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An open-source Rust vector index built on Google Research's TurboQuant algorithm reports beating FAISS on speed, memory and insertion latency in benchmarks published alongside its 1.0.0 release.

Mitchell Hashimoto's new startup Superlogical is building a client-server terminal multiplexer on his Ghostty terminal engine, aiming to fix the latency of tmux, Zellij, and GNU Screen.

Linus Torvalds released Linux 7.2 on August 16, 2026, headlined by cache-aware CPU scheduling, default Btrfs large-folio support, and a raft of late-week DRM scheduling reverts.

Modular released the Mojo compiler and toolchain as open source under the Apache 2.0 license, one week after the language hit 1.0.

Rust's next-generation borrow checker, Polonius Alpha, is now live on nightly for testing, with the project aiming to stabilize it before 2026 ends.

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 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.

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.

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.