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Improvements in JDK garbage collection, header sizes, data security and quantum key support all should minimize developer friction

"Ubuntu has managed to do away with GNU Core Utilities in its default stack," reports the blog It's FOSS. The last three utilities — cp, mv and rm — have been moved to versions from the uutils project (which reimplements utilities in Rust). Everything else, from ls and cat to chmod and du, made that jump in earlier releases... Canonical started "oxidizing" Ubuntu last year, and Ubuntu 25.10 became the first release to ship [ the uutils project's] coreutils as the default. That release also made sudo-rs the default privilege tool, replacing a command that had been in place for decades. 26.04 was the release where the plan did slow down quite a bit, as Canonical kept cp, mv, and rm on their GNU versions due to a bunch of TOCTOU issues that were blocking the full implementation. These were caught during an audit, when Canonical commissioned Zellic for two rounds between December 2025 and March 2026, focusing on the most security-sensitive utilities first. Across both rounds, Zellic raised 113 issues, and 44 of them were assigned CVEs. Canonical says the vast majority have been resolved. Getting here has had its ups and downs, and the last stretch was not clean. In July, uutils cp went back into the archive and came straight out again after it broke live image builds. The fix was quick; as the developers marked it "Critical," the fix went upstream, and the migration landed in time for 26.10. When typing commands, nothing changes for you on the surface. uutils coreutils is designed to be a drop-in replacement for essential GNU tools, and the project treats any divergence from GNU as a bug, further pointing out that some options may still be missing or behave differently. So if you prefer staying on the GNU version, you have the option to install the coreutils-from-gnu package that houses all the required components.

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Tributes paid to Peter Hills, former Essex County Standard editor, remembered as a respected Colchester journalist who nurtured generations and upheld local news standards.

Tributes paid to Peter Hills, former Essex County Standard editor, remembered as a respected Colchester journalist who nurtured generations and upheld local news standards.

Villagers are continuing to press Uttlesford District Council to take action over an unauthorised traveller development.

As pupils return to classrooms across Essex, concerns about smartphones, social media and children's wellbeing are back in the spotlight.

Villagers are continuing to press Uttlesford District Council to take action over an unauthorised traveller development.

Southminster pensioner Dennis Rand fears his home could flood after a burst water main soaked his garden for seven months, amid Essex and Suffolk Water dispute

As pupils return to classrooms across Essex, concerns about smartphones, social media and children's wellbeing are back in the spotlight.

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Downing Street has confirmed that a crackdown on money given by political donors based abroad will be applied retrospectively, in what critics say is a breach of 'natural justice'.

Conceived as a study of Britain's class system, what this series has in fact become is a snapshot of its post-war history.

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Five young birds successfully fledged in southern Scotland this summer.

The Mail watched on as several masked men rode through Nottingham's Market Square on bikes. Others were spotted wearing balaclavas in broad daylight near the city's train station.

It is a shameful milestone for the Government that more than four million people are claiming personal independence payments (PIPs)

Analysis suggests only one in 16 pensioners will be protected from a tax grab when the new state pension crosses the income tax threshold for the first time in April.

Christian Craighead, 51, was gagged by defence chiefs over his remarkable solo operation against jihadists in Kenya seven years ago.

Matthew Rhys first showed star quality as a teenage Elvis in his school show, his former teacher has revealed before his Emmys success.