Decimal places in IEEE 754
June 25th 2026 (week 26 of 2026)IEEE 754, the floating-point number standard, has finite precision. The number of decimal places a double-precision IEEE 754 number can represent is 15.
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Linux distribution timeline (1992-2010)
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Stop Killing Games vs The European Commission
June 17th 2026 (week 25 of 2026)The European Commission responded to the European Citizen Initiative brought forward by the Stop Killing Games movement.
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[$] Hardening the kernel with allocation tokens and bootpatch-SLR
June 25, 2026There is a lot of work going into eliminating exploitable bugs from the kernel and preventing the addition of new ones. Even if this work is maximally successful, though, there is no chance that the kernel will be free of these bugs anytime soon. Thus, the…
via LWN.netBaryon Asymmetry
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