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Like almost all human endeavors, open-source software development involves a range of power dynamics. Companies, developers, and users are all concerned with the power to influence the direction of the software -- and, often, to profit from it. At ...

Mozilla has announced that support for the Firefox browser on 32-bit systems ends with version [...]

Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 6.16.5, 6.12.45, 6.6.104, 6.1.150, 5.15.191 [...]

Deadlocks are a constant threat in concurrent settings with shared data; it is thus not surprising that the kernel project has long since developed tools to detect potential deadlocks so they can be fixed before they affect production users.

Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: Maintaining curl; GNOME governance; Guix in Debian; Tracking untrusted data in the kernel; 32-Bit support; systemd v258. Briefs: bcachefs maintenance; Linux from Scratch 12.4; Elf spec; Niri 25.08;

Version 2025.9 of the Home Assistant home automation system has been released. Changes include [...]

Version 25.08 of the niri scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor has been released. Notable chang [...]

Version 12.4 of Linux From Scratch (LFS) and Beyond Linux From Scratch (BLFS) have been release [...]

During the opening of RustConf 2025 in Seattle, Washington, the Rust Foundation announced a [...]

The Linux kernel has to handle many different sources of data that should not be trusted: user space, network connections, and removable storage, to name a few. The kernel has to remain secure even if one of these sends garbled (or malicious) data.