Welcome to the LWN.net Weekly Edition for July 6, 2017
This edition contains the following feature content:
- A little surprise in the Ubuntu motd: an apparent advertisement pushed to Ubuntu machines has a more straightforward explanation.
- Breaking Libgcrypt RSA via a side channel: Daniel Bernstein et al. have found a local attack against 1024-bit RSA keys in GPG.
- Some 4.12 development statistics: what the kernel community has been up to for the last nine weeks.
- Namespaced file capabilities: a proposal to allow processes in user namespaces to set and use file-based capabilities.
- Zero-copy networking: a patch for relatively easy zero-copy network transmission.
- Network acceleration with DPDK: an introduction to user-space networking with the Data Plane Development Kit.
This week's edition also includes these inner pages:
- Brief items: Brief news items from throughout the community.
- Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more.
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