Open-source News

Linux 7.2 Removes String-Copying Function Strncpy After Six-Year Cleanup  WinBuzzer

DRAGON BALL XENOVERSE 3 gets a brand new trailer  GamingOnLinux

For those that happen to still be running a 22+ year old Apple Power Mac such as those from 2004 with an IBM PowerPC processor and ATI Radeon 9600 XT or 9800 XT graphics, there are open-source driver improvements for Linux still happening in 2026 to benefit this vintage hardware...

Open-Source Driver For ATI R300 Era GPUs Seeing Improved Power Mac Support In 2026  Phoronix

Linux Fu: Upcycling An Old Router  Hackaday

The EROFS open-source read-only file-system has some nice enhancements in place for the

EROFS With Linux 7.2 Better Handles Large Sparse AI Datasets, More Efficient I/O  Phoronix

Alpha Compute CEO Brittany Kaiser to Headline Linux Foundation's Confidential Computing Summit 2026  The Joplin Globe

Alpha Compute CEO Brittany Kaiser to Headline Linux Foundation's Confidential Computing Summit 2026  Weatherford Democrat

Alpha Compute CEO Brittany Kaiser to Headline Linux Foundation's Confidential Computing Summit 2026  marketscreener.com

Alpha Compute CEO Brittany Kaiser to Headline Linux Foundation's Confidential Computing Summit 2026  GlobeNewswire

Alpha Compute CEO Brittany Kaiser speaks at confidential AI summit  Stock Titan

Linux USB4STREAM Lands in Kernel 7.2: Raw Data Streams Over Thunderbolt, No Network Needed  Tech Times

Linux Foundation extends DNS to AI agents with new Agent Name Service  SiliconANGLE

Linux Foundation Announces Intent to Launch Agent Name Service to Establish Trusted Identity Infrastructure for AI Agents  PR Newswire

GNU nano 9.1 CLI Text Editor Released with Minor Improvements and Bug Fixes  9to5Linux

While the Fwupd 2.1 series is the latest stable channel for this open-source firmware updating solution, Fwupd 2.0.21 was released today to backport fixes for more than 250 potential security issues recently uncovered in the codebase...

Homebrew 6.0 released with new security mechanism, Linux sandbox and more  DevClass

The Linux 8250 serial driver as the universal/legacy driver for 8250 and 16550 type serial ports has been seeing some modernization work recently with a number of 8250 serial patches having now been merged for the Linux 7.2 kernel...

New Hygon Model 8 "Suzhou" x86 CPU Support Appears In The GCC Compiler  Phoronix