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16 Sep 2026 edition

13 articles · 7 sources ·

Top topics: Open Source · Web · General

Open Source

Linux’s 35th Anniversary and the Open Frontier

Members Newsletter – September 2026: Open Source is what it is because of the people who led us here, and keep us here. We all joined the community for different reasons, but many of us stayed because of the…

Source: OSI Blog Nick Vidal
Open Source

Open Weights Are Good. Open Source Is Better.

With openness in AI making headlines, we must educate policymakers, producers, and users of these technologies about what open-weight and Open Source AI mean for the four software freedoms: the freedom to use, study,…

Source: OSI Blog Katie Steen-James
Open Source

[$] Ways to encrypt data on servers

At the 2026 edition of FOSSY, Romeo Solano gave a fast-paced, humorous presentation on what could have been a rather boring topic: server encryption. There are a number of threats that we face in today's world, from…

Source: LWN.net jake
Open Source

Security updates for Wednesday

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (kernel, kernel-rt, libkcapi, nginx, nginx:1.24, openssl, osbuild-composer, perl, perl:5.32, python-tornado, rsync, and rust), Debian (cjose and nginx), Fedora…

Source: LWN.net corbet
Web

Stop Treating CSS Container Queries Like Traditional Media Queries

Despite broad browser support, container queries remain surprisingly underused and frequently misunderstood. Let’s look at how they differ from media queries, when to reach for each, and how container queries help…

Source: Smashing Magazine hello@smashingmagazine.com (Victor Ayomipo)

When CSS could run JavaScript

🚀 Frontend Focus #​758 — September 16, 2026 | Read on the web CSS Curiosities of the Past — A wonderful tour of the non-standard CSS quirks developers used to make browsers behave, especially Internet Explorer. Covers…

Source: Frontend Focus
Open Source General

How Project HydraFusion reduces the cost of frontier AI

Everyone's racing to build a better model. HydraFusion optimizes the path instead, orchestrating existing models per request rather than picking just one, and reduces the cost frontier AI. Join Aashna Garg and Julia…

Source: GitHub GitHub