New story! More than 135,000 OpenClaw instances exposed to internet in latest vibe-coded disaster

  • The Register (Posted by bob on Feb 9, 2026 3:55 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
By default, the bot listens on all network interfaces, and many users never change it It's a day with a name ending in Y, so you know what that means: Another OpenClaw cybersecurity disaster.…

New story! Windows 11 vs. Ubuntu Linux Performance For Intel Core Ultra X7 Panther Lake

Last week I began publishing the many exciting Panther Lake benchmarks under Linux from the interesting CPU performance and efficiency to the much anticipated Xe3 graphics with the Intel Arc B390 graphics. Up today is a look at how the out-of-the-box performance for the Intel Core Ultra X7 358H compares under Microsoft Windows 11 and the current Ubuntu Linux 26.04 development state.

New story! New Rust Tool Traur Analyzes Arch AUR Packages for Hidden Risks

Traur is a new tool written in Rust that checks Arch AUR packages for hidden security risks before you install them.

New story! Intel Recently Shelved Numerous Open-Source Projects

  • Phoronix (Posted by bob on Feb 9, 2026 9:23 AM EDT)
  • Groups: Intel; Story Type: News Story
After discovering this morning that Intel archived/discontinued its On Demand "SDSi" GitHub project around that controversial feature, it was a slippery slope in noticing Intel recently archived around two dozen other open-source projects they previously maintained...

New story! Memos 0.26 Note-Taking App Released With Stronger Authentication

  • Linuxiac.com; By Bobby Borisov (Posted by bobolin on Feb 9, 2026 7:51 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
The new Memos 0.26 update brings stronger authentication, refresh token rotation, and better media streaming to this self-hosted, open-source note-taking app.

New story! Wine-Staging 11.2 Brings More Patches To Help Adobe Photoshop On Linux

Building off Friday's release of Wine 11.2 is now Wine-Staging 11.2 as this experimental/testing version of Wine with hundreds of extra patches that have yet to be introduced in upstream proper for this open-source software enabling Windows games and applications on Linux. Notable in this bi-weekly update are more patches for continuing to improve the Adobe Photoshop installer support on Linux...

New story! 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: February 8th, 2026

  • 9to5linux.com; By Marcus Nestor (Posted by hanuca on Feb 9, 2026 4:48 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Roundups; Groups: Linux
The 278th installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending February 8th, 2026, keeping you updated on the most important developments in the Linux world.

New story! Three AI engines walk into a bar in single file...

  • The Register (Posted by bob on Feb 9, 2026 3:17 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
Meet llama3pure, a set of dependency-free inference engines for C, Node.js, and JavaScript Developers looking to gain a better understanding of machine learning inference on local hardware can fire up a new llama engine.…

New story! Linus Torvalds Confirms The Next Kernel Is Linux 7.0

Following Linus Torvalds releasing Linux 6.19 stable, Linus Torvalds is now out with his customary release announcement. Notably he officially confirmed that the next kernel version is Linux 7.0 as the successor to Linux 6.19...

New story! Linux 7.0 Kernel Confirmed by Linus Torvalds, Expected in Mid-April 2026

With the release of Linux kernel 6.19 earlier today, Linus Torvalds confirmed that the next major kernel series will have a version number bump as Linux 7.0 rather than Linux 6.20.

New story! Linuxiac Weekly Wrap-Up: Week 6, 2026 (Feb 2 – 8)

  • Linuxiac.com; By Bobby Borisov (Posted by bobolin on Feb 8, 2026 10:42 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Roundups; Groups: Linux
Catch up on the latest Linux news: COSMIC Desktop 1.0.5, Wine 11.2, Fish Shell 4.4, LibreOffice 26.2, VirtualBox gains a working KVM backend, GNU/Linux or just Linux?, and more.

New story! Why OOXML Is Not a Standard Format for Office Documents

So you think Word’s DOCX format is fine because it carries an ISO standard label? Think again. LibreOffice co?founder Italo Vignoli explains why Microsoft’s OOXML has never been, and likely never will be, a true standard.

New story! Linux Kernel 6.19 Officially Released, This Is What’s New

Linux kernel 6.19 is now available for download, as announced today by Linus Torvalds himself, featuring enhanced hardware support through new and updated drivers, improvements to file systems and networking, and more.

New story! Linux 6.19 Released With Better Support For Older AMD GPUs, DRM Color Pipeline API

As anticipated due to the extra week for the cycle given end of year holidays, Linus Torvalds today released the Linux 6.19 stable kernel as the first major release of 2026. There is a lot in store with this early 2026 kernel release...

New story! DreamWorks' OpenMoonRay 2.40 Introduces New GUI, Light Path Visualizer

  • Phoronix (Posted by bob on Feb 8, 2026 10:25 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
Back in 2022 DreamWorks Animation announced they were open-sourcing their MoonRay renderer and was then published in early 2023 for this renderer that has been used in a variety of featured animated films. Since then they have continued advancing this MoonRay code via the open-source OpenMoonRay project and this week published their newest feature update...

New story! PeaZip 10.9 Open-Source Archive Manager Released with Improved User Experience

  • 9to5linux.com; By Marcus Nestor (Posted by hanuca on Feb 8, 2026 7:28 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Linux
PeaZip 10.9 has been released today as the latest stable update for this open-source file manager and file archiver for Linux, BSD, macOS, ReactOS, and Windows by Giorgio Tani.

New story! New Proposal Explores Machine Learning Assistance for Linux Kernel Behavior

A Linux kernel developer has proposed using user-space machine learning models to assist kernel subsystems.

New story! Mesa 25.3.5 Brings Vulkan Driver Fixes & Other Minor Changes -- Even For Old The R600g

  • Phoronix (Posted by bob on Feb 8, 2026 4:25 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
While Mesa 26.0 stable will be out soon, the belated Mesa 25.3.5 point release is now available for serving as the current latest stable point release...

New story! KDE Plasma 6.7 Prepares Smarter Window List and Window Management Improvements

  • Linuxiac.com; By Bobby Borisov (Posted by bobolin on Feb 8, 2026 2:53 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: KDE
Plasma 6.7 is shaping up to include an improved Window List widget with sorting and clearer grouping for easier window navigation.

New story! Linux 6.19 Features Include Many Benefits For Intel & AMD Users

With the Linux 6.19 stable kernel expected to be released tomorrow (8 February), here is a reminder about the top features to expect from this next version of the Linux kernel...

New story! Wine 11.2 Released With Faster PDB Loading and 32 Bug Fixes

  • Linuxiac.com; By Bobby Borisov (Posted by bobolin on Feb 7, 2026 5:56 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
Wine 11.2 is out with faster PDB loading, improved MSVC runtime support, and 32 bug fixes affecting games, tools, and audio.

New story! NetBSD 11.0-RC1 Available For Testing With Enhanced Linux Emulation

  • Phoronix (Posted by bob on Feb 7, 2026 4:24 PM EDT)
  • Groups: Linux; Story Type: News Story
The first release candidate of the big NetBSD 11.0 release is now available for testing...

New story! KDE Linux Gears Up for Beta Release with Plasma Login Manager, KDE Initial Setup

It’s been a few months since the KDE Project announced its in-house Linux distro, KDE Linux, and they’ve been very busy beefing it up with some of the latest technologies and hardware support for the upcoming beta release.

New story! How to Deploy Laravel on Ubuntu With Apache

Learn a step-by-step guide to deploying Laravel applications on Ubuntu with Apache and MySQL.

New story! Linux 6.19 Sees Last Minute Scheduler Regression Fixes

Ahead of the planned Linux 6.19 stable kernel release tomorrow, there have been some last-minute fixes submitted for the scheduler code, including for performance regressions...

New story! Linux Kernel Runtime Guard Reaches 1.0: A Major Milestone for Runtime Kernel Security

The Linux security landscape just reached an important milestone. Linux Kernel Runtime Guard (LKRG) has officially hit version 1.0, marking its transition from a long-running experimental project into a mature, production-ready security tool. For administrators and security-conscious users, this release reinforces LKRG’s role as a powerful additional layer of defense for Linux systems.

New story! Microsoft Introduces LiteBox, a New Security-Focused Library OS

  • Linuxiac.com; By Bobby Borisov (Posted by bobolin on Feb 7, 2026 8:47 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
LiteBox is a new open-source sandboxing library OS from Microsoft, designed to run code with a minimal, security-focused OS surface.

New story! Wine 11.2 Released With More Improvements & 32 Bug Fixes

  • Phoronix (Posted by bob on Feb 7, 2026 7:15 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
Wine 11.2 is out as the latest bi-weekly development release in the road toward the Wine 12.0 stable release next January...

New story! A Pillar of the Linux Kernel: Greg Kroah-Hartman Honored with European Open Source Award

The open-source community is celebrating a well-deserved recognition. Greg Kroah-Hartman, one of the most influential figures in the Linux ecosystem, has been awarded the European Open Source Award, honoring decades of sustained contributions that have shaped Linux into the stable, trusted platform it is today.

New story! Toyota Developing A Console-Grade, Open-Source Game Engine - Using Flutter & Dart

  • Phoronix (Posted by bob on Feb 7, 2026 4:12 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
Well, here's an unexpected combination... Toyota's Toyota Connected North America unit is developing a console-grade open-source game engine. Making it even more unusual is their engineering choices of building around the Flutter toolkit and in turn the Dart programming language. This new game engine creation is called Fluorite...

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