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In October, consumer versions of Windows 10 will stop receiving security updates. Many users who would ordinarily move to the next version are blocked by Windows 11's hardware requirements unless they are willing to buy a newer PC. The "End of 10"

Safe, ergonomic interoperability between Rust and C/C++ was a popular topic at RustConf 2025 in Seattle, Washington. Chandler Carruth gave a presentation about the different approaches to interoperability in Rust and Carbon, the experimental "(C++)++

Version 143.0 of the Firefox browser has been released. Changes include the ability to pin tab [...]

The Socket.dev blog describes this week's attack on JavaScript packages in the npm repository. [...]

Registration for the 2025 Linux Plumbers Conference (Tokyo, December 11 to 13) is now open. LP [...]

Brooke Deuson is the developer behind Trafficking Free Tomorrow, a nonprofit organization that produces free software to help law enforcement combat human trafficking. She is a survivor of human trafficking herself. She spoke at RustConf 2025 about ...

Version 8.0.0 of Varnish Cache has been released. In addition to a number of changes to varnish [...]

The kernel runs in a special environment that makes it difficult to use many of the development tools that are available to user-space developers. Kernel developers often respond by simply doing without, but the truth is that they need good tools as ...

The 6.17-rc6 kernel prepatch is out for testing. 'But really, none of it is very large. So eve [...]

Creating welcoming communities within open-source projects is a recurring topic at conferences; those projects rely on contributions from others, so making them welcome is important. The kernel has, rather infamously over the years, been an oft-cited ...