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Julia is a modern programming language that is of particular interest to scientists due to its high performance combined with language features such as Lisp-style macros, an advanced type system, and multiple dispatch. We last looked at Julia in ...

Version 1.0 of the Capability Hardware Extension to RISC-V for IoT (CHERIoT) specification has [...]

The Project Zero blog explains that, on 64-bit Arm systems, the kernel's direct map is always p [...]

Barry Warsaw, writing for the Python steering council, has announced that PEP 810 ('Explicit la [...]

Python already has several ways to run programs concurrently -- including asynchronous functions, threads, subinterpreters, and multiprocessing -- but all of those options have drawbacks of one kind or another. PEP 703 ("Making the Global Interpreter ...

Version 6.0 ('Excalibur') of the systemd-averse Devuan distribution has been released. It is b [...]

The kernel's namespaces feature is, among other things, a key part of the implementation of containers. Like much in the kernel, though, the namespace API evolved over time; there was no design at the outset. As a result, this API has some rough ...

Joel Severin has announced the availability of his port of the Linux kernel to WebAssembly; one [...]

Linus has released 6.18-rc4 for testing. 'Last week in fact felt *so* calm that I was surprised [...]

The relatively small 6.17.7, 6.12.57, and 6.6.116 stable kernels have been released; each conta [...]