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Foundations say billions of downloads rely on registries running on fumes – and someone's gotta pay the bills The Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) has had enough of being the unpaid janitor of the world's software supply chain.…

It was just a few days ago that a multi-kernel architecture was proposed for the Linux kernel. Separate from that proposal from Multikernel Technologies, it turns out Bytedance has been working on their own similar solution called Parker. Today Bytedance lifted the lid on Parker as their solution for running multiple kernels simultaneously on the same hardware/system...

Hundreds of compromised packages pulled as registry shifts to 2FA and trusted publishing GitHub, which owns the npm registry for JavaScript packages, says it is tightening security in response to recent attacks.…

With DKMS packages now being available for Ubuntu and Debian Linux distributions for running the latest out-of-tree Bcachefs file-system driver support with ease and reproducibility, I decided to try out the updated Bcachefs driver on Ubuntu Linux to see how the performance is relative to the upstream Linux 6.17 kernel with its now-frozen Bcachefs support.

Long-time contributor Ellen Davis steps down after GitHub access shake-up and governance dispute A decade-long RubyGems maintainer, Ellen Davis (also known as duckinator), has resigned from Ruby Central following what she described as a "hostile takeover" of the open source project.…

OBS Studio 32.0 stable is now available for this popular cross-platform desktop recording and screencasting software popular with game streamers and for a variety of other recording/casting purposes...

With last week's official release of ROCm 7.0 failing to mention the AMD Ryzen AI Max "Strix Halo" SoCs on the supported GPU list, a number of Phoronix readers and from elsewhere were inquiring whether or not Strix Halo works with the new ROCm release. Various AMD folks have mentioned Strix Halo with ROCm, so I decided to run some benchmarks for myself of ROCm 7.0 on Ubuntu Linux with the AMD Ryzen AI Max 395 with Radeon 8060S Graphics on the Framework Desktop.

Olimex has announced the RP2350-PICO2-BB48, an enhanced Raspberry Pi Pico 2 with open hardware design. It exposes all 48x GPIOs in a 0.6-inch dual-inline layout for breadboard use and integrates improvements that expand flexibility for prototyping and development. The hardware configuration is based on the RP2350B processor, which integrates dual Cortex-M33 or dual RISC-V cores […]

Spooky season is nearly here. Want to be scared? There are fresh betas to try Two of the biggest names in fixed-release distros are nearly finished and ready to drop. You can taste them now, but they're not fully baked yet.…

While the Rust Coreutils project has been generating a lot of interest recently from the uutils initiative, the upstream GNU Coreutils project isn't slowing down and today is out with GNU Coreutils 9.8 for shipping the newest features...

XTX Markets as one of the largest algorithmic trading firms that handles $250 billion in daily traded volume and relies on around 650+ petabytes of storage for its price forecasts and other algorithmic trading data has open-sourced its Linux file-system. XTX developed TernFS for distributed storage after they outgrew their original NFS usage and other file-system alternatives...

The third weekly alpha release of the upcoming FreeBSD 15 operating system is now available for testing...

Raspberry Pi today announced the M.2 HAT+ Compact as a new smaller version of their M.2 HAT+ for these single board computers...

Silverblue is an operating system for your desktop built on Fedora Linux. It’s excellent for daily use, development, and container-based workflows. It offers numerous advantages such as being able to roll back in case of any problems. This article provides the steps to rebase to the newly released Fedora Linux 43 Beta, and how to revert if anything unforeseen […]

Darwin would understand microkernels. We need microkernels that understand Darwin. Opinion The IT industry is not only full of sharks, it has shark nature itself. It must keep moving forward to survive. Not all sharks are obligate ram ventilators, and not all IT changes all the time, but without innovation the sector would curdle and die.…

EchoEar is a compact AI development kit for voice interaction and edge AI applications. It targets use cases such as smart toys, voice-enabled speakers, and control systems. The device features a circular touch display, dual microphones with local wake-word detection and sound localization, and supports large model integration from OpenAI, Xiaozhi AI, and Gemini. The […]

Linus Torvalds just released Linux 6.17-rc7 as the last planned release candidate of the in-development Linux 6.17 kernel that is expected to go final next weekend...

The past few years Google engineers have been reimplementing Android's Binder driver in the Rust programming language. Binder is a critical part of Android for inter-process communication (IPC) and now with Linux 6.18 it looks like the Rust rewrite will be upstreamed...

Code was open-sourced this week and posted to the Linux kernel mailing list as a "request for comments" (RFC) for a multi-kernel architecture. This proposal could allow for multiple independent kernel instances to co-exist on a single physical machine. Each kernel could run on dedicated CPU Cores while sharing underlying hardware resources. This could also allow for some complex use-cases such as real-time (RT) kernels running on select CPU cores...

A patch queued into the PCI subsystem's "next" branch ahead of the Linux 6.18 merge window will uniformally expose the PCI device serial number of devices via sysfs for easy programmatic parsing...