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The closed-source chat platform Discord announced on February 9 that it would soon require some users to verify their ages in order to access some content -- although the company quickly added that the "vast majority" of users would not have to. That ...

Dianne Skoll, creator and maintainer of the command-line calendar and alarm program Remind, has [...]

Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the 6.19.3, 6.18.13, 6.12.74, 6.6.127, 6.1.164, 5.15.201, and [...]

The kernel's unloved but performance-critical swapping subsystem has been undergoing multiple rounds of improvement in recent times. Recent articles have described the addition of the swap table as a new way of representing the state of the swap ...

Douglas DeMaio has announced that Jeff Mahoney's new governance proposal for openSUSE, which wa [...]

Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: AI agent goes rogue; debuginfo; iocane; revocable resource-management patches; 7.0 merge window; AccECN; LLMs and security; Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team. Briefs: upki; Asahi Linux progress; DFSG ...

The "More Accurate Explicit Congestion Notification" (AccECN) mechanism is defined by this RFC draft. The Linux kernel has been gaining support for AccECN with TCP over the last few releases; the 7.0 release will enable it by default for general use.

Justin Wheeler writes, on Fedora Magazine, that Fedora is now available in Syria once again: [...]

The Asahi Linux project, which is working to implement support for Linux on Apple CPUs, has pub [...]

Adam Harvey, on behalf of the crates.io team has published a blog post to inform users of a cha [...]