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GitHub’s context-aware secret classifier improves detection quality, raises weighted acceptance by 11.5%, and reduces median scan execution time by 86%. The post GitHub’s model for secret detection: Finding more secrets…
KDE Linux, the KDE Project's second stab at creating its own distribution, was first introduced as "Project Banana" at the Akademy conference in 2024 by Harald Sitter. Nate Graham announced the first alpha-quality…
The Lix and Nix projects have jointly disclosed a set of vulnerabilities that can be used to escalate privileges to root on systems running the Lix or Nix daemons. "All systems that build untrusted derivations are…
Can an open source LLM safely run Kubernetes operations? CNCF Ambassador Hoon Jo is bringing the benchmark results to KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America. Ten Kubernetes incident scenarios put leading open source…
Rust's system of ownership and borrowed references is convenient when it can correctly model a program's needs. The Rust for Linux project has worked to provide adapters between Rust's semantics and the existing C code…
PostgreSQL core team member Peter Eisentraut has written a blog post reflecting on the "unusually high number of features" that have been taken out of the upcoming PostgreSQL 19 release since the beta period began. Some…
Asterinas is a project to build a new operating-system kernel in Rust; it was covered here in 2025. Version 0.19.0 of the Asterinas kernel has been released; changes include a new graphics subsystem capable of running…
Expand your AI agents' capabilities while enforcing enterprise-grade safeguards with new MCP tools and tool governance in GitLab 19.4. In this walkthrough, Developer Advocate Daniel Helfand showcases how GitLab 19.4…