La Commission européenne a rejeté, mardi, le projet de budget de l’Italie. Cécile Ducourtieux, correspondante du « Monde » à Bruxelles, a répondu à vos questions lors d’un tchat.

Le président turc a contredit la version saoudienne d’un interrogatoire qui aurait mal tourné, mais a pris soin de ne pas nommer le commanditaire du meurtre.

Plusieurs affaires d’« inconduite scientifique » renvoient une image peu flatteuse de la biologie et questionnent la solidité des garde- fous de la recherche. Enquête sur trois affaires françaises.

Les Lyonnais ont dû se contenter d’un nul, mardi soir, sur la pelouse d’Hoffenheim (3-0) dans le cadre de la 3e journée de C1.

L’infrastructure longue de 55 kilomètres, qui relie Hongkong à Macao, complète la stratégie d’intégration par Pékin de cette région autonome à la République populaire.

Le statut du cannabidiol, dérivé du cannabis au faible taux de la molécule euphorisante THC, est entouré d’un flou juridique que la Cour de justice de l’Union européenne devra trancher.

Les députés ont débuté mardi la discussion du projet de loi de financement de la Sécurité sociale. Se dirige-t-on vers la « flexisécurité » à la scandinave ou vers un modèle libéral à l’anglo-saxonne ?

L’ancienne directrice de la communication de Jean-Luc Mélenchon a réfuté les soupçons évoqués dans le cadre de la campagne présidentielle du candidat insoumis.

L’étude de Santé publique France le « Baromètre santé 2016, genre et sexualité, d’une décennie à l’autre » a été réalisée avant l’avènement des mouvements de libération de la parole.

La généralisation des compteurs d’électricité connectés suscite craintes et interrogations. Les lecteurs interrogés par les Décodeurs s’inquiètent du devenir des données collectées.

Improving the quality of stable kernel releases is a perennial subject at the Kernel and Maintainers Summit events, and this year was no exception.
This session, led by Fedora kernel maintainer Laura Abbott, discussed a range of ideas but found no silver bullets. There is, it seems, not much that can be done to create better stable kernels except to perform more and better testing.

Ars technica takes a look at the Enhanced Tracking Protection (ETP) feature in Firefox 63. "Firefox has long had the ability to block all third-party cookies, but this is a crude solution, and many sites will break if all third-party cookies are prohibited. The new EPT option works as a more selective block on tracking cookies; third-party cookies still work in general, but those that are known to belong to tracking companies are blocked. For the most part, sites will retain their full functionality, just without undermining privacy at the same time.
At least for now, however, Mozilla is defaulting this feature to off, so the company can get a better idea of the impact it has on the Web. In testing, the company has found the occasional site that breaks when tracking cookies are blocked. Over the next few months, Firefox developers will get a better picture of just how much breaks, and, if it's not too severe, the plan is to block trackers by default starting in early 2019." The article also mentions a second privacy-related feature; the offer of a subscription to the ProtonVPN service.
The Firefox 63 release notes contain other details.

Security updates have been issued by CentOS (java-1.8.0-openjdk), Fedora (mosquitto), openSUSE (binutils, clamav, exiv2, fuse, haproxy, singularity, and zziplib), Slackware (firefox), SUSE (apache- pdfbox, net-snmp, pam_pkcs11, postgresql94, rpm, tiff, and wireshark), and Ubuntu (kernel, libssh, linux, linux-aws, linux-kvm, linux-raspi2, linux- snapdragon, linux-azure, linux-lts-trusty, linux-lts-xenial, linux-aws, net- snmp, paramiko, requests, and texlive-bin).

The Linux Foundation's Technical Advisory Board is chosen by a vote at the Kernel Summit each year; this year, that will happen during the Linux Plumbers Conference in November. The call for nominations to the board has gone out; it remains open until the voting happens. "The TAB advises the Foundation on kernel-related matters, helps member companies learn to work with the community, and works to resolve community-related problems before they get out of hand. We're also working with kernel maintainers to help refine the new code of conduct, and serving as the initial point of contact for code of conduct issues."

The 2018 Kernel Maintainers Summit convened in Edinburgh, UK on October 22 with a number of things to discuss, but the top subject on most minds was the recently (and hastily) adopted code of conduct. Linus Torvalds made his reentry into the kernel community with a discussion of how we got to the current state of affairs, and the assembled maintainers had a relatively good-natured discussion on how this situation came about and where things can be expected to go from here.