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Kali Linux 2026.3 arrives with KDE Plasma 6.7, Linux kernel 7.1.5, six new security tools, and major NetHunter improvements.

Starting with Mesa 27.0, all Mali GPUs with Valhall (v9) or newer will use Kraid, the new Panfrost compiler built in under six months. Compared with the old compiler, it produces about 19% fewer shader instructions, cuts spilling by over 80%, and compiles about 7x faster.

Offensive Security released Kali Linux 2026.3 today as the latest stable snapshot of this Debian-based GNU/Linux distribution for penetration testing and ethical hacking.

Linus Torvalds merged the "char/misc" changes for the Linux 7.4 kernel driver on Saturday. Most notable this cycle for char/misc is what's being removed: Google's C-written Binder driver has left the kernel with the Rust-based modern Binder driver ready to take for the role of being used by all future Android devices...

Powering the BeagleConnect QuadESC motor-control board, the BeagleConnect Torque is an open-source controller module developed by BeagleBoard.org for robotics, industrial control, and connected sensing applications. Based on Texas Instruments’ AM13E23019 microcontroller, it features a 200 MHz Arm Cortex-M33 processor, CAN FD connectivity, and expansion interfaces for custom embedded systems. Measuring just 25.4 × 38.1 mm […]

Catch up on the latest Linux news: Kernel 7.3, OBS Studio 33.0, COSMIC 1.11, KeePassXC 2.8, OpenSSL 4.1, BeamFS filesystem proposed for inclusion in the Linux kernel, and more.

The Rust-based open-source operating system Redox OS had a very eventful September as they outlined in a status update published this weekend...

qBittorrent 5.3 open-source BitTorrent client has been released today as a major update that introduces numerous new features and improvements for all supported platforms, including Linux, macOS, and Windows.

After nearly a decade in the Linux kernel's staging area and being worked on by many different kernel developer newcomers, the Realtek rtl8723bs was deleted from the staging area. This comes as Realtek rtl8723bs was added onto the more mature RTW88 driver in the Linux networking subsystem...

PipeWire 1.6.10 has been released today as the tenth maintenance update in the latest PipeWire 1.6 series of this open-source software for handling audio and video streams under Linux-based operating systems.

Following all the HID driver updates/additions in Linux 7.4, the input subsystem changes were merged this weekend for this new kernel version...

BeagleBoard.org has introduced the BeagleConnect QuadESC, an open-source four-channel brushless DC motor-control board for robotics, drones, and embedded applications. It integrates four three-phase power stages and the BeagleConnect Torque module, featuring a 200 MHz Arm Cortex-M33 processor, dedicated math acceleration, and a TinyEngine neural-network accelerator. The BeagleConnect QuadESC measures 60 × 48 mm and integrates […]

Linux sound subsystem maintainer Takashi Iwai of SUSE began the Linux 7.4 sound pull request by noting that "the AI flood continues" with there continuing to be a lot of new patches coming as a result of AI/LLM agents devising patches as well as uncovering new kernel bugs...

Prominent Wayland developer Simon Ser sent out a merge request today for introducing the new ext-transient-output protocol. With ext-transient-output, it's intent is for helping remoting software like VNC servers in a Wayland world...

Riff offers Linux users a native Spotify experience with GTK4, libadwaita, playlist management, playback controls, and GNOME integration.

Ubuntu Touch 24.04-2.2 and 24.04-1.6 are out with certificate security fixes, VoLTE improvements, and AppArmor updates.

Rockchip’s upcoming RK3668 is a 6nm octa-core processor featuring six Arm Cortex-A725 cores, two Cortex-A520 cores, and a Mali-G2 Pro MC4 GPU. The SoC integrates a 44 TOPS NPU, LPDDR6 memory support, and high-speed interfaces including PCIe 5.0, SATA 3.1, and 10 Gigabit Ethernet, targeting edge AI, networking, industrial automation, and multimedia systems. According to […]

Andrew Morton sent out the big set of memory management "MM" related patches for the Linux 7.4 merge window. This cycle it topped out at 539 total patches and a reviewed rate of 76%...

systemd introduces optional Rust support for new components, using Meson instead of Cargo while keeping its existing C architecture intact.

On Friday Valve released SteamOS 3.9.5 as their first stable release in the SteamOS 3.9 series. This brings all the great improvements previously available in preview form with many package updates and other enhancements...