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Passing of Jean-Raymond Abrial
Jean-Raymond Abrial, father (in particular!) of the Z notation, but also of the B method, and then Event-B, passed away on May 26. I was surprised to see that this piece of news, which may be of some interest to formal method folks, doesn’t seem to be very well known (there’s not much material on the web).

Here are some links (on LinkedIn, sorry):
[by Bertrand Meyer](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/bertrandmeyer_i-am-saddened-to-report-from-todays-print-activity-7335684948974034944-SJf1? … ⌘ Read more

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[$] Improving iov_iter
The iov_iter interface is used to
describe and iterate through buffers in the kernel. David Howells led a combined storage and
filesystem session at
the 2025 Linux Storage,
Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit (LSFMM+BPF) to discuss ways
to improve iov_iter. His topic\
proposal listed a few different ideas including replacing some
iov_iter types and possibly allowing mixed types in chains of … ⌘ Read more

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[$] An end to uniprocessor configurations
The Linux kernel famously scales from the smallest of systems to massive
servers with thousands of CPUs. It was not always that way, though; the
initial version of the kernel could only manage a single processor. That
limitation was lifted, obviously, but single-processor machines have always
been treated specially in the scheduler. That longstanding situation may
soon come to an end, though, if this patch\
series from Ingo M … ⌘ Read more

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Breaking: Australia sanctions against two far-right Israeli ministers over Gaza comments
Foreign Minister Penny Wong says Australia will join the UK, Canada and New Zealand in sanctioning Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich over comments they have made about Gaza. ⌘ Read more

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20 Years of the Open Invention Network
The Open Invention Network (OIN) is celebrating
its 20th anniversary.

The central feature of the OIN community is a patent cross-license
that covers core Open Source functionality and expands in parallel
with the growth of Open Source technology. As growth in Open Source
has accelerated, OIN has proactively expanded the scope of the OIN
license’s benefit by including more than 4,500 software components … ⌘ Read more

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Security updates for Tuesday
Security updates have been issued by Debian (python-django), Fedora (krb5), Mageia (cockpit, golang, kernel, and kernel-linus), SUSE (augeas, go1.23, go1.24, iputils, libwebp, transfig, and xen), and Ubuntu (amd64-microcode, apport, linux-azure, linux-azure, linux-azure-4.15, linux-azure-fips, linux-raspi, systemd, and tomcat). ⌘ Read more

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Tiefe Erschütterung nach Amoklauf in Schule
Nach dem Massenmord am Dienstag in einer Grazer Schule mit zehn Toten herrscht in ganz Österreich tiefe Erschütterung. Zahlreiche Politiker und Politikerinnen zeigten sich betroffen, ebenso Vertreter der Kirche. Mitgefühls- und Solidaritätsbekundungen kamen auch seitens der EU. ⌘ Read more

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„Klare Abkehr von Marketinggags“
Der 100. Tag einer Regierung ist traditionellerweise Anlass für eine erste, notwendigerweise vorläufige, Zwischenbilanz. Im Fall der ÖVP-SPÖ-NEOS-Koalition betont der Politologe Peter Filzmaier, auffällig sei die „klare Abkehr von Marketinggags“ und medialen Inszenierungen. ÖVP, SPÖ und NEOS sagten – so wie auch die FPÖ – angesichts des tödlichen Amoklaufs in einer Grazer Schule ihre für Dienstag geplanten Stellungnahmen ab. ⌘ Read more

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NT police boss faces political questioning over Kumanjayi White death probe
The Northern Territory’s acting police commissioner clarifies why police believe the investigation into Kumanjayi White’s death should not be outsourced to an external body. ⌘ Read more

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Marines to arrive in LA as ABC camera operator hit by less lethal round during protests
An additional 700 US Marines are expected to reach Los Angeles on Monday night or Tuesday morning, local time, as part of efforts to quell the protests. ⌘ Read more

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South Korea’s new president vows to ‘restore democracy’
Reuters Editorial Staff,    -  Reuters

_Stephan: I am leading today’s SR with this story because it represents exactly how the population of a country can end a fascist authoritarian coup. First, millions go into the streets for nonviolent demonstrations, then citizens overwhelmingly vote for democracy. As Trump tries to stir up violence in the Los Angeles demonstrations so he can claim it is an insurrection and susp … ⌘ Read more

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Trump’s troop deployment is a warning sign for what comes next, legal scholars fear
Kyle Cheney and Josh Gerstein,  Staff Writers  -  Politico

_Stephan: What is see in Trump is a bully in a panic. He wants to create misdirection so the media stops covering his bully-off with Elon Musk, and the nasty oligarch benefit bill his morally spineless Republican vassals in Congress are trying to pass. Like all cowardly bullies, his solution is to over … ⌘ Read more

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