BlogFlockAnd the republic is still lost. Sad to learn that David Gergen has passed. I met him briefly when he came to Harvard Law School for a conversation in Austin Hall's Ames Courtroom with Larry Lessig on the topic of Larry's new book, Republic, Lost: How Money…
[$] SFrame-based stack unwinding for the kernel
LWN.net88 posts last monthThe kernel's perf
events subsystem can produce high-quality profiles, with full function-call chains, of resource usage within the kernel itself. Developers, however, often would like to see profiles of the whole system in one integrated report with, for example, call-stack information that crosses the boundary between the kernel and user…
Security updates for Friday
LWN.net88 posts last monthSecurity updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (gnome-remote-desktop, go-toolset:rhel8, golang, jq, kernel, kernel-rt, libxml2, and podman), Fedora (chromium, git, helix, pam, rust-blazesym-c, rust-clearscreen, rust-gitui, rust-nu-cli, rust-nu-command, rust-nu-test-support, rust-procs, rust-which, selenium-manager, sudo, thunderbird, and uv), SUSE (audiofile, chmlib-devel, docker, firefox, go1, libsoup, libsoup2, libssh, libxml2, tomcat, umoci, and xen), and Ubuntu
[$] Anubis sends AI scraperbots to a well-deserved fate
LWN.net88 posts last monthFew, if any, web sites or web-based services have gone unscathed by the locust-like hordes of AI crawlers looking to consume (and then re-consume) all of the world's content. The Anubis project is designed to provide a first line of defense that blocks mindless bots—while granting real users…
Five new stable kernels
LWN.net88 posts last monthSecurity updates for Thursday
LWN.net88 posts last monthSecurity updates have been issued by Debian (sslh), Oracle (container-tools:rhel8, gnome-remote-desktop, golang, javapackages-tools:201801, jq, libvpx, libxml2, mpfr, and perl-File-Find-Rule-Perl), Red Hat (glib2, libblockdev, and sudo), Slackware (git), SUSE (avif-tools, containerd, djvulibre, gpg2, helm, kernel, libpoppler-cpp2, libxml2, libxml2-2, openssl-3, perl-YAML-LibYAML, python-cryptography, python-setuptools, python311-pycares, tomcat10, and wireshark), and Ubuntu (djvulibre, git, libyaml-libyaml-perl,…
Thursday, 10 July, 2025
Doc Searls Weblog30 posts last monthRe-see what you think. Formal education has been stuck inside an industrial paradigm ever since industry won the industrial revolution. Let's call that Education 2.0. The pre-industrial model was Education 1.0. Digital tech, especially with AI, will bring on Education 3.0. That's the title of my post yesterday
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for July 10, 2025
LWN.net88 posts last monthInside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition:
- Front: Python packaging; Kernel API specification; Kselftests and KUnit; niri; pedalboard.
- Briefs: Git security fixes; Amarok 3.3; Bash 5.3; Thunderbird 140; tmux-rs; U-Boot 2025.07; Quotes; ...
- Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more.
Education 3.0
Doc Searls Weblog30 posts last month
Education 1.0 was about learning one one-on-one, or one one-on-few. Also by ourselves. This kind of on-site discovery…
Amarok 3.3 released
LWN.net88 posts last monthVersion 3.3 of the Amarok music player has been released. This is the first release of Amarok based on KDE Frameworks 6 and Qt 6. Amarok 3.3 also includes a major rework of its audio engine to use GStreamer for audio playback.
The reworked audio engine provides unified feature…
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