Open-source News

OpenJPH as an open-source implementation of high-throughput JPEG2000 Part-15 (or JPH or HTJ2K) is now significantly faster for both encode and decode operations thanks to new AVX2 optimizations for Intel and AMD processors...

Framework's 13 Pro has been delayed by a month, but you can still pick up the Mainboard next month  PC Gamer

Intel's Open Image Denoise is the open-source project providing a high performance denoising library for ray-tracing and used by the likes of Blender and other renderers/creative apps for powerful denoising capabilities. Released last week was Open Image Denoise 2.5 with some very nice performance improvements for Intel GPUs...

Back in March the GNOME Foundation announced a fellowship program. The GNOME fellowship program will help with the long-term sustainability of the GNOME desktop and looked to fund independent/community contributors over a twelve month period. Today the first recipients of the fellowship program have been announced...

Linux Lite 8.0 Released With Ubuntu 26.04 Base, GTK4 Helper Apps, and Firefox Replacing Chrome  gHacks

One of the new network drivers destined for the upcoming Linux 7.2 merge window is for supporting the Airoha AN8801R Gigabit Ethernet PHY...

Airoha AN8801R Gigabit Ethernet PHY Driver Coming To Linux 7.2  Phoronix

Proton-CachyOS update brings automatic HDR, Wayland improvements and more bug fixes  GamingOnLinux

The Linux Foundation and Databricks launch OpenSharing  Techzine Global

piBrick PocketCM5 – An open-source handheld Linux computer kit for Raspberry Pi CM5  CNX Software

PoC Exploit Released for Linux Kernel Guest-to-Host Escape Vulnerability  gbhackers.com

Steam Beta gets improved Pipewire session logic on Linux  GamingOnLinux

Databricks, Linux Foundation launch OpenSharing AI standard  IT Brief Asia

ReactOS, the open-source operating system working for binary compatibility with Microsoft Windows computer programs and drivers, has reached the milestone of being able to enjoy the classic game Half-Life running on this open-source platform...

ReactOS "Open-Source Windows" Reaches The Milestone Of Being Able To Run Half-Life  Phoronix

Platform engineering can improve developer experience, provide reusable platform services across an organization, and help teams deliver software more quickly without compromising trust and security. In practice, however, many platform teams struggle to achieve the level of adoption they expect. Some teams find themselves pulled into project-specific support work. Others build tools and standards that are technically sound, but rarely used, and as a result, the platform does not deliver the reusability or scale it was intended to provide.As a Red Hat consultant, I have worked on platform engin

Recently, Red Hat's Vincent Danen highlighted how AI models found 271 real security defects in Firefox in a single pass during Mozilla's collaboration with Anthropic. If AI can do that for defenders, it can do the same for attackers. As Danen put it, "if your security strategy is solely predicated on the assumption that software will be vulnerability-free, you've already lost." Vulnerabilities in code are only the entry point. The real damage comes after—lateral movement through misconfigured networks, overprivileged credentials, unrotated secrets, and services that blindly trust each other.

Alpine Linux is a crazy-fast distro for your desktop - with just one caveat  Yahoo Tech

Alpine Linux is a crazy-fast distro for your desktop - with just one caveat  ZDNET

Framework Computer began informing those that pre-ordered the new Framework Laptop 13 Pro that it will begin shipping in July rather than their original June target. The setback is coming to address two issues that came up in their testing process that delayed the start of mass production...