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Tails 6.19, a privacy-focused Linux distro, is out with updated Tor Browser 14.5.6, Tor client 0.4.8.17, Thunderbird 128.13, plus a Tor Connection fix.

This is your friendly reminder that, as of today, the Linux 6.15 kernel series has reached the end of its supported life, which means that you should consider upgrading to Linux kernel 6.16 as soon as possible.

From cat lasers to AI-powered pacifiers, consumer IoT promises genius but mostly delivers nonsense. Here’s why the so-called “smart” tech trend is spectacularly off the rails.

Performance-tuned and optimized spin seems to be winning fans CachyOS bills itself as a Blazingly Fast & Customizable Linux distribution and that seems to be winning it friends. In the last month, it's the number one distro on the popularity chart on the widely-used DistroWatch comparison site.…

Systemd 258 is nearing release with many big changes to this init system / service manager. Systemd 258-rc3 was released today with some last minute fixes while also now adding that the next release, systemd 259, will face increased Linux system requirements...

Forlinx Embedded, an NXP gold partner, has officially launched its FET-MX9596-C SoM and the companion OK-MX9596-C development board. Built around NXP’s i.MX 95 processor family, the platform targets industrial automation, medical systems, and edge AI applications. The SoM integrates up to six Arm Cortex-A55 cores, an Arm Cortex-M7 real-time processor running at 800 MHz, and […]

Google plays an active role (if not deliberately then through utter neglect and carelessness) in plagiarism

Groklaw’s storied domain has fallen into unexpected hands. What’s behind the sudden flood of crypto content—and is the site lost for good?

The Libre-Chip project led by Jacob Lifshay has received a grant from NLNet to develop a prototype/proof-of-concept processor design that can be high performance but not vulnerable to speculative execution vulnerabilities like Spectre...

The National Science Foundation and NVIDIA are investing $152 million in an open-source AI initiative led by Ai2, delivering reproducible AI models to accelerate scientific discovery and reshape enterprise IT strategies.

But 3.13 adoption lags as most devs stick with earlier releases The Python Software Foundation (PSF), in association with tools vendor JetBrains, has published the eighth Python Developer Survey, with more than 30,000 contributors, making it the biggest yet.…

EWW is a standalone widget system that allows you to implement your own, custom widgets on Linux desktop, and we love it more than Conky.

Merged yesterday to the Chromium open-source codebase for the Google Chrome web browser is Wayland color management support! Linux users running on Wayland will now be able to enjoy high dynamic range (HDR) video playback within Google's web browser...

DFRobot has officially introduced the FireBeetle 2 ESP32-P4, a compact microcontroller board built for computer vision and multimedia projects. Priced at $11.90, it pairs the ESP32-P4 SoC with a companion co-processor for Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth connectivity, targeting applications such as cameras, smart home devices, and interactive interfaces. The ESP32-P4 includes a 360 MHz dual-core […]

Patches were posted on Monday for Kernel Stack Watch, a new lightweight debugging tool for detecting kernel stack corruption in real-time on Linux...

With Newelle, you get the power of generative AI right on your Linux desktop—no cloud required (unless you want it). Switch language models on the fly, all on your terms.

Kdenlive 25.08 is out today as the newest feature release for this KDE/Qt-aligned open-source video editor. In addition to a number of new features, there are also many bug fixes including more than 15 crash fixes...

LibreOffice 25.8 is out with speed boosts, new Calc functions, UI tweaks, PDF 2.0 support, and enhanced interoperability.

For decades, the humble terminal has been one of the most unchanging parts of the Linux desktop. Text streams flow in monochrome grids, and while the underlying libraries have evolved, the experience has remained more or less the same. Ubuntu, however, is preparing to rewrite this narrative. The distribution is adopting Ptyxis, a fresh terminal emulator designed for modern computing, and one of its standout qualities is that it leans on the GPU for rendering rather than relying solely on the CPU.

Thunderbird 142 is out today as the latest stable version of this popular, free, open-source, and cross-platform email client for GNU/Linux, macOS, Android, and Windows.