New story! Curl creator mulls nixing bug bounty awards to stop AI slop

Maintainers struggle to handle growing flow of low-quality bug reports written by bots Daniel Stenberg, founder and lead developer of the open-source curl command line utility, just wants the AI slop to stop.…

New story! Mistral launches Voxtral speech recognition model

  • The Register (Posted by bob on Jul 15, 2025 11:42 PM CST)
  • Groups: Apache; Story Type: News Story
Apache-licensed plan takes aim at costlier options Mistral has released an open automatic speech recognition (ASR) software bundle called Voxtral in a bid to undercut rivals on price and quality.…

New story! NVIDIA GeForce GTX 600/700 "Kepler" GPUs Now Vulkan 1.2 Conformant With NVK

Yet more feature code continues piling in for the Mesa 25.2 release due out next month and days ahead of the feature freeze. Hitting Mesa Git this evening is now treating NVIDIA Kepler GPUs as Vulkan 1.2 conformant following the Vulkan 1.2 CTS passing with the NVK open-source driver paired with the Nouveau kernel driver...

New story! Debian-Based Sparky Linux 7.8 Now Available for Download

  • Linuxiac.com; By Bobby Borisov (Posted by bobolin on Jul 15, 2025 8:39 PM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story
The lightweight Linux distro Sparky 7.8 rolls out with updated packages, kernel 6.1 LTS, desktop refreshes, and Gimp preinstalled in live media.

New story! Attempt to run the most recent version of Dotfiles Installer designed by Stephan Raabe on CachyOS250713

Following below the step by step review of recent video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuqe5Hs00Go&t=686s posted by Stephan Raabe . Notice that current version of Dotfile Installer requires flatpak and yay to be preinstalled on any of Arch Linux Clones and CachyOS250713 in particular . So we have to start with yay installation to avoid silent failure of installation itself .

New story! VirtualBox 7.1.12 Improves Support for Linux Kernel 6.16 on Linux Hosts and Guests

Oracle released today VirtualBox 7.1.12 as the latest stable version of this open-source, free, and cross-platform virtualization software for GNU/Linux, macOS, and Windows systems.

New story! Nearly 3 out of 4 Oracle Java users say they've been audited in the past 3 years

  • The Register (Posted by bob on Jul 15, 2025 4:05 PM CST)
  • Groups: Oracle; Story Type: News Story
Big Red’s changes to Java licensing also inspire exodus to open source A survey of 500 IT asset managers in organizations that use Oracle Java has found that 73 percent have been audited in the last three years.…

New story! PHP Proposes Switch to BSD-3-Clause License

  • Linuxiac.com; By Bobby Borisov (Posted by bobolin on Jul 15, 2025 2:33 PM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: PHP
PHP may drop its legacy license in favor of BSD 3-Clause in version 9.0, thereby enhancing compatibility and simplifying distribution rights.

New story! Former Google DeepMind engineer says other AI agents are doing it wrong

  • The Register (Posted by bob on Jul 15, 2025 1:02 PM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story
Simular is starting with industries like insurance and healthcare with tons of forms to fill When Ang Li, co-founder of agent software biz Simular, started working at Google DeepMind in 2017, software engineers at the search giant were skeptical about the usefulness of machine learning, or artificial intelligence (AI) as it has come to be called.…

New story! Blender 4.5 LTS Arrives with Major UI Overhaul, Animation Improvements

  • Linuxiac.com; By Bobby Borisov (Posted by bobolin on Jul 15, 2025 11:30 AM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story
Blender 4.5 LTS open-source 3D creation suite delivers major updates in animation, geometry nodes, Grease Pencil, Vulkan rendering, and improved UI.

New story! LibreOffice Office Suite Lands Built-In Support For Bitcoin Currency

  • Phoronix (Posted by bob on Jul 15, 2025 9:59 AM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story
Merged yesterday to the latest development code for the LibreOffice open-source office suite is now recognizing Bitcoin "BTC" as a supported currency for use within the Calc spreadsheet program and elsewhere within this cross-platform free software office suite...

New story! Brave Now Has 59% as Many Users as Firefox Worldwide

Today, Brave browser is taking a huge chunk of Firefox’s market share, and few seem to care or notice.

New story! KDE Plasma 6.4.3 Desktop Environment Released

  • Linuxiac.com; By Bobby Borisov (Posted by bobolin on Jul 15, 2025 6:56 AM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: KDE
KDE Plasma 6.4.3 introduces important fixes for KWin, Discover, and Spectacle, along with translation updates and enhanced accessibility.

New story! Just Say No to Overcomplicated Cars

The Mustang Mach-E recall isn’t just a glitch—it’s a sign that sometimes, the best solutions are the ones we’ve left behind.

New story! New Effort To Upstream LTTng In The Linux Kernel Draws Criticism From Torvalds

The LTTng tracing toolkit is twenty years old this year and it's seen significant adoption by different hyperscalers and other notable organizations like IBM and Sony and Siemens beyond basic end-users and administrators for system tracing/debugging. While having many successes over the past two decades, the kernel modules remain outside of the kernel tree. Even with around four different upstreaming attempts to get the LTTng code into the mainline kernel, it still has not happened. A fifth attempt began today but still looks like it could be an uphill battle...

New story! Intel Xe3 Panther Lake OpenGL & Vulkan Support Now Enabled By Default On Linux

With the upcoming Linux 6.17 kernel the Intel Xe kernel graphics driver is enabling Panther Lake graphics out-of-the-box. Now going along with that Linux 6.17+ support out-of-the-box, the Mesa OpenGL and Vulkan user-space drivers are also ready to declare their Xe3 Panther Lake graphics support by default...

New story! IceWM 3.8.1 Window Manager Released with Toolbar Improvements

  • Linuxiac.com; By Bobby Borisov (Posted by bobolin on Jul 14, 2025 7:37 PM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story
IceWM 3.8 window manager for the X Window System brings memory usage optimizations, improved toolbar behavior, and more.

New story! Old Radeon HD 2000/3000/4000 GPUs Still Seeing Open-Source Driver Fixes In 2025

  • Phoronix (Posted by bob on Jul 14, 2025 6:06 PM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story
In addition to last minute feature work on the latest AMD RDNA4 graphics cards ahead of the Mesa 25.2 code branching, there's also some new fixes going into Mesa for the open-source Radeon driver code... Coming in this Monday morning by surprise are some fixes for the Radeon HD 2000/3000 series approaching two decades old as well as a fix for the Radeon HD 4000 graphics processors...

New story! Linux Mint 22.2 Beta Expected Soon, Focus Shifts to LMDE 7

LMDE 7 is officially named “Gigi” and will feature OEM install support along with all the enhancements introduced in Linux Mint 22.2.

New story! GParted: Still the best free partitioner standing – unless you're on a 32-bit box

  • The Register (Posted by bob on Jul 14, 2025 3:03 PM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story
Latest release handles NBD and bcachefs, but you’ll need 64-bit hardware to boot it GParted Live is a tiny live CD image that can copy, move, and resize partitions. It can be a lifesaver – but not for i686 any more.…

New story! NanoPi R76S Brings Dual 2.5GbE to Fanless RK3576-Based Router Board

  • LinuxGizmos.com (Posted by bob on Jul 14, 2025 12:02 PM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story
Following the recent launch of the NanoPi R3S LTS, FriendlyELEC introduces the NanoPi R76S, a compact router board powered by the Rockchip RK3576. Designed for edge networking and IoT, it features dual 2.5Gbps Ethernet, HDMI, USB 3.2, and AI acceleration. While the R3S LTS (based on RK3566) targets lightweight routing tasks, the R76S steps up […]

New story! Debian's DebConf25 Kicks Off On France - Video Streams Available

Debian's annual Debian Conference "DebConf" started this morning and runs all week in Brest, France...

New story! (Updated) ALPHA-One Leverages RISC-V StarPro64 for Compact Local LLM Deployment

  • LinuxGizmos.com (Posted by bob on Jul 14, 2025 8:59 AM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story
PINE64 has shared early details of the ALPHA-One, a compact generative AI agent powered by the RISC-V-based StarPro64 SBC. Priced at $329.99, the device is aimed at developers and testers, and comes preloaded with a 7 billion parameter LLM running in a Docker container. The ALPHA-One is built on the StarPro64 SBC, which features the […]

New story! Linuxiac Weekly Wrap-Up: Week 28 (Jul 7 – 13, 2025)

  • Linuxiac.com; By Bobby Borisov (Posted by bobolin on Jul 14, 2025 7:28 AM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Linux
Catch up on the latest Linux news: CachyOS, Krita 5.2.10, OBS Studio 31.1, Plasma 6.3.6, KDE ISO Image Writer, Amarok 3.3, Thunderbird 140, Red Hat offers free RHEL access, and more.

New story! Slashdot Media Turned Linux Journal Into a Slopfarm and Now Slashdot Actively Promotes Anti-Linux Slopfarms

  • Techrights; By Roy Schestowitz (Posted by schestowitz on Jul 14, 2025 5:56 AM CST)
  • Groups: Linux
This is not a new problem. Later on respected people (like Bruce Schneier, who follows Slashdot) would not only link to slop but also based articles on the slop they saw in Slashdot.

New story! Linux Patches Updated For The New Fairphone 6 Smartphone

  • Phoronix (Posted by bob on Jul 14, 2025 4:25 AM CST)
  • Groups: Linux; Story Type: News Story
Last month when the Fairphone 6 smartphone was announced, same-day Linux support patches were posted for this modular and repair-friendly smartphone. That Linux support code with the Device Tree (DT) files have been under review and out today is the second iteration of those enablement patches...

New story! NordVPN Now Has a Graphical Linux Client and We Gave It a Look

In May, NordVPN got full scale on board with Linux when it released a Linux client. We just took it for a spin!

New story! How to Install Docker on Rocky Linux 10: A Step-by-Step Guide

  • Linuxiac.com; By Bobby Borisov (Posted by bobolin on Jul 14, 2025 1:22 AM CST)
  • Story Type: Tutorial; Groups: Linux
A step-by-step guide to installing Docker on Rocky Linux 10, offering a solid Enterprise Linux foundation for containerized workloads.

New story! Haiku OS Sees Work On Better App HiDPI Scaling, Better Intel WiFI Driver From OpenBSD

  • Phoronix (Posted by bob on Jul 13, 2025 11:50 PM CST)
  • Groups: Intel; Story Type: News Story
The Haiku open-source operating system project inspired by BeOS had a busy month of June with a number of enhancements made to this OS. Haiku just published their convenient monthly recap that highlights all of the interesting changes made the past month to this open-source OS...

New story! GParted Live 1.7.0-8 Adds Mechanism to Reduce Random Order of Block Devices

GParted Live 1.7.0-8 has been released today for this open-source and free partition manager utility that lets you resize, copy, and move partitions without data loss, based on the popular GParted (GNOME Partition Manager) application.

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