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Immutable data makes concurrent access easier, since it eliminates the data-race conditions that can plague multithreaded programs. At PyCon 2024, Yury Selivanov introduced an early-stage project called MemHive, which uses Python subinterpreters and ...

Achieving consensus among Debian Developers on technical topics and procedures can be, to put it mildly, challenging. Nevertheless, that is exactly what Otto Kekäläinen has tried to do with a proposal that would set up "principles all Debian ...

The Mono project was started in 2001 to develop a .NET environment for Linux systems. Microsoft has owned that project since 2016, but has not made a major release since 2019. The company has now announced that Mono is being handed over to the WineHQ ...

KDE developer Carl Schwan has announced the release of Calligra Office version 4.0. The most significant changes in this release include a "major overhaul" of the office suite's user interface, and a transition to Qt 6 and KDE Frameworks 6.

Nominations are now open for people interested in joining the Ubuntu Community Council, "the highest governance body of the Ubuntu project". Any Ubuntu Member can apply from now until Sunday, September 22 at 23:59 UTC. The Ubuntu project turned 20 ...

On August 13, the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) published the final form of its new post-quantum cryptographic standards. One key-exchange mechanism and two digital-signature schemes are now officially sanctioned by the ...

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (nodejs:20), Debian (python3.11), Fedora (dotnet8.0), Red Hat (bind, krb5, libreoffice, linux-firmware, orc, orc:0.4.28, and orc:0.4.31), SUSE (mariadb and openssl-3), and Ubuntu (linux-aws-5.4).

The developers of the Pidgin chat program have announced that a malicious plugin had been listed on its third-party plugins list for over one month. This plugin included a key logger and could capture screenshots. It went unnoticed at the time that ...

The FreeBSD Foundation has announced that Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund (STF) has agreed to invest 686,400 toward improvements in the FreeBSD project's infrastructure, security, regulatory compliance, and developer experience: The work commissioned ...

The genksyms tool has long been buried deeply within the kernel's build system; it is one of the two C-code parsers shipped with the kernel (the other being the horrifying kernel-doc script). It is a key part of how the kernel's module-loading ...