Earlier today, we reported about a happy and content Linus Torvalds, who is offering to make a guitar pedal for one of the lucky Linux devs out there since he is pleased with how things have been this holiday season and the progress with the Linux kernel version 6.13. Unfortunately for Torvalds, a Microsoft contributed change nearly ruined it, but Intel and AMD had intervened just in time to save the day. The change in question was related to a kernel configuration, which would allow caching...