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Linux 7.2 lands cache-aware scheduling; curl closes its vuln queue for the summer
Linux 7.2 is landing real work – cache-aware scheduling, a two-line IOPS fix – while Daniel Stenberg draws a line on CVE noise. Google’s data-agent announcement is mostly previews dressed as GA.
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AUR hit by second, more sophisticated malware wave — 1,500+ packages affected
Linux 7.1 ships while 7.2 is already bumping compiler minimums, the AUR got hit twice in a day with the second wave obfuscated well enough to slip past the initial response, and a DNS caching quirk means dead domains can still look alive in your monitoring.