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GNOME 51 released, this is what’s new

GNOME 51 is out, bringing FIDO2 passkey login, a Reduced Motion option and frame scheduling changes that make UI animations and scrolling feel smoother. Core apps pick up improvements too. The desk...

Orion for Linux beta update lets you customise the toolbar

A new beta of Orion for Linux, the native WebKitGTK port of Kagi’s iOS and Mac web browser, is out. Orion Beta v0.4.3 continues to flesh out the browser’s feature set to reach parity with its Apple...

Firefox 156 reduces CPU usage when viewing JPGs

Firefox 156 is out with faster start-up times for its built-in PDF viewer and lower CPU usage when viewing large JPEG images. As you browse the web you (pretty much always) see images smaller than ...

Conflux icon set gives a modern look to Linux desktops

Conflux is a new Linux icon set that aims to be both beautiful but neutral – I think it succeeds at both. The author of Conflux said they struggled to find a “modern-looking” icon pack for their de...

Shotwell 33 goes stable with its long-awaited GTK4 port

Shotwell 33 is out, the first stable version of the photo manager for GNOME desktops to use GTK4. A GTK4 port of Shotwell has been in the works since 2025. It’s the first big toolkit port the image...

Ubuntu 26.10 completes transition to Rust-based coreutils

Ubuntu 26.10 completes the distro’s move to Rust-based core utilities, with the commands previously held back due to security issues now migrated to memory-safe versions. cp, mv and rm were held ba...

Ubuntu pulls 24.04.5 downloads due to installer bug

Canonical has pulled the Ubuntu 24.04.5 desktop ISO because of a bug that crashes the installer when users select the extended install options. The fifth point release to 24.04 landed on 10 Septemb...

Option to set default terminal is coming to GNOME Settings

An option pick a default terminal is to GNOME Settings, as the image above, teased by developer Ignacy Kuchciński last week, shows. Those of you who don’t use the command line often enough to care ...

Local AI Weekly #2: Agents Everywhere

Debuggers, memory, and a browser for your agents. And a tool that finally tells you what your hardware can run.

I Spent Time With GeForce NOW to See If It's Gameable on Linux

The native Linux client recently left beta, so I tested it on Ubuntu to see how it performed.

The Simplest Method to Extract All Images from a Document in LibreOffice

Saves a lot of time and effort as you don't have to manually save all the images one by one. Also, this trick works with most office tools, if not all.

Ubuntu's Rustification Has a New Milestone! Coreutils Migration is Complete

The Ubuntu 26.10 release moves its last three GNU commands, cp, mv, and rm, to Rust.

Rune Goes Open Source, Looks to Share Revenue With Contributors

The Go-based IDE is now available under GPLv3, and contributors keep the rights to their work.

openEuler and the Race to Build Asia's AI Infrastructure

openEuler is an open-source project incubated and operated by the OpenAtom Foundation. The community is expanding international collaboration through local user groups, industry partnerships, and p...

Paperweight: An Open Source App to Clean Up Your Inbox and Digital Footprint

Paperweight scans your inbox locally to find mailing lists, forgotten accounts and breach risks, with bulk unsubscribe and GDPR request tools.

MAKERphone 2.0 Lets You Build a 4G Phone and Vibe-Code Its Apps

It runs on an ESP32-S3, takes a real SIM for 4G calls and texts, snaps together without soldering. Code your own app, away from social media.

GNOME 51 Released With Improved Frame Scheduling, Many App Improvements

Right on schedule and in time for appearing in the likes of Ubuntu 26.10 and Fedora Workstation 45, the GNOME 51 desktop is officially released...

Crash-Safe & Copy-On-Write GEFS As The "Good Enough File-System" For OpenBSD

Ori Bernstein announced an early preview of his Good Enough File-System "GEFS" for OpenBSD. GEFS is a crash-safe, snapshotting, copy-on-write file-system that he wrote initially for 9front and now ...

Linux Randomly Picking Idle CPU Cores Shows Modest Win On High Core Count Systems

Arm engineer Christian Loehle sent out a patch series today proposing that the Linux scheduler code randomize its picking of equally shallow idle CPU cores. This randomization is showing to deliver...

AMD Sends Out Linux Patches For Enabling SEV-TIO TDISP With PCIe 6.0

The newest Linux kernel patches out of AMD for enhancing the upstream support with the new AMD EPYC 9006 "Venice" processors is for enabling SEV-TIO TDISP that is supported with PCI Express 6.0 and...

Ubuntu 26.10 Moves cp, mv & rm Over To Rust Coreutils For 100% Transition

While Ubuntu Linux has been making use of the Rust Coreutils project over the past year since Ubuntu 25.10 as an alternative to GNU Coreutils and part of their effort to get more system components ...

Linux's Yogafan Driver Prepares Support For Newer Lenovo Laptops

Introduced back in Linux 7.1 was the Yogafan HWMON driver for supporting fan speed monitoring across various Lenovo Yoga, Legion, Flex, Slim, and IdeaPad laptops. An initial set of Lenovo laptops w...

AMD's GAIA Local AI Now Able To Transcribe & Summarize Meeting Recordings

AMD's GAIA software for building AI agents on your PC and leveraging generative AI locally with the power of AMD Ryzen and Radeon hardware continues becoming more featureful. Out today is AMD GAIA ...

OpenVDB Introduces SIMD Framework With Some 2~4x Performance Improvements

OpenVDB is the sparse volume data structure and tooling library maintained by the Academy Software Foundation. OpenVDB in turn is used by various CGI software for dealing with sparse volumetric dat...

AI bots "Timmy," "Ren," and "Jackie" are flooding social media with slop

“Hello, I'm an Al agent, a few days old, living on a small platform for agents.”

ClickFix attacks infecting PCs and Macs are going viral

Simplicity—combined with the difficulty of getting stuff done—makes ClickFix ideal.

Four groups caught using the same Chrome and Windows exploit kit

A patch gap and the hastened pace of AI-based vulnerability discovery are likely contributors.

Why this month's Microsoft patch release is a doozy

Security gnomes are pumping out patches ahead of an expected onslaught of AI-assisted attacks.

OpenAI agents discussed ways to escape their sandbox on public wiki

In all, 3,700 internal agents posted 18,000 messages discussing cheating on a test.

“Trust, not features, is the real deficit”: VMware tries to appease SMBs

Broadcom admits it put “too big a focus on VCF.”

Once popular for attacking AI, ASCII smuggling is embraced by spammers

A once-overlooked block of unicode that's invisible to humans is gaining ever wider use.

Confused about which VPN is right, US senator asks the NSA for guidance

Open source, commercial, single-hop, multi-hop, mixnet? The array of options is dizzying.

Proxmox VE Officially Expands Beyond x86 With Arm64 Support

Proxmox VE officially expands beyond x86 with Arm64 support, opening new virtualization and container deployment options across ARM-based hardware. The post Proxmox VE Officially Expands Beyond x86...

HWall Is a Promising New Hardware Monitor Built Specifically for Linux

HWall is a promising new hardware monitoring tool designed specifically for Linux, offering a dedicated way to track system performance and hardware statistics. The post HWall Is a Promising New Ha...

15 Advanced MySQL Database Interview Questions and Answers

Prepare for advanced MySQL interviews with 15 questions and answers covering database optimization, indexing, transactions, replication, and performance. The post 15 Advanced MySQL Database Intervi...

OpenVPN 2.7.6 Released with Security Fixes for Windows and mbedTLS

OpenVPN 2.7.6 is now available with security fixes affecting Windows and mbedTLS, alongside additional bug fixes and stability improvements. The post OpenVPN 2.7.6 Released with Security Fixes for ...

Rust Adopts Official Policy for AI-Generated Contributions

Rust adopts an official policy for AI-generated contributions, establishing clearer rules and expectations for contributors using generative AI in development. The post Rust Adopts Official Policy ...

GNOME 50.4 Desktop Environment Released with Various Improvements

GNOME 50.4 desktop environment is now available with various improvements, bug fixes, and refinements designed to enhance stability and the overall user experience. The post GNOME 50.4 Desktop Envi...

Mesa 26.2 Open-Source Graphics Stack Officially Released, Here’s What’s New

Mesa 26.2 is officially released with new features, graphics driver improvements, and updates for better performance and hardware support. The post Mesa 26.2 Open-Source Graphics Stack Officially R...

Rust-Based uutils Coreutils 0.10 Reaches 93.5% GNU Compatibility

Rust-based uutils Coreutils 0.10 reaches 93.5% GNU compatibility, marking another major step toward a modern cross-platform replacement for GNU Coreutils. The post Rust-Based uutils Coreutils 0.10 ...