the recent release of the Servo 0.6 software, including the Servoshell demo browser...