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StepSecurity is reporting the emergence of a new worm affecting npm packages. The design of [...]

The recent discussion on "spawn templates" raised questions about whether it was time to provide an alternative to the classic Unix fork()/exec() pattern for process creation. One idea that was raised there was to shift the template pattern into an ...

John MacFarlane has published a lengthy retrospective to commemorate twenty years of the Pandoc [...]

For those of us with a long memory: John Goerzen has announced the release of C-Kermit 11, the [...]

The Filesystem in Userspace (FUSE) subsystem provides a way to service filesystem requests from a user-space server, which moves the format-handling code out of the kernel. The FUSE server can use the io_uring facility for better performance, but ...

The JFrog blog examines some reported vulnerabilities in SQLite, some of which made their way i [...]

Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 7.1.6, 6.18.42, 6.12.101, and 6.6.148 stabl [...]

The release of NetBSD 11.0, the 19th major version of the operating system, has been announced. [...]

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (.NET 10.0, .NET 8.0, .NET 9.0, fence-agents, kernel, kernel-rt, openssh, osbuild-composer, perl-Archive-Tar, perl-DBI, perl:5.32, pipewire, python-pillow, qemu-kvm, unbound, and vim), Debian (chromium,

The 7.2-rc6 kernel prepatch is out for testing. Quoth Linus: 'Hmm. This rc is huge. Even by t [...]