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Linux 7.2.6 leads a 9,000-patch stable kernel batch
Greg Kroah-Hartman released seven stable kernels at once, with more than 9,000 patches between them and over 1,800 in Linux 7.2.6 alone.
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Linux plans to remove 247k lines of old ARM code
A kernel branch would delete about 247,000 lines by dropping deprecated 32-bit ARM platforms and the drivers only they used.
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ARCTIC dual-licenses its Linux fan driver for the BSDs
ARCTIC's arctic_fan_controller driver moves from GPLv2+ to GPLv2+ and BSD-2-Clause in Linux 7.4, so other systems can reuse the $8.99 device's code.
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Linux 7.4 removes BFS, the UnixWare boot file system
A patch deleting 1,275 lines of BFS support is queued for Linux 7.4, one kernel cycle after EFS and FreeVxFS were dropped for the same reason.
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Rust's never type, explained
Rust's never type, written !, is the type of code that never produces a value. It is stable in Rust 1.100 after ten years, and it changes type fallback.
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React 19.3 ships View Transitions and Fragment Refs
React 19.3 shipped on September 9, 2026. View Transitions and Fragment Refs are now stable, and the release carries no breaking changes.
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HTTP QUERY has an RFC but almost no implementations
RFC 10008 gave HTTP a QUERY method in June 2026: safe and idempotent like GET, with a request body like POST. Almost nothing implements it yet.
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Rust is now a tier-1 language at Microsoft
Microsoft made Rust a tier-1 language beside C++, C# and TypeScript. More than 100 of its repositories now build Rust code.
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Python 3.15 soft-deprecates re.match() for re.prefixmatch
Python 3.15 soft-deprecates re.match() in favor of the new re.prefixmatch(). Nothing breaks, nothing warns, and no removal is scheduled.
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AMD Zen 6 makes Linux's SafeRET mitigation unnecessary
A kernel patch drops the SafeRET software fix on AMD Zen 6, because the chip isolates branch predictions in hardware. User-to-user attacks still need IBPB.
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LLVM debates building ClangIR by default
An LLVM RFC proposes compiling ClangIR into Clang by default. Nobody would use it without a flag, but some estimates put build times at more than double.
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Debian Code Search drops its last cgo dependency
Michael Stapelberg replaced a 7-year-old C library with pure Go using the experimental SIMD package, and matched the C version's speed.
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A tampered strip binary can backdoor all of NixOS
Researchers built Ken Thompson's trusting-trust attack out of GNU strip, not a compiler, and used it to backdoor almost every binary in a NixOS installer.
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Go 1.27 adds generic methods and a faster encoding/json
Go 1.27 shipped on August 19, 2026 with generic methods, a v2 engine under encoding/json, goroutine leak profiles and post-quantum signatures.
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Anthropic's AI formalizes Fermat's Last Theorem in Lean
Anthropic says an internal model wrote 13 million lines of Lean in 11 days, producing a complete machine-checked proof of Fermat's Last Theorem.
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GNOME drafts an RFC process for big technical decisions
A 14-day comment period, named stakeholders and a merge request: GNOME has drafted a formal way to settle the decisions it now makes in chat.
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Debian votes to allow AI-assisted contributions, with conditions
Debian developers picked the 'Responsible Use of Generative AI' option in a vote that closed on August 28, 2026. AI help is allowed, and disclosure stays optional.
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JetBrains: developers say agents now write 47% of their code
A JetBrains survey of 15,509 developers finds agents fully write 47% of code on average. 90% use an agent weekly, and Claude Code leads adoption at 39%.
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Rust funds six maintainers as Clippy's review backlog hits 300
The Rust Foundation Maintainers Fund is now paying six people to maintain Rust, backed by Google, AWS and OpenAI. Clippy's backlog sits near 300 pull requests.
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Rust stabilizes the never type after ten years and five attempts
The never type is stable and Infallible is now an alias for it. The catch is a breaking change to type fallback that crater flagged on 3,277 crates.
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EVE Online begins moving 2.4 million lines of Python 2 to Python 3
CCP Games says 95.9% of EVE's 2.4 million lines already parse under both Python versions. The remaining 3,300 lines are the ones that block the move.
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Rust turns on its next-generation trait solver in nightly builds
Rust's new trait solver is now on by default in nightly - the largest compiler change since 1.0, four years in the making, with stabilization planned within months.
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Rust supply chain attack slips build-time malware into arrayref
Malicious versions of arrayref, internment, and append-only-vec ran a remote payload during cargo build for under two hours before crates.io removed them.
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Mojo goes open source under Apache 2.0, contributions stay closed
Modular open-sourced the Mojo compiler and tooling under Apache 2.0 a week after shipping Mojo 1.0 - but it is not taking outside compiler contributions until late 2026.
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