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France’s Weird Per-Gigabyte Data Tax Could Cost VLC Over €1 Million a Year!

France's National Assembly has voted in favour of a new "internet tax" that would charge companies for every gigabyte of data they send to users in France. It may get messier than GDPR.

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Killed by Ubuntu, Linux Mint is Bringing This Classic Feature Back

Linux Mint is bringing back a feature most Linux distributions quietly gave up on years ago: hibernation.

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I Came for This New Linux Distro’s Aesthetic Looks and Stayed for its Window Tiling

It's still early in development, but it shows promise with what it offers.

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A massive pile of security updates for Saturday

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (.NET 10.0, .NET 11.0, .NET 8.0, .NET 9.0, aspell, bind, bind9.18, container-tools:1.0, container-tools:rhel8, curl, dogtag-pki, ignition, java-21-openjdk, python-pillow, tomcat, and virt:rhel, virt-devel:rhel), Debian (antiword, cyrus-sasl2, dovecot, dpdk, nss, python-git, and thunderbird), Fedora (7zip, aegisub, aom, apptainer, arm-none-eabi-binutils-cs, assimp, avr-binutils, baresip, barman, bind9-next, btrfs-backup-ng, chezmoi, chromium, cifs-utils, clevis-pin-trustee, composer, containerd, curl, docker-buildx, dotnet10.0, evolution, evolution

LWN.net · EN

Final release for the 7.2 stable series

Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 7.2.15 kernel, with a handful of updates. Note, this is the LAST 7.2.y kernel release. After this one the 7.2.y kernel tree is end-of-life. Please move to 7.3.y at this time. And yes, you aren't imagining things, this one went "end-of-life" a bit sooner than normal. But based on the release cycle at the moment, and the number of pending cc: stable patches in the queue, I figured it was better this way so we can focus on the latest 7.3.y release as it would require us to keep 8 different branches alive at the same moment, a taxing task under t

LWN.net · EN

Kernel prepatch 7.4-rc1

The 7.4-rc1 kernel prepatch is out, and the merge window is closed for this development cycle. This is a *BIG* merge window. I think the reason is the by now obvious one, but I'm actually taking it as a good sign: I'm *much* happier with the flood of AI triggered work going into the merge window than it showing up mainly as extra fixes during the -rc period. So I'm hoping that this merge window being larger than usual is a sign that the AI fixes are becoming more part of the "normal development" than a flood of fixes that go into the whole stabilization phase. I think that's a much healthier m

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Security updates for Monday

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (firefox, java-17-openjdk, kernel, kernel-rt, mariadb:10.5, podman, python-jwt, python27:2.7, python38:3.8 and python38-devel:3.8, python39:3.9 and python39-devel:3.9, ruby:2.5, ruby:2.7, thunderbird, util-linux, and virt:rhel and virt-devel:rhel), Debian (chromium, eog, imagemagick, python-aiohttp, thunderbird, and vim), Fedora (asciinema, atuin, btrfs-backup-ng, clevis, gcc, janus, kernel, libheif, libreswan, mingw-expat, mupdf, nautilus, nicotine+, ntpd-rs, openscap, perl-DBI, python-streamlink, python3.12, retsnoop, ruby, rust-cargo-deny, rust

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Tor Browser 16.0 released

Version 16.0 of the Tor Browser has been released. This is the first stable version based on Firefox ESR 153. Notable changes in this release include support for Linux on 64-bit Arm, redesigned settings, and a "generic window titles" feature to help prevent other applications from snooping on one's browser activity. Tor Browser for Android has had a number of interface updates to Google's Material Design 3 design language. This release also follows Firefox in ending support for 32-bit x86 Linux systems. See the full changelog for all of the updates and bug fixes.

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[$] Managing the kernel CVE flood

We recently looked at how the kernel community is dealing with the firehose of vulnerability reports, but said little about how users of the kernel are responding. At the 2026 Linux Plumbers Conference , Amazon employees Dylan Johnson and Justinien Bouron discussed the problem from the point of view of engineers trying to keep AWS running and secure in the face of a storm of CVE disclosures. The kernel community's longstanding advice is to run current kernels, and that turns out to work — sort of.

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Shutting the Door on the XCPE Botnet (Threat Intelligence)

The Google Threat Intelligence blog describes, in great detail , the XCPE botnet, which has just been taken down. Last week, Google and industry partners dismantled the XCPE backdoor which enrolled more than 1.3 million set-top boxes into a botnet. We assess with high confidence that the backdoor and botnet were intentionally developed, deployed, and operated for financial gain by Videostrong Technology Co., an Android Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) and Original Device Manufacturer (ODM). Videostrong monetized the backdoor by selling access to criminal affiliates and loading those affil

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[$] The second part of the 7.4 merge window

The 7.4 merge window, which closed on November 1, included a record-breaking 18,591 non-merge changesets. That is almost as many as the entire 7.3 development cycle, which had 18,765, itself a record breaker. Of those, 11,838 landed after the article covering the first part of the merge window . Most of those were bug fixes of various forms; it seems as though bug fixes may be crowding out feature additions across the open-source ecosystem to some extent. Still, a good number of new features were included, and a handful removed, in the tail end of the merge window.

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Release Notes for Safari Technology Preview 252

Safari Technology Preview Release 252 is now available for download for macOS Golden Gate and macOS Tahoe.

WebKit Blog · EN

WebKit Features for Safari 27.0

Our Safari release notes have never been as long as they are for this version.

WebKit Blog · EN

Release Notes for Safari Technology Preview 253

Safari Technology Preview Release 253 is now available for download for macOS Golden Gate and macOS Tahoe.

WebKit Blog · EN

Release Notes for Safari Technology Preview 254

Safari Technology Preview Release 254 is now available for download for macOS Golden Gate and macOS Tahoe.

WebKit Blog · EN

Blocking Identity Resolution Infrastructure

Apple and WebKit have shipped protections against web tracking for a long time.

WebKit Blog · EN

Release Notes for Safari Technology Preview 255

Safari Technology Preview Release 255 is now available for download for macOS Golden Gate and macOS Tahoe.

WebKit Blog · EN

WebKit Features for Safari 27.1

Today iPhone Duo arrives, and with it, Safari 27.1.

WebKit Blog · EN

WebKit Features for Safari 27.2

Safari 27.2 is here, refining Customizable Select, renaming a Grid Lanes property, and delivering 20 bug fixes across accessibility, media, CSS, and more.

WebKit Blog · EN

Cloud Service Models Explained: IaaS vs PaaS vs SaaS

You likely use cloud services every day. When you check Gmail, join a Zoom meeting, or message your team on Slack, you use cloud-hosted software. But you don't manage the servers it runs on or maintai

freeCodeCamp · EN

Python in Marketing: A Practical Guide to Marketing Analytics, Automation, and Data-Driven Growth [Full Book]

Marketing has always involved wrangling lots of data. Before digital marketing, businesses had to track sales, customer purchases, coupon redemptions, store traffic, and survey responses to understand

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Secure Your AI Agents – Free Model Context Protocol (MCP) Security Course

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) helps connect LLMs to external tools, databases, and APIs. But giving AI agents hands and feet to take real-world actions introduces an entirely new attack surface. We

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Build with Gemini 4 Argon – Fast-Track API Crash Course

Google just released Gemini 4 Argon which is its most capable model designed specifically for complex reasoning, advanced coding, math, and science. To help you get building right away, we just publis

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High-Speed Decision Pipelines: Jev and Prefill-Only Inference from Scratch

Autoregressive token generation is notoriously slow and memory-intensive, especially when you only need a model to make a structured classification or routing decision rather than write out paragraphs

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