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Security updates have been issued by Fedora (lynx, matrix-synapse, and proftpd), openSUSE (ntfs-3g_ntfsprogs), Oracle (kernel), Red Hat (RHV-H), Scientific Linux (kernel), and Ubuntu (libapache2-mod-auth-mellon, linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-5.11,…

Two recent threads on the python-ideas mailing list have overlapped to a
certain extent; both referred to Python’s style guide, but the discussion
indicates that the advice in it may have been stretched further than intended. PEP 8
(“Styl…

Amateur (“ham”) radio operators have been experimenting with ways to use
computers in their hobby since PCs became widely available—perhaps even
before then. While many
people picture hams either talking into a microphone or tapping a telegraph
…

Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 5.14.1, 5.13.14, 5.10.62, 5.4.144, 4.19.206, 4.14.246, 4.9.282, and 4.4.283 stable kernels. As usual, these updates
contain important fixes; users of those series should upgrade.

Security updates have been issued by Debian (qemu), Fedora (condor, grilo, libopenmpt, opencryptoki, and php), openSUSE (xen), and SUSE (ffmpeg, file, php72, rubygem-addressable, and xen).

On the ADA Logics blog, David Korczynski and Adam Korczynski write about their work integrating 115 open-source projects with Google’s OSS-Fuzz project for doing continuous fuzz testing. They describe the process of integrating a project into…

Security updates have been issued by openSUSE (ffmpeg and gstreamer-plugins-good), SUSE (apache2, apache2-mod_auth_mellon, ffmpeg, gstreamer-plugins-good, libesmtp, openexr, rubygem-puma, xen, and xerces-c), and Ubuntu (openssl).

Discussions on ways to “modernize” the Emacs editor have come up in various guises over the past few
years. Changes of that nature tend to be somewhat contentious in the Emacs
community, pitting the “old guard” that values the existing feature…

A longstanding tug-of-war between system package managers and Python’s own
installation mechanisms (primarily pip, but there are others) looks
on its way to being resolved—or at least regularized. PEP 668
(“Graceful cooperation between ext…

Security updates have been issued by Fedora (haproxy and libopenmpt), openSUSE (aws-cli, python-boto3, python-botocore,, dbus-1, and qemu), Oracle (rh-postgresql10-postgresql), Red Hat (compat-exiv2-023, compat-exiv2-026, exiv2, libsndfile, micr…