- AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Benchmarks: The Best Desktop Performance For Linux Developers, Creators21 April 2026, 1:00 pm
Today we can finally share performance benchmarks of the long-rumored AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition processor. This new halo product for the Ryzen 9000 series desktop line-up offers captivating performance for developers frequently compiling code, creators, technical computing workloads for students or hobbyists or those not able to afford a Threadripper / EPYC type workstation, or similar heavy computing use. With the 16 cores / 32 threads and both CCDs having 3D V-Cache, the AMD Ryzen 9 99... 
- RADV Driver Enables Host Image Copy By Default For RDNA2 & Newer21 April 2026, 12:24 pm
Introduced back in 2023 with Vulkan 1.3.258 was VK_EXT_host_image_copy to copy data between host memory and images on the host processor without needing to stage the data through a CPU-accessible buffer. This direct CPU-to-GPU image data transfer path can reduce memory usage during asset loads and all around more efficiency and performance. Finally now the RADV open-source Radeon driver is enabling support by default......
- Linux 7.1 Lands Workaround For Arm C1-Pro Erratum21 April 2026, 10:35 am
Merged yesterday to the Linux 7.1 kernel is a workaround for an Arm C1-Pro CPU hardware bug around its Scalable Matrix Extension implementation......
- Initial Linux Driver Patches For Smart Data Accelerator Interface "SDXI"21 April 2026, 10:22 am
Recently sent out on the Linux kernel mailing list was the initial patches for implementing the Smart Data Accelerator Interface (SDXI) as a vendor-neutral architecture for memory-to-memory data movement offload......
- Linux 7.1 Staging Ushered In More Developers To Make Their First Kernel Contributions21 April 2026, 10:00 am
Over the weekend Greg Kroah-Hartman sent out his various pull requests for the areas of the kernel he oversees. Among those is the staging area where this time around the notable activity isn't too much about feature work but many developers making some of their first contributions to the upstream kernel......
- AMD's GAIA Makes It Easier To Import/Export Custom AI Agents Across PCs21 April 2026, 12:36 am
AMD on the software side continues investing heavily in GAIA "Generative AI Is Awesome" as their cross-platform solution built around the Lemonade SDK for running local AI agents on your AMD-powered hardware from CPUs to GPUs and NPUs. With today's GAIA update, custom-generated AI agents are now portable with easy import and export support......
- HarfBuzz Continues Improving Its New GPU-Accelerated Text Shaping Library21 April 2026, 12:23 am
Released at the beginning of the month was a new version of HarfBuzz, a widely-used, open-source text shaping engine. With this HarfBuzz 14.0 release it introduced a GPU-based text rasterization library that supported GLSL shaders as well as HLSL, WGSL, and APple's Metal MSL. Since then this GPU-accelerated library has been seeing more improvements......
- Linux 7.1 KVM Adds "Very Experimental" Support For pKVM Protected Guests20 April 2026, 7:59 pm
The Kernel-based Virtual Machine changes were recently merged for the Linux 7.1 merge window for further enhancing KVM as this important piece of the open-source virtualization stack......
- While New NTFS Driver Merged, NTFS3 Driver Sees Fixes & Minor Changes For Linux 7.120 April 2026, 7:41 pm
Last week saw the "NTFS resurrection" as Linux Torvalds put it with the new/overhauled NTFS driver having been merged for Linux 7.1. Even still, the NTFS3 driver that was contributed a few years ago by Paragon Software remains in the mainline kernel and today were some fixes/improvements merged for that existing driver......
- Box64 0.4.2 Begins Working On POWER PPC64LE Backend, Support For SteamRT3 + Proton 1120 April 2026, 5:16 pm
While FEX-Emu has been garnering a lot of attention due to being sponsored by Valve and slated to be used by the Steam Frame for running Linux x86_64 binaries on AArch64, the Box64 project continues moving along with similar goals for x86_64 binaries on other CPU architectures......
- Security updates for Tuesday21 April 2026, 1:06 pm
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (freerdp, kernel, and kernel-rt), Debian (mupdf, opam, simpleeval, and xdg-dbus-proxy), Mageia (firefox, thunderbird and libtiff), Red Hat (containernetworking-plugins, gvisor-tap-vsock, nodejs22, nodejs:20, nodejs:22, perl-XML-Parser, python3.11, python3.9, runc, and skopeo), and SUSE (bind, buildah, cockpit-subscriptions, container-suseconnect, containerd, corosync, cosign, docker, dovecot24, flatpak, freeipmi, gegl, GraphicsMagick, helm, ImageMag...
- Git 2.54.0 released20 April 2026, 6:20 pm
Git maintainer Junio Hamano has announced
Git 2.54.0, which includes contributions from 137 people; 66 of those
people are first-time contributors to the project. Changes include the
addition of Git history rewriting, Git's web interface (gitweb)
"has been taught to be mobile friendly", and much more. See the
announcement for all improvements, additions, and bug fixes. Hamano
is now taking a short break:
I will go offline for a couple of weeks starting this evening,
hopefully after updating 'n...
- Arch Linux now has a reproducible container image20 April 2026, 5:27 pm
Robin Candau has announced
the availability of a bit-for-bit reproducible container image for
Arch Linux:
The bit-for-bit reproducibility of the image is confirmed by digest
equality across builds (podman inspect --format '{{.Digest}}'
<image>) and by running diffoci
to compare builds. We provide documentation on how to reproduce this
Docker image (as we did for the WSL image as well).
Building the base rootFS for the Docker image in a deterministic way was
the main challenge, but it r...
- [$] Digging into drama at The Document Foundation20 April 2026, 4:46 pm
The Document Foundation (TDF) is
the nonprofit entity behind the LibreOffice productivity suite. Most of the
time, the software takes the spotlight, but that has changed in the past few weeks, and
not for pleasant reasons. TDF has revoked
foundation membership status from about 30 people who work for or have
contracting status with Collabora. In
response, Collabora has announced
plans to focus on a "entirely new, cut-down, differentiated Collabora Office"
project and reduce its involvement with ...
- Debian Project Leader Election 2026 results20 April 2026, 1:19 pm
Debian Project secretary Kurt Roeckx has announced the Debian
Project Leader (DPL) election results:
the winner of the election is Sruthi Chandran. She will replace
two-term DPL Andreas Tille.
...
- Security updates for Monday20 April 2026, 1:12 pm
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (.NET 10.0, .NET 8.0, .NET 9.0, delve, freerdp, giflib, go-rpm-macros, libarchive, and openexr), Debian (gimp, imagemagick, luanti, mapserver, mupdf, opam, perl, pillow, postgresql-13, and tiff), Fedora (aqualung, awstats, curl, incus, mac, mbedtls, mingw-LibRaw, python-msal, python3.11, python3.12, python3.15, smb4k, stb, and usd), Gentoo (DTrace and FUSE), Mageia (gdk-pixbuf2.0, giflib, polkit-122, python-cairosvg, and rsync), Oracle (.NET 10.0, ....
- Seven stable kernels for Saturday18 April 2026, 3:48 pm
Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 6.19.13, 6.18.23, 6.12.82, 6.6.135, 6.1.169, 5.15.203, and 5.10.253 stable kernels. Each contains a
number of important fixes throughout the tree; users are advised to
upgrade.
...
- [$] A more efficient implementation of Shor's algorithm17 April 2026, 3:53 pm
Shor's algorithm is the main practical example of an algorithm that runs more
quickly on a quantum computer than a classical computer — at least in theory.
Shor's algorithm allows large numbers to be factored
into their component prime factors quickly.
In reality, existing quantum computers do not have nearly
enough memory to factor interesting numbers using Shor's algorithm, despite
decades of research.
A new paper provides a major step
in that direction, however. While still impractical on...
- [$] The 7.0 scheduler regression that wasn't17 April 2026, 1:34 pm
One of the more significant changes in the 7.0 kernel release is to use the lazy-preemption mode by default in the CPU
scheduler. The scheduler developers have wanted to reduce the number of
preemption modes for years, and lazy preemption looks like a step toward
that goal. But then there came this report
from Salvatore Dipietro that lazy preemption caused a 50% performance
regression on a PostgreSQL benchmark. Investigation showed that the
situation is not actually so grave, but the episode ...
- Security updates for Friday17 April 2026, 1:33 pm
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (.NET 8.0, .NET 9.0, freerdp, libarchive, and thunderbird), Debian (chromium, openssh, and thunderbird), Fedora (aurorae, bluedevil, breeze-gtk, buildah, cockpit, extra-cmake-modules, flatpak-kcm, grub2-breeze-theme, kactivitymanagerd, kcm_wacomtablet, kde-cli-tools, kde-gtk-config, kdecoration, kdeplasma-addons, kf6, kf6-attica, kf6-baloo, kf6-bluez-qt, kf6-breeze-icons, kf6-frameworkintegration, kf6-kapidox, kf6-karchive, kf6-kauth, kf6-kbookmarks...
- This Simple GUI Tool Takes the Pain Out of Docker and Podman20 April 2026, 2:14 pm
A polished, libadwaita-based container manager that now works with both Podman and Docker....
- Thunderbolt Wants to Do for AI Clients What Thunderbird Did for Email19 April 2026, 12:08 pm
This self-hostable enterprise AI client lets you bring your own models and keep your data off third-party servers....
- Mozilla’s New Firefox Mascot ‘Kit’ Triggers Online Backlash Over Pronouns19 April 2026, 9:07 am
From cute mascot to online outrage, Firefox’s “Kit” quickly became the center of a debate no one expected. But is the controversy even justified?...
- Won’t Somebody Think of the Children? Why Big Tech’s ‘Tobacco Moment’ Isn’t What It Seems19 April 2026, 7:27 am
As regulators rush to “protect children,” we risk creating something worse. A more centralized, identity-driven, and surveilled internet that strengthens Big Tech instead of challenging it....
- 21-year-old Polish Woman Fixed a 20-year-old Linux Bug!17 April 2026, 1:22 pm
She wasn't hunting for bugs. She was doing something mundane when she discovered the issue and made the fix. We need more such positive stories....
- Cal.com Goes Close Source Because "AI Can Easily Exploit Open Source Software"17 April 2026, 11:33 am
That said, the old codebase will live on as Cal.diy under the MIT license....
- Russian Baikal CPUs Are Losing Their Place in the Linux Kernel17 April 2026, 7:21 am
After sanctions, bankruptcy and removal of kernel maintainers, Baikal's unfinished kernel code is being removed....
- Privacy Email Service Tuta Now Also Has Cloud Storage with Quantum-Resistant Encryption16 April 2026, 6:03 pm
Tuta Drive is almost here, and it makes Google Drive and OneDrive look sus. I explored the early access release....
- FOSS Weekly #26.16: Kernel 7.0, Essential Terminal Tips, France Linux Move, New Age Verification Bill and More16 April 2026, 2:00 pm
Some good news, some not so good news....
- Can You Identify The Fake Linux Distros From The Real Ones?16 April 2026, 1:26 pm
With over 300+ Linix distros, it is never easy to remember all of them. Still, you can make a guess and see if you can identify some fake distros in this fun quiz....
- Firefox 150 brings Linux emoji picker, PDF page ordering + more20 April 2026, 12:40 pm
Firefox 150 is released this week with an enhanced Split View features, multi-tab sharing and a clutch of welcome PDF editor improvements. Split View debuted in Firefox 149 last month, letting you easily view two web-pages side-by-side in a single tab (no more juggling windows). In Firefox 150, you can right-click a link on a web page and choose Open Link in Split View to, well, do precisely that. Firefox’s Split View feature now includes an option to Reverse Tabs in the context menu (three ...
- GIMP 3.2.4 released with fresh set of bug fixes19 April 2026, 12:15 pm
Bug fixes arrive in GIMP 3.2.4, the latest maintenance update for the current 3.2.x stable series. Assorted improvements made since GIMP 3.2.2 dropped in March include a variety of layer workflow tweaks, like ensuring certain actions, like ‘Layers to Image Size’ and ‘Resize Layer to Selection’ only on raster layers (not vector, linked or text layers). Similarly, the team says they “caught more cases where tools would accidentally rasterize link, text, and vector layers”. A layer nami...
- Type with your voice on Linux using this Whisper-based app19 April 2026, 2:48 am
Your mouth can (probably) say things quicker than your hands can type, yet voice typing is rarely used as a primary input method on desktop – yet most of us think nothing of using it on mobile. That’s despite speech-to-text being available on desktop OSes for decades, natively and through dedicated apps. It never caught on because it was inaccurate and slow and typically hidden away as an assistive feature. (And because a lot of what you do at a keyboard is navigation and that is less effici...
- Thunderbolt is an open-source ‘AI client’ from Mozilla’s for-profit arm16 April 2026, 5:01 pm
Thunderbolt is a new open source AI client from the Mozilla-owned MZLA Technologies aimed at enterprises who want to run self-hosted chatbots on their own infrastructure. MZLA Technologies is the for-profit subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation that develops and maintains the Thunderbird email client. It says Thunderbolt was created with the support of a grant from Mozilla. Terrible name aside (Intel owns a trademark for ‘Thunderbolt’ which Apple markets heavily, so it’s not the best c...
- Linux Mint’s next release won’t be until Christmas 202616 April 2026, 3:04 pm
Linux Mint has confirmed it is switching to a longer development cycle, in order to give the team more time to ‘fix bugs and improve the desktop’. As a result, the Linux Mint 23 release is now slated to launch in December 2026. It will, among other planned changes, use the same installer as LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition) as this offers better OEM install, SecureBoot and LVM/LUKS support. Project lead Clement Lefebvre intimated that upending the distro’s standard twice-yearly release mode...
- Zorin OS 18.1 released, new Lite edition available15 April 2026, 5:01 pm
The first point release to Zorin OS 18 is now available for download, arriving six months and some 3.3 million downloads after the original launch. Zorin OS 18.1 is a point release update. It’s still based on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS-based but adds a variety of desktop refinements, updated software and a new kernel (courtesy of the recent Ubuntu HWE from Canonical). A new Zorin OS Lite also launches today. This nimble edition is aimed at older, lower-spec hardware and is based around a customised Xfce...
- Opera GX for Linux arrives on Flathub & Snap store14 April 2026, 4:15 pm
Installing Opera GX on Linux is now easier, with official packages available on the Canonical Snap Store and Flathub. Opera GX made its debut Linux release in March 2026, with the gaming-centric web browser porting over many of the novel features that have helped to make it a modest hit on Windows and macOS. That includes CPU, RAM and network controls provided, background sounds, themes and eye-candy like web shaders. A ‘Hot Tabs Killer’ feature automatically nukes tabs which use excessive r...
- Tributary is the GTK4 Rhythmbox port of your dreams14 April 2026, 2:41 pm
Ever wondered what a GTK4/libadwaita version of Linux music player Rhythmbox might look like? A new app in development imagines just that. Tributary is billed as a “high-performance, Rhythmbox-style media manager written in pure Rust with GTK4 and libadwaita”. It’s more than a way to play local audio files. Tributary can also access and stream music from Jellyfin, Plex, DAAP/iTunes shares, and Subsonic/Navidrome setups, and makes it easy to browse and play internet radio stations – all f...
- Quick Lofi – a GNOME extension for chill beats to study to13 April 2026, 1:50 am
Quick Lofi is a GNOME Shell extension that puts a lofi radio player in your top bar. If you’ve ever opened a new browser tab to load a “lofi beats to study to” stream on YouTube — lofi girl, perhaps – to act as an ambient backdrop to work to, the appeal will be evident. If not, all you need to know is that mellow, lyric-free, low-tempo sounds are reputedly ideal for focus. A wedge of research backs up the benefits of playing background music (or ambient noise or frequencies, including...
- Linux 7.0: faster swap, Intel TSX & Rock Band 4 controller support12 April 2026, 10:27 pm
Linus Torvalds has released Linux 7.0, the kernel version that Ubuntu 26.04 LTS runs on. Linux 7.0 includes a new standardised filesystem error reporting system, faster swap performance and hardware video decoding for a crop of Rockchip ARM64 single-board computers. On the quirky side, Rock Band 4 Bluetooth controller support is now included. The shiny new version number does not, however, signify anything special. Linus has always been upfront that kernel version numbers tick up when the minor ...
- Debian Project Leader Election 2026 Results21 April 2026, 1:09 pm
The winner of the election is Sruthi Chandran...
- Applications: Parabolic Video Downloader, Pods, and cpuidle21 April 2026, 7:21 am
Software releases and more...
- Security Leftovers21 April 2026, 7:19 am
Security picks...
- Kernel: Linux PTP Story and Linux 7.1 Becoming More Windows-Like21 April 2026, 7:18 am
Linux 7.1 and more...
- LibreOffice: Vissarion Fisikopoulos, Ravi Dwivedi at LibreOffice Conference, and LibreOffice Asia Conf 202521 April 2026, 7:04 am
LibreOffice news...
- Programming Leftovers21 April 2026, 7:02 am
Development picks...
- Web Browsers/Web Servers Leftovers21 April 2026, 7:01 am
Mozilla and more...
- Open Hardware/Modding: SendspinZero, Raspberry Pi, Arduino, and More21 April 2026, 7:00 am
Hardware leftovers...
- Red Hat Leftovers21 April 2026, 6:59 am
buzzwords and more...
- today's howtos21 April 2026, 6:57 am
Instructionals/Technical posts...
- Open Source Powers the Planet — Get 35% Off Sitewide13 April 2026, 7:36 pm
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- Implementing Secure Zero-Touch Provisioning in AI and Edge Infrastructure11 March 2026, 1:00 pm
By Juha Holkkola, FusionLayer Group How DHCP Changed Connectivity In the late 1990s, the DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) quietly catalyzed a revolution in digital connectivity. Before DHCP was introduced, connecting devices to a network involved manual entry of IP addresses, DNS servers, subnet masks, and gateways. Networks were fragile, prone to errors, and severely […]
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- From DHCP to SZTP – The Trust Revolution25 February 2026, 2:00 pm
By Juha Holkkola, FusionLayer Group The Dawn of Effortless Connectivity In the transformative years of the late 1990s, a quiet revolution took place, fundamentally altering how we connect to networks. The introduction of DHCP answered a crucial question, “Where are you on the network?”, by automating IP address assignment. This innovation eradicated the manual configuration […]
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- Celebrating the Second Year of Linux Man-Pages Maintenance Sponsorship15 January 2026, 2:29 pm
Sustaining a Core Part of the Linux Ecosystem The Linux Foundation has announced a second year of sponsorship for the ongoing maintenance of the Linux manual pages (man-pages) project, led by Alejandro (Alex) Colomar. This critical initiative is made possible through the continued support of Google, Hudson River Trading, and Meta, who have renewed their […]
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- Disaggregated Routing with SONiC and VPP: Lab Demo and Performance Insights – Part Two29 October 2025, 1:45 pm
In Part One of this series, we examined how the SONiC control plane and the VPP data plane form a cohesive, software-defined routing stack through the Switch Abstraction Interface. We outlined how SONiC’s Redis-based orchestration and VPP’s user-space packet engine come together to create a high-performance, open router architecture. In this second part, we’ll turn […]
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- Disaggregated Routing with SONiC and VPP: Architecture and Integration – Part One22 October 2025, 1:44 pm
The networking industry is undergoing a fundamental architectural transformation, driven by the relentless demands of cloud-scale data centers and the rise of software-defined infrastructure. At the heart of this evolution is the principle of disaggregation: the systematic unbundling of components that were once tightly integrated within proprietary, monolithic systems. This movement began with the separation […]
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- Kubernetes on Bare Metal for Maximum Performance14 October 2025, 1:00 pm
When teams consider deploying Kubernetes, one of the first questions that arises is: where should it run? The default answer is often the public cloud, thanks to its flexibility and ease of use. However, a growing number of organizations are revisiting the advantages of running Kubernetes directly on bare metal servers. For workloads that demand […]
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- How to Deploy Lightweight Language Models on Embedded Linux with LiteLLM6 June 2025, 10:53 am
This article was contributed by Vedrana Vidulin, Head of Responsible AI Unit at Intellias (LinkedIn). As AI becomes central to smart devices, embedded systems, and edge computing, the ability to run language models locally — without relying on the cloud — is essential. Whether it’s for reducing latency, improving data privacy, or enabling offline functionality, local AI […]
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- Automating Compliance Management with UTMStack’s Open Source SIEM & XDR13 May 2025, 12:17 pm
Achieving and maintaining compliance with regulatory frameworks can be challenging for many organizations. Managing security controls manually often leads to excessive use of time and resources, leaving less available for strategic initiatives and business growth. Standards such as CMMC, HIPAA, PCI DSS, SOC2 and GDPR demand ongoing monitoring, detailed documentation, and rigorous evidence collection. Solutions […]
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- A Simple Way to Install Talos Linux on Any Machine, with Any Provider27 April 2025, 11:40 pm
Talos Linux is a specialized operating system designed for running Kubernetes. First and foremost it handles full lifecycle management for Kubernetes control-plane components. On the other hand, Talos Linux focuses on security, minimizing the user’s ability to influence the system. A distinctive feature of this OS is the near-complete absence of executables, including the absence […]
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- Artix 2026042021 April 2026, 12:04 pm
Artix Linux is a fork (or continuation as an autonomous project) of the Arch-OpenRC and Manjaro-OpenRC projects. Artix Linux offers a lightweight, rolling-release operating system featuring the OpenRC init software. (Alternative spins feature the runit and s6 init software.) Several editions of Artix Linux are available, featuring either a plain command line or one of several desktop environments....
- DietPi 10.321 April 2026, 11:00 am
DietPi is a Debian-based Linux distribution, primarily developed for single-board computers such as Raspberry Pi, Orange Pi or Odroid. It also supplies builds for 64-bit x86 personal computers and virtual machines, including VMware, VirtualBox, UTM, Hyper-V, Proxmox and Parallels. The base installation of DietPi comes without any desktop, but a desktop option can be activated via the built-in "dietpi-software" program. The distribution ships with a number of menu-driven configuration tools whic...
- LliureX 25_20260420.121 April 2026, 5:25 am
LliureX is a project of the Council of Culture, Education and Sport at the Municipality of Valencia, Spain. The LliureX distribution is an Edubuntu-based live and installation DVD with support for the Valencian and Spanish languages. It is intended as an operating system for educational institutions in the Valencia region. LliureX uses exclusively free software and is distributed free of charge....
- Lilidog 26.04.2020 April 2026, 8:20 pm
Lilidog is a lightweight desktop Linux distribution based on Debian "Stable" and featuring a customised Openbox window manager. It incorporates the tint2 desktop panel, the Thunar file manager and the xfce4-terminal terminal emulator. Other window managers, including Awesome, dwm, i3, JWM and sowm, are also available for installation. Besides the standard Lilidog, the project provides two other editions of the distribution - the "Beardog" variant which starts without a display manager on login,...
- Ctlos 2.5.020 April 2026, 7:20 pm
Ctlos Linux is an Arch-based Linux distribution featuring a customised Xfce desktop. Its main features are support for the Russian language, Calamares system installer, Pamac graphical package manager with support for AUR (Arch User Repository) packages, yay command-line package manager for installing AUR packages, and support for popular display, sound and network drivers....
- Ultimate 2026.04.1920 April 2026, 2:47 am
Ultimate Edition, first released in December 2006, was a fork of Ubuntu and Linux Mint though recent versions (starting in 2024) have been based on Arch Linux. The goal of the project is to create a complete, seamlessly integrated, visually stimulating, and easy-to-install operating system. Single-button upgrade is one of several special characteristics of this distribution. Other main features include custom desktop and theme with 3D effects, support for a wide range of networking options, inc...
- Butterbian 0.2.020 April 2026, 12:30 am
Butterbian is a Debian-based Linux distribution with out-of-the-box support for the Btrfs filesystem and pre-configured Timeshift, an application that takes incremental snapshots of the installed filesystem at regular intervals. These snapshots can be restored, directly from the GRUB menu, to undo all changes to the system. Butterbian boots into a themed Xfce desktop and uses the Calamares system installer. Besides Butterbian, the project also develops Butterknife, a command-line only live imag...
- NuTyX 26.04.319 April 2026, 11:39 pm
NuTyX is a French Linux distribution (with multi-language support) built from Linux From Scratch and Beyond Linux From Scratch, with a custom package manager called "cards". The package manager can install individual binary packages, a group of related binary packages (e.g. desktop packages, such as KDE or Xfce), and compile source packages from "ports". The distribution is designed for intermediate and advanced Linux users....
- Neko-Void Beta-6.319 April 2026, 9:47 pm
Neko-Void is a Void-based rolling-release distribution featuring a preconfigured MATE desktop environment with carefully selected software. It is designed for users who want Void Linux's stability and minimalism with modern desktop functionality. The distribution ships with a custom system installer called Kasha Installer, and is available in two separate editions, with either X.Org or Xlibre display servers....
- Kader⁴² 2026.04.1919 April 2026, 7:35 pm
Kader⁴² is an Arch-based Linux distribution featuring the KDE Plasma desktop. It is designed primarily for convertible laptops (the types that offer both laptop and tablet modes), with useful features such as display rotation, appropriate launchers and menus for notebook and tablet modes, pre-configured swipe gestures similar to those on Android or iOS, and on-screen keyboard in tablet mode working out of the box. The distribution ships with the Calamares system, LibreOffice office suite and...
- Mozilla Firefox 150 Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New21 April 2026, 1:14 pm
Mozilla Firefox 150 brings stronger local network privacy protections, Linux GTK emoji picker support, and new tools for reorganizing PDF pages....
- While New NTFS Driver Merged, NTFS3 Driver Sees Fixes & Minor Changes For Linux 7.121 April 2026, 11:42 am
Last week saw the "NTFS resurrection" as Linux Torvalds put it with the new/overhauled NTFS driver having been merged for Linux 7.1. Even still, the NTFS3 driver that was contributed a few years ago by Paragon Software remains in the mainline kernel and today were some fixes/improvements merged for that existing driver......
- Archinstall 4.3 Released with Security Fixes and Installer Improvements21 April 2026, 10:11 am
Archinstall 4.3 introduces security and partitioning bug fixes, as well as installer enhancements such as optional additional font selection....
- JFS Sees Data Integrity Hardening With Linux 7.121 April 2026, 8:39 am
It's pretty rare nowadays seeing any real changes to the JFS file-system on Linux when there are multiple far superior solutions available. But in any event, the JFS file-system driver has seen a few fixes in Linux 7.1......
- Ubuntu 26.10 Stonking Stingray Officially Announced for October 15 Release21 April 2026, 7:08 am
Canonical has confirmed Ubuntu 26.10 will carry the Stonking Stingray codename and is scheduled to launch on October 15, 2026....
- Git 2.54 Released With New Experimental "git history" Command21 April 2026, 5:36 am
Git developers continue working toward Git 3.0 while out today is Git 2.54 with a few interesting additions......
- Archinstall 4.3 Arch Linux Installer Adds Support for Installing Additional Fonts21 April 2026, 4:05 am
Archinstall 4.3 has been released today as the latest stable version of the official installer for the Arch Linux distribution, with various additions and bug fixes....
- HarfBuzz Continues Improving Its New GPU-Accelerated Text Shaping Library21 April 2026, 2:33 am
Released at the beginning of the month was a new version of HarfBuzz, a widely-used, open-source text shaping engine. With this HarfBuzz 14.0 release it introduced a GPU-based text rasterization library that supported GLSL shaders as well as HLSL, WGSL, and APple's Metal MSL. Since then this GPU-accelerated library has been seeing more improvements......
- Ubuntu 26.10 “Stonking Stingray” Is Slated for Release on October 15th, 202621 April 2026, 12:16 am
Canonical’s next major Ubuntu release, Ubuntu 26.10, has been dubbed the “Stonking Stingray,” and it now has a release schedule with a release date set in stone for October 15th, 2026....
- When Your Xorg Fork Is More About DEI Than Display Servers20 April 2026, 10:45 pm
A fork created amid claims of censorship and anti?DEI posturing is now in the news for the same reason: not how it renders pixels, but how it treats people....
- Perfect Server Automated ISPConfig 3 Installation on Debian 12 and Debian 13, Ubuntu 22.04 and Ubuntu 24.0431 January 2026, 10:01 am
This tutorial shows you how to easily set up a web, email and DNS server with ISPConfig 3 using the ISPConfig auto-installation script....
- How to install PHP 5.6 and 7.0 - 8.4 with PHP-FPM and FastCGI mode for ISPConfig 3.2 with apt on Debian 11 to 123 November 2025, 9:28 pm
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- Download of the day: GIMP 3.0 is FINALLY Here!18 March 2025, 3:45 am
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- Ubuntu to Explore Rust-Based “uutils” as Potential GNU Core Utilities Replacement16 March 2025, 12:17 pm
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It is no secret that whether you are a developer or sysadmin, you need to use log files to troubleshoot errors on your Linux and Unix systems. You use tools like grep, tail, cat, or journalctl to view log files. However, you may need help with so many log files. These essential Unix tools are suitable for basic text but fall short when dealing with many log files. You can get tired from sifting through endless lines of log files. The lnav utility is here to the rescue! It is a powerful log file ...
- sttr – Awesome Linux & Unix tool for transformation of the string24 May 2024, 9:17 pm
sttr demo
The sttr is a free and open-source command-line tool in Golang that lets you easily change and modify text. You can perform transformation operations on the string, such as hashing text, string manipulation, and more. sttr is beneficial for developers and *nix users requiring swift modification to strings or files directly via the command line or TUI. It is helpful in your scripting, data processing, and automation tasks at the CLI.
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- How to block AI Crawler Bots using robots.txt file29 September 2023, 8:40 pm
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- Setting up VSCode for Ansible Lightspeed AI in Ubuntu 22.04 desktop22 July 2023, 2:01 pm
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- How to upgrade FreeBSD 13.1 to 13.2 release12 April 2023, 1:55 am
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Managing routes is an essential configuration task for network admins who are managing firewalls. If you are using the PaloAlto firewall, this tutorial explains how to add static routes using both the PAN-OS command line interface and from the PaloAlto Firewall Console. 1. CLI – View Current Routes Before adding a route, view all current […]...
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Apart from the default route table that gets created when you create a transit gateway, you can also create additional route tables. This helps you to associate a specific attachment with a specific route table. The attachments can propagate their routes to one or more route tables. You can also add static routes to the […]...
- 10 Examples to Manage PaloAlto Firewall Users from PAN-OS CLI23 September 2020, 3:00 am
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AWS Transit gateway acts as a hub to connect multiple VPC and on-prem networks. Apart from attaching a VPC to transit hub and routing traffic, you can also attach a VPN connection or Direct Connect gateway to your transit gateway. You can also peer two transit gateways and route traffic between them. In a multi-account […]...
- 5 Steps to Upgrade PaloAlto PAN-OS Firewall Software from CLI or Console9 June 2020, 3:30 am
PaloAlto releases software updates on an on-going basis. It’s essential that you stay current with the latest stable release of firewall. On a high-level the following are 5 easy steps to upgrade PaloAlto firewall: Pre-install: Verify current software version Check Available Software Versions Download Latest Version of PaloAlto Install the Latest version of Firewall Software […]...
- I froze PC upgrades for a year—here's why you should do the same21 April 2026, 1:00 pm
The cheapest upgrade you can give your PC costs nothing—and it works better than new hardware...
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Don't sleep on these....
- Power Query is the game-changing Excel feature you're not using—here are 5 ways to put it to work21 April 2026, 12:30 pm
Build a reusable workflow that cleans inconsistent data and produces concise summaries ready for analysis....
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People are still buying used Chromecast Audio dongles 10 years later....
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You can recover your desktop session in just a few minutes!...
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Alexa, you're fired....
- Why this 3-year-old Japanese SUV makes more sense than buying new21 April 2026, 10:30 am
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- Tim Cook is stepping down as Apple CEO—here's his replacement20 April 2026, 9:22 pm
The company's hardware lead will soon run the company....
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Interior inspired by 1970s Italian furniture....
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Ten years ago, my entire world fit inside a public static void main. I was a Java developer. Infrastructure? That was someone else’s problem a black box where my JAR files went to live, or quietly......
- K3s on On-Prem Infrastructures the GitOps Way: Writing a Custom k0rdent Template from Scratch17 April 2026, 11:59 am
Kubernetes turns 12 this year. In that time, it’s gone from a Google side project to the operating system of modern infrastructure running everywhere from mainframes to GPUs, across multi-cloud, hybrid, on-prem, and edge environments. The......
- The AI-driven shift in vulnerability discovery: What maintainers and bug finders need to know16 April 2026, 10:29 pm
AI models have recently drastically changed the sophistication, speed and scale of software vulnerability discovery. It is now trivial for non-experts to find real vulnerabilities in software with minimal effort and expertise. It is also now......
- How To Measure the ROI of Developer Tools16 April 2026, 5:28 am
There’s been a growing emphasis in the cloud native community on investing in tools that improve developer experience. Platform engineering, accompanied with the rise of projects like Backstage, is all about making developers more productive by......
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CNCF hosts a Kubernetes cluster to run some services for internal purposes (namely; codimd, GUAC, kcp). The Kubernetes Project announced the ingress-nginx retirement (not to be confused with NGINX or NGINX Ingress Controller), which also affects the above mentioned Cluster. So......
- What I Learned at My First KubeCon + CloudNativeCon as a High School Speaker11 April 2026, 12:00 pm
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The problem: AI model distribution is broken at scale Large-scale AI model distribution presents challenges in performance, efficiency, and cost. Consider a typical scenario: an ML platform team manages a Kubernetes cluster with 200 GPU nodes.......
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A hands-on guide to deploying Kyverno with Argo CD and enforcing custom policies As Kubernetes environments develop, GitOps with Argo CD has become the standard for declarative, self-healing infrastructure. Yet without guardrails for your deployments, misconfigured,......
- Kubernetes v1.36 Sneak Peek30 March 2026, 12:00 am
Kubernetes v1.36 is coming at the end of April 2026. This release will include removals and deprecations, and it is packed with an impressive number of
enhancements. Here are some of the features we are most excited about in this cycle!
Please note that this information reflects the current state of v1.36 development and may change before release.
The Kubernetes API removal and deprecation process
The Kubernetes project has a well-documented deprecation policy for features. This policy states th...
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With the Ingress-NGINX retirement scheduled for March 2026, the Kubernetes networking landscape is at a turning point.
For most organizations, the question isn't whether to migrate to Gateway API, but how to do so safely.
Migrating from Ingress to Gateway API is a fundamental shift in API design.
Gateway API provides a modular, extensible API with strong support for Kubernetes-native RBAC.
Conversely, the Ingress API is simple, and implementations such as Ingress-NGINX extend the API through eso...
- Running Agents on Kubernetes with Agent Sandbox20 March 2026, 6:00 pm
The landscape of artificial intelligence is undergoing a massive architectural shift. In the early days of generative AI, interacting with a model was often treated as a transient, stateless function call: a request that spun up, executed for perhaps 50 milliseconds, and terminated.
Today, the world is witnessing AI v2 eating AI v1. The ecosystem is moving from short-lived, isolated tasks to deploying multiple, coordinated AI agents that run constantly. These autonomous agents need to maintain c...
- Securing Production Debugging in Kubernetes18 March 2026, 6:00 pm
During production debugging, the fastest route is often broad access such as cluster-admin (a ClusterRole that grants administrator-level access), shared bastions/jump boxes, or long-lived SSH keys. It works in the moment, but it comes with two common problems: auditing becomes difficult, and temporary exceptions have a way of becoming routine.
This post offers my recommendations for good practices applicable to existing Kubernetes environments with minimal tooling changes:
Least privilege with...
- The Invisible Rewrite: Modernizing the Kubernetes Image Promoter17 March 2026, 12:00 am
Every container image you pull from registry.k8s.io got there through
kpromo, the Kubernetes image
promoter. It copies images from staging registries to
production, signs them with cosign, replicates
signatures across more than 20 regional mirrors, and generates
SLSA provenance attestations. If this tool breaks, no
Kubernetes release ships. Over the past few weeks, we rewrote its core from
scratch, deleted 20% of the codebase, made it dramatically faster, and
nobody noticed. That was the whole p...
- Announcing the AI Gateway Working Group9 March 2026, 6:00 pm
The community around Kubernetes includes a number of Special Interest Groups (SIGs) and Working Groups (WGs) facilitating discussions on important topics between interested contributors. Today, we're excited to announce the formation of the AI Gateway Working Group, a new initiative focused on developing standards and best practices for networking infrastructure that supports AI workloads in Kubernetes environments.
What is an AI Gateway?
In a Kubernetes context, an AI Gateway refers to network ...
- Before You Migrate: Five Surprising Ingress-NGINX Behaviors You Need to Know27 February 2026, 3:30 pm
As announced November 2025, Kubernetes will retire Ingress-NGINX in March 2026.
Despite its widespread usage, Ingress-NGINX is full of surprising defaults and side effects that are probably present in your cluster today.
This blog highlights these behaviors so that you can migrate away safely and make a conscious decision about which behaviors to keep.
This post also compares Ingress-NGINX with Gateway API and shows you how to preserve Ingress-NGINX behavior in Gateway API.
The recurring risk pa...
- Spotlight on SIG Architecture: API Governance12 February 2026, 12:00 am
This is the fifth interview of a SIG Architecture Spotlight series that covers the different
subprojects, and we will be covering SIG Architecture: API
Governance.
In this SIG Architecture spotlight we talked with Jordan Liggitt, lead
of the API Governance sub-project.
Introduction
FM: Hello Jordan, thank you for your availability. Tell us a bit about yourself, your role and how
you got involved in Kubernetes.
JL: My name is Jordan Liggitt. I'm a Christian, husband, father of four, software engi...
- Introducing Node Readiness Controller3 February 2026, 2:00 am
In the standard Kubernetes model, a node’s suitability for workloads hinges on a single binary "Ready" condition. However, in modern Kubernetes environments, nodes require complex infrastructure dependencies—such as network agents, storage drivers, GPU firmware, or custom health checks—to be fully operational before they can reliably host pods.
Today, on behalf of the Kubernetes project, I am announcing the Node Readiness Controller.
This project introduces a declarative system for managi...
- New Conversion from cgroup v1 CPU Shares to v2 CPU Weight30 January 2026, 4:00 pm
I'm excited to announce the implementation of an improved conversion formula
from cgroup v1 CPU shares to cgroup v2 CPU weight. This enhancement addresses
critical issues with CPU priority allocation for Kubernetes workloads when
running on systems with cgroup v2.
Background
Kubernetes was originally designed with cgroup v1 in mind, where CPU shares
were defined simply by assigning the container's CPU requests in millicpu
form.
For example, a container requesting 1 CPU (1024m) would get (cpu.sha...
- Why MicroVMs: The Architecture Behind Docker Sandboxes16 April 2026, 5:14 pm
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- Why We Chose the Harder Path: Docker Hardened Images, One Year Later14 April 2026, 9:48 pm
We're coming up on a year since launching Docker Hardened Images (DHI) last May, and crossing a milestone earlier this month made me stop and reflect on what we've actually been building. Earlier this month, we crossed over 500k daily pulls of DHIs, and over 25k continuously patched OS level artifacts in our SLSA Build......
- How to Analyze Hugging Face for Arm64 Readiness13 April 2026, 3:59 pm
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- Reclaim Developer Hours through Smarter Vulnerability Prioritization with Docker and Mend.io8 April 2026, 6:23 pm
We recently announced the integration between Mend.io and Docker Hardened Images (DHI) provides a seamless framework for managing container security. By automatically distinguishing between base image vulnerabilities and application-layer risks, it uses VEX statements to differentiate between exploitable vulnerabilities and non-exploitable vulnerabilities, allowing your team to prioritize what really matters. TL;DR: The Developer Value Proposition......
- Defending Your Software Supply Chain: What Every Engineering Team Should Do Now2 April 2026, 6:14 pm
The software supply chain is under sustained attack. Not from a single threat actor or a single incident, but from an ecosystem-wide campaign that has been escalating for months and shows no signs of slowing down. This week, axios, the HTTP client library downloaded 83 million times per week and present in roughly 80% of......
- Gemma 4 is Here: Now Available on Docker Hub2 April 2026, 4:16 pm
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- Docker Offload now Generally Available: The Full Power of Docker, for Every Developer, Everywhere.2 April 2026, 1:00 pm
Docker Desktop is one of the most widely used developer tools in the world, yet for millions of enterprise developers, running it simply hasn’t been an option. The environments they rely on, such as virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) platforms and managed desktops, often lack the resources or capabilities needed to run Docker Desktop. As enterprises......
- Run and Iterate on LLMs Faster with Docker Model Runner on DGX Station31 March 2026, 5:57 pm
Back in October, we showed how Docker Model Runner on the NVIDIA DGX Spark makes it remarkably easy to run large AI models locally with the same familiar Docker experience developers already trust. That post struck a chord: hundreds of developers discovered that a compact desktop system paired with Docker Model Runner could replace complex......
- Docker Sandboxes: Run Agents in YOLO Mode, Safely31 March 2026, 4:39 pm
Agents have crossed a threshold. Over a quarter of all production code is now AI-authored, and developers who use agents are merging roughly 60% more pull requests. But these gains only come when you let agents run autonomously. And to unlock that, you have to get out of the way. That means letting agents run......
- Building a News Roundup with Docker Agent, Docker Model Runner, and Skill27 March 2026, 2:24 pm
Hello, I’m Philippe, and I am a Principal Solutions Architect helping customers with their usage of Docker. I wanted a lightweight way to automate my IT news roundups without burning through AI credits. So I built a Docker Agent skill that uses the Brave Search API to fetch recent articles on a topic, then hands......
- Solving the AI Accountability Gap: The Fact-Based Labeling (FBL) Framework21 April 2026, 1:00 pm
The Accountability Crisis in Content Governance
We have spent billions of dollars making AI content classifiers faster, more accurate, and more scalable. And yet, the fundamental accountability problem in content governance remains unsolved. When a machine flags content for review, it tells a human reviewer: "This is a problem." What it almost never tells them is: "here is why" — in terms a human can verify, challenge, or build upon.
That gap — between machine classification and human accoun...
- Automating Threat Detection Using Python, Kafka, and Real-Time Log Processing21 April 2026, 12:00 pm
Log-driven detections often fail for predictable engineering reasons: events arrive too late for containment, sources emit inconsistent fields, and pipelines become non-deterministic when retries and partial failures occur. Real-time log processing mitigates these failure modes by treating logs as a durable event stream, normalizing them into a stable security event model, evaluating detections continuously, and emitting structured alerts that downstream systems can correlate and deduplicate. Th...
- Architecting AI-Native Cloud Platforms: Signals to Insights to Actions21 April 2026, 12:00 pm
Cloud platforms have historically been built to execute applications at scale. Over the past decade enterprises pushed workloads from private datacenters to the cloud, taking advantage of elasticity, automation, and worldwide scale.
Today’s digital businesses process massive amounts of signals every second:...
- How to Transfer Domains via API: Automate Domain Migrations Programmatically20 April 2026, 9:28 pm
Ten minutes per domain times 50 domains is roughly 8 hours of manual work, and that assumes nothing goes wrong. Stale auth codes, missed confirmation emails, forgotten unlock steps, and zero visibility into in-flight transfer status mean something frequently goes wrong. For platform engineers managing domain portfolios, the manual transfer workflow isn’t just slow. It’s a liability with no audit trail and no retry logic.
Every step of the transfer lifecycle maps directly to an API call. Scri...
- Quality Assurance in AI-Driven Business Evolution20 April 2026, 8:00 pm
Why do most intelligent systems fail when they hit production? It's rarely because of a weak algorithm. Instead, it's usually a testing framework stuck in a bygone era. If you're still running "Expected vs. Actual" spreadsheets for non-deterministic models, you're trying to measure a cloud with a ruler.
The reality is that traditional quality checks create a false sense of security. This leads to failures in live environments. You've got to stop testing for a single "correct" answer. It's time t...
- Cybersecurity with a Digital Twin: Why Real-Time Data Streaming Matters20 April 2026, 7:00 pm
Cyberattacks on critical infrastructure and manufacturing systems are growing in scale and sophistication. Industrial control systems, connected devices, and cloud services expand the attack surface far beyond traditional IT networks. Ransomware can stop production lines, and manipulated sensor data can destabilize energy grids. Defending against these threats requires more than static reports and delayed log analysis.
Organizations need real-time visibility, continuous monitoring, and actiona...
- Hidden Cyber Threat AI Is Preparing That Some Companies Aren't Thinking About20 April 2026, 6:00 pm
Cyber threats are in an era where defense and attack are powered by artificial intelligence. While AI has seen a rapid advancement in recent times, it has raised concern among world leaders, policymakers and experts.
Evidently, the rapid and unpredictable progression of AI capabilities suggests that their advancement may soon rival the immense power of the human brain. Thus, with the clock constantly ticking, urgent and proactive measures need to be set in place to mitigate unforeseen, looming f...
- From APIs to Event-Driven Systems: Modern Java Backend Design20 April 2026, 5:00 pm
The outage happened during our biggest sales event of the year. Our order processing system ground to a halt. Customers could add items to their carts, but checkout failed repeatedly. The engineering team scrambled to check the logs. We found a chain of synchronous REST API calls that had collapsed under load. Service A called Service B, which called Service C. When Service C slowed down due to database locks, the latency rippled back up the chain. Service A timed out. Service B timed out. The e...
- Why Embedding Pipelines Break at Scale and How Lakehouse Architecture Fixes Them20 April 2026, 4:00 pm
Embedding pipelines often look deceptively simple.
Documents are chunked, embeddings are generated, vectors are stored in a vector database, and a retriever fetches relevant chunks for the LLM....
- Jakarta EE Glossary: The Terms Every Java Engineer Should Actually Understand20 April 2026, 3:30 pm
Most developers don’t have a problem writing code. They have a problem understanding the platform they are building on.
And that difference shows up later — in architectural decisions, debugging complexity, vendor lock-in, and, ultimately, career growth....
- Amazon To Invest Up To Another $25 Billion In Anthropic21 April 2026, 11:00 am
Amazon is expanding its Anthropic partnership with a deal to invest up to another $25 billion, while Anthropic commits to spending more than $100 billion on AWS infrastructure over the next decade to power Claude. "Anthropic's commitment to run its large language models on AWS Trainium for the next decade reflects the progress we've made together on custom silicon, as we continue delivering the technology and infrastructure our customers need to build with generative AI," Amazon CEO Andy Jassy s...
- iPhone Video Shows 'Earthset' From Space21 April 2026, 7:00 am
NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman posted an out-of-this-world iPhone video on Sunday, showing Earth disappear behind the Moon at 8x zoom. "I could barely see the Moon through the docking hatch window but the iPhone was the perfect size to catch the view," said Wiseman, noting that this video is "uncropped, uncut with 8x zoom" and "quite comparable to the view of the human eye." The New York Times says the video marks the first time an "Earthset" has been captured on video.
"We've seen our fair share...
- PlayStation To Require Age Verification For Messages and Voice Chat21 April 2026, 3:30 am
A new email from Sony says that PlayStation will require players to verify their age later this year to keep using communication features like messages and voice chat. Insider-Gaming reports: The initiative comes from the goal of providing "safe, age-appropriate experiences for players and families while respecting their privacy" and providing "meaningful control over their gaming experiences." The age-verification process will be implemented globally, and players will need to verify their age t...
- Mobile Phones To Be Banned In Schools In England Under New Plans20 April 2026, 11:00 pm
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Guardian: A ban on mobile phones in schools in England is to be introduced by the government to ensure that "critical safeguarding legislation" is passed. The government will table an amendment to the children's wellbeing and schools bill in the House of Lords after the bill was held up by peers on opposition benches. It will make existing guidance on mobile phone bans in schools statutory, a move that ministers have resisted until now.
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- Apple CEO Tim Cook Is Stepping Down20 April 2026, 10:05 pm
Apple announced that Tim Cook will step down as CEO in September after 15 years in the role, handing the job to hardware chief John Ternus. Longtime Slashdot reader sinij shares the news from MarketWatch: Cook leaves an impressive legacy after growing the company to a $4 trillion market capitalization from just $300 billion 15 years ago. Over Cook's 15-year tenure as CEO, Apple's stock has risen 1,932%, beating the S&P 500's 504% increase, according to Dow Jones Market Data. That places Appl...
- Former Palantir Employee Running For Congress Unveils 'AI Dividend' Plan20 April 2026, 9:00 pm
Alex Bores, a former Palantir employee and current Democratic House candidate in New York, is proposing an "AI dividend" that would send direct payments to Americans if AI drives major job losses. "At its core, the AI Dividend is simple: if AI dramatically increases productivity and concentrates wealth, the American people have a stake in those gains," a memo on the policy reads. Axios reports: The dividend would fund direct payments to Americans. It would also be invested into workforce trainin...
- Deezer Says 44% of Songs Uploaded To Its Platform Daily Are AI-Generated20 April 2026, 8:00 pm
Deezer says AI-generated songs now make up 44% of all new uploads to its platform, with nearly 75,000 arriving each day and more than two million per month. The company notes that consumption of these tracks is still very low, "between 1-3% of the total streams," and 85% are flagged as fraudulent. TechCrunch reports: The latest figure from Deezer highlights a continuous surge in AI-generated music uploads to the platform. Deezer reported receiving around 60,000 AI tracks per day in January, up f...
- Trump Administration Begins Refunding $166 Billion In Tariffs20 April 2026, 7:00 pm
"After a Supreme Court of the United States ruling in Feb. 2026, many tariffs imposed by the Trump administration were declared illegal because the president overstepped his authority," writes Slashdot reader hcs_$reboot. "As a result, the U.S. government now has to refund a massive amount of money, around $160-170+ billion, paid mainly by importers." According to the New York Times, the administration has now begun accepting refund requests, "surrendering its prized source of revenue -- plus in...
- Palantir Posts Bond Villain Manifesto On X20 April 2026, 6:00 pm
DeanonymizedCoward writes: Engadget reports that Palantir has posted to X a summary of CEO Alex Karp and Nicholas W. Zamiska's 2025 book, The Technological Republic, which reads like a utopian idealist doodled on a Bond villain's whiteboard. While the post makes some decent points, it also highlights the Big-AI attitude that the AI surveillance state is in fact a good thing, and strongly implies that the Good Guys need to do war crimes before the Bad Guys get around to it. "The ability of free a...
- Allbirds' Move To AI Has Echoes of the Dot-Com Frenzy20 April 2026, 5:00 pm
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg, written by writer Austin Carr: Allbirds is pivoting to artificial intelligence. The San Francisco brand, whose wool running shoes were once the sneaker du jour among the tech crowd, announced last week that it was expanding into AI computing infrastructure. The bizarre strategic shift was immediately greeted with a surprising frenzy on Wall Street, where shares of Allbirds soared 582% last Wednesday before dropping the next day. [...] Of course...
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- iPhone Video Shows 'Earthset' From Space21 April 2026, 7:00 am
NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman posted an out-of-this-world iPhone video on Sunday, showing Earth disappear behind the Moon at 8x zoom. "I could barely see the Moon through the docking hatch window but the iPhone was the perfect size to catch the view," said Wiseman, noting that this video is "uncropped, uncut with 8x zoom" and "quite comparable to the view of the human eye." The New York Times says the video marks the first time an "Earthset" has been captured on video.
"We've seen our fair share...
- Blue Origin Rocket Launches, Successfully Reuses Booster - But Loses Satellite20 April 2026, 2:50 am
SpaceNews reports:
Blue Origin's New Glenn suffered a malfunction of its second stage on the rocket's third flight April 19, stranding its payload in an unrecoverable "off-nominal" orbit and dealing the company a setback as it seeks to increase its flight rate... AST SpaceMobile had planned to launch 45 to 60 satellites this year for its D2D constellation, but BlueBird 7 is the first to launch since BlueBird 6 launched on an Indian LVM3 rocket in December.
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- Voyager 1 is Running Out of Power. NASA Just Switched Part of It Off19 April 2026, 11:49 pm
After 49 years of space travel, Voyager 1 "is running out of power," reports NPR:
The spacecraft runs on a radioisotope thermoelectric generator — a device that converts heat from decaying plutonium into electricity. It carries no solar panels, no rechargeable batteries. Just the slow, steady release of nuclear warmth, which diminishes by about 4 watts each year. After nearly five decades, that decline has become critical.
During a routine maneuver in late February, Voyager 1's power levels...
- Pancreatic Cancer mRNA Vaccine Shows Lasting Results In Early Trial19 April 2026, 6:34 pm
NBC News reports on a 16-person clinical trial of "personalized messenger RNA vaccines" which use the immune system to fight cancer cells. "The goal is not to eliminate existing tumors, but instead to stamp out lingering, undetected cancer cells, and later any new cells that form before they can cause a recurrence."
Patients still have surgery to remove tumors. After that, the mRNA vaccines are personalized for each individual using genetic material taken from their unique tumor cells. In the cl...
- SpaceX, Blue Origin Compete For 'Artemis III' Mission19 April 2026, 1:34 am
After Artemis II's astronauts returned to earth, "NASA has Artemis III in its sights," reports the Associated Press:
In a mission recently added to the docket for next year, Artemis III's yet-to-be -named astronauts will practice docking their Orion capsule with a lunar lander or two in orbit around Earth. Elon Musk's SpaceX and Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin are racing to have their company's lander ready first. Musk's Starship and Bezos' Blue Moon are vying for the all-important Artemis IV moon land...
- Fructose Isn't Just Sugar. It Acts More Like a Hormone18 April 2026, 5:34 pm
Slashdot reader smazsyr writes: A new review says we've had fructose wrong for decades. The nine authors, led by Richard Johnson at the University of Colorado Anschutz, argue that fructose "is not just another calorie." It is a signal. It tells the liver to make fat and brace for a famine that never comes. That made sense for a bear fattening up on autumn berries. It makes less sense for a person drinking soda in March.
The review reframes the WHO's sugar guideline, argues ScienceBlog.com, as ...
- NASA Restarts Work To Support Europe's Uncrewed Trip To Mars After Years of Setbacks18 April 2026, 7:00 am
NASA has revived support for the European Space Agency's long-delayed Rosalind Franklin Mars rover mission. According to the space agency, the current plan is to launch via a SpaceX Falcon Heavy no earlier than 2028. Engadget reports: This is a partnership between NASA and the ESA, with the European agency providing the rover, the spacecraft and the lander. The US will provide braking engines for the lander, heater units for the rover's internal systems and, of course, assistance with the actual...
- Critical Atlantic Current Significantly More Likely To Collapse Than Thought18 April 2026, 3:30 am
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Guardian: The critical Atlantic current system appears significantly more likely to collapse than previously thought after new research found that climate models predicting the biggest slowdown are the most realistic. Scientists called the new finding "very concerning" as a collapse would have catastrophic consequences for Europe, Africa and the Americas. The Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (Amoc) is a major part of the global climate syst...
- OpenAI Starts Offering a Biology-Tuned LLM17 April 2026, 6:00 pm
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: On Thursday, OpenAI announced it had developed a large language model specifically trained on common biology workflows. Called GPT-Rosalind after Rosalind Franklin, the model appears to differ from most science-focused models from major tech companies, which have generally taken a more generic approach that works for various fields. In a press briefing, Yunyun Wang, OpenAI's Life Sciences Product Lead, said the system was designed to tackle ...
- Sperm Whales' Communication Closely Parallels Human Language, Study Finds17 April 2026, 3:30 am
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Guardian: We may appear to have little in common with sperm whales – enormous, ocean-dwelling animals that last shared a common ancestor with humans more than 90 million years ago. But the whales' vocalized communications are remarkably similar to our own, researchers have discovered. Not only do sperm whale have a form of "alphabet" and form vowels within their vocalizations but the structure of these vowels behaves in the same way as human speech,...
- Extract GitHub repository URLs from BlackArch tools pages12 February 2026, 8:38 am
$ curl -sL blackarch.org/{tools,recon}.html | awk -F'"' '$4 ~ /^https:\/\/github\.com\// { print $4 }'
Downloads BlackArch tool pages and prints only GitHub links using pure awk filtering.
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- Import a wireguard configuration into networkmanager11 February 2026, 8:31 pm
$ nmcli connection import type wireguard file wireguard_config.conf
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- Print a full-width horizontal line using the current terminal width (custom character supported)11 February 2026, 6:27 pm
$ printf '%*s\n' "${COLUMNS:-80}" '' | tr ' ' "${1-_}"
This is good when the other option on this site not includes ´tput´ like on minimal shell
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- Send a file to the first reachable KDE Connect device3 February 2026, 3:10 am
$ kdeconnect-cli -d $(kdeconnect-cli -a --id-only) --share kdeconnect-cli-send-file.sh
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- Play raw entropy noise via ALSA (bypass PulseAudio/PipeWire)27 January 2026, 1:25 pm
$ cat /dev/urandom | play -q -t raw -r 8000 -e unsigned-integer -b 8 -c 1 -t alsa default
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- Trigger a notification on USB device insertion using udev27 January 2026, 12:24 pm
$ udevadm monitor --udev --subsystem-match=usb | gawk '/add/ { system("espeak \"USB device attached\"") }'
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- Minimal Runtime Kernel Module Dependency View26 January 2026, 7:00 pm
$ lsmod | awk 'NR>1 && $4!="-" {print $1; split($4,a,","); for(i in a) print " -> used by:", a[i]; print ""}'
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- Go to the Nth line of file25 November 2025, 6:40 pm
$ awk 'NR==13' /etc/services
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- Quick way to sum every numbers in a file written line by line25 November 2025, 6:21 pm
$ awk '{sum += $0} END {print sum}' file
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- Show tcp connections sorted by Host / Most connections25 November 2025, 6:15 pm
$ netstat -ntu | tail -n +3 | awk '{print $5}' | sed 's/:[0-9]*$//' | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn
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- CIQ Releases Compatibility Catalog for Rocky Linux15 April 2026, 3:03 pm
The company behind Rocky Linux is making an open catalog available to developers, hobbyists, and other contributors, so they can verify and publish compatibility with the CIQ lineup....
- KDE Gets Some Resuscitation15 April 2026, 1:49 pm
KDE is bringing back two themes that vanished a few years ago, putting a bit more air under its wings....
- Introduction to QuickNote and Geeknote8 April 2026, 5:06 am
Sorting through the array of note-taking tools and their features can be overwhelming. We look at two applications that offer a simple approach....
- Raspberry Pi server tools and applications8 April 2026, 5:05 am
With the help of the applications we describe, Raspberry Pi can perform a wide range of server duties....
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- Virtualization with the Proxmox Virtual Environment 2.28 April 2026, 5:03 am
The Proxmox Virtual Environment has developed from an insider's tip to a free VMware ESXi/vSphere clone. We show you how to get started setting up a PVE high-availability cluster....
- Cloud scripting with Google Apps Script8 April 2026, 5:03 am
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- Documenting the OpenDocument Format8 April 2026, 5:03 am
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- Archinstall 4.2 Shifts to Wayland-First Profiles, Leaving X.Org Behind16 April 2026, 4:00 pm
by George Whittaker
The Arch Linux installer continues evolving alongside the broader Linux desktop ecosystem. With the release of Archinstall 4.2, a notable change has arrived: Wayland is now the default focus for graphical installation profiles, while traditional X.Org-based profiles have been removed or deprioritized.
This move reflects a wider transition happening across Linux, one that is gradually redefining how graphical e...
- OpenClaw in 2026: What It Is, Who’s Using It, and Whether Your Business Should Adopt It14 April 2026, 4:00 pm
by George Whittaker
“probably the single most important release of software, probably ever.”
— Jensen Huang, CEO of NVIDIA
Wow! That’s a bold statement from one of the most influential figures in modern computing.
But is it true? Some people think so. Others think it’s hype. Most are somewhere in between, aware of OpenClaw, but not entirely sure what to make of it. Are people actually using it? Yes. Who’s using it? Mo...
- Linux Kernel Developers Adopt New Fuzzing Tools9 April 2026, 4:00 pm
by George Whittaker
The Linux kernel development community is stepping up its security game once again. Developers, led by key maintainers like Greg Kroah-Hartman, are actively adopting new fuzzing tools to uncover bugs earlier and improve overall kernel reliability.
This move reflects a broader shift toward automated testing and AI-assisted development, as the kernel continues to grow in complexity and scale.
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- GNOME 50 Reaches Arch Linux: A Leaner, Wayland-Only Future Arrives7 April 2026, 4:00 pm
by George Whittaker
Arch Linux users are among the first to experience the latest GNOME desktop, as GNOME 50 has begun rolling out through Arch’s repositories. Thanks to Arch’s rolling-release model, new upstream software like GNOME arrives quickly, giving users early access to the newest features and architectural changes.
With GNOME 50, that includes one of the most significant shifts in the desktop’s history.
A Major GN...
- MX Linux Pushes Back Against Age Verification: A Stand for Privacy and Open Source Principles2 April 2026, 4:00 pm
by George Whittaker
The MX Linux project has taken a firm stance in a growing controversy across the Linux ecosystem: mandatory age-verification requirements at the operating system level. In a recent update, the team made it clear, they have no intention of implementing such measures, citing concerns over privacy, practicality, and the core philosophy of open-source software.
As governments begin introducing laws that could requ...
- LibreOffice Drives Europe’s Open Source Shift: A Growing Push for Digital Sovereignty31 March 2026, 4:00 pm
by George Whittaker
LibreOffice is increasingly at the center of Europe’s push toward open-source adoption and digital independence. Backed by The Document Foundation, the widely used office suite is playing a key role in helping governments, institutions, and organizations reduce reliance on proprietary software while strengthening control over their digital infrastructure.
Across the European Union, this shift is no longer ex...
- From Linux to Blockchain: The Infrastructure Behind Modern Financial Systems26 March 2026, 4:00 pm
by George Whittaker
The modern internet is built on open systems. From the Linux kernel powering servers worldwide to the protocols that govern data exchange, much of today’s digital infrastructure is rooted in transparency, collaboration, and decentralization. These same principles are now influencing a new frontier: financial systems built on blockchain technology.
For developers and system architects familiar with Linux and ...
- Firefox 149 Arrives with Built-In VPN, Split View, and Smarter Browsing Tools24 March 2026, 4:00 pm
by George Whittaker
Mozilla has officially released Firefox 149.0, bringing a mix of new productivity features, privacy enhancements, and interface improvements. Released on March 24, 2026, this update continues Firefox’s steady push toward a more modern and user-focused browsing experience.
Rather than focusing on a single headline feature, Firefox 149 introduces several practical tools designed to improve how users multitask,...
- Blender 5.1 Released: Faster Workflows, Smarter Tools, and Major Performance Gains19 March 2026, 4:00 pm
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The Blender Foundation has officially released Blender 5.1, the latest update to its powerful open-source 3D creation suite. This version focuses heavily on performance improvements, workflow refinements, and stability, while also introducing a handful of new features that expand what artists and developers can achieve.
Rather than reinventing the platform, Blender 5.1 is all about making existing tools faster, s...
- The Need for Cloud Security in a Modern Business Environment17 March 2026, 4:00 pm
by George Whittaker
Cloud systems are an emergent standard in business, but migration efforts and other directional shifts have introduced vulnerabilities. Where some attack patterns are mitigated, cloud platforms leave businesses open to new threats and vectors. The dynamic nature of these environments cannot be addressed by traditional security systems, necessitating robust cloud security for contemporary organizations.
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- Google’s AI Overviews Produce Hundreds of Millions of Inaccurate Answers Every Day, Analysis Suggests21 April 2026, 1:48 pm
A new Oumi analysis reveals Google's AI Overviews may produce up to 225 billion false summaries annually. Learn about the accuracy gap between Gemini 2 and Gemini 3.
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- Amazon Deepens Anthropic Partnership, Eyeing Up to $25B as Claude Demand Surges21 April 2026, 1:09 pm
Amazon is investing another $5 billion in Anthropic, deepening its AWS partnership as Claude expands across chips, cloud, and enterprise access.
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- All-in-One PDFtoolkit Unlimited Is $79 (reg. $619)21 April 2026, 12:00 pm
Cut software subscription costs—and save $540—on unlimited AI-powered, secure browser-based PDF editing tools.
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- Get Microsoft Office 2024 Plus a Full Training Bundle for Just $11421 April 2026, 8:54 am
Skip the subscription fees and grab Office 2024 Home & Business + 8 Microsoft training courses in one bundle.
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- Set Your Business Up With Microsoft Office 2019 & Windows 11 Pro, $2621 April 2026, 8:44 am
Skip the subscription fees and own a complete Microsoft productivity and OS bundle for a one-time payment.
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- European Commission Moving to Classify ChatGPT as ‘Very Large Online Search Engine’ Under Digital Services Act21 April 2026, 5:32 am
The European Commission is set to designate ChatGPT as a ‘Very Large Online Search Engine,’ subjecting OpenAI to strict Digital Services Act compliance rules.
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- Square POS Review 2026: Pricing, Features, Pros and Cons21 April 2026, 5:00 am
Square POS stands out for its free entry point, flexible software, and wide hardware range. However, its all-in-one approach can fall short depending on your business type and growth needs.
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- End of an Era: Tim Cook Steps Down as Apple CEO, John Ternus to Take Over21 April 2026, 12:42 am
Apple CEO Tim Cook steps down, handing leadership to hardware chief John Ternus in a major shift that could shape the company’s next era.
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- This VPN Lets You Verify Your Business Privacy For $13020 April 2026, 7:58 pm
VP.NET makes VPN privacy verifiable, not just policy-based, with secure enclave tech for up to five devices.
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- Mac Studio 2026: Apple’s New Desktop Faces a Delayed Timeline20 April 2026, 7:45 pm
Apple’s Mac Studio 2026 may be delayed due to supply chain issues and memory shortages, with reports pointing to a later-than-expected release timeline.
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- Fedora Infrastructure Status: Forge runners maintenance22 April 2026, 9:00 am
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- Fedora Community Blog: Fedora Verified: Help Shape a New Way to Recognize Fedora Contributors21 April 2026, 12:02 pm
The Fedora Project is proposing a new contributor status called “Fedora Verified” to better recognize all forms of community contribution, and we need your feedback. Following the Fedora Council 2026 Strategy Summit, Fedora leadership is reflecting on how we recognize, support, and empower the people who make Fedora possible. Please read through our proposal below and share your thoughts in the Fedora Verified community survey.
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- Akashdeep Dhar: Community Day - FOSSAsia 202619 April 2026, 6:30 pm
The FOSSAsia 2026 event prioritized the friendly community interaction aspect of a free and open source software event by frontloading it on 08th March 2026 as a freely accessible event. This was surely a great example to learn from and implement at our flagship annual community conference, Flock To Fedora. I started the day by waking up as early as 0700am Indochina Time and giving Samyak Jain a wake-up call. As the timezone offset from Indian Standard Time was ...
- Kevin Fenzi: misc fedora bits mid april 202618 April 2026, 4:10 pm
Another frozen week before the Fedora 44 release, just a few
notable things:
openssl4
Openssl4 landed in rawhide and caused some issues and then was pulled back
out by FESCo. We definitely do need to move to it for Fedora 45, but hopefully
we can land it in a way that doesn't break as many things as this last time.
Folks are working on it and I expect we will see it soon.
builder news
We had a aarch64 builder virthost fail to reboot with memory errors
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- Akashdeep Dhar: Arrival Day - FOSSAsia 202617 April 2026, 6:30 pm
As my arrival flight to Bangkok was scheduled to depart at around 0700am Indian Standard Time, I had to wake up as early as 0230am Indian Standard Time on 07th March 2026. The packing had already been taken care of previously, so all I had to take care of was ensuring that I got myself an Uber ride to the Pune International Airport in time. Thankfully, unlike my experiences from DevConf.IN 2026, I was able to get one pretty quickly, and at around 0400am Indian S...
- Fedora Infrastructure Status: Wiki struggling against bot attack17 April 2026, 3:00 pm
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- Fedora Community Blog: Community Update – Week 1617 April 2026, 10:00 am
This is a report created by CLE Team, which is a team containing community members working in various Fedora groups for example Infrastructure, Release Engineering, Quality etc. This team is also moving forward some initiatives inside Fedora project.
Week: 13 – 17 Apr 2026
Fedora Infrastructure
This team is taking care of day to day business regarding Fedora Infrastructure.It’s responsible for services running in Fedora infrastructure.Ticket tracker...
- Vedran Miletić: Celebrating Graphics and Compute Freedom Day17 April 2026, 8:00 am
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- Vedran Miletić: The academic and the free software community ideals17 April 2026, 8:00 am
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- Vedran Miletić: Free to know: Open access and open source17 April 2026, 8:00 am
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- Agent Skills Are Becoming the Best Way to Capture Institutional Knowledge9 April 2026, 12:00 am
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- Saved Prompts Are Dead. Agent Skills Are the Future2 April 2026, 12:00 am
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- Generating Code Faster Is Only Valuable If You Can Validate Every Change With Confidence26 March 2026, 12:00 am
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- When You Go to Production with gRPC, Make Sure You’ve Solved Load Distribution First19 March 2026, 12:00 am
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- You may be building for availability, but are you building for resiliency?12 March 2026, 12:00 am
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- When your coding agent doesn’t understand your project, you’ll get junk5 March 2026, 12:00 am
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- You can have 100% Code Coverage and still have ticking time bombs in your code.26 February 2026, 12:00 am
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- Getting More Out of Agentic Coding Tools19 February 2026, 12:00 am
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- Why is Infrastructure-as-Code so important? Hint: It’s correctness12 February 2026, 12:00 am
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- Optimizing the team’s workflow can be more impactful than building business features5 February 2026, 12:00 am
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- AutoSSL Let’s Encrypt Rate Limiting7 March 2026, 12:42 am
You’ve just completed a cPanel server migration. The accounts are transferred, DNS is propagating, everything looks good… until you check the AutoSSL logs and see this staring back at you: WARN AutoSSL failed to create a new certificate order because the server's Let's Encrypt account (https://acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org/acme/acct/XXXXXXX) has reached a rate limit. (429 urn:ietf:params:acme:error:rateLimited) Every domain […]...
- How to Fix CSF/LFD “Excessive Resource Usage” Floods for PHP-FPM and dbus on AlmaLinux 95 March 2026, 12:41 am
If you have recently migrated to AlmaLinux 9 (or any RHEL 9 derivative) and run ConfigServer Security & Firewall (CSF) with Login Failure Daemon (LFD), you have probably noticed your inbox filling up with alerts like these: Time: Wed Feb 19 03:14:22 2025 Account: root Resource: Virtual Memory Size Exceeded: 384 > 256 (MB) Executable: […]...
- Why AutoSSL Fails Under Cloudflare Proxy2 March 2026, 12:38 am
If you manage domains behind Cloudflare’s proxy and run cPanel with AutoSSL, there’s a good chance you’ve woken up to an email like this: AutoSSL did not renew the certificate for “example.com”. You must take action to keep this site secure. DNS DCV: No local authority: “example.com”; HTTP DCV: “cPanel (powered by Sectigo)” forbids DCV […]...
- MariaDB Sandbox Mode Is Silently Breaking Your Database Migrations28 February 2026, 12:34 am
If you have recently tried to migrate a cPanel server and watched every single database import fail with ERROR at line 1: Unknown command '\-', you are not alone. This error has been quietly biting sysadmins for the better part of a year, and cPanel still has not published a word about it. Here is […]...
- Maildir to mdbox Conversion Silently Drops Emails for Date Ranges27 February 2026, 6:24 pm
If you have ever run a cPanel migration or triggered a mailbox format conversion in WHM and found that users are missing emails from specific date ranges, you are not alone. This is one of those issues that does not announce itself with a clear error. It simply leaves gaps in the mailbox, and unless […]...
- Bulk PHP-FPM Pool Tuner for Existing Accounts26 February 2026, 7:16 pm
WHM only applies PHP-FPM settings to new accounts, and as we know, the cPanel defaults may not be appropriate for higher-traffic sites. This script updates all existing accounts. #!/bin/bash # bulk-phpfpm-tuner.sh # Updates PHP-FPM pool settings for all accounts based on server RAM TOTAL_RAM_MB=$(free -m | awk '/^Mem:/{print $2}') RESERVED_MB=2048 # Reserve for OS/MySQL ACCOUNTS=$(whmapi1 […]...
- PHP-FPM pm.max_children Reached on cPanel Servers26 February 2026, 6:24 pm
See Also: Bulk PHP-FPM Pool Tuner for Existing Accounts If you manage cPanel servers, you have almost certainly encountered this log entry at some point: [pool username] WARNING: server reached pm.max_children setting (5), consider raising it It looks simple enough. PHP-FPM is telling you it ran out of worker processes to handle incoming requests. But […]...
- The cPanel/WHM Autofixer26 February 2026, 4:38 am
Cpanel 11.24 comes with an Autofixer that allows you to fix common problems that may prevent access to certain parts of your system....
- PCI DSS Compliance Cookbook for cPanel Servers26 February 2026, 12:20 am
If you’re running cPanel servers that process, store, or transmit credit card data, or even connect to systems that do, PCI DSS compliance isn’t optional. It’s a requirement that carries real financial and legal teeth. With PCI DSS v4.0.1 now fully enforced (the March 31, 2025 deadline for all “best practice” requirements has passed), every […]...
- CSF Post-Shutdown Survival Guide: Migration & Configuration11 February 2026, 12:49 am
For over a decade, ConfigServer Security & Firewall (CSF) was the undisputed firewall solution for cPanel/WHM servers. If you ran a shared hosting environment, a reseller setup, or even a standalone VPS with cPanel, CSF was almost certainly part of your security stack. Its WHM integration, Login Failure Daemon (LFD), and straightforward configuration made […]...
- Sunsetting Developer Web (User Web)9 August 2025, 7:16 pm
SourceForge will be sunsetting developer web hosting for user accounts (unrelated to project web hosting) in 60 days on October 10th, 2025. If you are using developer web ...
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- ProjectLibre Major Release: Day One downloads in 150+ countries… replacing Microsoft Project2 May 2025, 3:00 pm
Today marks a watershed moment for the global project-management community—and our 10-year partnership with SourceForge! We’re proud to unveil ProjectLibre Desktop 1.9.8, the most powerful update in years, delivering a ...
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- Display an Interactive Demo on your SourceForge Business Software Listing2 April 2024, 11:20 pm
Big News: SourceForge Just Got a Major Upgrade with Cool Demo Tools! Hey everyone! We’ve got some awesome news to share that’s going to make showcasing and exploring ...
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- Project Web Hosting Database Upgrade Notice20 October 2023, 1:13 am
The purpose of this blog post is to announce our scheduled maintenance window for project web hosting. We will be upgrading the database used by project websites on ...
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- GitHub is Ending Subversion (svn) Support: Subversion and SourceForge19 September 2023, 12:47 am
Earlier this year, GitHub announced that it would be sunsetting Subversion support on January 8th, 2024. Since then, SourceForge has seen high volume of projects that use Subversion migrate ...
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- Welcoming OSDN Projects to SourceForge31 July 2023, 9:30 pm
—- OSDN.net has been having extended service outages since it was recently acquired. Some users are reporting that OSDN has been down on and off for over a ...
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- ProjectLibre Recognized With Open Source Excellence Award on SourceForge2 March 2022, 12:50 am
— We are happy to announce that SourceForge has recognized a number of exceptional projects on SourceForge with awards based on the value these projects provide to the ...
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- Does SourceForge have malware?8 March 2021, 10:17 pm
SourceForge does not have malware or viruses. All projects, downloads, and releases served from SourceForge are scanned for malware and viruses, so you can rest assured that your ...
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- Projects of the Week, December 21, 202021 December 2020, 5:01 am
Here are the featured projects for the week, which appear on the front page of SourceForge.net: plantumlPlantUml allows you to quickly create some UML diagrams using a simple ...
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- Today in Tech – 200316 December 2020, 5:46 am
On this day in 2003 the Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography And Marketing, better known as the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 was signed into law in the ...
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- kea >= 1:3.0.3-6 update requires manual intervention7 April 2026, 4:50 pm
The kea package has moved all services to run as a dedicated kea user (instead of root) for improved security. This change requires permission updates to the runtime files created by the kea services.
Users upgrading from an existing kea installation should therefore run the following commands after the upgrade:
chown kea: /var/lib/kea/* /var/log/kea/* /run/lock/kea/logger_lockfile
systemctl try-restart kea-ctrl-agent.service kea-dhcp{4,6,-ddns}.service
Accounts that need to interact with kea se...
- iptables now defaults to the nft backend5 April 2026, 6:28 pm
The old iptables-nft package name is replaced by iptables, and the
legacy backend is available as iptables-legacy.
When switching packages (among iptables-nft, iptables, iptables-legacy),
check for .pacsave files in /etc/iptables/ and restore your rules if needed:
/etc/iptables/iptables.rules.pacsave
/etc/iptables/ip6tables.rules.pacsave
Most setups should work unchanged, but users relying on uncommon xtables
extensions or legacy-only behavior should test carefully and use
iptables-legacy if r...
- NVIDIA 590 driver drops Pascal and lower support; main packages switch to Open Kernel Modules20 December 2025, 6:53 pm
With the update to driver version 590, the NVIDIA driver no longer supports Pascal (GTX 10xx) GPUs or older. We will replace the nvidia package with nvidia-open, nvidia-dkms with nvidia-open-dkms, and nvidia-lts with nvidia-lts-open.
Impact: Updating the NVIDIA packages on systems with Pascal, Maxwell, or older cards will fail to load the driver, which may result in a broken graphical environment.
Intervention required for Pascal/older users: Users with GTX 10xx series and older cards must switc...
- .NET packages may require manual intervention11 December 2025, 7:01 am
The following packages may require manual intervention due to the upgrade from 9.0 to 10.0:
aspnet-runtime
aspnet-targeting-pack
dotnet-runtime
dotnet-sdk
dotnet-source-built-artifacts
dotnet-targeting-pack
pacman may display the following error failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies) for the affected packages.
If you are affected by this and require the 9.0 packages, the following commands will update e.g. aspnet-runtime to aspnet-runtime-9.0:
pacman -Syu aspnet-runtime...
- waydroid >= 1.5.4-3 update may require manual intervention6 November 2025, 12:35 am
The waydroid package prior to version 1.5.4-2 (including aur/waydroid) creates Python byte-code files (.pyc) at runtime which were untracked by pacman. This issue has been fixed in 1.5.4-3, where byte-compiling these files is now done during the packaging process.
As a result, the upgrade may conflict with the unowned files created in previous versions. If you encounter errors like the following during the update:
error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
waydroid: /usr/lib/waydro...
- dovecot >= 2.4 requires manual intervention31 October 2025, 9:20 pm
The dovecot 2.4 release branch has made breaking changes which result
in it being incompatible with any <= 2.3 configuration file.
Thus, the dovecot service will no longer be able to start until the
configuration file was migrated, requiring manual intervention.
For guidance on the 2.3-to-2.4 migration, please refer to the
following upstream documentation:
Upgrading Dovecot CE from 2.3 to 2.4
Furthermore, the dovecot 2.4 branch no longer supports their
replication feature, it was removed.
For...
- Recent service outages21 August 2025, 10:01 pm
We want to provide an update on the recent service outages affecting our infrastructure. The Arch Linux Project is currently experiencing an ongoing denial of service attack that primarily impacts our main webpage, the Arch User Repository (AUR), and the Forums.
We are aware of the problems that this creates for our end users and will continue to actively work with our hosting provider to mitigate the attack. We are also evaluating DDoS protection providers while carefully considering factors in...
- zabbix >= 7.4.1-2 may require manual intervention4 August 2025, 2:58 pm
Starting with 7.4.1-2, the following Zabbix system user accounts (previously shipped by their related packages) will no longer be used. Instead, all Zabbix components will now rely on a shared zabbix user account (as originally intended by upstream and done by other distributions):
zabbix-server
zabbix-proxy
zabbix-agent (also used by the zabbix-agent2 package)
zabbix-web-service
This shared zabbix user account is provided by the newly introduced zabbix-common split package, which is now a dep...
- linux-firmware >= 20250613.12fe085f-5 upgrade requires manual intervention21 June 2025, 11:09 pm
With 20250613.12fe085f-5, we split our firmware into several vendor-focused packages. linux-firmware is now an empty package depending on our default set of firmware.
Unfortunately, this coincided with upstream reorganizing the symlink layout of the NVIDIA firmware, resulting in a situation that Pacman cannot handle. When attempting to upgrade from 20250508.788aadc8-2 or earlier, you will see the following errors:
linux-firmware-nvidia: /usr/lib/firmware/nvidia/ad103 exists in filesystem
linux-f...
- Plasma 6.4.0 will need manual intervention if you are on X1120 June 2025, 7:08 am
On Plasma 6.4 the wayland session will be the only one installed when the users does not manually specify kwin-x11.
With the recent split of kwin into kwin-wayland and kwin-x11, users running the old X11 session needs to manually install plasma-x11-session, or they will not be able to login. Currently pacman is not able to figure out your personal setup, and it wouldn't be ok to install plasma-x11-session and kwin-x11 for every
one using Plasma.
tldr: Install plasma-x11-session if you are still ...
- The backbone of play: How online gaming platforms run on modern server infrastructure in 202611 April 2026, 2:52 pm
Online gaming is probably the one area that will continually push the limits of server architecture, networking, and operating systems. The pressure on the gaming infrastructure in 2026 is astronomical. Gamers demand sub-20ms latency, large-scale simultaneous multiplayer experiences, and no downtime, as they simultaneously stream 4K assets in real-time. To the legions of systems administrators, […]...
- Flatpak security in real life: how to audit permissions and reduce data exposure25 January 2026, 5:52 am
Flatpak is an application packaging and distribution technology that makes it possible to develop an application that can be run in a sandbox across Linux distributions. Being distribution agnostic, a Flatpak application that you install in Debian can also be installed as-is in Fedora. Because it runs in a sandbox, a Flatpak app needs permissions […]...
- Ethereum architects harden the kernel for mass adoption16 January 2026, 2:43 am
Core engineers are now treating Ethereum’s mainnet like the secure, rigid Linux kernel, offloading computation to modular layer-2 rollups. All speed and experimentation are pushed to these user-space environments. This framework ensures future growth does not compromise security. Minor market action often obscures monumental architectural changes occurring deep within the protocol. Vitalik Buterin recently drew […]...
- Browser isolation for safer casino sessions in Linux19 December 2025, 7:18 pm
Linux users tend to be more privacy-aware than average. You update packages, you think twice before pasting commands from random forums and you probably have at least one hardened browser profile sitting around. But even with good habits, the web is still the web. A single sketchy ad script, a dodgy extension update or a […]...
- Online casinos and streamers: A winning combination for all involved11 November 2025, 3:07 pm
In the past several years, there has been a curious development on sites like Twitch and YouTube: casino streaming. This type of digital entertainment, which used to be limited in scope, has now grown into a worldwide phenomenon that has drawn in millions of viewers. Audiences watch as popular creators pull the lever, place bets, […]...
- 3 steps to build the perfect website for your organization6 November 2025, 12:48 am
If you’re running an organization, you must have a website to establish credibility and show that you prioritize professionalism. Companies that don’t have websites give out negative impressions to clients. Also, remember that a website will allow you to showcase your expertise and introduce visitors to your team. Building a website today is fairly easy. […]...
- Ethereum price predictions 2025: Can ETH break $7K as ETFs and Layer 2 growth drive the market?5 November 2025, 5:14 am
The crypto market is buzzing again as conversations shift toward Ethereum’s potential over the next two years. Analysts and investors alike are wondering whether ETH can realistically reach the $7,000 mark sometime 2026. Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) have already opened the doors to a new wave of institutional capital, while Layer 2 adoption continues to expand […]...
- How technology and security drive high-performance online platforms4 November 2025, 4:57 pm
People expect digital platforms to be fast, reliable, and always available. This demand has encouraged businesses to rely heavily on innovative technology and strong security systems. Behind what appears simple to users is a network of tools that keeps everything operating smoothly. Industries depend on systems that can expand quickly, protect private data, and comply […]...
- How to run a repository of casino games in Linux using Wine or Proton22 September 2025, 10:46 am
Linux is one of the most flexible operating systems in the world, but gaming has traditionally been its weak spot. A lot of games, especially the casino game library, are designed for Windows computers. So, if you trust running them straight on Linux, you’ll often run into problems. These issues vary from the installer not […]...
- Enhancing privacy measures for Linux gaming enthusiasts25 August 2025, 4:31 am
In the ever-expanding universe of online activities, ensuring your privacy as a Linux gamer is vital. Engaging in gaming requires connecting with communities and online platforms, which can expose your personal information to potential threats. By implementing effective privacy measures, you not only protect yourself but also contribute to a safer gaming environment for all. […]...
- The State of Linux-Powered Robots: From Lego Kits to World Domination14 April 2026, 12:48 pm
In 2009, I wrote a TechSource article called “[5 Awesome Robot Kits to Get You Started with Robotics].”The most advanced robot on that list was a LEGO Mindstorms NXT. It had three servo motors, four sensors, and the approximate intelligence of a toaster with ambitions.Two years later, I followed it up with “[Best Robotics Software for Linux],” where we covered tools like ROS, Player, and CARMEN. At the time, the state-of-the-art in Linux robotics was getting a wheeled platform to navigat...
- Ubuntu 24.04 LTS vs. macOS 26 Tahoe: The Free OS That Rivals a Premium Experience6 April 2026, 10:04 am
I’m writing this on a MacBook Air running macOS 26 Tahoe, and I keep glancing at my Mac Mini in the corner — the one running Ubuntu 24.04 LTS.I’ve been a macOS user for a decade. I develop iOS apps. I’m neck-deep in the Apple ecosystem — iPhone, Apple Watch Ultra, AirPods, the whole cult membership. But last year, Apple released macOS Tahoe with its Liquid Glass redesign, and I found myself wondering: has the free operating system actually gotten *better* than the premium one?Short ans...
- Why the Tesla Model Y L Is the Most Feature-Packed EV for Its Price in the Philippines30 March 2026, 7:16 am
If you’re a long-time reader of TechSource, you know this site has mostly been about Linux, open-source software, and all things computing. But if you’ve been following our recent comeback, you also know we’ve expanded into covering the broader tech landscape — AI, smartwatches, crypto, and whatever else catches my persistently curious eye. Today, we’re parking (pun intended) in a topic that’s been occupying a significant amount of my brain space lately: electric vehicles. Specifical...
- Linux Won, and Nobody Noticed25 March 2026, 1:38 am
The tech industry has failed to properly acknowledge this for years: Linux won. Not "Linux is doing fine." Not "Linux is making progress." Not "maybe next year will be the year of the Linux desktop." No. Linux won. Decisively. Overwhelmingly. In nearly every category of computing that actually matters, Linux is the dominant operating system on the planet — and it happened quietly that most people, including many who use it every single day, have absolutely no idea.I've been writing about Lin...
- How I Built a Local AI Hub Using Free and Open Source Software on My Old Mac Mini16 March 2026, 1:46 am
I’m going to tell you something that would have sounded absolutely insane five years ago: I’m running artificial intelligence on a computer the size of a lunch box, it works offline, my data never leaves my house, and it costs me nothing beyond the electricity to keep it running.No monthly subscription. No API fees. No sending my private documents to some server farm in Virginia. Just me, a Mac Mini M1, and a free and open-source software called Ollama that has quietly become one of the most...
- Health Is Wealth: Why I Chose a Smartwatch Over a Rolex8 March 2026, 8:33 am
A few years ago, a friend of mine bought a Rolex Submariner. It cost him roughly the same as a decent used car. He showed it to me with the kind of pride usually reserved for newborn babies and championship trophies. It was beautiful, I’ll admit. The weight of it, the way it caught the light, the satisfying click of the rotating bezel — there’s a reason people have been obsessed with luxury watches for centuries.He then asked me what I was wearing on my wrist. I looked down at my Garmin Fe...
- The State of the Linux Desktop in 2026: A Love Letter from a Prodigal Penguin1 March 2026, 1:24 pm
Let me start with a confession. I haven’t used Linux as my daily desktop operating system in roughly a decade.I know. Take a moment. Breathe. For those of you who have been reading TechSource since the Ubuntu and Compiz days, that sentence may stung. This is, after all, the same site that published 587 posts tagged “linux” — from distro reviews and desktop customization showcases to that infamous Distrowar series where I played judge and jury as two distributions fought for supremacy lik...
- TechSource in the Age of AI20 February 2026, 1:15 am
Hello (again, again) world! If you’re reading this, congratulations — you are either one of the most patient humans on the internet, or you accidentally stumbled here while googling “tech blogs that ghost their readers.” Either way, welcome. You are appreciated. To my loyal subscribers, followers, and random visitors who have this site bookmarked after all these years — I am deeply sorry for disappearing. Again. I know, I know. This is starting to feel like that friend who keeps sayi...
- How to Easily Install a Full Bitcoin Lightning Node on a Raspberry Pi24 June 2021, 3:56 am
I recently installed a full bitcoin node on our home network, and lucky for me, I got everything up and running quickly without bumping into some issues. Before I will show you the steps on how to install a full bitcoin node, allow me to explain some of my reasons why I ended up doing this. As some of you may already know, bitcoin is a network composed of thousands of nodes. A record of every bitcoin transaction is verified and maintained inside a node. So if you are running one, you will essen...
- The Bitcoin Revolution is Here15 June 2021, 9:33 am
Since 2014, I’ve been talking about bitcoin here (read: Is Bitcoin The Next Open-source Software Revolution?, Best Bitcoin Applications for Linux). Back then, bitcoin was still very much in its infancy and our articles about it were some of the least popular posts we’ve ever had. However, I have already seen its potential and proclaimed that it could become a revolutionary open-source software project and that it has the potential to be bigger than Linux. Today, bitcoin and cryptocurrenc...
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