Version
3.15 of the Python programming language has been released. Notable changes
in this release include the addition of the sentinel and frozendict built-in types,
the use of UTF-8 encoding by default, package
start-up configuration files, as well as improvements in the experimental
JIT compiler. See the "What's new in Python
3.15" article for an in-depth look at new features in this release, and the
changelog
for a full list of changes.
While many developers are struggling to keep up with the flood of
vulnerability reports, others are still focused on preventing those reports
from happening in the first place. Control-flow integrity (CFI) is the
term for preventing (or at least detecting) exploits that divert the flow
of control from its intended paths. At the 2026 GNU Tools Cauldron, Kees Cook
presented his changes to the GCC compiler suite to support forward-edge CFI
for the kernel.
Ventoy 1.1.18 has been released today as a maintenance and feature update to this open-source bootable USB solution that introduces support for new systems and improves support for existing distributions.
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: Cloudflare doesn't block pirate sports streaming sites through its 1.1.1.1 DNS resolver in France, only through its CDN. The Paris Judicial Court has now accepted that stance, rejecting [French pay-TV provider] Canal+'s request for penalties of 50,000 euros per site, per day. Interestingly, the court's conclusion relies on statistics provided by Canal+ itself. [...] As a result, Cloudflare will not be penalized under these orders, even though its public DNS resolver is not blocking the sites in question. That is in line with the company's long-standing claim that it doesn't interfere with its DNS.
In its recent transparency reports, Cloudflare repeatedly stated that it hasn't blocked any content through 1.1.1.1, despite orders from French and Italian courts. "To date, Cloudflare has not blocked content through the 1.1.1.1 Public DNS Resolver," the company's latest report reads. [...] Blocking through the CDN is another matter. According to the same report, Cloudflare geoblocked 1,238 domains in France in the second half of 2025, all under a single court order. In the first half of the year, it geoblocked 662 domains under seven orders. Cloudflare recently explained its position to the European Commission, in a submission (PDF) to its Counterfeit and Piracy Watch List consultation, stressing that global public DNS resolvers should not be used to block or restrict access.
Instead, it highlights its real-time pirate stream blocking program, which allows vetted rightsholders to flag pirate streams that run through its network. These streams are disrupted "within seconds," Cloudflare says, without any DNS or IP address blocking. "For live content, where speed is crucial, Cloudflare has built real-time mitigation mechanisms that allow vetted rightsholder partners to flag infringing streams. When those streams are running through our network, we act on them in seconds," Cloudflare informed the Commission. For now, Cloudflare can continue to block pirate sites through its CDN only, while its 1.1.1.1 DNS resolver remains untouched. Canal+ can still appeal the rulings, so it may not be the last we hear of it.
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At the 2026 All Systems Go!
conference, systemd maintainers Luca Boccassi and Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
delivered the traditional "state of the project" session with an overview of the
systemd project's accomplishments in the past year. That was followed by a
maintainer round table where Boccassi, Jędrzejewski-Szmek, Daan De Meyer, and
project leader Lennart Poettering fielded questions about systemd's size,
health, and if it might replace Kubernetes. (It will not.)
Python 3.15 is out today as the newest annual feature release for the Python programming language...
Last week I ran benchmarks of the new AMD PerfOpt feature being introduced in Linux 7.4. In those PerfOpt benchmarks on current-gen AMD Ryzen AI APUs/SoCs the AI performance improved as much as 18~23%. Several Phoronix readers expressed interest in seeing how prior-gen AMD Ryzen hardware benefited or not from PerfOpt, so here are some additional benchmarks.
The Fanatical Build your own All Stars Bundle (Winter) has launched giving you the chance to save even more monies on various games together.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.
Let's
Encrypt, the nonprofit that provides free TLS certificates for millions of
sites, has announced that
it will be moving to certificates with 64-day lifetimes on February 10,
2027:
This means that any certificate we issue or renew on and after that date will
have a 64 day validity period, and we expect the last 90-day certificate to
expire on May 11, 2027. We will not revoke valid certificates as a part of this
process.
This is the second stage of Let's Encrypt's plan, announced in 2025,
to move to 45-day certificate lifetimes as required by the the CA/Browser
Forum Baseline Requirements. In 2028, Let's Encrypt will switch to 45-day certificates.
The OpenRadioss fork is already drawing an impressive community as contributors help restore builds and missing components.
From a performance and enthusiast perspective, what I personally find most disappointing and puzzling with the imminent release of Ubuntu 26.10 comes down to its default compiler version...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (bind, bind9.16, freerdp, glibc, kbd, mod_auth_openidc, openssl, perl-DBI, python3.12, python3.14, and tftp), Debian (rails and twitter-bootstrap3), Fedora (barman, cockpit, hcloud, libmodsecurity, nginx-mod-modsecurity, perl-DBI, sudo, and xorg-x11-server-Xwayland), Mageia (libxfont2), Oracle (bind9.18, firefox, kernel, nodejs24, perl-DBI, and vim), Red Hat (kernel, libreswan, opentelemetry-collector, osbuild-composer, rhc, and runc), SUSE (alloy, amazon-ecs-init, bind, busybox, distribution, emacs, ghostscript, glibc, GraphicsMagick, hauler, helm, helm3, jackson-annotations, jackson-core, jackson-databind, kernel, libpoppler-cpp3, libxtst, logback, nvidia-open-driver-G07-signed, perl-DBI, php-composer2, pi-coding-agent, portprotonqt, pvetui, python-hpack, python313-GitPython, and wpa_supplicant), and Ubuntu (apache2, bluez, libarchive, libde265, libgit2, libpng1.6, libxml2, linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-6.8, linux-aws-fips, linux-fips, linux-realtime, linux-realtime-6.8, linux-aws-7.0, linux-azure, linux-azure-6.8, linux-azure-fde, linux-azure-fde-6.8, linux-azure-fips, linux-azure-7.0, linux-azure-fde-7.0, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-6.8, linux-gcp-fips, linux-gcp-7.0, linux-hwe-7.0, linux-oracle-7.0, linux-gke, linux-gkeop, linux-ibm, linux-lowlatency, linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.8, linux-nvidia, linux-nvidia-6.8, linux-nvidia-lowlatency, linux-oracle, linux-ibm-6.8, linux-nvidia, and linux-oem-6.17).
Ubuntu or Linux Mint? See how they compare on speed, software, updates and ease of use, and find out which one fits you before you install.
For those making increased use of Linux's Zswap as a compressed RAM cache for swap pages amid these times of sky high RAM prices, a new patch series was posted providing some incremental performance gains for Zswap by batching the writeback I/O...
sciencehabit shares a report from Science Magazine: A physicist has put a definite date on Doomsday," The New York Times wrote on November 4, 1960. "He calculates that it will come on Friday the Thirteenth in November, 2026 A. D. On that date, or thereabouts, the human population will have expanded so far as to approach infinity and thus will automatically annihilate itself." The newspaper was right -- but the prediction was wrong. That week, Austrian American physicist Heinz von Foerster and two colleagues published a paper in Science with the stunningly succinct title "Doomsday: Friday, 13 November, A.D. 2026."
The work was based on a simple observation: The time it took for the human population to double in size kept getting shorter. Using population estimates from about 400 B.C.E. until 1958 C.E., the authors -- all from the department of electrical engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign -- came up with an equation that best described the trend. If things continued the way they were going, the number of humans on Earth would rise faster and faster, reaching more than 25 billion by 2020. The researchers didn't calculate when humanity would run out of food, land, or energy. They just concluded that at some point this year, the equation ceased to give meaningful results because the predicted population shot toward infinity. That was their doomsday. "Our great-great-grandchildren will not starve," they wrote. "They will be squeezed to death."
The exact date was somewhat arbitrary, however. The formula solved to 2026.87 plus or minus 5.5 years, and The New York Times reported that von Foerster "searched the center of this doom-time span for an appropriate date and found that a Friday the Thirteenth would fall conveniently in November of 2026." (November 13 also happened to be his birthday.) [...] [D]emographers, annoyed by what they saw as a provocation by outsiders, pointed out obvious flaws. For example, the time it takes for the number of humans to double could get a lot shorter, but certainly not shorter than the 9 months it takes for a baby to develop. "In view of the comments that subsequently were published in this journal, an extensive discussion of this article does not seem to be required," public health expert Harold Dorn drily noted in Science 2 years after von Foerster's article was published. The forecast would set a record, he predicted, "for the short length of time required to demonstrate its unreliability." "The failure of the Doomsday equation is ultimately a cautionary tale about the dangers of extrapolating from historically exceptional circumstances," writes economist Javier Birchenall of the University of California, Santa Barbara writes in a Perspective published in Science today.
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Another Triple-I Initiative Showcase came and went yesterday, here's some of the really cool looking games featured in it.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.
When booting the Linux kernel using UEFI SecureBoot, the kernel is put in the lockdown mode to restrict the ability to modify the running kernel image or leaking data from kernel memory. Kernel lockdown mode can also be manually enabled by the user/administrator. Among the limitations imposed in Linux's lockdown mode is no hibernation support. But that soon may be relieved with new patches proposed...
Over the past few months NVIDIA has been developing Boro as a new AI-assisted kernel development CLI written in Rust and focused on local AI for enhancing efficiency for kernel development...
AMD on Thursday sent out a final pull request of their feature work aiming to be submitted for the upcoming Linux 7.4 merge window. This round of "few last odds and ends" is mostly about landing some bug fixes but of which there are a few worth mentioning...
For those making use of Qualcomm Snapdragon X laptops on Linux, one of the features coming to the MSM DRM kernel driver is static HDR support for DisplayPort outputs and eDP panels...
Paradox Tower brings a clever mixture of puzzles and RPG mechanics about helping a witch find her way through a labyrinth tower.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.
Google is exploring a new approach to Linux kernel security that could significantly change how device drivers interact with the operating system. The experimental project, known as Kage, uses compiler-based sandboxing to isolate drivers inside the kernel, potentially limiting the damage caused by memory corruption, programming errors, and exploitable vulnerabilities without requiring drivers to run as separate user-space processes.
I'm not sure my heart will be able to manage LIVING HELL but it sure does look interesting from the developer of the popular DEVOUR.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.
The Triple-i Initiative Showcase Bundle has arrived and with it you can fill up your Steam Library with even more interesting games.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.
Another demo that looks to be worthy of your time is Of Dice and Minions, a pixel-art dice-rolling auto-battler roguelite.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.
Linux hardware vendor System76 released COSMIC 1.10 today as the latest stable version of this Rust-based desktop environment for modern GNU/Linux distributions.
DXVK-Sarek version 1.14.0 has arrived, keeping Wine / Proton gaming alive for those of you with older GPUs that don't have modern Vulkan support.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.
The brilliant bullet heaven inventory management zombie shooter Deadly Days: Roadtrip hits the big 1.0 on October 29th.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.
Valve just released a major stable update for all Steam Frame owners, bringing some great sounding improvements.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.
"Margaret Hamilton, the groundbreaking researcher who helped create the field of software engineering and whose code helped land NASA's Apollo astronauts on the moon to win the 20th century space race, has died," writes longtime Slashdot reader Veeru. "She was 90." MIT News reports: A computing pioneer who authored over 130 publications, Hamilton helped to establish software engineering as a dedicated discipline. She worked at MIT from 1959 until the mid-1970s, after which she became a successful computing entrepreneur and CEO. Her life's work was recognized with many awards and honors, including the 2016 Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama, whose citation noted: "Hamilton defined new forms of software engineering and helped launch an industry that would forever change human history. Her software architecture led to giant leaps for humankind, writing the code that helped America set foot on the moon." "To say Margaret Hamilton was a pioneer -- to say she was ahead of her time -- would be a dramatic understatement. She was a software engineer at a time when that field was in its infancy, and she not only developed advanced code herself but also led a team in using that nascent technology to develop one of the most complex systems humanity had ever achieved," says Olivier de Weck, the Apollo Program Professor and interim head of the MIT Department Aeronautics and Astronautics.
"The Apollo program still stands as one of our greatest testaments to the power of collaboration, ingenuity, and engineering, and Margaret Hamilton was a fundamental contributor to that program's success. And for her that was just the beginning! She went on to become an entrepreneur and remained on the cutting edge of systems software throughout an extraordinary career, while acting as an advocate, mentor, and inspiration to millions."
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After a day or two of false alarms, Distro of the Week finally settled on a German distro based on Debian, specifically VailuxOS 1.6.1.4. The distro, aimed specifically at Windows refugees, has much to offer the wide spectrum of Linux users choosing it, and overall it was a pleasant surprise. .
The locate command is used to quickly search for files or directories within the indexes in the database file known as updatedb.
Researchers in Vienna and Beijing have independently built the first nuclear clocks based on oscillations inside thorium nuclei, marking a major milestone for a field that could eventually produce highly portable, ultra-precise timekeepers. The clocks are already precise enough to lose only about a second over millions of years. The New York Times reports: The first nuclear clocks are not going to immediately supplant the worldwide network of atomic clocks, whose steady ticking we rely on for GPS and the definition of a second. Nor have they captured the record for most precise timepiece; the best atomic clocks are about 10,000 times more reliable and would take more than 100 billion years to lose one second.
But nuclear clocks hold a bevy of potential advantages over existing atomic clocks. One day, they could be more reliable than the leading atomic versions, and nuclear clocks could be made more portable. They even hold the ability to search for certain kinds of dark matter -- the invisible stuff whose clumps make up 83 percent of the matter in the universe. If a particle of dark matter passed through the thorium nuclei, it could register as a wobble in the nuclear clock's otherwise steady ticktock. The findings have been published in the journal Nature.
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The latest proposal for the upstream Linux kernel is introducing infrastructure for AI agent resources. Initially these agent resources would be for a skill so AI agents can automatically add a "Fixes: " tag on relevant patches for noting the first problematic Git commit automatically that a patch fixes...
There is yet another feature to get excited about for this quarter's Mesa 26.3 release. Months in the making, the Valve-contributed VK_AMD_anti_lag support for the Radeon RADV driver was merged today for benefiting AMD Linux gamers as a nice improvement over the former implementation...
GStreamer 1.28.8 brings security fixes, resolves HLS and DASH playback regressions, and improves FLAC seeking, video encoding, and stability.
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: The Trump administration is suspending Microsoft, Adobe, and several other technology companies from a program that helps skilled foreign workers obtain permanent residency in the United States, accusing the companies of fraud. "Our message to Microsoft is: You're a great American company, but you've got to hire great American workers," U.S. Vice President JD Vance said in a news conference on Thursday, Reuters reported.
The other firms being suspended from the program include Capgemini, Cognizant, HCL, Infosys, Tata, and Wipro. Secretary of Labor Keith Sonderling said the government would not accept any new or pending permanent labor certification applications involving these companies. H-1B visas are designed for highly skilled positions that employers may struggle to fill with qualified U.S. workers. Tech companies are among the largest users of the program, with nearly three-quarters of approved visas going to workers from India, according to The Associated Press.
Vance also said during the news conference that the administration would investigate nine universities, including Harvard, Yale, and Stanford, over allegations they're abusing a program that allows international students to come to the U.S. and were using the program to undermine wages for American workers. "We believe in the strength and talent of the American workforce," a Microsoft spokesperson said in a statement. "That is why the vast majority of Microsoft employees in the United States are Americans. We look forward to providing the Administration with additional information. For example, of the approximately 6,000 H-1B visa applications we submitted in the last fiscal year, 80% percent were to extend or change the status of existing Microsoft employees."
"These were not to hire new people. The remaining filings for new employees were for individuals already legally in the United States who decided to come work for us, and they equal only 1% of our U.S. workforce. They are not new arrivals to our country."
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Raspberry Pi Imager 2.0.12 has been released today as the latest stable version of this open-source, free, and user-friendly tool for creating bootable media for Raspberry Pi devices.
Amazon Prime Video will become the exclusive global home of the Emmy Awards under a six-year deal beginning in 2027, the Television Academy announced on Tuesday. The Emmys will stream live for free to viewers in more than 240 countries and territories without requiring a Prime subscription. From the report: In the release, Prime Video was named as the "permanent home" for the Emmys, in contrast to the rotating agreement in place years prior. The switch ends the traditional "wheel-deal" setup to broadcast the awards, where ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox took turns hosting the Emmys each year. The system has been in place since at least 1994, with the most recent eight-year contract expiring this year. "Television has never been more global, and the Emmys should be a celebration that the world can share," Television Academy chair Cris Abrego said in a statement. "Having a dedicated home with Prime Video allows us to build on that legacy with unprecedented global reach and a broader commitment to the Television Academy and our mission throughout the year."
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The EXT4 file-system today deprecated its journaled mode of the "data=journal" mount option. Following its deprecation, this mode is planned for removal in the year 2028...
Tomáš Šedovič is a program manager at the Rust Foundation. He co-leads the
goals team, which helps
organize the Rust project's
overall goals, including making sure that the people
who have agreed to work on one have the support they need.
At Kangrejos 2026, he provided an overview of the Rust project's goal processes
aimed at ensuring that the Rust for Linux developers were aware of how the
project organizes, tracks, and amends goals.
The
Rust for Linux project
has inspired several current project goals, so he thought that getting an inside
view of the process might be helpful.
System76 today released COSMIC Epoch 1.10 as the newest incremental update to this Rust-based desktop developed in-step with their Pop!_OS Linux distribution...
by George Whittaker
Linux kernel developers are renewing efforts to retire the x32 application binary interface (ABI), a little-used compatibility feature that attempted to combine the advantages of 64-bit processors with the smaller memory footprint of 32-bit applications. A revised patch series submitted on October 8, 2026, proposes the first steps toward disabling the interface, potentially ending support for an architecture experiment introduced more than 14 years ago.
The latest proposal comes from Sebastian Andrzej Siewior, a Linux kernel developer at Linutronix who has been working on the removal effort throughout 2026. Rather than immediately deleting every component associated with x32, the proposed approach would first prevent the feature from being enabled through normal kernel configuration. This would give remaining users and distribution maintainers an opportunity to respond before the underlying implementation is removed.
The effort reflects a broader challenge in Linux development: maintaining compatibility with older or rarely used technologies while keeping the kernel manageable, secure, and efficient. Although x32 offered theoretical performance and memory advantages, it never achieved widespread adoption. With conventional x86_64 software dominating modern Linux systems, developers are increasingly questioning whether the additional maintenance burden remains justified.
Understanding the Linux x32 ABI
The x32 ABI was introduced with Linux kernel 3.4 in 2012 as an alternative to conventional 32-bit and 64-bit application environments. Its goal was to provide applications with access to the architectural improvements of x86_64 processors while retaining smaller data types and pointers associated with 32-bit software.
Traditional 32-bit x86 applications use the i386 ABI, which operates with a more limited register set and 32-bit execution conventions. Standard x86_64 applications, meanwhile, benefit from additional general-purpose registers, wider registers, and modern calling conventions, but they normally use 64-bit pointers. Those larger pointers can increase memory consumption in applications that maintain large numbers of pointer-heavy data structures.
The x32 ABI attempted to offer a compromise. Applications would execute using the x86_64 instruction set and its larger register file while retaining 32-bit integers, long values, and pointers. This programming model is commonly described as ILP32, meaning that integers, long integers, and pointers are all 32 bits wide.
The distinction can be illustrated by comparing the expected sizes of common C data types:
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Those trying to access the Ubuntu website, ISO downloads, and similar Ubuntu resources today are finding the site inoperable amid what's now confirmed as an ongoing distributed denial of service attack...
While Ubuntu 26.10 is not a Long-Term Support (LTS) release and thus will see limited enterprise deployments compared to Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, for those not after that long-term deployment support and preferring to live more on the leading-edge, Ubuntu 26.10 is delivering some nice performance gains on current 5th Gen AMD EPYC "Turin" hardware.
Open Source projects are facing infrastructure trouble.
Ancient Slashdot reader williamyf writes: If you thought the gender pay gap was not real, and that there were no biases in the workplace, think again: A recent study from the University of Limerick found that, in a VR office setting, AI agents -- not even humanoid robots -- that presented themselves as "male" were paid more per task and perceived as more "human-like" than their "female" counterparts, even though both were using the same underlying technology (LLM model, agent, guardrail, and harness). The pay gap was approximately 10%. The study was conducted with 189 people. Small sample, but still, food for thought.
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The curiosity into secretive semiconductor startup Rosaic Labs builds. Earlier this year it was noted that Intel was providing Rosaic Labs with access to its Atom technology with RTL code. There have also been rather mysterious x86 additions not from Intel or AMD (or Zhaoxin / Hygon) that given the timing may pertain to Rosaic Labs. News today is that Rosaic recently hired a long-time, Linux x86 developer veteran...
The kernel's swap layer has undergone some
significant changes over the course of the last year and a number of
longstanding problems have been addressed. One problem that has not
yet been solved in the mainline is the direct tie between slots in the swap
cache and space in persistent swap files, which can cause highly
inefficient resource use. There are two competing solutions for this
problem, neither of which has, as yet, reached readiness for merging; a
lengthy discussion on possible paths forward shows ongoing disagreement
over the best path forward.
NVIDIA engineer John Hubbard and Red Hat's Danilo Krummrich presented at this week's LPC2026 conference in Prague on the open-source and upstream Nova driver stack that continues forming as a Rust-based open-source NVIDIA Linux kernel driver...
Three more Square Enix games have today landed on DRM-free store GOG.com, and they're part of the GOG Preservation Program too.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (bind, firefox, freerdp, ghostscript, glibc, kernel, kernel-rt, perl-DBI, python3.12, rust-rpm-sequoia, rust-sequoia-sq, rust-sequoia-sqv, and vim), Debian (gst-plugins-base1.0, python3.11, and xz-utils), Fedora (7zip, chromium, curl, docker-buildx, kernel, Lmod, and sos), Mageia (tesseract), Oracle (dovecot, firefox, freerdp, gd, ghostscript, kernel, librabbitmq, perl-DBI, python3.12, rust-rpm-sequoia, rust-sequoia-sqv, sg3_utils, vim, and virtuoso-opensource), Slackware (xorg-server), SUSE (aliyun-cli, busybox, cadvisor, chromedriver, chromium, crane, distribution-registry, fetchmail, fio, ghostscript, golang-github-prometheus-alertmanager, google-osconfig-agent, govulncheck-vulndb, libsoup, libXtst, openexr, prometheus-blackbox_exporter, python-fsspec, rpcbind, rsyslog, rustup, wireshark, wpa_supplicant, and zcode), and Ubuntu (erlang, golang-golang-x-net, gst-plugins-ugly1.0, lxml, poppler, and sudo).
If you're like me and you can't get enough of bullet heaven survivor-likes, it's time to take a good look at Cloudbreaker with its inventory management.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.
Linux developers are once again considering the removal of the Linux x32 ABI...
Huawei engineers are experimenting with a new file-system called XMFS. XMFS was presented this week at LPC 2026 in Czechia as a file-system for modern Linux servers with CXL 3.0 or Huawei United Bus connectivity...
Sashiko that was built by Google engineers for agentic review of the Linux kernel code changes and powered by Google's AI models continues proving very valuable to kernel developers. In less than one year since they launched Sashiko for agentic AI code review, their results are quite fascinating...
Google has released Chrome 155 with support for decoding JPEG XL images, a format that offers 30-50% better compression than JPEG along with lossless compression, JPEG transcoding, HDR, animation, and progressive decoding. From a blog post: We expect that JPEG XL is most helpful for high-fidelity or lossless compression, especially of photographic images or in cases in which fine-grained progressive decoding is preferred. In this post, we share why we brought JPEG XL to Chrome, how we used Rust to ensure memory safety first, the extensive performance work that makes it fast, and what the journey tells us about developer feedback and the web standards ecosystem.
[...] With JPEG XL officially landing in Chrome, the web becomes faster, richer, and safer. We encourage developers, content creators, and platform owners to start using .jxl images and animations in their pipelines. Try it out, file bugs, and help us continue building a faster and safer web for everyone.
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For those interested in the SpacemiT K3 as one of the few RVA23 RISC-V SoCs readily available so far and in the likes of the K3 Pico-ITX system, more improvements for its upstream kernel support are coming in Linux 7.4...
The Podman and Fedora Quality teams are organizing a test week from Monday, October 12, through Sunday, October 18, 2026. We want your help testing conmon v3, the Rust-based container monitor used with Podman. If you use Podman, try the same containers and commands with conmon v3 and report any differences. Why we’re testing conmon […]
ARC Raiders gets a fancy new map, new enemies, new tools, a revamp of the skill tree and absolutely loads more in the latest update to the extraction shooter.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.
While Linus Torvalds previously shot down plans for Profile Guided Optimizations (PGO) in the mainline Linux kernel, Google engineers are hoping still to get that out-of-tree functionality upstream. They also would like to see PGO supported for Linux kernel modules rather than just the main Linux kernel image. Additionally, they hope to see limitations overcome around AutoFDO and Propeller optimizations of kernel modules...