En Chine, le nombre total d’habitants confinés est désormais de plus de 56 millions. Les trains sont à quai, les autoroutes fermées.

Interpellé en 2014 après un long séjour en Syrie, le Haut- Savoyard de 35 ans était jugé par la Cour d’assises spéciale de Paris pour « direction d’un groupe terroriste ».

En participant vendredi, à la Marche pour la vie à Washington, le président américain cherche à rassurer un électorat, majoritairement religieux, déterminé à limiter, voire à interdire l’accès à l’avortement.

Alors que le projet de loi sur la réforme des retraites a été adopté vendredi en conseil des ministres, le nombre de manifestants comme les taux de grévistes étaient en hausse.

Les Milwaukee Bucks ont remporté, vendredi, face aux Charlotte Hornets, le premier match officiel organisé par la ligue nord- américaine de basket en France.

Le retour du « Canis lupus » continue de déchaîner les passions des éleveurs, qui n’hésitent pas à menacer ceux qui plaident pour une connivence avec cet animal.

Le président de la commission du renseignement de la Chambre, Adam Schiff, a remis en perspective le procès en destitution, rappelant son enjeu pour les institutions américaines

La terre a tremblé, vendredi vers 20 h 55 locales (18 h 55 à Paris), dans les provinces d’Elazig et de Malatya. La magnitude a été mesurée à 6,8 sur l’échelle de Richter.

Les Français et un Irakien ont été vus pour la dernière fois lundi « aux alentours de l’ambassade de France », selon l’organisation.

Chaque samedi, La Matinale propose une sélection de programmes à (re) voir en différé.

Ars Technica reviews the Purism Librem 5 smartphone, which is made from open-source software and (mostly) open hardware. It is clearly not there yet as a replacement for the phone in our pockets, but it would seem to be on the right path. "The thing to keep in mind here is that Purism has taken on an absolutely gargantuan task. It somehow scraped together a new supply chain of mostly open source components, it came up with a smartphone design from scratch, and it is building its own smartphone distribution of Linux. Two years is not enough time to do this. The OS and app package is not nearly finished, and it lacks basic smartphone functionality. The hardware is nearly finished, but you'll have a hard time taking advantage of it right now since the power management isn't really implemented, and support for things like the cameras are non-existent. If you really want open source smartphones to be a thing, though, this is where you need to start. The Librem 5 is a proof of concept."

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has put out a statement in support of journalist Glenn Greenwald whose "prosecution is an attempt to use computer crime law to silence an investigative reporter who exposed deep-seated government corruption". Greenwald is being charged in Brazil, where he reported on corruption within the government of that country. While the EFF said that it has seen "no actions detailed in the criminal complaint that violate Brazilian law", its main concern is the use of ill- defined "cybercrime" laws.
"Around the world, cybercrime laws are notoriously hazy. This is in part because it’s challenging to write good cybercrime laws: technology evolves quickly, our language for describing certain digital actions may be imprecise, and lawmakers may not always imagine how laws will later be interpreted. And while the laws are hazy, the penalties are often severe, which makes them a dangerously big stick in the hands of prosecutors. Prosecutors can and do take advantage of this disconnection, abusing laws designed to target criminals who break into computers for extortion or theft to prosecute those engaged in harmless activities, or research—or, in this case, journalists communicating with their sources."

One year ago, the io_uring subsystem did not exist in the mainline kernel; it showed up in the 5.1 release in May 2019. At its core, io_uring is a mechanism for performing asynchronous I/O, but it has been steadily growing beyond that use case and adding new capabilities. Herein we catch up with the current state of io_uring, where it is headed, and an interesting question or two that will come up along the way.

Security updates have been issued by Debian (git and python-apt), Oracle (openslp), Red Hat (chromium-browser and ghostscript), SUSE (samba, slurm, and tomcat), and Ubuntu (clamav, gnutls28, and python-apt).

Some years back, I was caught in a weak moment and somehow became the kernel documentation maintainer. More recently, I've given a few talks on the state of kernel documentation and the sort of work that needs to be done to make things better. A key part of getting that work done is communicating to potential contributors the tasks that they might helpfully take on — a list that was, naturally, entirely undocumented. To that end, a version of the following document is currently under review and headed for the mainline. Read on to see how you, too, can help to make the kernel's documentation better.