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rsync 3.5.0, released August 13, patches 33 CVEs found through an audit, fuzzing, and outside researchers, following the disruptive May 3.4.3 security release.
QuestDB 10.0 introduces QWP, a binary columnar protocol that replaces separate ILP and PostgreSQL wire connections, cutting ingestion overhead and streaming query results into Apache Arrow at over 200 million rows a second.
A new study finds AI-written bug-fix patches are far larger and more complex than developers' own fixes even when tests pass, and proposes a lightweight adapter called RECAP to trim the bloat.
Docker's self-built container hypervisor replaces libkrun on Mac and Hyper-V/WSL2 on Windows, with general availability targeted for the end of October.
A CVSS 9.8 Gitea flaw let unauthenticated users read server files via Org-mode markup; XBOW Security's autonomous system found it.
The Python Software Foundation announced 17 candidates for the first Python Packaging Council election on August 13, with voting scheduled for September 1-15.
AMD is buying Toronto-based Taalas, whose chips etch model weights directly into silicon instead of storing them in memory, to strengthen its AI inference lineup.
Expedia's mockql-rs uses an LLM to fill in GraphQL schema fields marked with @mock, joining Airbnb's build-time directive and an early-stage GraphQL Foundation RFC.
Debian Developers began voting on eight rival LLM-usage proposals August 15, after a corrected ballot replaced the project secretary's first call for votes.
A researcher known as Nightmare Eclipse disclosed an unpatched Windows Defender privilege-escalation flaw, saying Microsoft's legal threats left public disclosure as the only option.
X published a far larger open-source release of its recommendation code on GitHub, plus a tool letting active users check visibility labels on their account.
Mozilla revoked and replaced a GPG signing subkey after an unencrypted copy leaked into a private GitHub repo, finding no evidence of unauthorized use.