A subtle but important memory-initialization fix landed in upstream Linux this spring: CVE-2025-37742 patches an uninitialized-value access in the JFS filesystem by ensuring the in-memory imap structure is zeroed when it’s allocated in the diMount() routine. The result is a low-complexity...
A new collaborative effort called the Open Gaming Collective (OGC) has launched with the explicit aim of reducing duplicated work across Linux gaming projects and providing a shared, upstream-first platform for the core plumbing that makes games run well on Linux.
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