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Learn to decode SSL certificates using online tools or OpenSSL. Understand key fields like issuer, SAN, validity, and detect common HTTPS issues to ensure secure connections.
Explore the engineering behind a high-performance Telegram media downloader: MTProto reverse engineering, segmented downloads, async I/O, and file integrity methods.
Explore how Telegram's MTProto protocol, file sharding, and async I/O enable high-performance media extraction, with a focus on reverse engineering web links and optimizing fragmented downloads.
Rustup 1.29.0 introduces concurrent downloads, supports new platforms and shells, adds quality-of-life improvements, and welcomes a new team member. Updated via rustup self update.
Fedora 44 released with GNOME 50 and KDE Plasma 6.6, offering leading-edge Linux innovations for developers and enthusiasts.
Q&A on why Rust's challenges blog post was retracted, its data sources (70 interviews, 5,500 surveys), use of LLM, and community reaction.
GCC 16.1 delivers enhanced error messages and an experimental HTML output option for diagnostics, improving developer productivity.
Germany's Sovereign Tech Agency launches Sovereign Tech Standards initiative to fund open standards, expanding its support beyond open-source software projects for digital sovereignty.
Rust team addresses tar crate vulnerability (CVE-2026-33056) in Cargo. crates.io mitigated; Rust 1.94.1 release on March 26 secures all users.
Benchmarks show Ubuntu 26.04 LTS outperforms Windows 11 on a high-end AMD/NVIDIA workstation in creator tasks.
Rust 1.94.1 fixes regressions in threading, Windows API, and Clippy, plus security updates for Cargo. Update now via rustup update stable.
IBM and Arm collaborate on dual-architecture hardware; Linux KVM patches now enable ARM64 virtualization on IBM Z s390 servers, with v2 released in late April.
Valve releases GameNetworkingSockets v1.5 after nearly four years, bringing fixes and optimizations to the open-source networking library used by Counter-Strike and Dota 2.
AMD's Ryzen AI Halo Box is a Strix Halo-powered mini PC for AI devs, with new Linux driver activity for its RGB LED bar, competing with NVIDIA DGX Spark and Dell GB10.
A Devuan developer is modernizing GTK2 with 'gtk2-ng', applying critical patches, security fixes, and systemd-free compatibility to revive the aging toolkit.
GCC 17 adds support for Chinese Hygon C86-4G CPUs (M4/M6/M7). This Q&A covers significance, models, release timing, open-source impact, user benefits, and technical codebase changes.
Learn how OpenCL's new cooperative matrix extensions boost ML inferencing, following Vulkan's lead, with detailed Q&A covering benefits, usage, and future developments.
AI code review uncovers long-standing bugs in Linux sched_ext scheduler, leading to major fixes for kernel stability.
Intel Lunar Lake CPU performance on Linux improved 8-15% in one year due to kernel updates, power management tweaks, and firmware refinements. Key gains in multi-threaded workloads, with minimal regressions.
AMD's new Linux kernel patches accelerate page migration using batch copying and hardware offloading, delivering 40-60% latency reduction and up to 3x throughput. Originally by NVIDIA, now AMD-led.