Businessman and Lisp enthusiast Paul Graham presented the initial version of the Arc programming language. Graham points in particular to the brevity of Arc source code and has launched a programming language competition.

Navicron from Finland has just announced its Fusion developer platform which gives enterprises the ability to build wireless mobile and embedded devices.

The GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) developers have now released version 4.2.3, which fixes a number of bugs.

Chip giant Intel has released comprehensive documentation on its 965 Express and G35 Express chipsets.

Version 3.0.0 of HTML Purifier, a PHP library for purifying HTML has just been released with numerous new features.

Version 0.4.0 of libvirt, a free library for administration of virtualized operating systems has just been released.

Debian project maintainers who just stop maintaining their software packages and fail to respond to mail are a big problem for the free Linux distribution. Now, Debian is introducing new rules to resolve the issue.

Mono developer and Novell employee Miquel de Icaza reported on the progress being made by Moonlight at the XML 2007 Conference in Boston. Moonlight is the Linux variant of Microsoft’s Silverlight solution.