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The prizrak.me blog is carrying an introduction to the Landlock security module. Landlock sh [...]

KDE's Plasma team has announced that KDE Plasma will drop X11 session support with Plasma 6.8: [...]

AlmaLinux 10.1 has been released. In addition to providing binary compatibility with Red Hat En [...]

It is rarely newsworthy when a project or package picks up a new dependency. However, changes in a core tool like Debian's Advanced Package Tool (APT) can have far-reaching effects. For example, Julian Andres Klode's declaration that APT would ...

Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 6.17.9, 6.12.59, and 6.6.117 stable kernel [...]

Linus has released 6.18-rc7, probably the last -rc before the 6.18 release. So the rc6 kerne [...]

The Racket programming language project has released Racket version 9.0. Racket is a descendant [...]

The Oracle blog has a lengthy article on enhancements to GCC to help detect overflows of flexib [...]

The call for candidates for the 2025 election for the Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board [...]

Unpacking Python iterables of various sorts, such as dictionaries or lists, is useful in a number of contexts, including for function arguments, but there has long been a call for extending that capability to comprehensions. PEP 798 ("Unpacking in ...