The August 17 outage, and the work ahead
An update on the August 17 outage and the steps we're taking to improve reliability. The post The August 17 outage, and the work ahead appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
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First Public Working Draft: The Profiles Vocabulary
The Profiles Vocabulary is an RDF vocabulary created to allow the machine-readable description of profiles of specifications for information resources.
[$] A look at the Quickshell desktop-component toolkit
Quickshell is a toolkit for building desktop components, such as toolbars or menus. It uses QML, which is a declarative language for designing GUI applications. Quickshell helps developers create graphical tools for…
KDE Gear 26.08 released
Version 26.08 of the KDE Gear collection of applications has been released. Notable changes in this release include improvements in the signing features of Okular, improved file-grouping features in the Dolphin file…
Supply chain attack on arrayref (Rust blog)
The Rust blog reports on a malicious crate, called proc-macro1, that was uploaded to the crates.io repository. Furthermore, we discovered that the popular arrayref crate had recently been republished and made to depend…
RPM 6.1.0 released
Version 6.1.0 of the RPM Package Manager has been released. Notable changes include the ability to provide modifiers to RPM macros at definition time, improved build and verification error handling, support for signing…
[$] The beginning of the 7.3 merge window
As of this writing, 2,346 non-merge changesets have been pulled into the mainline repository for the 7.3 kernel release. That, clearly, is a mere down payment on the flood that is to come. Even so, those early pulls…
Security updates for Thursday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (bind9.18, glib2, gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free, gstreamer1-plugins-good, kernel-rt, libcupsfilters, mysql8.4, mysql:8.4, pcp, perl-Date-Manip, php8.4, php:7.4, php:8.2,…
Timing Charts: A Blueprint For SMIL Animations
Discover SMIL, the often-overlooked way to animate SVGs that works inside `` tags and can fully animate everything in an SVG without JavaScript.
Bulk Fix SAST Vulnerabilities & Eliminate False Positives in GitLab 19.3
Eliminate security debt and clear your vulnerability backlogs faster with automated bulk triage and remediation in GitLab 19.3. In this walkthrough, Staff Developer Advocate Cesar Saavedra demonstrates how the GitLab…
Meet the Flow Creator Agent in GitLab 19.3: Prompt-to-Workflow Demo
Transform everyday manual DevSecOps tasks into powerful, automated workflows using natural language with the new Flow Creator Agent in GitLab 19.3. In this walkthrough, Senior Developer Advocate Fatima Sarah Khalid…
Rubber Duck Thursdays! Come code and cowork!
Today we're going to check out some new goodies coming to GitHub.
DeepSeek is back... and Silicon Valley is terrified
Take BlueDot's Future of AI course for free - https://bluedot.org/fireship OpenAI just paused its biggest training run in history just as things were getting interesting. Let's dive in. #coding #programming Want more…
Preventing Rogue Agents: Building Agents You Can Trust
AI agents are moving from generating suggestions to taking action across the software lifecycle. The real challenge is not only stopping bad behavior. It is building agents that are useful because they have the right…
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for August 20, 2026
Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: Debian AI GR; Python pathlib; bootstrappable builds; Fedora and AF_ALG; Arm 128-bit PTEs; BPF CI; 7.2 statistics. Briefs: Brief news items from throughout the community.…
How a single README became a free cloud engineering platform
Five years ago, GPS set out to create a simple README file on GitHub to share cloud engineering knowledge. What started as a quick markdown document quickly evolved into Learn to Cloud, a free, open source platform with…
Rubber Duck Thursday Livestream - AMA
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