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Tiered-memory systems are built with multiple types of memory, each of which has different performance characteristics. In addition to the usual DRAM, a tiered system might also provide faster high-bandwidth memory or slower CXL memory. On these ...

Version 4.0 of the Audacity audio editor has been released. Notable changes in this release inc [...]

Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: Python JIT; rnull block driver; steal time; GNOME governance; 7.3 merge window; LUKS. Briefs: Kernel infrastructure; Debian AI; Dolphin 26.08; Firefox 155; Incus 7.4; OpenShot 4.0; Quotes;

When a laptop is asleep, its memory is not unreadable. The right tooling can attach to the computer's memory bus and read out its contents, and cold-boot attacks can theoretically read values from memory for a short time after the computer loses ...

Emmanuele Bassi kicked off a project to improve GNOME's technical governance with a presentation about his ideas (video) at GUADEC 2025. His nudging has led the project to, slowly, work on creating more formal structures for technical governance. It ...

Version 7.4 of the Incus container and virtual-machine management system has been released. Not [...]

Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the 7.2.3, 7.1.13, 6.18.49, 6.12.108, 6.6.156, 6.1.187, 5.15.2 [...]

The online publication industry, as a whole, is struggling, with challenges coming from multipl [...]

In 2024 the Python 3.13 release added an experimental just-in-time (JIT) compiler to optimize the way that CPython executes Python code. Since then, work has proceeded on the JIT, albeit perhaps less formally than some might like. In June, Python's ...

Version 155 of the Firefox web browser has been released. Notable changes include a count in th [...]