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GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: Managing your work

If you’re juggling multiple Copilot sessions, use the My work pane to track what's in flight, what's done, and what's next. The post GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: Managing your work appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

Source: GitHub Blog Christopher Harrison
Open Source

Go 1.27 released

Go 1.27, the most recent version of the Go programming language, has been released with a number of new tools, the addition of support for the ML-DSA post-quantum algorithm, new JSON-processing packages, language…

Source: LWN.net jzb
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Seven stable kernels for Wednesday

Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 7.1.9, 6.18.45, 6.12.104, 6.6.152, 6.1.183, 5.15.216, and 5.10.265 stable kernels. Each contains important fixes throughout the tree; users are advised to upgrade.

Source: LWN.net jzb
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[$] Debian weighs eight options in vote on LLM usage

The Debian Project is voting on the usage of large language models (LLMs) to make contributions to the project. The first proposal, sent in late July by Matthias Geiger, would expressly forbid any contributions to…

Source: LWN.net jzb
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Tuba 0.11 released

Version 0.11 of the Tuba fediverse client has been released. Notable changes in this release include support for Mastodon collections and quotes, ability to create custom thumbnails for attachments, a new emoji picker,…

Source: LWN.net jzb
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[$] Representing Python paths using pathlib

At the outset of his PyCon US 2026 talk, Trey Hunner said that his goal was for attendees to stop representing filesystem paths as strings and to use pathlib instead. That's kind of a tall order, at least for longtime…

Source: LWN.net jake
Web

CSS Navigation Matching, Early Days

Apply a style when someone navigates from one specific page to another. The idea being it'd make the sources for cross-document view transitions declarative in CSS rather than managing that stuff in JavaScript. CSS…

Source: CSS-Tricks Geoff Graham
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Security updates for Wednesday

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (.NET 10.0, .NET 9.0, 389-ds-base, attr, curl, glib2, gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free, gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free and gstreamer1-plugins-ugly-free, gstreamer1-plugins-good,…

Source: LWN.net jzb
Web

WordPress.com Student Plan

As someone who teaches beginning web development, I find that building a WordPress site makes for a great final project. Hosting those projects has always been a roadblock though. WordPress.com Student Plan originally…

Source: CSS-Tricks Geoff Graham

The summer Math fell to the machines...

Railway is the smoothest way to deploy software. Get $20 in free credits - https://railway.com/?referralCode=fireship AI has killed more open math problems in the last few weeks than the entire human race managed in the…

Source: Fireship Fireship