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Terence Eden reports that the UK's National Health Service (NHS) is preparing to close almost a [...]

Modern database and filesystems make pervasive use of B-trees, which are tree structures optimized for storing sorted lists of keys and values on block devices. Dolt is an Apache 2.0-licensed project that makes clever use of a variant of a B-tree to ...

Hyrum's Law states that any observable behavior of a system will eventually be depended upon by somebody. The kernel community is currently contending with a clear demonstration of that principle. The recent work to address some restartable-sequences ...

Version 16.1 of the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) has been released. The C++ frontend now def [...]

Greg Kroah-Hartman has released the 7.0.3, 6.18.26, 6.12.85, 6.6.137, 6.1.170, 5.15.204, and 5. [...]

Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: Famfs; Python packaging council; Zig concurrency; pages and folios; Strawberry music manager; 7.1 merge window. Briefs: GnuPG 2.5.19; Copy Fail; Plasma security; Fedora 44; Ubuntu 26.04; Niri 26.04;

Security analysis firm Xint has disclosed a security bug in the Linux kernel that allows for a [...]

The Python packaging world now has a formal governance council, of the form described in PEP 772 ("Packaging Council governance process"), which was approved by the steering council on April 16. It has been over a year since the PEP was first ...

SUSE's Security Team has published a detailed blog post on their recent review of the Plasma Lo [...]

LWN has received the sad news that Seth Nickell passed away, on April 16, from his father, Eric [...]