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The Internet is a wonderful thing; it allows anybody to look up information of interest. Included in all of that is the history of the free-software development community; how we got to where we are says a lot about why things are the way they are ...

Shadow stacks are a control-flow-integrity feature designed to defend against exploits that manipulate a thread's call stack. The kernel first gained support for hardware-implemented shadow stacks, for the x86 architecture, in the 6.6 release; 64-bit ...

Security updates have been issued by Debian (ffmpeg, firebird3.0, and luajit), Fedora (chromium, python3-docs, and python3.13), Oracle (aide, firefox, glibc, libxml2, and tomcat), Red Hat (aide, git, kernel, kernel-rt, libarchive, pam, python ...

Google has announced a new set of restrictions on the ability of users to install apps on their [...]

The PyCon team has announced that all PyCon US 2025 recordings are now available on its YouTube [...]

In July 2024, Let's Encrypt, the nonprofit TLS certificate authority (CA), announced that it would be ending support for the online certificate status protocol (OCSP), which is used to determine when a server's signing certificate has been revoked.

The Linux Foundation, in cooperation with a couple of other groups, has announced the publicati [...]

Linus has released 6.17-rc3 (called '3.17-rc3' in the email, but the tag in the repository is c [...]

The 6.16.3 stable kernel update has been released. It contains a set of ext4 filesystem fixes [...]

Version 8.0 of the FFmpeg audio and video toolkit has been released. Thanks to several delays [...]