The Wireless Power Consortium launches faster Qi2 25W wireless charging, with "major Android smartphones" finally adopting the standard alongside the iPhone (Dominic Preston/The Verge)

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The Trump administration is continuing its dangerous push to surveil and suppress foreign students’ social media activity. The State Department recently announced an unprecedented new requirement that applicants for student and exchange visas must set all social media accounts to “public” f
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A 0-day flaw in Microsoft SharePoint is being exploited in RCE attacks on servers globally; no patch exists and tens of thousands of servers are at risk (Washington Post)

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Thank you to all the people who made DebConf 25 possible! The DebConf organisation team, the Local Team, Debian Video Team, our speakers, volunteers, and attendees. Would you like to join for organising the next DebConf? If so visit wiki.debian.org/DebConf/26 and contact the DebConf team. #debian #debconf25 #debconf26 #debianfrance #brest

At 17:30 all attendees gather in Méridienne for the "Closing Ceremony" Follow the streaming at debconf25.debconf.org/schedule… and check out some final stats. Thanks to the DebConf 25 organizers and volunteers who made this event happen and thanks to all who joined us this year in person and online. See you all at Santa Fe, Argentina next year for DebConf 26! #debian #debconf25 #debconf26 #debianfrance #brest

At 14:00 DebConf Time (12:00 UTC), the "Salsa CI BoF" will be held in Grand amphi, and at 15:00 the "Bits from APT" will inform us about APT news (APT 3.0 is out!). In Petit amphi two sessions around Rust: at 14:00 the talk "Rust Packaging in Debian" followed by "New Directions in Rust packaging - workshop" at 15:00 debconf25.debconf.org/schedule… #debian #debconf25 #debianfrance #brest

At 16:30 DebConf Time, a talk will present "Project ESSTRA : A software suite to enhance software transparency and traceability in the software supply chain" which will be followed by "Finding bugs where nobody has found before: helping cURL to avoid patch releases" at 17:30, while in Petit amphi, after the "Jabber/XMPP BoF session" (no stream), the "Electronics BOF" will conclude the afternoon session" debconf25.debconf.org/schedule… #debian #debconf25 #debianfrance #brest

In Méridienne, after the talk "Free Software, creation & ownership: a designer's perspective" which will be held at 16:30 DebConf Time (14:30 UTC), you will be able to talk with three women who have contributed to Debian doing artwork in the session "Meet the people behind Debian Artwork" at 17:30 debconf25.debconf.org/schedule… #debian #debconf25 #debianfrance #brest

After lunch, there will be two BoFs in Méridienne about package building and CI: "cross building BoF" at 14:00 DebConf Time and "ci.debian.net/autopkgtest BoF" at 15:00, and, at the same time, two talks in Grand amphi: "Free as in Bytes" followed by "How we maintain 1000+ servers : from security updates to newer Debian releases" debconf25.debconf.org/schedule… #debian #debconf25 #debianfrance #brest

Interested in cloud and containers? Then two talks in the Petit Amphi will catch your attention: "What's new in OpenStack Epoxy and in Debian" at 16:30 DebConf Time (14:30 UTC), then "Kubernetes in Debian: A Resurgence from the Ashes" at 17:30, and to finish the session, a short talk: "Modern and interoperable email with JMAP" at 18:00 debconf25.debconf.org/schedule… #debian #debconf25 #debianfrance #brest

After the break, the afternoon of #DebConf25 in Méridienne will be dedicated to the many services and efforts deployed to perform various types of testing on source or binary packages, starting with the talk "Future of archive-wide testing" at 16:30 DebConf Time (14:30 UTC), and then at the BoF "Skills exchange: triaging large numbers of failures" to share your experience debconf25.debconf.org/schedule… #debian #debconf25 #debianfrance #brest

Also in the early afternoon, at 14:00 DebConf Time (12:00 UTC) two BoFs: the "Go Team BoF", then the "Salsa BoF" where you could meet Salsa admins in Grand Amphi, and in Petit Amphi the talk "Testing Debian on embedded systems using labgrid and gitlab-ci" followed at 15:00 by "What’s new in Apertis, a Debian derivative tailored for industrial embedded devices" debconf25.debconf.org/schedule… #debian #debconf25 #debianfrance #brest
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Do you think inviting Jeremy Bicha (offenderradar.com/offender-det…) to be a presenter at the conference was really a good decision on the project's part? What message does this send about Debian's values, and what does it say to the victims of sexual abuse?

"Debian Wiki BoF" and "Debian LTS BoF" happens at 15:00 DebConf time (13:00 UTC) in parallel with the talks "Guix: From transparent and verifiable to long-term reproducible research?" and later "Packages not using the default build flags: a taxonomy" in Méridienne, Grand amphi and Petit amphi respectively. debconf25.debconf.org/schedule… #debian #debconf25 #brest

The venue Méridienne will have the talk "ArchWiki - a biased SWOT analysis" at 14:00 DebConf time (12:00 UTC) and Grand amphi will host "Debusine Workflow BoF". In parallel the academic track talks will be held at Petit amphi - "Static linking pitfalls, harms and chalenges" followed by "From Realistic and Automated Fish Digital Twin to Data Ethics: Building Reproducible Pipelines and Dataset for Biological AI" debconf25.debconf.org/ #debian #debconf25 #brest

The Debian Developers Conference continues today Tuesday 15, July, at 9:30 DebConf Time (07:30 UTC) - have a look at the schedule for the day. debconf25.debconf.org/schedule… We remind you that you can watch most of the talks streamed online by clicking on Venue names in the DebConf25 front page. You can also watch the recorded talks published later. #debian #debconf25 #brest

This morning's session in Méridienne will be dedicated to talks about the tools and processes for packaging, archive uploading and reproducible builds: "tag2upload - upload simply by pushing a signed git tag" at 09:30 DebConf Time (07:30 UTC), "Using Debusine to pre-test your unstable uploads " at 10:30, and "reproduce.debian.net - rebuilding what is distributed from ftp.debian.org " at 11:30
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DebConf25 welcomes its sponsors! bits.debian.org/2025/07/debcon… DebConf25, the 26th edition of the Debian conference is taking place in Campus of IMT Atlantique Bretagne-Pays de la Loire, Brest, France. Thanks to the hard work of its organizers and sponsors! #debian #debconf #debconf25

Debian supports End of 10 Campaign. Find out the '10 reasons to choose Linux' starting with floss.social/@Endof10/11483340… #debian #linux #EndOf10

Belkin announces it is ending support for its Wemo devices and app on January 31, 2026; a limited number of devices will continue to function via HomeKit (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)

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