A summary from the 2026 Git Contributors' Summit
Johannes Schindelin has posted a detailed summary of the discussions held at the 2026 Git Contributors' Summit. Topics covered include Git 3.0, security process, documentation, the pluggable object...
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Security updates for Thursday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (buildah, containernetworking-plugins, firefox, kernel, kernel-rt, openexr, perl-DBI, podman, postgresql, postgresql16, postgresql:15, runc, skopeo, and...
Security updates for Wednesday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (coreutils, postgresql18-postgis, and postgresql:16), Debian (memcached), Fedora (chromium, cyrus-imapd, dotnet10.0, dotnet8.0, dotnet9.0, freeipmi...
Igalia celebrates "Twenty-Five Years Upstream"
The open-source consulting firm Igalia has put out an announcement celebrating 25 years of working on upstream FOSS projects for its clients. The list of projects the company has worked on is rather...
Security updates for Friday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (.NET 10.0, coreutils, kernel, libevent, libsoup3, microcode_ctl, perl-Net-DNS, postgresql18, postgresql:16, postgresql:18, tomcat, and unbound), Debian...
LWN.net Weekly Edition for September 17, 2026
Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front : Server-data encryption; PostgreSQL scary patches; Faster kernel builds; BPF for blk-iocost; Lessons learned as DPL. Briefs : Brief news items from...
Vondra: PostgreSQL development activity
PostgreSQL contributor Tomas Vondra has published a blog post looking at development activity in the project, with data from the late 1990s to today. We're doing ~50 commits per week, give or take....
Lessons learned as the Debian Project Leader
What is it like to be a Debian Project Leader (DPL), or a former one? According to Andreas Tille, who stepped down this year after two consecutive terms as DPL, you'd have to be one to know. At the...
Accelerating the kernel's build process
Kernel developers do a lot of kernel builds. Since the kernel is not a small program, those builds can take a fair amount of time, even on a fast machine. The kernel also has a complex build system...
Security updates for Friday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (apr-util and qt6-qt5compat), Debian (libevent and ruby-rack), Fedora (bluez, corosync, curl, dokuwiki, grpcurl, libevent, and rest), Oracle...
PostgreSQL 19's "scary patch contest"
PostgreSQL 19 was expected to be released in September, in keeping with the database project's longstanding tradition of a major release every year. However, some late-breaking concerns about several...
A decade of Rustls
Joe Birr-Pixton has written a blog post reflecting on a decade of the Rustls TLS-library project and looking ahead to the upcoming 0.24 release and an eventual 1.0 release. Rustls began with a first...
LibreOffice Base survey results
Heiko Tietze has published a blog post summarizing the results of a recent survey about the use of LibreOffice's database application, Base. 455 people participated in the survey, including more than...
LangGraph Patches Three Flaws, Including SQL Injection Chain That Hands Over Self-Hosted Servers
Security researchers at Check Point have detailed three vulnerabilities in LangGraph, the open-source framework from LangChain for building stateful, multi-agent AI applications. Two of them chain...
The Unified Data Stack: Fivetran and dbt Labs Merge, dbt Core Gets a Rust Rewrite, and State-Aware Orchestration Goes Open Source
At Snowflake Summit this year, the combined Fivetran and dbt Labs team made several announcements that signal a shift toward a more performant, cost-efficient, and AI-ready data infrastructure....
Arm Open-Sources Metis: An Agentic AI Framework That Actually Reads Your Code
Arm dropped a new tool for teams drowning in false positives. On May 28, the company open-sourced Metis, an agentic AI framework designed to catch the kind of multi-layer vulnerabilities that static...
When a GitHub Bot Surpasses Its Creator: The Technical Story Behind Anthropic’s Bun Acquisition
Jarred Sumner once spent three weeks hand-porting a Go transpiler to Zig. No AI, no shortcuts. That code became the seed for Bun, the JavaScript runtime now powering some of the most aggressive AI...
Microsoft’s Nadella Signals Full Exploitation of OpenAI’s IP Through 2032
During Wednesday’s earnings call, a Wall Street analyst pressed Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on how the restructured OpenAI partnership would hit the P&L. His response was direct: the deal is a net...
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The Architecture of Deception: How Synthetic Media Outpaces Verification Systems
A new class of information weapon is testing the limits of our technical infrastructure. Propaganda units now produce synthetic Lego-style videos alleging war crimes within 24 hours. This isn't...
The Build Pipeline's Silent Threat: A Technical Look at Open Source Compromise
For data and ML engineers, the command `pip install` or `npm install` is a fundamental act of trust. The architecture of modern systems assumes these dependencies are benign, but that assumption is...