Open-source News

A new platform feature being worked on by Arm engineers for the Linux kernel is Live Firmware Activation to allow for updated firmware components to be deployed without requiring a system reboot...

For those that happen to have the Logitech MX Master 4 wireless mouse or are considering this high-end ~$120 USD Bluetooth mouse, better support for it was merged yesterday to Linux 7.0...

Linux 7.0 Better Supporting The Logitech MX Master 4 Bluetooth Mouse  Phoronix

Major tech companies invest $12.5 million in open source security  Help Net Security

Linux Foundation Receives $12.5 Million for Open Source Security  Techzine Global

Linux Foundation Launches Open Source Defence Against AI Bug Surge  Open Source For You

Linux Foundation wants to shield FOSS devs from AI bug slop  theregister.com

Version 4.3 of the CMake software development tool / build system was released today. Notable with CMake 4.3 is support for importing and exporting packages described using the Common Package Specification (CPS) for greater interoperability in the ecosystem...

Linux phones could get even better with postmarketOS ‘Duranium’  How-To Geek

Systemd 260 was just released as the newest stable version of this widely-used Linux init system and service manager. Systemd 260 brings yet more features to this critical open-source project and to be incorporated into H1'2026 Linux distributions...

OpenJDK 26 is out today as the newest GA reference version for the Java SE platform. With Java 26, it's finally time to say a goodbye to the Java Applet API...

Linux Foundation secures USD $12.5m for AI security  ChannelLife Australia

AMD MLIR-AIE Releases New AIECC C++ Compiler To Help Bring New Workloads To Ryzen AI NPUs  Phoronix

AMD Ryzen AI NPUs are now running LLMs on Linux with the recently debuted Lemonade 10.0 server and FastFlowLM 0.9.35 adding Linux support. In addition to those software components, AMD engineers have also been developing MLIR-AIE as a compiler toolchain for AMD AI Engine devices such as Ryzen AI NPUs in leveraging LLVM-based code generation with the Multi-Level Intermediate Representation (MLIR). Out today is MLIR-AIE v1.3 with some notable new features...

The System76 Thelio Mira is the new Linux desktop workstation to beat  How-To Geek

The Linux Foundation secures $12.5 million to boost open source security  BetaNews

I replaced GNOME with the new COSMIC, and it feels like the future of Linux  MakeUseOf

GNOME’s new app is the beautiful media player Linux deserved  MakeUseOf

The Need for Cloud Security in a Modern Business Environment  Linux Journal

The community-focused, RHEL/CentOS-derived AlmaLinux distribution announced its support today for the RISC-V CPU ISA with AlmaLinux Kitten 10 builds being made available...