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The Radicle peer-to-peer code collaboration project has released Radicle Desktop: a graphical i [...]

The last year has been a rocky one for the WordPress community. Matt Mullenweg--WordPress co-founder and CEO of WordPress hosting company Automattic--started a messy public spat with WP Engine in September and has proceeded to use his control of the ...

The Python Software Foundation blog is carrying a set of detailed summaries from the 2025 Pytho [...]

Version 10.0 of the Rocky Linux distribution has been released. As with the AlmaLinux 10.0 rele [...]

Writeback for filesystems is the process of flushing the "dirty" (written) data in the page cache to storage. At the 2025 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit (LSFMM+BPF), Anuj Gupta led a combined storage and filesystem ...

Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: Nyxt; Cyber Resilience Act; Unwanted file descriptors; Core-dump API; 6.16 Merge window; Uniprocessor configurations; Smatch; FUSE zero-copy; iov_iter; Fedora documentation. Briefs: Android tracking;

Smatch is a GPL-licensed static-analysis tool for C that has a lot of specialized checks for the kernel. Smatch has been used in the kernel for more than 20 years; Dan Carpenter, its primary author, decided last year that some details of its plugin ...

The 'Local Mess' GitHub repository is dedicated to the disclosure of an Android tracking exploi [...]

Jean Baptiste Lallement, a member of Canonical's desktop team, has announced that Ubuntu will d [...]

The iov_iter interface is used to describe and iterate through buffers in the kernel. David Howells led a combined storage and filesystem session at the 2025 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit (LSFMM+BPF) to discuss ways to ...