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xAI’s Grok CLI uploaded users’ entire home directories – SSH keys, password managers, all of it
The big story today is xAI’s Grok CLI uploading entire home directories to Google Cloud – SSH keys, password databases, everything. That’ll wake you up.
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France sets a PQC deadline; AMD ships its own Linux distro
France draws a hard line on post-quantum by 2027, AMD ships its own Linux distro for the AI dev platform nobody saw coming, and OpenSSH 10.4 now fails loud if your kernel is missing SECCOMP — quieter weeks exist.
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FBI seizes NetNut proxy platform tied to 2M-device Popa botnet
Quiet holiday week, but the kernel mailing list and the FBI both had eventful Wednesdays.
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LWN: Kernel 7.2 gets allocation tokens and boot-time structure-layout randomization
MinIO archived, kernel hardening incoming, Podman 6 out — a solid infrastructure day under all the AI noise.
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Lambda gets stateful MicroVMs; 94% of orgs report cloud breaches
Lambda now hands you a full Firecracker VM per session, Cloudflare spent six weeks chasing a race condition in a Rust HTTP library, and Trail of Bits just showed what a frontier model actually does when pointed at real codebases – 64 PRs, not a blog post.
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AI-generated patches slow Linux ARM64; AWS bets big on agentic everything
AI-generated patches are backing up Will Deacon’s ARM64 review queue, AWS is shipping agents that act before asking permission, and the LeadDev piece quietly explains why your deployment metrics no longer mean what you think they mean.