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30 Sep 2026 edition

16 articles · 8 sources ·

Top topics: Open Source · Web · AI

Open Source

[$] The year in Plasma and what's ahead

A lot has happened in the KDE Plasma desktop environment in the last year. Marco Martin, a KDE contributor who spends most of his time working on Plasma, took the stage at Akademy 2026 in Graz, Austria to give an update…

Source: LWN.net jzb
Open Source

Kernel Recipes videos posted

The full set of videos from the recently concluded Kernel Recipes conference has been posted. Also noteworthy are the associated caricature drawings, by Frank Tizzoni, of attendees and the speakers.

Source: LWN.net corbet
Open Source

Reports from the 2026 Python Language Summit

The 2026 Python Language Summit was held on July 14 in Kraków, Poland; there is now a series of reports available on the topics that were discussed there. They include the memory buffer protocol, garbage collection,…

Source: LWN.net corbet
Open Source

[$] Comparing Chromium development at Google and Igalia

Sharon Yang is a Chromium developer who worked at Google on the browser and now works on it at Igalia. On the final day of FOSSY 2026, she gave a presentation on her experiences with both of those companies, comparing…

Source: LWN.net jake
Web

Under Autumn’s Spell (October 2026 Wallpapers Edition)

October is just around the corner, which means it’s time for some new desktop wallpapers! Designed by the community for the community, they’re here to brighten your screens, and maybe spark some creativity along the way.

Source: Smashing Magazine hello@smashingmagazine.com (Cosima Mielke)
Open Source PostgreSQL

Security updates for Wednesday

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (389-ds:1.4, container-tools:rhel8, go-toolset:rhel8, grafana, httpd:2.4, nodejs:22, postgresql:12, and postgresql:15), Debian (libwebsockets, openssl, and pcre2), Fedora…

Source: LWN.net jzb

Why GitHub now ships more CSS, not less

🚀 Frontend Focus #​760 — September 30, 2026 | Read on the web Improving Site Performance by Shipping More CSS — GitHub details how it spent three years purging styled-components and 'CSS-in-JS' from github․com in favor…

Source: Frontend Focus
Open Source

DO NOT USE The Developer Show: Transcend Edition

The Developer Show: Transcend Edition hosted by Colleen Lake Join us for a developer focused recap breaking down the announcements from the Transcend keynote and what it actually means for how you build software. We'll…

Source: GitLab GitLab
Open Source

The Developer Show: Transcend Edition

Miss the keynote? We've got you covered. Join us for a developer focused recap breaking down every announcement from today's keynote and what it actually means for how you build. We'll cover the news, translate it into…

Source: GitLab GitLab
Open Source

GitLab Transcend - October 6, 2026

Coding agents are increasing your speed of development, but your reviews, security policies, and release cycles still have to keep pace. Otherwise, they become the new bottleneck. Agents can knock out individual tasks,…

Source: GitLab GitLab