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Tiered-memory systems are built with multiple types of memory, each of which has different performance characteristics. In addition to the usual DRAM, a tiered system might also provide faster high-bandwidth memory or slower CXL memory. On these systems, the placement of memory allocations has a…

Version 4.0 of the Audacity audio editor has been released. Notable changes in this release include a rewritten interface using Qt, ability to save user-interface layouts as "Workspaces", improvements in working with audio clips, and a new .aup4 project format. The release is not fully…

This summer the SPDX Cryptography Group agreed on how to describe algorithm parameters, tightened its contribution and release processes, and opened the discussion on post-quantum cryptography. Where this report comes from This is an update of the work we do at the SPDX Cryptography Group. SPDX…

If you're reading this, you've probably been hitting your head against a brick wall trying to parse and decipher the new HTTP Signatures sent by Mastodon and other Fediverse servers. This is a basic and somewhat incomplete guide to accepting these signatures. I'm sure there are various gotchas, but…

The Rust team has published a new point release of Rust, 1.98.1. Rust is a programming language that is empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software. If you have a previous version of Rust installed via rustup, getting Rust 1.98.1 is as easy as: rustup update stable If you don't have…

SRFI 281 is now in draft status. This SRFI implements a modified version of the R6RS’s (rnrs bytevectors (6)) library, which has procedures for the serialization and deserialization of numbers into bytevectors, and conversion to/from Unicode. It also includes some procedures from SRFI 207 …

As many of you know, Microsoft will be disabling Exchange Web Services (EWS) support on its Microsoft 365 platform later this year. The Thunderbird Desktop team has been hard at work to ensure continuity of functionality through this transition, and today we are pleased to announce the release of…

**To receive Plus One directly to your inbox, sign up via the subscribe box below.**  Community News The ASF has announced the keynote speakers for Community Over Code Glasgow, taking place October 11–14, 2026 in Glasgow, Scotland. The lineup features Adjunct Faculty at Carnegie Mellon University…

One known significant issue when going from X11 to Wayland was our KMouseTool being X11 only. KMouseTool implements a Dwell Clicker that is an assistive technology designed for individuals who find traditional mouse clicking difficult, painful, or impossible due to conditions like paralysis,…

People feel differently about AI, and here at Firefox, we think that is completely reasonable. Something else that is completely reasonable: deciding for yourself how and when you engage with AI features.For some of you, AI is part of your everyday life, whether you are using it to summarize a large…

Hello and welcome to another issue of This Week in Rust! Rust is a programming language empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software. This is a weekly summary of its progress and community. Want something mentioned? Tag us at @thisweekinrust.bsky.social on Bluesky or @ThisWeekinRust…

WebDriver is a remote control interface that enables introspection and control of user agents. As such, it can help developers to verify that their websites are working and performing well with all major browsers. The protocol is standardized by the W3C and consists of two separate specifications:…

Of what use is software freedom to someone who doesn't know how to program a computer? If I have the right to change the software that controls my devices, but lack the skill, knowledge, time, or money to do so, do I really have software freedom? This dilemma has worried me for a long time. I think…

Open source leaders in software engineering education, sustainability, and the games industry to headline ASF’s flagship conference, October 11–14 in Glasgow, Scotland Wilmington, DE – September 1, 2026 – The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the global home of open source software the world relies…

Annual report highlights investments in people, infrastructure and standards to meet the growing demands on open source software  Wilmington, DE  – September 1, 2026 – The Apache Software Foundation (The ASF), the global home of open source software the world relies on, today released its annual…

For more than two decades, Mozilla has advocated for an internet where people, not powerful platforms, determine how technology works for them. Meaningful consumer choice requires more than the ability to select a browser. People should also be able to choose what their browser can do, from the…

Once again, GNOME is considering participating in the Outreachy internship program. Outreachy provides internships to people subject to systemic bias and impacted by under-representation in the tech industry where they live. Outreachy internships are funded by the participating communities. While…

There’s only so much room on your screen. Pop-ups, overlays, and ads can take over fast, getting between you and what you came to do. That’s where Ad Blocker for Firefox on iOS comes in: a built-in option that blocks many third-party ads and ad-related trackers before they load, helping reduce…

As part of my grant from NLnet to improve my Fediverse bot project, I'm spending time making sure I understand all the fundamentals of ActivityPub. The problem with Internet standards is they're scattered all over the place. Abandoned forums, half-maintained wikis, mailing lists with obscure rules,…

The Way Developers Use AI Has Changed When Qt AI Assistant was introduced, the state of the art in AI-powered software development was the single-turn prompt: select a block of code, ask for a test case, an explanation, or some boilerplate QML, and review the result.

The rustup team is happy to announce the release of rustup version 1.29.1. Rustup is the recommended tool to install Rust, a programming language that empowers everyone to build reliable and efficient software. What's new in rustup 1.29.1 The headlines of this release are: Concurrency in certain…

Preparing for Scale Before It Hurts While working on a recent client project involving a PostgreSQL and PostGIS database, I was working with just a few hundred spatial records. Everything ran relatively smoothly, but a slight lag during query execution got me thinking: If an unoptimised query takes…

--> --> Welcome to this edition of This Month in KDE Linux, dedicated to KDE’s next-generation operating system. Here’s how KDE Linux evolved in August: Data safety A major data safety project reached a state of usability! First, Hadi Chokr transformed users’ home folders into Btrfs sub-volumes…

SRFI 262 is now in withdrawn status.A pattern matching form which can operate on arbitrary Scheme values is defined. It conforms to the following design principles. The syntax of patterns is declarative. The syntax is extensible in the same way that Scheme’s procedural syntax is extensible…

It’s hard to evaluate the security of open source projects when security bug reports remain private forever. Users deserve to see security bug reports, so please remember to unset issue report confidentiality when you’re done handling an issue. There are very few good reasons to keep an issue report…