By Achim Nierbeck and Jamie Goodyear Ask anyone who ships a language model a simple question: which data was this trained on, and what license comes with it? The honest answer today is a shrug with a bibliography. Training corpora are assembled from dozens or hundreds of sources, licensing…
read more ➔Spooky season is over, let’s see what scary changes I made last month Nautilus I finally installed GNOME OS this month. It runs very smoothly on my machine and is a pleasant experience so far. But when I opened nautilus on this fresh setup, I realized that it sorts files and folders interleaved,…
read more ➔A few small matters turned up this week. There are a few issues sitting around that we’d like to roll into a 5.44.1 release, being various bugfixes that have accumulated. We’d like to get a more streamlined process for making these releases. We hope to have a more concrete proposal soon. The…
read more ➔In previous articles, I explained how the Linux kernel implements IPv4 and IPv6 routing tables, and I showed the performance improvement of route lookups from Linux 2.6.32 to 4.16 for IPv4—including the impact of the Meltdown and Spectre mitigations—as well as from Linux 2.6.39 to 4.18 for IPv6.…
read more ➔Remove deprecated function get_ppaddr This has been deprecated since 5.38
read more ➔Remove deprecated function get_op_names This has been deprecated since 5.38
read more ➔Remove deprecated function get_op_descs This has been deprecated since 5.38
read more ➔Remove deprecated function get_opargs This has been deprecated since 5.38
read more ➔Remove deprecated function get_no_modify This has been deprecated since 5.38
read more ➔Dear Qt community! With only seven weeks left before 2026 gets branched into maintenance mode, we are pleased to open the nomination period for the Qt Champion 2026 award. It has been one of those years! We've launched Qt Bridges, held an inspiring Qt Contributor Summit in Oslo and released Qt…
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read more ➔Debian LTS/ELTS This was my hundred-forty-eighth month that I did some work for the Debian LTS initiative, started by Raphael Hertzog at Freexian. During my allocated time I uploaded or worked on: [DLA 4825-1] suricata-update security update to fix one CVE in Bookworm related to a path…
read more ➔One of the dominant themes of 2026 has been the debate within development projects about the terms under which LLM-written contributions should be accepted — if, indeed, they should be accepted at all. The Git project has not been immune to this trend; the topic was discussed at the recent Git…
read more ➔Linus Torvalds has released the 7.4-rc2 prepatch and it will come as no surprise that it is a large one ("a big -rc2 to go with the largest ever -rc1"). Much of the size was made up of some automated Coccinelle updates that were spread out all over the tree; once those are factored out, the rest…
read more ➔Copernicus Sentinel-3A unavailability notice for the OLCI S09 Calibration planned on 11 November 2026 [DOY 315]
read more ➔Copernicus Sentinel-5P Unavailability on 08 and 09 November 2026
read more ➔Version 2026.10 of the OpenIndiana operating system has been released. OpenIndiana is based on Illumos, which in turn was based on OpenSolaris after Oracle discontinued it. Notable changes in this release include UEFI framebuffer support for the live image, updates to many applications and…
read more ➔Security updates have been issued by Debian (cjose, kernel, libreoffice, rsync, ruby3.3, telegram-desktop, vim, and zlib), Fedora (bind, composer, copyparty, dnf5, elixir, fasterxml-oss-parent, gnome-remote-desktop, goose, jackson-annotations, jackson-bom, jackson-core, jackson-databind,…
read more ➔I cut bot traffic to my site by over 80% with a simple trap. Last month, my hobby website OpenBenches.org transferred more than 2.5TB of data to visitors. As much as I'd like to think the site is enormously popular, it looks like it is just AI bots endlessly crawling the data and slurping up the…
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read more ➔Introducing Catalog Search Your organization may have hundreds of datasets and map services in a spatial data catalog . How nice would it be that your ArcGIS Pro users do not have to leave Pro, open a...
read more ➔Upgrade of Copernicus Browser and Sentinel Hub services from 10/11/2026 till 13/11/2026
read more ➔New Protected Areas product now available, improving and expanding upon the prior N2K product.
read more ➔The diffoscope maintainers are pleased to announce the release of diffoscope version 338. This version includes the following changes: [ Chris Lamb ] * Binutils no longer shows the top-level directory; update expected test output. (Closes: #1151752) You find out more by visiting the project…
read more ➔“Voting in a Garage” by coolmikeol, CC BY 2.0. A few of us on Bluesky have been discussing what SF’s November 3 election results mean. I have thoughts and speculations about what this means, so I dug in. One easy, accurate thing I saw and could share: what GOP voters in San Francisco voted for. #Who…
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