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Think today’s Gimp is complicated? Try the 1996 Motif version, now resurrected as a Flatpak so you can suffer for nostalgia’s sake.
FreeBSD Launches AI-Assisted Project to Find and Fix Vulnerabilities
With fresh funding from the Linux Foundation’s Alpha Omega initiative, FreeBSD is turning to AI tools and paid security staff to hunt vulnerabilities across its codebase.
AUR Registrations Blocked Amid Ongoing Malware Mess
Arch has evidently stopped new AUR registrations for the time being while maintainers scrub malware and users debate how to harden the popular community repository.
GNOME Taps Two Longtime Contributors as First Foundation Fellows
Earmarked donations let GNOME fund two fellows to modernize Files (Nautilus), improve tooling, and bolster project-level governance.
AUR to Arch: ‘Houston, We’ve Got a Problem…We’re Under Attack Again’
Just hours after Arch sounded the all?clear on a massive AUR malware purge, a new, stealthier campaign is slipping malicious code back into user packages.
Arch Says ‘All’s Clear’ After AUR Malware Incident Affects 1,500 Packages
Arch says it’s scrubbed all known malicious commits, but the 1,500?plus affected AUR packages are a fresh reminder to “trust but verify.”
Modular Framework 13 Pro Laptop Will Now Ship in July
Framework’s next-gen Linux-friendly, repair-it-yourself laptop hits a speed bump, with shipping pushed from June to July over last-minute touchpad and display fixes.
Arch Devs Scramble as 400 AUR Packages Infected With Malware
Arch User Repository hit by a large-scale malware campaign, with maintainers racing to roll back malicious commits and lock out bad actors.
Nextcloud Marks 10 Years With Hub 26 Spring, Euro-Office, and Expanded AI
With Collabora, Euro?Office, and EU?ready AI, Hub 26 Spring doubles down on documents, control, and sovereignty.
Collabora CODE 26.04: AI, Better Collab, and a Bid to Stay Ahead
With Euro-Office due on Tuesday, and LibreOffice Online back in development, Collabora has plenty on the line with this new release.
KDE Turns 30 and Wants You to Put Some Icing on Its Cake
Thirty years after KDE’s debut, the venerable desktop is celebrating with cake, candles, and a call for community support.
Nicole Ozer Becomes EFF’s Executive Director as Cohn Returns to the Courtroom
After more than a quarter century at the helm of key digital rights battles, Cindy Cohn hands leadership to veteran ally Nicole Ozer while plotting a return to the courtroom.
Euro-Office Sets June 9 Launch in Bid for EU Digital Sovereignty
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.
The Quiet Clause That May Save Linux From Age-Verification Laws
As Colorado and California move age verification to the OS layer, exemptions for open source determine whether Linux desktops stay free of mandatory age-gating.
AlmaLinux Doubles Down With Two Releases on One Day
AlmaLinux rolls out 9.8 and 10.2 side by side, pairing new compiler and language stacks with security fixes and an ALESCo?approved kernel backport that arrives ahead of the RHEL upstream.
FSF Shows Strength With 46 LibreLocal Meetups in 2026
With Richard Stallman back on the road and FSF backing 46 community-focused LibreLocal meetups worldwide, the free software movement looks anything but finished.
Gemini CLI’s Short Life and Google’s Antigravity Bait and Switch
Enterprise customers keep Gemini CLI, but open source users are nudged toward a proprietary “upgrade” called Antigravity CLI.
Extrox Linux: Audiophile-Friendly MX Spin with an Arch Twin
From the MX Linux community comes Extrox, a duo of Xfce-based spins—one MX, one Arch—that emphasize audio tooling without sacrificing day-to-day usability.
Dirty Frag, Copy Fail, and How Tails Under Tor Delivers ‘Open Source Done Right’
Two kernel zero-day fixes, two quick Tails releases, and one Tor-backed project determined to keep its privacy-minded users safe — this is open source security hygiene in action.
Exim Mail Server Hit by “Dead.Letter” TLS Flaw, Admins Told to Upgrade
Use-after-free bug in Exim’s GnuTLS BDAT handling lets remote attackers corrupt memory, with no workaround other than upgrading to version 4.99.3.