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Julian Andres Klode has announced that the Debian APT package-management tool will acquire 'har [...]

The idea of automatic syntax-aware merging in version-control systems goes back to 2005 or earlier, but initial implementations were often language-specific and slow. Mergiraf is a merge-conflict resolver that uses a generic algorithm plus a small ...

Michael Hudson-Doyle, a member of Ubuntu's Foundations team, has announced the introduction of [...]

Version 1.91.0 of the Rust language has been released. Changes include promoting aarch64-pc-wi [...]

The kernel's file-I/O subsystems have been highly optimized over the years in the hope of providing the best performance for a wide variety of workloads. There is, however, one workload type that suffers with current kernels: applications that ...

The Universal Blue project has announced the fall update for the Fedora-based Bazzite gaming di [...]

Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: Pixnapping attack; Fil-C; Debian ftpmasters; GoFundMe complaints; Safer user-space access. Briefs: Man pages 6.16; Btrfs on AlmaLinux; Fedora Linux 43; ICANN report; PSF grants; Rust Coreutils 0.3.0;

Alejandro Colomar has announced the release of version 6.16 of the GNU/Linux man pages. This re [...]

ICANN's Security and Stability Advisory Committee (SSAC) has announced a report on 'the critica [...]

A new class of attacks on Android phones, called "Pixnapping", was announced on October 13. It allows a malicious app to gather output rendered in a victim app, pixel-by-pixel, by exploiting a GPU side-channel. Depending on what the victim app ...