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Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (cups-filters, gstreamer1-plugins-base, gstreamer1-plugins-good, kernel, mrtg, NetworkManager, nginx, nginx:1.24, nodejs24, perl-Date-Manip, python-pyasn1, python-urwid, python3.12, python3.14, and qemu ...

Practical quantum computers have been ten years away for the last several decades. Now, however, it's beginning to look as though they will be possible in just a few years. Recent research with obfuscated results demonstrated much lower memory ...

Version 31.1 of the Emacs editor has been released. There is a long list of changes including t [...]

The 7.1.10, 6.18.46, 6.12.105, 6.6.153, 6.1.184, 5.15.217, and 5.10.266 stable kernels have all [...]

From Jeremy Allison we have the sad news of the passing of Steve French. He was the maintainer [...]

The open-source world has been struggling for a few years now to understand how to approach large language models (LLMs) and the licensing applied to them. What constitutes "freedom" with respect to a black box filled with numerical weights? The ...

Quickshell is a toolkit for building desktop components, such as toolbars or menus. It uses QML, which is a declarative language for designing GUI applications. Quickshell helps developers create graphical tools for common desktop use cases with a ...

Version 26.08 of the KDE Gear collection of applications has been released. Notable changes in [...]

The Rust blog reports on a malicious crate, called proc-macro1, that was uploaded to the crates [...]

Version 6.1.0 of the RPM Package Manager has been released. Notable changes include the ability [...]