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KubeSphere evidently failed to realize going in that open source means open, and is changing to a new proprietary license with “open source” in the name.

LXD 6.5 is out now, bringing PCI hotplug, OIDC secret support, QEMU 9.1 compatibility, dark mode UI, and better VM directory disk hotplugging.

Newelle is a virtual AI assistant developed for the GNOME desktop that supports voice chat and can handle carrying out web searches, terminal command execution, website reading, file management, document editing, and more. Newell v1.0 was released this week for advancing this GNOME AI virtual assistant...

Google is fast becoming an ocean of plagiarism; the same goes for Google News, which was supposed to have extra quality control

KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his weekly report on the interesting Plasma desktop changes for the week. This week a long-sought feature for the Plasma desktop was finally merged...

KDE Plasma 6.5 introduces long-awaited automatic day/night theme switching, plus dynamic wallpapers, UI tweaks, and more bug fixes.

Fix Missing Minimize, Maximize menu On LibreWolf Easily on KDE Plasma

The Attack Vector Controls work is now in Linux 6.17 for those new tuning knobs worked on by AMD engineer David Kaplan to make it more straight-forward for Linux server administrators and power users to more easily select the CPU security mitigations relevant to their system(s) and intended workloads...

Flatpak promises a secure runtime for Linux applications through container-like isolation, relying on bubblewrap namespaces, syscall filtering, and portal interfaces. In theory, each app should operate inside a strong sandbox, disconnected from the host system. But in reality, experience shows gaps, tiny cracks through which apps may escape with serious consequences.

Back in February Steam on Linux was at a 1.45% marketshare, then was corrected to 2.33% for Linux gaming in March, 2.27% for April, a nice jump to 2.69% for Linux gaming in May, and June came in at 2.57% for the Linux gaming population as a percent of Steam users. The July numbers were published this evening and show a new recent high for Linux gamers...

Change waydroid screen size easily when you wanna make some screen is not fullscreen on your Linux PC

After nearly 10 waves of layoffs in 2025 (not 2 as the mainstream media likes to claim) the workforce is a lot smaller and money is still absent, except for speculation in Wall Street

Company blames license violations and infrastructure changes for abrupt move KubeSphere has become the latest service to abruptly yank an open source edition of a product, triggering outcry from users.…

NetworkManager 1.54, a Linux network configuration tool, brings per-device IPv4 forwarding, plus enhancements for WireGuard, OVS, and initrd.

Incus 6.15 is out now with OCI registry auth, webhook logging, markdown CLI output, and improved VM memory handling.

FSF’s big summer fundraiser is over and it’s now time for rolling up the sleeves to get those orders shipped!

The EXT4 file-system enhancements for Linux 6.17 were merged on Thursday and bring better scalability to the block allocation code as well as fixing the file-system's large folios support. The scalability work can show some wild gains in select areas...

RustDesk 1.4.1, an open-source remote desktop app, adds terminal access, stylus support, OTP login, and IPv6 punch.

This evening Intel released XeSS 2.1 as the newest version of their Xe Super Sampling library with upscaling, frame generation, and low latency optimizations for gamers. Notable with XeSS 2.1 is that it introduces XeSS Frame Generation with Xe Low Latency support now for non-Intel GPUs...

DeepMind geospatial AI model offers comprehensive view of Earth image data Google has released a new AI model that maps the world in 10-meter squares for machines to read.…