Gentoo Linux to Phase Out Itanium Support

Gentoo Council votes to end IA-64 (Itanium) support following kernel and glibc changes. Learn what’s next.
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Kinsing Threat Actors Exploit Looney Tunables Privilege Escalation Flaw to Breach Cloud Environments

Recently, a severe vulnerability dubbed “Looney Tunables” (CVE-2023-4911) was found in an integral part of most Linux systems that provides basic system functions like file I/O, network, and memory access.
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A Tale of Two Toolchains and glibc

Over the past few years, the LLVM toolchain has seen increasing development and adoption alongside the older, more established GNU toolchain. The emergence of this new two major toolchain world is bringing challenges and questions for projects that need to support both, in particular the GNU C library (glibc), which only supports GCC. Is it […]

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