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Old IBM Driver Joins Insecure SGI Drivers In Being Removed For Linux 7.3

The char/misc changes were merged this week for the Linux 7.3 cycle. While there is a lot of IIO driver churn as usual and updates to the likes of the Google Binder drivers, there continues to be the 2026 trend of removing old hardware drivers that are rarely updated these days and likely have no active users left on the mainline Linux kernel. This trend is further pushed along by the surplus of…

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How to spy on your aging parents — ethically

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