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.…
Mistral launches Voxtral speech recognition model
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.…
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...
Debian-Based Sparky Linux 7.8 Now Available for Download
The lightweight Linux distro Sparky 7.8 rolls out with updated packages, kernel 6.1 LTS, desktop refreshes, and Gimp preinstalled in live media.
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 .
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.
Nearly 3 out of 4 Oracle Java users say they've been audited in the past 3 years
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.…
PHP Proposes Switch to BSD-3-Clause License
PHP may drop its legacy license in favor of BSD 3-Clause in version 9.0, thereby enhancing compatibility and simplifying distribution rights.
Former Google DeepMind engineer says other AI agents are doing it wrong
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.…
Blender 4.5 LTS Arrives with Major UI Overhaul, Animation Improvements
Blender 4.5 LTS open-source 3D creation suite delivers major updates in animation, geometry nodes, Grease Pencil, Vulkan rendering, and improved UI.
LibreOffice Office Suite Lands Built-In Support For Bitcoin Currency
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...
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.
KDE Plasma 6.4.3 Desktop Environment Released
KDE Plasma 6.4.3 introduces important fixes for KWin, Discover, and Spectacle, along with translation updates and enhanced accessibility.
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 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...
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...
IceWM 3.8.1 Window Manager Released with Toolbar Improvements
IceWM 3.8 window manager for the X Window System brings memory usage optimizations, improved toolbar behavior, and more.
Old Radeon HD 2000/3000/4000 GPUs Still Seeing Open-Source Driver Fixes In 2025
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...
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.
GParted: Still the best free partitioner standing – unless you're on a 32-bit box
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.…
NanoPi R76S Brings Dual 2.5GbE to Fanless RK3576-Based Router Board
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 […]
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...
(Updated) ALPHA-One Leverages RISC-V StarPro64 for Compact Local LLM Deployment
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 […]
Linuxiac Weekly Wrap-Up: Week 28 (Jul 7 – 13, 2025)
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.
Slashdot Media Turned Linux Journal Into a Slopfarm and Now Slashdot Actively Promotes Anti-Linux Slopfarms
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.
Linux Patches Updated For The New Fairphone 6 Smartphone
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...
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!
How to Install Docker on Rocky Linux 10: A Step-by-Step Guide
A step-by-step guide to installing Docker on Rocky Linux 10, offering a solid Enterprise Linux foundation for containerized workloads.
Haiku OS Sees Work On Better App HiDPI Scaling, Better Intel WiFI Driver From OpenBSD
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...
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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