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Eighteen new GNU releases in the last month (as of June 30, 2026): apl-2.0: GNU APL is a free interpreter for the programming language APL. It is an implementation of the ISO stan ...

Azure Linux 4.0 is Microsoft's own Fedora-derived Linux distro for Azure cloud workloads. Here is how it compares to Ubuntu, ...

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Microsoft is delivering tools to quickly configure Windows PCs as workstations for Windows and Linux development.

Oil giant Shell posted bumper profit of $6.92 billion through the first quarter as the Iran war sent fossil fuel prices soaring. The London-listed energy major cut the pace of its quarterly buyback to ...

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Publicly released exploit code for an effectively unpatched vulnerability that gives root access to virtually all releases of Linux is setting off alarm bells as defenders scramble to ward off severe ...