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The 7.3-rc7 kernel prepatch is out for testing. According to Linus: 'As always, I would have p [...]

The 7.2.10 and 6.18.56 stable kernels have been released. Each contains another several hundred [...]

Version 3.15 of the Python programming language has been released. Notable changes in this rele [...]

While many developers are struggling to keep up with the flood of vulnerability reports, others are still focused on preventing those reports from happening in the first place. Control-flow integrity (CFI) is the term for preventing (or at least ...

At the 2026 All Systems Go! conference, systemd maintainers Luca Boccassi and Zbigniew Jdrzejewski-Szmek delivered the traditional "state of the project" session with an overview of the systemd project's accomplishments in the past year. That was ...

Let's Encrypt, the nonprofit that provides free TLS certificates for millions of sites, has ann [...]

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (bind, bind9.16, freerdp, glibc, kbd, mod_auth_openidc, openssl, perl-DBI, python3.12, python3.14, and tftp), Debian (rails and twitter-bootstrap3), Fedora (barman, cockpit, hcloud, libmodsecurity, nginx ...

Tomáš Šedovi is a program manager at the Rust Foundation. He co-leads the goals team, which helps organize the Rust project's overall goals, including making sure that the people who have agreed to work on one have the support they need. At ...

The kernel's swap layer has undergone some significant changes over the course of the last year and a number of longstanding problems have been addressed. One problem that has not yet been solved in the mainline is the direct tie between slots in the ...

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (bind, firefox, freerdp, ghostscript, glibc, kernel, kernel-rt, perl-DBI, python3.12, rust-rpm-sequoia, rust-sequoia-sq, rust-sequoia-sqv, and vim), Debian (gst-plugins-base1.0, python3.11, and xz-utils)