Welcome to the LWN.net Weekly Edition for May 13, 2021
This edition contains the following feature content:
- Holes in the WiFi: a new set of vulnerabilities seemingly affects all WiFi devices out there.
- Pyodide: Python for the browser: turning the browser into a welcoming environment for scientific computing.
- A pair of memory-allocation improvements in 5.13: batch page allocation and hugepage-backed vmalloc().
- Noncoherent DMA mappings: a new API for better DMA-related performance on some systems.
- The second half of the 5.13 merge window: the rest of the changes merged for 5.13.
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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