This Week In Security: Getting Back Up to Speed
Editor’s Note: Over the course of nearly 300 posts, Jonathan Bennett set a very high bar for this column, so we knew it needed to be...
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New Strides Made on Deceptively Simple ‘Lonely Runner’ Problem
Picture a bizarre training exercise: A group of runners starts jogging around a circular track, with each runner maintaining a unique, constant pace. Will every runner...
Read moreArchitecting for Global Scale: Inside DoorDash’s Unified, Composable Dasher Onboarding Platform
DoorDash has rebuilt its Dasher onboarding into a unified, modular platform to support global expansion. The new architecture uses reusable step modules, a centralized status map,...
Read moreThe Trump phone was a no-show at the world’s biggest mobile show
Where’s the Trump phone? We’re going to keep talking about it every week. We’ve reached out, as usual, to ask about the Trump phone’s whereabouts. This...
Read moreTrump’s surgeon general nominee is running the wellness grifter playbook perfectly
Means uses a common wellness influencer playbook that uses selective science to discredit institutions. | Getty Images This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent every Friday...
Read moreHow Does Kubernetes Self-Healing Work? Understand Self-Healing By Breaking a Real Cluster
I have noticed that many engineers who run Kubernetes in production have never actually watched it heal itself. They know it does. They have read the...
Read moreOpenWrt 25.12.0 released
Version 25.12.0 of the OpenWrt router distribution is available; this release has been dedicated to the memory of Dave Täht. Changes include a switch to the...
Read moreWhy are vertebrate eyes so different from those of other animals?
After losing its original eyes, one of our distant ancestors may have done what evolution does best: tinkered with what was available, reshaping a single central...
Read moreLinux 7.0 Slab Fix On The Way For A “Severe Performance Regression”
Sent out today was this week’s batch of Slab allocator fixes for the Linux 7.0 development kernel. Making this pull notable is fixing a “severe performance...
Read moreSecurity updates for Friday
Security updates have been issued by Debian (chromium), Fedora (freerdp, libsixel, opensips, and yt-dlp), Mageia (python-django, rsync, and vim), Red Hat (go-rpm-macros and osbuild-composer), SUSE (7zip,...
Read moreHow to Use Docker Compose for Production Workloads — with Profiles, Watch Mode, and GPU Support
There’s a perception problem with Docker Compose. Ask a room full of platform engineers what they think of it, and you’ll hear some version of: “It’s...
Read moreHow to Upgrade Zorin OS 17 to 18: Step-by-Step Guide
Zorin OS 18 upgrade path is open. Learn how to safely upgrade from Zorin OS 17 in-place while keeping your files and apps. The post How...
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