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Typst is a system for typesetting documents into various formats: PDF, SVG, PNG, and, in progress, HTML. It is adept at handling technical material, and is often considered to be an eventual LaTeX replacement. We last looked in on Typst a year ago,

A function's return type is supposed to indicate the kind of data that it produces. Rust's "never" type, which is denoted by an exclamation mark ("!"), is the type the language uses to mark a function that never returns and other places where a value ...

Version 12 of the Jellyfin media-management system has been released. Notable changes include d [...]

The European Laboratory for Particle Physics, usually just called CERN, is not only the birthplace of the World Wide Web, it is home to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator. As such, its ...

Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 7.2.4, 6.18.50, and 6.12.109 stable kernels [...]

The restartable sequences feature is one of the stranger corners of the kernel's user-space interface; it provides a way for user space to carry out simple lockless operations and be informed if it is preempted over the course of an operation (and ...

Version 2026.08 of the Buildroot embedded Linux system builder has been released. Buildroot 202 [...]

The Asahi Linux project has announced that support for Apple's M3-series chips has been added t [...]

The 7.3-rc2 kernel prepatch is out for testing. Linus said: This didn't *feel* like a parti [...]

Python's support for multithreaded programs has improved considerably over the last few years with the advent of the "free-threaded" version of the language. But testing multithreaded programs is notoriously difficult, because the underlying host ...