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Earlier this year Canonical announced plans for using sudo-rs as the Rust-written sudo implementation by default for Ubuntu 25.10 along with Rust Coreutils and other Rust system components. The sudo-rs goal has been achieved with the newest Ubuntu 25.10 daily ISOs now using this sudo implementation by default...

The nRF54L15 Connect Kit is a compact platform for evaluating Nordic Semiconductor’s multiprotocol SoC, targeting low-power IoT with support for Bluetooth LE 6.0, Matter, Zigbee and other standards. It builds on the nRF52 Series with higher processing capability and improved efficiency. The kit is based on the nRF54L15-QFAA, which integrates a 128 MHz Arm Cortex-M33 […]

Cisco finds hundreds of Ollama servers open to unauthorized access, creating various nasty risks Cisco’s Talos security research team has found over 1,100 Ollama servers exposed to the public internet, where miscreants can use them to do nasty things.…

Separate from yesterday's upstream new GIMP 3.2 development release, open-source developer Josh Ellithorpe announced the creation of a new GIMP plug-in dubbed "Dream Prompter" for bringing the power of Google's Gemini 2.5 Flash Image Preview model to this open-source photo/image editing software...

The ollama open-source software that makes it easy to run AI large language models (LLMs) across different operating systems, hardware, and models is about to enjoy a nice speed boost...

Now that FFmpeg 8.0 has shipped for this widely-used multimedia library, development is back on of major feature work toward the next major release. Landing on Monday was the initial code for a major rewrite to the swscale code in providing a new framework that is faster and more maintainable/extensible moving forward...

Due to a "significant portion" of Red Hat's internal QA team responsible for Fedora QA leaving the company or switching to other teams at Red Hat, there are some Fedora ARM release changes coming to deal with the reduced abilities of their quality assurance team...

Taylor Otwell says skip the clever code, keep it simple Taylor Otwell, inventor and maintainer of popular PHP framework Laravel, is warning against overly complex code and the risks of bypassing the framework.…

The PP-Ethernet-RS422/485 from Platypus is a compact module that bridges serial communication with Ethernet networks. It is based on WIZnet’s W55RP20, a chip combining Raspberry Pi’s RP2040 MCU and the W5500 Ethernet controller, providing a low-cost and integrated solution for serial-to-Ethernet conversion. The RP2040 provides dual Arm Cortex-M0+ processors with 264 KB of SRAM, while […]

AAEON’s UP brand has unveiled a new line of development kits aimed at edge AI workloads. The series includes the UP TWL AI Dev Kit, UP Squared Pro TWL AI Dev Kit, and UP Xtreme ARL AI Dev Kit, providing developers with entry-level, mid-tier, and high-end options. The kits combine Intel processors with optional AI […]

The EU512-AI is a compact mini PC built for multi-display setups, AI-assisted workloads, and high-speed networking. It supports four 4K displays, offers wired and wireless connectivity, and integrates an NPU for edge inference in space-limited environments. This system is functionally identical to the MINIX Elite EU715-AI introduced in April, except that it features the Intel […]

For those using the upstream open-source NVIDIA Linux driver "Nouveau", with a pending fix coming for Linux 6.17 and existing kernel releases it should be a much more stable and reliable experience...

AerynOS 2025.08 ISOs are now available as the third release of the year for this innovative Linux distribution formerly known as Serpent OS...

Banana Pi has published initial details on the BPI-F5, a single board computer built on the Allwinner T527 SoC. The chip integrates an octa-core Cortex-A55 CPU, ARM G57 MC1 GPU, HiFi4 DSP, 2 TOPS NPU, and a RISC-V MCU for real-time tasks. The board is intended for industrial control, automotive, and other edge applications. The […]

Linus Torvalds just released Linux 6.17-rc4 as the newest weekly test release of Linux 6.17 in working toward the stable release in late September...

Shuttle has introduced the XPC slim DH810, a compact mini PC designed for Intel Core Ultra 200 desktop processors in the LGA1851 socket. The system supports “Arrow Lake-S” CPUs with up to 24 cores and integrates a Neural Processing Unit delivering 13 TOPS of AI performance. Processor support extends to Core Ultra 9, 7, and […]

A remarkable mixture of different components, but it works RefreshOS is a Debian and KDE-based distro with a difference: it casts its net a lot wider for tools and components.…

This week's round of HID subsystem "fixes" for the in-development Linux 6.17 kernel include adding a number of new device IDs and other alterations for supporting new hardware...

Running AIs on your own machine lets you stick it to the man and save some cash in the process Feature After a decade or two of the cloud, we're used to paying for our computing capability by the megabyte. As AI takes off, the whole cycle promises to repeat itself again, and while AI might seem relatively cheap now, it might not always be so.…

The FreeBSD project on Friday published their quarterly status report to highlight all of the interesting changes for Q2'2025. Among the recent FreeBSD efforts have been on "bsd-user-4-linux" to allow FreeBSD binaries to run unmodified on Linux systems. FreeBSD is also coming up with a policy around AI/LLM usage for contributing to the project. Additionally, Sylve is taking shape as a new web-based unified system management platform for FreeBSD systems...