After six years as serving as the XFS file-system maintainer, Darrick Wong announced he'll be stepping down from this role and that really multiple developers need to step up to maintain XFS and help with testing and other responsibilities.
Automating custom networking to solve IPv4 exhaustion in Amazon EKS | Amazon Web Services
Introduction When Amazon VPC Container Network Interface (CNI) plugin assigns IPv4 addresses to Pods, it allocates them from the VPC CIDR range assigned to the cluster. While it makes Pods first-class citizens within the VPC network, it often leads to exhaustion of the limited number of IPv4 addresses available in the VPCs. The long term […]
It is well understood that concurrency makes programming problems harder; the high level of concurrency inherent in kernel development is one of the reasons why kernel work can be challenging. Things can get even worse, though, if concurrent access happens in places where the code is not expecting it. The long story accompanying this short patch from Christian Brauner is illustrative of the kind of problem that can arise when assumptions about concurrency prove to be incorrect.
Linus Torvalds: "Let's Just Disable The Stupid [AMD] fTPM HWRND Thing"
Linux creator Linus Torvalds is growing frustrated with AMD fTPM hardware random number generator bugs on recent Ryzen systems plaguing the kernel and has expressed a desire in disabling its use.
U.S. Hunts Chinese Malware That Could Disrupt American Military Operations (Gift Article)
American intelligence officials believe the malware could give China the power to disrupt or slow American deployments or resupply operations, including during a Chinese move against Taiwan.
NASA+ will be a "no subscription required" streaming service for viewing rocket launches and NASA science, with app integration coming later this year.
What?!? 17 intelligence agencies and six branches aren’t enough?!? smgdh | Senate opens path for a cyber-focused military branch
The chamber's version of this year's National Defense Authorization Act would order up a third-party assessment of establishing a cyber-specific military service.
Intel jumps 7% as it returns to profitability after two quarters of losses
Intel management has told investors that the company's turnaround will take time, and that it is aiming to match TSMC's chip-manufacturing prowess by 2026.
There is so much space junk. It’s good to see a strategy for permanent disposal by controlled re-entry (from a satellite built before that idea became the rule) | European satellite plunges back to Earth in first-of-its-kind assisted re-entry