Live patching is a way of updating a running system without stopping it. It is best known as a technique for keeping Linux servers updated to the latest security levels without affecting downtime.
Jann Horn, the Google Project Zero researcher who discovered the Meltdown and Spectre CPU flaws, has a few words for maintainers of Ubuntu and Debian: raise your game on merging kernel security fixes, ...
It's not really a Linux problem, but as is so often the case, Linux kernel developers have to clean up after AMD and Intel. It happened again with the chipmakers' latest CPU vulnerabilities: AMD ...