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Taking advantage of open-source AI's benefits while mitigating potential associated risks is an ongoing struggle and balancing act for security admins. While leaders such as Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue highlight open-source AI's ethical transparency and sustainability, other experts, including Geoffrey Hinton, caution against its misuse by bad actors.

The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce the release of Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS (Long-Term Support) for its Desktop, Server, and Cloud products, as well as other flavours of Ubuntu with long-term support.

Since 2022, Mozilla has been in an active process evolving what we do – and renewing our leadership. Today we announced several updates on the leadership piece of this ongoing work.

Magnifier is a screen magnifier app intended for visually impaired people to use when running Microsoft Windows. Magnifier is proprietary software and is not available for Linux. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

Last week NeatLab released Neat Video 6 as the newest version of their video engine to reduce noise and enhance video quality that can be used with the likes of DaVinci Resolve, Final Cut, and Premiere Pro software. Neat Video 6 features a faster render engine, optimized CPU + GPU performance, enhanced memory management, and other improvements.

Looking for a Cheat Engine like application to search and edit memory in Linux Desktop? Here’s a free open-source app work in process!

The Mesa 25.0 open-source graphics stack has been released today as a major update introducing new features and improvements for several of the included graphics drivers.

To get Nixon, “Deep Throat” advised Woodward and Bernstein to “follow the money.” To “get” this article, written by the latest addition to the FOSS Force team, we suggest that you follow the links. You’ll be glad you did.

2025 is the year of Linux on RISC-V. No, seriously. Sit back down–you can’t get off until the next stop anyways. Fedora is jumping on the RISC-V train as a fifth architecture. While there’s still some work to be done, we’ve hit some major milestones towards a more open computing future.

The FOSS world has replicated most of it in Lazarus. Delphi is still very much with us, but the FOSS world also has its own, largely compatible, GUI-based Object Pascal environment – and it's worth a look.

Pi-hole 6 network-wide ad blocker is a major release that brings an embedded web server, REST API, native HTTPS support, overhauled UI, and more.

Merged today for the widely-used FFmpeg open-source multimedia library was yet another AVX-512 optimized code path... Compared to the pure C code, the AVX2 code path was 10.98x faster while this new AVX-512 code path clocks in at 18x the performance of the common C code.

In the Firefox AI Runtime, we can use multiple threads in the dedicated inference process to speed up execution times CPU. The WASM/JS environment can create a SharedArrayBuffer and run multiple threads against its content and distribute the load on several CPU cores concurrently.

A nice surprise for some classic Valve games today with multiple titles like Counter-Strike: Source and Day of Defeat: Source getting major updates. Not many developers continue supporting their games this long after release! Although, Valve do have a lot of resources to do such a thing thanks to how popular Steam is.

Console screencast software (also known as terminal recorder) lets you capture your terminal. Here’s our verdict.

Christoph Hellwig, a Kernel maintainer, has revealed that Linus Torvalds privately expressed his intention to merge Rust code into the Linux kernel.

CachyOS introduces a kernel builder tool designed for Debian-based distributions, simplifying the process of creating custom kernels.

For those that typically wait for the first point release before moving to a new software version, KDE Plasma 6.3.1 is out today with a few dozen fixes for the week since the Plasma 6.3 debut.

Ubuntu-based Rhino Linux 2025.2 brings bug fixes, improved stability, and a smoother Unicorn Desktop experience.

Seeed Studio has expanded its XIAO MG24 and XIAO MG24 Sense development board lineup with new variants, including pre-soldered versions and 3PCS packs. These additions provide more flexibility for developers working on IoT and Matter-based projects, streamlining prototyping and small-scale production.