Open-source News

Linux Foundation and Industry Leaders Launch Akrites to Defend Critical Open Source Software Against AI-Enabled Cyber Threats  SD Times

Linux Foundation and Industry Leaders Launch Akrites to Defend Critical Open Source Software Against AI-Enabled Cyber Threats  Linux Foundation

COSMIC's first big update in six months continues stripping GNOME out of the OS  XDA

Flipper One Takes Hardware Hacking Into Uncharted Waters  TechNewsWorld

The Academy Software Foundation that advances open-source efforts for the VFX/cinema industry and more with the likes of OpenVDB, OpenMoonRay, Open Shading Language, and other projects, has announced the formation of a new working group to help with Wayland adoption for artists...

Academy Software Foundation Announces The "Wayland For Artists Working Group"  Phoronix

Purism Announces Librem 16 as World’s Most Private and Secure Linux Laptop  9to5Linux

This entire operating system fits in 12 MB, and yes, it boots faster than Windows  MakeUseOf

Windows Secure Boot Certificate Expired — Billions of PCs Affected Including Linux Distros  CyberSecurityNews

A workaround for AMD's limitations to run FSR 4.1.1 on Linux has been published.  GameGPU

Updated Raspberry Pi OS With Linux 6.18 LTS Delivers Some Performance Benefits  Phoronix

Updated Raspberry Pi OS With Linux 6.18 LTS Delivers Some Performance Benefits  Phoronix

Last week marked the release of an updated Raspberry Pi OS that moved to Linux 6.18 LTS from its former Linux 6.12 kernel base along with making a number of other package updates. Given the jump to the newer Long Term Support kernel and other improvements, I ran some fresh benchmarks on the Raspberry Pi 5 (Raspberry Pi 500+) to see the performance difference out of the updated operating system.

Cache-aware scheduling - The Linux patch aiming for +360% performance on MySQL  Korben

Linux Foundation unveils DNS-based identity standard for AI agents  Biometric Update

Red Hat Enterprise Linux runner images are now in public preview  The GitHub Blog

Servo 0.3 released today as the latest version of this modern browser engine developed in Rust. With Servo 0.3 the demo servoshell browser is becoming more useful and supporting additional modern web features while Servo also continues to possess much potential moving forward on the embedded front as an alternative to the likes of the Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF)...

Linux Foundation sets 2026 confidential computing summit  SecurityBrief Asia

Linux 7.2 is continuing the trend of removing obsolete hardware drivers for which the code hasn't seen any maintenance in years and there are no believed users left of said drivers, especially those that would be running modern mainline versions of the Linux kernel. The char/misc changes merged dropped two more obsolete drivers from the Linux source tree...

Linux 7.2 Drops Ancient PROFIBUS Driver: Ported From SCO Unix In 1998, Unused For Years  Phoronix