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12 Nov 2026 edition

16 articles · 7 sources ·

Top topics: Open Source · Web · General

Open Source

Build once, run on any agent: A practical guide to agent skills

Agent skills capture repeatable engineering work in files teams can review and reuse, while tools, project context, and permissions remain specific to the host that runs them. The post Build once, run on any agent: A…

Source: GitHub Blog Andrea Griffiths
Open Source

Rust 1.100.0 released

Version 1.100.0 of the Rust language has been released. Notable changes include the stabilization of the never type, core parts of the Allocator API, reporting of unused dependencies in Cargo, and more.

Source: LWN.net jzb
DevOps Open Source

Day 3 Keynotes KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America

21.2 million developers now build with cloud native, and nearly 50,000 contributed back over the past year across 125 countries. Day 3 of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America proved that while AI agents are…

Source: CNCF CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation]
Web

Beyond 12 Columns: Designing Layouts With Personality

Too many websites look alike. They use familiar layouts, repeat the same patterns, and often leave little impression once you’ve moved on. Andy Clarke explores how understanding a company’s story can lead to more…

Source: CSS-Tricks Andy Clarke
DevOps Open Source

Day 2 KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America

Day two at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America kept the energy high from sunrise all the way through the final session. From thousands of builders packing into technical talks to catching up with peers after hours,…

Source: CNCF CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation]
Open Source

Introducing Polo: a Wayland MATE compositor

Kerem Söke has announced the 1.0 release of Polo, a Wayland compositor for the MATE Desktop Environment: The idea is to keep MATE behaving as closely as possible to how it does on X11, rather than changing the desktop…

Source: LWN.net jzb
Open Source

[$] C++26 contract confusion

The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has blessed seven C++ language revisions since 1998. The language is mostly developed by ISO's Working Group 21, which considers proposed additions and…

Source: LWN.net daroc
Open Source

Stenberg: 30 years of Internet transfers with curl

Daniel Stenberg reflects on the 30th anniversary of the curl project. libcurl runs in an estimated thirty billion installations today. It is a rough estimate since the majority of all libcurl users never tell us they…

Source: LWN.net corbet
Open Source Django Python

Security updates for Thursday

Security updates have been issued by Debian (aodh, apache2, dnspython, firefox-esr, mutt, octavia, spip, thunderbird, and watcher), Fedora (epiphany, firefox, freerdp, java-25-openjdk, java-latest-openjdk, libsoup3,…

Source: LWN.net jzb
Open Source General

What is new in GitHub: October releases explained

October brought major updates across the GitHub ecosystem, but what do these changes actually mean for your team's day-to-day work? In this edition of the GitHub Changelog, join the team as they demystify "software…

Source: GitHub GitHub
Open Source AI

[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for November 12, 2026

Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: Synaptics patent claims; Git LLM policy; Hibernation and lockdown; User namespaces; glibc tunables. Briefs: *sshole; Amutable foundations; Asahi Linux 7.3; OpenIndiana…

Source: LWN.net jzb