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Ubuntu Working On SHA3 For Debian's APT For If/When SHA2 Is Broken

Ubuntu developer Gianpiero Carpinelli at Canonical has been working on introducing SHA3-256 and SHA3-384 support for Debian's APT packaging tool in preparing for if/when that SHA2 is broken...

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EU's Microsoft Teams Alternative Draws Bad Reviews From Officials

The European Commission has rolled out Element Pro as a self-hosted "sovereign back-up" to Microsoft Teams and the reviews aren't great.

  • EU launches internal communication platform Element Pro as Microsoft Teams alternative
  • Officials criticize Element Pro as "absolute shit" and question its usefulness
  • Element Pro hosted on EU's own infrastructure for greater data control

Where Hospital Price Files Actually Live in 2026

A dated census of US hospital machine-readable price files: formats, hosting, and file sizes — and the federal catalog that used to list them all, now gone. Pennyforge (SendCheck) — 2026-10-02.

  • Federal catalog PDC vanished after CMS rebuild on September 29, 2026
  • Hospital price files in diverse formats: CSV dominant at 50.6%, JSON at 17.7%
  • Hospitals host price files on 1,196 domains, Azure Blob buckets serve 11.7%

Bitbucket app passwords: move to API tokens

Key takeaways Pick the credential per consumer: an API token for a human, a repository access token for CI. A bot on someone's personal token dies when they leave.

  • Bitbucket urges users to move from app passwords to API tokens
  • App passwords will stop working on July 28, 2026
  • Three types of tokens: Atlassian, repository, and project access

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