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Safari on Apple HomeView

It’s not every day our browser begins a life on a whole new platform.

GitHub availability report: October 2026

In October, we experienced eight incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services. The post GitHub availability report: October 2026 appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

[$] 25 years of Buildroot

Buildroot maintainer Peter Korsgaard gave a presentation about the long history of the build tool for embedded Linux systems at the 2026 Embedded Linux Conference Europe. In it, he covered more than just the past 25…

Announcing XRAID: declustered parity RAID for zoned XFS

Christoph Hellwig has announced the initial public release of XRAID—declustered parity RAID that is integrated into XFS. The two primary aims of XRAID are to support parity RAID on zoned devices like SMR hard drives,…

Security updates for Friday

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (.NET 10.0, .NET 8.0, .NET 9.0, firefox, gcc, grafana, grafana-pcp, gstreamer1, gstreamer1-plugins-base, java-1.8.0-openjdk, kernel, kernel-rt, libimobiledevice,…

10 Big Ol’ 2027 Black Friday Deals

A big ol' roundup of Black Friday deals on front-end courses from the best independent publishers and educators in the business. 10 Big Ol’ 2027 Black Friday Deals originally handwritten and published with love on…

How a personal AI productivity hack became Slack's internal tool

Frances Coronel, a product engineer at Slack, built a personal AI setup to work faster and shared it in a public channel. Engineers across the company started forking it without being asked. That organic pull grew into…

Niels Provos on creating bcrypt, defending Google, and securing AI agents

Sit down with legendary cybersecurity researcher Niels Provos as he reflects on three decades of breaking, building, and securing software. From sneaking into Canadian university labs to write exportable cryptography…

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