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Release Notes for Safari Technology Preview 254

Safari Technology Preview Release 254 is now available for download for macOS Golden Gate and macOS Tahoe.

How one bug bounty researcher chooses the features they investigate

As we kick off Cybersecurity Awareness Month, the GitHub Bug Bounty team spotlights @vaib25vicky, exploring their methodology, techniques, and experiences hacking on GitHub. The post How one bug bounty researcher…

First Draft Notes: Verifiable Credential Threat Models

The Verifiable Credentials Working Group has published a series of W3C Working Group Note Drafts for threat models.

Meet Andy Anderson - Speaker at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America

What happens when autonomous agents become part of an open source maintenance crew? At KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America, Andy Anderson of IBM Research will share how KubeStellar Console merged roughly 2,400 pull…

[$] An update on Rust's project goals

Tomáš Šedovič is a program manager at the Rust Foundation. He co-leads the goals team, which helps organize the Rust project's overall goals, including making sure that the people who have agreed to work on one have the…

[$] The [vx]swap showdown

The kernel's swap layer has undergone some significant changes over the course of the last year and a number of longstanding problems have been addressed. One problem that has not yet been solved in the mainline is the…

Security updates for Thursday

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (bind, firefox, freerdp, ghostscript, glibc, kernel, kernel-rt, perl-DBI, python3.12, rust-rpm-sequoia, rust-sequoia-sq, rust-sequoia-sqv, and vim), Debian…

[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for October 8, 2026

Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: Kernel bugs; Gentoo's Chromium package; Rust smart pointers; Sashiko; Charon; LAVD scheduler; Python random-number modules. Briefs: OpenSSH 10.6; RustConf recordings;…

How to run GitHub Copilot agent sessions across any device | GitHub Copilot Day

Agent sessions shouldn't be locked into a single code editor or terminal window. Patrick Nikoletich explains how GitHub's shared agent runtime, Copilot SDK, and Agent Host Protocol let developers move active sessions…

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