The Linux kernel's AF_ALG interface for user-space applications to directly access the Linux kernel's built-in cryptographic engine is proceeding with a quick deprecation cycle due to a "massive attack surface" with increased vulnerabilities coming to light due to AI/LLM-based tooling...

blackdevice, a Spanish hardware engineering company and Raspberry Pi Design Partner, has shared details of Hive, a modular compute platform built around the Raspberry Pi CM5. The platform is designed to scale from small homelab installations to rack-mounted infrastructure deployments through interchangeable compute nodes called “beenodes”. According to the company, each beenode integrates a Raspberry […]

The 294th installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending May 31st, 2026, keeping you updated on the most important developments in the Linux world.

Rust Coreutils 0.9 adds TOCTOU-resistant copy logic, recursive traversal fixes, and broader GNU compatibility updates.

Shelly developer Zoey Bauer released Shelly 2.3.2 today as a new stable update to this open-source graphical package manager for Arch Linux-based distributions that adds new features and improvements.

Sixfab has unveiled two Raspberry Pi 5 expansion products based on DEEPX NPUs: the AI HAT+ and the Edge AI Expansion Board. Both platforms are designed to accelerate computer vision workloads locally on Raspberry Pi 5 systems, but they target different deployment scenarios. The AI HAT+ is intended for prototyping and development, while the Edge […]

The Audacious 4.6 open-source, free, and cross-platform media player has been released today with several exciting new features, new plugins, and many improvements.

With the end of the month comes a new KDE Linux status report from prominent KDE developer Nate Graham...

Backed by major European vendors, Euro-Office takes on Microsoft, Google Docs, and OnlyOffice — and we have screenshots to show how the new sovereign suite is shaping up.

Catch up on the latest Linux news: Rocky Linux 10.2, MX Linux 25.2, COSMIC Desktop 1.0.14, NVIDIA 610.43, Rust 1.96, Flatpak’s future may leave non-systemd distros behind, and more.

The Linux 7.1-rc6 kernel is now available for closing out the month of May and approaching the Linux 7.1 stable release that should be out by mid-June...

For ending out the month of May is a new monthly release of Servo, the open-source, Rust-based browser engine being developed by Linux Foundation Europe stakeholders and the open-source community. There are many nice enhancements on the desktop side with Servo 0.2 while also improving the Android browser UI experience with Servo too...

The Armbian team released Armbian 26.5 today as yet another hefty update to this Debian/Ubuntu-based distribution and build framework for ARM devices, focusing on kernel modernization across SoC families, redesigned desktop subsystem, and expanded hardware support.

Flathub just rewrote its generative AI policy to ban any AI-generated or AI-assisted code, docs, and content. Here’s what changed, why it happened, and who’s furious about it.

The Alinx HEA13 combines an AMD Virtex UltraScale+ XCVU13P FPGA with support for NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin and Jetson Thor modules. The platform links the FPGA and Jetson module through a PCIe Gen3 x8 interface for applications such as robotics, industrial vision, edge AI, and compute acceleration. The FPGA subsystem is based on the AMD […]

Going back to early 2023 there were efforts to disable all the Linux drivers for Microoft's RNDIS protocol. Remote NDIS has proven to be a real security concern while superior, modern alternatives exist...

MariaDB 12.3 LTS is now available, with 12.3.2 as the first GA release and maintenance planned through June 2029.

AVM open-source video codec v1.0 is now available as the first released version of AV2, the successor to the widely used AV1 codec.

Rust Coreutils 0.9 was tagged today as the latest major update to this GNU Coreutils implementation in the Rust programming language. Rust Coreutils 0.9 is up to a 90.4% pass rate against the GNU test suite!..

The development team behind the independent distro NixOS, whose set of packages can be used on other GNU/Linux distributions, released NixOS 26.05 (codename Yarara) today as a major update that introduces new features and updated components.

KDE Plasma 6.7 Beta 2 brings more bug fixes and UI polish as the desktop moves toward its June 16 release.

Ahead of the 52nd G7 Summit being held in Evian, France next month, the recently conducted G7 Digital and Technology Ministers’ Meeting came to agreement on shared language around open-source AI and on the importance of open-source in AI...

NixOS 26.05 “Yarara” is now available with systemd stage 1 by default, GNOME 50, Plasma 6.6, Linux kernel 6.18, and a major Nixpkgs refresh.

The core hack proposed by Google AI Assistant was Navigating the EFI layer. AI targeted the exact 3-line configuration stub (/boot/efi/EFI/debian/grub.cfg) that overrides the Btrfs default subvolume engine on Debian EFI installations. From my side it was integrating a native .path watcher framework precisely because a heavy, compiled inotifywait binary loses its structural handles during a subvolume swap and focus attention on sed substitutions @rootfs with @root_active in grub.cfg files and /etc/fstab.

Flathub now says apps with AI-generated or AI-assisted code, documentation, or other content are not allowed.

Canonical today released the first monthly snapshot of the Ubuntu 26.10 "Stonking Stingray" release...

Wine 11.10 is out with VKD3D 2.0, rewritten XPath support without libxml2, VBScript improvements, and 17 bug fixes.

Last week's collection of networking subsystem fixes for Linux 7.1 noted craziness continuing with no end in sight with a large pull request of fixes with many of them spurred on by AI/LLM coding agents. This week it's "significantly bigger" than prior kernel cycles for this late stage of kernel development due to this assistance of large language models...

Rocky Linux 10.2 has been released as a free alternative to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.2 with post-quantum cryptography improvements, updated components, bug fixes, and other changes.

Wine 11.10 marks the latest bi-weekly development release of Wine for running Windows games and applications on Linux, macOS, and other platforms...