Open-source News

Critical U-Boot FIT Signature Verification Vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-46728) Expose Embedded Linux Devices to Stealthy Firmware Attacks  Rescana

The Harmonic Firmware Initiative "HFI" is trying to provide a generic, standardized power-on firmware experience for RISC-V boards. Akin to the x86 world with having immediate graphics card initialization to provide a display while the system is booting and also having a BIOS setup utility for system configuration, HFI is trying to do the same for the RISC-V world...

Microsoft stopped fighting Linux—now it's building it  How-To Geek

It wasn't on my bingo card for the week but merged to Git ahead of today's Linux 7.2-rc3 kernel release are a number of fixes for the SEGA Dreamcast drivers...

Linux 7.2-rc3 Bringing Fixes For The SEGA Dreamcast Drivers In 2026  Phoronix

The staging driver fixes that were sent out this week ahead of the Linux 7.2-rc3 release is predominantly made up of hardening the Realtek RTL8723BS WiFi driver. In particular, a number of fixes for addressing out-of-bounds behavior when connecting to "bad" WiFi hosts...

Realtek RTL8723BS WiFi Linux Driver Hardened Against Malicious WiFi Access Points  Phoronix

linux-in-fe  Thurrott.com

Fastfetch 2.66 System Information Tool Released with Better AMD GPU Detection  Linuxiac

AI discovers Linux bug that went unnoticed for 15 years  Cybernews

First Look at COSMIC Desktop Environment’s Frosted Glass Effect  LXer: Linux News

First Look at COSMIC Desktop Environment’s Frosted Glass Effect  9to5Linux

No, Windows did not fall below 60% market share or lose 15 points to Linux  Windows Latest

AI Cybersecurity Discovery Uncovers Hidden Linux Security Bug  The Cryptonomist

The most ambitious Linux alternative in years isn't Linux at all  MakeUseOf

Video card Radeon RX 9070 XT loses up to 70% performance on Linux  GameGPU

Debian 13.6 is out today as the newest point release of Debian Trixie to ship the latest security fixes and other maintenance updates...

Debian 13.6 Released To Ship All The Latest Security Fixes, Reverts GeoIP Database  Phoronix

5 weird devices that can run Linux (even though they shouldn't)  How-To Geek

After 17 years, a developer has finally revived the dream of Hannah Montana Linux, an open source operating system themed around Hannah Montana  PC Gamer