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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for the online certificate status protocol (OCSP), which is used to determine when a server's signing certificate has been revoked.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 [...]

The Microdot web framework is quite small, as its name would imply; it supports both standard CPython and MicroPython, so it can be used on systems ranging from internet-of-things (IoT) devices all the way up to large, cloudy servers. It was ...

The Arch Linux project has posted an update about recent service outages that have affected its [...]

The restartable sequences feature, which was added to the 4.18 kernel in 2018, exists to enable better performance in certain types of threaded applications. While there are users for restartable sequences, they tend to be relatively specialized code ...

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