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Half of global population holds ageist views, causing companies to overlook experienced older hires who bring innovation, credibility, and institutional memory.
Sabastian Sawe runs first official sub-two-hour marathon (1:59:30) in London wearing Adidas's 97-gram Evo 3 supershoe; women's record also falls.
Judge scolds Musk and Altman as AI debate turns violent with Altman's home firebombed; experts warn of dangerous polarization.
Leaders ignore workers' spiritual needs for meaning and belonging, causing loss of passion and performance. Experts urge immediate shift.
After assassination attempt at WH dinner, Trump's Truth Social post ends event. Despite tiny user base (700k), his content spreads across all platforms, rewriting rules of influence.
Major Linux distros (Debian, Fedora, Oracle, Red Hat, Slackware, SUSE, Ubuntu) issue urgent patches for critical vulnerabilities in browsers, crypto, remote access, and dev tools. Update now.
FOSDEM 2026 video recordings now online. All talks worth publishing from Brussels conference are free to watch. Links on schedule pages and video site.
R Project core team member Tomáš Kalibera dies after short illness; remembered for his open-source work on C/Fortran integration with R.
Strawberry music player on Linux gains popularity with smart playlists, metadata editing, and file organization, competing with proprietary tools.
Fedora Linux 44 released with GNOME 50 desktop, Plasma 6.6, and improved Apple Silicon support. Major refinement for workstation and KDE users.
Seth Nickell, a key GNOME Usability Project contributor and Linux advocate, passes away at 27; his work on desktop accessibility and packet radio leaves lasting mark on open source.
Multiple Linux distros issued critical patches for Firefox, sudo, Python, webkit2gtk3, and more. Apply immediately.
Plasma Login Manager 6.6.2 has critical defense-in-depth flaws eliminating root-service separation; patch expected May 12.
Python Steering Council approves PEP 772, creating a Packaging Council with five elected members; elections set for June 2026 after PyCon US.
Linux kernel bug (since 2017) allows 4-byte writes to page cache via AEAD sockets and splice, enabling privilege escalation.
Linux 7.1 merge window opens with Famfs filesystem, Zig concurrency support, and Python Packaging Council; LWN edition covers GnuPG, Fedora 44, Ubuntu 26.04, and more.
Multiple Linux distributions release urgent security updates covering over 100 packages including Firefox, Java, Sudo, and more.
Greg Kroah-Hartman released seven stable Linux kernels, with critical backported fixes for the AEAD socket vulnerability affecting multiple series.
GCC 16.1 defaults to C++20, adds experimental C++26 features (reflection, contracts) and an Algol68 frontend.
Google's TCMalloc violates Linux kernel API for restartable sequences, causing 6.19 release issues and forcing workaround under no-regressions rule.