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A kernel memory leak made Redox builds five times slower

Redox's August report, published 31 August, carries two numbers worth reading twice: a 14-15x I/O gain from an io_uring-style API, and a compile time that fell from ten hours to half an hour.

Victoria Shinder25 Sep3 min read

Security

pgAdmin 9.18 fixes four CVEs, including an auth bypass

pgAdmin 4 v9.18 closes an authentication bypass and two connection-string injections that redirect the connection, and the exported password, to a host of the caller's choosing.

Serguey Asael Shinder17 Sep3 min read

OpenAI publishes a misalignment disclosure framework and six reports

A process for tracking, investigating and disclosing model behaviour, plus six cases observed over the last six months.

Serguey Asael Shinder16 Sep2 min read