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Mozilla is shutting down Pocket

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Par :corbet
Mozilla has announced that it is shutting down Pocket, a bookmarking service acquired by Mozilla in 2017, this coming July. "Pocket has helped millions save articles and discover stories worth reading. But the way people use the web has evolved, so we're channeling our resources into projects that better match their browsing habits and online needs."
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Home Assistant deprecates the "core" and "supervised" installation modes

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Par :corbet
Our recent article on Home Assistant observed that the project emphasizes installations using its own Linux distribution or within containers. The project has now made that emphasis rather stronger with this announcement of the deprecation of the "core" and "supervised" installation modes, which allowed Home Assistant to be installed as an ordinary application on a Linux system.

These are advanced installation methods, with only a small percentage of the community opting to use them. If you are using these methods, you can continue to do so (you can even continue to update your system), but in six months time, you will no longer be supported, which I'll explain the impacts of in the next section. References to these installation methods will be removed from our documentation after our next release (2025.6).

Support for 32-bit Arm and x86 architectures has also been deprecated.

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Fedora Council overturns FESCo provenpackager decision

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Par :jzb

The Fedora Council has ruled on the Fedora Engineering Steering Council's (FESCo) decision last year to revoke Peter Robinson's provenpackager status. In a statement published to the fedora-devel-announce mailing list, the council has announced that it has overturned FESCo's decision:

FESCo didn't have a specific policy for dealing with a request to remove Proven Packager rights. In addition, the FESCo process was handled entirely in private. The contributor didn't receive a formal notification or warning from FESCo, and felt blindsided by the official decision when and how it was announced. The Fedora Council would like to extend our sincerest apology on behalf of the Fedora Project to them.

LWN covered the story in December 2024.

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[$] Long-duration stress-testing for filesystems

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Par :jake
Testing filesystems is a frequent topic at the Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit (LSFMM+BPF); the 2025 edition was no exception. Boris Burkov led a filesystem-track session to discuss stress-testing filesystems—and running those tests for lengthy periods. He reviewed what he has been doing when testing filesystems and wanted to gather ideas for what could be done to catch more bugs before the filesystems hit production.
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Security updates for Thursday

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Par :jake
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (kernel, kernel-rt, and webkit2gtk3), Fedora (mozilla-ublock-origin and sudo-rs), Oracle (.NET 8.0, compat-openssl10, grafana, osbuild-composer, redis:6, ruby:2.5, and webkit2gtk3), SUSE (dante, firefox-esr, gnuplot, govulncheck-vulndb, grype, postgresql13, postgresql14, postgresql15, postgresql16, postgresql17, python-tornado6, python314, thunderbird, ucode-intel, and xen), and Ubuntu (bind9, libfcgi-perl, linux-ibm-5.4, linux-oracle-5.4, postgresql-17, and Tomcat).
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La France se prend une nouvelle volée de reproches après la panne géante d’électricité

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Le Portugal et l'Espagne maintiennent la pression sur la France et la Commission européenne pour obtenir un plan permettant de densifier les interconnexions de chaque côté des Pyrénées. Un réseau plus dense permettrait, selon Madrid et Lisbonne, de limiter les dégâts en cas de blackout comme celui survenu fin avril.

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Deux pizzas à 1 milliard de dollars : la première transaction en Bitcoin fête ses 15 ans

Le 22 mai 2010, Laszlo Hanyecz entre dans l’histoire en réalisant le tout premier achat de biens physiques avec des bitcoins. En échange de 10 000 BTC, il obtient la livraison de deux pizzas. Ce qui semblait alors anodin à l'époque représente aujourd’hui une somme colossale : ces deux pizzas vaudraient environ 1 milliard de dollars.

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