Mold Linker Paper Claims Up to 112x Speedup Over GNU ld, Accepted to ASPLOS 2027
A new paper on the mold linker reports it is 2.4-16.1x faster than lld and up to 112x faster than GNU ld, and has been accepted to ASPLOS 2027.
3 min read2 sources
Signal
open-source
362 articles covering "open-source"
AWS Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire DuckLabs, the Company Behind DuckDB
Amazon will acquire the Amsterdam company behind DuckDB, but not the open-source project itself, which stays MIT-licensed under the independent DuckDB Foundation.
4 min read3 sources
Rust Foundation Names Its First Six Maintainers in Residence, Funding Core Compiler, Rustup, and Clippy Work for a Year
The Rust Foundation Maintainers Fund has raised $350,000 and named its inaugural cohort of six paid maintainers, resolving details left open when the fund launched in June.
5 min read4 sources
CNCF Graduates Kubeflow, Certifying the Kubernetes-Native AI Platform as Production-Ready
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation gave Kubeflow its top maturity tier, citing 6,600-plus contributors and 260 million PyPI downloads.
5 min read3 sources
TrueFoundry Open-Sources TrueForge, an Agent Harness Benchmarked Up to 75% Cheaper Than Claude Managed Agents
TrueFoundry's MIT-licensed TrueForge harness matched Claude Managed Agents on a 14-task enterprise benchmark while costing up to 75% less per run.
6 min read4 sources
PostgreSQL Ships Coordinated Release Fixing 28 CVEs Across Five Versions, Debuts 19 Beta 3
PostgreSQL 18.6, 17.11, 16.15, 15.19, and 14.24 landed August 13 alongside 19 Beta 3, patching 28 security flaws and over 110 bugs, with PostgreSQL 14 set to lose support in November.
4 min read7 sources
Marimo Patches CVE-2026-75149, an 8.7-Severity Code-Injection Flaw Triggered by a Notebook's MCP Configuration
A crafted marimo notebook could run an attacker's command as a local subprocess the moment it was opened in edit mode, via a fake MCP server entry in its configuration.
4 min read6 sources
Linux Foundation Asks OSI to Approve OpenMDW-1.1 AI Model License as Reviewers Split Over Its Copyright Termination Clause
The Linux Foundation submitted its OpenMDW-1.1 AI model license to the Open Source Initiative for approval, but reviewers are contesting a clause that terminates rights over copyright lawsuits, not just patent ones.
6 min read5 sources
Emacs 31.1 Ships With Unexec Dumper Removed, Terminal Mouse Support On by Default, and a New User Lisp Directory
GNU Emacs 31.1 arrives with the legacy unexec dumper removed, xterm-mouse-mode on by default in compatible terminals, a new user-lisp directory feature, and expanded tree-sitter options.
4 min read4 sources
Redis 8.10 Ships Compact Hashes, a Bulk-Insert HIMPORT Command, and Native BACKUP
Redis 8.10 reaches general availability with a memory-saving compact hash encoding, a bulk-insert HIMPORT command, and a node-side BACKUP command built on multi-part AOF.
4 min read3 sources
Xen Project Forms Safety Committee, Enlisting AMD, EPAM, and Renesas to Pursue Formal Certification for Its Open Source Hypervisor
The Linux Foundation-hosted Xen Project launched a Safety Committee with AMD, EPAM, and Renesas as founding contributors, aiming to bring formal functional-safety certification to the open source hypervisor for automotive, avionics, and robotics use.
5 min read2 sources
pg_clickhouse v0.10 Pushes Correlated Subqueries to ClickHouse, Cutting a TPC-H Query From 32.7 Seconds to 37 Milliseconds
ClickHouse's pg_clickhouse extension now pushes whole correlated subqueries down to ClickHouse, taking TPC-H pushdown coverage from 12 to 16 of 22 queries.
4 min read2 sources